Review, buy Radio Shows: The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: King Solomon's Mines/The Moriarty Murder Mystery/The Vanishing Room/The 1, 000, 000 Pound Penny (BBC Radio Collection), Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955), The Goon Show Classics: Vol 18 (BBC Radio Collection), Difficult Second Book, Farewell My Lovely, "Dad's Army": Collector's Editon Series 1 (BBC Radio Collection), Rumpole and the Primrose Path (BBC Radio Collection), Wogan's Twelve (CD): A Sharp Eye and a Witty Word to Mark the Passing Year, The Goon Show: v. 22 (Radio Collection), Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio - The Original Broadcasts, The Goon Show Classics: You Can't Get the Wood You Know! (Previously Volume 10) (BBC Radio Collection), "Dad's Army": Collector's Edition Series 3 (BBC Radio Collection), The Lee Mack Show, Series 2 (BBC Audio), "Dead Ringers" Series 1: (BBC Radio Collection) [AUDIOBOOK], Old Harry's Game: v.2: Starring Robert Duncan Vol 2 (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: Have a Gorilla (Previously Volume 6) (BBC Radio Collection), "Round the Horne": Series 3 (Radio Collection), 15 Minute Musicals: The Complete Fourth BBC Radio Series (BBC Audio), And Now on Radio 4: A Birthday Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd / The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Authors

P.D. James

Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: ~~£9.00~~
Price: £5.31

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd / The Goon Show Classics: King Solomon's Mines/The Moriarty Murder Mystery/The Vanishing Room/The 1, 000, 000 Pound Penny (BBC Radio Collection)

The Goon Show Classics: King Solomon's Mines/The Moriarty Murder Mystery/The Vanishing Room/The 1, 000, 000 Pound Penny (BBC Radio Collection) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1996-10-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: ~~£7.00~~
Price: £5.95

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd / Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955)

Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Authors

Ray Galton
Alan Simpson

Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: ~~£44.99~~
Price: £29.24

Review Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series One: November 1954 - February 1955) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:

When Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created Hancock's Half Hour-their first big hit before Steptoe and Son-they needed a supporting cast, and their choices were inspired. Sid James became the quintessential shifty crook, Bill Kerr played Tony Hancock's best friend while Moira Lister became his girlfriend, and as Kenneth Williams intoned a variety of authority-voices-police, magistrates, etc. -another comic star was born. Out of the 16 original programmes from the period under review, the BBC managed to lose six-culpable carelessness-but among the extant 10 there are outright gems, some of which will be unfamiliar even to fans, and many of which would today be banned as hopelessly un-PC. Viz Hancock's cheery greeting: "Morning Charlie. Working? Oh, of course you don't need to, with 28 children!" Or his observation-of some sluggish British workmen building a house-that he's glad they've been provided with shovels complete with arm-rests. Asked for his own address, he replies "I've just moved. They pulled down my house to build a slum". Relayed cold, such comments may not even raise a smile: Hancock's magic was all in the telling, and in the momentum he built up, as in his Monte Carlo rally programme, in which signposts were turned round and bridges blown up. One of the nicest sketches evolves out of him being left to do the housework like Cinderella, while everyone else troops off to the ball. [+]

When he died, a victim of depression, in Australia in 1968, Britain lost something irreplaceable: this five-CD set, with its accompanying booklet, makes a splendid memento. The next batch of releases is eagerly awaited. -Betty Tadman.

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