Round The Horne Vol 15

Barry Took

Dec 2004 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, Dennis Smith, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, and Kenneth Williams

About this audiobook

How lovely it is to once again vada the dolly old eek of Round the Horne, the radio comedy series which ventured where few had gone before in the late 1960s. For four series, suave and unruffled host Kenneth Horne battled manfully with a marauding parade of characters, from enterprising chorus boys Julian and Sandy to warbling songsmith Rambling Syd Rumpo, booming Daphne Whitethigh and breathless thespians Charles and Fiona. In this collection, Kenneth Horne has a lost of bother with The Nuclear Banana, Seamus Android interviews Zsa Zsa Poltergeist and the Gaylords turn up in 'Kenneth Horne's Theatre of Suspense'. Also, Rambling Syd performs the Cornish Scrumpy Dance, Julian and Sandy unveil Bona Beat Songs Ltd and the cast say Goodbye (until next time...) Includes these four episodes: Series Two, Episode 5 (10 April 1966); Series Two, Episode 11 (22 May 1966); Series Three, Episode Twelve (30 April 1967) and Series Three, Episode 20 (25 June 1967).

About the author

Barry Took was born in London in 1928. An early career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. From there he went on to create Round the Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later jobs in front of and behind the camera, Took wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. He wrote a number of books, including The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and his autobiography A Point of View. He died in 2002.

DENNIS SMITH is a former New York City firefighter, the author of ten bestselling books including REPORT FROM ENGINE CO. 82 (1972), and the founding editor of Firehouse Magazine. He lives in New York City.