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This hilarious farce begins quietly enough with Howard and Penny
asleep. A burglar climbs through the window and steals various
items, including Howard's suit. Awakening, Howard announces his
intention to get back to the wife! But how can he in only vest and
underpants? Before you can say "jockey shorts" he is being chased
around the flat by his Danish au pair, the Home Secretary and a
randy constable who doubles as a flasher. Add to this a punk with
rainbow coloured hair, a gravelly voice Captain and a singing
telegram Gorilla and you have the ingredients for a night of
outrageous fun!3 women, 6 men
Kevin McNally stars in five brand new recordings of original
Hancock's Half Hour scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Whilst
Hancock's Half Hour was an enormously popular radio sitcom in the
1950s, many of the episodes were not retained in the BBC Sound
Archive and are believed to be lost. Now, five of them have been
recreated by BBC Radio 4, with Kevin McNally taking the role made
famous by Tony Hancock. Among the supporting cast are Simon
Grenall, Kevin Eldon and Robin Sebastian.
Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the
legendary BBC Radio comedy series. Created by Ray Galton and Alan
Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that
made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be
admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane life of
"the lad 'imself". Aided and abetted by Sid James, Andree Melly,
Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams, Hancock would enter into the spirit
of each episode with characteristic dolefulness. This collection of
10 episodes represents the surviving archive from the third radio
series, along with PDF booklets featuring episode guides, series
notes, cast biographies and specially written introductions by
Galton and Simpson. Also included are two radio documentaries about
Tony Hancock: Stone Me, What a Life! and The Complete and Utter
History of Hancock. The episodes included are The Pet Dog; The
Jewel Robbery; The Bequest; The Blackboard Jungle; The Diet;
Hancock's Heir; The Student Prince; The Greyhound Track; The
Conjurer and The Test Match.
Eight brand new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts
Hancock's Half Hour was one of the most popular radio comedies of
the 1950s, and the first modern sitcom. Over 100 episodes of the
show were broadcast between 1954 and 1959, but 22 went missing from
the BBC archives. Lovingly recreated by Radio 4 in front of a live
audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, they can now be heard for the
first time since their initial transmission. Collected here are the
final eight episodes from the fourth series - including a special
premiere of The Counterfeiter, which was never recorded by the
original team. The episodes are: The Winter Holiday, Department
Store Santa, The Diamond Ring, Prime Minister Hancock, Christmas at
Aldershot, The Counterfeiter, The Christmas Eve Party and The New
Year Resolutions. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Produced
by Neil Pearson, Paul Sheehan and Hayley Sterling Music composed by
Wally Stott, and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted
by Levon Parikian Thanks to Tessa Le Bars First broadcast on BBC
Radio 4, 6 December 2018-31 December 2020 Written by Ray Galton and
Alan Simpson, and with the classic score re-recorded by the BBC
Concert Orchestra, these hilarious episodes star Kevin McNally as
The Lad Himself, with Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin Sebastian,
Susy Kane and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
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