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Hancock's Half Hour

Series 4

The Emigrant

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 4 months

The Lad is keen to emigrate, but is met with refusals from other countries including Australia and Canada.

Can Sid help him to leave Britain?

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Sidney James
Bill Kerr
Hattie Jacques
Kenneth Williams

Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott.

Producer: Denis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. Show less

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