Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,694 playable programmes from the BBC

Meet the Huggetts

Clean Linen

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

A mix-up at the launderette sparks a whole pile of embarrassment for Joe and Ethel Huggett.

Starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison.

The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949.

This subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.

Selection of surviving episodes in the BBC Archive.

Written by Eddie Maguire.

Joe ...... Jack Warner
Ethel ...... Kathleen Harrison
Jane ...... Alanna Boyce
Bobby ...... James Langley
Fred Stebbings ...... Charles Leno
Detective ...... Alan Keith

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1959. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More