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A Story of Our Time What Happened to Hancock?

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Written and introduced by PHILIP OAKES
Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure ' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968. with contributions from
RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES
DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO
Produced by MICHELL RAPER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Reader:
Beryl Vertue
Reader:
Sylvia Syms
Reader:
Sid James
Unknown:
Michael Wale
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Produced By:
Michell Raper
Source: Radio Times

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