Tommy Handley’s recipe for seasonal mayhem includes gags, spoonerisms and a modern version of Cinderella.
ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again!
The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries.
With:
Jack Train
Hugh Morton
Fred Yule
Lind Joyce
Deryck Guyler
Molly Weir
Joan Harben.
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins.
Script by Ted Kavanagh
Producer: Francis Worsley
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service on Boxing Day in 1946. Show less