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Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour

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27/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour

Alone, far from home and his only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka

Richard Briers stars as Tony Hancock - alone, far from home and whose only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka.

An imagining of the comedy legend alone in a Sydney hotel room on the day he died, with a book of newspaper cuttings, a telephone and a bottle of vodka for company. In a tour de force performance Richard Briers plays his great comedy hero, Tony Hancock, looking back over the highs and lows of his career. Heathcote Williams's play reveals a comedy genius, tormented by his own desire to improve himself. A desire which overwhelmed him, when he tragically took his own life in June 1968. 

Produced by Ned Chaillet for BBC Radio 3 in 1988.

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