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The Al Read Show

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The northern comic's monologues from the 1950s

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The Al Read Show: From 6/2/1966

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Poking fun at fireman and hospitals. Sketches from the former Salford sausage maker.

Poking fun at fireman and hospitals. Sketches and monologues from the former Salford sausage maker. From February 1966.

The legendary Northern comic pokes fun at fireman and hospitals.

Monologues and sketches presenting "life with the lid off".

With Susan Maughan, The Countrymen, and Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra.

Devised by Al Read and scripted by Ronnie Taylor. 

Producer: Bill Worsley

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966.

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