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ITMA - It's That Man Again

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Wartime comedy, written by Tommy Handley and Ted Kavanagh

ITMA

ITMA - It's That Man Again: 20/4/1944

20/4/1944

BBC Radio 4 Extra - ITMA - It's That Man Again, 20/4/1944

When the troops ship out, Tommy Handley and pals convert the farm into a boarding house.

4 Extra Debut. When the troops ship out, Tommy Handley and co convert Much Fiddling Farm into a boarding house. Wartime comedy from April 1944.

When the troops ship out, Tommy Handley and friends convert Much Fiddling Farm into a boarding house. 

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:

Sydney Keith
Horace Percival
Dorothy Summers
Bryan Herbert
Bill Stephens
Dino Galvani
Paula Green
Jean Capra

Music from the BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Singer: Jack Cooper.

Script written by Ted Kavanagh.

Producer: Francis Worsley

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1944

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