Life With The Lyons

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Comedy with real-life American family: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and kids Richard and Barbara

Comedy starring real-life American family - Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and their children Richard and Barbara

Life With The Lyons: You Can’t Get Blood Out Of A Stone

You Can’t Get Blood Out Of A Stone

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Barbara invites an old and handsome flame to the Lyon household and Ben is jealous.

Barbara invites an old flame to the Lyon household - a strapping and successful footballer.  Stars Bebe Daniels.  From 1953.

You Can't Get Blood Out of a Stone

There is much excitement when Barbara invites a very successful footballer for dinner - except from husband Ben.  

Starring real-life American family: Ben Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels and their children, Richard and Barbara. Life With the Lyons was one the BBC's most popular radio sitcoms between 1950 and 1961. It was also adapted for BBC TV.

With Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, Hugh Morton, Horace Percival, Doris Rogers, Molly Weir, David Enders, Gwen Lewis and Philip Ray.

Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Bill Harding

The BBC Variety Orchestra is conducted by Paul Fenoulhet, with incidental music by Arthur Wilkinson.

First broadcast on the BBC Light programme in April 1953.

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