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Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box - Part 1

Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box: Episode 1

Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box, Episode 1

Get festive with Round the Horne, The Goon Show, Hinge and Bracket and more!

Jovial Barry ferrets through Auntie's festive jewels: Radio Active, The Masterson Inheritance, Round the Horne, Lines from My Grandfather Christmas' Forehead and The Goon Show.

Avoiding all the hard centres - our jovial host Barry Cryer plunders his Christmas selection box to bring you six shining examples of Auntie's festive jewels:

*    Radio Active's Christmas Turkey - 1983. 

The National Local Radio Station links up with Bethlehem and drops in on sick kids.
Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Philip Pope, Geoffrey Perkins, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton-Stevens. 

*    The Masterson Inheritance - Christmas Special 1993

The Masterson family face repercussions from a child's innocent gift. Improvised historical saga.
Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Caroline Quentin, Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson.

*    Christmas Night with Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket - 1983. 

Evadne's mother is on a festive visit, and she's driving her daughter crackers! 
Starring Dame Hilda Bracket, Dr Evadne Hinge, Jean Heywood, Anthony Sharp, Chris Emmett and Frances Jeater.  

*    Round the Horne: Cinderella - 1967. 

Baron Hardup's daughters battle it out to go to Prince Charming's ball. 
Starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Douglas Smith. 

*    Lines from my Grandfather Christmas's Forehead - 1971. 

How even the best laid festive plans can go awry - and a message from your milkman. 
Starring Ronnie Barker, Terence Brady and Pauline Yates.   

*    The Goon Show: Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest – 1954 .
 
Neddie Seagoon wants fame and riches, but will he risk life and limb for Maid Marion? 
Starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers.


Mr Cryer's Santa hat and baubles (not shown) artiste's own.

Mr Cryer's contractual egg nog provided by his producer: Peter Reed. 


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