The Missing Hancocks

Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Comedy: Sitcoms

Long-lost, classic Tony Hancock comedies, freshly recorded and starring Kevin McNally.

Long-lost, classic Hancock's Half Hour comedies, freshly recorded. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and starring Kevin McNally as The Lad Himself.

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 LW

Kevin McNally

Andy Secombe

Kevin Eldon

Simon Greenall

Robin Sebastian

Susy Kane

Ray Galton

Alan Simpson

Neil Pearson

Paul Sheehan

The Missing Hancocks: Series 3: The Three Sons

Comedy

The Three Sons

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 - The Missing Hancocks, Series 3, The Three Sons

This modern morality tale tells the story of old Ebidiah Hancock and his three sons.

A modern morality tale of in the form of old Ebidiah Hancock and his three sons. Stars Kevin McNally. From April 2017.

A modern morality tale of old Ebidiah Hancock and his three sons, all of whom are played by Hancock.

The Missing Hancocks recreates those episodes of the classic Radio Show Hancock's Half Hour that have been wiped or lost from the archive. Not heard since then, this is a real piece of comedy history.

The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams and launched Ray Galton and Alan Simpson on one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history. But twenty episodes of the show are missing from the BBC archives. After two highly successful series, another five episodes have been lovingly re-recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.

CAST:

Kevin McNally
Andy Secombe
Kevin Eldon
Simon Greenall
Robin Sebastian
Susy Kane

Produced by Neil Pearson and Paul Sheehan.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

Music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Levon Parikian.

The original version of ‘The Three Sons’ was first broadcast on the 21st June, 1955.

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

The Missing Hancocks: Series 3

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Missing Hancocks

Series 3

The Three Sons

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra