Round the Horne

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Comedy: Sketch

Classic comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick

Classic comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, Douglas Smith and Betty Marsden

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Kenneth Horne stars in war romp The Plastic Max, and Jules and Sandy bewail their parts.

Kenneth Horne in war romp 'The Plastic Max' and Jules and Sandy bewail their parts. With Kenneth Williams. From February 1967.

Kenneth Horne in war romp 'The Plastic Max', Seamus Android at Pinewood and Jules and Sandy bewail their parts.   

One of BBC Radio’s most influential and groundbreaking series packed full of colourful characters, parodies, memorable catchphrases, and double-entendres.  

Starring:

Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden
Bill Pertwee  

Announcer: Douglas Smith 

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. 

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four. 

Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman wrote the  brilliantly inventive - and sometimes outrageous - scripts for four series between 1965 and 1968.

Producer: John Simmonds 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1967.

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