Take It From Here

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Comedy: Sketch

Vintage comedy from the Glums. Starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Dick Bentley

Vintage shenanigans from the Glums, starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Dick Bentley

Take It From Here: From 22/03/1949

From 22/03/1949

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Take It From Here, From 22/03/1949

'We present Desert Island Risks' - songs and send-ups from Portsmouth Naval Barracks.

'We present Desert Island Risks' - songs and send-ups with Jimmy Edwards. From Portsmouth Naval Barracks. From March 1949.

Professor Jim and company set sail with Desert Island Risks in the Blue Lagoon.

Recorded at the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth in front of an audience of sailors and Wrens.

Long-running classic comedy written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Starring:

Professor Jimmy Edwards
Dick Bentley
Joy Nichols
Alan Dean

Music from The Keynotes and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Frank Cantell.

Producer: Charles Maxwell 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1949.

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