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With her afternoon programme mixing music and chat, including listeners' views and comments. Lifestyle and leisure interests figure largely - features from the kitchen and garden to health and consumer matters, with expert advice from the team of contributors.

Barry Took presents a four-part history of BBC Radio comedy. The series includes the high points of the classic comedy of the twenties, the "golden age" of the fifties and sixties and the best of today's new stars, in a selection of clips from the BBC archive and the BBC Radio Collection.
2: Writers come under the spotlight as Barry Took charts the development of scripted comedy from its beginnings in Danger, Men at Work and ITMA through to the "golden age" comedies - The Goons,
Round the Home and Hancock's Half Hour.
Written by Barry Took

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