Ron Lankshear recalls Radio Days - the old steam radio folks
Radio Comedy
This came about during a series of notes in September 2009 on [email protected] to join send a note with subscribe in subject
with a quest for "the little girl whose catch phrase was "My name's Jennifer" - answer somewhere below
most links goto British Radio Nostalgia http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/
This is just an aide memoire and I am detailing every thing just some
catch phrases etc that stick in my mind.
I expect you will start to recall the stars etc but do follow the links
- lovely pics and extracts.
Yes the sequence is in order of my favourites
The Goon Show 1951-1960 - immortal madness - and played on a cardboard saxophone Jim
Hancocks Half Hour 1954 and then on TV - such a pompous twerp - oh why did he kill himself
Take it From Here 1947-1959 - ah June Whitfield and her immortal line "Oh Ron!" - wonderful to see her years later on TV in Absolutely Fabulous
ITMA - Tommy Handley It's That Man Again 1939-1949 - some of the greatest catch phrases - including TTFN
Life with The Lyons - Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels with their children Barbara and Richard (Richard was this innocent who had a line "I don't even know about ships" - ie that ships are "she")
Ray's a Laugh 1949-1961 - and guess what little Jennifer was in this show
Much Binding
in the Marsh 1944-1954 - Sam Costa "Good morning Sir, was there
something?'
and Kenneth Horne again
Beyond Our Ken and then Round the Horne - ah the voices that Kenneth
Williams did - he seems to have been in many of the shows I've mentioned
Educating Archie 1950-1959 a crazy idea for radio ventriloquist Peter Brough and Archie Andrews his dummy - Archie had a wonderful cracked voice
The Navy Lark 1959-1970
Ignorance is Bliss - 1946-1953 - I remember Harold Berens and this show is just a title in my head
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Tommy
Handley died in 1949 and the nation was stunned - on London memories
Jean wrote
Hi Ron, Although I am too young to remember Tommy Handley's death in
January 1949 I do know that a choir made up of the foremost concert
singers of the day, all members of the Savage Club as Tommy had been,
sang at the funeral and the memorial service at St Paul's several weeks
later. At the funeral from the organ loft Webster Booth, Parry Jones,
Trefor Jones, Walter Midgley, Dennis Noble, Frederic Gregory, George
James and Edward Dykes sang Sullivan's "The Long day closes",
Walford Davies' "God be in my head". and hymns, "O God
our help in ages past" and "Abide with me". Several
months later the choir made a recording of the music sung at the
services and the record was sold in aid of boys' and girls' clubs in
which Tommy Handley was keenly interested. You can see film clips of the
funeral and memorial service at http://www.britishpathe.co.uk
more quotes from ITMA "Can I do you now, Sir?" - Mrs Mopp
(the office char) Dorothy Summers
"It's being so cheerful as keeps me going" - Mona Lott.