RoundRound thethe HorneHorne The Collector’s Edition

SERIES THREE FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967

PAN352 PAN 314 PAN 362 BLACK CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: , , PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN and 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile ’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

Radio Times Gary Smith 9 February 1967 4 13 12 5

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 ’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX ... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy . It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... . the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and . Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of , he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including . He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

Radio Times Gary Smith 9 February 1967 4 13 12 5

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT At the mic from left to right: 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT WITH A MAN FOR INTERNATIONAL Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, SERIES THREE 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the broadcast HONEYMOON 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. I 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT EFFECTS DEPARTMENT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give THE CINEMA 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 7 BONA SEANCES 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN hard and accept more work engagements than he should. At this stage in his career he was 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE PROGRAMME TWENTY 14 MAY 1967 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 8 IT’S COMING PROGRAMME SIXTEEN inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. 11 JUNE 1967 10 THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN 28 MAY 1967 Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE 11 THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. PAST THE PRODUCER DAY IN FROM THE COLD 10 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE THE PEEPING TOMS Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 10 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE 12 GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) BRASS MONKEY 10 BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty BULLFIGHTER 13 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 11 SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been 11 WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 14 CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 11 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss (FHF) DISCOVERY OF AMERICA of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 15 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13 EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS 12 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 12 GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 16 BODY BONA FLY 13 CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 13 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and 17 THE CAST SAY GOODBYE 14 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 14 BONA TV LIMITED 15 BONA HUNT 14 CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light BIG BEN There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some CD 10 CD 8 Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 15 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and PROGRAMME NINETEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN episodes One, Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the double entendre had apparently subsided. At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 18 JUNE 1967 21 MAY 1967 16 GUIDED TRIPETTES Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF CD 9 follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY POLPERRO PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new 4 JUNE 1967 There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- episode in the series! 3 THE PALONE RANGER baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND PROFIT WEEK 2 15 14 3

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SHOW 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 26 MARCH 1967 18 LATE NEWS ITEM 16 COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 WEEK Round the Horne Even before the third series had 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE drawn to a close, the Heads of Light 17 ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 9 POLICE MESSAGE GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 OF FLICKER The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking PROGRAMME TWELVE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND forward to a fourth. The winds of 18 GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 30 APRIL 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 19 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10 DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY and a cost-cutting directive from on 20 EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME PROGRAMMES 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 high would find Edwin Braden and the FILM 11 THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 21 BONA PRODS and Bill Pertwee absent from future 12 ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN 22 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FOOT TALL CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG

own burgeoning career, as a writer and 23 POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE 13 I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) WRITTEN BY CYCLIST OF POLPERRO Barry Took and Marty Feldman performer, was taking him in new and 14 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA exciting directions. With three series CD 6 15 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 2 APRIL 1967 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as PROGRAMME ELEVEN 16 BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to 23 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams 17 COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY 11 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10 CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK call it a day. 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN OF KILLJOYS But as the cast waved goodbye in LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 12 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11 INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG PRODUCED BY CD 7 LOOMBUCKET PART TWO John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON 12 REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS would have had little intimation of how RIND DAY PROGRAMME THIRTEEN 13 HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) 13 BONA PRESS MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same 7 MAY 1967 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM 14 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14 GRUNTFUTTOCK, ‘TIS OF THEE Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that OF BOGMOUTH HIP 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 15 EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD PROGRAMME TEN EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS STREPTOCOCCUS 16 APRIL 1967 Ted Kendall would be its very last. 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 16 BONA NATURE CLINIC 15 COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S WITH THANKS TO 17 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY Gary Smith Radio Times 9 February 1967 4 13 12 5

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CD 2 PROGRAMME FIVE PROGRAMME THREE 12 MARCH 1967 BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW TRACK LISTING Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. 1 TOASTMASTER 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE NOTE: rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and chairman of Chad These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using during the war. Whilst in the Army he discovered broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair went 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT transferred to Combined Services on to devise the popular comedy Much 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment. After demob he found work in PROGRAMME TWO Binding in the Marsh. 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO TRACK/ TITLE repertory theatre and from there went on to In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and 15 FEBRUARY 1967 West End revues. He gained nationwide fame 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 BONA SOULMATES CD 1 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 9 TOASTMASTER with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, with limited powers of speech. This 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE PROGRAMME SIX PROGRAMME ONE Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE 19 MARCH 1967 Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ 11 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 9 WRESTLING 1 TORTURE business career, but during his PROGRAMME FOUR MUSKETEERS PART ONE became a byword for all things saucy. recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 10 HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ Kenneth Williams died in 1988. 12 SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 10 TOASTMASTER 11 ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX a number of years and regularly 13 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915. After leaving school he 11 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 12 IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) 4 MORE (FHF) garnered a large listening audience. 14 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 12 ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 13 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to be 15 EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool THE RIVER 14 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend even more popular and made Kenneth Horne 16 BONA LAW a household name. 13 SERENATA (FHF) 15 THE DAILY PALARE 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC took him to the West End and his first taste of HORSE-RIDING STORY 17 MYSTERY NOISE fame. The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair Horne’s other radio appearances were 14 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT CD 4 numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15 EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND PROGRAMME SEVEN chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in Twenty Questions. 16 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described Kenneth The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was 17 BONA ANTIQUES Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio comedy, around whom prolific, and his last stage appearance was in zanier talents would frolic.’ CD 3 The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6tragic end. 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928. An early career Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led to his first she was working as an understudy in a West End radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. From there play and was called upon to replace the leading he went on to create Round the Horne with actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Marty Feldman, whilst on television he wrote did a spell entertaining the troops overseas for series including Bootsie and Snudge and The during the Second World War. Army Game. Amongst a variety of later jobs in On radio she appeared in numerous light front of and behind the camera, Took wrote entertainment programmes, including Beyond and presented Points of View on BBC1 and also Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me, The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left school After being evacuated during the war he left school at 16 and aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell into show took a variety of jobs, before realising that his first business with a Marx Brothers-style stage act. His love was showbusiness. The cousin of Jon Pertwee, meeting with Barry Took in 1954 led to a prolific he worked in revue and repertory theatre before writing partnership on radio shows including breaking into television and radio. In the 1950s he Round the Horne and The Army Game. A move joined the cast of Beyond Our Ken and was into television saw Feldman writing for The subsequently Frost Report and At Last! The 1948 Show. An a regular in the first three series of Round the on-screen appearance in the latter led to his Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, You becoming an overnight star; Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by o n film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About The success in America and numerous film appearances, House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

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Untitled-6 1 01/10/2015 15:02 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3

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PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings. assigned to make maps for the Royal Engineers Whilst every attempt has been made to clean up and remaster these recordings using During the Second World War he met the 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – HOW THE during the war.Whilst in the Army he discovered the latest technology, the sound quality may at times reflect the age and off-air nature of broadcaster Richard Murdoch and fronted his MUSKETEERS PART TWO BULLETPROOF VEST WAS WON his talent for making people laugh, and was certain source material. first radio series, Ack-Ack Beer-Beer. The pair 4 IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FHF) 4 SHE LOVES ME (FHF) transferred to Combined Services went on to devise the popular comedy FHF = Fraser Hayes Four Entertainment.After demob he found work in 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Much Binding in the Marsh. TRACK/ TITLE PROGRAMME TWO repertory theatre and from there went on to 6 EXCERPT FROM IN WHICH WE SERVE 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON A BOAT West End revues. He gained nationwide fame In 1958 Horne suffered a stroke and CD 1 15 FEBRUARY 1967 was, for a time, paralysed on one side 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO with radio performances in Hancock’s Half Hour, PROGRAMME ONE 9 TOASTMASTER with limited powers of speech. 8 JULIAN AND SANDY’S WORLD CRUISE 8 BONA SOULMATES Round the Horne and Just a Minute and in the 12 FEBRUARY 1967 10LAST WEEK’S QUIZ This forced him to give up the 9 RIDDLE ME RE PROGRAMME SIX Carry On... films – where his expression of ‘Matron!’ business career, but during his 1 TORTURE 11ARMPIT THEATRE – THE THREE became a byword for all things saucy. PROGRAMME FOUR 19 MARCH 1967 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ MUSKETEERS PART ONE recovery he devised the radio 5 MARCH 1967 9 WRESTLING Kenneth Williams died in 1988. comedy Beyond Our Ken. It ran for 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PLASTIC MAX 12SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (FHF) 10TOASTMASTER 10HORSE DEODORANT ADVERT Hugh Paddick was born in 1915.After leaving school he a number of years and regularly 4 MORE (FHF) 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT garnered a large listening audience. 11LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 11ARMPIT THEATRE – TRILBY studied for Bar exams but soon decided to become an 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Its successor, Round the Horne, proved to 12ARMPIT THEATRE – LIPHARVEST OF 12IT’S A GOOD DAY (FHF) actor. For many years he worked at Liverpool 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 15EXCERPT FROM BRIEF ECSTASY be even more popular and made Kenneth THE RIVER 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Repertory Theatre, before a role in The Boy Friend 7 EXCERPT FROM A ROMANTIC 16BONA LAW took him to the West End and his first taste of Horne a household name. 13SERENATA (FHF) 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne’s other radio appearances were HORSE-RIDING STORY 17MYSTERY NOISE fame.The role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15THE DAILY PALARE numerous, and they included his 8 JULIAN AND SANDY COMPLAIN Lady followed, as well as many others. In the 15EXCERPT FROM THE MOON AND 1960s he starred in Beyond Our Ken and Round chairmanship of the quiz programme SIXPENCE REDUCED TO FOURPENCE... Twenty Questions. the Horne on radio, and on film he appeared in 16RAMBLING SYD RUMPO The writer Russell Davies once described The Killing of Sister George. His theatre work was Kenneth Horne as ‘a kind of human maypole of radio 17BONA ANTIQUES prolific, and his last stage appearance was in comedy, around whom zanier talents would frolic.’ The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in 1987. Horne’s sudden death in 1969 brought the run of Round the Horne to an abrupt and tragic end. Hugh Paddick died in 2001. 6 11 10 7

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BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Betty Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1919. Barry Took was born in London in 1928.An early Her stage career was given a boost in 1938 whilst career as a stand-up comedian and sketch writer led she was working as an understudy in a West End to his first radio script credit, for Beyond Our Ken. play and was called upon to replace the leading From there he went on to create Round the actress at short notice. More roles followed, as Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television did a spell entertaining the troops overseas he wrote for series including Bootsie and Snudge during the Second World War. and The Army Game. Amongst a variety of later On radio she appeared in numerous light jobs in front of and behind the camera,Took entertainment programmes, including Beyond wrote and presented Points of View on BBC1 Our Ken and Round the Horne. Her television and also chaired BBC radio’s The News Quiz. appearances included Weren’t You Marcia He wrote a number of books, including Honeywell?, Margie and Me,The Cabbage Patch The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne and Blake’s 7. and his autobiography, A Point of View. Betty Marsden died in 1998. Barry Took died in March 2002.

Bill Pertwee was born in Amersham in 1926. Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left After being evacuated during the war he left school school aged 15 to become a jazz trumpeter, but fell at 16 and took a variety of jobs, before realising into show business with a Marx Brothers-style that his first love was showbusiness.The cousin stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 of Jon Pertwee, he worked in revue and led to a prolific writing partnership on radio repertory theatre before breaking into shows including Round the Horne and The Army television and radio. In the 1950s he joined the Game. A move into television saw Feldman cast of Beyond Our Ken and was subsequently writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The a regular in the first three series of Round the 1948 Show. An on-screen appearance in the Horne. His television credits include Dad’s Army, latter led to his becoming an overnight star; You Rang, M’Lord? and Worzel Gummidge, whilst a sketch show for British TV was followed by on film he has appeared in Dad’s Army, Man About success in America and numerous film appearances, The House and a number of Carry On... films. including Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49. 8 9

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