Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme starring Kenneth Horne, first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The...
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (1944–1954), Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1968). The son of a clergyman who was also a politician, Horne had a...
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Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry...
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Marty Feldman (category Actors from the London Borough of Newham)
Took on the ITV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge and the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne. He became known as a performer on At Last the 1948 Show...
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Mrs Dale's Diary (redirect from The Dales (radio programme))
The programme was often a 'target' (albeit an affectionate one) on the BBC Radio comedy Round the Horne, referred to as "Mrs Dire's Dreary", with the...
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Round the Horne appeared to be nonsense language, the protagonists were sometimes having "rude" conversations in Polari (gay slang). Round the Horne depended...
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Kenneth Williams (redirect from The Kenneth Williams Diaries)
Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964), and its sequel, Round the Horne (1965–1968). His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric...
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mostly by the Fraser Hayes Four. When the show finished it was replaced by the series Round the Horne (1965–1968), which built on, and exceeded, the success...
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– 9 November 2000) was an English actor. He starred in the 1960s BBC radio show Round the Horne, performing in sketches such as "Charles and Fiona" (as...
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Betty Marsden (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
She is particularly remembered as a cast member of the radio series Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne. Marsden appeared in two Carry On films, Carry On...
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Polari (category LGBTQ culture in the United Kingdom)
The popularity of the BBC radio comedy Round the Horne, with its camp gay characters Julian and Sandy, ensured that some of the Polari terms they used...
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Julian and Sandy (category Round the Horne)
Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams...
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Jason Horne-Francis (né Horne; born 21 June 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club...
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of playing Kenneth Horne in a series of stage shows based on the 1960s radio comedy Round the Horne, beginning with Round the Horne ... Revisited, which...
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Barry Took (category People educated at the Stationers' Company's School)
Feldman led to the television series Bootsie and Snudge, the radio comedy Round the Horne and other projects. He is also remembered in the UK for presenting...
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(born 1973), Listen Against, The Now Show Kenneth Horne (1907–1969), Round the Horne, Beyond Our Ken Roy Hudd (1936–2020), The News Huddlines Jo Kendall...
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Rambling Syd Rumpo (category Round the Horne)
character, played by the English comedian and actor Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series Round the Horne. The Rambling Syd sketches...
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feature, often including the title of the film itself. British sitcoms and comedy shows such as Are You Being Served? and Round the Horne have also made extensive...
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Douglas Smith (broadcaster) (category Actors from the London Borough of Croydon)
episode of Round the Horne. Many of his roles were portrayals of inanimate objects, e.g., volcanoes, "and I, Douglas Smith, play the part of the volcano"...
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Take It from Here (section The Glums)
the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne...
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Eamonn Andrews (category Honorary commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
far?" This was parodied by the character Seamus Android on Round the Horne in the 1960s, performed by Bill Pertwee. In the 1960s and 1970s he presented...
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Robin Sebastian (category Alumni of the University of Manchester)
comedian. A native of London, he has played Williams in recreations of Round the Horne and Hancock's Half Hour on stage, screen and radio. Raised in Headley...
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being a follow-up to Round the Horne, it retained a number of key talents from the previous show, with Kenneth Williams as the new show's main star....
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Bill Pertwee (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
Burberry in London. Pertwee appeared in the radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken (1959–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1967). He was also a warm-up act for...
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BBC Light Programme (redirect from The Light Programme)
Record Rendezvous Riders of the Range Round the Horne (1965–1967) Roundabout Saturday Club (1957–1967) Shadow of Sumuru The Showband Show Side by Side...
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Alison Steadman (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
sketch show Round the Horne. In the early to mid 1980s Steadman also had a spell in Roy Hudd's long-running comedy sketch series The News Huddlines. From...
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Fraser Hayes Four (redirect from The Fraser Hayes Quartette)
musical interludes on the BBC Radio comedy programmes Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne. Tony Hayes originally studied art, and Jimmy Fraser engineering. They...
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communities. Polari was featured on the BBC radio programme Round the Horne in 1964, exposing the wider public to the secret language. Although there are...
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List of former Footlights members (category Lists of people associated with the University of Cambridge)
achieved notability after graduating from the University of Cambridge. The careers of many prominent figures in the world of entertainment began in Footlights...
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Sally Grace (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
were as the Queen in Alistair McGowan's sketches about the royal family, and as Betty Marsden in a touring stage adaptation of Round the Horne. Her film...
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