The entire final group of the groundbreaking BBC Radio comedy starring Tony Hancock – plus five bonus episodes.

Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock’s Fifty percent Hour was the radio vehicle that produced Tony Hancock a household name. Every week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane lifestyle of ‘the lad ‘imself’. Aided and abetted by Sid Wayne, Expenses Kerr Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, Hancock would enter into the spirit of each event with about Hancock’s Half Hour: Series 6: 19 episodes of the traditional BBC Radio comedy series characteristic dolefulness.

This volume contains all 14 shows through the sixth radio series, collected together for the first time, including previously unpublished restored versions of The Waxwork, The Fête and The Poetry Society. Also included is the 1958 Christmas Special episode and four re-recordings made for the BBC Transcription Service. Among these amusing Fifty percent Hours, Hancock enters an consuming competition; sets away to save a local landmark; turns into the movie director of Sid’s led tours organization and loves an night time of abstract verse with his avant-garde friends.

The episodes are: Costs and SANTA CLAUS (1958 Christmas Particular); The 13th of the Month (Transcription Services Episode One); The New Secretary (Transcription Providers Event Two); The Ballet Go to (Transcription Services Show Three); The Election Candidate (Transcription Providers Episode Four); The Smugglers; The Years as a child Sweetheart; The Last Bus Home; The Picnic; The Gourmet; The Elopement; Fred’s Pie Stall; The Waxwork; Sid’s Secret Travels; The Fête; The Poetry Culture; Hancock in Hospital; The Christmas Membership as well as the Impersonator. Duration: 9 hours 30 mins approx.