Beyond Our Ken: Series 2: Classic BBC Radio comedy Audiobook
Beyond Our Ken: Series 2: Classic BBC Radio comedy Audiobook
- Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- 2016-07-07
- 7 h 0 min
Summary:
Kenneth Horne is joined by Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Costs Pertwee and Pat Lancaster in the next group of the traditional weekly radio show.
Between 1958 and 1964, ‘Beyond Our Ken’ was one of radio’s most popular comedy shows, with a normal audience of 10 mil listeners. A hilarious mix of sketches and music, packed with witty wordplay, comic catchphrases and larger-than-life individuals, this fabulous forerunner to ‘Circular the Horne’ continues to be just like funny today.
In these about Beyond Our Ken: Series 2: Classic BBC Radio comedy fourteen episodes, written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took, listen to some remarkable incidents from Kenneth Horne’s week and enjoy unique ‘Hornerama’ investigations into the worlds of showbusiness, communications, the film industry, shipping and delivery and many more. Say hello to Rodney and Charles, stick to roving reporter Cecil Snaith towards the depths of the Red Sea and sign up for Felicity and Ambrose because they are shipwrecked on a desert island.
Plus, there’s a spoof ‘Any Queries?’ offering Hankie Flowered, Ricky Livid, Fanny Haddock and Arthur Fallowfield, and musical interludes from The Fraser Hayes Four and Pat Lancaster – so sign up for urbane sponsor Kenneth Horne and close friends for more pleasurable, puns, merriment and madcap humour from your much-loved comedy present. Duration: 7 hours approx.