Audiobooks Narrated by Douglas Smith

Round the Horne: Complete Series One: March 1965 - June 1965

Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 16 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy.Round the Horne arrived on BBC radio in 1965, bringing laughter to Sunday lunchtimes throughout the land. Over the course of sixteen weekly episodes it carved a niche in the history of broadcast comedy, a sketch show which prodded the boundaries of propriety and innuendo. At its heart was the suave and upstanding Kenneth Horne, around which revolved the multiple naughty personas of Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee. Among the parade of regular characters were Julian and Sandy, the camp couple of resting thespians happy to turn their hands to anything, Rambling Syd Rumbo the musical cordwangler, Fiona and Charles the passionate duo, and J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock the world’s dirtiest man. Meanwhile regular film parodies, spoof sagas and musical interludes peppered the mix.Round the Horne earned its place in the annals of comedy history, and is fondly remembered today as a groundbreaking series that influenced many more to come. Here the entire first series can be enjoyed once again.

Barry Took, Marty Feldman (Author), Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, Douglas Smith, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams (Narrator)

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Round The Horne Vol 16

How lovely it is to once again vada the dolly old eek of Round the Horne, the radio comedy series which ventured where few had gone before in the late 1960s. For four series, suave and unruffled host Kenneth Horne battled manfully with a marauding parade of characters, from enterprising chorus boys Julian and Sandy and warbling songsmith Rambling Syd Rumpo to booming Daphne Whitethigh and breathless thespians Charles and Fiona. In this latest collection of episodes, we listen in to an interview at the BBC personnel department; Kenneth Horne, master spy, has serious trouble when the evil Ginsberg causes people to assume the characters of animals; Julian and Sandy suggest something decadent for the garden; and, in a wartime drama, Fiona finds something lacking in her marriage to Charles.

Barry Took (Author), Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, Douglas Smith, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams (Narrator)

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Round the Horne vol 14

How lovely it is to once again vada the dolly old eek of 'Round the Horne', the radio comedy series which ventured where few had gone before in the late 1960s. For four series, suave and unruffled host Kenneth Horne battled manfully with a marauding parade of characters, from enterprising chorus boys Julian and Sandy and warbling songsmith Rambling Syd Rumpo to booming Daphne Whitethigh and breathless thespians Charles and Fiona. Included in this dazzling volume of boundless wit are further instalments of 'The Seamus Android Show', an appearance by Zsa Zsa Poltergeist, the Kenneth Horne 'Theatre of Suspense', and songs from Rambling Syd Rumpo. Julian and Sandy's entrepreneurial skills are meanwhile gainfully employed in Bona Books, Bona Tattoo, the Ballet Bona and Bona Productions.

Barry Took (Author), Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, Douglas Smith, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams (Narrator)

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