The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: comedy
The Bona Innocence Of Youth – Polari and The BBC
As a child, Sundays had a certain set piece feel to them. A roast lunch for sure. For some years the Archaeologist and I were dispatched to the local Sunday school at a Methodist Church in Upper Caterham where I … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, comedy, humour, Julian and Sandy, Kenneth Williams, Polari, Round the Horne, secret slang
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Num-nums (reprise)
For those of you with me during Nano last November you might remember my Num-Nums tour around British comedy. Today, while reading a memory post from Hugh Roberts here he put me in mind of a sketch from National Treasure … Continue reading
Radio Gaga
During my month of Nano Num-Nums (if these mean nothing have a look at the tab at the top of the page) I concentrated on TV and the comedy shows that resonated with me at various points in my life. … Continue reading
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