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: Kenneth Williams
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
Posted in humour, miscellany, radio, television
Tagged BBC, comedy, humour, Julian and Sandy, Kenneth Williams, Polari, Round the Horne, secret slang
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Nano Num-Nums No.23
Round the Horne was a radio show so apologies that this isn’t very visual. Julian and Sandy was truly radical (Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick) because, at the time these two clearly gay charactes were running riot on the BBC, … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany
Tagged Hugh Paddick, John Cleese, Ken Horne, Kenneth Williams, Marty Feldman
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