LOST recordings from the early career of legendary comedy due Morecambe and Wise have been unearthed in a garage.
Around 45 hours’ worth of material was discovered by Ernie’s widow Doreen while preparing to move home six months ago. The double act had paid the sound engineer a few shillings at a time to make [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Radio’
February 21, 2010
Garage Find Brings Us Sunshine
August 29, 2009
‘Lost’ Kenneth Williams Script Gets Radio Airing
A NEW BBC production based on a ‘lost’ Kenneth Williams radio script gets its first broadcast this September.
Twice Ken Is Plenty was written in 1966 by Kenneth Horne and his ghost writer, Mollie Millest, and was intended to be performed by Horne and Williams (who starred together in hugely popular radio comedies Beyond Our Ken [...]
August 13, 2009
More Missing Hancock Set For Release
THIS year is turning out to be a treat for fans of Hancock’s Half Hour, with two new releases featuring missing episodes set to hit the shops in time for Christmas.
Hancock: The Lost Radio Episodes: Sid James’s Dad and The Diet is due out on November 5th 2009, according to Amazon.co.uk – the same day [...]
May 4, 2009
Massive Haul Of Clitheroe Kid Episodes Rounded Up
He might have been just 4ft 3ins tall, but Lancashire entertainer Jimmy Clitheroe was a big star of the airways with his hugely popular BBC radio show: The Clitheroe Kid.
Clitheroe took advantage of his diminutive stature to play a cheeky schoolboy who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue in an unnamed northern town.
The [...]
April 23, 2009
Missing Top Gear Session Freed From Oblivion
Fans of ’60s English blues rock band Free might have been saddened to learn one of their sessions for a seminal music show was missing from the archives, but it’s all right now thanks to the work of one radio enthusiast.
Rare music collector Andrew Smith has discovered an off-air recording of Free, regarded as one [...]
March 5, 2009
Missing Hancock’s Half Hour Discovered
Chris Perry of classic TV organisation Kaleidoscope has announced that the group has discovered a previously lost mini-episode of radio sitcom Hancock’s Half Hour.
The important find was made while sorting through reel-to-reel recordings that comprise part of the Bob Monkhouse collection. Monkhouse, who died in 2003, was an avid collector of film, TV and radio, [...]
