Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme starring Kenneth Horne, first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The...
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (1944–1954), Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1968). The son of a clergyman who was also a politician, Horne had a...
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Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry...
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Marty Feldman (category Actors from the London Borough of Newham)
Took on the ITV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge and the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne. He became known as a performer on At Last the 1948 Show...
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Polari (category LGBT culture in the United Kingdom)
The popularity of the BBC radio comedy Round the Horne, with its camp gay characters Julian and Sandy, ensured that some of the Polari terms they used...
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– 9 November 2000) was an English actor. He starred in the 1960s BBC radio show Round the Horne, performing in sketches such as "Charles and Fiona" (as...
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Mrs Dale's Diary (redirect from The Dales (radio programme))
The programme was often a 'target' (albeit an affectionate one) on the BBC Radio comedy Round the Horne, referred to as "Mrs Dire's Dreary", with the...
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Round the Horne appeared to be nonsense language, the protagonists were sometimes having "rude" conversations in Polari (gay slang). Round the Horne depended...
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Betty Marsden (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
She is particularly remembered as a cast member of the radio series Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne. Marsden appeared in two Carry On films, Carry On...
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Kenneth Williams (redirect from The Kenneth Williams Diaries)
Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken (1958–64), and its sequel, Round the Horne (1965–68). His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric...
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