Round the Horne (Season 1)

A radio comedy sketch show, presented as a local variety show with Kenneth Horne as the host.

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    Air date: 1965-03-07

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: The BBC backroom boys: the programme planners The Clissold Saga [part 1/5]

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    Air date: 1965-03-14

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Isambard Kingdom Fortinbras, inventor of the doorknob The BBC backroom boys The Clissold Saga: The aviator [part 2/5]

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    Air date: 1965-03-21

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: BBC sound effects department The Clissold Saga: A pantomime horse [part 3/5]

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    Air date: 1965-03-28

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Robert Capability Lackwind, inventor of toad in the hole BBC censorship department The Clissold Saga: Egyptology [part 4/5] Rentachap (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-04-04

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Richard Serendipity Mountbasket, inventor of the Christmas Pudding BBC personnel department: Gruntfuttock applies for a BBC job The Clissold Saga: films [part 5/5] Gent’s Boutique in Chelsea (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-04-11

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Tammany Wilkinshaft, inventor of the crumpet BBC complaints department Inspector Horne's casebook – The Tap-dancing Monk Bona Bistro (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-04-18

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Nemesis Fothergill, Ornithologist BBC audience research department "Edwin Braden Is Missing": Horne investigates Bona scriptwriters (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-04-25

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Edwin Chattleforth, inventor of forced meat BBC auditioners 'Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket? Private Fever – Noël Coward parody Bona Tours (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-05-02

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Friar Wacker Biscuit, inventor of the hip bath The Spy Who Came in with a Cold: Kenneth Horne meets Chou en Ginsberg Bona Bouffant (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-05-09

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Gruntfuttock, King of Peasmoldia Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: Famous People Are Turning Into Animals Rambling Syd Rumpo

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    Air date: 1965-05-16

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: From Russia With Love and Kind Regards to Auntie Mabel Blithe Laughter Bona Homes, estate agents (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-05-23

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Man with the Golden Thunderball Bona Homes and Landscape Gardens (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-05-30

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Missing Eiffel Tower Lover, Come Back to Me, Romberg, Hammerstein Present Encounter Bona Pets (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-06-06

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC It's a Lovely Day Today Irving Berlin Studio Bona photographers (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-06-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Special agent Kenneth Horne investigating a Rocket Site in Haiti Bitter Laughter Nice Work If You Can Get It George and Ira Gershwin Bona Seats, ticket agency (Julian and Sandy)

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    Air date: 1965-06-20

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Special Agent: Traffic wardens in outer space Forbidden Encounter This Can't Be Love, Rodgers and Hart Bona Productions: melodramas (Julian and Sandy)

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