Just love your bagpuss Barry. Talking of the Archers H, my Mum always had Mrs Dale's diary on when I came home from school. I remember her catch phrase 'I'm so worried about Jim'. Two way family favourites this week coming from BFPO usually Germany. On special occassions like Easter or Mothers day they had Three way Family Favourites. But can you remember what Radio channel it was on Leo, was it the Light Programme, The Home or Third Programme.?
I'm sure one of the other presenters was her husband Cliff Mitchelmore and Michael Aspel used to take a turn, in fact Michael Aspel used to turn up everywhere. if you want to know which ones best send a letter to 'Ask Aspel'
The theme tune that still sticks in my head, even though it's unbelievably irritating, is the one introducing 'Music While You Work' which my mother listened to religiously when I was very small.
Glad you answered that w-y as I don't think I even knew there were more than one channel in those days. My mum used to listen to Mrs Dale's Diary too - don't think she listened to the Archers though - in fact the only person I ever knew who did was a lad I was at Uni with and he was a bit of an Archers addict - very strange. Anyone mentioned Round the Horn?
Not quite what it says Mitch - he stopped playing for FC Ashdod in 2004 then managed the club for three years.
Ahhh - Round the Horne, not to mention it's predecessor Beyond our Ken which had exactly the same cast - Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee and Betty Marsden - marvellous stuff. One of the regular musical contributors was a band called The Hornets! Round the Horne saved my sanity around 12 years ago - I was in hospital in Brisbane for an eye operation & had my head swathed in bandages for three days. My wife discovered all the audio tapes of the Round the Horne series in the hospital library - God bless her.
I wonder if Sandy Hornet has a friend called Julian How about 'Have a go' with Wilfred Pickles - He had a broad yorkshire accent and used to say, 'What's on the table Mable' and 'Give them the money, Barney' They used to win real rubbish and cash like 12s 6d. prizes
Chas - I was quoting from Wiki, I know it's not 100%, but this is what is states: "Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (much better remembered by its later name Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service until 1980. It was a request programme designed to link families at home in the UK with British Forces serving in West Germany or elsewhere overseas. It was a big success."
On a Sunday after the comedy programme, Navy Lark etc they used to have 'Sing Something Simple' at about 3.00pm, we used to listen to this while we had our Sunday Dinner. It was introduced by Cliff Adams and the songs were sung by the 'Cliff Adams Singers'. At the start of the programme he always used to say "Old ones, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones' my Sister still to this day swears he said "Old ones, new ones, loved ones, PEG LEGGED ones" I used to say to her 'sing something your simple" I can taste the roast beef now. Our Sunday roast would last three days, Roast on Sunday, cold meat with Jacket Pots & pickles on Monday (If there was any veg left over from Sunday we would have some bubble), Mum would then mince what meat was left and we would have Cottage Pie on Tuesday. For breakfast we would have toast and dripping. Oh God I've just remembered in the winter after breakfast Mum used to give us a Desert Spoon full of 'Malt & Cod Liver Oil'
Beyond our Ken and Navy Lark were good - Sing Something Simple ranks with Two Way Family Favourites as a horror - how about the politically correct (well at that time there was no such thing) Black and White Minstel Show
Agreed - I always used to annoy my parents with the comment that 'there's a comma missing'. I never appreciated the Black and White Minstrel Show, but couldn't see what all the fuss was about when it was taken off air. White men painting their faces black and singing = major furore. Then along came Michael Jackson and not a peep..........
Thanks for that, Charlie but a combination of this thread and one of my colleagues is slightly behind the change in avatar. She used to call me Bagpuss - no idea why.
The "theme" tune is actually "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates - who also wrote the music to Desert Island Discs ("By the Sleepy Lagoon"). Both are available on the double CD "Music of Eric Coates" at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Coate...=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1336504881&sr=1-1 amazing value at just £5.99 - but not, of course, if you find such music "unbelievably irritating".
Thanks for that, Vic...amazing what you learn on here...the Dam Busters march as well. Eric Coates clearly left a more striking legacy than Ralph
Yes, the Dambusters March as well - great film - amazing to think that Richard Todd only died just over two and a half years ago at the age of 90. Talking of Ralph Coates, the greatest legacy he left us is, of course, his stupefyingly dreadful hairstyle. Incidentally, his flamboyant comb-over is one of many sparkling pictures of hirsute footballers adorning the pages of "Footballers Haircuts: A New History" available at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Footballers...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336508916&sr=1-2 Those, like me, familiar with the first edition of this little gem of a book will want this on their bookshelves as well - much more relevant to footie history than any pompous utterings by Brian Glanville.
Older can mean wiser. Therefore I respect your wisdom, a lot of this is even before I was a twinkle in my old man's eyes.
