TonyS
Coventry |
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Thu 29th Dec 2011 7:40pm
I remember The Navy Lark being on a Sunday, but it seems it wasn't always...
Series 1 (1959) - was broadcast on Sundays
Series 2 (1959/60) - it moved to Fridays (except the last episode of this series which was broadcast on a Wednesday for some reason)
Series 3 (1960/61) - Wednesdays
Series 4 & 5 (1962-1963) - Fridays
Series 15 (1976) - Sundays |
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia |
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 1:51am
On 29th Dec 2011 4:43pm, KeithLeslie said:
Wilfred Pickles compered "Have A Go".
You are so right Keith. I have just remembered "Give him the money Barney" and was there a 'Mabel' on the piano?
The radio was so entertaining in those days (now I do feel ancient!).
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JohnnieWalker
Sanctuary Point, Australia |
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 5:33am
Mabel was "at the Table". I think she was a sort of "secretary" to the show, keeping track of the contestants and performers. I'm certain I remember it coming to the GEC one lunchtime, but I don't remember when. Wiki says (so it must be true):
His most significant work was as host of the BBC Radio show Have A Go, which ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as "How do, how are yer?", "Are yer courting?", "What's on the table, Mabel?" and "Give him the money, Barney", delivered in Pickles's inimitable style. He appeared in the show with his wife Mabel Pickles (nee Myerscough, 1906-1989), whom he had married in 1930.
There is a book called "Married To Wilfred", showing the happy couple on the cover - she looks scarily like a young Margaret Thatcher! True Blue Coventry Kid
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heritage
Bedworth |
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 8:00am
A question. Do any of you know the connection between 'The Navy Lark' and our North Warwickshire Victorian author George Eliot? |
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Midland Red
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 9:30am
I didn't! But I do now!
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) and Tenniel Evans (Taffy) were related - he was a descendant of Mary Ann's brother Isaac.
Good old Google! ![]() |
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K
Somewhere |
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 12:20pm
I left school in 62, Adrian. It was in the last couple of years that I got interested in shows like that - the comedy in Round the Horne would have been a bit 'way out' earlier! ![]() ![]() |
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heritage
Bedworth |
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Fri 30th Dec 2011 2:58pm
I recommend Tenniel Evans auto biography 'Don't Walk in the Long Grass' (1999). A good story of growing up in Africa before moving to England at the age of ten in 1936 when he won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital boarding school in Horsham, West Sussex. During holidays, he lived with his father's cousin and her husband, the Reverend Rupert Winser, at Allesley Rectory.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks |
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Sat 11th Feb 2012 10:41pm
Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks |
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Sun 12th Feb 2012 11:48am
Hi ![]() ![]() |
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia |
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Sun 12th Feb 2012 3:27pm
Thank you for the entertainment Dutchman. It makes you wonder what has happened to so called comedy these days and it
was always a pleasure to listen to. So many of the comics have left us now, and all without the foul language as we have to
accept today. If you can dig up any more of those golden oldies it would be great.
As always, thank you. ![]() |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 14th Feb 2012 3:07am
I was never a sports' fan but I was staggered at how few people my age remember this!
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia |
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Tue 14th Feb 2012 4:11am
On 14th Feb 2012 3:07am, dutchman said:
I was never a sports' fan but I was staggered at how few people my age remember this!
Thank you for that. Not a sports fan either but I well remember the music. The radio was always on most days. I also remember listening to 'Armchair Detective' - are you sitting comfortably? I have a feeling it was a bit before your time Dutchman.
Keep digging for some more!! ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Thu 16th Feb 2012 2:41pm
And now, here is the news:
Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Radio Newsreel (Imperial Echoes)
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Midland Red
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Thu 16th Feb 2012 2:46pm
Like so many others, I used to listen to 'Beyond our Ken' and 'Round the Horne' without fail, enjoying all the many characters in the shows
Rambling Syd Rumpo, who actually has his own Wikipedia page, was one of the regular favourites
However, I remember a friend lending me an LP of him
One song, once a week, is fine, but a full length LP record . . . . .
OMG it was unbearable
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TonyS
Coventry |
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Thu 16th Feb 2012 3:24pm
On 16th Feb 2012 2:46pm, Midland Red said:
However, I remember a friend lending me an LP of him
What's an LP? ![]() |
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