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The series started on Sunday the 6th April 1969, on Radio 2, at 2pm, repeated Mondays, R2, 8.45pm. The series starred Kenneth Williams, with Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims, and the announcer was Douglas Smith. Music was by The Max Harris Group, and the shows were written by Johnny Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge, and produced by John Simmonds. Note: All timings and content detailed here refer to the Transcription Service issues and not to the original broadcasts
This was, ultimately, the follow on series to Round the Horne, and had Kenneth Williams at the helm as Kenneth Horne had died of a massive heart attack. Hugh Paddick continued to be in the show, and Joan Sims provided the female accompaniament as Betty Marsden had already decided not to go on with Round The Horne whilst Kenneth Horne was still alive, and saw no reason to change her mind. There were two series of 13 shows, and although it was successful enough to run for this long, it was no where near a patch on Round the Horne with which it was so closely compared. This was partly unfair, but only natural with a very similar cast, but without Kenneth Horne, there was no straight man to really play off of, a role in which Kenneth Williams excelled, and the listeners loyal to RTH just did not think this came up to the mark. Although Barry Took was asked to write the series, he felt that without Horne he wouldn't be able to continue, and the task of writing fell to Myles Rudge, although from reading the diaries, it was originally planned that Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke would write the show under the title of 'IT'S BOLD', and the writing credits for the show go to all three. Many of the items in the series are very reminiscient of RTH and, to be honest, do not work for this simple reason.
Recording occured at the Paris Theatre, Lower Regent Street, and seemed to be on a Monday morning at 10am (which was the time of recordings for another flop involving Kenneth - obviously the BBC wanted to be seen to do something, but didn't really want to put in too much effort!). The show was brought to a close on 27th of August 1970 when Kenneth was informed that the controllers had decided not to continue with the series.
All 26 episodes of the show reside in the BBC Transcription Archive (now known as Radio International) in a slightly edited form, with two shows in the main BBC Sound Archive (however one of these is a TS edition). Recently 6 off air recordings were discovered and KWAS has instigated a professional restoration of these, using the TS master recordings as a base to work from.
Series one was broadcast on Radio 2 at 2pm with a repeat the following Monday at 8.45pm. Obviously the show starred Kenneth Williams, with Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. Announcements were made by Douglas Smith, and music supplied by The Max Harris Group. The writers were Johnny Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge and the show was produced by John Simmonds