This week we review - Listen To Les (From 18th November 1979)

If You Can’t Laugh At Your Troubles Then Laugh At His, As You ….. Listen To Les

Listen To Les was a long running BBC Radio series starring the late great Les Dawson. 

Very little information about the series exists, although it’s regularly repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

As far as we can ascertain the show ran for ten series between 1975 and 1985, although we have been unable to completely verify this.

Listen To Les was a sketch show in which Les Dawson performed various deadpan monologues and recurring character sketches.

These included “At Home with the Desponds”, “The Sophisticates” and “Cissy and Ada”

Every show would end with Dawson calling upon the studio audience to join him in a singalong with a popular or classic song, which he would deliberately play badly at the piano.

In this episode, Les presents 'Love in the Dole Queue' and meet Cosmo Smallpiece.
 
With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.

Music by Brian Fitzgerald.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1979.

Scripted and produced by James Casey.

A BBC Production

Listen To Les is available to buy here: https://bbc.in/2mGHd1M

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