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Originally broadcast on the BBC Light  Comedy Programme from 1958 to  1964,  the Comedy series was principally written by Eric  Merriman (with  Barry Took  for the first two series).

Starred Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee

Music was provided  initially by  the Malcolm Mitchell Trio ,  then  later by the Fraser Hayes Four, Edwin  Braden, and the BBC Variety   Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenouhlet.

The show was produced by Jacques Brown for the first 5 series, and  then  John Simmonds for the  remaining two. this episode first broadcast  in  1963 on the 28th February The Miracle Worker

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The Navy Lark is a radio sitcom about  life aboard a British Royal  Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge based in  HMNB Portsmouth. In series 1  and 2, the ship and crew were stationed  offshore at an unnamed  location known simply as "The Island"

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The Saint was a radio adventure program in the United States that  featured a character ("a swashbuckling, devil-may-care [wikt] Robin Hood  type who, in his attempt to help people, remained just one step ahead  of the police and crooks—both of whom he combatted") created by author  Leslie Charteris. As the program's introduction said, The Saint (the  alias of Simon Templar), was "known to millions from books, magazines,  and motion pictures."[1] Several versions of the program appeared on  different networks.

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The Black Museum is another collaboration between Welles and producer Harry Alan Towers.   The radio series treated audiences to crime thrillers based on actual  Scotland yard cases.  Its life spanned exactly the year 1952, with a few  weeks off at the beginning of June.

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The Glums was spawned at the start of the third series of Take It From  Here, a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948  and 1960. Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, it starred Jimmy  Edwards, Dick Bentley, and Joy Nichols. When Nichols moved to New York  City in 1953 she was replaced by June Whitfield and Alma Cogan.

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WHACKO or Whack-O! classic sit-com started life on BBC Television in October 1956 and  starred 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards.   Written by the masterful team of  Frank Muir and Denis Norden, this was undoubtedly one of the major  successes of early British television.   There were 8 series in all with  a couple of special shows, giving a grand total of 60 half hour shows,  and 3 shorts.   But the story doesn't stop there, and this is one of the  more unusual shows where a radio series and even a film were spawned  from the TV version

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The Embassy Lark is a Radio Comedy series broadcast from 1966 to 1968 as a spin-off  from The Navy Lark . It was written by Lawrie Wyman and starred Frank Thornton and Derek Francis. It was produced by Sir Alistair Scott-Johnston. Three series, of 13, 14 and 15 episodes, were made. 

The show was set in the British Embassy in the fictional country of Tratvia and was concerned with the various (mis)adventures of the British Ambassador Sir Jeremy Crichton-Buller (Francis) and his First Secretary Henry Pettigrew (Thornton) as they tried to keep smooth relations between Tratvia, Whitehall and the other Embassies (China, the USSR and the U.S.). Plots included a sudden requirement to hold a multinational concert in Tratvia with a major hydro-electric contract going to the best entertainment, a boundary dispute over oil fields and numerous examples of the Tratvian authorities attempting to get as much money or services from the Embassy staff as possible. Although written as a broad farce and straight-ahead sitcom, there was thus an undercurrent of xenophobic satire also present. Tratvia was an absolute monarchy, ruled by the fat and greedy, but always very sly, King Hildebrand III. Although never specifically located, Tratvia seems likely to have been a loose parody of the Balkans. 

ITMA was a character-driven comedy whose satirical targets included  government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations.  Parts of the shows were re-written in the hour before the broadcast, to  ensure its topicality. The show broke away from the conventions of  previous radio comedies, and from the humor of the music halls.

It's That Man Again (commonly contracted to ITMA) a Radio  Comedy  programme which ran over twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The  shows featured Tommy Handley in the central role, a fast-talking figure,  around whom all the other characters orbited. The programmes were  written by Ted and produced by Francis Worsley. Handley died during the  twelfth series, the remaining programmes of which were immediately  cancelled: ITMA could not work without him, and no further series were  commissioned.

ITMA was a character-driven comedy whose satirical targets included  government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations.  Parts of the shows were re-written in the hour before the broadcast, to  ensure its topicality. The show broke away from the conventions of  previous radio comedies, and from the humour of the music halls.

The shows used numerous sound effects in a novel manner, which,  alongside a wide range of voices and accents, created the programme's  atmosphere.

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The Clitheroe KID

The  Clitheroe Kid is a BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive    Northern  comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who    lived with  his family at Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the  North   of England.

Starring: Jimmy Clitheroe, Peter Sinclair, Patricia Burke, Diana Day, Danny Ross, Tony Melody.

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Old Radio ShowTake It from Here (often referred to as TIFH,  pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") was a BBC Radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960.  It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.