Main content
From 6/2/1966
Poking fun at fireman and hospitals. Sketches and monologues from the former Salford sausage maker. From February 1966.
The legendary Northern comic pokes fun at fireman and hospitals.
Monologues and sketches presenting "life with the lid off".
With Susan Maughan, The Countrymen, and Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra.
Devised by Al Read and scripted by Ronnie Taylor.
Producer: Bill Worsley
First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Light Programme in February 1966.
Last on
Tue 9 Jul 2019
19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
Broadcasts
Sun 24 Feb 2008 13:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7- Sun 24 Feb 2008 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Mon 25 Feb 2008 06:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Tue 26 Aug 2008 12:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Tue 26 Aug 2008 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 16 Apr 2009 08:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 16 Apr 2009 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 16 Apr 2009 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Sun 8 Aug 2010 12:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Sun 8 Aug 2010 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 5 May 2011 08:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 5 May 2011 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 19 Apr 2012 08:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 19 Apr 2012 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Thu 19 Apr 2012 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Mon 25 Feb 2013 08:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 25 Feb 2013 12:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 25 Feb 2013 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 2 Mar 2013 14:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 17 Jun 2014 08:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 17 Jun 2014 12:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 17 Jun 2014 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 29 Nov 2015 08:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 29 Nov 2015 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 5 Nov 2017 08:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 5 Nov 2017 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 9 Jul 2019 08:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 9 Jul 2019 12:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 9 Jul 2019 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra