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From 06/01/1944

Can the new squire, Tommy Handley, make a good impression with the county hunt? With Dorothy Summers. Wartime comedy from 1944.

Can the new squire, Tommy Handley, make a good impression with the county hunt?

ITMA proved to be one of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's most popular radio comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again!

The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries. Other settings followed - a seaside resort, and a war factory which by 1943, for this run of episodes, had been turned into a hotel.

Featuring a host of supporting characters including Dorothy Summers as Mrs Mopp.

Producer: Francis Worsley

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Service in 1944.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Jun 2019 12:30

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  • Sun 3 Apr 2016 08:00
  • Sun 3 Apr 2016 12:00
  • Sun 2 Jun 2019 08:30
  • Sun 2 Jun 2019 12:30