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4 Extra Debut. When a bulldozer arrives at Much Fiddling, Tommy Handley has reconstruction on his mind. Wartime comedy from March 1945.

When a bulldozer arrives at Much Fiddling, Tommy Handley has reconstruction on his mind. Wartime comedy from March 1945.

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.

With:

Sydney Keith
Horace Percival
Dorothy Summers
Bryan Herbert
Bill Stephens
Dino Galvani
Paula Green
Jean Capra

Music from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Singer: Jack Cooper.

Script written by Ted Kavanagh.

Producer: Francis Worsley

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Service in March 1945

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 Dec 2019 12:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Dec 2019 08:00
  • Sun 1 Dec 2019 12:00