Charles Kenneth Horne, generally known as Kenneth Horne, was an English comedian and businessman. He is perhaps best remembered for his work on three BBC Radio series: Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (1944–1954), Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1968).
Kenneth Horne
Horne's father, nonconformist minister and Liberal MP Silvester Horne
Sam Costa, the "amiable chump" of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
The Dorchester, where Horne suffered his second, fatal heart attack
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and 1951 to 1954 by BBC radio and in 1950–51 by Radio Luxembourg. It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional RAF station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War. After the war the station became a country club and finally the show became the chronicle of a newspaper, The Weekly Bind.
Richard Murdoch, left, and Kenneth Horne in Much-Binding-in-the Marsh, 1948