Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio and in 1950–1951 by Radio Luxembourg. It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Ho
Richard Murdoch, left, and Kenneth Horne in Much-Binding-in-the Marsh, 1948
It's That Man Again
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It's That Man Again was a radio comedy programme from the BBC which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The shows featured Tommy Handley in the central role, a fast-talking figure, around whom th
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
…chronicle of a newspaper, The Weekly Bind. Among the supporting cast were Sam Costa as the officers' batman, Maurice Denham in a multitude of roles, Diana Morrison, Dora Bryan and Nicholas Parsons. Singers in the show's musical interludes included Gwen Catley, Maudie Edwards, Binnie Hale and Doris Hare. Among those…
The ITMA cast at rehearsal during a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, January 1944
Handley (centre) introduces Ann Rich, a new singer for ITMA; Charles Shadwell conducts the orchestra in the background.
The comedian Tommy Handley in the 1940s
The ITMA cast with some of the crew of HMS Anson (79) under four of the ship's 14-inch guns