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Laying in bed awake this morning, mind full of the rubbish that keeps you awake, a couple of things from the past came to mind. There was a radio programme regarding helping the police, which finished with asking the public to call Whitehall 1-2-1-2 if you have any information. That number has always stuck in my memory. Also there was an Ad for Horace Batchelor, something to do with gambling, and the Infra-draw system to help you pick teams for the football pools. His address was in everyone's mind, Keynsham, that's spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, Bristol. I'm sure there are other ads etc that come to mind?

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I remember “Have a Go!”, with Wilfred Pickles and Mable at the table, but I’m not sure if it was a programme in its own right or part of another programme like “Worker’s Playtime”.   (Hope I

Saturday morning, stayed in bed until 12.00.  Children's favourites, with 'Uncle Mac', followed by Brian Matthews', 'Saturday Club'.   Sundays, after lunch and Family Favourites, the 'Billy

I think that place has been mentioned on here somewhere before. This is the location in its later years.

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In the late sixties there was a programme on Radio Nottingham called Seen/Scene Around and they played tracks from local bands.  Anyone remember it?

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Saturday morning, stayed in bed until 12.00.  Children's favourites, with 'Uncle Mac', followed by Brian Matthews', 'Saturday Club'.

 

Sundays, after lunch and Family Favourites, the 'Billy Cotton Bandshow'  followed by a heap of comedy programmes which included the following favourites over the years:

The Navy Lark

Round the Horne/Beyond Our Ken

It's I'm Sorry, I'll read That Again

Al Read

Ken Dodd

 

Then the compulsive listening to the Top 20...

 

Later, jazz Club - as long as they featured Chris Barber (still playing - 88 next month!), Kenny Ball, Acker Bilk, Terry Lightfoot, The Temperance Seven and other traditional bands. 

 

The days when you could actually listen to the radio for entertainment.

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Always remember, 'Journey into space'. I remember the characters were , Doc, Mitch and Lemmy.  I think that was Alfie Bass.  Can't remember much of the plots now but me and me dad used to listen every week.  May have been the 50s though.

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10 hours ago, Socram said:

The Navy Lark

Round the Horne/Beyond Our Ken

It's I'm Sorry, I'll read That Again

From a time when radio was worth listening to.

It's amazing how sayings and characters from these shows stick in your mind even after 50 years.

HMS Troutbridge, Lefthand down a bit. Rambling Sid Rumpo, J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock and the camp Julian and Sandy and not forgetting Angus Prune.

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- - - and Celia Molestrangler & Binky Huckaback (Betty Marsden & Hugh Paddick).

 

Then there was Hancock's Half Hour, 2 way (and three-way and sometimes four-way) Family Favourites with Jean Metcalfe (married to Cliff MIchelmore)

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I remember “Have a Go!”, with Wilfred Pickles and Mable at the table, but I’m not sure if it was a programme in its own right or part of another programme like “Worker’s Playtime”.

 

(Hope I’m not going to cause any arguments with that apostrophe!)

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2 hours ago, AfferGorritt said:

I remember “Have a Go!”, with Wilfred Pickles and Mable at the table, but I’m not sure if it was a programme in its own right or part of another programme like “Worker’s Playtime”.

 

(Hope I’m not going to cause any arguments with that apostrophe!)

 

I believe "Have a Go" was a programme in it's own right see:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_A_Go

 

I used to listen to it occasionally but never really got into it.

 

Violet Carson aka Ena Sharples from Coronation Street played the piano on the show for six years.

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Didn't Wilfred say, What's on the table, Mabel? And she'd go through the items, nothing worth much really. But folks would love to win anything however small in those days.

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Mr Google just helped me out, it was only money on the table, contestants answered questions ranging in worth of half a crown to a guinea. I do remember the theme song, Have a go, Joe, come on and have a go.

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Have we had this from 'Hancock' ?

 

 

Sunday Afternoon at Home [5.14]

Griselda Pugh: Ooh look! It's started raining!
Hancock: That's all we wanted. You watch, it'll go dark in a minute, we'll have to switch the lights on. I think I'll go to bed.
Griselda Pugh: [reproachfully] You've only been up an hour...
Hancock: That is by the way and nothing to do with it. I might just as well be in bed, there's nothing else to do. I wish I hadn't got up now. Your dinner wasn't worth getting up for, I'll tell you that for a start!
Griselda Pugh: Well I don't know, I ate all mine.
Hancock: That is neither here nor there. You also ate Bill's, and Sid's, and mine! I thought my mother was a bad cook but at least her gravy used to move about. Yours just sort of lies there and sets.
Griselda Pugh: That's the goodness in it!
Hancock: That's the half a pound of flour you put in it!
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Just thought of Arthur English on Workers playtime.  "Play the music, open the cage." Was his line.  Tended to act like a spiv.

 

Then there was Cyril Fletcher with his 'odd odes.'  A bit like some of the poetry we read on here sometimes.  :biggrin:

 

I often listened to workers playtime when home from school for lunch.  Probably learnt more from them than I did in school.

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