Cruise of 1000 isles

[Fjgrogan]

Hallo sailor! Yes! I like it, whether or not it is true!

[J.R.]

So reminiscent of Graham Paddick and Kenny Williams from the 'Round The Horn' days.

"Hallo - My name's Sandy and this is my friend Julian !"

Sorry, you YOBS ! That one will go over your head !

[Fjgrogan]

Wasn't it Hugh Paddick?

[J.R.]

Wasn't it Hugh Paddick?

Yes, it was - Sorry !

Polari-speak ?

[mvgrogan]

So reminiscent of Graham Paddick and Kenny Williams from the 'Round The Horn' days.

"Hallo - My name's Sandy and this is my friend Julian !"

Sorry, you YOBS ! That one will go over your head !

I remember that - does that mean I'm too old to be a YOB????

[Angela Woodford]

There was another Home Service show I remember - The Clitheroe Kid.

Does anyone else remember this? Sunday mid day, was it?

[Mid A 15]

There was another Home Service show I remember - The Clitheroe Kid.

Does anyone else remember this? Sunday mid day, was it?

Ah yes Sundays pre CH. Church / Sunday School in the morning, a walk in the woods if the weather was dry then home to the wafting smell of a cooking roast dinner and the sound of the wireless playing various permutations of The Billy Cotton Band Show (WAKEY WAKE), The Clitheroe Kid, The Navy Lark and Round The Horne. Then later, after tea, it would be Sing Something Simple with the Cliff Adams Singers.

The Clitheroe kid, Jimmy Clitheroe, was actually a mature adult but he sounded like a young boy. The plot was simple and essentially centred around him annoying his sister Susan (more usually referred to as Scraggy Neck!) and her long suffering, gormless boyfriend Alfie Hall sometimes with the help of the milkman. Every so often Jimmy's parents would interject in an attempt to keep him in check.

It would never win any prizes at Montreux but in the early sixties was good clean family entertainment and I used to enjoy it back then.

[Fjgrogan]

Also on that list was 'Beyond Our Ken', another series with Kenneth Horne.

[jhopgood]

After lunch at Sherwood Hall, Nottingham University, late 60's, Round the Horne followed by ISTRA (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again), radio forerunner of Monty Python and the Goodies.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Aha ! --- the Beach, of silver sand -- at Arisaigh (Spelling ?)We have camped there .
My Mother was brought up, in a little village, called Letterfern, on the Kyle of Lochalsh,
A wonderfully peaceful area, Loch Duich, on the opposite side from the Ferry to Skye.
Happy Days !

Glad to know how the Cruise is progressing --- keep us informed !

BTW Nobody seems to have mentioned the "Navy Lark" -- which would surely (Don't call me !) be apprppriate ?

Left hand down a bit !

[J.R.]

Don't forget 'The Glums'...

Jimmy Edwards and Co.

"Oh, Efffff !"

[cstegerlewis]

After lunch at Sherwood Hall, Nottingham University, late 60's,

Way OT but this is getting spooky John - we share the same house number, and I was in Sherwood Hall at Nottingham as well! I think the block I was in (O-Block) was an extension that wasn't there in the 60's but I could be wrong

Don't suppose you studied Economics or Econometrics as well??