DescriptionTony Hancock's premature death, in 1968 at the age of 44, deprived the entertainment world of perhaps the greatest post-war comedian to have emerged from this country. It makes his 80 hours of material originally broadcast by the BBC on radio and televi…
DescriptionRay Galton and Alan Simpson present, with personal recollections, a comic feast of Hancock's Half Hour . Yes, it's the very best of the lad himself, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock the Third, radio immortal, late of 23, Railway Cuttings, East Ch…
DescriptionCelebrate Christmas at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam with the lad himself, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, in these four episodes filled with his own unique brand of seasonal cheer. The Christmas Club After last year's measly dinner, Hanco…
DescriptionA pint? That's very nearly an armful! This classic line has echoed through the halls of comedy legend since it was first uttered by Anthony Aloycious Hancock in "The Blood Donor". Now the original soundtrack from that famous episode is collected together with three others from the same series (Hancock's last for BBC TV) featuring a guest cast including Michael Aspel, Patrick Cargill, June Whitfield, Frank Thornton, and Hugh Lloyd. Whilst "The Bedsitter" finds Hancock alone and loveless in his room for one, "The Bowmans" sees him joining (not to mention upsetting) the cast of a certain radio soap opera which may sound familiar to fans of The Archers. As "The Radio Ham" he enters the world of the amateur wireless buff, and in the last episode, "The Blood Donor" he dutifully turns up to 'Give It So That Others May Live', but does the hospital really need quite so much of it?!
