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Thread #14498   Message #125088
Posted By: bill\sables
18-Oct-99 - 07:05 AM
Thread Name: Favourite early radio shows
Subject: RE: Favourite early radio shows
Does anyone remember one of the stupidest radio programmes on BBC in the early 50s called "Educating Archie" It was a half hour show with a ventroliquist called Peter Brough and a dummy called Archie Andrews and I could never quite understand how the BBC could get away with such a show on radio. When TV came out you could see his lips moving so he did not last long. The only other thing to come near to this was an LP recording of Northumbrian Folk in the 60s with a track of Johnson Ellwood the clog dancer, all you could hear was a melody line on melodeon and a lot of rythmic clattering. Cheers Bill