What did you used?

Question

to listen to each week on the Radio? and do you miss it?
For me it was The Navy Lark, The Clitheroe Kid.

Answer 1

'The Clitheroe Kid', 'The Navy Lark', 'Round the Horn', 'The Men from the Ministry' and 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'.



You can hear them all again on BBC7 which is how I'm hearing 'Hancock's Half-Hour', 'Dick barton Special Agent' and 'Journey into Space' as I was too young first time around!

I can remember listening to 'Ricochet' on Radio 2 in the 1970s, an attempt to bring back the pot-boiling radio serial featuring a private detective called Rick O'Shea...

I have been glued to 'The Archers' since about 1983.

'Children's Favourites' (with the 'Puffing Billy' signature tune) too! It introduced loads of working-class nippers to light classical music and well as entertaining children with proper children's music and novelty songs.

I pity the children of today, no wonder they are so bored and ignorant. They are subjected to the same old commercial pop rubbish, hour after hour, day in, day out. No proper tunes, no proper words, they can't even whistle them!

At a social occasions they can't even sing together as they know no proper songs, not even children's songs!

What limited, wretched, narrow lives they must lead...

Answer 2

The Glums, Rays a Laugh, The Goons, Family Favourites, Bandwagon, The Navy Lark, The Clitheroe Kid, Round the Horne, Educating Archie, Chapel in the Valley, ITMA-yes I do miss them all. Why? Because they didn't swear, they didn't blaspheme [with the exception of Kenneth Williams who got a way with it usually] and they were genuinely funny men and women. If they were alive today they could teach are so called comics a lot about the art of being funny.

Answer 3

Journey into Space with the spooky voice of David Jacobs doing the introduction.
The Navy Lark with Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips and Ronnie Barker what a combination to cause a riot of laughter every week. Left hand down a bit....Crunch, I said down a bit.
Simon Templer, Special Detective. I loved the sound effects guys that mixed the music with the thundering train.
The Archers, of course, which I still listen to each day on Radio 4.
If you still hanker for those heady days of innocence try this site http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/
It covers TV and radio of the 1950s.

Answer 4

Gee Roxy, those sound like European radio shows, so we did not get them here in the States. But I did receive a CD with a radio show called The Theatre Guild On The Air. The show was called "Payment Deferred" with Charles Laughton that broadcast on May 12, 1946.

Answer 5

Uncle Mac on Childrens Favourites for me, and my grandad always had Sing Something Simple on the radio on Sunday evenings. Heaven help anyone who interrupted that or The Archers lol x

Answer 6

The Clitheroe Kid. The Oveltinies slot, mum used to listen to the Arcers

Answer 7

Dick Barton Special Agent on the Old light programme every weekday evening and I think repeated on Saturday morning. Don't miss it I have grown up a little since then( well a Bit)

Answer 8

In the US, and with my mom in the evenings when my Dad was away at War....

yours truly, Johnny Dollar

Just Plain Bill

Stella Dallas

Inner Sanctum

Gunsmoke

Gabriel Heater and the news and Walter Winchell

Answer 9

Round the horn, and Billy Cotton band show, I missed it for a long time, then as always, it replaced by other things

Answer 10

Billy Cotton Band Show
Goons
Hancock's half hour