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		<title>RADIO: BAND WAGGON</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark McKay (from LAUGH #1, 1991) By 1936 BBC Listener Research determined that dance band programmes and broadcasts from variety theatres were not as popular as had been believed. Overseas radio stations were also drawing a large audience away from the BBC, so the director of variety, John Watt, planned a new radio show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=49&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: EDGAR BERGEN and CHARLIE McCARTHY</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Tatchell (reprinted from LAUGH MAGAZINE #24, 2005) He was probably the best known ventriloquist in the world, whose enormous fame derived from the unlikely medium of radio. Edgar Bergen&#8217;s success rested squarely on the shoulders of a forty pound block of wood named Charlie McCarthy, a character so endearing and believable that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: BEYOND OUR KEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK McKAY (updated from LAUGH MAGAZINE #9, 1994)  The date — 1st July 1958, the time — just approaching nine o’clock. Nervous fingers tune in the Bakelite set to the BBC Light Programme, and as the valves warm up a voice becomes more audible, recognizable as urbane young announcer, Douglas Smith: ‘You have either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1489&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: THE BURKISS WAY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark McKay (reprinted from LAUGH MAGAZINE #10, 1994) One of the most obscure British radio shows, The Burkiss Way is paradoxically one of the very best. Running for five series on BBC Radio 4 from 1976 to 1980, it was full of jokes, tricks, imagination and cleverness. Its origins can be traced back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1963&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS IN NEW ZEALAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark McKay Named after a West End traffic intersection, the revue Cambridge Circus opened at the New Arts Theatre in London on 10th July 1963. It later transferred to the Lyric, clocking up over a hundred performances, toured New Zealand and even enjoyed a short run on Broadway. Deriving from the 1963 Cambridge University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=991&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: DOES THE TEAM THINK?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Tatchell (copyright 2009) It was the brainchild of &#8220;Professor&#8221; Jimmy Edwards (then riding high with Take It From Here on radio and Whack-O! on television). There had been many successful shows featuring a &#8220;panel of experts&#8221;  answering listener&#8217;s queries on all manner of subjects &#8230; why not a panel of comedians offering humorous responses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: EDUCATING ARCHIE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark McKay (reprinted from LAUGH Magazine #24, 2005) Radio in the 1940s seemed to venture into some ludicrously inappropriate areas, with broadcasts of darts, ballroom dancing, chess, &#8230; even ventriloquism. However, this very visual art proved extremely popular on the wireless on both sides of the Atlantic, most significantly due to Edgar Bergen in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=2146&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: FRED ALLEN SHOW, THE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (reprinted from LAUGH MAGAZINE #4, 1992) Many of today’s comedians rely on four-letter words for most of their material. Sixty years ago American radio funnyman Fred Allen was content to use a three-letter word &#8230; wit. Allen was widely regarded as the leading light of the golden age of broadcasting from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=51&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: THE GOON SHOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (copyright 2010)   Arguably the most influential radio series in British comedy, THE GOON SHOW began on the B.B.C. Home Service May 28 1951 under the title of CRAZY PEOPLE &#8220;featuring radio&#8217;s own Crazy Gang*, The Goons&#8221;.   Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Spike Milligan (with musical support from The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=53&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RADIO: HANCOCK&#8217;S HALF HOUR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (copyright 2010)  The years following World War 2 saw the emergence of a new generation of British comedians, many of whom had begun performing whilst in uniform. They included Frankie Howerd, Jimmy Edwards, (future Goons) Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine, Benny Hill, Eric Sykes, Dick Emery and Tony [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=2112&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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