Turn-on, tune-in and take a trip to a time when radio ruled the airwaves.
At peak time, Round the Horne attracted an audience of 15 million. Now Malvern Festival Theatre audiences are being treated to the very best of original sketches and characters live on stage.
And what a saucy lot they were in the early Sixties with rampant double entendres and camped-up characters running amok amid the laughter.
Straight man Kenneth Horne - brilliantly under-played by the laconic Stephen Critchlow - tries to keep order as Rambling Syd Rumpo, Binkie Huckabuck and Julian and Sandy are recreated on the giant wireless set stage.
Stephen Matthews does his best at trying to steal the show with his contorted rendition of the favourite Kenneth Williams.
But he is given a close run for his money by David Rumelle, as Hugh Paddock and Felicity Duncan as the versatile Betty Marsden. Performances that are a delight for the eyes and scripts that still tickle the ears in this wonderful revisit.
Review by JOHN MURPHY.
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