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It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (Don Estelle). Copyright: BBC
Don Estelle

Don Estelle

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It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Image shows left to right: Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes), BSM Geoffrey 'Shut Up' Williams (Windsor Davies), Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (Don Estelle) Features

Comedy Rewind: It Ain't Half Hot Mum ain't half funny

Sunday 5th January 2025

Broadcaster Georgy Jamieson explores It Ain't Half Hot Mum, the 1940s-set sitcom that Jimmy Perry and David Croft labelled their favourite and funniest work.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (Don Estelle). Copyright: BBC Features

Comedy Chronicles: The Indomitable Don Estelle

Sunday 3rd May 2020

Graham McCann recounts the rise-and-fall from fame of Don Estelle, the sitcom star whose life was underpinned by an incredible amount of chutzpah.

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