Joan Harben
- Actor
Press clippings
VE Day: What was making us laugh 75 years ago?
A look back at the comedy on air in June 1945.
Chortle, 8th May 2020It's That Man Again - Tommy Handley and ITMA
On Sunday 9 January 1949, just after the 5pm repeat broadcast of the latest episode of ITMA, the nation's favourite comedy show, there was a shock newsflash: Tommy Handley, the star of the programme, had died from a cerebral haemorrhage.
Andrew Martin, BBC, 17th January 2018