Kenneth Williams

Comedy Chronicles: Tell me darling - am I going too far?: The protean powers of Betty Marsden

Sunday 8th September 2024

The overlooked and untold subject in this article is the chameleonesque comedian and actor Betty Marsden, best remembered for roles in Round The Horne and Carry On Camping.

Hancock's Half Hour on the stage at 70

Thursday 9th May 2024

Ahead of comedian Tony Hancock's centenary and the 70th anniversary of sitcom Hancock's Half Hour on radio, actor and producer John Hewer discusses his new stage production of three scripts from lost television episodes.

Three shows missing from the archives

Monday 1st April 2024

A look back at three lost shows: Morecambe & Wise's Running Wild; Tony Hancock performing H.G. Wells; and Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in Jimmy Perry's sitcom The Gnomes Of Dulwich.

Steam radio: a Baby Boomer's personal memory of post-war wireless comedy

Thursday 7th March 2024

With ever-more BBC radio archival treats now available to buy and enjoy again, self-identified Baby Boomer Hercules Grytpype-Thynne shares his personal memories and pays tribute to some of the biggest shows of the post-war era in this ode to brilliant comedy on the wireless.

Comedy Chronicles: A touch of the Gogols: When Kenneth Williams read Russian literature

Sunday 14th January 2024

It might have been somewhat surprising at the time, but now, looking back at it, it seems quite an apt connection: a diarist drawn to a diary. The diarist in question was Kenneth Williams, and the diary was Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman.