Collapse Of Stout Party
- Radio documentary
- BBC Radio 4
- 1976
- 2 episodes (1 series)
Richard Stilgoe presents a two-part documentary about what made the Victorians laugh. Also features Judy Bennett, Annabel Hunt and Charles Collingwood.
Press clippings
Collapse of Stout Party (Radio 4, Mondays), a two-part programme about Victorian humour had some pretty awful stories too - but clean ones. We were told that the Victorians had their dirty jokes as well but confined, because of the price of the dirty mags, to the very rich, and apparently too filthy to be broadcast. The rudest word I heard was "bleeding" - though that was used 17 times in one story. Today a different word might well be used.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 13th March 1976