British Comedy Guide

A Story Of Our Time: What Happened To Hancock?

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1971
  • 1 episode

Documentary about Tony Hancock, hearing from many of his colleagues and co-stars. Also features Phillip Oakes, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Ralph Reader, Duncan Wood and more.

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Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
1971
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Features
Phillip Oakes, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Ralph Reader, Duncan Wood, Sid James, Beryl Vertue, Sylvia Syms and more
Writers
Phillip Oakes
Company

Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of 'pure' comedy. It was a search that brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 2nd February 1971 at 8:30pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
45 minutes

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