The News Huddlines
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 2
- 1975 - 2001
- 513 episodes (51 series)
A long-running BBC Radio 2 sketch show starring Roy Hudd. Also features Chris Emmett, June Whitfield, Janet Brown, Alison Steadman, Norma Ronald and more.
Press clippings
Roy Hudd celebration to be released on CD
A recording of The Roy Huddlines, the stage show tribute to News Huddlines host Roy Hudd, will be released on CD on 25th January 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 30th December 2023The best of British satire: 7 vintage shows
Spitting Image is returning. Some are expecting the new series to represent the welcome, and long overdue, rehabilitation of British satire. Others fear a toothless, joyless effort. Either way, it will face some tough comparisons - most notably with itself. The satire boom of the 60s precipitated a long line of insightful, scabrous, satirical shows. So here, in no particular order, are seven of the best.
Tim Dawson, The Spectator, 27th August 2020As the BBC cast Roy Hudd aside, they tell him...
After 50 years at the top of his game, Roy Hudd might have been forgiven for thinking he knew a thing or two about comedy. But a young thruster from the BBC put him straight one day over lunch to discuss his hopes of reviving his hugely popular comedy sketch radio show, The News Huddlines, which ran for 26 years.
Natalie Clarke, Daily Mail, 27th October 2009