British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 20th October 1959

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 12:30pm
30 min
BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC

Workers' Playtime

Episode 84

Long-running lunchtime variety series broadcast live from workplaces across Britain.

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 8pm
30 min
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 6, Episode 4 - The Picnic

Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.

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