S2 E6 - Christmas Special - Very Nearly an Armful - The Christmas Club
Very Nearly an Armful - A Tony Hancock PodcastShow Notes
In this final episode in the second series, we are pleased to join in with the Christmas festivities and look at the final radio episode to be recorded: The Christmas Club.
In James’s absence, Tim, Jon and Martin discuss the realism provided by the supporting cast in this episode and consider how much the final series delivered the realistic settings envisaged by Hancock as well as Galton & Simpson when the series first started.
Ray and Alan were always generous with their time in undertaking interviews and the team are pleased to introduce extracts from unbroadcast interviews undertaken by the Society and others over the years.
In addition, Tim solves the problem of which episode the Kenneth Williams character first appeared in whilst the team get sidetracked by Monty Python’s Book Shop sketch and try to track down a copy of Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.
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