Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 15 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy.
Barry Took was born in London in 1928. An early career as a
stand-up comedian and sketch writer led to his first radio script
credit, for Beyond Our Ken. From there he went on to create Round
the Horne with Marty Feldman, whilst on television he wrote for
series including Bootsie and Snudge and The Army Game. Amongst a
variety of later jobs in front of and behind the camera, Took wrote
and presented Points of View on BBC1 and also chaired BBC radio’s
The News Quiz. He wrote a number of books, including The Complete
and Utter History of Round the Horne and his autobiography A Point
of View. He died in 2002.
Marty Feldman was born in London in 1933. He left school aged 15 to
become a jazz trumpeter, but fell into show business with a Marx
Brothers-style stage act. His meeting with Barry Took in 1954 led
to a prolific writing partnership on radio shows including Round
the Horne and The Army Game. A move into television saw Feldman
writing for The Frost Report and At Last! The 1948 Show. An
on-screen appearance in the latter led to his becoming an overnight
star; a sketch show for British TV was followed by success in
America and numerous film appearances, including Young
Frankenstein. He died in 1982, aged 49.
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