
Hancock's Half Hour / Hamish & Dougal
Sue Perkin's seasonal selection radio's past: Hancock's Half Hour [1956], and Hamish & Dougal's Hogmanay Special [2004].
Sue Perkins samples the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ production eggnog as she battles to choose two comedy crackers from Christmases past:
* Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Happy Christmas
The festive spirit is in short supply at 23 Railway Cuttings. Then the vicar arrives...
Starring Tony Hancock. With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
From the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Light Programme - December 1956.
* Hamish & Dougal's Hogmanay Special
Hamish and Dougal find themselves celebrating Hogmanay with a busload of celebrities after they get stuck in a snowdrift on its way to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Hogmanay Cavalcade in Edinburgh.
Starring Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden
With Alison Steadman, Jeremy Hardy, Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Sandi Toksvig and James Naughtie,
From ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 - December 2004.
Producer: Sarah Wade
Made for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 7 and first broadcast in December 2005.
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