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With guests due to stay, how will the family cope with a decorating emergency? Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From 1955.

With guests due to arrive, how will the Lyon family cope with a decorating emergency?

Comedy with a real-life American family.

Starring Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon

Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Ronnie Hanbury.

Ben …. Ben Lyon
Bebe …. Bebe Daniels
Barbara …. Barbara Lyon
Richard …. Richard Lyon
Aggie MacDonald …. Molly Weir
Florrie Wainwright …. Doris Rogers
Mr Wimple …. Horace Percival

With:

Gwen Lewis
Charles Hawtrey
Richard Bellaers

Life With the Lyons was one of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s most popular radio sitcoms between1950 and 1961. It was also adapted for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TV.

Incidental music by Arthur Wilkinson.

Paul Fenoulhet conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Variety Orchestra.

Producer: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Light Programme in April 1955.

30 minutes

On radio

Sun 8 Jun 2025 10:00
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