| Programme Name: | Details: |
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| Absent Friends | ...Finally, there's Grace Brothers' rival store Lally and Willett's, and Copthorne Avenue, the address that PETER JONES and Peter Ustinov never quite managed to track down in their radio series In All Directions.... |
| Bigger They Are, The | Cast and Crew |
| Brothers In Law | ...Richard Briers and PETER JONES star in this episode.... |
| Burglar's Bargains | ...A gang of crooks rob Harrod's. But they're not ordinary crooks - this is in the style of the "Carry On" films... With PETER JONES, Lockwood West, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey. This play is not in the BBC arcHIVe, and a new digitised copy for broadcast is being compiled from copies held by VRPCC and WKD. The same is true of THE BIGGER THEY ARE.... |
| Capital Gains | ...Amateur philosopher Julius Hutch's plan for 'pottering' in retirement hits the buffers. Stars PETER JONES.... |
| Clouds Of Witness | ...Ian Carmichael stars as Dorothy L Sayers' aristocratic sleuth, with PETER JONES as Bunter.... |
| Comedy Catch Up | ...The man of many parts uses the wealth and poverty of his experience to discuss old chum Brian Allington. Stars PETER JONES.... |
| Doctor At Large | ...With Richard Briers, Geoffrey Sumner and PETER JONES.... |
| Frank Muir - A Kentish Lad Remembered | ...The fourth of six programmes celebrating the life and career of Frank Muir, who died in January. This week, Simon Brett introduces a recording of the semi-improvised show starring PETER JONES and Peter Ustinov - `In All Directions'.... |
| Galton And Simpson's Half Hour | The legendary writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson began in 1949, when the pair met whilst undergoing treatment for TB at Milford Sanitorium. By 1951 they were writing professionally for the BBC and they have since written over 600 scripts and won numerous awards for their work on radio, TV and film, including Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son. Radio 2 marks the 60th anniversary of their writing partnership with a series of half-hour comedies, starring Frank Skinner, Mitchell & Webb, Rik Mayall, June Whitfield and Paul Merton. They were originally written for television by Ray and Alan and have been especially adapted by them for Radio 2. Paul Merton introduces each episode. ...The drama was first broadcast on Yorkshire Television back in 1974 and starred Brian Glover, Maureen Lipman and PETER JONES ... |
| Guide To 20 Years' Hitch-hiking, The | ...A celebration of the successful light entertainment show `The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', with contributions from Douglas Adams, PETER JONES, Stephen Moore, Geoffrey Perkins and Simon Brett... |
| J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook | ...A series of astounding revelations from the world of showbiz, written and performed by PETER JONES, produced by Pete Atkin.... |
| Just A Minute | ...kenneth Williams, PETER JONES, clement Freud, Brian Johnston... |
| Mind Your Own Business! | ...PETER JONES (Actor)... |
| Motion Show, The | ...The comic debating show takes a light-hearted look at the big questions in life. Dr Phil Hammond referees a comedy bout between Tony Hawks, PETER JONES and Arthur Smith ... |
| Patrick And Maureen Maybe Music Experience, The | ...professor willow-withings - PETER JONES... |
| Peter Jones - A Celebration | |
| Radio Roots | ...PETER JONES... |
| Right Royal Rip-off, A | ...Comedy drama by wally k daly starring PETER JONES and Lockwood West about two elderly inmates of one of Her Majesty's prisons. wkd writes...."two visits on radio as talking birds....I was Captain Flint the parrot in John Scotney's adaptation of "Treasure Island" (made the Times Media Book of Crosswords that year...'who played the part of the parrot' and the answer was 5 letters 1 letter 4 letters so no doubt you can guess the answer. But more importantly I played a talking raven in the Tower of London in the middle play of the trilogy Right Royal Rip-Off...Martin the producer wouldn't allow a credit as I'd already been mentioned twice....".... |
| Right Royal Rip-off, The | ...... |
| Running The Empire | ...`Augustus: Master of Spin'. Historian PETER JONES begins a three-part series on how the Roman Empire worked with a portrait of the first emperor, Augustus. A consummate politician and propagandist, he brought stability to Rome and managed to wield absolute power without suffering the fate of Julius Caesar.... |
| Strong Poison [serial] | ...Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, has another case to solve this week. In this 6 part dramatisation, writer Harriet Vane is charged with poisoning Philip Boyes, her former lover and fellow novelist. Can Wimsey find the real poisoner in time to save her from the gallows? Ian Carmichael, Carleton Hobbs, Ann Bell and PETER JONES star.... |
| That Reminds Me | ...PETER JONES... |
| Thirty Minute Theatre | ...In Colin JOHNSON's comedy, a retired gent, Julius Hutch, is beset with bills and 4 million pounds is mistakenly placed in his account by an offshore bank. Starring PETER JONES.... |
| Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club, The | By Dorothy L. Sayers. With Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey and PETER JONES as Bunter. ...By Dorothy L. Sayers. With Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey and PETER JONES as Bunter.... |
| Ustinov At 80 | ...Peter Ustinov talks to John Bird about his hectic life and times. He discusses family life, school sports, the army, spying, the heyday of Hollywood, radio comedy with PETER JONES, opera in Moscow, Nero, Pol Pot and much more.... |
| We're In Business - Dudley's Granny | ...Dudley and Harry end up at the mercy of a devious criminal. Stars PETER JONES, Harry Worth and Irene Handl. From June 1959.... |
| Whose Body? | ...PETER JONES (Actor)... |