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Books : Hancock's Half Hour: The Very Best Episodes: v. 1 (Radio Collection)
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Hancock's Half Hour: The Very Best Episodes: v. 1 (Radio Collection) by: Alan Simpson List Price: £12.72 CD-Charts Price: £7.49 You Save: £5.23 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9780563504030 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 056350403X Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: September 05, 2005 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Release Date: September 05, 2005 Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Sales Rank: 7916 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Worth buying for new materialThese 'best' episodes have previously been available on LP record and cassette. These new CD's contain material which was edited out of the original releases - particularly from "Sid's Mystery Tours" and "Sunday Afternoon at Home", while "Wild Man of Woods" includes a lovely verbal slip from Bill Kerr. So if you think you know these episodes, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised to find new lines, and new laughs. Rating: - A tour de force !what else can you say ? Tony Hancock was a genius for his impeccable timing, the cast including Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Sid James and Hattie Jacques were sublime and the scripts are so well written. This is classic Hancock's Half Hour without the intrusion of later commercial interests. If you like Hancock buy this ! Rating: - The Very Best IndeedThank heavens! I was about to spend a small fortune on the complete radio series, just so that I could listen to perhaps a dozen episodes, but this has turned up. It really does contain the best of the radio series, and I hope that vols 2 & 3 complete the dozen episodes I'm most after. The writing is inspired craziness (spot the origins of Monty Python's dead-parrot sketch, for instance) that becomes lyrical at times, and the cast is terrific. The four episodes on this CD were previously available as cassettes, but in a shortened form. Here they are complete and very welcome. This is a superb introduction to Hancock's radio humour. If you don't like these, you probably won't like any of his other work. Only one warning: it'll help to know ... Read More: Rating:  - Good but could be better.This collection may be the writers favorite episodes but only the first Sid's mystery tour is really funny. If you are expecting classic Hancock like the blood donor than you are in for a disappointment. |
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