Broadcasting for the first time since the 1960s, six lost episodes of one of the BBC’s most popular radio comedies – The Clitheroe Kid. Starring the diminutive northern comic James Robertson Clitheroe ...

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Reader Charles Steels of Fairhurst Drive, Walkden, popped into the office with a number of items which he found some years ago after the death of his mother, Ethel Crook. Celebrated thespian couple ...

Are your readers able to help a group of OTR (Old Time Radio) enthusiasts who are searching for missing episodes of The Clitheroe Kid, the hugely popular BBC comedy of yesteryear? A recent appeal ...

For years, Clitheroe’s main claims to fame were its role in the development of the jet engine, its ignominious association with the Pendle witch trials, and — for those old enough to remember — the ...

To mark the 60th anniversary of the first national broadcast of the domestic sitcom, Radio 4 Extra broadcasts six episodes new to the network. James Robinson Clitheroe was known to millions as the ...

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Derek Boyes of The Jimmy Clitheroe Club emails: " In the Fifties and Sixties the antics of The Clitheroe Kid kept up to ten million listeners a week laughing at his Radio Adventures. "July 2007 is the ...

With ever-more BBC radio archival treats now available to buy and enjoy again, self-identified Baby Boomer Hercules Grytpype-Thynne shares his personal memories and pays tribute to some of the biggest ...