Beyond Our Ken (85 Old Radio Shows )MP3 CD Great Memories
Beyond our Ken Old Radio Shows 87 Old Time Radio Shows 'Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) was a radio comedy program, the predecessor to Round the…
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'Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) was a radio comedy program, the predecessor to Round the Horne (1965–1968). Both programs starred Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee, with announcer Douglas Smith.
The name is a pun on Kenneth Horne's name and the (now mainly Northern English and Scots) word ken, meaning "knowledge or perception".
Eric Merriman had previously written material for Kenneth Horne on Henry Hall's Guest Night and Variety Playhouse and written some stand-up comedy material for Barry Took. In June 1957 the BBC Radio Variety department asked Merriman to come up with an idea for a radio series starring Horne. Merriman devised a format for the show with the working title Don't Look Now. The original memo on the subject still exists in the BBC archives. The proposal was for a solo comedy series based on a formula of a fictional week in the life of Kenneth Horne.
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