Gramaisc
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Twice Ken is Plenty - first actual performance of this script - 43 years after it was written - 11:30, Radio 4, next Tuesday.
I wonder?....
I wonder?....
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Round The Horne.
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Gramaisc
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I shall, of course, be listening 'live', but I presume that it will be on Listen Again for the less determined.
'Would anybody who witnessed a middle-aged man stagger drunkenly from the Peek-A-Boo Striperama in Soho and fall unconcious into the gutter please keep quiet about it, as my wife thinks I was in Folkstone.'
It's over forty years now, since Kenneth Horne was amongst us - imagine what he'ld say about all this....
'Would anybody who witnessed a middle-aged man stagger drunkenly from the Peek-A-Boo Striperama in Soho and fall unconcious into the gutter please keep quiet about it, as my wife thinks I was in Folkstone.'
It's over forty years now, since Kenneth Horne was amongst us - imagine what he'ld say about all this....
Gramaisc
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Have you been listening to The Quest? I wonder if it is some sort of specialist practical joke. It seems to be full of 'proper' actors, but a lot of the lines are very reminiscent of the Round the Horne version of Camelot - there are several occasions where 'weapons are unsheathed' and on one occasion a knight tells the dying king that 'My Lord, I have something here which will warm you'. At another stage a knight declares that he will 'mince the enemy'. It was all done remarkably po-faced and I wonder if they knew. What really made me suspicious, though, was when the final episode was followed by a trailer for 'Twice Ken is Plenty'. Coincidence?.....
There's three days left for the first episode - I'm going to listen to it all a bit more carefully.
There's three days left for the first episode - I'm going to listen to it all a bit more carefully.
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Never very keen on CK, I'm afraid. Tried to listen to one a while back and found that it had dated horribly. Found that the Navy Lark is OK still. Always liked the way that the main characters all used their real names. Much Binding in the Marsh still works for me, but I may be a special case there....
Reminds me of when I was in Sidi Barrani....
Reminds me of when I was in Sidi Barrani....
Gramaisc
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He always came across to me as a bit of a tortured soul who didn't really enjoy what he did. Maybe just me, of course. Also, Ms Chalmers provided a remote love ( or lust ) interest in some episodes of RtH. As for lacking pathos, surely nobody has ever done 'pathetic' quite as well as Hugh Paddick?
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Twice Ken is Plenty is on iPlayer now. It wasn't too bad, but it does illustrate how much of it was in the delivery. It's all very well it being done by actors, however, the knowledge that Mr Horne was an ex-Wing Commander and a well-known holder of directorships of several companies that were household names did add a great weight to his iconoclastic propensities.
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I wonder how much better we might think it was, if they had discovered an actual recording, rather than just re-enacting a script?
I have a video of Round the Horne Revisited, as performed on stage a few years ago and that is probably as good as we can expect from actors - in fact, the woman who plays Betty's parts is pretty well spot-on.
I have a video of Round the Horne Revisited, as performed on stage a few years ago and that is probably as good as we can expect from actors - in fact, the woman who plays Betty's parts is pretty well spot-on.