Post by Ed Brown on Mar 28, 2023 22:04:13 GMT
I am happy to report that rarest of all events: the finding of a lost radio broadcast!
Radio 4 Extra has just aired the final missing episode of The Betty Witherspoon Show, a 1974 comedy sketch series starring Ted Ray and Kenneth Williams. This is the lost 2nd episode, not heard since 27th April 1974.
All ten episodes of that show are now held in the BBC Archive.
Get it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jt0d
Because I was asleep at the switch, I missed the actual live broadcast 3 weeks ago. So hurry hurry, because this one will only be available on the iPlayer for the next 7 days.
You'd think they'd make a big noise over this, but you'd be unlucky -- looking at their website, you'd be hard pressed to tell that this episode has been recently found after being lost for 5 decades, as there is absolutely no mention of the fact that this is a previously lost recording.
Watch this space for news of the broadcasting of the final missing episode of The Navy Lark, which it is believed the station will shortly be airing for the first time since 1963!
Radio 4 Extra has just aired the final missing episode of The Betty Witherspoon Show, a 1974 comedy sketch series starring Ted Ray and Kenneth Williams. This is the lost 2nd episode, not heard since 27th April 1974.
All ten episodes of that show are now held in the BBC Archive.
Get it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jt0d
Because I was asleep at the switch, I missed the actual live broadcast 3 weeks ago. So hurry hurry, because this one will only be available on the iPlayer for the next 7 days.
You'd think they'd make a big noise over this, but you'd be unlucky -- looking at their website, you'd be hard pressed to tell that this episode has been recently found after being lost for 5 decades, as there is absolutely no mention of the fact that this is a previously lost recording.
Watch this space for news of the broadcasting of the final missing episode of The Navy Lark, which it is believed the station will shortly be airing for the first time since 1963!