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"Why vote, it only encourages them?"

A comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2, on 3 May 1979 - the day when Labour under James Calorgas lost the election, allowing amateur theologist Mrs. Margaret Thatcherism in.

The show stars Roy Hudd, David Jason, Peter Cook, Janet Brown, Chris Emmett, Richard Ingrams, Alan Coren, Willie Rushton, Brian "Johnners" Johnstone and "the Bearded Wonder".

Thanks to Andy Walmsley and Random Radio Jottings for preserving this.

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Common As Muck - BBC One - September 7, 1994 - January 12, 1997

Comedy / Drama (12 Epispodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Edward Woodward as Nev Smith

Neil Dudgeon as Ken Andrews

Richard Ridings as Bernard Green

Tim Healy as Foxy

Stephen Lord as Jonno Fox

Roy Hudd as John Parry

June Whitfield as Irene Watson

Kathy Burke as Sharon

Terence Rigby as Dougie Houd

Saeed Jaffrey as Nat Prabhakar

Lesley Sharp as Christine Stranks

Freda Dowie as Dulcie Green

George Raistrick as Mister Arnold

Paul Shane as Mike Roberts

Tony Melody as Nev's Friend

William Ivory as Vinny

Simon Ashley as Stan

Anthony Barclay as Sunil Prabhakar

Michelle Holmes as Marie

Nimmy March as Denice Andrews

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W A T C H I N G

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Roy Hudd as Ken Dodd being William Hartnell 2nd Doctor

[tindogpodcast]

TDP 1239: REVIEW - The Roy Huddlines

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A News Huddlines reunion celebrating the life and comedy of Roy Hudd OBE.

The Roy Huddlines was staged on Sunday 14th May 2023 at the Sondheim Theatre in London’s West End. The cast, writers and producers of BBC Radio's longest-running audience comedy programme, The News Huddlines, gathered to celebrate the life, love and laughter of Roy Hudd OBE.

Roy had a profound effect on all who worked with him - he was a unique combination of comedy genius, wise mentor and cheeky uncle. The cast reunited here for one joyous hurrah in his honour are Huddlines originals Chris Emmett, Alison Steadman, Nichola McAuliffe and announcer Richard Clegg, plus Kate Harbour and the brilliant Jon Culshaw who took Roy's centre microphone with the blessing of Roy’s widow, Debbie Hudd.

Also assembled for this gala event were the writers who cut their comedy teeth working on The News Huddlines and went on to create some of the finest British comedy from the 1980s to the present day. Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Drop the Dead Donkey and One Foot in the Grave were all created by Huddlines alumni, and the legacy continues.

  Written by Geoff Atkinson Martin Booth Paul B Davies Roger Davison Dave Dixon Julian Dutton Mark Griffiths Andy Hamilton Nick Revell Tony Hare Glenn Mitchell Ged Parsons Richard Quick Peters-Rowley David Semple Stuart Silver Alan Stafford Richard Stoneman Malcolm Williamson

Starring Jon CulshawChris Emmett

A new Tin Dog Podcast

[oldshowbiz]

“He’s as subtle as a hand gliding flasher.” - British comedian Roy Hudd

[hello-robin-goodfellow]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Shakespeare design: Paul Farnsworth lighting: Jason Taylor director: Ian Talbot l-r: Richard O'Callaghan (Puck), Roy Hudd (Bottom), Louise Gold (Titania), Bill Homewood (Oberon) New Shakespeare Company, Open Air Theatre (OAT), Regent's Park, London NW1 28/05/1991

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The Blood Beast Terror | Vernon Sewell | 1968

Norman Pitt, Roy Hudd, Peter Cushing

“You’ve caught me right in the middle of me dinner. I’ve got pie tonight. Well it makes a change from cold meat! Would you like a bit?”

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RIP Roy Hudd

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ROY HUDD (1936-Died March 15th 2020,at 83).English comedian,actor and music hall entertainer and historian. He was popular on British television for his sketch shows,The Roy Hudd Show,and The Illustrated Weekly Hudd,and as a frequent actor in series such as Common as Muck,Casualty,Lipstick on Your Collar,and Coronation Street (as Archie Shuttleworth). He was a leading authority,alongside his friend,Barry Cryer,on the history of Music Hall theatre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hudd

[somuchmorethantvtimes]

TVTimes North 8-14 June 1968: Liberace and Roy Hudd

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Film 205 of the year: UP THE CHASTITY BELT, 1971. From a time when Britain only had a handful of big tv stars, who were all guaranteed steady work come what may, we have this mostly predictable bawdy comedy, starring Frankie Howerd - a man who was launched into tv and film thanks to his huge popularity as a radio star. He'd had a successful tv series, called 'Up Pompeii' (which name was inspired, I think, by a jazz standard called 'Up London'); the tv series spawned a film, which spawned two sequels: this offering, and the equally bizarrely named 'Up The Front'; the film series then joined up with the much more successful 'Carry On' series, to give us 'Carry On Up The Jungle'. None of these films are great; a couple of them are worth watching. 'Chastity Belt' isn't really a sex-comedy, it's a comedy filled with ribald jokes - of varying quality. Howerd plays a bastard servant, who makes a living as a Michelangelo-style inventor - whose mainstay is, of course, chastity belts. It's a tale of pleasantly outlandish twists, which visits a fair few medieval cliches; it's packed with gags, celebrity cameos, near-constant fourth wall breaking, and many over-exposed honkers. In patches, it's very enjoyable. Oh, and Eartha Kitt. Quality 6/10 Entertainment 6/10.

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Todd Sloane

    End of day at close of play staying put for night cap to help send me to a sleeping more sublime I fell into a fever and thought myself a flea transmitter in the lapel of a diseased bailiff transmitting gruff sweet nothing about property and theft

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Robot Overlords (2014)

Plot: A race of alien robots has taken over Earth and confined the inhabitants to their homes - on pain of death. But when Sean (Callan McAuliffe) and his friends find a way to disable their tracking implants, they set out to find his father, and the truth about the invasion.

Review: Robot Overlords is one of those films that starts out as a decent idea, but becomes bogged down in references and cliches. The fact that it is British made simply means a lower budget, rather than new ideas.

It’s directed by Jon Wright, the man who bought the world Grabbers just two years earlier, and while it shares much of the DNA of that film it isn’t quite as good. Where Grabbers rewarded prior knowledge of the horror genre with little easter eggs and acknowledgements, Robot Overlords instead seems trite; instead of affectionately mocking the stereotypes, it just throws them in as though their simple presence is enough. It doesn’t help that the overall plot has a ‘seen it all before’ feel to it.

None of this is helped by computer graphics which never feel completely real. The robots all seem shiny in a completely artificial way, as if they haven’t been composited with ideas such as shade and natural light taken into account, thus leaving them with a cartoonish element to them. What doesn’t help matters is that the robots overseer is a robot with a humanoid form, which instead of threatening looks like a possessed child mannequin. The human elements are the best part of the film, as Ben Kingsley gets to play a villain (shock), Gillian Anderson gets to use her British accent (which doesn’t feel real at this point), and the kids all work despite their somewhat cliche characters.

The finale doesn’t feel unique or original either, not even being executed in an interesting manner, and with a love story popping up out of nowhere to break the flow. While the execution is average, the film itself never escapes the shadow of bigger and better versions.

[castleofhearts]

Alice in Wonderland audiobooks (Part 1) Top to bottom:

Narrated by Sarah Jane Holm, David Bamber, Roy Hudd, full cast, from BBC Worldwide 1999 Narrated by BJ Harrison, from BJ Harrison (2009) Narrated by Gemma Arterton, from Audio Go (2014) Narrated by Scarlett Johansson, from Audible (2015) Narrated by Sheridan Smith, from Puffin Books (2015) Narrated by JD Kelly, from Dreamtown Publishing (2018) Narrated by Rebecca K Reynalds, from Oasis Audio (2020) Narrated by Craig Franklin, Adrian Praetzellis, Phil Chenevert, from La Gazza Edizioni (2020) Narrated by Álex Meseguer, from Audible (2020) Narrated by Jodie Comer, from Audible (2021)