Eight episodes of the vintage BBC Radio comedy starring Ronnie Barker
Created by Ronnie Barker and producer John Fawcett Wilson, Lines From My Grandfather’s Forehead ran for two series on BBC Radio 4 from 1971-72, winning a Writers' Guild Award for best radio comedy series. Scripted by Gerald Wiley (the pseudonym used by Ronnie Barker) and a team of writers including David Nobbs and Miles Kington, this ‘sequential entertainment for radio’ featured sketches, monologues, music and poems.
Among the hilarious sketches performed here, you’ll meet a struggling vicar, a Welsh birthday card poet, a perplexed psychoanalyst and a forgetful actor, and learn about the life of a great Englishman. There’s also an odd romantic tryst, a grave digger’s wedding, a bizarre slice of Shakespeare and a spoof of Paul Temple, and we hear the facts of life from the Minister for Population. Plus, treat your ears to an operatic train announcement, a poem for a man with a plan, the Aurora Borealis Waltz and a song about a beautiful – but sadly teetotal – maid….
Brimming with witty wordplay, this cornucopia of clever comedy stars ‘The One Ronnie’ – Ronnie Barker – with Terence Brady, Pauline Yates, Ann Beach and John Graham.
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S01ESP – Lines From My Grandfather’s Christmas Forehead
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