Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme, transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman - with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. The show's announcer was Douglas Smith and from time to time he took part in the sketches. It had musical interludes by close harmony singing group the Fraser Hayes Four, and accompaniment by the big band of Edwin Braden ("the great, hairy fool" according to Kenneth Williams), known as Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers. The band were nominally the BBC Radio Orchestra but were never billed as such. In the fourth series, all the musical duties were performed by the smaller Max Harris Group. Took and the cast had worked on the predecessor series Beyond Our Ken. The name is a pun on the nautical phrase for sailing around Cape Horn.
Series One
Round The Horne - 1965.03.07 s01e01 - The Clissold Saga - Part 1 - The Millionaire [BBC7 2003-10-08]
Round The Horne - 1965.03.14 s01e02 - The Clissold Saga - Part 2 - The Aviator [BBC7 2003-10-15]
Round The Horne - 1965.03.21 s01e03 - The Clissold Saga - Part 3 - The Pantomime Horse [BBC7 2003-10-22]
Round The Horne - 1965.03.28 s01e04 - The Clissold Saga - Part 4 - The Archaeologist [BBC7 2003-10-29]
Round The Horne - 1965.04.04 s01e05 - The Clissold Saga - Part 5 - The Early Films [BBC7 2003-11-05]
Round The Horne - 1965.04.11 s01e06 - The Case Of The Tap-dancing Monk [BBC7 2003-11-12]
Round The Horne - 1965.04.18 s01e07 - Edwin Braden Is Missing [BBC7 2003-11-19]
Round The Horne - 1965.04.25 s01e08 - Who Killed The Amazing Proudbasket [BBC7 2003-11-26]
Round The Horne - 1965.05.02 s01e09 - The Spy Who Came In With A Cold [BBC7 2003-12-03]
Round The Horne - 1965.05.09 s01e10 - Famous People Are Turning Into Animals [BBC7 2003-12-10]
Round The Horne - 1965.05.16 s01e11 - From Russia With Love [BBC7 2006-11-08]
Round The Horne - 1965.05.23 s01e12 - The Man With The Golden Thunderball [BBC7 2003-12-31]
Round The Horne - 1965.05.30 s01e13 - The Eiffel Tower Is Stolen [BBC7 2004-01-07]
Round The Horne - 1965.06.06 s01e14 - Pirate Radio [BBC7 2004-01-14]
Round The Horne - 1965.06.13 s01e15 - The Rocket Site In Haiti
Round The Horne - 1965.06.20 s01e16 - Traffic Wardens In Outer Space [BBC7 2006-12-13]
Series Two plus Two Specials
Round The Horne - 1966.03.16 s02e01 - Big Ben Is Missing [BBC7 2004-02-04]
Round The Horne - 1966.03.20 s02e02 - Big Ben Is Still Missing [BBC7 2004-02-11]
Round The Horne - 1966.03.27 s02e03 - The Escaped War Criminal [BBC7 2004-02-18]
Round The Horne - 1966.04.03 s02e04 - The World Cup Is Stolen [BBC7 2004-02-25]
Round The Horne - 1966.04.10 s02e05 - The Nuclear Banana [BBC7 2004-03-03]
Round The Horne - 1966.04.17 s02e06 - The Joke Thief [BBC7 2004-03-10]
Round The Horne - 1966.04.24 s02e07 - Dr McKinlay's Scrapbook [BBC7 2004-03-17]
Round The Horne - 1966.05.01 s02e08 - The Giant Mouse [BBC7 2004-03-24]
Round The Horne - 1966.05.08 s02e09 - The Curse Of The Blackstumps [BBC7 2004-03-31]
Round The Horne - 1966.05.15 s02e10 - The Portrait Of Florian Thrust [BBC7 2004-04-07]
Round The Horne - 1966.05.22 s02e11 - The Gaylords [BBC7 2004-04-14]
Round The Horne - 1966.05.29 s02e12 - Dr Fu Man Chu En Ginsberg [BBC7 2004-04-21]
Round The Horne - 1966.06.05 s02e13 - Moby Duck [BBC7 2007-03-21]
Round The Horne - 1966.07.22 s02eS1 [TS recording based on s01e12] - The Man With The Golden Thunderball [ABC 2006-03-04]
Round The Horne - 1966.12.25 s02eS2 - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [BBC7 2006-12-20 with 1966 announcement re KH]
Series Three plus One Special
Round The Horne - 1967.02.12 s03e01 - The Plastic Max [BBC7 2004-05-05]
Round The Horne - 1967.02.19 s03e02 - The Three Musketeers - Part 1 [BBC7 2004.05.12]
Round The Horne - 1967.02.26 s03e03 - The Three Musketeers - Part 2 [BBC7 2004.05.19]
Round The Horne - 1967.03.05 s03e04 - Lipharvest Of The River [BBC7 2004.05.26]
Round The Horne - 1967.03.12 s03e05 - How The Bullet Proof Vest Was Won [BBC7 2003-03-05]
Round The Horne - 1967.03.19 s03e06 - Trilby [BBC7 2003-03-12]
Round The Horne - 1967.04.02 s03e09 - The Gruntfuttock Saga [BBC7 2003-04-02]
Round The Horne - 1967.04.16 s03e10 - Gaslight, Son Of Flicker [BBC7 2003-09-20]
Round The Horne - 1967.04.23 s03e11 - The Phantom Of Bogmouth Hip [BBC7 2004.07.14]
Round The Horne - 1967.04.30 s03e12 - A Man is Two Foot Tall [BBC7 2004.07.21]
Round The Horne - 1967.05.07 s03e13 - Young Horne with a Man [BBC7 2004.07.28]
Round The Horne - 1967.05.14 s03e14 - The Maltese Brass Monkey [BBC7 2004.08.04]
Round The Horne - 1967.05.21 s03e15 - The Big Top [BBC7 2004.08.11]
Round The Horne - 1967.06.04 s03e17 - The Muffplaster Saga - Part 2 - The Boxer [BBC7 2004.08.25]
Round The Horne - 1967.06.18 s03e19 - The Palone Ranger [BBC7 2007-08-01]
Round The Horne - 1967.12.24 s03eSP - Cinderella [BBC7 2003-12-20]
Series Four
Round The Horne - 1968.02.25 s04e01 - Dr Doosweet BA [BBC7 2005-12-07]
Round The Horne - 1968.03.03 s04e02 - Thoroughly Modern Willy [BBC7 2005-12-14]
Round The Horne - 1968.03.10 s04e03 - Frankenstein's Monster [BBC7 2003-07-02]
Round The Horne - 1968.03.17 s04e04 - The Knights Of Camelot [BBC7 2003-07-09]
Round The Horne - 1968.03.24 s04e05 - Relatively Grand Prix [BBC7 2003-07-16]
Round The Horne - 1968.03.31 s04e06 - Big Broads Don't Squeal [BBC7 2003-07-23]
Round The Horne - 1968.04.07 s04e07 - The Celluloid Jungle [BBC7 2003-07-30]
Round The Horne - 1968.04.14 s04e08 - Around The World In Ten Minutes [BBC7 2003-08-06]
Round The Horne - 1968.04.21 s04e09 - Journey To Uranus [BBC7 2003-08-13]
Round The Horne - 1968.04.28 s04e10 - Apache Story [BBC7 2003-08-20]
Round The Horne - 1968.05.05 s04e11 - Escape From Stalag Limpwrist [BBC7 2003-08-27]
Round The Horne - 1968.05.12 s04e12 - I Showed Them In Fleet Street [BBC7 2003-09-03]
Round The Horne - 1968.05.19 s04e13 - Continuum Medicum Romanum [BBC7 2003-09-10]
Round The Horne - 1968.05.26 s04e14 - Beau [BBC7 2003-09-17]
Round The Horne - 1968.06.02 s04e15 - Bona Prince Charlie [BBC7 2003-09-24]
Round The Horne - 1968.06.09 s04e16 - He, Son of She [BBC7 2003-10-01]
Extras
Round The Horne - 1976.09.18 - Round And Round The Horne (With Frank Bough)
Round The Horne - 1992 - Julian & Sandy - Side 1
Round The Horne - 1992 - Julian & Sandy - Side 2
Round The Horne - 1992 - Julian & Sandy - Side 3
Round The Horne - 1992 - Julian & Sandy - Side 4
Round The Horne - 1994.02.14 - Horne A' Plenty (With Leslie Phillips)
Round The Horne - 1995 - Round The Horne Movie Spoofs - Side 1
Round The Horne - 1995 - Round The Horne Movie Spoofs - Side 2
Round The Horne - 1996 - The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy - Side 1
Round The Horne - 1996 - The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy - Side 2
Round The Horne - 1996 - The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy - Side 3
Round The Horne - 1996 - The Bona World Of Julian & Sandy - Side 4
Replies
Thank you for these. Superb!
Thanks for listing a few I was missing and is one I my favorite shows,
Richard
Your welcome, it is a great show.
Round The Horne is pure magic.
The Goons, Hancock and this have so much to answer for!
I don't know how well this will completely translate to people Stateside (or anywhere else), as it was a topical program for a UK audience, recorded nearly half a century ago - but this show really is a Radio Comedy Icon.
I also honestly think it was Kenneth Williams finest hour - and given some of his subsequent achievements, that really is some statement.
Brilliant post Robert!
Only the VERY BEST here! Great stuff with great scripts and characters. Is there much that is better???? Next - Beyond Our Ken, or is that already here? I will be checking my files against these.
Paul Hudson