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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki
"Round the Horne" was about the only must-listen show for my generation on the old Home Service - the Julian and Sandy 'Polari' innuendo-riddled scripts fuelled a strange schoolboy-derivative language [also incorporating aspects of 'Dog-Latin'].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_and_Sandy
Even back then the true nature of Julian&Sandy's argot was well-understood by almost everyone - I wonder how they ever managed to get the scripts past the upper echelons of the Home Service Good-Taste Police?? |
One of my favourite radio shows - to which I listened "many times ... many, many times"
I loved the character names - Dame Celia Molestrangler, Binky Huckaback ... and of course Kenneth Williams as Doctor Chou M. Ginsberg, BA (Calcutta) (failed):
(K.H.): "You're mad, Ginsberg, completely mad!"
(K.W.): I'm not mad! I'm not mad! ... (well - maybe a bit irritable first thing in the morning - but not mad?)"
The most memorable character name of all - and which still reduces me to a fit of the chortles when I recall it: "The Reverend Unseemly Horseposture"
Guy