Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Round the Horne/archive1
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Tim riley in topic TFA blurb review
I'll be back later this month ... in the meantime, if anyone wants to do a blurb for this one, please do. - Dank (push to talk) 15:09, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, Lord! I think it's a closely-fought competition between SchroCat and me as to which of us is worse at writing leads and blurbs, but I'll have a go. More anon. Tim riley talk 15:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Giggling. You'll do fine! - Dank (push to talk) 15:45, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- You say that, Dan, but you saw my last effort, which was rubbish compared to yours! - SchroCat (talk) 17:18, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- OK, well here's my shot at it. Dank and SchroCat (and anyone else), please hack about ad lib. It's 156 words, 843 characters excluding spaces and a nice round 1,000 including spaces:
- Round the Horne is a British radio comedy show, first broadcast by the BBC in four series of weekly shows between 1965 and 1968, and frequently repeated since then. The programme was created by the writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman, and stars Kenneth Horne, with a supporting cast of Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and, in the first three series, Bill Pertwee. Horne plays a benign central figure surrounded by a galley of larger-than-life characters including the camp pair Julian and Sandy, the disreputable eccentric J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock, and the singer of dubious folk songs, Rambling Syd Rumpo, who all became nationally familiar throughout the UK. The show was much criticised by morality campaigners for its irreverence and double entendres, but attracted an unusually large audience at the time, and in a 2019 poll was voted the BBC's third-best radio show of any genre, and the best British radio comedy series of all. – Tim riley talk 17:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Much better than I would have done. - Dank (push to talk) 17:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, Dan. Happy to see it improved nonetheless. Tim riley talk 18:02, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Much better than I would have done. - Dank (push to talk) 17:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Round the Horne is a British radio comedy show, first broadcast by the BBC in four series of weekly shows between 1965 and 1968, and frequently repeated since then. The programme was created by the writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman, and stars Kenneth Horne, with a supporting cast of Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and, in the first three series, Bill Pertwee. Horne plays a benign central figure surrounded by a galley of larger-than-life characters including the camp pair Julian and Sandy, the disreputable eccentric J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock, and the singer of dubious folk songs, Rambling Syd Rumpo, who all became nationally familiar throughout the UK. The show was much criticised by morality campaigners for its irreverence and double entendres, but attracted an unusually large audience at the time, and in a 2019 poll was voted the BBC's third-best radio show of any genre, and the best British radio comedy series of all. – Tim riley talk 17:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Giggling. You'll do fine! - Dank (push to talk) 15:45, 14 April 2019 (UTC)