TONY HANCOCK's 50s radio programmes are regularly on BBC Radio 4 Extra (UK). Also stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jaques and Bill Kerr. Brilliant!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
DEFINITELY the answer to the FIRST QUESTION is “Take to £2,500 and buy a choice block of land!” Just imagine taking £100 a year for the rest of your life in the 1960’s. In 2020 it wouldn’t pay for a decent hotel room, let alone a holiday abroad 🤨
Wonderful! The ads were so much more fun in those days but that alien woman wants a good slap! Does anyone know anyone who won the Drene/Gleem (or the Readers Digest prize draw) money? I thought not!
The reading of Hancock's lines (on screen at least) didn't actually start until the BBC television episode "The Blood Donor'" where he'd been in a car crash just before and was having difficulty remembering his lines. Prompt boards were put up around the set and it worked so well that Hancock, a man who always found learning line laborious, chose to go down this route for the rest of his career.
Jim Dale in the Nux Bar ad??? / Patrick Cargill in Hamlet. The Turkish Delight and Flake ads are great. Shell is good too - 1964. Barry Gray did the electronic music for the Blue Cars commercial with Nicholas Parsons. I dread to think what he thought of it - the commercial I mean.
There are people who, all these years later, getting their £100 a year for life. In 1954 the average yearly wage in the UK was £414, though many would not have been earning that much.
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Yes, he's reprising his character in Hancocks Half Hour, a slightly jaded funny observer of life. If you want to see him at his finest in my opinion, the film The Rebel is great, it really takes the p*** out of the artworld.
That's R.P. (Received Pronunciation). Actors and actresses were taught to speak in those cut-glass, clipped tones. So were broadcasters and those in authority. The BBC trained its on-air staff to only speak with R.P., in order to be the voice of authority.
Did you notice in the " Flake" ad, you never ever get to see them eat it, the camera always pans away. all subsequent flake ads did the same. We all know what happens when you bite into them, they crumble. Turkish delight were much bigger as well, today they are much smaller, they make the wrappers bigger to give the illusion of being bigger. such skullduggery today. Back in the day you got value for money. Well that's my rant for the day. Back to the loony bin.
@@mgthestrange9098 your totally right I am 67 years old food in my day though not abundant tasted better it had lots of sugar and salt but nothing tastes the same sugar puffs tastes like sweet wet cardboard
A young Jim Dale goes Nux ! And Hancock bags it, head and shoulders above the rest. No Birds-eye peas ? "Fresh as the moment when the pod went pop" . . they don't have copy writers like that now ! No Life-Buoy soap, No Macleans Toothpaste "The ring of confidence" - they were early '60s. Turkish Delight was early mid-60s - (The only delight the Turks get nowadays is the prospect of sending 2 million Syrian refugees to Europe). The Hamlet, Schweppes tonic water and PG Tips ("Avez-vous un cuppa ?) endured until the 1980s !
Amy's Angel Guidance: a close approximation of pre decimal to decimal can be obtained thus; Take the numerals of, eg, 4/9 to read as 49 then divide by 2: result 24.5 new pence. I have noticed that folk not conversant with the pronunciation and spelling of ' old money ' use eg, six pence as two separate words when referring to the old ' tanner' (2.5 new pence) instead of sixpence, and they stress pence which is wrong.
