Take It From Here - 1950s OTR - High Quality

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Updated:  11 May 2025 Take It From Here   :  British Radio Comedy Episodes from the 1940s radio comedy series, which began in 1948 and ran for 12 years. Stars Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley , Joy Nichols , Alma Cogan and June Whitfield . Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden . Episode Guide   :   TIFH ~ PDF episode guide Further information    :     PDF, Mark McKay Frank Muir and Denis Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy with this show. It was the first to have a significant segment parodying films and books, a gimmick later used extensively on radio in the Sixties in satires such as Round the Horne , and in many television comedies. Among other influences, from 1953 the show also features Wallas Eaton as the character known as 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells'. This is the show which invented that phrase! The most famous part of the show, also beginning in 1953, saw Dick Bentley and June Whitfield playing Ron and Eth in 'The Glums' -- with Professor Jimmy Edwards as Pa Glum. Dick Bentley , who plays the son, was almost thirteen years older than Jimmy Edwards , who plays the father! The Glums first appeared on 12th November 1953 and became a regular part of the show. The premise is the long engagement between Ron Glum and his fiancée Eth. As a result of post-war austerity, long engagements were common in 1950s Britain. Each weekly installment plays out some recent incident in the lives of Ron, Mr Glum's dim son, and Eth, a plain girl for whom Ron represents her only chance of marriage. In later years, each installment of The Glums starts in the pub, with Mr Glum talking to the barman (played by Wallas Eaton ). It would be closing time, and Mr Glum would start telling the week's story to the barman as a ruse for obtaining another pint (or two!) of brown ale. Includes the only episodes from this show which I have in high quality. High Quality recordings 320 Kbps bitrate iTunes m4a codec Copyright Expired Recordings Public domain radio :  (a)  The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 and 1988 has expired for all items included in this collection: · Copyright Act 1956, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14 (b)  There is no broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Act 1910, as broadcasting was not invented until 1922. Accordingly, no period of broadcast copyright has ever existed in the United Kingdom in respect of any radio or television broadcast that aired prior to the introduction of the Copyright Act 1956.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.