Barry Humphries’s Desert Island Discs, 2009.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00khkxy This was Humphries’s second appearance on DID. On the first, with Roy Plomley, currently unavailable, his choice of records included novelty numbers and also Percy Grainger’s Shallow Brown and Honegger’s...
A classic Round the Horne just now, at 8 a.m., on R4X for your laughing pleasure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00svbbs
Kenneth Williams sings ‘The Marrow Song’ (from today’s Round the Horne on R4X).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00srqjv Starts a few seconds before fifteen minutes.
Many Happy Returns to Eric Idle – comedian (co-creator of Monty Python), actor, author, director… – composer & singer of sig tune for One Foot in the Grave (Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew), 80 today.
