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When in 1957, Prime Minister Macmillan declared that British people have "never had it so good", few realised he was referring to BBC radio comedy.
Rightly so, too. This was indeed its golden age, with the likes of gormless Ron and dowdy Eth in 'The Glums' (part of 'Take it from Here'), jovial Ted Ray, wooden doll Archie Andrews (ventriloquism on the radio . . . but it worked!), the kid Clitheroe, Bebe and Ben Lyon and the "right monkey" himself, Al Read.
And, of course, the 1950s also produced two of the all-time greats: the lugubrious Tony Hancock and the mind-boggling 'Goon Show', featuring the helter-skelter talents of Messrs Milligan, Sellers and Secombe.
