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Some of Our Archives Were Missing with Stuart Maconie

Lost shows retrieved: It Sticks Out Half A Mile, Here Comes The Bolshie Man, The Green Machine, The Great Fire Of London, Things Could Be Worse and The Worst Show On The Wireless.

Stuart Maconie presents a selection of classic programmes once thought lost forever, but now returned to the BBC's vaults - thanks to attentive radio fans:

* It Sticks Out Half A Mile - PILOT
Starring Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier (19/07/1981)

* Hush, Hush, Here Comes The Bolshie Man
Starring Roy Kinnear, James Beck, Joan Hickson, Henry McGee and David Jason (14/03/1971)

* Thirty Minute Theatre: The Green Machine
Starring Tony Robinson (23/04/1975)

* Story Time: Eye Witness Accounts - The Great Fire Of London
With John Gabriel and Peter Pratt (20/01/1970)

* Things Could Be Worse
Starring Harry Worth (15/09/1976)

* The Worst Show On The Wireless
Starring Eddie Braben, Bill Pertwee and Alison Steadman (12/02/1975)

The BBC's Treasure Hunt initiative of the early noughties focussed its efforts on missing radio and TV shows first broadcast prior to 1980.

It was an invitation to collectors, fans and even former BBC staff who might have possessed domestic recordings of missing comedies and dramas. Among other gems, a missing episode of The Likely Lads was returned. An eclectic collection of radio curios made it's way home – some of them shared in this programme.

Producer: Martin Dempsey

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2004.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 2 Oct 202119:00
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