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The family are suffering in a summer heatwave. Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Kenneth Connor. From September 1957.

The poor Huggett family are suffering in a summer heat wave.

Starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison.

The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949.

This subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.

Selection of surviving episodes in the BBC Archive.

Written by Eddie Maguire.

Joe ...... Jack Warner
Ethel ...... Kathleen Harrison
Jane ...... Marion Collins
Bobby ...... George Howell
Fred Stebbings ...... Charles Leno
Various ...... Kenneth Connor

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1957.

30 minutes

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