New Year Resolutions

The Lad announces his New Year Resolutions confident he can stick to them. It doesn't go well.

Bill is equally confident that this is a money-making opportunity.

Starring Kevin McNally as Tony Hancock.

Recreated episode of the classic sitcom. 20 were missing from the BBC archives.

Now, after four highly successful series, the final batch of those episodes have been lovingly re-recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.

The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Ray Galton and Alan Simpson as one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history.

With:

Kevin Eldon
Simon Greenall
Robin Sebastian
Susy Kane

Special guest: Paul Merton

Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson.

Music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Levon Parikian.

Producer: Neil Pearson & Hayley Sterling.

Originally broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4th January, 1956.

A BBC Studios Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2020.