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Radio 4 Extra,30 Dec 1956,30 mins

SeriesSeries 4

The Diary

Hancock's Half Hour

Available for 17 days

It's New Year's Eve and the Lad is pondering what could have been. Featuring the famous 'test pilot' scene. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. Starring Tony Hancock. With: Bill Kerr Sidney James Hattie Jacques Kenneth Williams Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott. Producer: Dennis Main Wilson First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1956.

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