הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Tony Hancock (2024)

1
S7 - E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Unexploded Bomb 1:34:24

6d ago1:34:24

1:34:24

In this episode we look at the brilliant fifth radio series episode The Unexploded Bomb. Tim, James, Jon and Martin consider how brilliant Kenneth Williams is in this episode with his two contrasting voices of the vicar and the bomb disposal expert and also look at the excellent contribution from Hattie Jacques.The Gang of Four discuss the great ch…

1
Very nearly a trailer... 2:25

20d ago2:25

2:25

Tim, Jon, James and Martin have come out of hibernation and, fortified with lots of black wine gums, have been getting ready to bring you the new series of Very Nearly an Armful. In this trailer the team give details of a special podcast being recorded at London’s Riverside Studios on the 6th April alongside a colourised version of The Blood Donor.…

1
S6 - E5 Very Nearly an Armful - Cinderella Hancock 1:38:55

4M ago1:38:55

1:38:55

In the final episode of this series of Very Nearly an Armful, James, Jon, Tim and Martin review Cinderella Hancock from the first radio series of Hancock’s Half Hour. They review the contribution of the enlarged cast, which included Dora Bryan and Paul Carpenter (as well as a role for the announcer Adrian Waller), and look at the huge number of sta…

1
S6 - E4 - Very Nearly an armful - The Student Prince 1:43:24

4M ago1:43:24

1:43:24

In this episode of Very Nearly an Armful, James, Jon, Tim and Martin review The Student Prince from the third radio series of Hancock’s Half Hour. They consider how this episode is a riotous ride from start to finish and how unusual it is to see Sid get his comeuppance! The team look at the inspiration for the script, consider the three brilliant r…

1
S6 - E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - Fred's Pie Stall 1:30:35

5M ago1:30:35

1:30:35

In this episode of Very Nearly an Armful, James, Jon, Tim and Martin review Fred’s Pie Stall from the final radio series of Hancock’s Half Hour. They consider how this episode, probably more than any other, provides a cultural commentary on societal changes in the late 1950s. The team review the contribution of the brilliant guest cast, each of whi…

1
S6 - E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Alpine Holiday 1:32:52

5M ago1:32:52

1:32:52

In this edition of Very Nearly an Armful, James. Jon, Tim and Martin look at the earliest surviving television episode of Hancock’s Half Hour, The Alpine Holiday, from Series 2. The team look at the amazing supporting cast, including Richard Wattis in his only Hancock’s Half Hour role, John Vere, June Whitfield and, or course, Kenneth Williams in h…

1
S6 - E1 -Very Nearly an Armful - Apollo Theatre Tour Review 1:32:19

7M ago1:32:19

1:32:19

In this episode of Very Nearly an Armful, Tim, James, Jon and Martin discuss the Apollo Theatre Company nationwide tour of their Hancock’s Half Hour show and are delighted to welcome John Hewer and Colin Elmer (who play Tony Hancock and Kenneth Williams respectively) to the podcast. The tour features performances of three lost Hancock’s Half Hour e…

1
S5 - E4 - Very Nearly an Armful - Hancock's Car 1:36:57

12M ago1:36:57

1:36:57

In this final episode of the current series, Tim, Jon, James and Martin take a look at the brilliant radio episode Hancock’s Car from the golden fifth radio series.The gang consider how all the cast deliver a masterclass in acting and comic timing and how the opening scene of Hancock, Bill and Sid just cleaning the car is a fantastic example of Gal…

1
S5 - E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - The East Cheam Drama Festival 1:30:04

12M ago1:30:04

1:30:04

This episode in the trilogy of three so far this Spring is the third one in the series. In this podcast James, Tim, Jon and Martin look at the brilliant fifth series episode The East Cheam Drama Festival and consider how the episode, being a play within a play, was quite revolutionary at the time. The gang consider how the second playlet is quite P…

1
S5 - E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Punch & Judy Man 2:03:57

1y ago2:03:57

2:03:57

In this episode, the team celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Punch and Judy Man with a detailed look at Hancock’s final film in a starring role.The four consider how the film is deeply biographical not only in its depiction of a failing marriage but also in its link to Tony's childhood days in Bournemouth. They discuss how many of the regular pl…

1
S5 - E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Economy Drive 1:45:34

1y ago1:45:34

1:45:34

Welcome back to all our listeners as we start our new series of the podcast with a look at the brilliant fifth television series episode The Economy Drive, which is often quoted as a fan favourite.The team look at the brilliant support played by the East Cheam Repertory Company and consider how the episode provides a brilliant social representation…

1
S4 - E5 - Very Nearly an Armful - Hancocks Happy Christmas - P2 2 1:14:36

1+ y ago1:14:36

1:14:36

In this episode, we continue our festive theme when James, Tom Tim and Martin conclude their review of the radio episode Hancock’s Happy Christmas in the company of a glass of Baileys and a mince pie! This time, the team look at the career of Dorothy Marks, the many cultural references sprinkled throughout the show and, once again, consider the spa…

1
S4 - E4 - Very Nearly an Armful - Hancocks Happy Christmas - Pt 1 51:50

1+ y ago51:50

51:50

In this episode, James, Tom Tim and Martin don Christmas jumpers, put on reindeer antlers and start their review of the great festive radio episode Hancock’s Happy Christmas. The team consider how the performance from Hancock is in the very best traditions of Scrooge and are delighted to share memories of making the show received from Michael Ander…

1
S4 - E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - The 13th of the series 1:34:07

1+ y ago1:34:07

1:34:07

In this our longest episode yet, James, Jon, Tim and Martin review the brilliantly surreal radio episode The 13th of the Series and its transcription services remake The 13th of the Month. The team consider how joyous the performances of all the cast are in this episode and how the script sparkles throughout. They also consider Ken’s fantastic perf…

1
S4 - E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - Lord Byron Lived Here 1:09:16

1+ y ago1:09:16

1:09:16

In this episode, James, Jon, Tim and Martin review the brilliant television episode Lord Byron Lived Here. They consider the role the excellent supporting cast play in making this a firm favourite for many Hancock fans, including John Le Mesurier, Hugh Lloyd and Robert Dorning in particular. We catch up again with Julian Dutton and feature a brief …

1
S4 - E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Marriage Bureau 1:18:04

1+ y ago1:18:04

1:18:04

In this first episode of series 4, Tim, Jon, James and Martin are privileged to be able to review the recently recovered radio episode The Marriage Bureau. Not heard since first broadcast in 1955, the episode was discovered on a reel to reel tape by Richard Harrison of The Radio Circle and was rebroadcast by Radio 4 on the 18th October 2022. The ep…

1
S4 - Teaser - Very Nearly an Armful - The THAS reunion dinner! 51:17

1+ y ago51:17

51:17

Ahead of the start of the fourth series of Very Nearly An Armful, our intrepid four head to Solihull for the annual Tony Hancock Appreciation Society knees up. There we were delighted to meet Mr. Kevin McNally, hear his wonderful Hancock reminisces and, more importantly, we are able to reveal his exact drink count for the evening. We were also plea…

1
S3 - E6 Very Nearly an Armful- Sunday Afternoon at Home - Part 2 1:03:56

2y ago1:03:56

1:03:56

In this episode, Tim, Jon, Martin and James continue their review of the brilliant radio episode A Sunday Afternoon at Home. After discussion on Sykes, outtakes, fluffs and the various Doctors Who. The gang resume the main subject and look at how the cast really brought the words on the page to life with the different vocal styles and tones used th…

1
S3 - E6 Very Nearly an Armful - Sunday Afternoon at Home - Part 1 44:31

2y ago44:31

44:31

In this episode, Tim, Jon, Martin and James start their review of the classic radio episode a Sunday Afternoon at home. At approximately 16 minutes into the podcast, the team kick off with the main subject and consider how revolutionary the episode was in its use of pauses and silence and also in the fact that it is a virtually plotless half hour. …

1
S3 - E5 Very Nearly an Armful - The New Neighbour with Kevin McNally (part 2) 1:03:22

2y ago1:03:22

1:03:22

In this episode, Tim, Jon, Martin and Nick (in James’s absence) resume their chat with the brilliant Kevin McNally to review The New Neighbour and The Missing Hancocks more generally.In Part 2 Kevin talks about the wonderful outtakes and adlibs from the radio recordings, some of which made it into the final edits and regales us with the story of ta…

1
S3 - E5 - Very Nearly an Armful - The New Neighbour with Kevin McNally ( part 1 ) 49:16

2y ago49:16

49:16

In this episode, Tim, Jon, Martin and Nick (in James’s absence) are delighted to introduce the brilliant Kevin McNally as our guest to review The New Neighbour and The Missing Hancocks more generally. Kevin was most generous with his time and our chat with Kevin has been split over two editions of this podcast, so there’s more to come! In Part 1 Ke…

1
S3 - E4 - Very Nearly an Armful - Death of a Duchess 1:18:56

2y ago1:18:56

1:18:56

And now for something completely different. In this episode, James, Tim, Jon and Martin review The Death of a Duchess, the final episode in the 1956 ATV Series The Tony Hancock Show and are delighted to welcome Hancock’s great niece, Lucy Hancock to the podcast as our guest; Lucy gave permission for the entire series of the Tony Hancock Show to be …

1
S3 E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Poetry Society 1:20:14

2y ago1:20:14

1:20:14

In this episode, James, Tim, Jon and Martin join the beatnik movement to review the brilliant radio episode The Poetry Society, from the final radio series.The team consider the extra dynamic that using guest actors such as Warren Mitchell and Fenella Fielding bring to the episode and how this episode which is a satire on modern art, the coffee bar…

1
S3 E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - Hancock in the Police 1:22:15

2y ago1:22:15

1:22:15

In this episode, James, Tim, Jon and Martin look at the brilliant radio episode Hancock in the Police. The episode is a frenetic half hour of classic comedy and the team consider the incredible contribution of Kenneth Williams, who played no less than five parts in this episode, including arguably his best performance in the character of Snide. The…

1
S3 E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - 12 Angry Men 1:23:06

2y ago1:23:06

1:23:06

Very Nearly an Armful returns for a third series; after a well-earned break, the intrepid four start the series by looking at the brilliant TV episode Twelve Angry Men.The episode is a pastiche of the film of the same name and James, Tim, Jon and Martin compare the episode to the film and consider how all the supporting cast really add dramatic dep…

1
S2 E6 - Christmas Special - Very Nearly an Armful - The Christmas Club 1:14:55

2+ y ago1:14:55

1:14:55

In this final episode in the second series, we are pleased to join in with the Christmas festivities and look at the final radio episode to be recorded: The Christmas Club. In James’s absence, Tim, Jon and Martin discuss the realism provided by the supporting cast in this episode and consider how much the final series delivered the realistic settin…

1
S2 E5 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Lift 1:20:11

2+ y ago1:20:11

1:20:11

In this episode, Tim, James, Jon and Martin discuss the television episode The Lift from the 1961 BBC Series ‘Hancock’ and consider how quickly this final series had moved The Lad Himself away from East Cheam with this episode set in BBC Television Centre. The team also look at the wonderful supporting cast including the brilliant Hugh Lloyd (as th…

1
S2 E4 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Rail Strike 1:21:55

2+ y ago1:21:55

1:21:55

In this episode, Tim, James, Jon and Martin discuss the radio episode The Rail Strike from the second series of Hancock’s Half Hour.As this is the earliest surviving episode featuring Kenneth Williams’ Snide character, the four fans discuss the origin and the development of this character through to his final appearance at the end of the fourth ser…

1
S2 E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Reunion Party 1:13:24

2+ y ago1:13:24

1:13:24

In this episode, Tim, James, Jon and Martin discuss the episode The Reunion Party from the excellent sixth television series. As this episode takes place 15 years after the Second World War ended, the four fans consider the likelihood that the episode reflected real life events with similar reunions happening between former pals who hadn’t seen eac…

1
S2 E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Americans Hit Town 1:07:50

2+ y ago1:07:50

1:07:50

In this episode, Tim, James, Jon and Martin consider the merit of the radio episode The American’s Hit Town from the brilliant fifth series.The four fans look at significant role that Hattie Jacques has in this episode, look at the three very different roles that Kenneth Williams plays brilliantly, all with very different voices, and consider wheth…

1
S2 E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Missing Page 1:07:13

2+ y ago1:07:13

1:07:13

Very Nearly an Armful makes a welcome return for a second series. In this episode Martin, Tim, James and Jon discuss the well known television episode The Missing Page as well as the later re-recording of the same episode which was released on vinyl. The four fans assess the merits of the two versions of this episode, consider whether Hancock’s mim…

1
Very Nearly an Armful - Series 2 teaser 33:40

2+ y ago33:40

33:40

In this teaser episode for the second series, Martin, Jon, James and Tim discuss all things Hancock in extra bits that didn’t make the final edit in series one.The four fans talk about radio episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour, “The First Night Party” and “The 13th of the Series” and revisit the infamous screeching woman before contemplating a pint of …

1
S1 E6 - Very Nearly an Armful - There's An Airfield At the Bottom of the Garden 1:12:49

3y ago1:12:49

1:12:49

In this final episode of the first series, Martin, Tim and Jon talk about Tony’s infamous live episode There’s An Airfield At The Bottom of the Garden where the set didn’t quite perform as expected! The four fans discuss how the issues with the set led to changes to how Hancock’s Half Hour was broadcast with the gradual move to recorded episodes, c…

1
S1 E5 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Lost Episodes - The Horror Serial/The Italian Maid 1:19:58

3y ago1:19:58

1:19:58

In this episode Martin, Tim and Jon talk about how the audio soundtracks from two lost television episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour were discovered on reel to reel tape in 2016. Neither of the episodes had been broadcast since they were repeated in 1959 so this was a brilliant discovery. The four fans talk about The Horror Serial, which was a pastich…

1
S1 E4 - Very Nearly an Armful - The 50s revolution - The Set That Failed/The Television Set 1:15:29

3y ago1:15:29

1:15:29

n this episode Martin, Tim and Jon chat about the impact of the introduction of the new medium of television in the 1950s, consider the impact of the launch of ITV, and wax lyrical about the adverts of the time and how they were rudely interrupted by the programmes.The four fans talk about the radio episodes The Television Set and The Impersonator …

1
S1 E3 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Rebel. 1:09:54

3y ago1:09:54

1:09:54

In this episode, Martin, Tim, Jon and James natter on about Hancock’s first major film, The Rebel. Celebrating its 60th anniversary and recently digitally remastered for DVD and Blu-ray, the film has achieved cult status with Hancock’s brilliant performance as a wannabe artist and a superb first film script by legendary writers Ray Galton and Alan …

1
S1 E2 - Very Nearly an Armful - The First Night Party 1:02:34

3y ago1:02:34

1:02:34

We chat about our week including finds for the THAS archives; photo’s of Tony playing Cricket and an original script for an episode of HHH which has been offered to us. In Hancock news, Martin discusses the donation from the estate of the late Alec Bregonzi who appeared in HHH and tapes sent to the society which we check over for lost or unedited r…

1
S1 E1 - Very Nearly an Armful - The Blood Donor. 58:45

3y ago58:45

58:45

We start this episode with Tim having purchased a new Microphone and Martin having technical difficulties and how Galton & Simpson disliked the episode Ericson The Viking compared to the other shows due to the location filming. We mention Tony’s Spitting Image Puppet and the Hancock News of the release of ‘The Missing Hancock’s on CD in March. We t…

1
Very Nearly an Armful - A Tony Hancock Podcast - Pilot Episode 24:17

3y ago24:17

24:17

We all introduce ourselves and how we each got into Hancock’s Half Hour. We discuss the video releases in the 1980’s, and the exorbitant cost of videotape back in the day. We mention Paul Merton’s 1990’s recreations briefly along with Dad’s Army and repeats of shows, borrowing tapes from the old THAS VHS library, our quarterly magazine, ‘The Missin…

פודקאסטים ששווה להאזין

פודקאסטים בנושא Tony Hancock

פודקאסטים ששווה להאזין

מדריך עזר מהיר