Foxy After Dark Episode 131, Hancock's Half Hour, The Winter Holiday

Hello you and welcome to very own late night podcast called Foxy After Dark, I'm sharing my bed time routine with you and I really hope you enjoy it :)

I'm Lucy and I'm recording this from my home in a leafy suburb of Surrey in the United Kingdom where the suns gone down, everything is quiet and we can just relax and prepare to drift off to sleep.

This little podcast is my opportunity to spend some quality time with you guys, have a catch up before we think about heading off to sleep.

I wanted to share with you my love of some great old time radio shows, every night a part of my bedtime routine is to put in the ear pods and listen to some of my favourite shows. I thought it might be fun to share some with you.

What I’d really love is your feedback and ideas on how the podcast evolves so make sure you keep in touch using my social media, if you check out some of my social media,

I'm on instagram and youtube as Foxy Geek Girl so I'm really easy to find and I've set up an exclusive hangout page at patreon.com/Foxy After Dark

We’ll  do plenty of shoutouts for my patreon gang and I'll definitely be keeping you up to date with everything I'm getting up to.

 

Love you guys xx

 

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Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.[1]

High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James. Although Hancock's decision to cease working with James, when it became known in early 1960,[2] disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best-remembered work (including The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career declined.

Early life and career Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham (then in Warwickshire),[3] but, from the age of three, he was brought up in Bournemouth (then in Hampshire), where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road, worked as a comedian and entertainer.[4]

After his father's death in 1934, Hancock and his brothers[5] lived with their mother and stepfather Robert Gordon Walker[6] at a small hotel called Durlston Court, in Gervis Road, Bournemouth. He attended Durlston Court Preparatory School, part of Durlston boarding school near Swanage (the name of which his parents adopted for their hotel) and Bradfield College in Reading, Berkshire, but left school at the age of fifteen.[citation needed]

In 1942, during the Second World War, Hancock joined the RAF Regiment.[7] Following failed auditions for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), he joined the Gang Shows, travelling around Europe entertaining troops. After the war, he joined the Ralph Reader Gang Show touring production of "Wings".[8] He later worked in a double act with musician Derek Scott at the Windmill Theatre, a venue which helped to launch the careers of many comedians at the time. A favourable press review of his work at the Windmill was seen in July 1948. "But mention must made of a new young comedian…who with a piano partner, gives some brilliant thumbnail impressions of a “dud” concert party."[9] He took part in radio shows such as Workers' Playtime[10] and Variety Bandbox.[11] In July 1949, he was praised for his work in the summer presentation of "Flotsam's Follies" at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Bognor Regis.[12] Christmas 1949 saw him in the part of "Buttons" in the Cinderella pantomime at the Royal Artillery, Woolwich.[13] In June 1950, he opened in the "Ocean Revue" at the Ocean, Clacton Pier[14] which ran for three months. At Christmas 1950, Hancock was in the "Red Riding Hood" pantomime at the Theatre Royal Nottingham playing the part of Jolly Jenkins, the Baron's page.[15]

In 1951–1952, for one series beginning on August 3, 1951,[16] Hancock was a cast member of Educating Archie,[17] in wh