July 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Hancock Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson Narrator: Tony Hancock Format: Original Recording Length: 2 hrs Language: English Release date: 10-25-05 Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited Genres: Comedy, Classic British Summary: The Economy Drive Having come home from holiday to find that Sid has left all the lights on, the TV running, and failed to cancel the milk and the papers, Hancock decides to go on an economy drive. Problems arise in a self-service cafeteria, and even a short stay in a hospital fails to save them any money. The Cold Hancock has the most awful cold, his sixth of the winter. He tries everything to cure himself: potions, pills, Mrs Cravat's witch's brew. A visit to his own doctor proves fruitless as the doc is suffering even more than Hancock. But there's always Sid's keep-fit regime.... The Emigrant Hancock has had enough of England and decides to emigrate. None of the colonies seem keen to have him, however, so Sid arranges a trip on a tramp steamer, which takes the unsuspecting Hancock on a trip to the Arctic Circle. The Baby Sitters Hancock and Sid are employed as baby-sitters in a very plush modern house with all the gadgets: hidden TV, remote-controlled curtains, electronic baby alarm. After raiding their host's larder and drinks cabinet, watching TV and failing to calm the baby, the two of them fall asleep. Only when the parents return do they realise they've had a burglary. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are right, Charlie going to the customs to day.
What do we look like?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What do we look like?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
A refugees?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And the chocolate soda?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Can't keep on?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There's a good one. I have every right to keep on.
I don't know I'm gonna make against meat. You're wasting
all this money, need to see. I don't mind telling
you I'm wanting six Oh dear.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Me, I can't understand you people.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Wont he what are he wanting?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Money? Money?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Money? You know my.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Philosophy, eat drink the money tomorrow we snuffy. If you've
got it, stand it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And if you ain't got it, did it?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
How your little faithless dude, you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Spend too much time out in the east, that's your trouble.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
How one gets getting an unpack.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Three month that's been blazing away all that?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, I left that on purposely.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You see if the burtler see the lights on? I
did somebody hit here, and I don't try.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To come in n I'm bald.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Left on all nine of them, and it'd have been
cheaper if they had got at least they might have
switched them up when they left. You think I'm made
of money?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
This waste has gotta stop said, good evening.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Welcome to another evening television.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's funny, I thought, I switch that over.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Whatever, min we don't have to wait.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But at the war now here we cool it's red
hot me tubes gone.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I swear it.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That aren't Colty shilling.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's nothing wrong with it. Look mate, that's that's not
coming from guddlaw.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A little glue holding the set together?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Where hey, who's he u?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And running down the sides?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Take a week to cool off that wilm, what's he
even the television set from?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And three months think of it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Three months twenty four all Bill Coones have been fashion
around this room with nobody to watch. You come by
the next set. I'm not I'm going up to my
room to change. I'll make this act in mind.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I do not know of all.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The focus inconsiderate wasteful doll works.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
All right, what was it?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What was what? But did just switch off?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Sweech off?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Swee?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do you when just now.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Nothing? Yes? You did?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't know the mega see our electricity?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Burke added off that disk inside was that being around
like a caffeine wheel. Suddenly it slowed down? How bossy?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Come on, we'll just switch off. Oh all right, the
electric fire?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Electric fire?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
How many bars?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All of them? Three bars for a penny of hour
and an hour for three months? What my electricity bill is.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Going to be for this quarter? And I editate the thing?
Do you actually didn't turn one.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Single thing off?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Not one single thing. A watching machine was still going.
All the water is evaporated. And what has happens with
the shirts we shall never know. All I could hear
six buttons and a collar st can't get out I speak.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's ruined to ring.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A bloke out and see if we can come down
and see the first You won't get anything out of that?
Why not I have it kettle? See I didn't forget
everything dinner. You had it cut off. The one thing
in the house you can leave on with that it
tosses anything, and you had it cut off.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Handy cuss HANDI cuss money.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
To have it put back on again. A bird. I
wouldn't mind betting you left the car bat and in
the back garden, you know, yeh hahda, I can't remember hana.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Me ta blew him.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In nineteen twenty seven, Green Level Bankley, I have a
six bridget pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That is it? That is all?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What explanation do you have for this?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
When's the coronation? And as the last time, I think
people remember telling you to cancel a bread. Look at it,
it's solid.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And when we went burgle they couldn't get in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What are we going to do with it?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
All? Well, you could bet the garage for your Richard Bentley.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'll buy any honey, heady good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, it's very serious. Is this sheer?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Extravagant ways?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And I can't afford it anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
All right, as through the day we are cutting down,
they're going on an economy to drive. Yes, yes that
shook you. Holidays though we're going to make a fish starts.
We're gonna lift to the absolute minimum until I am
solving again. Austerity is going to be the keynote in
this household. No more is you having posh restaurants.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The Dorchester is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Apt at some now and nothing over three ball. You
can't do that a man in your position. You've got
to keep up appearances. You can at the public see
you chewing up with a trail at the corner house
business runtues if it produces, that's a fallacy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
If they want you. They don't care where they eat.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, I can't see Jarker right cleaning up against a
pie store with a contact in one hand and a
sausage in the other. Today. Doesn't have to be a
pie of any of other places one can eat quite reasonably. Anyway,
We've got to cut down our expenditure, as the immortal
mister mccorber said to Oliver Copperfield in Bleak House by
Monica Dickens, out of the barn of the birth, yea,
(06:29):
the out of the.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Burst out of the borer.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But I only saw the films.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He put it very concisely.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He said, average income in Waky average expenditure nineteen poust
nineteen shiittings and sixpence result happiness.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
On the other hand, annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure
twenty pounds and sixpence result miserly. In future, I intend
to start living within my me starting out some lunchtime today.
You are going to go and eat now, I am, yes. Well,
(07:08):
First of all, I tend to go down to the
railroad Doss property and buy myself a suit.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You can make your own arrangements.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'll see you after lunch. Do not switch anything on. Yeah,
all right, all right, I read the meter, just one
firm and you are out mate.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Good day, my tad, do you may this is a
(08:38):
do I never my taids got pushed down there for
that old forgot in front of me.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What's the matter then you want to tie? Haven't we
got anything in life? No? No, it's not that I
am got time to You're a good touch now, you
know all that with Trasha.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Let's see this one. It's yeah, it's one of six
to six.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Four and eighth and say, yeah, do you mind moving
out the way.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You're creating a disturb I'm just trying to get back
to film a trail. Yes, well you've got to go
that way round and back. All right, Well you've got
to do sorr.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I've already cued up one.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I didn't knows you get earth on the tray, you
know it's what Well, I don't know much about these papers,
don't much about the tech.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
When you're not coming in here, and you're not coming
in here either, have I've.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Already cuwed up once?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, like you're aren't luck in it? You laft to
cue up.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I didn't watch up.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm militarily in from my right word place in the queue.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh look, I don't like hu japersl Owens
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Excuse me, would part
You are right, Charlie going to the customs to day.
What do we look like?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What do we look like?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
A refugees?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And the chocolate soda?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Can't keep on?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There's a good one. I have every right to keep on.
I don't know I'm gonna make against meat. You're wasting
all this money, need to see. I don't mind telling
you I'm wanting six Oh dear.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Me, I can't understand you people.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Wont he what are he wanting?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Money? Money?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Money? You know my.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Philosophy, eat drink the money tomorrow we snuffy. If you've
got it, stand it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And if you ain't got it, did it?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
How your little faithless dude, you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Spend too much time out in the east, that's your trouble.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
How one gets getting an unpack.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Three month that's been blazing away all that?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, I left that on purposely.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You see if the burtler see the lights on? I
did somebody hit here, and I don't try.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To come in n I'm bald.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Left on all nine of them, and it'd have been
cheaper if they had got at least they might have
switched them up when they left. You think I'm made
of money?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
This waste has gotta stop said, good evening.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Welcome to another evening television.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's funny, I thought, I switch that over.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Whatever, min we don't have to wait.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But at the war now here we cool it's red
hot me tubes gone.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I swear it.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That aren't Colty shilling.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's nothing wrong with it. Look mate, that's that's not
coming from guddlaw.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A little glue holding the set together?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Where hey, who's he u?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And running down the sides?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Take a week to cool off that wilm, what's he
even the television set from?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And three months think of it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Three months twenty four all Bill Coones have been fashion
around this room with nobody to watch. You come by
the next set. I'm not I'm going up to my
room to change. I'll make this act in mind.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I do not know of all.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The focus inconsiderate wasteful doll works.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
All right, what was it?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What was what? But did just switch off?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Sweech off?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Swee?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Do you when just now.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Nothing? Yes? You did?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't know the mega see our electricity?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Burke added off that disk inside was that being around
like a caffeine wheel. Suddenly it slowed down? How bossy?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Come on, we'll just switch off. Oh all right, the
electric fire?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Electric fire?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
How many bars?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All of them? Three bars for a penny of hour
and an hour for three months? What my electricity bill is.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Going to be for this quarter? And I editate the thing?
Do you actually didn't turn one.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Single thing off?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Not one single thing. A watching machine was still going.
All the water is evaporated. And what has happens with
the shirts we shall never know. All I could hear
six buttons and a collar st can't get out I speak.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's ruined to ring.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A bloke out and see if we can come down
and see the first You won't get anything out of that?
Why not I have it kettle? See I didn't forget
everything dinner. You had it cut off. The one thing
in the house you can leave on with that it
tosses anything, and you had it cut off.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Handy cuss HANDI cuss money.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
To have it put back on again. A bird. I
wouldn't mind betting you left the car bat and in
the back garden, you know, yeh hahda, I can't remember hana.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Me ta blew him.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In nineteen twenty seven, Green Level Bankley, I have a
six bridget pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That is it? That is all?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What explanation do you have for this?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
When's the coronation? And as the last time, I think
people remember telling you to cancel a bread. Look at it,
it's solid.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And when we went burgle they couldn't get in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What are we going to do with it?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
All? Well, you could bet the garage for your Richard Bentley.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'll buy any honey, heady good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, it's very serious. Is this sheer?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Extravagant ways?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And I can't afford it anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
All right, as through the day we are cutting down,
they're going on an economy to drive. Yes, yes that
shook you. Holidays though we're going to make a fish starts.
We're gonna lift to the absolute minimum until I am
solving again. Austerity is going to be the keynote in
this household. No more is you having posh restaurants.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The Dorchester is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Apt at some now and nothing over three ball. You
can't do that a man in your position. You've got
to keep up appearances. You can at the public see
you chewing up with a trail at the corner house
business runtues if it produces, that's a fallacy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
If they want you. They don't care where they eat.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, I can't see Jarker right cleaning up against a
pie store with a contact in one hand and a
sausage in the other. Today. Doesn't have to be a
pie of any of other places one can eat quite reasonably. Anyway,
We've got to cut down our expenditure, as the immortal
mister mccorber said to Oliver Copperfield in Bleak House by
Monica Dickens, out of the barn of the birth, yea,
(06:29):
the out of the.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Burst out of the borer.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But I only saw the films.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He put it very concisely.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He said, average income in Waky average expenditure nineteen poust
nineteen shiittings and sixpence result happiness.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
On the other hand, annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure
twenty pounds and sixpence result miserly. In future, I intend
to start living within my me starting out some lunchtime today.
You are going to go and eat now, I am, yes. Well,
(07:08):
First of all, I tend to go down to the
railroad Doss property and buy myself a suit.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You can make your own arrangements.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'll see you after lunch. Do not switch anything on. Yeah,
all right, all right, I read the meter, just one
firm and you are out mate.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Good day, my tad, do you may this is a
(08:38):
do I never my taids got pushed down there for
that old forgot in front of me.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What's the matter then you want to tie? Haven't we
got anything in life? No? No, it's not that I
am got time to You're a good touch now, you
know all that with Trasha.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Let's see this one. It's yeah, it's one of six
to six.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Four and eighth and say, yeah, do you mind moving
out the way.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You're creating a disturb I'm just trying to get back
to film a trail. Yes, well you've got to go
that way round and back. All right, Well you've got
to do sorr.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I've already cued up one.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I didn't knows you get earth on the tray, you
know it's what Well, I don't know much about these papers,
don't much about the tech.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
When you're not coming in here, and you're not coming
in here either, have I've.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Already cuwed up once?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, like you're aren't luck in it? You laft to
cue up.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I didn't watch up.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm militarily in from my right word place in the queue.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh look, I don't like hu japersl Owens
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Excuse me, would part
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