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Description: The Clitheroe Kid - Radio Series - 192Kbps Mp3
5 x 30 minute episodes
The BBC are not playing these on a series order so I will just post them as they come in sets of 5 episodes
The Clitheroe Kid was a long-running BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue. Jimmy's best friend was Ossie, alias Oswald Higginbottom, a character who was only heard of secondhand and didn't actually appear. The pilot series and 16 subsequent series equate to 289 episodes originally broadcast between 1/7/1957 and 13/8/1972.
(Another series where the BBC wiped tapes to re-use them,
Jimmy Clitheroe was 35 when he started playing the part in 1956, but he could pass as an 11-year-old boy because he had never grown physically beyond that age, though in later years his face gave his real age away. The series was made with a studio audience and there were frequent gales of laughter at Jimmy's schoolboy humour, as well as at Alfie Hall's mangling of the English language as he tries to explain something and makes it worse.
Jimmy wore a schoolboy blazer and cap even for radio recordings, to maintain the appearance that he was 11 years old. Real children never appeared in the show, as this would have given away that Jimmy was an adult acting a part; so he talked of his pal Ossie and his friends in the "Black Hand Gang" (who would punish any member caught in the company of a girl) but you never actually met them.
oted to her. Jimmy would not stand for his mother being mocked, even if it was only a fictional mother on the radio.
Jimmy's radio character frequently listened at keyholes, where he usually got the wrong end of the stick. Even when he tried to do good, as when he thought his grandad had stolen some money from a pub (but which grandad had actually been given to look after), he usually messed things up, with the help of Alfie Hall. After the end credits, a short piece by Jimmy was usually inserted where he winds-up the show, tying up any loose ends in the plot and often reporting that grandad had spanked him for what he had done.
Cast:
Jimmy Clitheroe
John Broadbent
Violet Carson
Judith Chalmers
Bob Monkhouse
Herbert Smith
Brian Truman
The Clitheroe Kid - S08 - E04 - James, The Little Gentleman
The Clitheroe Kid - S02 - E01 - Clitheroe And The Hound Dog
The Clitheroe Kid - S04 - E09 - The Keyhole Kid
The Clitheroe Kid - S07 - E08 - A Load Of Chinese Junk
The Clitheroe Kid - S07 - E13 - One Hundred Not Out
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