Tiring of his reduced status, he joined Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), and its sequel, Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ).

His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).

From 2003 to 2005, Robin Sebastian took on Williams in the West End stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited, recreating his performance in 2008 for a production called Round the Horne: Unseen and Uncut.

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With Marty Feldman he wrote most episodes of Round the Horne.

It was popularised in the 1960s by camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.

Since the mid-1990s, with the redistribution of tapes and CDs of Round The Horne starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, and increasing academic interest, Polari has undergone something of a revival.

Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, with scripts written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

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Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after 1958, and, choosing the latter, he made two further popular radio series, Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ) and Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 )

When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

Presenting the awards was Earl Mountbatten of Burma ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman ( writers of Round the Horne ) for their TV series Marty, and Horne had just urged viewers to tune into the fifth series of Round the Horne ( due to start on 16 March ) when he fell from the podium.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

He was a knight of the Round Table, `` Sir Quintus the Brave '', slaying evil spirits and banshees and vampires and witches with warty noses.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

In his first ever appearance for the Dons, against Hawthorn in Round 1 1949, he booted 12 of his side's 18 goals to create an opening round record which was to endure for forty five years.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.

Although it was designed to serve multilateral agreements, during several rounds of GATT negotiations ( particularly the Tokyo Round ) plurilateral agreements created selective trading and caused fragmentation among members.

* Rodney Eade – Australian Rules Footballer who played 259 games for Hawthorn and the Bears, was head coach of the Western Bulldogs until Round 21, 2011

In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip.

Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

Back in New York and in better health, in 1955 Davis attended the Newport Jazz Festival, where his performance ( and especially his solo on "' Round Midnight ") was greatly admired and prompted the critics to hail the " return of Miles Davis ".

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

On 26 November 2005, a Round Table Conference ( RTC ) was held between the governments of the Netherlands, Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and each island in the Netherlands Antilles.

The first big coup for the Qatari government was hosting a major round of trade talks that resulted in what is referred to as the Doha Round.

Wace claims he was not the source of the Round Table ; both he and Layamon credit it instead to the Bretons.

In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.

The artifacts known as the " Winchester Round Table ," a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament.

He worked as a scriptwriter for Peter Sellers and then on 39 episodes of his own radio show Round the Bend in 30 Minutes, which has also been wiped from the BBC archive.

Editions of Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne are regularly broadcast on the digital radio service BBC 4 Extra.

In October 2003 a successful stage show called Round the Horne ... Revisited opened in London, compiled by Series Four co-writer Brian Cooke from original scripts, and ran until April 2005 – also siring three nationwide tours and a BBC television film.

In the touring version of Round the Horne ... Revisited ( 2004-5 ), Horne was played by Stephen Critchlow, who also played him in the BBC television drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

They wrote situation comedies such as The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge for British television, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

The 40th anniversary special Horne A ' Plenty was released as a 3 CD set by BBC Audiobooks as The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne.

Notably, Barry Took was the principal writer in the 1969 season ; executive producer George Schlatter, a Canadian, was influenced by Round the Horne on CBC repeats of BBC original programming, and searched out Took for his programme.

** BBC 7 Classic Comedy — RealPlayer Audio repeats of the old ' Round the Horne '

* " Round the Horne … Revisited " on BBC Four

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

Although earlier BBC radio shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh, Take It From Here and Beyond Our Ken had conditioned listeners to a mix of music, sketches and jokes within a 30 minute show, and Round the Horne was also doing this, ISIRTA ( as it was known to its friends ) accelerated the transitions, and it certainly seemed more improvised.

Rambling Syd Rumpo was a folk singer character, played by the English comedian and actor, Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series, Round the Horne.

Particularly significant in this respect were the Carry On series of films and the BBC radio series Round the Horne, although this humor is carried because of the apparent " nonsense " language that the protagonists use but in fact are having a " rude " conversation in Polari ( gay slang ).

He performed in the BBC radio comedy series Radio Active ( 1980 – 87 ) and has also starred in a number of TV comedy shows, including Who Dares Wins ( 1983 – 88 ), Chelmsford 123 ( 1988 – 90 ) and KYTV ( 1989 – 93 ) Round the Bend ( 1989 – 1991 ).

' This was parodied by the character Seamus Android in the BBC radio programme Round the Horne in the 1960s, performed by Bill Pertwee.

In her early years on television Fanny Cradock's husky voice and larger-than-life personality lent themselves to mimicry, for example on two BBC Radio comedy shows in the 1960s, Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, in which Betty Marsden played Fanny Haddock.

On 28 January 2006, they beat Premier League strugglers Sunderland 2-1 in the 4th Round of the FA Cup, but lost 3-1 to another Premier League club Charlton Athletic ( of which former BBC Chairman Michael Grade was non-executive Director ) in the 5th Round.

The 2001 – 02 FA Cup saw the club receive a financial bonus when the BBC televised the First Round match against Wrexham live.