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    A Likely story

    Rodney Bewes and James Bolam in Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads? Photo: Topfoto/ArenaPAL

    ASKED how he wrote comedy with partner Denis Norden, Frank Muir’s reply was typical: “We have a very long pencil.”

    To those of us interested in such things, it was a frustrating response. Unlike novels or plays, writing comedy is odd in that it’s often the product of a pair of writers.

    And we comedy nerds are fascinated by how the likes of Galton and Simpson, Took and Feldman, Esmonde and Larbey and Cook and Mortimer worked in tandem to create the likes of Hancock, Steptoe and The Good Life? We’re embarrassingly interested in the alchemy that produced Julian and Sandy and George and Mildred.

    Apparently Galton and Simpson worked in a room next door to Spike Milligan, Johnny Speight and Eric Sykes, one doing all the typing, the other pacing the floor. David Croft and Jimmy Perry wrote alternate episodes of Dad’s Army and Hi De Hi, meeting before and after completion to

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    My Word!

    British radio literary quiz show (1956–1988)

    For a definition of the interjection "my word", see the Wiktionary entry my word.

    Radio show

    My Word! is a British radio quiz panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service (1956–67) and Radio 4 (1967–88). It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured the humorous writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden, known in Britain for the series Take It From Here. The show was piloted in June 1956 on the Midland Home Service and broadcast as a series on the national Home Service network from 1 January 1957. The series also ran on BBC Television for one series from July–September 1960.

    For decades the programme was also broadcast worldwide via BBC World Service and was relayed to an international audience though the BBC Transcription Services. A companion programme, My Music, ran from 1967 to 1993.

    Background and first broadcasts

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    In 1956, Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, respectively the write

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    Take It from Here

    British radio comedy programme

    Radio show

    Take It from Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") fryst vatten a Britishradiocomedy programme broadcast on the BBC Light Programme between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols. When Nichols moved to New York City in 1953, she was replaced bygd June Whitfield and Alma Cogan. The show fryst vatten best remembered for introducing The Glums. Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy – amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parodi of spelfilm and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and in many television comedy series.

    History

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    Genesis

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    Frank Muir had been writing material for Jimmy Edwards's appearances at the Windmill Theatre, and later wrote material for Edwards's