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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Not many writers can claim to have produced material for both the comedian Ronnie Barker and Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, but Chris Bryant was a man of many talents, working as a writer, politician and lawyer. His multiple jobs did cause occasional problems, and there was some controversy in Canada in the early 1960s when it came out that the Attorney-General’s assistant...
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Boot Sale Sounds (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
An LP on the Philips label from 1973. "For sixteen years, big Ronnie Barker and little Ronnie Corbett hit hard on the nation's funny bone with their gently subversive, often wonderfully rude comedy routines, which lampooned countless aspects of British life - pompous authority figures, eccentric middle class guests at dreary cocktail parties, shabby men (with distinctly surreal...
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Digital Lard (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
When I saw this DVD on offer at Amazon recently I just had to pick it up. This very best of contains six episodes from the fantastic follow up series of The Likely Lads. Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads (from the same writers as Ronnie Barker’s Porridge) takes place about six years after the original 1960’s series originally ended after Terry (James Bolam) is enlisted into the Army...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The corner shop where Ronnie Barker's character used to peddle his wares in BBC sitcom Open All Hours is to be auctioned off.
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... at auction.Open All Hours, which had 17 million viewers a week at its peak, starred the late Ronnie Barker as shopkeeper Arkwright, David Jason as Granville and Lynda Baron as Arkwright's love interest Nurse Gladys Emanuel.The auction will take place in Leeds on November 24.
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Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Appearing without fanfare there were no gasps, though this may have been because he had been visible at the side of the stage. Performing with actor Josh Darcy, however, there were numerous laughs at Langham’s deadpan delivery. The talent was still there in his Campbell-penned pieces that felt like missing links between Monty Python’s absurdism and Ronnie Barker’s wordplay.
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... 3.24m (13.6%). It beat Channel 4's River Cottage Autumn, which had 2.35m (9.9%), and Five repeat Ronnie Barker's Comedy Heroes, with 897,000 (3.8%).At 9pm, Embarrassing Teen Illnesses drew 2.16m (9.6%) to Channel 4 and on BBC Two, Never Mind The Buzzcocks managed 2.37m (10.4%). Beautiful People followed with an improved 1.38m (6.1%). Five had 947,000 (4.2%) for the second episode...
