Frankie Howerd Archive Box 15

Includes:
- two unmarked copies of the radio special ‘Pantomania’ by George Wadmore and Johnny Speight (BBC Radio Light Entertainment, transmission date 25 December 1958);
- unmarked script for a radio special of ‘The Light Entertainment Show’ (BBC Radio 2, transmission date 3 October 1982);
- two copies of the script for ‘How the First Letter was Written’ by Rudyard Kipling – one copy marked ‘Mr Howerd’;
- two annotated scripts (one with no title page), for ‘Christmas Crackers’ (‘Frankie Howerd opens a box of Christmas Crackers’) by Johnny Speight, John Antrobus, Terry Nation and Dick Barry (BBC Radio Light Entertainment). Includes a pencilled note from Joan Sims to ‘Terry’.
- heavily annotated script (without title page) for the television special ‘Petula Sings Christmas’ (BBC One, transmission date 21 September 1974);
- script for ‘The Bruce Forsyth Show’, where Frankie Howerd had a guest spot (ABC TV, transmission date 4 September 1966);
- four scripts for Frankie and Bruce’s Christmas Show (1966 and 1967);
- unmarked rehearsal script for ‘Frankie Howerd’s Klondike Show’ (‘Howerd’s Hour’) by Erick Sykes (ABC Television, 1967);
- two copies of ‘programme number 1 from Cypress’ of ‘Frankie Howerd goes East’ by Erick Sykes (BBC Radio Light, 1952);
- Frankie Howerd’s copy of the script for ‘Midday Music Hall’ (BBC Radio Light, 1961);
- script, with covering note, for ‘Inside Howerd’ by Leslie Randall, offering it for Howerd’s consultation (undated, possibly for radio);
- eighteen page unmarked typescript for ‘Murder at the Grange’ (possibly a stage play);
- heavily annotated and rewritten script for ‘Francis and Friend’, with guest Victoria Wood (BBC Radio);
- rehearsal script for ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ by Galton & Simpson, Barry Took and Johnny Speight (BBC One, 1960); and
- unmarked script for ‘Follow the Stars’ (BBC Radio Light Entertainment, transmission date 2 October 1960).

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