Take It from Here

Frank Muir and Denis Norden wrote this Light Programme favorite, which ran for 328 episodes between 1948 and 1960 with Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield. The reason to seek it out now is The Glums, the sketch about dim Ron, his long-suffering fiancée Eth and his father, Mr Glum, in an engagement that never seems to reach the altar. Whitfield's patient timing as Eth is a lesson in radio acting. The rest of each show, with its musical numbers and film parodies, has aged less kindly, so collections of the Glums segments are the friendliest way in.