ITMA : It's That Man Again (1940s OTR Comedy) : 53 Editions
ITMA : It's That Man Again Wartime radio comedy from the 1940s starring Tommy Handley . With Jack Train as Colonel Chinstrap. And featuring Mrs Mopp, Mona Lott, Sophie Tuckshop, Tess Tickle, and Funf the Nazi Spy. A collection of 53 editions of the show: the largest online collection anywhere. In the 1930s the British newspapers, tired of the constant repetition of news items featuring Hitler, took to referring to him obliquely as That Man . A catchphrase quickly caught on, supposedly begun by the Daily Express , whereby Hitler's activities were refered to sarcastically using the newspaper headline It's that man again! With the then-current craze for reducing everything to an acronym, that headline, reduced to its initials ITMA, became the title of the BBC's latest radio comedy series, launched in 1939, with the twist that the term 'that man' was used in the show to also allude to its star, the stage comedian Tommy Handley. It became the ultimate catchphrase comedy series: Can I do you now, sir? Don't forget the diver, sir! I don't mind if I do so, sir! This is Funf calling! TTFN ! The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 and 1988 has expired for all items included in this collection: · Copyright Act 1956, section 14(2): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 14(2): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14 For broadcasts which aired before the 1956 Act was passed, the BBC has no broadcast copyright. Broadcasting was not invented until the 1920s, so no provision was made for it in the Copyright Act of 1910. Accordingly, no period of broadcast copyright has ever existed in respect of any radio or television broadcast in the United Kingdom that aired prior to the introduction of the Copyright Act of 1956.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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The Ketelbey Man
These usually begin somewhere around 7 minutes into the show. 2. Sir Roger de Coverley/Arthur Sanford 4.The Irish washerwoman/Clive Richardson 5. The keel row/Arthur Sanford 6. Coming through the rye/Clive Richardson 9. Handley’s seaside holiday/Hal Evans 10. Portrait of a diver/Clive Richardson 11. Dixieland/Harold Noble 12. Tambourin chinois/Kreisler, arr. Arthur Sanford 13. Three blind mice/Walford Hyden 14. Barnacle Bill the sailor/Arthur Sanford 15. The man on the flying trapeze/Chas Williams 16. Bless ‘em all/Leighton Lucas 17. Doo-dah/Gail Kubik 18. Roll out the barrel/Clive Richardson 19. So early in the morning/Gordon Jacob 20. Waltzing Matilda/Ron Hanmer 21. White cockade/Roy Douglas 23. Happy days are here again/Gordon Jacob 24. The Barber of Seville [goes to the devil]/Gordon Jacob 25. Ding dong bell/Peter Yorke 26. Fall in and follow me/Spike Hughes 27. Chilli bom bom/Peter Yorke 28. Sur le pont d’Avignon/ Leighton Lucas 29. Tales from the Breton woods/George Melachrino 30. She’s got rings on her fingers/Gordon Jacob 31. Cockles and mussels/Peter Yorke 32. [Circus music]/Frederic Curzon 33. Drink, puppy, drink/Peter Yorke 34. Moon madness/Frederick Charrosin 35. Cinderella/Frederic Curzon 36. Come lasses and lads/Clive Richardson 37. Hunting the hare/Frederick Charrosin 38. In an English horse market/Albert Ketèlbey 39. Bonny Scotland/Clive Richardson 40. Under the spreading chestnut tree/(Leoñan?) 41. Clementine at the proms/Charles Prentice 42. My grandfather’s clock/Warwick Bidgood 43. The Spaniard who blighted my life/Bert Malin? 44. My heart stood still/Bob Sharples 45. Mexican hat dance/Ron Hanmer 46. The chicken reel/Ron Hanmer 47. Round the Marble Arch/Ron Hanmer 48. Night and day/Bob Sharples 49. La cucaracha/(Leoñan?) 50. Kate Dalrymple/Frederick Charrosin 51. A lament to last summer/Warwick Bidgood 52. Dear old pals/Ron Hanmer 53. A day in the life of a soldier/Warwick Bidgood 54. [Tribute programme, with several orchestral tracks, including A stroll with the colonel]