Miss Pugh: You can have bread and dripping Tony: Thank you very much indeed. The perfect Sunday dinner, roast bread and dripping. Most appetising, the height of luxury. Draw the curtains, I don't want the neighbours to see a man of my cal-i-bre eating bread and dripping!

Nurse: You'll be perfectly alright, Dr McTaggart is an excellent doctor. Tony: Dr McTaggart? He's a Scotsman! Oh that's fine! They're all good doctors, Scotsmen. Yes, like engineers, you know. It's the porridge that does it! #TheBloodDonor

Tony: Ooh, these headphones don't half make your ears hot. Dear oh dear, like two braised chops under there they are! We're back! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway with our review of The Radio Ham. Available on the usual platforms!

Tony: Dreadnaughts for men. Get the girl of your choice with a Dreadnought. And only 1/9d for 20............. Stand by! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway tomorrow 7 November with our review of The Radio Ham. On the usual platforms!

Bill: We thought you might be hungry, so we brought you something to eat Tony: Oh, that's really nice of you. That really is Bill: Here you are, a packet of crisps and a pint of winkles! #HancockInHospital

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On that note, hats off to the @tonyhancock.bsky.social lads, they’re brilliant, really good fun, very active and can knock ‘em back at the bar, too

Tony: Penny for the guy, penny for the guy! Bill: Tub... Tony: What? Bill: Let's go home Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram! #BonfireNight

Tony: I've got 4 aces, I've won! Sid: Just a minute, you haven't won, I've got 3 two's Tony: All right, go on surprise me Sid: What's 4 ones? Tony: Four Sid: What's 3 two's? Tony: Six Sid: Six is better than four! Tony: Yes, but...look...how can...he's right you know!

Bill: Are you musical? Greta: I can only tolerate Bartok and Weber Bill: That's all right, sing a couple of their songs, the lads won't mind! #ThePoetrySociety

Tony: How'd you like to step out with Cary Grant here? Clippie: You must be kidding, I'd want a government grant to go out with 'im! #SidInLove

Married? No Engaged? No Regular girlfriends? No Casual girlfriends? No Do you like women? Yes! Do they like you? No Do they laugh at you? Yes In what way? In the worst possible way! Are you sought out at parties? No. Sorted out sometimes, then slung out!

Sid: Champagne on cornflakes? I've never known anything like it in my life. Brown ale, yes, but Champagne! #SaturdayMorning #TheNewRadioSeries

The guys from @tonyhancock.bsky.social discuss their favourite bits of The Punch and Judy Man with @guy-e-walker.bsky.social and @robertcheath.bsky.social on this week's episode. Check out the whole thing wherever you get your podcasts.

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Tony: Where are we? Captain: We're travelling at 22 and a half knots, latitude 43 by 7 and longitude 4 by 8. We're 33 and a half miles from France and 3 miles off the North Med lightship, in 2 and a half hours we'll be docking in Marseille at 19.07 hrs Tony: A bit vague, innit?

Sunday Afternoon at Home seems appropriate given the day will be 25 hours long. And The Wild Man of the Woods.

Clocks go back tonight so spend the extra hour listening to two episodes of Hancock's Half Hour! I will listen to The Jewel Robbery and Fred's Pie Stall - which are your two?

I don't know what he's talking about. No, no, I should know, it's in English, I should know what he's talking about. He's a human being the same as me, using words, English words, available to us all. Now concentrate. No it's 'im. It's 'im that's at fault, he's a rotten writer!

Sid: I will not rap on my friends. There's honour among thieves you know, I won't do it, you'll have to get somebody else. I refuse to do the dirty on my mates Tony: It's worth twenty quid a week Sid: They're a menace to society, all of them! #TheNewspaper

Stop calling me Tone! When I'm doing the straight drama I'm Anthony. Let's have a little respect for the principal. It isn't right for subsidiary members of the cast to address the principal with diminuatives. Wilfred Hyde White doesn't allow his bit players to call him Chalky!

Tony: Where's me charts, ah there we are. Let me see now, the time is five past three, yes, according to the chart the north star should be approx 2ft 9 to the left of Mrs 'iggins TV aeriel. Yes, there she is, the sailors friend. Bill: The north star? Tony: No, Mrs 'iggins!

Tony: Don't think we're unaware of the real reason for this unwarranted outburst. It's class distintion isn't it? You don't think we should be in here do you, first class, people like us? You think we should be travelling up the front with the coal! #TheTrainJourney

Miss Pugh: Freud had some very interesting things to say about people like you Tony:  Fred who?  Miss Pugh:  Freud Tony: Fred Freud, when, where is he, what’s his telephone number? Where did he say it? Down the pub, I’ll wager, none of them like me down there!

Tony: I wouldn't laugh, what sort of a person do you think I am, Sid? I'm an intelligent and understanding human being, I wouldn't dream of laughing at somebody else's troubles. Now, come on, I'm far too sensitive, what's it all about?....... #FridayNightWasHancockNight

Tony: What can two people in love know about such things, class distinction. You see, my father was only a tram conductor. It was hopeless from the start. Her father was a driver. Well, you couldn't cut across barriers like that, there was 10 bob a week difference straight away!

A roomful of unpublished Byron, the artistic find of the century! I can feel his presence. Yes, genius has been at work here... "I wish I were a chestnut tree, and nourished by the sun, With twigs and leaves and branches, And conkers by the ton!" #LordByronLivedHere

Tony: Good evening Andreè: Good evening Tony: Who are you? Andreè: I live here Tony: Well that solves me problem about what to do in the evenings, doesn't it! #AVisitToSwansea

She don't 'alf cook some rubbish, all her wartime recipes. It's not good enough for a gourmet like me, a man of my tastes. The war's over dear, there's other food about now. Subtle, exotic, savouries, that's what I want. Why can't we have egg and chips and a bottle of chop sauce!

I love Saturdays, best day of the week. No work, the weekend to look forward to, and Saturday night coming up! The big night! The one bright spot in a week of unrelieved gloom! The one part of life's tragic panorama that I can really put up with! #SaturdayNight

Tony: I feel a right Charlie sitting here sometimes.  Every other bed in the ward piled high with visitors. And I have to sit up with my headphones on, smiling as if I don’t care. I’ve heard them. "Nobody visiting him again today, poor man, take a biscuit over to him!"

Sid: I’ve never known anyone so finicky over their car as you are.  I haven’t cleaned my car for three years Tony: That’s only so that any witnesses won’t be able to tell what colour it is. It’s a disgrace your car is. You have to feel along the door to find where the handle is!

You're never alone with a pilchard! #TheBowmans

Tony: I'm just going to shout my last defiant message to the world. You're doomed, all of you! Return to nature before it's too late! Kenneth: Go to bed you old drunk! Tony: I am not drunk sir, I have seen the light! Kenneth: You'll see my fist if you don't shut up!

We talked about Hancock's Half Hour on Goon Pod with the competition (GRAMS: boo, hiss) from the Tony Hancock podcast Nearly An Armful @tonyhancock.bsky.social a while back, specifically the resurfaced 'lost' show with Peter Sellers! Cock a lug: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Remembering Ray Galton OBE who passed away #OTD 5 October 2018. Ray & Alan Simpson worked with Hancock for 10 years, including writing over 160 radio and TV episodes of Hancock's Half Hour and Hancock and The Rebel. Ray loved The Bowmans, let's enjoy in his memory.

Tony: I wonder where it came from? Where’s the postmark? Bill:  Durham Tony:  Durham.  I didn’t go very well up there, I remember, they hated the sight of me. Sid:  Why pick on Durham?  They all hated the sight of you! #TheThreateningLetters

Tony: What's your exact bearing? Mayday: My position is longitude... Tony: Wait a minute, wait a minute, I've broken me pencil! #TheRadioHam reviewed in our first Very Nearly Armful podcast of the new autumn series, coming soon! Over 40 podcasts already available!

Tony: Mr Sidney James will be seen as the villainous unscrupulous money grabbing landlord, a role which requires no acting ability on his part whatsoever!   #TheEastCheamDramaFestival

Re-recorded #OTD 1 October 1961, the Pye version of The Radio Ham. Originally made as a BBC TV show, the re-make was made for an LP in the radio style with script & cast changes. We'll review both in our first Very Nearly An Armful podcast of the new series, coming soon!

Sid: This is the Mediterranean boy, its 93 degrees in the shade! Tony: It is still October! I always get into my heavy stuff on the first of October, and I don't get back into the light stuff until the first of May. You can't argue with the seasons! #TheCruise

Fete Committee member: Frankly, gentlemen, the refreshments last year were abominable Tony: Yes, well I can explain that, you remember we had to put it back a week and by then the sandwiches were a bit on the curly side! #TheFete

Gin and cider party?.... Yes, I'll bring a bottle......... No, cider!..... I'll pick you up, shall I?.... See you there? Yes, fine. Hang on, how will I recognise you then?.... Leopardskin tights and a green sweater. Yes, sounds lovely! #TheBedsitter

This morning in Bognor, it was nice to meet up with Tim on the Tony Hancock @East_Cheam_Lad stall. Also got to meet the original Lenny the Lion!

find it incredible that after thousands of years of civilisation, we in this day and age, the 20th century, still find ourselves surrounded by silly superstitious nonsense swallowed avidly by supposedly educated intelligent beings.....  Bill, what do my stars say in your paper?