J Kingston Platt : Radio Comedy

J Kingston Platt's Showbusiness Handbook   :  Radio Comedy British radio comedy series. Written and presented by Peter Jones . In character as the fictional showbiz doyen J Kingston Platt, the comedy actor and raconteur recounts spoof tales of his career. C omic monologues written from the perspective of an old showbusiness survivor, telling tall tales from the world of showbiz -- including many indiscreet revelations, with the names changed to avoid libel actions and death threats! All the available episodes are presented here. But there are still various others which are so rare I've been unable to trace them. If YOU have an episode not included on this page, please open a free account and upload the recording to the Internet Archive! Some episodes presented here were especially difficult to find, especially those on the Double Cassette. Series 1 Episode 4, Getting Rid of a Troublemaker , was banned long ago and has never been repeated on the radio, due to its adult themes (thought to be even more explicit than Episodes 9 and 10, which involve the filming of a pornographic blue movie ) -- but bear in mind that this is only radio ! The initial recording of Episode 4 uploaded here was sourced from a commercial release on Cassette issued in 1991. But I have since found the complete set of episodes which were on the Double Cassette release, all four of which are extremely rare, none of them having ever been repeated on the radio.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.