The News Huddlines

The News Huddlines Selected episodes, 1979 to 2001. Old Time Radio Roy Hudd , June Whitfield and Chris Emmet take a humorous look at the lighter side of the week's news. Satire. A weekly sketch-based radio comedy series from the Beeb, in which comedian Roy Hudd pokes fun at the week's news stories. The series ran from 1976 until 2002, sending-up leading political figures, celebrities, and even Royals. Mainly centered on British news, and always topical, some of the jokes may be difficult to understand now: like all topical comedy, the point of each joke generally depended on the audience's familiarity with the stories that were in the news in the UK during the week preceeding each Thursday's broadcast. Recorded in front of a studio audience on Thursday lunchtime, and broadcast at 6.30pm the same day. Unlike some topical sketch shows at that time, this show always had a live audience: what you hear on the recordings is NOT canned laughter.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.