Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Comedy · News & history
The News Huddlines - Series
- Heard
- 1996–2001
- Episodes
- 84
- Language
- English
The News Huddlines : Series 43
More about it
Roy Hudd, June Whitfield and Chris Emmett take a humorous look at the lighter side of the week's news
Satire. A British sketch-based radio comedy series, in which comedian Roy Hudd pokes fun at the week's news stories. The series ran from 1975 until 2001, a total of 51 series over 26 years.
Each episode lasts for half an hour and consists of topical sketches, songs and one-liners.
The News Huddlines is mildly satirical. The material is in a traditional British comedy style, generally aimed at an older audience, with every gag ending on a recognisable punchline. Each weekly broadcast is loosely based around a series of ‘news items’ — usually convenient pegs on which to hang one-liners of greater or lesser topicality — and sketches about events in that week’s news. These sketches are usually about public figures, many of whom reappear regularly and have distinctively exaggerated or fanciful characterisations. For instance, the ex-prime minister’s wife Norma Major, as voiced by June Whitfield, seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to Eth, her character in The Glums, a widely-remembered segment from the 1950s comedy series Take It From Here. Certain members of the royal family (a Huddlines staple) are likewise not copied from life, such as The Queen Mother, who is portrayed with a Cockney accent.
Episodes, in broadcast order
Where it comes from 8
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 43
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 47
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 49
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 41
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 50
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 51
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 48
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
-
The News Huddlines - Series 46
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.
More Comedy
Fibber McGee and Molly
NBC · 1931–1959
The Great Gildersleeve
1941–1957
Our Miss Brooks
1946–1957
Bob and Ray
CBS · 1948–1984
Amos and Andy
1928–1955
Father Knows Best
NBC · 1948–1954
Vic and Sade
NBC Blue · 1937–1946
My Favorite Husband
CBS · 1948–1951
Screen Guild Theater
1939–1952
Lum and Abner
1933–1954
Abbott and Costello
1940–1955
Fred Allen
1932–1966
Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.