AUDIO ONLY - A Story of Our Time : What Happened To Hancock

Rescued from an old reel to reel tape. Originally transmitted 8.30pm (not 8pm as in slide) on Radio 4 on the 2nd February 1971 Information below from BBC Genome website A Story of Our Time What Happened to Hancock? Written and introduced by PHILIP OAKES Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure ' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968. with contributions from RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES, DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO Produced by MICHELL RAPER Contributors Introduced By: Philip Oakes Unknown: Tony Hancock Reader: Beryl Vertue Reader: Sylvia Syms Reader: Sid James Unknown: Michael Wale Unknown: Ray Galton Produced By: Michell Raper More infor may be available in the following Radio Times : Issue 2464 2 February 1971 Page 35 please note due to copyright there is about 30secs silence during the playing of a record from 30m 38s.