The Archive Hour

Look forward to lots of Max Miller and Frankie Howerd in this show, Thou Art Awful But I Like Thee, presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor, that looks at the rich vein of bawdiness that runs right through British culture.

We get dirty bits - and they are dirty - from Chaucer and Shakespeare, some spirited enactments of Donald McGill's seaside postcards and buckets of innuendo. There are early recordings of Marie Lloyd's act - she was a rude girl - and some surprisingly bawdy songs from Purcell.

This sort of thing is at its healthiest, Tim argues, under censorship - though he seems to keep it very much in the pink in his own broadcasts.

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