Barry Took (1928–2002)
Author of Round the Horne: Scripts
Works by Barry Took
The Bona Book of Julian and Sandy: Leaves from Their "Round the Horne" Journal (1976) 15 copies, 1 review
The Bona World of Julian and Sandy: More Fab Sketches from Round the Horne (1996) — Author — 5 copies
Round the Horne: Complete Series 3: Classic Comedy from the BBC Archives (BBC Classic Radio Comedy) (2015) 3 copies
Round the Horne: Complete Series 4: 17 episodes of the groundbreaking BBC radio comedy (2016) 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1928-06-19
- Date of death
- 2002-03-31
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- comedian
television presenter
scriptwriter - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Muswell Hill, London, UK (birth)
- Associated Place (for map)
- London, UK
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The Bona Book of Julian & Sandy contains thirteen of the Jule and Sand sketches written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman for the radio series Round the Horne.
Julian and Sandy are out-of-work actors who turn their hands to a variety of enterprises in order to make ends meet. Kenneth Horne always turns up as a potential customer and they address him, with frequent asides to each other, in highly camp language featuring many words from Polari, which Jule and Sand refer to as Palare, thus show more popularising the words vada, riah, eek, lallies and latty, among others.
The sketches are still delightful in written form, but it is far better to listen to the original performances by Kenneth Horne (as himself), Hugh Paddick (Julian) and Kenneth Williams (Sandy).
Polari/Palare: see Wikipedia and World Wide Words.
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Julian and Sandy are out-of-work actors who turn their hands to a variety of enterprises in order to make ends meet. Kenneth Horne always turns up as a potential customer and they address him, with frequent asides to each other, in highly camp language featuring many words from Polari, which Jule and Sand refer to as Palare, thus show more popularising the words vada, riah, eek, lallies and latty, among others.
The sketches are still delightful in written form, but it is far better to listen to the original performances by Kenneth Horne (as himself), Hugh Paddick (Julian) and Kenneth Williams (Sandy).
Polari/Palare: see Wikipedia and World Wide Words.
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Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Members
- 167
- Popularity
- #127,263
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 35