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...only six months on the air, "Heart Throb" Barker's Merry-Go-Round had built an audience of 20 million (fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called...
...staying away in droves. The "Third's" audience was so small that Barnes forbade his staff to look at the figures. Most Britons shared trie view of a London lorry driver: "It's all right for them who likes that kind of stuff, but give me Tommy Handley" [Britain's top radio comic]. Only a scattering of intellectuals and critics cheered, but they cheered vigorously...
...latest effort to develop high radio art. Contrary to U.S. radio's belief, the BBC has found that audiences like it, when they get it. Classical and modern dramas play to as many as 12,000,000 listeners, some rating second only to Tommy Handley, the British Jack Benny (TIME...
...charlady repeatedly interrupts Handley to ask: "Can I do you now?" During the bombings, people crushed under the rubble sometimes called to rescue diggers...
...Tommy Handley, who usually wears horn-rimmed glasses and looks like a well-domesticated business man, in starched collar, conservative tie, double-breasted suit, has been a music-hall entertainer since World War I, but did not go on the air with ITMA until July 1939. During the war, he kidded home-front nuisances by embroiling himself with the Office of Twerps and the Ministry of Irritation. On last week's program he found England at peace so unbearable that he set out for the mythical island of Tomtopia, where he intends to devote his time to making things...