Editing Round the Horne (section)

==Legacy==
===Recordings===
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Recordings of all the episodes have been issued on CD by the BBC in its "Audiobooks" publications (2002):
* Series 1: {{cite AV media |title= Round the Horne, The Collector's Edition: March – June 1965|publisher= BBC |isbn= 978-0-563-53568-3}}
* Series 2: {{cite AV media |title= Round the Horne, The Collector's Edition: March – June 1966 |publisher= BBC |isbn= 978-1-78529-109-8}}
* Series 3: {{cite AV media |title= Round the Horne, The Collector's Edition: February – June 1967 |publisher= BBC |isbn= 978-1-78529-210-1}}
* Series 4: {{cite AV media |title= Round the Horne, The Collector's Edition: February – June 1968 |publisher= BBC |isbn= 978-1-78529-259-0}}
In 2005, to mark the 40th anniversary of the show, the BBC published a boxed set containing all episodes, on 35 CDs, with an accompanying 3-hour, 3-disc set "Round The Horne: The Complete and Utter History", written and narrated by Took: {{cite AV media | date= 2005|title= Round the Horne: The Complete Radio Archive|medium= Audio CD|publisher= BBC Audiobooks|isbn= 978-0-5635-2749-7}}

By 2006 over half a million copies of tapes and CDs of ''Round the Horne'' had been sold by the BBC.{{sfn|Cook|2006|p=20}} Editions of ''Round the Horne'' are regularly broadcast on the digital radio service [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]].{{sfn|Cook|2006|p=20}}

===Scripts===
Some scripts from all four series have been published. Those printed in two different books listed below are not always identical. Some print the scripts as written and others as finally broadcast. The scripts have been published in five books:
* {{cite book|last1=Took|first1=Barry|title=The Best of Round the Horne: Fourteen Original and Unexpurgated Scripts|year=1989|location=London|publisher=Equation|isbn= 978-1-85336-162-3|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last1=Took|first1=Barry|title= Round the Horne: The Complete and Utter History|year=1998|location=London|publisher=Boxtree|isbn=978-0-7522-2119-9|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last1=Took|first1=Barry|last2=Coward|first2=Mat|title= The Best of Round the Horne|year=2000|location=London|publisher=Boxtree|isbn= 978-0-7522-1809-0|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last1=Took|first1=Barry|last2=Feldman|first2=Marty|title=Round the Horne|year=1974|location=London|publisher=Woburn Press|isbn=978-0-7130-0121-1|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last1=Took|first1=Barry|last2=Feldman|first2=Marty|title=The Bona Book of Julian and Sandy|year= 1976|location=London|publisher=Robson Books|isbn= 978-0-903895-70-5|ref=none}}

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====Series 1====
* Programme 1: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=1–13}}
* Programme 4: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=32–44}}
* Programme 5: Took, 1989;{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=19–35}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=14–24}}
* Programme 7: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=25–35}}
* Programme 12: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=145–157}}{{refn|This was a re-recording for the [[BBC Transcription Services]] with a slightly altered script.{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=145–157}}|group=n}}
* Programme 13: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=37–53}}
* Programme 14: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=48–57}}
* Programme 16: Took, 1998{{sfn|Took|1998|pp=132–145}}

====Series 2====
* Programme 1: Took and Feldman, 1974;{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=46–61}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=58–70}}
* Programme 2: Took, 1998{{sfn|Took|1998|pp=145–159}}
* Programme 3: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=55–72}}
* Programme 4: Took, 1989;{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=73–89}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=71–81}}
* Programme 5: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=83–93}}
* Programme 6: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=94–105}}
* Programme 8: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=64–79}}
* Programme 9: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=91–110}}
* Programme 10: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=111–125}}
* Programme 12: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=82–98}}
* Programme 13: Took, 1989;{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=127–143}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=106–115}}
* 1966 Christmas show: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=116–127 }}
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====Series 3====
* Programme 1: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=159–176}}
* Programme 4: Took, 1989;{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=177–195}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=128–137}}
* Programme 6: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=197–214}}
* Programme 7: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=100–114}}
* Programme 10: Took, 1989;{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=215–232}} and Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=138–149}}
* Programme 11: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=116–130}}
* Programme 12: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp= 233–251}}
* Programme 13: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=150–160}}
* Programme 14: Took, 1989{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=253–270}}
* Programme 16: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=161–171}}
* Programme 17: Took, 1998{{sfn|Took|1998|pp=159–170}}
* Programme 19: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=172–182}}
* Programme 20: Took and Feldman, 1974{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|pp=132–147}}

====Series 4====
* Programme 4: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=183–193}}
* Programme 5: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=194–206}}
* Programme 8: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp= 207–218}}
* Programme 12: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=219–229}}
* Programme 14: Took, 1998{{sfn|Took|1998|pp=170–184}}
* Programme 15: Took and Coward, 2000{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=230–240}}
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''The Bona Book of Julian and Sandy'' by Took and Feldman was published in 1976 and dedicated, "For [[David Attenborough]], who ought to know better". It contains the scripts of thirteen Julian and Sandy sketches:
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* Bona Books (from series 2, programme 2)
* Bona Prods (from series 3, programme 10)
* Bona Bijou Tourettes (from series 3, programme 12)
* La Casserole de Bona Gourmet (from series 3, programme 15)
* Bona Hunt (from series 3, programme 14)
* Fabe Homes and Bona Gardens (from series 1, programme 10)
* Bona Tattoos (from series 2, programme 3)
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* The Ballet Bona (from series 2, programme 9)
* Bona Grapplers (from series 2, programme 10)
* Bona Law (from series 3, programme 2)
* Bona Pets (from series 2, programme 13)
* Bona Palare (from series 4, programme 13)
* Bona Performers (from series 2, programme 13)
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:Source: ''The Bona Book of Julian and Sandy''.{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1976|pp=13, 17, 23, 31, 37, 43, 52, 57, 63, 69, 75, 81 and 89}}

===Spin off===
Three weeks after the fourth series of ''Round the Horne'' finished, the first episode of ''Horne A'Plenty'' was broadcast on the [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] channel. In a sketch show format, and with Took as script editor (and later producer), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of ''Round the Horne'' to television, although with different actors supporting Horne: [[Graham Stark]], for example, substituted for Williams and [[Sheila Steafel]] for Marsden. The first six-part series ran from 22 June to 27 July 1968, the second from 27 November to 1 January 1969.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1998|p=331}}

===Adaptations===
====''Round the Horne&nbsp;... Revisited''====
A stage version, ''Round the Horne&nbsp;... Revisited'', was adapted from the original radio scripts by Brian Cooke, the last surviving writer of the series, and directed by Michael Kingsbury. It was first produced in October 2003 at the [[White Bear Theatre|White Bear]], a fringe theatre in south London,{{sfn|Hall|2003}} and opened in the [[West End theatre|West End]] at [[Leicester Square Theatre|The Venue]], [[Leicester Square]] in January 2004, running for more than a year.{{sfn|Spencer|2004}} It featured [[Jonathan Rigby]] as Horne, [[Robin Sebastian]] as Williams, Nigel Harrison as Paddick, Kate Brown as Marsden and Charles Armstrong as Smith.{{sfn|Spencer|2004}} A scene from the show featured in the 2004 [[Royal Variety Performance]] at the [[London Coliseum]].{{sfn|"2004, London Coliseum". ''Royal Variety Performance Archive''}} Following the success of the London production, a second cast was assembled to tour the provinces. [[Stephen Critchlow]] played Horne, with Stephen Matthews, David Rumelle, Felicity Duncan and Oliver Beamish as Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smith.{{sfn|Handley|2004}}{{sfn|Riley|2005}} The original show ran in London until December 2004, when it was replaced by a Christmas edition with an unchanged cast.{{sfn|Billington|2004}} A third edition, ''Round the Horne Revisited 2'', rounded off the London run from February to April 2005, and then made a provincial tour.{{sfn|Spencer|2005}}{{sfn|"Off-West End". ''The Times''}}

The original version of the stage play was filmed by the BBC; the television director was Nick Wood. The programme was first transmitted on [[BBC Four]] on 13 June 2004 and was repeated ten times on Four or [[BBC Two]] over the next four years.{{sfn|"Round the Horne Revisited". ''BBC Genome''}}

====Other stage versions====
In 2008 Barry Took's former wife, Lyn, and the director Richard Baron prepared a new stage adaptation, ''Round the Horne – Unseen and Uncut'', which drew entirely on Took and Feldman material from series one to three. It toured in 2008 and 2009. The cast included, from the 2004 show, Rigby as Horne, Sebastian as Williams and Harrison as Paddick (later succeeded by David Delve), with Pertwee's characters – all omitted from the 2004 show – restored, played by Michael Shaw; Stephen Boswell played Smith.{{sfn|Hall|2008}}{{sfn|Thomas|2009}} Unlike the 2004 production, it had a six-strong cast, augmented by a group of vocalists and musicians in the roles of the Hornblowers and the Fraser Hayes Four.{{sfn|Thomas|2009}}

In 2015, to mark 50 years since the radio series began, Apollo Theatre Company produced a stage adaptation, ''Round the Horne: The 50th Anniversary Tour'', compiled from the original scripts and directed by Tim Astley. The cast comprised Julian Howard McDowell (Horne), Colin Elmer (Williams), [[Jonathan Hansler]] (Paddick), Eve Winters (Marsden) and Nick Wymer (Smith).{{sfn|Gilson|2016}}

===Documentaries===
A 45-minute BBC radio documentary, ''Round and Round the Horne'', was broadcast on 18 September 1976. It was presented by [[Frank Bough]] and included interviews with Williams and Took.{{sfn|"Round and Round the Horne ". ''BBC Genome''}} A 60-minute radio documentary, ''Horne A' Plenty,'' was broadcast on 14 February 1994. It was presented by [[Leslie Phillips]] and included new interviews with Marsden and Took and archive material featuring Horne.{{sfn|"Horne A'Plenty". ''BBC Genome''}} A three-hour radio special, ''Horne of Plenty'', was broadcast on 5 March 2005 for the 40th anniversary of the show. It was presented by [[Jonathan James-Moore]] and included interviews with [[Ron Moody]], Pertwee, Merriman's son Andy, Cooke, Lyn Took, and extracts from Williams's diary read "in character" by [[David Benson]]. The special included the first and final episodes of ''Beyond Our Ken'' and ''Round the Horne'' in their entirety.{{sfn|"Horne of Plenty". BBC}}

===Contribution to British vocabulary===
''Round the Horne'' is cited as a source in 38 entries in ''[[The Oxford English Dictionary]]''. Rambling Syd is quoted in the entry for "nadger": "In plural. The testicles. 'Now my dearios, I'll tether my nadgers to a grouting pole for the old grey mare is grunging in the meadow' – from a comedy monologue by the character 'Rambling Syd Rumpo' whose material is characterized by the use of nonsense words with a general air of sexual innuendo; the meaning is intentionally vague."{{sfn|"nadger". Oxford English Dictionary}} Rambling Syd's surname is also cited: "rumpo", "n. Brit. slang. = rumpy-pumpy n. Perhaps influenced by the name of 'Rambling Syd Rumpo', a character (played by Kenneth Williams) in the British radio series ''Round the Horne'' (1965–9 {{sic}}), whose songs, although largely consisting of nonsense words, often had an air of sexual innuendo."{{sfn|"rumpo". Oxford English Dictionary}}

Julian and Sandy are cited among the sources for a range of [[palare]] words, including "bona" (Good, excellent; attractive),{{sfn|"bona". Oxford English Dictionary}} "naff" (Unfashionable, vulgar; lacking in style, inept; worthless, faulty),{{sfn|"naff". Oxford English Dictionary}} "nante" (Nothing),{{sfn|"nante". Oxford English Dictionary}} "omee" (Man – spelled "omi" by Took and Feldman){{sfn|"omee". Oxford English Dictionary}} and "palone" (A young woman. Also: an effeminate man).{{sfn|"palone". Oxford English Dictionary}}