Editing Round the Horne (section)

====''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''}}