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Radio show
Educating Archie
Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews
Genre
Comedy radio
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Language(s)
English
Home station
BBC Radio 4
TV adaptations
Educating Archie (1958–1959)
Starring
Peter Brough Archie Andrews
Original release
June 1950 (1950-06) – February 1960 (1960-03)
Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews.[1] The show was very popular, despite its unlikely central premise of a ventriloquist act on radio. Educating Archie averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, after only four months on the air, it won the Daily Mail's Variety Award.[2]
^The Sunday Post: Ventriloquism. Archived 4 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine Andrew Martin, BBC Genome Blog, 20 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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