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LUCAN AND McSHANE -
RADIO CAREER 1940-1950
Lucan and McShane's radio career spanned some ten years, from 1940 to 1950. Their first broadcast, for the BBC, was on 13 August 1940, on a Forces Programme, from the Empire Theatre,Chiswick. This featured the highly sucessful act they had been touring the variety theatres with - "OLD MOTHER RILEY COMES TO TOWN". Another Forces Programme performance followed in November of the same year from the Garrison Theatre, as guests of Jack Warner (pictured below).
Numerous other appearances, at various venues around the country, followed during the war years to boost the population's moral. Famous co-stars of the time included Tommy Handley (pictured below), Anne Sheldon, Wilfred Pickles, Jesse Maththews, Tommy Trinder and Rob Wilton.
Tommy Handley (center) pictured with Fred Yuke and Hattie Jacques, recording ITMA in 1947. Hattie Jacques (pictured above), who appeared in 'Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire' (1952), went on to star in several of the highly successful British "Carry On" films and was married to John Le Mesurier, who also appeared in 'Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire', He went on to find fame as the mild mannered Sgt Wilson in the classic BBC TV comedy series " Dad's Army." Lucan and McShane's final radio appearance was on 19 May 1950 - "FESTIVAL MUSICAL HALL"
Arthur Lucan dressed in his familiar Old Mother Riley costume This
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LUCAN & McSHANE RADIO CHRONOLOGY 1940-1950
1940
First broadcast for the BBC Forces Programme on 13 August 1940. Broadcast of "Old Mother Riley Comes To Town",
live from the Empire Theatre, Chiswick.
Guested on another Forces Programme, starring Jack Warner, from the Garrison Theatre, on 23 November 1940.
1941
"Old Mother Riley Takes To The Air". Another Forces Programme, broadcast between June and September 1941 on Saturday
nights, and repeated on Sundays.
Details of the radio programme broadcast on 16 August 1941 :
Producer: Tom Ronald
Cast:
Lionel Gamlin (announcer) [Thanks to Jon Black] "Old Mother Riley's Christmas Party", a Forces Programme broadcast on Christmas Day 1941.
Cast :
Arthur Lucan [Thanks to Jon Black] Here is a link Gilbert Wilson's Desert War Diary to the diary of a World War II veteran's account
of the Western Desert conflict 1941-42. It includes
an entry on Christmas Day 1941, in which he which refers listening to the Forces Programme Old Mother Riley broadcast on
his tank wireless.
1942
"Old Mother Riley Takes To The Air". Broadcast between June and August 1942 on Saturday nights, and repeated on Sundays.
1943
"Music Hall". Brodcast on 30 January 1943, co-starring, amongst others Wilfred Pickles (pictured below).
Other broadcasts during the year included "Navy Mixture", "Star Time", "The Happidrome" and "Factory Floor Show".
1944
The duo make two appearances on "Workers Playtime" and two other broadcasts - "Middle East Merry Go-Round" and "Vaudeville
of 1944".
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