The Al Reid Show
from s3.amazonaws.com
In early 1950 he hosted a dinner for business contacts in Manchester and entertained them with some of his monologues and dialogues in which he played both voices. His humour was observational and was about Northern English working class people, often in a domestic situation. According to writer Graham McCann: "Most professional comedians, before Al Read, concentrated on telling gags and/or short but obviously contrived tall tales. Here, in stark contrast, was someone talking about the kind of experience that most people in the audience had endured, except he was exaggerating it just enough to make the listeners laugh not only at the protagonists but also at themselves." The response to Read was so good that it was overheard by another guest coincidentally staying at the same hotel, regional BBC Radio producer Bowker Andrews, who invited him to perform the routine on his radio show Variety Fanfare. Broadcast on 17 February 1950 from the Hulme Hippodrome in Manchester, it launched Read's comedy career
- Al Reid (5.3Mb)
- John Sessions 1 (7Mb)
- John Sessions 2 (6.6Mb)
- 1 (6.5Mb)
- 2 (6.2Mb)
- 3 (6.2Mb)
- 4 (6.2Mb)
- 5 (6.2Mb)
- 6 (6.2Mb)
- 7 (6.2Mb)
- 8 (5.9Mb)
- 9 (6.2Mb)
- 10 (6.7Mb)
- 11 (6.2Mb)
- 12 (6.8Mb)
- 13 (6.2Mb)
- 14 (6.2Mb)
- 15 (6.2Mb)
- 16 (6.9Mb)
- 17 (6.2Mb)
- 18 (6.2Mb)
- 19 (6.2Mb)
- 20 (6.2Mb)
MP3 files hosted by s3.amazonaws.com.