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Steptoe & Son

Radio remakes of the British television comedy series about two rag-and-bone men
from archive.org

Living at Mews Cottage, Shepherd's Bush, Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are a family business. They are rag and bone men. With a yard full of battered furniture, tyres and scrap metal, Albert refuses to sell half of what Harold collects and keeps it, filling the house with worthless ornaments rather than pay the bills.

Albert is a war veteran and lived at home with Harold since he was a child. His wife has passed on leaving just the father and son. Albert is so stuck with the same routine that it is impossible for his son to do anything without Albert devising some cunning ploy to stop him, (usually involving faking a condition to get Harold's sympathy). Because of Albert's background, he refuses to leave his home in Shepard's Bush and as such his son cannot escape the everyday toil of rag and bone work.

Harold is in his late thirties and still lives at home. Not that he likes it; he hates everything about it. Paying bills, living in squalor and being on constant surveillance by his father are his biggest problems. He tries constantly to leave home, from buying a flat to going on holiday alone but his father is determined to keep him alongside him until the day he dies. It has occured to Harold more than once that if his dad were dead his life would be so much better.

Harold likes to think himself a sophisticated gentleman. A love for classical music and literature compared to his dad, the 'dirty old man' who likes nothing more than gawping at girls and keeping secrets from his son, to which some are revealed during the course of the shows eight series run.

It is Albert and Harold's diverse personalities that cause the outbursts and the arguments and though there may be conflict and torment between the father and son, they both also take pleasure in annoying each other but always come to a comforting resolve in one of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy creations.

Between 1966 and 1976, 52 episodes of Steptoe and Son were adapted for radio, these were remakes of the TV episodes specifically tailored for a radio audience, (Note:they are not TV soundtrack recordings), Series 1 & 2 were broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1966 and 1967. Series 3-6 and a final Christmas Special were broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1971 and 1976.

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  1. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E01 - The Offer (0Mb)
  2. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E02 - The Bird (0Mb)
  3. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E03 - Sixty-Five Today (0Mb)
  4. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E04 - The Stepmother (0Mb)
  5. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E05 - (0Mb)
  6. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E06 - (0Mb)
  7. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E07 - (0Mb)
  8. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E08 - Steptoe A La Cart (0Mb)
  9. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E09 - The Holiday (0Mb)
  10. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E10 - (0Mb)
  11. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E11 - The Lead Man Cometh (0Mb)
  12. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E12 - A Musical Evening (0Mb)
  13. Steptoe And Son - S01 - E13 - The Bonds That Bind Us (0Mb)
  14. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E01 - (0Mb)
  15. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E02 - Pilgrims Progress (0Mb)
  16. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E03 - (0Mb)
  17. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E04 - (0Mb)
  18. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E05 - (0Mb)
  19. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E06 - My Old Man's A Tory (0Mb)
  20. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E07 - Homes Fit For Heroes (0Mb)
  21. Steptoe And Son - S02 - E08 - Crossed Swords (0Mb)
  22. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E01 - A Death In The Family (0Mb)
  23. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E02 - Two's Company (0Mb)
  24. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E03 - Tea For Two (0Mb)
  25. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E04 - T.B, Or Not T.B. (0Mb)
  26. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E05 - Without Prejudice (0Mb)
  27. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E06 - Cuckoo In The Nest (0Mb)
  28. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E07 - Steptoe And Son And Son (0Mb)
  29. Steptoe And Son - S03 - E08 - Robbery With Violence (0Mb)
  30. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E01 - Full House (0Mb)
  31. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E02 - Is That Your Horse Outside (0Mb)
  32. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E03 - The Lodger (0Mb)
  33. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E04 - A Box In Town (0Mb)
  34. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E05 - The Three Feathers (0Mb)
  35. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E06 - The Colour Problem (0Mb)
  36. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E07 - And Afterwards At ... (0Mb)
  37. Steptoe And Son - S04 - E08 - Any Old Iron (0Mb)
  38. Steptoe And Son - S05 - E01 - The Desperate Hours (0Mb)
  39. Steptoe And Son - S05 - E02 - Come Dancing (0Mb)
  40. Steptoe And Son - S05 - E03 - A Star Is Born (0Mb)
  41. Steptoe And Son - S05 - E04 - A Winters Tale (0Mb)
  42. Steptoe And Son - S05 - E05 - Men Of Property (0Mb)
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  44. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E01 - Loathe Story (0Mb)
  45. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E02 - Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning (0Mb)
  46. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E03 - Live Now, P.A.Y.E Later (0Mb)
  47. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E04 - Upstairs Downstairs, Upstairs Downstairs (0Mb)
  48. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E05 - And So To Bed (0Mb)
  49. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E06 - Porn Yesterday (0Mb)
  50. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E07 - The Seven Steptoeri (0Mb)
  51. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E08 - Sceance In A Wet Rag And Bone Yard (0Mb)
  52. Steptoe And Son - S06 - E09 - A Christmas Holiday (0Mb)

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