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Summer Visitors
60th Anniversary Tour

Round The Horne

BY BARRY TOOK AND MARTY FELDMAN (ORIGINAL SCRIPTS)
COMPILED BY TIM ASTLEY.
16 September -
21 September 2025

Overview

Oh Mr Horne! How bona to vada your dolly old eek!

Britain’s most popular 1960s radio comedy series is back! For half-an-hour every Sunday afternoon, audiences of up to 15 million people would gather around the wireless to listen to Kenneth Horne and his merry crew get up to all sorts of unexpected mischief. Expect infamous film spoofs and hilarious regular characters including rambling Sid Rumpo, theatrical Charles and Fiona, eccentric J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, and chorus boys Julian and Sandy.

The creators of Hancock’s Half Hour return to Jermyn Street Theatre with another radio comedy classic live on stage. In the 1960s, there wasn’t a radio programme in Britain more groundbreaking than Round the Horne. So come and take a step back in time to the BBC’s Paris Studios and experience a night of endless laughter.

 

People

Colin Elmer
Kenneth Williams
Colin is an actor who, for the last ten years, has played Kenneth Williams with the Apollo Theatre Company. As well as his one man show, he has played Williams in national tours of Hancock’s Half Hour and Round the Horne.
Callum Hale
Douglas Smith
Callum trained at East 15 Acting School. He is an award-winning audiobook producer and has provided narration for The McLaren Mysteries series by Jo A Hiestand among others. After giving his best Bill Kerr in Hancock’s Half Hour: The Lost Episodes, Callum is thrilled to be rejoining Apollo Theatre Company as Douglas Smith.
Julian Howard McDowell
Kenneth Horne
Julian has an extensive background in theatre, notably with Apollo Theatre Company. His credits include portraying Kenneth Horne on the 2015–2022 National Tours of Round the Horne and taking on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Beyond acting, he is also a qualified professional Celebrant.
Alex Scott Fairley
Hugh Paddick
Originally from Scotland, Alex now lives in Tasmania with his husband and their two whippets. He is delighted to have another chance to play Hugh Paddick, one of his comedy heroes.
Darren Street
Alternate Kenneth Horne
Darren trained at The Poor School, graduating in 2003. Stage work includes Follies, A Little Night Music, Thing Fish, Jekyll and Hyde and Love Beyond. Darren is founder of The Voice Reel Studio, an artist development agency, where teaches acting and voice. He is thrilled to be returning to play Kenneth Horne in the this, the 60th Anniversary UK tour.
Eve Winters
Betty Marsden
Eve is an actor, director and creative producer who graduated from the GSA Conservatoire. Acting credits include: Mrs Fazackerley in Carrie's War, Mrs. Webb in Our Town (Apollo Theatre Co), Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (The Windsor Globe).
Java Jive (Anthony Coote & Rachel Davies)
Music and Sound Effects
Rachel Davies (vocals and violin) and Anthony Coote (vocals and guitar) met while playing together in Monte Carlo as part of the band at The Sporting Club and went on to form their duo, Java Jive. Between them they have performed with artists as diverse as Kylie Minogue, Nick Cave, and John Martin.

Barry Took and Marty Feldman
Original scripts
Tim Astley
Director
John Hewer
Stage Manager

Media

“It is gently amusing, unassuming entertainment and worth catching”
London Theatre 1
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“A must-see show for fans of 60s humour”
London Theatre Guide
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“Chock full of delicious irreverence and absurdity, alongside fabulous wordplay and self-reference, this revival of Round the Horne is a timely reminder of the art of satire.”
The Wee Review
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“This production is bursting with the spirit of the original madcap bunch and its infectious combination of bawdy jokes and wickedly funny satire is as hilarious as ever.​​”
Surrey Live
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“a superb evening’s entertainment and I left the theatre wanting more”
British Theatre Guide

 
“I laughed so much... I was in danger of being led out of the theatre”
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