It's That Man Again!! - Old Radio Shows - Uk Comedy

ITMA was a character-driven comedy whose satirical targets included  government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations.  Parts of the shows were re-written in the hour before the broadcast, to  ensure its topicality. The show broke away from the conventions of  previous radio comedies, and from the humor of the music halls.

It's That Man Again (commonly contracted to ITMA) a Radio  Comedy  programme which ran over twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The  shows featured Tommy Handley in the central role, a fast-talking figure,  around whom all the other characters orbited. The programmes were  written by Ted and produced by Francis Worsley. Handley died during the  twelfth series, the remaining programmes of which were immediately  cancelled: ITMA could not work without him, and no further series were  commissioned.

ITMA was a character-driven comedy whose satirical targets included  government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations.  Parts of the shows were re-written in the hour before the broadcast, to  ensure its topicality. The show broke away from the conventions of  previous radio comedies, and from the humour of the music halls.

The shows used numerous sound effects in a novel manner, which,  alongside a wide range of voices and accents, created the programme's  atmosphere.

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