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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio , and from 1950 to 1951 by Radio Luxembourg . It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional Royal Air Force station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War. After the war the station became a country club and, for its last season, the show became the chronicle of a newspaper, The Weekly Bind . Among the supporting cast were Sam Costa as the officers' batman , Maurice Denham in a multitude of roles, Dora Bryan and Nicholas Parsons . Singers in the show's musical interludes included Gwen Catley , Maudie Edwards , Binnie Hale and Doris Hare . Among those appearing as guest stars were Phyllis Calvert , Richard Dimbleby , Glynis Johns , Alan Ladd and Jean Simmons . The show followed It's That Man Again as the most popular British radio comedy and was succeeded by Take It from Here and The Goon Show . After the show ended, its two stars returned to radio in several long-running series. (Full article... )
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