All of a sudden Bernie Clifton, that's the one with the
ostrich not the chap with the emu, is back in the news. In the current series
of The Voice he turned up singing The Impossible Dream. The title turned
out to be prescient. No chairs turned. But he has released it as a single
anyway. Then earlier this week he was
the guest of Martin Kelner on BBC Radio Leeds.
Local radio listeners in South Yorkshire will know that Bernie
Clifton hasn't totally disappeared from public consciousness as he's presented a
weekly show, Live-ish, on BBC Radio
Sheffield for the last two years.
Clifton was at the height of his TV fame in the late 1970s
and 1980s when he first rode Oswald the Ostrich on Crackerjack appearing alongside Peter Glaze and Ed Stewart, and
then popping up on numerous variety shows. On national radio he was a regular
panellist on the comedy game show You've
Got to Be Joking and between 1982 and 1986 starred in three series for
Radio 2, Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop.
The only recording I have of Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop is that broadcast on 9 February 1984
(series 2 episode 3). Unfortunately it's on a cheap tape so the quality is a
bit iffy but as Radio 4 Extra is unlikely to give it a second outing I thought
I'd put it online. With Bernie are Pat Mooney, Tony Peers and Caroline Turner.
The show was produced by Mike Craig.
Postscript: I see that Radio 7/4 Extra have repeated an edition of Bernie's show as part of Open Mike: Mike Craig's Radio Memoirs. Does anyone have a copy please?
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Would that be the episode from 5th Oct 1982 which they played on 7th June 2008 ?
That'll be the one then, thank you Mark.
Got that one here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2lkmtvjsa7bdd/Shows
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