I managed to get to my mid-teenage years before seeing a TV screen, so I was forced (if that was so difficult) to listen to the ‘wireless’ or, as it was often called, ‘steam radio’. One of the many shows I listened to was called Round the Horne, which featured Kenneth Williams as Sandy and Hugh Paddick as Julian, a gay couple (and, in real life, both actors were gay) who were always trying to interest Kenneth Horne, the star of the show, into some business scheme or service.
What was amazing to my then untrained ears was the amount of double entendres (“That’s
