Much Binding in the Marsh
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comical BBC radio show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a social club ("the proposed membership drive has been cancelled as it is far cheaper to give everyone a bus ticket") and finally a newspaper entitled "The Weekly Bind". The title may have been inspired by the RAF station at Moreton-in-Marsh, along with the word "binding", period RAF slang for whining or complaining.
Other cast members included Sam Costa, Maurice Denham, Dora Bryan and Nicholas Parsons.
[edit] Catchphrases
- "Good morning Sir, was there something?" - Sam Costa, batman
- "Oh, I say, I am a fool!"
- "Have you read any good books lately?"
- "Leave it with me, sir"
- "Leave it with him, sir"
- "Would you like to see my puppies?"
- "'Not a word to Bessie'"
- "'Did I ever tell you about the time I was in Sidi Barrani?"'
