The Two Ronnies: Nice to Be with You Again

More humour from the irrepressible Ronnies — Barker and Corbett. The ‘news items’ — trademark of their TV show, illustrated now with more than thirty cartoons. 


RONNIE BARKER: 'These “news items”, the pick of all those Ronnie Corbett and I have delivered from behind that double desk, have become such a trademark of the show that I cannot imagine starting and finishing in any other way. What a treat, then, to sample them once again in this splendid and rib-tickling selection.’ 


We challenge you not to laugh out loud, groan or relay them instantly to whoever is within range as you romp through RC and RB’s nostalgic summation of 1970s Britain — good clean fun for young and old, delivered dead-pan with a twinkle in the eye, as it was in those innocently non-PC days of old. 


If you don’t remember Britain under Heath and Callaghan, striking Britain, nationalised Britain — with BAC (the British Aircraft Corporation) and BR (British Rail) — TV cooks Graham Kerr (the Galloping Gourmet) and the inimitable Fanny Craddock, comedian Jimmy Tarbuck (with his hundred-year-old jokes), rugby correspondent Eddie Waring, jockey Lester Piggott, or the Rons’ more questionable preoccupation with the particular merits of film star Racquel Welch and the avant-garde musical Oh Calcutta! — no matter! You’ll soon get the picture. For here is a very British style of humour that is, as often as not, timeless in its appeal to the innocent inside us all.