"Don't forget, boys, we attack right after ITMA." An English Guards division paused, gathered around its portable receivers to listen, then resumed the advance.
King George persuaded the BBC to change ITMA's broadcast time to a later hour so as not to upset the palace dinner routine. Princess Elizabeth, on her sixteenth birthday, had the cast invited to Windsor Castle for Britain's first and only command radio performance.
ITMA, Britain's most popular radio comedy show, stands for "It's That Man Again." That Man is Tommy Handley, a middle-aged British radio comedian whose unabashed puns, silly syllogisms and noisy sound effects have given...
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