The Blue Danube (BBC's Educating Archie, 1950) - Julie Andrews, Peter Brough
Channel: The Julie Andrews Archive
Date: 2019-11-19

The Blue Danube (BBC's Education Archie, 1950) - Julie Andrews, Peter Brough
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From Educating Archie on BBC Radio  (Released On: 30 Oct 1950)
Full episode on BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06cjglq (as of 19. November 2019)
Max Bygraves, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join Archie Andrews. Radio ventriloquism from Peter Brough.

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“IN JUNE OF 1950, I began work as a resident singer on a weekly BBC radio show called Educating Archie. Created as an unlikely showcase for the popular ventriloquist Peter Brough and his dummy, “Archie Andrews,” the show was originally slated for a six-week run as filler, but ended up running for thirty consecutive weeks without a break and playing to a regular audience of about twelve million listeners.
Although Peter Brough was not especially impressive at throwing his voice (one could always see his lips moving), he was charming, sartorially elegant, and came from a family of ventriloquists. Archie, the manic-eyed dummy dressed in a broad striped blazer, played the character of a bratty kid. Peter was his tolerant father who either argued with or placated him. The other cast members included Robert Moreton as Archie’s tutor, Max Bygraves (a budding comedian at the time) as an odd-jobsman, and as the neighbor Agatha Dinglebody, the comedienne Hattie Jacques, who, a few years later, would show me a kindness that changed the course of my life.
I was supposedly the little girl next door. If I was lucky, I got a few lines with the dummy[…]”

Excerpt From: Julie Andrews. “Home.”


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