Talk:It's That Man Again

message: The Oxford DNB article about Herbert Gunn says he joined the Daily Express in 1936 in Manchester, and "he later transferred to London as assistant editor and then between 1943 and 1944 was managing editor of the Daily Express. It was there that he created the headline referring to Hitler as ‘It's that man again’, which afterwards became the title for Tommy Handley's long-running radio show ITMA". But It's That Man Again started on the National Programme of BBC Radio at 8.15 PM on 12 July 1939. The title must have decided before that.
I've had a look and found on the top of page 19 of the Daily Express for 29 April 1939 is a banner "FORGET THAT MAN HITLER: Here's all you want to known about today's Cup Final". But note that 'that man' still had to be named. The only direct use of the phrase comes in the Jonah Barrington column on 15 May 1939 (page 19) at the end of an article about the prospect of television opening in the Midlands:
Could this be the origin? Sam Blacketer (talk) 21:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that, found it on 2 May. Front page. Sam Blacketer (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of name 

message: Thanks to  and any other editors who have worked on this.  I've looked at the article before as a source of catchphrases like "After you, Claude" and "It's being so cheerful..." but read it again with interest.
A point for your consideration though.  The section which lists performers doesn't link to them via their name in the first column.  Instead, you have to go to the rightmost column where it typically links after saying "Further information" (which I see is done with ).  This seemed a bit clumsy and inconsistent as sometime you have basic information about the performer in the notes box and sometimes you don't.  And getting to the notes column was awkward in a mobile portrait view. 
It might also be nice to have thumbnail images of performers as these can be quite evocative, e.g. Sam Costa right).  ITMA is before my time but I recognise Costa's face quite well from his later work on radio and TV.
Andrew🐉(talk) 09:43, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performers 

message: Great article - congratulations to all involved. I'm curious to know about overseas broadcasts of ITMA. My grandparents were in British North Borneo (now the Malaysian state of Sabah) before and after WW2, and listened to ITMA. Would this have been on the World Service? I have letters from my grandmother to my mother mentioning ITMA, in 1947 being broadcast by the BBC and in 1949 by an Australian broadcasting station. I also wonder what Australians and others made of it. 09:52, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: * That would have been on the BBC Far Eastern Station, I reckon -- a shortwave relay station in Singapore.  The World Service name started in 1965. Andrew🐉(talk) 00:04, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overseas broadcasts 

message: Please change "... BBC radio comedy programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949." to "... radio comedy programme which ran by BBC for twelve series from 1939 to 1949." Changing the aforementioned part to "... radio comedy programme which ran on [insert the names of the radio stations that aired it] for twelve series from 1939 to 1949." is also fine. Mat333o (talk) 12:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. As far as I can tell, "BBC radio comedy" is both accurate and easily attributable. M.Bitton (talk) 13:17, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 March 2023