Ronnie Barker

Do you remember a thread about him last year or 2005, commenting on
his frequent Ricardian themes:

1) The Rhyming slang sermon in which a "Richard III" is a bird.

2) Peter Sellers declaiming "A Hard Day's night" dressed as Laurence
Olivier.

3) (with Corbett) a scene from Shakespeare's play, mentioning as many
TV programmes as possible.

4) Something I have forgotten but someone else is sure to remind me.

Two of his other characters, I now recall were:

5) The short-sighted removals man, CLARENCE Sale.

6) The lecherous photographer, PLANTAGENET Evans.

This is just too much to be coincidental - he must have been a keen
Ricardian.

--- In , "Stephen Lark"
<stephenmlark@...> wrote:
>
> Do you remember a thread about him last year or 2005, commenting on
> his frequent Ricardian themes:
>
> 1) The Rhyming slang sermon in which a "Richard III" is a bird.
>
> 2) Peter Sellers declaiming "A Hard Day's night" dressed as
Laurence
> Olivier.
>
> 3) (with Corbett) a scene from Shakespeare's play, mentioning as
many
> TV programmes as possible.
>
> 4) His frequent co-star, Josephine Tewson, is a long-standing
Society member.
>
> Two of his other characters, I now recall were:
>
> 5) The short-sighted removals man, CLARENCE Sale.
>
> 6) The lecherous photographer, PLANTAGENET Evans.
>
> This is just too much to be coincidental - he must have been a keen
> Ricardian.

QED?
>