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PODCAST - Very Nearly An Armful
PODCAST - Very Nearly An Armful
Pinned
Tony Hancock
@tonyhancock.bsky.social
· Dec 10
A pint? Have you gone raving mad? I mean, I came here in all good faith, to help my country. I don't mind giving a reasonable amount, but a pint? Why, that's very nearly an armful!
#TheBloodDonor
#TheBloodDonor
Kenneth: This story is completely original and we resent any suggestion that it is a dead knock off from the “Blackboard Jungle”. And so we proudly present, "The Blackboard Jungle!"
In our latest Hancock podcast, we review the great HHH parody episode, The Blackboard Jungle!
In our latest Hancock podcast, we review the great HHH parody episode, The Blackboard Jungle!
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Kenneth: This story is completely original and we resent any suggestion that it is a dead knock off from the “Blackboard Jungle”. And so we proudly present, "The Blackboard Jungle!"
In our latest Hancock podcast, we review the great HHH parody episode, The Blackboard Jungle!
In our latest Hancock podcast, we review the great HHH parody episode, The Blackboard Jungle!
Tony: Oh yes, they'll be going to see his sister in Acton. They always go that way. If they were going the other way, it'd be her mother in Tooting. Oh, they've gone. Oh well, that's about all the excitement we could expect today.
#SundayAfternoonAtHome
#SundayAfternoonAtHome
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tony: Oh yes, they'll be going to see his sister in Acton. They always go that way. If they were going the other way, it'd be her mother in Tooting. Oh, they've gone. Oh well, that's about all the excitement we could expect today.
#SundayAfternoonAtHome
#SundayAfternoonAtHome
Tony: I suggest to you there is some element of doubt in this boy's guilt. As Shakespeare said in The Merchant of Vienna, when Portion accused Shylock Holmes of pinching a pound of meat, "The quality of mercy is not strained..."
#TwelveAngryMen
#TwelveAngryMen
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Tony: I suggest to you there is some element of doubt in this boy's guilt. As Shakespeare said in The Merchant of Vienna, when Portion accused Shylock Holmes of pinching a pound of meat, "The quality of mercy is not strained..."
#TwelveAngryMen
#TwelveAngryMen
"Hey, you got a light, mac?"
"No, I've got a brown overcoat!"
The latest Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful, is out now! We review the episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Blackboard Jungle featuring a soundtrack of Rock Around the Clock. On all of the usual platforms!
"No, I've got a brown overcoat!"
The latest Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful, is out now! We review the episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Blackboard Jungle featuring a soundtrack of Rock Around the Clock. On all of the usual platforms!
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"Hey, you got a light, mac?"
"No, I've got a brown overcoat!"
The latest Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful, is out now! We review the episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Blackboard Jungle featuring a soundtrack of Rock Around the Clock. On all of the usual platforms!
"No, I've got a brown overcoat!"
The latest Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful, is out now! We review the episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Blackboard Jungle featuring a soundtrack of Rock Around the Clock. On all of the usual platforms!
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Kenneth: I've come to make a complaint about your dog, he keeps burying things in my garden
Tony: Burying things? What?
Kenneth: Me!
Bill: This is terrible, when did he bury you?
Kenneth: Last week
Bill: Why didn't you complain earlier?
Kenneth: I've only just got out!
Tony: Burying things? What?
Kenneth: Me!
Bill: This is terrible, when did he bury you?
Kenneth: Last week
Bill: Why didn't you complain earlier?
Kenneth: I've only just got out!
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kenneth: I've come to make a complaint about your dog, he keeps burying things in my garden
Tony: Burying things? What?
Kenneth: Me!
Bill: This is terrible, when did he bury you?
Kenneth: Last week
Bill: Why didn't you complain earlier?
Kenneth: I've only just got out!
Tony: Burying things? What?
Kenneth: Me!
Bill: This is terrible, when did he bury you?
Kenneth: Last week
Bill: Why didn't you complain earlier?
Kenneth: I've only just got out!
Miss Pugh: Isn't it wonderful, I'm going to be a GI bride. He's told me all about himself, he's got a huge country mansion ready for me, 10,000 head of cattle and three oil wells
Tony: Where?
Miss Pugh: His home town, Brooklyn!
#TheAmericansHitTown
Tony: Where?
Miss Pugh: His home town, Brooklyn!
#TheAmericansHitTown
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Miss Pugh: Isn't it wonderful, I'm going to be a GI bride. He's told me all about himself, he's got a huge country mansion ready for me, 10,000 head of cattle and three oil wells
Tony: Where?
Miss Pugh: His home town, Brooklyn!
#TheAmericansHitTown
Tony: Where?
Miss Pugh: His home town, Brooklyn!
#TheAmericansHitTown
Tony: Sid, pour us out a toddy
Sid: None left, boy, we drank it all
Tony: I'll just have to go down to the wine cellar and get another bottle. Course. I've got crates down there, all vintage
Kenneth: Is it old vintage?
Tony: Oh. Swipe me, yes. Some of it's over 6 weeks old!
Sid: None left, boy, we drank it all
Tony: I'll just have to go down to the wine cellar and get another bottle. Course. I've got crates down there, all vintage
Kenneth: Is it old vintage?
Tony: Oh. Swipe me, yes. Some of it's over 6 weeks old!
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Tony: Sid, pour us out a toddy
Sid: None left, boy, we drank it all
Tony: I'll just have to go down to the wine cellar and get another bottle. Course. I've got crates down there, all vintage
Kenneth: Is it old vintage?
Tony: Oh. Swipe me, yes. Some of it's over 6 weeks old!
Sid: None left, boy, we drank it all
Tony: I'll just have to go down to the wine cellar and get another bottle. Course. I've got crates down there, all vintage
Kenneth: Is it old vintage?
Tony: Oh. Swipe me, yes. Some of it's over 6 weeks old!
Kenneth (Doctor): Take your clothes off!
Tony: No!
Kenneth: Now come on, I haven't got much time. I've got to go and examine a sick pig in Cheltenham.
Tony: A sick pig?
Kenneth: Yes, I'm a vet really!
#TheInsurancePolicy
Tony: No!
Kenneth: Now come on, I haven't got much time. I've got to go and examine a sick pig in Cheltenham.
Tony: A sick pig?
Kenneth: Yes, I'm a vet really!
#TheInsurancePolicy
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Kenneth (Doctor): Take your clothes off!
Tony: No!
Kenneth: Now come on, I haven't got much time. I've got to go and examine a sick pig in Cheltenham.
Tony: A sick pig?
Kenneth: Yes, I'm a vet really!
#TheInsurancePolicy
Tony: No!
Kenneth: Now come on, I haven't got much time. I've got to go and examine a sick pig in Cheltenham.
Tony: A sick pig?
Kenneth: Yes, I'm a vet really!
#TheInsurancePolicy
This is without doubt the most comprehensive nosh up list I've seen in years. Most impressive. 124 figure shattering items, not to mention the chef's suggestions and the plat du jour, any one of which it would be a pleasure to get ones choppers into!
#TheGourmet
#TheGourmet
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is without doubt the most comprehensive nosh up list I've seen in years. Most impressive. 124 figure shattering items, not to mention the chef's suggestions and the plat du jour, any one of which it would be a pleasure to get ones choppers into!
#TheGourmet
#TheGourmet
Tony Hancock Appreciation Society members have been spending the weekend scrolling through The Bonus Pages, the digital supplement to our magazine, The Missing Page. News, articles, pictures, crossword, find us on line to join our happy band!
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Tony Hancock Appreciation Society members have been spending the weekend scrolling through The Bonus Pages, the digital supplement to our magazine, The Missing Page. News, articles, pictures, crossword, find us on line to join our happy band!
Tony: It's all right for you, you don't have any trouble getting partners
Sid: Well, it's only my technique. I wait for the excuse-me dances and I go up to the bloke who's dancing and tap him on the chin
Tony: You're supposed to tap him on the shoulder!
Sid: Well, it's only my technique. I wait for the excuse-me dances and I go up to the bloke who's dancing and tap him on the chin
Tony: You're supposed to tap him on the shoulder!
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tony: It's all right for you, you don't have any trouble getting partners
Sid: Well, it's only my technique. I wait for the excuse-me dances and I go up to the bloke who's dancing and tap him on the chin
Tony: You're supposed to tap him on the shoulder!
Sid: Well, it's only my technique. I wait for the excuse-me dances and I go up to the bloke who's dancing and tap him on the chin
Tony: You're supposed to tap him on the shoulder!
Tony: The only person who could have done these murders is the man sitting over there, so saying Johnny Oxford pointed at...........men are you skinny!
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tony: The only person who could have done these murders is the man sitting over there, so saying Johnny Oxford pointed at...........men are you skinny!
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
Dear Tony
We love you. You are an inspiration to us all at the biscuit factory.
(Signed)
Three hole in the middle jam fillers
#TheThreateningLetters
We love you. You are an inspiration to us all at the biscuit factory.
(Signed)
Three hole in the middle jam fillers
#TheThreateningLetters
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Dear Tony
We love you. You are an inspiration to us all at the biscuit factory.
(Signed)
Three hole in the middle jam fillers
#TheThreateningLetters
We love you. You are an inspiration to us all at the biscuit factory.
(Signed)
Three hole in the middle jam fillers
#TheThreateningLetters
Tony: I wonder how his wife is, what was her name? Radiant Flower of the Devine Heavens. I wonder if her feet are still playing her up?
Catch up with our latest Very Nearly An Armful podcast where we review the classic Hancock episode, The Radio Ham. On all the usual platforms!
Catch up with our latest Very Nearly An Armful podcast where we review the classic Hancock episode, The Radio Ham. On all the usual platforms!
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Tony: I wonder how his wife is, what was her name? Radiant Flower of the Devine Heavens. I wonder if her feet are still playing her up?
Catch up with our latest Very Nearly An Armful podcast where we review the classic Hancock episode, The Radio Ham. On all the usual platforms!
Catch up with our latest Very Nearly An Armful podcast where we review the classic Hancock episode, The Radio Ham. On all the usual platforms!
Remembering the wonderful Dame June Whitfield, born 100 years ago #OTD 11 November 1925. A great friend of Hancock and our society, she appeared with him for over 11 years in Hancock's Half Hour and Hancock on the BBC, The Tony Hancock Show on AR-TV and Hancock's on ABC-TV
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Remembering the wonderful Dame June Whitfield, born 100 years ago #OTD 11 November 1925. A great friend of Hancock and our society, she appeared with him for over 11 years in Hancock's Half Hour and Hancock on the BBC, The Tony Hancock Show on AR-TV and Hancock's on ABC-TV
Jungle Jim (Kenneth): I do like your loincloth, you know. I wish you'd make me one
Tony: Haven't you got one?
Jungle Jim: No, I use leaves.
Tony: Very attractive too
Jungle Jim: Well, it's alright in the summer, but you don't 'alf feel daft when autumn comes!
#WildManOfTheWoods
Tony: Haven't you got one?
Jungle Jim: No, I use leaves.
Tony: Very attractive too
Jungle Jim: Well, it's alright in the summer, but you don't 'alf feel daft when autumn comes!
#WildManOfTheWoods
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Jungle Jim (Kenneth): I do like your loincloth, you know. I wish you'd make me one
Tony: Haven't you got one?
Jungle Jim: No, I use leaves.
Tony: Very attractive too
Jungle Jim: Well, it's alright in the summer, but you don't 'alf feel daft when autumn comes!
#WildManOfTheWoods
Tony: Haven't you got one?
Jungle Jim: No, I use leaves.
Tony: Very attractive too
Jungle Jim: Well, it's alright in the summer, but you don't 'alf feel daft when autumn comes!
#WildManOfTheWoods
Miss Pugh: You can have bread and dripping
Tony: Thank you very much indeed. The perfect Sunday dinner, roast bread and dripping. Most appetising, the height of luxury. Draw the curtains, I don't want the neighbours to see a man of my cal-i-bre eating bread and dripping!
Tony: Thank you very much indeed. The perfect Sunday dinner, roast bread and dripping. Most appetising, the height of luxury. Draw the curtains, I don't want the neighbours to see a man of my cal-i-bre eating bread and dripping!
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Miss Pugh: You can have bread and dripping
Tony: Thank you very much indeed. The perfect Sunday dinner, roast bread and dripping. Most appetising, the height of luxury. Draw the curtains, I don't want the neighbours to see a man of my cal-i-bre eating bread and dripping!
Tony: Thank you very much indeed. The perfect Sunday dinner, roast bread and dripping. Most appetising, the height of luxury. Draw the curtains, I don't want the neighbours to see a man of my cal-i-bre eating bread and dripping!
Nurse: You'll be perfectly alright, Dr McTaggart is an excellent doctor.
Tony: Dr McTaggart? He's a Scotsman! Oh that's fine! They're all good doctors, Scotsmen. Yes, like engineers, you know. It's the porridge that does it!
#TheBloodDonor
Tony: Dr McTaggart? He's a Scotsman! Oh that's fine! They're all good doctors, Scotsmen. Yes, like engineers, you know. It's the porridge that does it!
#TheBloodDonor
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nurse: You'll be perfectly alright, Dr McTaggart is an excellent doctor.
Tony: Dr McTaggart? He's a Scotsman! Oh that's fine! They're all good doctors, Scotsmen. Yes, like engineers, you know. It's the porridge that does it!
#TheBloodDonor
Tony: Dr McTaggart? He's a Scotsman! Oh that's fine! They're all good doctors, Scotsmen. Yes, like engineers, you know. It's the porridge that does it!
#TheBloodDonor
Tony: Ooh, these headphones don't half make your ears hot. Dear oh dear, like two braised chops under there they are!
We're back! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway with our review of The Radio Ham. Available on the usual platforms!
We're back! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway with our review of The Radio Ham. Available on the usual platforms!
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Tony: Ooh, these headphones don't half make your ears hot. Dear oh dear, like two braised chops under there they are!
We're back! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway with our review of The Radio Ham. Available on the usual platforms!
We're back! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway with our review of The Radio Ham. Available on the usual platforms!
Tony: Dreadnaughts for men. Get the girl of your choice with a Dreadnought. And only 1/9d for 20.............
Stand by! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway tomorrow 7 November with our review of The Radio Ham. On the usual platforms!
Stand by! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway tomorrow 7 November with our review of The Radio Ham. On the usual platforms!
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Tony: Dreadnaughts for men. Get the girl of your choice with a Dreadnought. And only 1/9d for 20.............
Stand by! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway tomorrow 7 November with our review of The Radio Ham. On the usual platforms!
Stand by! The new series of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful gets underway tomorrow 7 November with our review of The Radio Ham. On the usual platforms!
Bill: We thought you might be hungry, so we brought you something to eat
Tony: Oh, that's really nice of you. That really is
Bill: Here you are, a packet of crisps and a pint of winkles!
#HancockInHospital
Tony: Oh, that's really nice of you. That really is
Bill: Here you are, a packet of crisps and a pint of winkles!
#HancockInHospital
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Bill: We thought you might be hungry, so we brought you something to eat
Tony: Oh, that's really nice of you. That really is
Bill: Here you are, a packet of crisps and a pint of winkles!
#HancockInHospital
Tony: Oh, that's really nice of you. That really is
Bill: Here you are, a packet of crisps and a pint of winkles!
#HancockInHospital
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November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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On that note, hats off to the @tonyhancock.bsky.social lads, they’re brilliant, really good fun, very active and can knock ‘em back at the bar, too
And on that subject - you know you’ve made it when…..
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
On that note, hats off to the @tonyhancock.bsky.social lads, they’re brilliant, really good fun, very active and can knock ‘em back at the bar, too
Tony: Penny for the guy, penny for the guy!
Bill: Tub...
Tony: What?
Bill: Let's go home
Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours
Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram!
#BonfireNight
Bill: Tub...
Tony: What?
Bill: Let's go home
Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours
Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram!
#BonfireNight
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tony: Penny for the guy, penny for the guy!
Bill: Tub...
Tony: What?
Bill: Let's go home
Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours
Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram!
#BonfireNight
Bill: Tub...
Tony: What?
Bill: Let's go home
Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours
Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram!
#BonfireNight