Radio

• In 1983 the Goodies performed six 15 minute plays for BBC Radio 2. Click on the link to listen to the play or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.
  • Bunter the Hero (13-07-1993)
  • Billy Bunter Afloat (20-07-1993)
  • Billy Bunter on Trial (27-07-1993)
  • Bunter in Brazil (03-08-1993)
  • Bunters Night Out (10-08-1993)
  • Chunkleys Stores (17-08-1993)

• On 13th December 1986 the BBC broadcasted a 90 minute Saturday Night Theatre Christmas play based on the Tankerton Hall story.  Click here. to listen to the play or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• Good Old Greyfriars is a 45 minute Radio 4 broadcast from 1980. It was produced as a tribute to Bunter and Greyfriars on the 40th anniversary of the demise of the Magnet. Click here to listen to the play or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• In a BBC Radio 4 production on 19th Feb 2008 Gyles Brandreth paid tribute to Billy Bunter, the perennially youthful schoolboy who first appeared in print 100 years ago, and his creator Frank Richards. Contributors include Martin Jarvis, Greyfriars memorabilia collector Laurie Mansfield, Brett Kahr psychoanalyst and children's literature expert, biographer Mary Cadogan and Jeffrey Richards, professor of popular culture at Lancaster University. Click here to listen to the broadcast or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• On 21st July 2002 the Radio 5 Brief Lives program carried a short obituary on the life of Gerald Campion. Click here to listen to the broadcast or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated ISIRTA) was a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. It had something of a cult following. Episode 5, series 7 (1970) featured Greyfriars. You can listen to the episode here

• The Burkiss Way is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series that was broadcast from August 1976 to November 1980. Series 2 episode 9 was called "Skive from School the Burkiss way" and was loosely based on Greyfriars. Click here to listen to the episode or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer. 

• Radio 4 featured Gerald Campion with Jenni Mills in the radio series "famous for 15 minutes" in 1991. Thanks to Gary (and Darrell Swift who recorded it originally) you can listen to it here.

• The Radio 4 program "Start the Week" from May 1980 featured Richard Baker, Gerald Campion, Gyles Brandreth, Nicholas Parsons and Michael Palin. Again thanks to Darrell and Gary you can listen to it here.

Internet

• The Internet Archive website contains an MP4 compilation of Billy Bunter images, you can watch it or download it here.

Television

Aleric Cotter played the cad Skinner

• Four television episodes are available to watch on Google video, scroll to the bottom of the page for direct links. Note the episode Bunter on the warpath has the last few minutes missing.

Four other episodes exist in sound format only. Click on the links to listen to them or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

        Bunter's Bike, Loder's Telegram, Quelch's Article, Tankerton Hall.

• This video clip is a compilation from the following-
  - First part is a clip from Billy Bunters Burglar
  - Second clip where bunter swipes Coker's oranges was shown on a documentary for school children "Landmarks" Episode You Never Had it so good.
  - The third part came from a documentary "Children's TV on Trial - The Kid's Verdict and another 2 - 3 rare clips

• You can listen to the Billy Bunter TV theme music by clicking here or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• A short film of Frank Richards at work from the Pathe library can be viewed here or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

• A short film featuring men auditioning for 'Billy Bunter's Swiss Roll' at the Victoria Palace Theatre London can be viewed here or right click on the link and select 'save' to download the file to your computer.

   

   

   Backing Up Bunter                 Bunter on the Warpath

Bunter Won't Go                      Double Bunter

Vinyl

• Floreat Greyfriars is an LP containing mainly short talks by Charles Hamilton. It was originally released in 1965 and re-released in 1976 to coincide with the centenary of the birth of Charles Hamilton. You can listen to the whole recording here or alternatively you can listen to the Charles Hamilton extracts by selecting the links below.

   

  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 01 - Greyfriars School Song
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 03 - Harry Wharton's starting school
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 05 - How Bunter was invented
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 07 - Bunter's stupidity
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 10 - Bunter's fondness for food
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 12 - Bunter's telling lies and basic characteristics
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 14 - Introducing Hurree Singh to Greyfriars
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 17 - On Fisher T Fish's character
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 20 - Herbert Vernon-Smith's character
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 23 - What Frank Richards read as a boy
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 25 - Travelling abroad
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 27 - Need to experience gambling to warn others
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 30 - Quelch is Frank Richards' favourite character
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 32 - Editors sometimes suggested the subject
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 34 - Magnet artists and the use of illustrations
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 36 - Character's name must indicate the type of character
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 38 - If you want to write for boys, don't patronise them
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 39 - Current occupations
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 40 - Greyfriars is a life of innocence, and so it should be
  • Floreat Greyfriars - Track 41 - Reflections on old age

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  The Greyfriars Song and Henry Samuel Quelch were a labour of love for Ken Humphreys, a retired schoolteacher and well known Greyfriars collector of the time. They were recorded in January 1993 and released on cassette tape a few weeks later. Ken even managed to persuade Hubert Gregg then on Radio 2 to play them a few times. The tape was advertised on page 2 of the Collectors Digest issue 557. Thanks to Gary Panczyszyn you can listen to both songs via the links below. The Greyfriars Song Henry Samuel Quelch