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• 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.

• A sketch from the BBC Radio series 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' can be heard here.

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Television

• Four television episodes are available to watch on Google video, scroll to the bottom of the page for direct links. If you prefer to have them supplied on CD then search EBay for "Billy Bunter TV" and you will find a charity listing selling them on disk for £2.50. 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.

• 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.

   

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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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