The Bowmans The Bowmans "The Bowmans" is an episode of the BBC television situation comedy programme "Hancock", the final BBC series featuring Tony Hancock, first broadcast on 2 June 1961. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The title is a retronym; the episodes were not originally identified separately. Hancock plays an actor in a fictional radio serial called "The Bowmans", a parody of the real BBC radio programme "The Archers". The theme tune to "The Bowmans" is a close variation by series composer Wally Stott of the real "Archers" theme tune "Barwick Green". Hancock plays Joshua Merriweather, a character
Above the Title Productions Folk. Above The Title is part of the publicly listed digital music and radio services company 7digital alongside sister production companies Unique and Smooth Operations. Above the Title Productions Above the Title was a UK independent radio production company based in London. The company produce drama, music, comedy and documentary programmes, principally for BBC Radio. It is perhaps best known for making adaptations for radio of the last three books in Douglas Adams' "trilogy in five parts", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the Clive Anderson legal discussion series Unreliable Evidence for BBC Radio 4. The company's past works