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
The Million Pound Radio Show Hamilton players such as Felicity Montagu also turned up and Harry Enfield appeared in some programmes. The show became popular in the UK through a sketch involving Pirates requiring better employment conditions (""We wants a training day!" "Aye! And a creche!"") being repeatedly played on BBC Radio 1; the only cassette release of the series capitalised on this and had "Includes the famous pirate sketch!" emblazoned on the cover. "The Million Pound Radio Show" is today quite frequently broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 Extra channel, on digital radio and the internet. In an interview given on BBC Radio 7's