Billy Bunter novels were reprinted by Cassells, who took over publication of the series, which continued until 1967, the final novels being published posthumously. Billy Bunter has been adapted for radio as an audio play several times, the last occasion being a 90 minute adaptation of the novel "Billy Bunter's Christmas Party" broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as part of the series "Saturday Night Theatre", in December 1986. In the 1990s, a series of short stories adapted from the novels of Charles Hamilton were performed by "The Goodies" (Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor) for BBC radio, as six 15 minute dramas
Tim Brooke-Taylor College, Cambridge. There he read Economics and Politics before changing to read Law, and mixed with other budding comedians, including John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Jonathan Lynn in the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke-Taylor became President in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, "A Clump of Plinths" was so successful during its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, that the show was renamed as "Cambridge Circus" and the revue transferred to the West End in London, and then later taken to both New Zealand and to Broadway in the United States in September 1964. He was