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Young inventors, and the 1930s musical Adam and Eve. Sketches and songs with Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From 1965.

Young inventors, 1930s vintage musical 'Adam and Eve' and Private Eye Mike Spanner is on the case...

More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus TV and cinema parodies.

Starring:

Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden
Bill Oddie
Jo Kendall
David Hatch

Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.

Written by Les Lilley, Chic Jacob, Graeme Garden, Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke and Bill Oddie.

Songs by Bill Oddie and Jean Hart with music by Dave Lee.

Producer: Humphrey Barclay

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1965.

30 minutes

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