Black Cinderella Two Goes East (sometimes referred to as
Black Cinderella II Goes East) was a radio
pantomimePantomime is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is usually performed during the Christmas and New Year season.-History:A pantomimos in Greece was...
broadcast on
BBC Radio 2BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the UK. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
on 25 December 1978. The programme is notable for being one of only a few radio programmes (co)-produced by
Douglas AdamsDouglas Noel Adams was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a...
while he was employed by the BBC as a radio producer. The hour-long programme was written by
Clive AndersonClive Anderson is a former barrister, now famous for being a successful comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom...
and
Rory McGrathPatrick Rory McGrath is a British comedian.-Career:He studied at Redruth Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he received a third class degree. He became a member of the Cambridge Footlights and met Jimmy Mulville, with whom he wrote and performed...
and was co-produced by Douglas Adams and
John LloydJohn Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.-Early life and career:...
.
The programme featured performances by:
- Richard Baker
Richard Baker OBE is a British broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first person to read the BBC Television News in 1954. At one time he lived in Barnet, North London...
, Narrator
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tim Brooke-Taylor is an English comic actor known in Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Goodies and in the comedy radio shows I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again....
, Timothenia and the King
- Rob Buckman
Robert Alexander Amiel "Rob" Buckman is a British-Canadian doctor of medicine, comedian and author, and since 1999 has been president of the Humanist Association of Canada...
, Prince Charming
- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of the group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different,...
, Fairy Godperson
- Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook was a British satirist, writer and comedian. He is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s...
, Prince Disgusting
- Graeme Garden
David Graeme Garden is a British author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.-Early life and beginnings in comedy:...
, Gardenia and Manny
- David Hatch
Sir David Hatch was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment , Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio.- Education :He attended St John's School, Leatherhead and...
, himself
- Maggie Henderson, Cinderella
- Jo Kendall
Jo Kendall is a British actress.In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Chris...
, Wicked Stepmother and Princess Sally
- Richard Murdoch
Richard Bernard Murdoch was a British comedic radio, film and television performer.Richard Bernard Murdoch attended Charterhouse School. He then appeared in Footlights whilst a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge...
, Baron Ofbeef
- Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie, OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who first became famous as one of The Goodies....
, himself, Town Crier and Talking Horse
- John Pardoe
John Pardoe is a retired British businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Education:Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was active in the famous Footlights Society; one critic of their 1955 revue panned future comedian Jonathan Miller whilst predicting a bold comedic future for...
, Fairy-tale Liberal Prime Minister
Douglas Adams had to follow the show's writers to Cambridge in order to get them to work on the script, and had to pick up the finished script from a messenger on a train.
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Black Cinderella Two Goes East (sometimes referred to as
Black Cinderella II Goes East) was a radio
pantomimePantomime is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is usually performed during the Christmas and New Year season.-History:A pantomimos in Greece was...
broadcast on
BBC Radio 2BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the UK. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
on 25 December 1978. The programme is notable for being one of only a few radio programmes (co)-produced by
Douglas AdamsDouglas Noel Adams was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a...
while he was employed by the BBC as a radio producer. The hour-long programme was written by
Clive AndersonClive Anderson is a former barrister, now famous for being a successful comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom...
and
Rory McGrathPatrick Rory McGrath is a British comedian.-Career:He studied at Redruth Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he received a third class degree. He became a member of the Cambridge Footlights and met Jimmy Mulville, with whom he wrote and performed...
and was co-produced by Douglas Adams and
John LloydJohn Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.-Early life and career:...
.
The programme featured performances by:
- Richard Baker
Richard Baker OBE is a British broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first person to read the BBC Television News in 1954. At one time he lived in Barnet, North London...
, Narrator
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tim Brooke-Taylor is an English comic actor known in Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Goodies and in the comedy radio shows I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again....
, Timothenia and the King
- Rob Buckman
Robert Alexander Amiel "Rob" Buckman is a British-Canadian doctor of medicine, comedian and author, and since 1999 has been president of the Humanist Association of Canada...
, Prince Charming
- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of the group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different,...
, Fairy Godperson
- Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook was a British satirist, writer and comedian. He is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s...
, Prince Disgusting
- Graeme Garden
David Graeme Garden is a British author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.-Early life and beginnings in comedy:...
, Gardenia and Manny
- David Hatch
Sir David Hatch was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment , Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio.- Education :He attended St John's School, Leatherhead and...
, himself
- Maggie Henderson, Cinderella
- Jo Kendall
Jo Kendall is a British actress.In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Chris...
, Wicked Stepmother and Princess Sally
- Richard Murdoch
Richard Bernard Murdoch was a British comedic radio, film and television performer.Richard Bernard Murdoch attended Charterhouse School. He then appeared in Footlights whilst a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge...
, Baron Ofbeef
- Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie, OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who first became famous as one of The Goodies....
, himself, Town Crier and Talking Horse
- John Pardoe
John Pardoe is a retired British businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Education:Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was active in the famous Footlights Society; one critic of their 1955 revue panned future comedian Jonathan Miller whilst predicting a bold comedic future for...
, Fairy-tale Liberal Prime Minister
Douglas Adams had to follow the show's writers to Cambridge in order to get them to work on the script, and had to pick up the finished script from a messenger on a train. Adams also recorded a reluctant John Cleese at home. Cleese had vowed never to work for BBC Radio again, following a dispute over a sketch in the series
John Cleese's Sketchbook. Cleese's lines were then played from a tape recorder into the broadcast programme.