 In 1966 Stride appeared in the BBC comedy series "On the Margin", a collection of sketches and songs written by Alan Bennett, who, together with John Sergeant (later the BBC's political correspondent), also starred in the show.The six episodes of "On the Margin" were twice repeated in 1967, but were among many programmes "wiped" by the BBC in the 1970s.A compact disc of surviving audio extracts was released by the BBC in 2009.