title: Round the Horne
author:  Barry Took 
description: A history, by one of its scriptwriters, of the radio comedy show, "Round the Horne", which was first broadcast in 1958. The book includes accounts of how the shows were written and produced, script extracts, and also four complete scripts which were never used.
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  Chapter One
  
  SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND JUNE 1830
  
  Dammit, Payton,” Ross Dixon exploded. “I c a n 't tie the wretched thing. You
  do it. “
  
  Payton, at too crucial a stage with her second-eldest brother's cravat even to
  risk a glance a t her eldest, sn a pped, ”Wait your turn.”
  
  “Bleeding turn. “ Hudson, holding his chin up, had to look down the slopes of
  his h i gh cheekbones to see his little sister as she worked on his necktie,
  and then he only saw the top of her head. “Wait yourbleeding turn.”
  
  “Wait your bleeding turn,” Payton said, correcting herself.
  
  The ends of his cravat hanging limply round his neck, Ross turned away from
  the mirror, outraged. “Damn your eyes, Hud! Stop encouragin' her to swear. You
  want her to tell the first bloke who asks her to dance tonight to wait his
  bleeding turn?”
  
  “No one's goin' to ask Payton to dance,” Raleigh informed them, from the
  window seat. His cravat already tied, he'd been banished to the far side of
  the room by his sister with