<P> Beyond Our Ken featured characters similar to those later featured in Round the Horne , for instance Betty Marsden 's Fanny Haddock ( which parodied Fanny Cradock ) . It featured Pertwee 's Frankie Howerd impersonation , Hankie Flowered , and Hugh Paddick 's working - class pop singer Ricky Livid -- the name being a mickey - take on contemporary pop singers ' stage names such as Tommy Steele and Marty Wilde . Another favourite was Kenneth Williams ' country character , Arthur Fallowfield , who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman , a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme Any Questions ? Fallowfield 's lines were full of innuendo and double entendre -- on one occasion Horne introduced him as the man who put the sex in Sussex . Fallowfield 's reply to any question began : `` Well , I think the answer lies in the soil ! '' On one occasion , Paddick 's character Stanley Birkenshaw , aka `` Dentures '' , who would re-appear in Round the Horne , gave a noble and rather damp version of Hamlet 's soliloquy : `` To be or not to be , that issssssssssh the quesssssssssshtion ... '' . </P>
<P> Beyond Our Ken featured characters similar to those later featured in Round the Horne , for instance Betty Marsden 's Fanny Haddock ( which parodied Fanny Cradock ) . It featured Pertwee 's Frankie Howerd impersonation , Hankie Flowered , and Hugh Paddick 's working - class pop singer Ricky Livid -- the name being a mickey - take on contemporary pop singers ' stage names such as Tommy Steele and Marty Wilde . Another favourite was Kenneth Williams ' country character , Arthur Fallowfield , who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman , a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme Any Questions ? Fallowfield 's lines were full of innuendo and double entendre -- on one occasion Horne introduced him as the man who put the sex in Sussex . Fallowfield 's reply to any question began : `` Well , I think the answer lies in the soil ! '' On one occasion , Paddick 's character Stanley Birkenshaw , aka `` Dentures '' , who would re-appear in Round the Horne , gave a noble and rather damp version of Hamlet 's soliloquy : `` To be or not to be , that issssssssssh the quesssssssssshtion ... '' . </P>
who said the answer lies in the soil
who said the answer lies in the soil
Arthur Fallowfield
Arthur Fallowfield