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Other names | TIFH (or TIFE) |
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Genre | Comedy |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Light Programme |
Syndicates | BBC Radio 4 Extra |
Starring | Jimmy Edwards Dick Bentley Joy Nichols Clarence Wright Wallas Eaton June Whitfield Alma Cogan The Keynotes |
Announcer | David Dunhill (known as Dunners) |
Written by | Frank Muir Denis Norden Barry Took Eric Merriman |
Produced by | Charles Maxwell |
Recording studio | Paris Theatre, London |
Original release | 23 March 1948 3 March 1960 | –
No. of series | 13 |
No. of episodes | 328 |
Website | www |
Take It from Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") is a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols. When Nichols moved to New York City in 1953, she was replaced by June Whitfield and Alma Cogan. The show is best remembered for introducing The Glums. Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy – amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and in many television comedy series.