Spencer, Charles (3 February 2005). "Exuberant rudery that's a joy forever". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 1 March 2019. In 2019, the first opera in Polari, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (based on the book of the same title), premiered at Espacio Turina in Seville, Spain. The libretto was written in Polari by librettist and playwright Fabrizio Funari and the music is by Germán Alonso. Niño de Elche played the main role. The opera was produced and performed by instrumental ensemble Proyecto OCNOS, formed by Pedro Rojas-Ogáyar and Gustavo A. Domínguez Ojalvo, with the support of ICAS Sevilla, Fundación BBVA and The Librettist. [32] London Coliseum". Royal Variety Performance Archive. Royal Variety Charity . Retrieved 2 March 2019. a b c d Stephen Moss (18 September 2007). "The man who would be mayor [print version: Out but not down]". The Guardian (g2). London. pp.12–15. Entirely unmoved by all this, the current premier of radio mirth, Mr Kenneth Horne, thanks everybody with the sort of modesty that makes it clear that the thanks are entirely due to the party, and his own share they can work out for themselves. “We’ve all enjoyed it,” he bashfully assures the delighted audience. “We’re a brilliant team,” he remarks casually. He says it like a parodist of underweening British arrogance, and in fact Round the Horne is exceedingly, some might think excessively, British.

J. Bryan Lowder (28 July 2015). "Polari, the gay dialect, can be heard in this great short film "Putting on the Dish". Slate . Retrieved 9 May 2018.Their use of Polari in sketches introduced the gay cant to a mass audience, and identified them as gay to those in the know. Although this prompted a brief revival, Round the Horne ultimately led to Polari's near-demise as a means of communication between gay men. [5] A 45-minute BBC radio documentary, Round and Round the Horne, was broadcast on 18 September 1976. It was presented by Frank Bough and included interviews with Williams and Took. [210] A 60-minute radio documentary, Horne A' Plenty, was broadcast on 14 February 1994. It was presented by Leslie Phillips and included new interviews with Marsden and Took and archive material featuring Horne. [211] A three-hour radio special, Horne of Plenty, was broadcast on 5 March 2005 for the 40th anniversary of the show. It was presented by Jonathan James-Moore and included interviews with Ron Moody, Pertwee, Merriman's son Andy, Cooke, Lyn Took, and extracts from Williams's diary read "in character" by David Benson. The special included the first and final episodes of Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne in their entirety. [212] Contribution to British vocabulary [ edit ] In these 48 lally-trembling scenarios, Jools and Sand cater for the intimate at 'omey in Bona Caterers, shake hands with a prospective member in Keep Britain Bona, set themselves up as Bona Tax Consultants and teach the world to talk proper in Bona School of Languages. Plus, they reveal to Mr Horne just what Julian received on his last birthday.... Justice must be seen to be done, and in some cases justice must seen to be believed - as in this comedy series which turns courtroom drama into courtroom farce. environment by powering the London Underground with renewable energy, and to provide the right environment for business without interfering in businesses. [30]

Horne introduced some programmes by reading out the answers to last week's (non-existent) questions: In 1987 the character Ralph Filthy, a theatrical agent played by Nigel Planer in the BBC TV series Filthy Rich & Catflap, regularly used Polari.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ptop/alabaster/A10357832 "BBC - h2g2 - Polari - the Secret Language - A10357832 bbc.co.uk The old actor laddies were to be called J. Behemoth Cadogan and T. Hamilton Grosvenor. [84] Took later wrote that he and Feldman named the chorus boys after Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson, the composers of the popular 1950s musicals Salad Days and The Boyfriend. [85] Ah, the agony of the artist, and here is an artist who's been responsible for more agony than almost anyone alive: Rambling Syd Rumpo

Scripted by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, it was daring and radical material for the time, especially in a popular radio series. Homosexual acts were only decriminalised in 1967, two years after Round The Horne was first broadcast, as a revamped version of an earlier show, Beyond Our Ken.Took, Barry (2004). "Horne, (Charles) Kenneth (1907–1969)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/37568. (subscription or UK public library membership required) a b c d e f g Grose, Francis (2012). 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. tebbo. ISBN 978-1-4861-4841-7 Obituary of Barry Took, Comedian and Writer who Helped to Create Round the Horne and Presented The News Quiz and Points of View". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2 April 2002. p.25 . Retrieved 5 March 2019. (subscription required) Alexander, Richard (1997). Aspects of Verbal Humour in English. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. ISBN 978-3-8233-4936-5. Llewelyn, Abbie (8 September 2019). "Princess never said 'naff off' -- 'We made it up' ". Daily Express. London . Retrieved 28 January 2022.