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Jack Warner - Worker's Playtime excerpt (18/06/1946)

As well as being a successful film star with particular success with a series of films revolving around the Huggetts family, plus The Blue Lamp in which his character George Dixon was spun-off into the long-running BBC television series, Jack Warner also had a successful variety comedy act from the late 30s and starred int ehBBCs popular variety series Garrison Theatre, entertaining the troops by with his act which involved reading the letters home from his brother Syd. He also made a number of appearances in other BBC variety series at this time including this appearance on Workers' Playtime, recorded 6th June 1946 and broadcast as the first episode of that years' series on 18th June 1946. The idea of entertaining and rewarding war workers was first explored by the BBC through the programme Music While You Work, first broadcast in June 1940. The show was intended to relieve the monotony of the factory production line and was aired at 10.30 and 15.00, judged to be the times at which concentration (and thus production) dipped most. The show was repeated at 22.30 for the benefit of the night shift. Partly on the suggestion of Ernest Bevin, companion lunchtime roadshow Workers' Playtime first aired in May 1941. A live morale-boosting music, comedy and variety show, it was broadcast live from different factory canteens and shop floors across the country. BBC engineers would erect a small wooden stage and sling microphones from the roof for a 'studio' audience consisting of as many workers as could physically cram themselves into the venue. The producer, Bill Gates, signed off each programme with the cheery phrase Good Luck, All Workers! Originally broadcast on the Home Service, Workers' Playtime transferred to the Light Programme in 1957, eventually running for 23 years until 1964 and serving the British public from the Blitz to the Beatles. Many famous variety, vocal and comedy artists appeared over the years such as Charlie Chester, Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Ann Shelton, Betty Driver, Eve Boswell, Dorothy Squires, Julie Andrews, Morecambe and Wise, Peter Cavanagh, Janet Brown, Bob Monkhouse, Peter Goodwright, Percy Edwards, Ken Dodd, Ken Platt, Elsie and Doris Waters and many, many more.