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Interview with Edward Joffe | Tony Hancock's last TVproducer

An interview with Mr Edward Joffe. He was Tony Hancock's last TV producer in Australia. Edward has written a book called Hancock's Last Stand. The Interview was shot in 1996 in Bournemouth at the annual Tony Hancock appreciation society dinner. Hancock was a high-profile figure during the 1950s and early 1960s. He had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James. Although Hancock's decision to cease working with James, when it became known in early 1960, disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best-remembered work (including "The Blood Donor" and "The Radio Ham"). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career declined. Hancock took his own life by overdosing, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968, aged 44.[35] He was found dead in his Bellevue Hill flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of amylo-barbitone tablets. In one of his suicide notes, he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times." His ashes were brought back to England by satirist Willie Rushton and were buried in St Dunstan's Church in Cranford, London.