EXTRA performances for Round the Horne: 50th Anniversary Tour have been added due to popular demand.

It will now run in the main house until Saturday 21.

Celebrating the groundbreaking radio comedy series of the 1960s, Apollo Theatre Company recreates the original recordings from the BBC’s Paris Studios to mark 50 years of laughter.

With Kenneth Horne at the helm and the supporting cast of Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden, Round the Horne burst onto the comedy scene in 1965. With its infamous movie spoofs and regular characters such as Rambling Sid Rumpo, Charles and Fiona, J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, and Julian and Sandy, it was one of the biggest radio programmes of its time, regularly garnering audiences of up to 15 million each week.

Director Tim Astley has compiled the script for the production using only material from the original broadcasts, with the full blessing and support of the original writers’ estates.

He said: “As someone who has been a fan of Round the Horne since I was about 12 years old, I thought it was only right that its 50th anniversary be celebrated, and what better way to do that than to be able to transport fans back to the original recordings and recreate the anarchic atmosphere that made the programme such fun to listen to. “We are lucky enough to be working with the original scripts and will be recreating them as accurately as possible so that every member of our audience, no matter how much they know about Round the Horne to begin with, leaves feeling that they have been transported back to the Paris Studios in 1965 and experienced first-hand those joyful recordings.”

Round the Horne is still played on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

For tickets call 01722 320333 or visit salisburyplayhouse.com.