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Kenneth Horne (February 27 1907 - February 14
1969) was a British comedian and businessman.  He
starred in the BBC radio programmes Much Binding
in the Marsh, (with Richard Murdoch), Beyond Our
Ken and Round the Horne - in the latter he was
given a number of strange names. As well as being
an excellent comedian he was also chairman of
Triplex Glass and Chad Valley Toys, until he gave
up business due to a stroke and concentrated on
his comedy.  He was particularly close to Kenneth
Williams, who looked on him as a substitute
father. He also did some TV advertising and he was
in the series Horne A'plenty.

He died whilst standing up to make a speech, just
after the fourth series of Round the Horne was
completed. A fifth series had been commissioned,
but it was decided that the show could not
continue without its star. 

Since December 2002, editions of Round the Horne
may be heard at 19:30 UK time (= GMT during the
winter months) each Wednesday on the digital
service called BBC 7.

==Radio==
*Ack Ack, Beer Beer (1939-44)
*Much Binding In The Marsh (1947-53)
*Free and Easy (1953)
*Twenty Questions (as chairman)
*Beyond Our Ken (1958-64)
*Round The Horne (1965-9)

==TV==
*Horne A'Plenty (1968)

==External links==
*http://www.radioacademy.org/halloffame/horne_k
Short biography
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7 BBC 7
*imdb name|id=1453334|name=Kenneth Horne

==References==
*Norman Hackforth, Solo for Horne. A biography of
Kenneth Horne (Angus & Robertson hardback, ISBN
0207956502; Coronet Books paperback, ISBN
0340242744)