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ITMA — It's That Man Again
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ITMA — It's That Man Again

Broadcast · 1939 · Twice weekly

BBC

BBC · 1939–1949

Broadcasts

149

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1939

The run

Network
BBC
Years active
1939–1949
Surviving broadcasts
149
Genre
comedy

Tommy Handley's wartime half-hour — the catchphrase comedy that carried Britain through the blackout. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive's surviving off-air recordings, indexed edition by edition.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: itma-its-that-man-again

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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