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Round the Horne: The Complete Julian & Sandy
Round the Horne: The Complete Julian & Sandy
Feb 28, 2026 11:51 AM

Author:Barry Took,Marty Feldman,Johnnie Mortimer,Kenneth Williams,Hugh Paddick,Kenneth Horne

Round the Horne: The Complete Julian & Sandy

Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick are the notorious resting thespians in this hilarious collection of sketches from Round the Horne.

‘Oh, hello. I’m Julian, and this is my friend Sandy...’

Through four series of Round the Horne, Julian and Sandy graced each episode with an encounter with ‘that nice Mr Horne’. Each week they'd be up to new tricks, from filmmaking (Bona Prods) to a travel agency (‘something exciting in a cheap package’) and a ‘bijou restaurantette’ (La Casserole de Bona Gourmet).

In these 48 lally-trembling scenarios, Jools and Sand cater for the intimate at ‘omey in Bona Caterers, shake hands with a prospective member in Keep Britain Bona, set themselves up as Bona Tax Consultants and teach the world to talk proper in Bona School of Languages. Plus, they reveal to Mr Horne just what Julian received on his last birthday…

This fantabulosa selection of Julian and Sandy sketches is brimming with sparkling repartee, gloriously camp humour and outrageous innuendo. So don’t be strange – come on in, rest your lallies and let your riah down with two of the best pros in the business. Duration: 3 hours 40 mins.

Reviews

As subtle and as delicate as the many feathers depicted through its pages, Of All That Ends is a glorious gift, a final salute true to the singular creativity of the most human, and humane, of artists.

—— Irish Times

There is a lovely diversity to these pieces… His intelligence and intellectual engagement remain fiercely undimmed.

—— Catherine Taylor , Financial Times

This beautiful, ironic and often funny final collage of asides and meditations sums up the fabulist’s genius.

—— Eileen Battersby , Irish Times, Book of the Year

Autumnal, elegiac and tinged with a twilight charm

—— Boyd Tonkin , The Arts Desk

Of All That Ends radiates a burst of his primitive energy and his subtle shrewdness, using words and pencil lines as a remedy, an antidote to the factual world that we objectify and iconise… Laced with black humour.

—— Julian Evans , Daily Telegraph

Grass’ writing…is uncluttered and haunting… Tiny snapshots of morality more insightful than most novels could dream of, forming a work of real emotional substance. A fitting requiem for a true great.

—— UK Press Syndication

A melancholic anthology of musings, poems, and sketches, delicate in both form and content as they trace the edges of ageing, death and the world we live in.

—— Michael Anderson , Irish Examiner

An absolutely essential prologue to Rogue One. If I had to recommend a Star Wars book to film fans that have yet to venture into the canon, it would definitely be this one

—— Accio Reviews

an excellent complement to Rogue One…an enjoyable explanation of some of the key dynamics in Rogue One

—— SciFi Bulletin

In War And Peace, richly observed human life - its catastrophes and passions, its thrills and tedium - mark out Tolstoy as a fox, who knows all about the dizzying diversity of existence

—— Observer

Highly and deservedly praised...is a remarkable achievement.

—— Contemporary Review

Wonderfully readable

—— Wendy Cope , The Week

Translators give their wits and craft selflessly in service of others' work; this is a triumph of fidelity and unpretentiousness.

—— The Independent
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