The David Lean Room, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
Presented by Kaleidoscope and the Monkhouse family, a great time was had by all at Bob's Full House at BAFTA in London on Saturday 24th October 2009.
The Bob Monkhouse Archive is stored and managed by Kaleidoscope on behalf of the Monkhouse family. Originally given to the BFI, but now stored solely with us, the collection includes 35mm and 16mm film, a range of obsolete VCR formats and a huge library of modern cassettes. There are thousands of radio items, scripts and pieces of memorabilia. Bob's former home, 'Claridges', clearly was a very full house indeed.
However, the collection is far more than just the works of Bob himself. It contains rare and unique material from many comedy greats including Denis Goodwin, Tony Hancock, Tommy Cooper, Lenny Henry, Frankie Howerd and Jasper Carrott.
The event was in aid of the Prostate Cancer Research Fund and featured guest talks, documentaries and the best of the hidden classics found in Bob's full house. Much of this material from Bob's private collection had not been seen since its original broadcast or was missing from television archives.
Guests:
Lenny Henry
Denis Norden
June Whitfield
William G. Stewart
Paul Stewart Laing
David Hamilton
Gail Renard
Mike Prince
Colin Edmonds
Pete Murray
Peter Prichard
Alan Nixon
Jeremy Engler
Our M.C. was Liz Barker
Interviews hosted by Wes Smith
"Bob's Full House" - a comprehensive guide to the material within the collection was published on the day. The book lists the hundreds of missing programmes found by Kaleidoscope's digital restorers and is available to order here on our Kaleidoscope Publishing site.
The event also saw the publication of our latest Raiders of the Lost Archives Recoveries List - 2008-2009 detailing previously missing television material recovered by Kaleidoscope and other organisations throughout the last year.
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