Well, now my mlloie to the wall and let me cordwanglers dangle, as Rambling Syd Rumpo would say.

Yep, Round The Horne, the famous BBC radio series from the mid-Sixties is back, this time live and on stage.

As a teenager, I - along with 15 million other listeners - roared with laughter every Sunday lunchtime as Kenneth Horne brought some of the most outrageous comedy characters to what was then the BBC Light Programme.

And they still make me roar with laughter - perhaps even more so now I understand the more subtle of the innuendoes they delivered.

There was Julian and his friend Sandy, Rambling Syd Rumpo, Dame Celia Molestrangler, ageing juvenile Binky Huckaback, Jay, Peasemold Gruntfuttock and the Australian Judy Coolibar among many others.

The series was invented by Marty Feldman, Barry Took, Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke and voiced by Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden.

Although the series ran for just three years, it became a smash hit and is now a cult classic.

The play is set in the Paris studio in Lower Regent Street, London, from which the show was broadcast to a constant refrain of "we'll never get away with that". But they always did - although whether they would today in our politically correct times, I don't know.

Director Michael Kingsbury has assembled a talented cast to play the radio legends.

Stephen Critchlow is Kenneth Horne, Paul Ryan is Kenneth Williams, Jonathan Mourne plays Hugh Paddick, Sherry Baines is Betty Marsden and Stephen Boswell is Douglas Smith, a once genuine BBC announcer who found himself an integral part of the series.

What these actors lack in physical impersonation, they more than make up for with their voices. Shut your eyes and you are back to Sunday lunchtime listening afresh to this ground-breaking comedy show.

The appeal lies in the sound and the words. The original writers had an obvious love of words and the sounds they make. They also had a love of innuendo and double entendres.

In this show many of the double entendres and innuendos are accompanied by a deft twitch of the eyebrow or a guilty grin, which tells you exactly what is meant.

Julian and Sandy have become the gay couple everybody of a certain age loves, the folk-singing, rambling Syd Rumpo - a Kenneth Williams speciality - is the rudest singer you will ever hear, yet not a rude word is heard throughout this two-hour show. As the writer would say, "it's all in the mind" - and there were an awful lot of dirty minds, not least my own, in the audience on the opening night.

Round The Horne...Revisited is an excellent piece of comedy nostalgia which will have you rolling in the aisle and wishing the BBC did such good stuff today.