And So to Bentley

And So to Bentley was a British BBC comedy television series, which aired in 1954. The scripts were written by Denis Norden and Frank Muir.[1][2] Six episodes were produced, starring Dick Bentley, Peter Sellers, Rosemary Miller, Charlotte Mitchel and Herbert Mostyn. The series was regarded as a flop.[3]

Herbert Mostyn was a notional BBC voice actor, created by Muir and Norden, for convenience when they took small acting parts in the BBC radio comedy programmes they had written (and thus earned acting as well as writing fees). Mostyn was listed in the performing credits for countless BBC radio programmes, as Norden admitted in a radio interview of 2013, but otherwise never existed.[4] Herbert and Mostyn were, respectively, the middle names of Muir and Norden.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Norden, Denis (1922-)". Screenonline. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "And So to Bentley". Genome BETA Radio Times 1923 - 2009. BBC. 29 October 1954. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Lewis, Roger (1995). The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Arrow. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-09-974700-0. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden". BBC Radio 4 Extra.
  5. ↑ Gifford, Denis (1985). The Golden Age of Radio: An Illustrated Companion. Batsford. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-7134-4234-2.


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