Kenneth horne kenneth williams betty marsden and hugh paddick star in 15 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy round the horne arrived on bbc radio in 1965 bringing laughter to sunday lunchtimes throughout the land over the course of sixteen weekly episodes it carved a niche in the history of broadcast comedy a sketch show which prodded the boundaries of propriety and innuendo at its heart was the suave and upstanding kenneth horne around which revolved the multiple naughty persona