Bob Holness

I used to watch it with my mum after CITV.

Bob Holness, a master.

Yes.

And the first actor to ever portray James Bond.

interesting snippet.

Yeah, in a South African radio production, which is now lost, unfortunately, of Casino Royale.

We'll have to start up Bob Holness Watch to go alongside Big Watch.

Yeah, Bob Watch.

And some of the broadcasting gods were at that, the station there.

I mean, you had the legends like Brian Hayes and Bob Holness and Douglas Cameron.

And also, didn't Pete Murray also come over to LBC?

Yes, he did.

Case in point here with Ed Welch's exciting and expansive music for Blockbusters, a quiz show in which contestants answer general knowledge questions to claim spaces on a honeycomb-shaped board with the aim of completing a connected line across it.

It came with the unusual mechanic of pitting a team of two against a solo player and was helmed with ineffable charm by Bob Holness.

The episode we watched aired on ITV on Wednesday the 2nd of September at 10 past 5:00 in the evening, and saw Richard Winson from Exmouth Community College challenging returning champions Diane Cheung and Chris Hoffland from Beith High School in Cowdenbeath.

Oh, I love this show.

Um, you- There's a real audience who you don't ever see, but you can hear them sometimes cheering when the solo player finally gets some points back.

Uh, there's a real sense of goodwill, and again, the budget isn't always seen, but it's there, and it makes a difference.

And Bob Holness does it so lightly.

Um, there, you know, there's topical references to some of the questions, which he'll drop in.

we don't count, of

course, Bob Holness.

Remember that? That was radio, was it,

no? Aye, that was radio.

The first ever kind of bond in any form of the airwaves, if you like.

It was Bob Holness.

A young Bob Holness played him in a radio play.

Yeah.