Radio Comedy

It is 1886 and the venerable publishing firm of Garnett and Son are getting by - just - when a manuscript comes in from a Mr. Conan Doyle. The manuscript divides the firm; Garnett Sr. loathes it and its hero, Sherlock Holmes, but Garnett Jr. loves it. The father and son agree to a bet: if they can solve a local murder, using Holmes' methods, they will publish. If not, Sherlock Holmes will be confined to the dustbin of history.

Produced by Sydney Lotterby of Yes Minister and Porridge fame. Each instalment featured a mixture of sketches (some foreshadowing Bennett's subsequent television dramas, others mocking television clichés, such as documentaries about working-class Northern writers and discussion programmes featuring pretentious critics). This is a never before broadcast compilation of sketches and extracts from the TV series before the tapes where wiped.

Habeas corpus is exactly the kind of thing Sweetwater would claim if he thought it would get his client off the hook. Only thing is - Sweetwater's not that kind of attorney anymore. With the help of his broken-English sidekick, Manetti, and secretary Miss Rivers, Sweetwater begins taking any job he can to keep his legal practice afloat, and this particular case is anything but ordinary. In this episode Sweetwater is ordered to attend a will reading for a unknown client who has named Sweetwater an heir of a fortune he knows nothing about.

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. In this episode, a poor juggler of old France gives the mother of the Christ child the only present he can.