Good riddance to those dull Sundays that Tony Hancock and I loathed

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Sundays in the 1950s are remembered by Bob Waring and Martin Cooper In 1958 Tony Hancock had a very different take on the British Sunday from Sian Dudley’s bucolic vision ( Letters, 30 August ), as outlined in the Hancock’s Half Hour episode Sunday Afternoon at Home : “I might just as well be in bed: there’s nothing else to do. [Sigh] I wish I hadn’t got up now … I hate Sundays. It’s not like this

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