Wogan's Radio Fun 04 - Irene Handl and Pat Coombs 1987

[@Tenortalker]

Beloved Patty Coombs didn't live long after her pal Peggy Mount died. They had gone together to a theatrical retirement home ( echoing the plot of one of their comedy shows) but once Peggy was gone Patty's health declined. Irene Handl was greatly loved too and Bob Monkhouse found a new following of young comedians just before he died. A great generation of comedy actors .

[@jrgboy]

Neither Pat or Irene were married.

[@bojack40]

Tenortalker I don’t know that about Pat and Peggy. Loved em both. RIP

[@faithmapstone9982]

No one around like Patty & Irene Bob anymore! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☀️☀️☀️❤❤❤

[@juliamcintyre5012]

Fantastic - thank you so much.

[@xxwendyx]

god I miss the 80s

[@philipbonner6486]

God Bless you all, thank you for making me laugh thou the years xxxx

[@gregrowbrey7102]

How great was that? Wonderful Irene Handyl and equally hilarious Pat Coombes, both missed.

[@neilmcintosh5150]

Our lovely Irene, best known for her many portrayals of feisty cockney types, ranging from barmaids to landladies, charwomen to cooks. Unlike her working class screen personae, Irene's parentage was quite cosmopolitan, her father (Frederick) a Viennese banker, her mother (Maria) a French aristocrat - affluent enough to enable her to travel extensively in her youth.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Wasn't her mother German?

[@edwardthomas9671]

Are you sure this was the 28th December 1987 Irene Handl died in the November in 1987

[@bojack40]

Bloody marvellous

[@VictorZamfirescu]

Just a year while playbox had been aired

[@stephenmiles6638]

I love this awesome

[@jrgboy]

Irene was great friends with Peter Sellers, she wrote sketches for them some of which were recorded.

[@neilmcintosh5150]

Absolutely! And they were both cremated at Golders Green crematorium.

[@williamwellington8668]

Lovely....

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Brilliantly

[@TenorReacts]

God I miss Patty

[@xoffender74]

Irene Handl died shortly after this recording.

[@lillianflorence6056]

I loved handle she was lovely love of ada

[@Nothingness00000-o]

RIP Fruitbat❤😢