Still Open All Hours

It’s surely a good sign for a sitcom when the cast laugh so much during rehearsals that they have to be sent home, and similarly, that the set looked so real that a local Yorkshireman used to regularly enter the shop to try and buy a box of matches. These wonderful details and hundreds more remained between the cast and crew until now, when following extensive interviews and research, acclaimed television historian Graham McCann tells the untold story of Open All Hours.

With unprecedented access to the BBC archives, Graham reveals the secret behind Arkwright’s realistic moustache, Ronnie Barker’s secret snacking from the corner shop set, and the trick behind that infamous badly behaved till…