Hi-De-Hi stage show for 2010

[Pip Madeley]

Oddest story I've heard for ages!

Builders working at the home of former Hi-De-Hi star Barry Howard found a Second World War incendiary device hidden above his bedroom. Workers removing a chimney breast at his flat in Poole, Dorset, dislodged the ten-inch device on Tuesday.

Mr Howard, 69, who played ballroom dancer Barry Stuart-Hargreaves, said he must have been unknowingly sleeping under the bomb for the past 20 years. The dormant device, marked 1942, was taken away by a bomb disposal team.

Mr Howard, of Haydon Road, Branksome Park, told the BBC: "I had been sleeping under it for 20 years, and it had probably been there for 65. I think it may have been lodged in the chimney breast but I have no way of knowing what it was doing there. It just dropped down onto the floor. When the emergency services arrived, they put it on a plank and carried it out into the garden and put an upturned bucket over it. They even put a cordon up. I felt like running round Westbourne shouting 'Don't panic! Don't panic!'"

Mr Howard starred in the BBC sitcom, which was set at a 1950s holiday camp, for six series.

[Dave Tudor]

How utterly bizarre!

[Andrew Curnow]

I read that story too, it just made me laugh - particularly his comment about wanting to run around saying "Don't Panic!"

[Si Hunt]

I thought he was dead, and that's why they recast him in Hi-De-Hi!

However charming this story is, I suspect news out of nothing. Surely if it was really a bomb they wouldn't have carried it out into the garden on a plank and put a bucket over it?!

Si.

[Paul Hayes]

I thought he was dead, and that's why they recast him in Hi-De-Hi!

However charming this story is, I suspect news out of nothing. Surely if it was really a bomb they wouldn't have carried it out into the garden on a plank and put a bucket over it?!

Si.

I think you have too much faith in our country's emergency services!

[Alex]

Mr Howard, of Haydon Road, Branksome Park

Now we've got his address we could go and stalk him. Tis just a shame that whenever they do a story on Drew Barrymore that they don't give that level of detail away too!

[P-Bal]

Su Pollard was discussing the menopause on Matthew Wright this morning. A big day for fans of Hi-de-Hi!

[Pip Madeley]

Will you guys be going to this Menopause: The Musical then?

[P-Bal]

Nicki French is also in it.

Smell her!

[Pip Madeley]

According to the new issue of Shortlist magazine, Barry Howard is going to be reprising his role of Barry Stuart-Hargreaves for a stage production of Hi-De-Hi! in 2010... I expect it will be Calibre Productions (the people behind the 'Allo 'Allo, Dad's Army and Porridge shows).

[Simon R]

We quite enjoyed the "Dad's Army" and "Allo Allo Allo" ones so it might be good. I hope Su is in reception as they say.

[davethesailor]

Oh my! I would sell my cats to see this stage show! When and where?

[Pip Madeley]

http://www.brucejamesproductions.co.....asp?NewsID=54

Bernie Nolan as Peggy...

[Paul Monk]

I was once in a Hi-De-Hi stage show. When I was about 10!

[Si Hunt]

Lost fact!

Si.

[Paul Monk]

Guess who I played?

[Pip Madeley]

Peggy?

[Paul Monk]

Cheek. I was Geoffrey Fairbrother which was great because I was really nervous so I hardly had to act.

[P-Bal]

This is old news! You people should look at the Hi-de-Hi website more often!

[Paul Monk]

I didn't realise there was a section about my school play on there?