Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Peter Brough with his puppet Archie Andrews NPG x92105

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Ventriloquist. Both Peter Brough and his father worked in the textile trade as well as being ventriloquists. After a slow start in wartime variety and radio, Brough found success with Educating Archie, first broadcast on 6 June 1950. It was immediately recognised as a classic radio comedy (and from 1858 an ITV series). The knowing schoolboy dummy and his stepfather (Brough) were BBC announcer by a host of comedy stars including Sid James and Tony Hancock. The programme also featured Julie Andrews'... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.