“When you think of some of the stuff on TV these days, it’s hard to see why It Ain’t Half Hot Mum is seen as too offensive to be shown on the BBC,” says Melvyn Hayes. “Nobody swore, there was no ...

Nigel Farage has tried to divert attention from accusations he engaged in racist behaviour at school by suggesting it was merely playground banter, a product of its age like poorly-aged BBC sitcoms.

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Series charting the history of the best of British comedy looks at David Croft and Jimmy Perry's 1970s British Army-based sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Whispering Grass was a 1975 UK Number 1 single ...