BBC to broadcast lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour

The radio show, which has not been repeated since first airing in 1955, will be played on Radio 4 on 18 October

A lost episode of 1950s radio show Hancock's Half Hour has been found and restored and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next month.

The episode, the only one to feature the actor and comedian Peter Sellers - who was standing in for Hancock's regular collaborator Kenneth Williams - is from the first series of the sitcom and is called The Marriage Bureau.