Listen to Les was a long-running comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 2 starring Les Dawson.
Dawson performed various deadpan monologues and played in a number of recurring character sketches including "At Home with the Desponds", "The Sophisticates" and "Cissy and Ada" supported by other performers including Daphne Oxenford and Roy Barraclough.
Every show ended with Dawson calling upon the studio audience to join him in a singalong with a popular or classic song, which he would deliberately play badly at the piano, to great comic effect.
Famous quotes containing the words listen to, listen and/or les:
“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
“Conductor: What do you know about music?
Eddie: Nothing I only wrote it, that’s all.
Conductor: Then you have the best of me. You don’t have to listen to it.”
—James Gleason (1886–1959)
“The deer and the dachshund are one.
Well, the gods grow out of the weather.
The people grow out of the weather;
The gods grow out of the people.
Encore, encore, encore les dieux . . .”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)