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The Horne Section " review by Brian Logan

Lyric theatre, LondonForty years after BBC radio's Round the Horne, comedians with that surname still can't resist telling the joke they were born with. That's not the only thing unchanged after four decades. Twenty-first-century Alex Horne's "jazz performance party" is a throwback to the variety shows of 20th-century Kenneth Horne's era. It pledges, albeit tongue-in-cheek, a pioneering experiment in combining music …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AM on February 16, 2011

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