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| creator       = [[w:Richard Williams|Richard Williams]]
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This performance is rather a curiosity amongst [[Kenneth Williams]]' work as it was originally started in 1963 as a soundtrack to a short animated film of [[w:Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)|Nicolai Gogol’s classic tale]]. 

The fate of this film was similar to another of [[w:Richard Williams|Richard Williams]]' films that Kenneth Williams did voice-over work on, [[w:The Thief and the Cobbler|The Thief and the Cobbler]]. Having, unfortunately, never been completed, the narrations performed by Williams survived, and it was this that was remixed by the BBC and broadcast.

The discussions about the film took place at Kenneth Williams' flat at 11.30am on {{Date|1963-05-14}}, with the recording actually taking place on the 23rd. The recording session started at 10.30am and continued throughout the whole day, finishing at 5pm.

It was nearly thirty years later, a few years after Williams' death, that the BBC re-edited the soundtrack with the first broadcast on [[w:BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]], at 8.00pm on {{Date|1991-02-03}}. There was a repeat soon after this.

Dramatisation by James Burke, music by Peter Shade

The last purported broadcast was on ABC Classic FM on Wednesday {{Date|1999-03-31}} at 8pm (Australia). The recording does still exist in the BBC archives.