Julia Lang

Julia Lang (1921 - ) BBC broadcaster and actress

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
- originally an 'ad lib' in 1950 on BBC Home Service radio programme Listen with Mother. Used as the consistent opening line until end of series in 1982.^[1]^[2] Note that Frieda Fordham (a psychologist who advised the BBC) has also been credited with it.

[edit] References

↑ BBC web-site - Accessed 25 Jan 2011
↑ Partridge, Eric (1986). A Dictionary of Catch Phrases:British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Routledge. p. 26. ISBN 041505916X.

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