For those of us of a certain age, this recreation of one of the most popular radio shows of the Sixties was pure nostalgia, but with a modern edge.

It's difficult to believe that it is some 40 years since we huddled within earshot of radios as we ate traditional Sunday lunches at the family table to listen to a weekly diet of one of the funniest things in broadcast entertainment of the day.

For, in an age when television was pretty much in its infancy, radio was still the prime showcase for comics, and Round The Horne was among the pioneers of a new breed of British comedy.

Its prime creators and writers, Barry Took and Marty Feldman, along with fellow scripters Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, had half the nation in stitches over their roast beef and Yorkshire puds with a succession of quickfire gags and implausible lightning sketches that were the forerunners of hit TV shows like Monty Python through to The Fast Show and Harry Enfield.

As innocent teenagers of the Sixties, much of the thinly-disguised double entendres were lost on us, and it is a wonder so much of it was passed by the prudish BBC powers-that-be at the time.

But the stage version of the show, which began a week-long run at The Alhambra last night, was still wickedly funny, using scripts from the old radio shows, with the occasional modern reference thrown in.

Deliciously corny lines that were the trademark of the show abounded, including such gems as: "It was a Haggard novel." "Rider Haggard?" "No, he dismounted for this one" Or even, "He had, for years, a rasher of bacon sticking out of his ear, and wondered if it could ever be cured".

And so it went on, all delivered with fabulous characterisations by the cast mimicking in uncanny detail the originals. Stephen Critchlow as anchor Kenneth Horne, Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams, Julia Webber as Betty Marsden, and David Rumelle as Hugh Paddick, supported by Charles Armstrong as announcer Douglas Smith, were all in their element recreating their alter egos for a live audience.

The set was a simple but effective studio set-up. With period microphones, and a sound effects man, C P Hallam, on stage, doing the effects for real. It was all a very slick performance. The line that had me chuckling the most was during one of the infamous Julian and Sandy sketches, when the gay couple were visited at their new political party's HQ by Kenneth Horne, who was told in the campest of camp manners: "We're the Universal Party, 'cos were at it Right, Left, and Centre".

It's a real treat of a show, and runs until Saturday.