Who'll fork out for Ronnie Barker's handwritten words?

Ronnie Barker’s handwritten script for the classic Four Candles sketch is to go under the hammer again.

The A4 script previously sold for £48,500 in 2007, after surfacing on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow the previous year, and is expected to fetch around £40,000 now.

Written in red ink, under Barker's alias Gerald Wiley, the document contained several corrections and scribbles.

The sketch, which aired September 1976 was officially titled Annie Finkhouse and Ronnie Corbett previously confirmed the script was genuine.

It will now go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire on  December 20.

Other lots at the auction include a pair of spectacles used in a Two Ronnies show and a letter signed by Barker.

Published: 8 Dec 2017