Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comedy BBC radio

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 and Radio Luxembourg show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne

Kenneth Horne

Kenneth Horne was an English comedian and businessman. The son of a clergyman and politician, he combined a successful business career with regular broadcasting for the BBC. His first hit series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh written with his co-star Richard Murdoch arose out of his wartime service as...

 and Richard Murdoch

Richard Murdoch

Richard Bernard Murdoch was a British comedic radio, film and television performer.Richard Bernard Murdoch attended Charterhouse School. He then appeared in Footlights whilst a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge...

 as senior staff in a fictional RAF station

RAF station

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 battling red tape

Red tape

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 and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a country club ("the proposed membership drive has been cancelled as it is far cheaper to give everyone a bus ticket") and finally a newspaper The Weekly Bind.