Douglas Smith started as a presenter on the BBC Third Programme but is most famous as the very formal announcer on Round the Horne. Therein he advertised the fictional product for horses-Dobbiroids-and made a huge number of naïve sound effects to assist in the devlopment of humorous and often bizarre plots. Many of his roles were inevitably inanimate objects.
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