The Clitheroe Kid
| Genre | Sitcom |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Syndicates | BBC Radio 4 Extra |
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| Created by | James Casey |
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| Recording studio | Hulme Hippodrome, Manchester, UK |
| Original release | 24 April 1956 – 13 August 1972 |
| No. of series | 17 |
| No. of episodes | 290 |
| Website | www |
The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the North of England. The pilot show, pilot series, and 16 subsequent series, totalling 290 episodes in all, were originally broadcast between April 1957 and August 1972.