The Two Ronnies at 50: why comedy's happiest, funniest marriage was too good to last
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker in 2005 Credit: BBC Ronnie Corbett said “there was never a cross word” with Ronnie Barker, during four decades of what he called a close and “very British friendship”. Barker described their partnership as “even more amicable than a marriage – wedlock without the bad patches”. During the heyday of The Two Ronnies, which was first transmitted on April 10 1971, more than 20 million viewers regularly tuned in every Saturday night; it was more national institution than television show. The two men, both christened Ronald, met in London in 1963, when...