Arthur Askey was on top of the pips in the wartime film Back-Room Boy

The film that Yvonne Whalley remembers, starring Arthur Askey as the BBC’s operator of the pips (Letters, 9 February), is 1942’s Back-Room Boy.

Askey plays a meteorologist whose responsibility of playing the pips every hour interferes with his personal life to the extent that his fiancee breaks off their engagement. Upset by this, he plays a short tune instead of the pips at midnight, causing him to be reassigned to a remote Hebridean weather station.

Non-pips-related antics ensue until ultimately he returns to London to find that his ex-fiancee has been given his old job playing the pips, and they are reunited.

The film, now in the public domain, can be streamed for free on the Internet Archive website: archive.org/details/BACKROOMBOYVideoQualityUpgrade
Nic Garner
Old Trafford, Greater Manchester

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