Veteran comedy writer Denis Norden has donated hundreds of his early radio scripts to Sussex University.

The material was co-written with the late Frank Muir and includes episodes of the groundbreaking Fifties series Take It From Here.

Jokes include the legendary line, later used in a Carry On movie: "Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me."

Archivist Dorothy Sheridan said: "These are the first comedy scripts we have been given and complement the mass observation archives here of the Forties and Fifties."

Mr Norden will hand over the material at a lunch attended by his daughter Maggie, who attended the university in the Seventies, and Muir's son Jamie.

Jamie said: "We wanted the scripts to come here because of the various connections and because the university has always been so fantastically helpful.

"It also seems a natural home for them because of the university's interest in media studies."

Media studies lecturer Andy Medhurst said Mr Norden and Mr Muir's contribution to British comedy was profound.

The pair's work dates from the late Forties when Take It From Here won the hearts and minds of the British listening public with their TV characters The Glums in the late Seventies.

The intervening years produced such favourites as Bedtime With Braden, Gently Bentley, and the Whack-O! series starring Jimmy Edwards.

Recognition for their work came in the form of numerous awards and they were made CBEs in 1980.