Radio Although Hudd and Kay had made a brief appearance as "discoveries" on the BBC's
In Town Tonight in 1958, Hudd made his solo debut on radio in 1959 on ''
Workers' Playtime. His BBC Radio 2 satirical series The News Huddlines ran from 1975 to 2001. His other radio credits include playing Max Quordlepleen, the host at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, in the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), Crowned Hudds
(1994–95), The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1999–2000) and Like They've Never Been Gone'' (1999–2002).
Television Hudd started to work in television in the mid-1960s in sketch series such as
The Illustrated Weekly Hudd and
The Roy Hudd Show. His acting roles included the
Dennis Potter series
Lipstick on Your Collar, for which he received critical praise, and
Karaoke. In the mid 1990s, he appeared in two series of
Common As Muck, a drama about a group of refuse collectors, alongside
Edward Woodward. In 2000, Hudd appeared as neighbour Mr Smedley in an episode of
One Foot in the Grave. From 2002 to 2003, he appeared as the undertaker
Archie Shuttleworth in the
ITV soap opera
Coronation Street In 2016 he appeared in an episode of
Benidorm. In 2017, he appeared in the ITV series
Broadchurch. In May 2008 Hudd appeared as Njegus in the
English National Opera production of
The Merry Widow at the
London Coliseum. and the same year he played the part of the
Wizard in a production of
The Wizard of Oz at London's
Royal Festival Hall. Hudd played Tom Oakley in
Goodnight Mister Tom at the
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds in 2018. This was Hudd's local theatre and was described as "a theatre he absolutely loved." by his wife Debbie. In 2019, he toured the UK in a production of
Oscar Wilde's play
A Woman of No Importance alongside
Liza Goddard and
Isla Blair.
Music hall Hudd wrote several books on
music hall, re-recorded music hall records, and appeared in the music hall revival show
The Good Old Days. He was seen by broadcasters as an authority on the subject and was the longstanding President of the British Music Hall Society. His CD,
Mirth, Magic and Melodrama consists of a collection of classic
monologues from the music hall days, including
The Pig and
The Lion and Albert, first recorded by
Stanley Holloway. For
Celebrity Mastermind, broadcast in January 2014, Hudd answered questions on the specialist subject of music hall comedian
Dan Leno. ==Charity work==