The Great White Hunter
Mainwaring causes chaos tracking down Walker's purloined silk parachute. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From April 1976.
Captain Mainwaring causes chaos trying to track down Private Walker's purloined parachute made of silk.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976.
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