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A broken typewriter causes chaos. Eastern bloc embassy sitcom starring Dinsdale Landen as the ambassador. From 1987.

The repair of the embassy typewriter plays a part in the mating of seals, the extermination of bugs and the silencing of little birds.

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer.

Ambassador Mackenzie …. Dinsdale Landen
William Frost …. Peter Acre
Helen Waterson …. Moir Leslie
Brown …. Milton Johns
Bryant …. Stuart Organ
Colonel Surikov …. Christopher Benjamin

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1987.

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