No Spring for Frazer
When Frazer loses a Lewis gun's butterfly spring, he must track down a coffin! Adapted from BBC TV with John Laurie. From 1974.
When Private Frazer loses a butterfly spring from a Lewis gun, he must track down a coffin!
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 Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
ARP Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Miss Barker …. Joan Cooper
Mr Blewitt …. Timothy Bateson
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1974.
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