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Sergeant, Save My Boy!

Episode 5 of 20

Barbed wire traps Pike on a seaside minefield, and the tide is turning! Adapted from TV with Ian Lavender. From March 1975.

Barbed wire traps Private Pike on a seaside minefield - and the tide is starting to turn!

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 Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1975.

30 minutes

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