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The Great Escape

Episode 6 of 6

The Chester-Perry buying clerk plots his summer holiday. Stars Michael Williams, Rodney Bewes and Dora Bryan. From May 1999.

Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea.

Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk.

He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.

Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip.

Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.

Bristow …. Michael Williams
Jones …. Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy …. Dora Bryan
Hewitt …. Owen Brenman
Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey
Fudge …. Jon Glover
BJ …. Christopher Benjamin
Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger
Francine …. Carol Starks
Turner …. David Ryall

Other parts played by the cast.

Music: John Whitehall

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.

30 minutes

Last on

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