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Countess Natasha and the Red Menace

Episode 5 of 6

With PM Harold Macmillan set to appear, a spy infiltrates the futuristic radio soap. Stars Peter Bowles. From February 2008.

A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 2008.

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan guest stars in the same week that the programme is infiltrated by a spy.

Starring Peter Bowles, John Fortune and Cheryl Campbell

Christopher William Hill's futuristic sitcom set in 1962.

Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles
Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell
Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune
Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn
Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska
Douglas Bennings/Harold Macmillan ...... Jon Glover
Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon
Roger Aspinall ...... Simon Treves
Secretary ...... Laura Molyneux
Miss Thurwell ...... Anna Bengo

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on Radio 4 in February 2008.

30 minutes

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