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Can Donald Cameron survive exploring England’s adopted game, the Scottish game of golf? Leslie Phillips narrates. From 1994.

Can Donald survive exploring England’s adopted game, the Scottish game of golf?

And can he negotiate his way around the world of international diplomacy?

Retired injured from the Great War, young Donald Cameron is writing a book about the English and their curious habits.

AG Macdonell's classic comic novel, first published in 1933.

Adapted by Bob Sinfield.

Narrated by Leslie Phillips.

Donald Cameron .... Sam Graham
Sir Henry Wooton .... Christopher Benjamin
Carteret-Pendragon .... Peter Kelly
Interpreter .... Katy Odey
Davies .... Shaun Prendergast

Director: Neil Cargill

A Splice of Life production for BBC Radio 2 first broadcast in October 1994.

28 minutes

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