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Christmas Special 1991

4 Extra Debut. It's a Wonderful Blight - Barnum's guardian angel shows him how things might have been. Starring John Baddeley. From 1991.

It's a Wonderful Blight.........

It's supposed to be the season of goodwill in Little Blighty, but parish council leader John Barnum, is so depressed he wonders how things would have turned out if he'd never existed....

1980s political satirical soap opera set in the strangely familiar village of Little Blighty.

Life here is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings do include social turmoil, economic upheaval and vicious political squabbles.

Written by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Mike Coleman

Starring:

John Baddeley
Bernadine Corrigan
Jo Kendall
Jonathan Kydd
Daniel Strauss
Michael Troughton

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991.

30 minutes

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