The Greasy Pole
Blending jobs with chemicals makes an explosive mixture for Jim Hacker. Adapted from TV, with Paul Eddington. From October 1984.
Blending jobs with chemicals makes an explosive mixture for MP Jim Hacker.
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Satirical sitcom centred around hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.
Written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
It first ran on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV between 1980 and 1984.
Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard Woolley …. Derek Fowlds
Joan Littler, MP …. Brenda Blethyn
Sir Wally Macfarlane …. Freddie Earlle
Professor Henderson …. Jerome Willis
Lord Crichton …. Geoffrey Toone
Lady Crichton …. Helena Breck
The Protestor …. Helen Atkinson Wood
Newsreader …. Moira Stuart
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1984.
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