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Getting the Bird

Episode 13 of 20

Butcher Jones is short of meat, so Walker arranges a special off-ration supply. Adapted from TV with Clive Dunn. From May 1975.

Lance Corporal Jones is short of meat at his butcher's shop, so Private Walker arranges a special off-ration supply.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.

Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
The Vicar ...... Frank Williams
Sergeant Wilson’s Daughter ...... Diana Bishop
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 in May 1975.

30 minutes

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