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The Two and a Half Feathers

Episode 24 of 26

Jones fights back as a new platoon recruit rakes up their military past. Adapted from TV with Clive Dunn. From August 1976.

Corporal Jones fights back - as a new Home Guard platoon recruit rakes up their military past.

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 Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Mr Clarke …. Michael Bates
Edna …. Avril Angers
Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 in August 1976.

30 minutes

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