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A Testing Time
Times are changing - can the bungling duo pass new civil service exams? With Richard Murdoch. Re-recorded in April 1980.
Times are changing – but can the bungling bureaucrats pass the new civil service exams?
One of 14 shows not kept in the archive and re-recorded in 1980 – previously never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra.
‘The Men from the Ministry’ ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977.
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler (who replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966).
With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham.
Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Edward Taylor.
Producer: Edward Taylor.
Re-recording of ‘A Degrading Business' made in April 1980.
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Tue 27 Nov 2018
19:30
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