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Caught in the Draft

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Private Michael Aspel of the King's Royal Rifle Corps flicks back 25 years to the National Service experience and recalls its joys and terrors, its humour and its discomforts, as remembered by a few of those who reported for duty all those years ago: ex-airman
Bob Monkhouse , Pay Corps Corporal Leslie Thomas , former Lance Bombardier John Junkin , and ex-RAF officer (ground crew) John Dunn.
Off-parade noises include the voices of RSM Brittain
Private William Speakman , vc The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden Mary Stocks
Private Bill Flowers
Jean Metcalfe and many others Devised and written by TERENCE PETTIGREW (REME) Producer HARRY THOMPSON (R)

Contributors

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Michael Aspel
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Bob Monkhouse
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Leslie Thomas
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Lance Bombardier
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John Junkin
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John Dunn.
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William Speakman
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Sir Anthony Eden
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Bill Flowers
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Jean Metcalfe
Written By:
Terence Pettigrew
Producer:
Harry Thompson
Source: Radio Times

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