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Afternoon Theatre: Before the Bird has Flown

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Grant C. Eustace
with Martin Jarvis as Anthony Scott Mortimer

To celebrate Trafalgar Day, a play set on an isolated Royal Naval air station in Cornwall. A secret helicopter has disappeared. It couldn't have just vanished into the blue, so who took it - and why?

(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Grant C. Eustace
Director:
Christopher Venning
Anthony Scott Mortimer:
Martin Jarvis
Cdr Timothy Beaumont:
Roy Spencer
Lieut-Cdr Warren Kendall:
Anthony Chambers
Lieut-Cdr Peter Wilkinson:
Adrian Egan
Second Officer Nicola Taylor:
Sue Best
Captain:
Laurence Harrington
Steward:
David Cann
Insp Nancholas:
Harold Kasket
Mrs Goddard:
Elspeth Charlton
PC Martin:
Nick Brimble
Maureen Kendall:
Amanda Murray
Sub-Lieut Jack Curtis:
David Griffin
Jumbo Hazlitt:
Fred Bryant
Source: Radio Times

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