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London Calling: 4: The Great Race

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The last episode of Jimmy Perry's comedy about the early days of the BBC.
John Brown has decided that the BBC will broadcast the 1923 Oxford v Cambridge boat race. So the rest of the staff rally round to find a way to bring off the transmission, at whatever cost.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Jimmy Perry
John Brown:
Graham Crowden
Colonel Beecham:
Jimmy Perry
Admiral Charles Carpenter:
Peter Cellier
Roger Eccles:
Jeffrey Holland
Phyllis Godfrey:
Amanda Bellamy
Rex Murray:
Logan Murray
Jeffrey Stainton:
Chris Luscombe
Sgt Lucas:
Bill Pertwee
Miss Nightingale/Dame Plunkett-Plunkett:
Joanna Monro
Isabel Blair:
Julie Gibbs
Arthur:
Toby Longworth
Bobby Bright:
Leonard Kirby
Fred 'Keep 'em Laughing' Hicks:
Roy Hudd
Other parts played by:
Brian Bowles
Source: Radio Times

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