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Tales from the Poona Club: 1: Magic Carpet George

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Eight stories of the British in India by Berkely Mather
with Edward de Souza

Acting Major George Pawson had been shipped off to India on his wedding day in 1939. Four years later he was still there - and Patty his wife was waiting for the honeymoon the war seemed to have put off indefinitely!

(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)
(Derek Birch is in 'Fiddler on the Roof' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Berkely Mather
Producer:
Betty Davies
Storyteller:
Austin Trevor
Sergeant:
John Bentley
Corporal:
Peter Tuddenham
Col Hap Brady:
Jerry Stovin
George:
Edward de Souza
Patty:
Jan Edwards
Brigadier:
Derek Birch
Aunt Ella:
Margot Boyd
Peter:
Hector Ross
Source: Radio Times

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