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Classic Serial: Flash for Freedom

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1/2. Recounting the high adventures and low behaviour of that renowned bounder, blackguard, liar, lecher and self-confessed coward, Sir Harry Flashman VC. A two-part dramatisation by George MacDonald Fraser from one of his novels. It is 1848 and Flashman is considering a career in politics. But a calamitous game of pontoon with Disraeli plunges our hero into hair-raising involvement with a homicidal sea captain, the West African slave trade, and Congressman Abraham Lincoln.
Producer/Director Patrick Rayner Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Writer/Dramatist:
George MacDonald Fraser
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Old Flashman:
Joss Ackland
Young Flashman:
Rhys Meredith
Crixus:
Nigel Anthony
Capt Spring:
Christian Rodska
Lincoln:
William Hope
Messalina:
Ndldi Del Fatti
Fanny:
Emily Wachter
Morrison:
Jamie Newall
Lt Comber:
Robert Hastie
Source: Radio Times

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