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Whack-O !

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Professor Jimmy Edwards submits a weekly school report
with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Mr. Potter
and Laidman Browne as Mr. Fowler, Frederick Treves as Alfred Tennyson, David Bird as a School Inspector, Rolter Shepherd as Lumley

Script adapted by David Climie from an original by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
(Recorded broadcast of June 6 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Professor Jimmy Edwards:
Jimmy Edwards
Mr. Potter:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Mr. Fowler:
Laidman Browne
Alfred Tennyson:
Frederick Treves
School Inspector:
David Bird
Lumley:
Rolter Shepherd
Original script:
Frank Muir
Original script:
Denis Norden
Script adapted by:
David Climie
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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