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'The Alaska Run'
Another adventure of Samuel Poppleton. Esquire, antique dealer by Margaret Potter
Production by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Writer:
Margaret Potter
Production:
Trevor Hill
Old Samuel Popplelton, the retired seafarer:
Humbert Smith
Two children who visit the shop - Elizabeth:
Joyce Palin
Two children who visit the shop - Peter:
Geoffrey Seale
His Siamese Cat:
null Cleopatra
Captain John Doyle, skipper of the 'Saucy Jane':
Fred Fairclough
Sama Poppleton, youth:
Brian Trueman
Pietro, the cabin boy from Marseilles:
John Kitching
Mr Edwards, the first mate:
Ernest Hawtin
Jacob Cartland, head of the shipping firm:
Bill Price
Ian Cartland, his brother, a mineralogist:
Graham. Tennant
Sydney Wilson, manager of the Macdonald Mining Company:
Nonmain Somers
Sergeant Carey, of the Provincial Police:
Jom, Farrel
Oonalik, an Eskimo:
Herbert Smith
Source: Radio Times

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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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