About General Burke and his Men on the Milky Way by Ali Mirdrekvandi (Gunga Din)
Adapted by TERENCE TILLER with Garard Green as Gunga Din
Pobert Ayres as General Burke Others taking part:
Eva Haddon , Nigel Anthony
Wilfred Bahbage. Richard Bebb Arthur Bush. Denis Goacher Douglas Hankin
Anthony Jackson. Marvin Kane Murray Kash. Harold Kasket.
Peter Marinker , Michael McClain Ralph Truman , Gabriel Woolf
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
During the 1940s Ali Mirdrekvandi was mess servant to various British and American army units stationed in Iran. Of peasant origin. he had taught himself to read and write; he now taught himself English. One officer nicknamed him Gunga Din; another encouraged him to write stories. No Heaven for Gunga Din is his only known — complete — work in English.
Second broadcast