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Tilting at The Windmill

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

A lucky break from painting and decorating to performing as a comic at London’s risqué Windmill Theatre in Piccadilly.

Best remembered as Mr Harman in BBC TV’s long-running sitcom Are You Being Served?, comedian and actor, Arthur English looks back over his life and career with Michael Pointon and a studio audience.

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1988. Show less

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