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Personal Column

This Column Every Friday by Arnold Yarrow

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

A dodgy insurance broker takes drastic measures to try to avoid being exposed.

Dramas which tell the stories reading between the lines of newspaper personal ads.

Written by Arnold Yarrow.

Helen Winstall .... Mary Wimbush
Percy Winstall .... Charles Leno
Arthur Gartred .... James Bree
Newspaper Clerk .... Jean Aubrey

Series concept originated by Philip Levene.

Producer: John Gibson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1967. Show less

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