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Parsley Sidings

Comedy: Sitcoms

Railway station comedy starring Arthur Lowe

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Parsley Sidings: Series 2: A Bird in the Hand

A Bird in the Hand

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Parsley Sidings, Series 2, A Bird in the Hand

A rare gull is spotted during a station spring-clean, causing chaos on the line.

A rare gull is spotted during a station spring-clean, causing chaos on the line. Starring Arthur Lowe. From November 1973.

A 'rare' gull is spotted during a station spring-clean at Parsley Sidings, causing chaos on the line.

Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Valentine/ Bradshaw/Editor, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as Bert and John Baddeley as the train driver.  

Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line. 

Producer: Edward Taylor.  

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973.

Parsley Sidings: Series 2

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