Big Jim And The Figaro Club

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Big Jim and the Figaro Club: The French Connection

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

The French Connection

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Big Jim and the Figaro Club, The French Connection

The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins hurl insults - and then onions.

The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins hurl insults - and then onions. Stars Norman Rossington. From February 1987.

Arch-rivals - Town Hall clerk, Potts, and sanitary inspector, Perkins - hurl insults and then onions... 

Six anarchic tales from those demob days 'when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour'.

Written by Ted Walker.

Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

Big Jim …. Norman Rossington
Harold Perkins …. Roland Curram
Old Ned …. Harold Goodwin
Nimrod …. David John
Turps … Sylvester McCoy
Chick …. David Beckett
Potts …. Christopher Godwin
Miss Farquhar …. Hilary Mason
French Onion Johnnie …. Andre Maranne
PC Speedworth. …. Norman Mitchell  

Producer: Martin Fisher 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1987.

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Comedy series set on a seaside town's building site in the 1950s.

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