Flying the Flag

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Cold War-era sitcom set in a British embassy. Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Alex Shearer's Cold War-era sitcom set in a British embassy. Starring Dinsdale Landen.

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Flying the Flag: Series 3: Episode 1: Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway?

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Episode 1: Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway?

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Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway?

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Flying the Flag, Series 3, Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway?

Toxic waste is a challenge for Ambassador Mackenzie on his Eastern Bloc posting.

Toxic waste is a challenge for Ambassador Mackenzie on his Eastern Bloc posting. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From November 1990.

"Lights going up, walls coming down - the West is starting to look a bit lost without someone to blame for all its troubles". 

Her Majesty's Ambassador Mackenzie continues to dispense his own blend of British Foreign Policy, despite the arrival of Glastnost, Perestroika - and a container ship of toxic waste...

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Return of the Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer.

HM Ambassador Mackenzie …. Dinsdale Landen	 
Helen …. Moir Leslie	 
Spiro  …. Stephen Greif	 
Christopher Benjamin …. Colonel Surikov	 
William Frost …. Peter Acre

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990.

Flying the Flag: Series 3

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