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Bristow

Comedy: Sitcoms

Michael Williams stars as a buying clerk based on Frank Dickens' cartoon strip

Michael Williams stars as Chester-Perry's famous buying clerk based on Frank Dickens' cartoon strip

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Bristow: Series 1: The Great Escape

The Great Escape

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Bristow, Series 1, The Great Escape

Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea.

The Chester-Perry buying clerk plots his summer holiday. Stars Michael Williams, Rodney Bewes and Dora Bryan. From May 1999.

Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea.

Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk. 

He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.

Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.

Bristow …. Michael Williams
Jones …. Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy …. Dora Bryan
Hewitt …. Owen Brenman
Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey 
Fudge …. Jon Glover 
BJ …. Christopher Benjamin 
Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger
Francine …. Carol Starks 
Turner …. David Ryall

Other parts played by the cast.  

Music: John Whitehall

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.

Bristow: Series 1

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Michael Williams stars as a buying clerk in this version of Frank Dickens' cartoon strip.

Michael Williams stars as Chester-Perry's famous buying clerk in the radio version of Frank Dickens' cartoon strip

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