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The Navy Lark: Series 2: Johnson's Diet

08/04/2011

Johnson's Diet

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Navy Lark, Series 2, Johnson's Diet

Povey learns there is no official record of HMS Troutbridge, and someone is very hungry.

Povey learns there is no official record of HMS Troutbridge, and someone is very hungry. Stars Ronnie Barker. From February 1960.

Commander Povey discovers there's no official record of HMS Troutbridge - and someone's very hungry.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as Commander Bracewell and Tenniel Evans as Goldstein. 

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976. 

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. 

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1960.

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Sitcom about life aboard a British frigate named HMS Troutbridge based in HMNB Portsmouth

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