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This VAT and the Other

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Men from the Ministry, This VAT and the Other

The idle duo are helping to collect VAT - how taxing can that be?

The idle duo are helping to collect VAT - how taxing can that be? Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From June 1975.

The bungling bureaucrats are helping to collect VAT - how taxing can that be?

Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. 

With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. 

Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.

'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra. 

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.

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