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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Episode 1: The Bread and Butter

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A mystery body strains the Republic's spirit of glasnost at the British Embassy.

A mystery body strains the Republic's spirit of glasnost at the British Embassy. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From March 1988.

The era of glasnost has arrived in the small, poor, cold People's Republic of...wherever it is?

That means Her Majesty's Embassy must deal with many more British tourists than found their way there in the past...

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer.

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

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988.

Flying the Flag: Series 2

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Cold War-era sitcom set in a British embassy

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