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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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Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons. Starring Dinsdale Landen. From December 1990.

"Drugs, Mr Ambassador?"

"We didn't need drugs in my day, William. We had something else to sustain us - we called them standards." 

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer.

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

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1990.

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