Up The Pole

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Up the Pole

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Popular double act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss are proprietors of an Arctic trading post.

Popular double act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss are the proprietors of an Arctic trading post. With guests including Jon Pertwee and Julie Andrews.

Up the Pole: From 01/11/1948

From 01/11/1948

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Up the Pole, From 01/11/1948

Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss settle into a new flat over a disused fire station.

Popular double act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss settle into a new flat over a disused fire station. With Jon Pertwee. From November 1948.

Dopey Jimmy Jewel and fast-talking Ben Warriss settle into their new flat over a disused fire station. Desperate Jimmy's in love and needs cash fast... 

The sole surviving episode from 4 series of 'Up The Pole' which ran from 1947 - 1952. In the first series, the duo ran an Arctic trading post. First cousins, Jewel and Warriss found great success on stage, film, radio and TV in the post-war years. 

With Claude Dampier, Jon Pertwee, Betty Paul and Roger Snowdon. 

Music by the Five Smith Brothers and the Dance Orchestra - conducted by Stanley Black 

Scripted by Ronnie Hanbury.

Producer: George Inns

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1948.

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