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In the Beginning

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Back to the wireless days of 1922 and BBC's new DG John Brown takes charge.

Back to the wireless days of 1922 and BBC's new DG John Brown takes charge. Stars Graham Crowden and Jimmy Perry. From 1994.

The man behind TV hits Dad's Army and Hi-De-Hi - Jimmy Perry's star-packed comedy about the early wireless days of the BBC.

Back in 1922, when a microphone jammed if a speaker talked too loudly, the letters of praise and complaint flooded in.

Then a new Director-General, John Brown, came to take over the British Broadcasting Company. 

John Brown    ......    Graham Crowden  
Colonel Beecham    ......    Jimmy Perry
Fred "Keep 'em Laughing" Hicks    ......    Roy Hudd 
Sergeant Lucas    ......    Bill Pertwee 
Roger Eccles    ......    Jeffrey Holland 
Miss Nightingale    ......    Joanna Munro 
Arthur    ......    Toby Longworth
Admiral Carpenter    ......    Peter Cellier
Jeffrey Stainton    ......    Chris Luscombe
Bobby Bright    ......    Leonard Kirby
Phyllis Godfrey    ......    Amanda Bellamy 
Rex Murray    ......    Logan Murray

Music by Roy Moore.

Producer: Jo Clegg. 

First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994.

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Graham Crowden and Jimmy Perry star in a sitcom about the early days of the wireless

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