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The Navy Lark: Series 2: Secret Mission to Calais

06/05/2015

Secret Mission to Calais

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Navy Lark, Series 2, Secret Mission to Calais

The Troutbridge crew sets sail to France to collect an agent, but Phillips gets lost.

The Troutbridge crew sets sail to France to collect an agent, but Phillips gets lost. Starring Leslie Phillips. From March 1960.

Tact, diplomacy and discretion are needed as the crew of HMS Troutbridge sets sail to France to collect an agent, but then Phillips gets lost...

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Fifi, Michael Bates as Smythe and Tenniel Evans as AS Goldstein. 

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976. 

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. 

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1960.

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Sitcom about life aboard a British frigate named HMS Troutbridge based in HMNB Portsmouth

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