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Christopher William Hill's 1930s comedy set on St Martin's - one of the Isles of Scilly.

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Joseph Kloska

Alex Tregear

Stuart Fox

Alex Palmer

Bec Applebee

Ed Gaughan

Mary Peate

Christopher William Hill

On the Rocks: Series 2: Episode 1: Sirens

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Episode 1: Sirens

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Sirens

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1930s comedy set on St Martin's, one of the Isles of Scilly.

It's 1938: GPO man Frank Gunwallow returns to St Martin's to check up on the Isles of Scilly post office. Stars Joseph Kloska. From 2015.

It's 1938 and with all this talk of looming war, GPO man Frank Gunwallow returns to see if all is still in order at St Martin's Post Office. 

The return of Christopher William Hill's comedy set on a remote island of the Isles of Scilly.

War seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung 27 miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through.

Frank Gunwallow ...... Joseph Kloska
Morwenna-May ...... Alex Tregear
Tommy Trenear ...... Stuart Fox
Ben ...... Alex Palmer
Mary ...... Bec Applebee
Len ...... Ed Gaughan

Director: Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.

On the Rocks: Series 2

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Christopher William Hill's 1930s comedy set on St Martin's, one of the Isles of Scilly.

Christopher William Hill's 1930s comedy  set on St Martin's, one of the Isles of Scilly.

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