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The Navy Lark: Series 3: Mr Phillips Has Navigation Tuition

15/11/2007

Mr Phillips Has Navigation Tuition

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Navy Lark, Series 3, Mr Phillips Has Navigation Tuition

Left hand down a bit! The ship's bumbling navigator attempts to pass an examination.

Left hand down a bit! The ship's bumbling navigator attempts to pass an examination. Stars Leslie Phillips. From February 1961.

Left hand down a bit! HMS Troutbridge's bumbling navigator attempts to pass an examination. 

Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Franklin Pettigreaves, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen as Ramona Povey.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976. 

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman 

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1961.

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