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Kingsley Amis - I Spy Strangers

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22/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Kingsley Amis - I Spy Strangers

Tensions run high as a group of British soldiers hold a mock parliament in 1945.

4 Extra Debut. Tensions run high as a group of British soldiers hold a mock parliament between VE and VJ days in 1945. Stars Iain Cuthbertson.

By 1945 the servicemen in Europe were longing for demob and hoping to avoid the war in the Far East. Major Raleigh's company was very much at a loose end, so holding a mock parliament seemed a good way of keeping the men out of mischief. 

Stars Iain Cuthbertson as Jock Watson, Steve Hodson as Major Raleigh, Anthony Jackson as Sgt Hargreave and Philip Fox as Lt Frank Archer. 

Written by Kingsley Amis and dramatised by John Scotney. 

Producer: Jane Morgan 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.

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