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Aristocrat Belport and servant Ned join the police and encounter demon barber Sweeney Todd

Aristocrat Belport and servant Ned join the police and encounter demon barber Sweeney Todd. Stars Paul Rider. From June 2004.

Aristocrat Belport and his servant Ned join the  police force, and are called upon to solve some murders in the city of London.   

But first, to meet police regulations, they must  both have hair cut:s - and as luck would have it, there's a barber's on Fleet Street, run by a Mr Sweeney Todd... 

Comic saga of an aristocrat and his servant who struggle to find things to do in the mid- 1830s.

Belport ...... Paul Rider
Ned ...... Jason Done
Peel ...... Roy Barraclough
Trollope ...... Simon Greenall
Sweeney Todd ...... Jonathan Keeble

Written and directed at BBC Manchester by Jim Poyser.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

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The adventures of aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport and his servant Ned.

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