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Parsley Sidings

Comedy: Sitcoms

Railway station comedy starring Arthur Lowe

Parsley Sidings: Series 2: Pass the Parcel

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Bert's parcel mix-up at the station's left luggage office causes havoc.

Bert's parcel mix-up at the station's left luggage office causes havoc. Stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender. From September 1973.

Bert's parcel mix-up at the station's Left Luggage Office sparks havoc

Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Percy/Bradshaw/Rev, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as Bert and Douglas Blackwell as the Brigadier.  

Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line. 

Producer: Edward Taylor 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1973.

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