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The Stanley Baxter Playhouse

Comedy: Sitcoms

Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter

Stanley Baxter

Joe Caffrey

Tom Borley

Marilyn Imrie

Catherine Bailey

Colin MacDonald

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 7: Two Desperate Men

Two Desperate Men

Series 7

BBC Radio 4 - The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, Series 7, Two Desperate Men

A kidnap by two daft, 1930s' con men goes awry.

Two daft, 1930s' con men kidnap a lad who confounds them with tricks learned from Wild West movies. With Joe Caffrey. From 2015.

Inspired by a story by O. Henry, we travel to Perthshire in the days when the streets had more horses than horsepower. We encounter two 1930s tricksters who get their just deserts when they attempt to kidnap and hold to ransom a young lad who's learned a thing or two from the Wild West. 

Stanley Baxter and Joe Caffrey are those two desperate men.

Young member of the Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre Tom Borley is the lad who gets the better of them in this classic screwball comedy.

Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.

Hughie    ......    Stanley Baxter
Bill    ......    Joe Caffrey
Logan    ......    Tom Borley

Written by Colin MacDonald

Director: Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2015.

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 7

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