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The Great Race

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The Oxford versus Cambridge boat race proves to be a technical challenge.

The Oxford Versus Cambridge boat race proves to be a technical challenge. Can the BBC manage it? Stars Graham Crowden. From 1994.

DG John Brown has decided that the BBC will broadcast the 1923 Boat Race. 

So the rest of the staff must rally round to find a way to bring off the transmission.

Written by Jimmy Perry.

John Brown ...... Graham Crowden
Colonel Beecham ...... Jimmy Perry
Roger Eccles ...... Jeffrey Holland
Sergeant Lucas ...... Bill Pertwee
Roger Eccles ...... Jeffrey Holland
Miss Nightingale ...... Joanna Munro
Arthur ...... Toby Longworth
Admiral Carpenter ...... Peter Cellier
Jeffrey Stainton ...... Chris Luscombe
Bobby Bright ...... Leonard Kirby
Rex Murray ...... Logan Murray
Isabel Blair ...... Julie Gibbs
Phyllis Godfrey ...... Amanda Bellamy

Music by Roy Moore.

Producer: Jo Clegg. 

First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994.

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Graham Crowden and Jimmy Perry star in a sitcom about the early days of the wireless

Graham Crowden and Jimmy Perry star in a sitcom about the early days of the wireless and the BBC

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