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Trying to get Europe playing cricket, the bungling duo are on a sticky wicket.

Trying to get Europe playing cricket, the bungling duo are on a sticky wicket. Stars Richard Murdoch. Re-recorded April 1980.

Battling to get the rest of Europe playing cricket - the bungling bureaucrats are on a sticky wicket. 

The first of 14 shows not kept in the archive and re-recorded in 1980 - previously never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra.

'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. 

Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler (who replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966). 

With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham.

Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.

Producer: Edward Taylor

Re-recording of 'French Cricket" made in April 1980.

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