The 17-Jewelled Shockproof Swiss-made Bomb

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The 17-Jewelled Shockproof Swiss-Made Bomb: 1. F8 and Then Infinity

Roy Clarke - The 17-Jewelled Shockproof Swiss-Made Bomb

1. F8 and Then Infinity

The 17-Jewelled Shockproof Swiss-Made Bomb

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Teacher Johnny Shields has ideas for romance but a meeting leads him astray.

Teacher Johnny Shields has romantic notions but an unexpected meeting sparks alarming consequences. Stars Peter Coke. From 1968.

“Well, that's it. Shields. The measure of the opposition. Take a good look at it. That's what you'll be up against. Know your enemy.” 

Teacher Johnny Shields has ideas for romance, but an unexpected meeting sparks a chain of alarming consequences...   

Starring Peter Coke.

Roy Clarke’s thriller serial set in the world of highly-organised international smugglers.

Shields    ......    Peter Coke 
The Major    ......    Bob Grant 
Greta    ......    Veronica Doran 
Doreen    ......    Sylvia Brayshay 
Tadpole    ......    Derrick Gilbert 
Muff    ......    Robert Powell 
Jean Hogg    ......    Heather Stoney 
Alfie    ......    Peter Stephens
Vera    ......    Elizabeth Ashton 
Mrs Beckett    ......    Barbara Greenhalgh 

Roy Clarke went on to write TV’s longest-running TV sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine, plus Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. 

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is the author of over 70 plays, including The Norman Conquests trilogy and A Chorus of Disapproval.

Producer:  Alan Ayckbourn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1968.

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A teacher undertakes a dangerous Continental mission in Roy Clarke's comedy thriller.

A teacher undertakes a dangerous Continental mission in Roy Clarke's first thriller for radio.

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