Odd Balls

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Odd Balls: Stan Rooker - Night Receptionist

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Stan Rooker - Night Receptionist

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Odd Balls, Stan Rooker - Night Receptionist

Late night at a hospital emergency unit, a good Samaritan's night goes from bad to worse.

A Good Samaritan’s night goes from bad to worse late one Saturday at a hospital’s emergency unit. Stars Paul Copley. From 2001.

Late one Saturday night, good Samaritan, Wilfred Parkin brings a man with a strange problem to the hospital reception. 

But Stan Rooker seems strangely reluctant to call the doctor.

One of four character based comedies by Don Howarth.

Stan Rooker    ......    Terry Malloy 
Wilfrid Parkin    ......    Paul Copley  
Knight    ......    Barry Farrimond

Director: Julie Beckett

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

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Four character based comedies by Lancastrian playwright, Don Haworth.

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