Parsley Sidings

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

Comedy: Sitcoms

Railway station comedy starring Arthur Lowe

Parsley Sidings: Series 1: Episode 2: The Postal Express

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Episode 2: The Postal Express

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The Postal Express

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Station Master Horace hopes a new mail system will save the sleepy halt. Stars Arthur Lowe

Station Master Horace hopes a new mail system will save the sleepy halt. Stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender. From December 1971.

Parsley Sidings' Station Master Horace Hepplewhite hopes a new automated mail system will save the sleepy halt in a trial with his deadly rival. 

Starring Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender.  

Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station.

Horace Hepplewhite …. Arthur Lowe
Bert Heplewhite …. Ian Lavender
Percy Valentine/Bradshaw/The Vicar …. Kenneth Connor 
Gloria Simpkins …. Liz Fraser

Re-created announcements …. Keith Skues

Producer: Edward Taylor 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1971.

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