Archie's Watergate

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Archie's Watergate by Allen Saddler

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Archie's Watergate by Allen Saddler

The arrival of a boy ace reporter from the USA shakes up a weekly newspaper in Devon.

4 Extra Debut. When boy ace reporter Archie arrives in Devon from the USA,  local weekly paper The Courier gets shaken up. Stars Tim Bentinck.

Life goes along placidly enough for The Courier, a weekly paper in a small Devon town. 

But when Archie - boy ace reporter from America - turns up, the pace quickens uncomfortably.

Starring Tim Bentinck.

Written by Allen Saddler. 

American Voice/Jim .... Tim Bentinck
Freda .... Christine Pollon
Archie .... Keith Alexander
Sam .... John Bennett
Beryl .... Brenda Kaye
Charlie .... Hedley Goodall

Music by Sam Richards. 

Played by Sam Richards and Tish Stubbs.

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979.

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