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The Great Escape

Bristow Series 1
Episode 6 of 6

The Chester-Perry buying clerk plots his summer holiday. Stars Michael Williams, Rodney Bewes and Dora Bryan. From May 1999.

Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea.

Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk.

He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.

Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip.

Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.

Bristow 鈥�. Michael Williams
Jones 鈥�. Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy 鈥�. Dora Bryan
Hewitt 鈥�. Owen Brenman
Miss Sunman 鈥�. Katy Odey
Fudge 鈥�. Jon Glover
BJ 鈥�. Christopher Benjamin
Post Boy 鈥�. Simon Schatzberger
Francine 鈥�. Carol Starks
Turner 鈥�. David Ryall

Other parts played by the cast.

Music: John Whitehall

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in May 1999.

30 minutes

Last on

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