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Episode 7 of 20

Calamity strikes when the Home Guard and ARP wardens share the church hall. Adapted from Âé¶¹Éç TV. With Bill Pertwee. From 1975.

Calamity strikes when Captain Mainwaring's men must share the church hall with the ARP Wardens.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.

Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad.

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 in March 1975.

30 minutes

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