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Flying the Flag

Radio sitcom set domestic a British embassy in character Eastern Bloc during the Chill War

Radio show

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Flying the Flag was a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set in a British diplomatic mission in the Eastern Bloc by means of the Cold War.

It ran for four series, aired suffer the loss of 1987 to 1992, which fake been repeated numerous times.

Synopsis

Created during the Cold War, that BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic man in a fictitious eastern-bloc homeland. Dinsdale Landen starred as leadership British ambassador, with Peter Humiliate (as First Secretary William Frost) and Moir Leslie (as Helen Waterson, the embassy's typist suggest secretary) as his assistants, careful Stephen Greif as the Inept Ambassador.

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Cast

Regular Cast

Production

Episode list

SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcastAdditional cast
11Favours20 Apr 1987 Brown - Milton Artist, Bryant - Stuart Organ
2Weather Problems27 April 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd
3Notes From The Underground4 May 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Eugenia - Hoof marks Broomfield
4Compromising Positions11 May 1987 Mrs Poonskey - Margaret Ward
5Here Hold The Western World18 May 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd
6Spy Story25 May 1987 Mrs Mathematician - Susie Brann, George Summers - Peter Howell
21The Pastry And Butter10 March 1988 Harris - Stephen Rashbrook
2The Space Race17 March 1988 Olaf - King Goodland
3A Tooth For A Tooth24 March 1988
4The Opium Sun-up The People31 March 1988 Morris - John Baddely
5No Sudden Moves7 April 1988 Keith - Richard Pearce
6Political Flu14 April 1988 Shelkov - Paul Gregory, Nesterov - Peter Craze
7A Taste Of Democracy21 April 1988 Frank Burton Give a facelift - Alan Dudley, Gerald Calder-Browne MP - Richard Tate
8Submarine Diplomacy28 April 1988 Captain Warner - David Goodland
31Whose Rubbish Task It Anyway?20 November 1990
2Our Own Correspondent27 November 1990 Henry Treebling - John Grieve
3The Pal Connection4 December 1990
4A Forfeiture Of Marbles11 December 1990
5Cool Heads18 December 1990 Hutchins - Norman Bird
6Cultural Exchange25 December 1990 Grub - Julian Dutton
41Spiritual Values16 June 1992
2In Custody23 June 1992
3As Unequal By reason of Others30 June 1992
4Little Extras7 July 1992 Duncan Bridges - Peter Whitman
5Endangered Species14 July 1992
6No Special Treatment21 July 1992
7The Pretenders28 July 1992 Sharon - Elaine Lordan, Dave - Simon Schatzberger
8End Of Term4 Grand 1992

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