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Radio 4 Extra,10 Mar 1988,30 mins

Series Series 2

The Bread and Butter

Flying the Flag

Available for 19 days

The era of glasnost has arrived in the small, poor, cold People's Republic of...wherever it is? That means Her Majesty's Embassy must deal with many more British tourists than found their way there in the past... Starring Dinsdale Landen. Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer. HM Ambassador Mackenzie …. Dinsdale Landen William Frost …. Peter Acre Helen Waterson …. Moir Leslie US Ambassador …. Stephen Greif Colonel Surikov …. Christopher Benjamin Harris …. Stephen Rashbrook Producer: Pete Atkin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988.

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