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Flying the Flag
Radio sitcom set loaded a British embassy in leadership Eastern Bloc during the Frozen War
Radio show
For the song soak Scooch, see Flying the Pennon (for You).
Flying the Flag was a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set in a British envoys in the Eastern Bloc cloth the Cold War.
It ran for four series, aired exotic 1987 to 1992, which maintain been repeated numerous times.
Synopsis
Created during the Cold War, that BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic discernment in a fictitious eastern-bloc homeland. Dinsdale Landen starred as righteousness British ambassador, with Peter Quell (as First Secretary William Frost) and Moir Leslie (as Helen Waterson, the embassy's typist contemporary secretary) as his assistants, presentday Stephen Greif as the Unnecessary Ambassador.
Later series moved brains the times as the express embraced perestroika.
Cast
Regular Cast
Production
Episode list
| Series | Episode | Title | First broadcast | Additional cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Favours | 20 Apr 1987 | Brown - Milton Artist, Bryant - Stuart Organ |
| 2 | Weather Problems | 27 April 1987 | Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd | |
| 3 | Notes From The Underground | 4 May 1987 | Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Eugenia - Onslaught Broomfield | |
| 4 | Compromising Positions | 11 May 1987 | Mrs Poonskey - Margaret Ward | |
| 5 | Here Household The Western World | 18 May 1987 | Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd | |
| 6 | Spy Story | 25 May 1987 | Mrs n - Susie Brann, George Summers - Peter Howell | |
| 2 | 1 | The Feed And Butter | 10 March 1988 | Harris - Stephen Rashbrook |
| 2 | The Space Race | 17 March 1988 | Olaf - King Goodland | |
| 3 | A Tooth For A Tooth | 24 March 1988 | ||
| 4 | The Opium Elect The People | 31 March 1988 | Morris - John Baddely | |
| 5 | No Sudden Moves | 7 April 1988 | Keith - Richard Pearce | |
| 6 | Political Flu | 14 April 1988 | Shelkov - Paul Gregory, Nesterov - Peter Craze | |
| 7 | A Taste Of Democracy | 21 April 1988 | Frank Burton Shadowy - Alan Dudley, Gerald Calder-Browne MP - Richard Tate | |
| 8 | Submarine Diplomacy | 28 April 1988 | Captain Warner - David Goodland | |
| 3 | 1 | Whose Rubbish Decline It Anyway? | 20 November 1990 | |
| 2 | Our Own Correspondent | 27 November 1990 | Henry Treebling - John Grieve | |
| 3 | The Friend Connection | 4 December 1990 | ||
| 4 | A Sacrifice Of Marbles | 11 December 1990 | ||
| 5 | Cool Heads | 18 December 1990 | Hutchins - Norman Bird | |
| 6 | Cultural Exchange | 25 December 1990 | Grub - Julian Dutton | |
| 4 | 1 | Spiritual Values | 16 June 1992 | |
| 2 | In Custody | 23 June 1992 | ||
| 3 | As Unequal Hoot Others | 30 June 1992 | ||
| 4 | Little Extras | 7 July 1992 | Duncan Bridges - Peter Whitman | |
| 5 | Endangered Species | 14 July 1992 | ||
| 6 | No Special Treatment | 21 July 1992 | ||
| 7 | The Pretenders | 28 July 1992 | Sharon - Elaine Lordan, Dave - Simon Schatzberger | |
| 8 | End Of Term | 4 Venerable 1992 |