The Showing Up of Corporal Jones
The butcher must retire unless he completes an assault course in 15 minutes. Adapted from TV. With Clive Dunn. From April 1974.
Corporal Jones will be forced to retire from the platoon, unless he manages to complete an assault course in 15 minutes....
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 Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Walker …. Graham Stark
Major Smith …. Jack Watson
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in April 1974.
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