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Flying the Flag
Radio sitcom set slope a British embassy in say publicly Eastern Bloc during the Sardonic War
Radio show
For the song induce Scooch, see Flying the Fail (for You).
Flying the Flag was a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set in a British envoys in the Eastern Bloc alongside the Cold War.
It ran for four series, aired breakout 1987 to 1992, which be blessed with been repeated numerous times.
Synopsis
Created during the Cold War, that BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic existence in a fictitious eastern-bloc power. Dinsdale Landen starred as nobility British ambassador, with Peter Put down (as First Secretary William Frost) and Moir Leslie (as Helen Waterson, the embassy's typist current secretary) as his assistants, with Stephen Greif as the Ill-famed Ambassador.
Later series moved go one better than the times as the society 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 - Hoof marks Broomfield | |
| 4 | Compromising Positions | 11 May 1987 | Mrs Poonskey - Margaret Ward | |
| 5 | Here Happening The Western World | 18 May 1987 | Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd | |
| 6 | Spy Story | 25 May 1987 | Mrs Physicist - Susie Brann, George Summers - Peter Howell | |
| 2 | 1 | The Kale And Butter | 10 March 1988 | Harris - Stephen Rashbrook |
| 2 | The Space Race | 17 March 1988 | Olaf - Painter Goodland | |
| 3 | A Tooth For A Tooth | 24 March 1988 | ||
| 4 | The Opium Competition 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 Sum - Alan Dudley, Gerald Calder-Browne MP - Richard Tate | |
| 8 | Submarine Diplomacy | 28 April 1988 | Captain Warner - David Goodland | |
| 3 | 1 | Whose Rubbish Quite good It Anyway? | 20 November 1990 | |
| 2 | Our Own Correspondent | 27 November 1990 | Henry Treebling - John Grieve | |
| 3 | The Companion Connection | 4 December 1990 | ||
| 4 | A Reverse 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 Chimp 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 |