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Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Stephen Murray and Ronnie Barker star in four hilarious radio episodes - including the special "Queen's Silver Jubilee" edition. "Stormy Weather (Bashing Six Kinds of Brick Dust)" - 22 November 1963. Heather has a dust up with Sub-Lieutenant Phillips about their engagement. Will he ever pop the question? "Chasing the 'Kepeac' (Doing an Unfortunate)" - 29 November 1963. The Admiral orders Captain Povey to search for a 'ghost ship'. Pertwee's got the wind up him and it's so foggy that Phillips can't see what his left-hand-down-a-bit is doing. Luckily, Phillips knows exactly where they are - lost. "Smugglers in the Solent (Taking Some Liberties)" - 18 July 1965. Customs and Excise ask HMS Troutbridge to help stop a small boat landing contraband on the Isle of Wight and then being ferried to the mainland. Why is Pertwee acting so nervously? And will Phillips' date be waiting for his return? "The Jubilee Navy Lark - The Queen's Silver Jubilee Edition (The BBC are Sending the Bill to Buckingham Palace)" - 16 July 1977. There's a rail strike and the entire crew can't get back to the Royal Yacht Britannia. The Admiral suggests a relief crew is provided, but the only ship left in port is HMS Troutbridge...These four classic comedy episodes also feature Richard Caldicot, Heather Chasen, Tenniel Evans and Michael Bates.
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Book Description:
A special collection featuring Ronnie Barker as Engineer Queeg in four classic episodes of nautical mayhem on board H.M.S. Troutbridge.
About the Author:
The Navy Lark is the second longest-running comedy in British radio history (the topical Friday night show, Week Ending, which ran from 1970 to 1998, is currently the longest). In 1958, writer Laurie Wyman announced that he wanted to build a series around talented comic actor Jon Pertwee. Having secured Pertwee as the lead, he looked for other main characters and is quoted in the Radio Times as saying 'I felt we needed an idiot, and there was no one better at playing idiots than Leslie Phillips - so we got him.' The first episode of the series went out on 29 March 1959 and, from the start, the light-hearted and affectionate spoof on the Senior Service won many fans - some of the highest order! On the occasion of the show's 21st anniversary, for example, the crew were asked by WRNS to put on a special performance. They duly obliged, and in the audience that night at the Royal Festival Hall was Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother. Sir Charles Lambe, who was the first Sea Lord at the time, had also visited the studio during rehearsal. The crew of HMS Troutbridge were a motley bunch: Jon Pertwee, who actually served in the Navy during the Second World War, played the conniving Petty Officer and was established as a household favourite by the series. Leslie Phillips was the vague chinless wonder Sub-Lieutenant. His parrot cry of 'left hand down a bit' has passed into A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, whose author Eric Partridge writes 'within two years, it was a standard piece of Navalese'. The young Ronnie Barker (long before attaining fame as a television comedy actor) also appeared in the series, playing two parts: (Un)Able Seaman Fatso Johnson and Lieutenant-Commander Stanton. The Navy Lark gripped the nation for the best part of twenty years. Its signature tune, composed by Tommy Reilly and James Moody, was the jaunty Trade Wind Hornpipe and did much to contribute to the popularity of the series. The key to the show's popularity, though, was its irreverent but essentially gentle humour and, most of all, the many-voiced talents of its stars. As Leslie Phillips remarked in 1987, 'I caused more damage to Naval property than the Navy had done in two world wars'. The final episode was broadcast on 18 January 1976. However, the crew all jumped on board one last time for a Jubilee Special on 16 July 1977.
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- PublisherBBC Physical Audio
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408427877
- ISBN 13 9781408427873
- BindingAudio CD
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