Burglar's Bargains - Radio 4 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Comedy Drama

Broadcast

1979

Channel

BBC Radio 4

Episodes

1

Stars

Peter Jones, Donald Hewlett, Lockwood West, Bernard Bresslaw, David Timson, John Pullen, Adrian Egan, Elizabeth Rider and more

Writer

Wally K Daly

Director

Martin Jenkins

Company

Trouble abounds when two elderly members of a Prisoners' Aid Society decide to use their unique knowledge to pull off 'the robbery of the century' by looting upmarket department store Harrods. They rapidly find themselves involved with rival gangs, the Mafia and nude shop assistants.

This is the first of Wally K Daly's trilogy of criminal gang capers produced on radio in the style of old British comedy films, along with A Right Royal Rip-Off and The Bigger They Are.

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Production

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Broadcast details

First broadcast

Saturday 15th December 1979 at 8:30pm on BBC Radio 4

Episode length

90 minutes

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