The Navy Lark: Volume 34
The classic BBC radio sitcom
Four vintage episodes from the classic seafaring sitcom, including the original pilot episode and the final regular episode
Operation Fag End (‘Working Their Passage’) 5 April 1959
New head honcho Commander Povey is heading to the island to inspect the crew – just as Pertwee’s consignment of 50,000 smuggled cigarettes is about to arrive…
The Bugged and Burgled Beer (‘Bugging’) 1 October 1967
Pertwee has a purchasing problem: the two cases of beer he sold to his customers have ended up in Povey’s custody. Can a bugging device help him recover his haul?
Number One’s Anniversary (‘Biff Boff Boffing Their Way Through’) 11 July 1971
With his first wedding anniversary approaching, Mr Murray is in a bad mood – and Captain Povey is in trouble after…
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March 19, 2019The 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…
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