Absent Friends

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Captain Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination - and an escaped convict. 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 Frazer …. John Laurie Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Private Walker …. Larry Martyn Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney Additional music by Dennis Gomm. Producer: John Dyas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976.