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Radio 4 Extra,11 Dec 1990,30 mins

SeriesSeries 3

The Comrade Connection

Flying the Flag

Available for 22 days

"Drugs, Mr Ambassador?" "We didn't need drugs in my day, William. We had something else to sustain us - we called them standards." Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats take on the drug barons. Starring Dinsdale Landen. Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer. HM Ambassador Mackenzie …. Dinsdale Landen William Frost …. Peter Acre Helen Watson …. Moir Leslie US Ambassador Spiro Weinberg …. Stephen Greif Colonel Surikov …. Christopher Benjamin Producer: Neil Cargill First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1990.

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