BarryH
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......that remembers Dick Barton Special Agent?
Is there anyone......
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aitchw
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Silly question! Along with Journey into Space was essential listening when I was a nipper. Then there were the Paul Temple radio plays, wow, we're going back a bit now. Next thing you'll be asking about Itma!
boatmike
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Of course I remember Lemmie...
BarryH
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Ok now we've established your offically old, according to my kids!, So where did he live. Its an answer to a pub quiz question that I'm having major arguments about. Having listened to all the old recording I can't see!...hear any mention of where he lived?
Sgeir
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Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Musical!
I vaguely remember the series. But I saw a great stage musical version put on at the Wimbledon Theatre a few years ago. Can't remember the theatre company, but I believe that they were some sort of strolling minstrels and players from the London area.
I vaguely remember the series. But I saw a great stage musical version put on at the Wimbledon Theatre a few years ago. Can't remember the theatre company, but I believe that they were some sort of strolling minstrels and players from the London area.
jimi
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Not me mate .. short term memories shot, better on the long range stuff
TrueBlue
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Yeah, then along comes the Archers and pushes him off. I was not well pleased.
Then they burn Grace in a fire.... I'm so worried about Jim.....
The Simpsons have got nothing on this lot.
Then they burn Grace in a fire.... I'm so worried about Jim.....
The Simpsons have got nothing on this lot.
tcm
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Re: Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Musical - Full score follows
[presto]
Dum diddlum diddle, Dum diddlum diddle
Dum-tum Dum-tum, Dum-tum Dum-tum
DUM-tiddlum , Dim-tuddle-um
Tumtim Tiddle-Iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle....
[repeat ad nauseam]
[presto]
Dum diddlum diddle, Dum diddlum diddle
Dum-tum Dum-tum, Dum-tum Dum-tum
DUM-tiddlum , Dim-tuddle-um
Tumtim Tiddle-Iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-iddle....
[repeat ad nauseam]
milltech
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He's appeared recently on Radio 7
BrendanS
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Dunno, but he was born in High Wycombe
Sea Devil
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How about -
Journey.... into Space
now that was good too -
And "The Green Sailors"
children's radio
Journey.... into Space
now that was good too -
And "The Green Sailors"
children's radio
BarryH
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High Wycombe.....thats a "new town" right. Are you sure it was there in the 40's?
BrendanS
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bits of it a bit new, but it's been there for centuries
anyway, the born in High Wycombe bit came from the dossier they wrote on the characters:
April 1946 - Norman Collins, controller of the Light Programme conceives the idea. John McMillan was made project Director. John wrote a brief dossier on each of the main characters. From this we learn that Richard Barton was born in High Wycombe on the 10th December 1912. He is 5 feet 11 inches in height and weighs 11 stone 6 pounds. His complexion is fair and he has chestnut hair. In a varied career he helped construct a Peruvian airport and an oil pipe line in Persia. He travelled the world before joining the Royal Engineers on the 10th October 1939. He was commissioned on the 15th March 1940 and was posted to France. Awarded an MC he was evacuated at Dunkirk then joined the Commandos in July 1940. Eventually he was promoted to captain and was demobbed on the 5th November 1945.
anyway, the born in High Wycombe bit came from the dossier they wrote on the characters:
April 1946 - Norman Collins, controller of the Light Programme conceives the idea. John McMillan was made project Director. John wrote a brief dossier on each of the main characters. From this we learn that Richard Barton was born in High Wycombe on the 10th December 1912. He is 5 feet 11 inches in height and weighs 11 stone 6 pounds. His complexion is fair and he has chestnut hair. In a varied career he helped construct a Peruvian airport and an oil pipe line in Persia. He travelled the world before joining the Royal Engineers on the 10th October 1939. He was commissioned on the 15th March 1940 and was posted to France. Awarded an MC he was evacuated at Dunkirk then joined the Commandos in July 1940. Eventually he was promoted to captain and was demobbed on the 5th November 1945.
AuntyRinum
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If you listen to BBC7 on digital, you can hear them all again.
mikesharp
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Was his oppo called "Whitey"?
BrendanS
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Jock Anderson and Snowy White
stormeagle
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No - Snowey, along with Jock (?Jimi) . The music was "The Devils Ride".
Tho now Arthur Ransome is unmasked as a russian spy, what next we ask.
Tho now Arthur Ransome is unmasked as a russian spy, what next we ask.
Rabbie
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See here - http://www.journeyintospace.co.uk/. I have two series on CD and its great, if not a little strange now. Love the 'hisssss' of the airlock!. I was on the Underground some years ago now and I was sitting next to a guy who I thought familiar. After a while, it clicked, and I said, 'Were you Jet Morgan?' to which he laughed and replied in the affirmative. It was Andrew Faulds who was by then an MP. Another prog of the same vintage some may remember was 'The Man in Black' played by Valentine Dyall.
