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Thake on the Riviera

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Last broadcast on Wed, 15 Jul 2009, 15:30 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

Leslie Phillips reads the letters, out of print since the 1930s, sent to JB Morton's columnist Beachcomber from the calamitous travels abroad of fictional upper-class twit, Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake.

The hapless traveller sends news home to Beachcomber after losing his hat at Niagara Falls.

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

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  1. Wed 15 Jul 2009
    15:30

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