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Spitfire Poker

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Last broadcast on Wed, 4 Nov 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other.

The codebreakers of Bletchley Park are in the doghouse again, so to make amends they help raise money for the town's Spitfire fund. Unfortunately Charles promptly loses the money in a card game, trying to impress an old school chum, so the hut must try to win it back somehow. Archie can't believe Charles is so desperate to curry favour with a former prefect and Minka has trouble understanding the rules of gentlemen's clubs.

Charles ...... Robert Bathurst
Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka...... Olivia Colman
Gordon ...... Fergus Craig
Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen
Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley
Byron ...... Alex Lowe
Butler ...... Phillip Fox.

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  1. Wed 4 Nov 2009
    11:30

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