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Probe Round the Back
Episode 4 of 8
The on-air team's undercover investigators are on the trail of the 'Fifth Man'. Stars Angus Deayton. From September 1987.
Nigel Pry leads the hunt for the Fifth Man, the Whitehall Mole, the Moscow Sleeper and the Gentlemen's Toilet - as the radio team asks the question "MI5 - Friend, foe or motorway?".
Starring Morwenna Banks, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
Last on
Mon 24 Aug 2020
23:30
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