Flying the Flag

Flying the Flag was a BBC radio sitcom set in a British embassy in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It ran for four series, aired from 1987 to 1992, which have been repeated numerous times.

Flying the Flag
GenreComedy-drama
Running time30 minutes
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
StarringDinsdale Landen
Peter Acre
Moir Leslie
Created byAlex Shearer
Written byAlex Shearer
Produced byPete Atkin
Neil Cargill
Original release20 April 1987 – 4 August 1992
No. of series4
No. of episodes28
Audio formatStereophonic sound

Synopsis

Created during the Cold War, this BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic life in a fictitious eastern-bloc country. Dinsdale Landen starred as the British ambassador, with Peter Acre (as First Secretary William Frost) and Moir Leslie (as Helen Waterson, the embassy's typist and secretary) as his assistants, and Stephen Greif as the US Ambassador.

Later series moved with the times as the country embraced perestroika.

Cast

Regular Cast

  • Her Majesty's Ambassador Mr McKenzie - Dinsdale Landen
  • William Frost - Peter Acre
  • Helen Waterson - Moir Leslie
  • Spiro Wineberg, United States Ambassador - Stephen Greif
  • Colonel Surikov - Christopher Benjamin

Production

Episode list

SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcastAdditional cast
11Favours20 April 1987 Brown - Milton Johns, Bryant - Stuart Organ
2Weather Problems27 April 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd
3Notes From The Underground4 May 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Eugenia - Sue Broomfield
4Compromising Positions11 May 1987 Mrs Poonskey - Margaret Ward
5Here In The Western World18 May 1987 Yakov Korovin - Michael Bilton, Mikhail Korovin - Jonathan Kydd
6Spy Story25 May 1987 Mrs Newton - Susie Brann, George Summers - Peter Howell
21The Bread And Butter10 March 1988 Harris - Stephen Rashbrook
2The Space Race17 March 1988 Olaf - David Goodland
3A Tooth For A Tooth24 March 1988
4The Opium Of The People31 March 1988 Morris - John Baddely
5No Sudden Moves7 April 1988 Keith - Richard Pearce
6Political Flu14 April 1988 Shelkov - Paul Gregory, Nesterov - Peter Craze
7A Taste Of Democracy21 April 1988 Frank Burton MP - Alan Dudley, Gerald Calder-Browne MP - Richard Tate
8Submarine Diplomacy28 April 1988 Captain Warner - David Goodland
31Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway?20 November 1990
2Our Own Correspondent27 November 1990 Henry Treebling - John Grieve
3The Comrade Connection4 December 1990
4A Loss Of Marbles11 December 1990
5Cool Heads18 December 1990 Hutchins - Norman Bird
6Cultural Exchange25 December 1990 Grub - Julian Dutton
41Spiritual Values16 June 1992
2In Custody23 June 1992
3As Unequal As Others30 June 1992
4Little Extras7 July 1992 Duncan Bridges - Peter Whitman
5Endangered Species14 July 1992
6No Special Treatment21 July 1992
7The Pretenders28 July 1992 Sharon - Elaine Lordan, Dave - Simon Schatzberger
8End Of Term4 August 1992

See also

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