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The Desperate Hours

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Some unwelcome visitors arrive. Adapted from TV. With Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and Leonard Rossiter. From May 1974.

After news of a jail break at Wormwood Scrubs, Albert and Harold get some unwelcome visitors.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Classic sitcom about the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold.

Written for Ö÷²¥´óÐã TV and adapted for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Johnny Spooner …. Leonard Rossiter
Frank Ferris …. Paddy Joyce

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 2 in May 1974.

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