Allan Peacock Radio Plays
1967 The Indomitable Pippin
1968 The modernisation man
1969 The day of the high water
1966 Oh, Big Deal! (30 minute theatre)
Dates nk
On a west wind rising
Oh, Lucy!
NOTES
THE INDOMITABLE PIPPIN....1967
By Allan Peacock, Home Service, 6 May 67. I'm told by Katie, Allan's daughter, that this story is autobiographical. It's a military play lasting about 90 minutes (Saturday Night Theatre), set in and around a prisoner-of-war camp on a remote Far Eastern stretch of the Berlin - Baghdad railway. The year is 1918. Stars William Lucas, Peter Stevens, John Bowen, Roger Delgardo, John Rowe, Kim Ward. Bakshee Prem, Colin Skipp, George Woolley, Charles Butler. Produced by Anthony Cornish; BBC Midlands studio.
Recording sent by Jeremy Stevenson - many thanks, Jeremy.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Four of the above plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
