The Motorway Men
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Radio Comedy about a construction company building motorways in Britain in the early 1970s.
Starring James Beck and Bill Pertwee, with Milo O'Shea, Richard Davies, Anthony Sagar and Richard Caldicot. The supporting cast includes Peter Stephens as a very camp Surveyor, and Amanda Murray as Gladys the canteen manageress.
James Beck's character, a young and rather naive cockney lad named Steve, is led astray by his more experienced Irish and Welsh colleagues, 'Irish' O'Connell and 'Randy' Morris, who are forever on the fiddle. Steve lives in a caravan on the site with his mum, and is keen on Gladys the canteen manageress.
Bill Pertwee's character, Reg Ponsonby, is the butt of the three main characters' jokes and schemes. An incompetent site foreman, he prefers to reminisce about his wartime experiences rather than get the job done. He usually ends up in bother with the two construction bosses, Hanson and Fairfax, as a result of the three lead characters trying to pull a fiddle.
The series stars two of the Dad's Army core cast, and was made at the same time as Dad's Army.
Irish: Milo O'Shea
Randy: Richard Davies
Steve: James Beck
Mr Fairfax: Richard Caldicot
Reg Ponsonby: Bill Pertwee
Hanson: Anthony Sagar
The Surveyor: Peter Stephens
Gladys: Amanda Murray
The Minister: Nigel Graham
Written by Peter Childs and Peter Matthews
Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston
- Coal (Pilot) 23rd January 1971 (42Mb)
- Cement 2nd February 1972 (26Mb)
- Bulldozers 9th February 1972 (26.1Mb)
- Archaeology (partial) 16th February 1972 (3Mb)
- The New Foreman 23rd February 1972 (11Mb)
- The New Forman (version 2) 23rd February 1972 (25.3Mb)
- Farmer Barrett 1st March 1972 (10.8Mb)
- Farmer Barrett (version 2) 1st March 1972 (24.8Mb)
- The Chinese Are Coming 8th March 1972 (25.3Mb)
- London Airport Runway Extension 15th March 1972 (22.8Mb)
- London Airport Runway Extension (version 2)15th March 1972 (22.8Mb)
- Episode 8 (partial) 22nd March 1972 (8.9Mb)
MP3 files hosted by archive.org.