Today's story: The Baghdad Baggage - BBC Saturday Night Theatre - William Fox | Soundstage Tales with BBC

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Highlight:
The Baghdad Baggage by WILLIAM FOX with The Middle East, 1943. BRADY: Bullion?
PYM: Gold Bullion. The BGS would like your ideas on its transfer to the Imperial Bank of Persia in Teheran. It'll be up to you to handpick an officer as escort.
BRADY: A horrid job for some poor unsuspecting devil!
Cast:
Unknown: William Fox
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Major James Brady: James Villiers
Lt Charles Willoughby: Christopher Good
Aram Bagramian: Peter Woodthorpe
Egon Warchinsky: Sandor Eles
Nurse Mildred Boustead: Ciaran Madden
Sgt S I B /Mahomed: William Fox
Havildar/Camp Commandant: Garard Green
Driver/Sikh Jemadar: Saeed Jaftrey
Col Bhaduri/Town Major Hamadan: Malcolm Hayes
Lt-Col Pym: Gerald Cross
MO: Michael Shannon
Fawzta: Eva Haddon
George Danefield: Anthony Smee
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