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4. Imprisonment
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    Another prisoner joins Cravate and Pomeroy and they plan their escape.

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    Hancock's Half Hour

    The cast reminisce over how they all first met.

Lord Trowle and PC Martin Quin meet in Court and Jeremiah Morley meets his match in Mrs Gascoygne. Starring Richard E Grant and Mick Ford. Patrick Carroll’s crime series set in 1830, a year after the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant Colonel Rowan ...... Peter Jeffrey Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman Frederick Roe ...... Timothy Bateson Sergeant Cazalet ...... Alan Barker Turnkey ...... Mark Straker Lord Laverton ...... James Greene John Staples ...... Ian Lindsay Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton Mrs Gascoyne ...... Elizabeth Bell Florrie ...... Susan Sheridan Mrs Gregory ...... Elizabeth Kelly Singer: Martin Carthy. Director: Janet Whitaker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.

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