BBC Documentaries

Calum Kennedy's Commando Course (1982x4)

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A decrepit bus with nine entertainers on board leaves Inverness in a desperate bid to persuade the corpse of the variety road show to sit up. Through the Highlands to the island of Skye, the cast hump their ' props' from village to village playing up to three shows a night. Conditions are hard, complaints are many; jokes are cracked about the ' escape committee' until, finally, they form one ... The second of three programmes written and narrated by Ian Wooldridge