The Boy Who Saved England Date 1995 06 03

we present the boy who saved england the dad's army adventure especially written for radio by jimmy perry starring ian lavender as private pike bill pervy as chief warden hodges and frank williams is the vicar with barry crowe chris emmett and jimmy perry good evening my name is major general sahavalok seaback and the story i am about to reveal to you tonight has not

Been disclosed for over 50 years due to the official secret sect i've called it the boy who saved england he was a member of the warmington sea home guard he's named private pike i can see him now a pale soppy looking boy of 17 time was 1940 i was then a young staff captain in the royal artillery and on that fateful night i'd been sent down to

Warmington on sea home guard headquarters on a very special mission hello woman you don't see home guard private like speaking oh hello mum [Music] no i can't come home yet if i'm on duty captain the rest of the platoon have gone out on the secret mission and i'm the only one here and of course i haven't got my scarf on

Look how can i get croaked mum it's mid-summer [Music] all right bye is napoleon about oh no no no he isn't mr rogers he's taking the platoon on a secret mission where well no one knows it's a secret well they know where they are when they're there because when they get there captain mandarin who's the only one who knows where he is will say we're here

And then they'll know they're there you stupid boy he's said captain maverick about don't know vicar he's gone on a secret mission oh don't start all that again anyhow pike tell mary he can't have the church all on tuesday next because i want it oh i'm sorry mr hodges but i require the hall next tuesday i have a meeting of my helpers of fallen women look vicar i'm giving a lecture on air raid precautions it's important for

Everyone to learn about precautions especially the fallen we mean sorry catchy mannering about oh no sir i'm captain havelock seabag from ghq i must see him at once he's taking the platoon on a secret mission and no one knows what it is oh my god it's worse than i thought oh please captain seabag remember you're on church property i'm sorry vicar but i need some men i must have some men

Oh i see so you are the only member of the home guard here i'm a friend's house sir what's your name private park sir from now on it's corporal pike i want you vicar and you warden to put on homeguard uniforms i'm putting you in charge of them pike are not having that shut up and listen for some time now we have been aware of the fact that hitler has managed to land a secret weapon in this country by air

What sort of secret weapon sir the only thing we know about it is that it can cause complete confusion so that when the germans invade our defenses will be in chaos oh that's nothing new mandarin's mob have always been in chaos a few hours ago we received a short message from one of our agents in france the secret weapon is going to be put into operation at midnight tonight and the map reference we were given is here in warmington on sea does this map on

The wall cover the whole area yes sir now let me check the reference here it is ah huntington towers it's about a mile down the coast who does it belong to it's a lord barbitsler's place he lives there alone with his butt what weapons have you got i've got my tummy gun we'll give the others a rifle look i'm a non-competent if the germans fire me with the rifle they could shoot me here's your rifle because i couldn't use a firearm i'm a man of

The cloth let me ask you something if you came home from lunch one day and saw your wife being entertained by a nazi paratrooper how would you feel rather confused i'm not married right get those uniforms on and we'll drive over the huntington towers in my jeep right we'll leave the jeep here hey

It's a spooky looking place you need when we get inside keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious go on [Music] yes i am corporal pike and i want to see his lordship not today thank you oh come out of it i'll do it yeah we want to see his lordship some home guard persons who wish to see you my lord oh coming gentlemen come in

Pleasure always a pleasure to welcome the home guard what can i do for you well my lord we were on patrol and as we were passing we said to each other we we um what did we say uh we said i wonder if his lordship's all right didn't we didn't we yeah that's very kind of you well now that you're here how about a drink i'm very sorry but um

We've got to go we can't wait come on come on what's the matter with you have you gone balmy didn't any of you notice when little bar mister told the butter to get some drinks he clicked his heels and he said you're burned very clever of you titan come on we'll take a look sorry do you think they suspected us eric i don't know but they're not taking any