Lenin of the Rovers(a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
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aired from: Feb 1988 to: Apr 1989 |
8 eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 30 min |
Original Episode # Air Date Titles _____ _______ ___________ ______________________________________________ 1st Series 1988 1. 1- 1 Feb 13 88 Up for the Coup (aka The art of leadership consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention) 2. 1- 2 Feb 20 88 Felcherama (Frankly admitting a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions which led to it, and thoroughly discussing it-- that is the earmark of a serious party, that is the way it should perform its duties) 3. 1- 3 Feb 27 88 The Fifth Man (If we succeed, then the revolutionary conflagration will spread. The revolutinary wave will convert an epoch of a few revolutionary years into an epoch of several revolutionary decades) 4. 1- 4 Mar 5 88 Max Gut (Before everything else, we must save the revolution, and we can save it only by signing peace terms with the Germans. Better a split than the danger of an overthrow of the revolution) 5. 1- 5 unaired 6. 1- 6 unaired 2nd Series 1989 7. 2- 1 Apr 1 89 Ghosts and Goolies 8. 2- 2 Apr 8 89 The Felchester Firm 9. 2- 3 unaired Apocalypse Des 10. 2- 4 unaired The Final Solution
Ballard Berkeley died Jan 16 88 after recording episode 4. The series was announced as having 6 episodes, however episodes 5 and 6 were not broadcast either during the original run nor during the repeat run, 7-28 Oct 89. However they may have been used as the first episodes of series 2.
Episodes 9 and 10 were not broadcast as scheduled due to the Hillsborough disaster. They were broadcast during repeats.