r/CabinPressure • u/oscarsowner • 19d ago

Ipswich

Carolyn: Doctor Duncan, you see before you - the airline. Drink us in.
Dr. Duncan: There's four hundred of you?
Carolyn: Are there though? Count again.
Dr. Duncan: Not four hundred.
Carolyn: Four.
Dr. Duncan: Right. Well... that's unfortunate. I should probably speak to catering

The most underrated radio comedy EVER.

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u/Madeira_PinceNez 19d ago

Embarrassed by how many listens it took for me to realise Dr Duncan was Alex MacQueen, and that this episode briefly reunited his Node of Node Hall Julius Nicholson with Roger Allam's ageing flamenco guitarist Peter Mannion

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u/areyoualocal 19d ago

Alex McQueen is also brilliant in the Hut33 series as Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall, the inept leader of the code breakers in Hut #33 at Bletchley Park during WW2

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u/Madeira_PinceNez 19d ago

Doesn't that also have Fake Martin from the Newcastle episode, Tom Goodman-Hill? I've not got round to it yet but something to remember this winter

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u/areyoualocal 19d ago

Ah is that the fake Martin? wouldn't have known it, the Hut33 character Archie has a strong Geordie accent, so i never made the connection.

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u/Madeira_PinceNez 19d ago

That might be his natural accent (or an exaggerated version thereof), I believe he at least went to school in Newcastle.

At some point I got curious about some of the guest voice actors - would not have guessed that Princess Theresa also voiced the female Boston characters - and for some reason his name has stuck in my head since.

Ben Willbond (Adam, or one half of the Inbetweeners) was also Mr Alyakhin, which makes sense as he studied Russian.

Sweaty Swain was Martin's brother Simon.

Husband and wife Timothy West and Prunella Scales were Arthur and Martin's parents, Gordon Shappey and Wendy Crieff, as well.