Passport To Pimlico - Audio Comedy - 128k - MP3 - Slimoo

Passport To Pimlico - Audio Drama - BBC Radio 4


1 x 70 Minute Episode - 128Kbps - Mp3 - Slimoo




Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios.

A bomb left over from the Second World War blows up in Miramont Gardens in the Pimlico district of London after some

local children roll a tractor tyre down a hole. The explosion reveals a buried cellar from the manor house that gave

Miramont Gardens its name, in which artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient parchment document are found. Professor

Hatton-Jones authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house its estates to Charles VII ("the

Rash", the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at

the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy. "

The British government has no legal jurisdiction and requires the Burgundians to form a committee according to the laws

of the long-defunct dukedom before negotiating with them. Ancient Burgundian law requires that the Duke himself appoint

a council.


Without one, all seems lost - until a young man from Dijon steps forward and proves that he is the heir to the dukedom.



Very quickly, Burgundy (followed soon after by the rest of London) realises that it is not subject to post-war

rationing and other bureaucratic restrictions, and the district is quickly flooded with entrepreneurs, crooks and eager

shoppers. A noisy free-for-all ensues, the Chief (and only) Constable of Burgundy, finds himself unable to handle.





Then the British authorities close the "border" with barbed wire. Having left England without their

passports, the bargain hunters have trouble returning home - as one policeman replies to an indignant woman, "Don't

blame me Madam, if you choose to go abroad to do your shopping."Cast:


Stephen Critchlow


Jonathan Tafler


David Collings


Teresa Gallagher


John Junkin


Gavin Muir


Michael Maloney


Jonathan Keeble


John Hartley


David King


Joan Sims


George Cole


Tom Bevan


Louise Lombard


Vivian Pickles


Ross Livingstone


Diana Coupland


Paul Jenkins


Linda Regan


John Redford


Matthew Marr




H Clark (Author)


John Peacock (adap)


Celia de Wolfe (Producer)






Audio Format : MP3


Duration Approx : 71mn 23s


Bit rate mode : Constant


Bit rate : 128 Kbps


Channel(s) : 2 channels


Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz


Resolution : 16 bits