Our chaps will deal with them
E.S. Turner: The Great Flap of 1940, 8 August 2002
Dad’s Army: The Story of a Classic Television Show
by Graham McCann.
Fourth Estate, 304 pp., £7.99, August 2002,1 84115 309 5 Show More
by Graham McCann.
Fourth Estate, 304 pp., £7.99, August 2002,
“... did we not see Mainwaring’s men, like the people of Margate, filling their bathing cabins with sand to use as roadblocks? Why did we never see them (or did we?) trying out the recommended shibboleth tests for suspected spies by making them say ‘soothe’, ‘wrong’, ‘wretch’, ‘rats’ and ‘those’? Did Perry and Croft ever show us ... ”