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The Reluctant Aristocrat

Episode 3 of 4

Belport tries to prove he is not a toff but instead starts the world's first rail strike. Stars Paul Rider. From June 2004.

In order to prove he's not a feckless, idle aristocrat, Belport manages to kick off the world's first rail strike - in the process proving to everyone that he's a feckless, idle aristocrat...

Comic saga of an aristocrat and his servant who struggle to find things to do in the mid- 1830s.

Belport ...... Paul Rider
Ned ...... Jason Done
Arbuthnot ...... Roy Barraclough
George ...... Simon Greenall
Charlie ...... Jonathan Keeble

Written and directed at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Manchester by Jim Poyser.

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in June 2004.

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