With a new Dad’s Army film in pre-production, it was a fine idea of somebody’s to blow the dust off this ancient tape and give us an opportunity to hear Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier in action for the very last time. Conceived as a sequel to the long-running television classic, It Sticks Out Half a Mile (16 October) managed a single pilot before Lowe’s death in 1981. A 13-part radio series, also featuring Dad’s Army veterans Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee, was eventually broadcast late in 1983 – by which time any chance of an extended run had been kiboshed by Le Mesurier’s own demise. The title refers to the Victorian pier of Frambourne, a coastal resort some miles distant from the Walmington-on-Sea of the Dad’s Army TV series. The year is 1948,