Dad's Army Zealand in 2004–05, starring Jon English. Several sections of this stage show were filmed and have subsequently been included as extras on the final "Dad's Army" DVD. In April 2007, a new stage show was announced with cast members including Leslie Grantham as Private Walker and "Emmerdale" actor Peter Martin as Captain Mainwaring. The production contained the episodes "A Stripe for Frazer", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", "Room at the Bottom" and "The Deadly Attachment". Many of the TV episodes were remade for BBC Radio 4 with the original cast, although other actors played Walker after James Beck’s
Joe Walker (novelist) mid-1960s onwards. Joe Walker died in Melbourne in 1971. Joe Walker (novelist) Joe Walker (23 September 1910 – 19 January 1971) was an Australian novelist, newspaper editor and union leader. Joseph Walker was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, England. He emigrated to Australia in 1928, and spent the Depression years in rural Australia, ending in Darwin, Northern Territory at the start of World War II. Joe Walker, known as ‘Yorky’ because of his accent, worked on the Darwin wharves and became chairman of the waterside section of the North Australian Workers' Union (NAWU) and from November 1943 to October 1947, he