All Gas and Gaiters be broadcast on the station, now renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in August 2011 and again in early 2017. In April 2016 the radio drama based on the story behind the making of the series, "All Mouth and Trousers" by Mark Burgess, was aired by BBC Radio 4. The production featured John Sessions as Frank Muir, Nicholas Boulton as Stuart Allen, Gareth Williams as William Mervyn, Trevor Littledale as Robertson Hare, Zeb Soanes as Derek Nimmo and David Collings as John Barron. All Gas and Gaiters All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1
Mervyn Wingfield Mervyn Wingfield Captain Mervyn Robert George Wingfield (16 January 1911–15 March 2005) was a Royal Navy officer who served in submarines throughout World War II, narrowly surviving a sinking after a collision in the North Sea, and was the first British submarine commander to sink a Japanese submarine. Wingfield was born in Rathgar, Ireland, youngest son of Colonel the Rev William Wingfield, Royal Field Artillery. His father had been awarded a DSO at Gallipoli. He was educated at Bedford School and Pangbourne College, entering Dartmouth Naval College as a cadet at the age of 14. As a midshipman he trained