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 Butler Mervyn Butler General Sir Mervyn Andrew Haldane Butler (1 July 1913 – 3 January 1976) was a British Army officer and former Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Command of the British Army. Mervyn Butler was educated at St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, Ireland and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment in 1933. He transferred to the Parachute Regiment and served with distinction during World War II being awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for his services. He transferred to the Suffolk Regiment in 1945. Butler commanded 16 Independent Parachute Brigade from 1955 to