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 Johns Mervyn Johns David Mervyn Johns (18 February 18996 September 1992) was a distinctive Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II. Continuing into the postwar era, he was a notable mainstay of Ealing Studios. Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935. Among his dozens of film roles were the church warden in "Went the Day Well?" (1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film "Dead of Night" (1945) and Bob Cratchit in "Scrooge" (1951) with Alastair Sim.