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 Kitchen Mervyn Kitchen Mervyn John Kitchen (born 1 August 1940), is a former English first-class cricketer and international umpire. In his playing days he was a left-handed batsman for Somerset County Cricket Club, making 15,230 runs in his 354 first-class games between 1960 and 1979. He topped the Somerset averages in 1966 and 1968. After retiring as a player he went on to become a first-class cricket umpire and he umpired in 20 Test matches and 28 One-Day Internationals before retiring from that at the age of 65 in 2005. Kitchen was born in Nailsea, Somerset where his father played local