Dick Barton - Special Agent

November 2011

Between 1946 and 1951, at 6:45 in the evening, the streets would clear of small children and large adults. An eerie silence descended over the country. Families would huddle round the wireless and tune in to the BBC Light Programme to listen to Dick Barton Special Agent. The exploits of Dick, Jock and Snowy, keeping the world safe for us mortals, was the programme that kept the whole of Britain in its grip.