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Originally Posted by jumpy

Sure there are - crew chatter (I read it again just before christmas). CBA to dig out page references etc, but I think you misplace a 'bbc agenda' all the same.

Besides, there's only so many voice actors here you know.... be glad it was not Martin Jarvis (r4 joke, sorry)

Ha!, I knew it. It was the adaptation! I found this:

Fletcher's adaptation stressed the connection between life on board ship and the socialist spirit that prevailed in the post-war era, that led to the creation of the Welfare State

Source:
http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id949.html


I did find this about Monsarrat:

As a young man, Monsarrat participated in left-wing politics. "We were like the young of all the world, since the world began," he recalled in his autobiography, Life Is a Four-Letter Word (1966-1970). "Everything was wrong: things could not go on like this; the universe was rightly doomed; war was on the way; freedom was denied, greed and lust for power still ruled our lives shamelessly." However, he never joined the Communist Party, and after visiting Spain on the eve of the Civil War, he began to grow disillusioned with Socialism.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/monsarra.htm