BBC News
By James Naughtie
media captionJohn Stonehouse: The MP who faked his death
Ask anyone today who it was in the 1970s who left his clothes on a beach and wandered into the sea in search of a new life, and the answer would probably be Reginald Perrin, not John Stonehouse.
Yet the enduring comedy of Reggie s fictional crack-up, in the classic BBC sitcom, has a matching drama in the real story of the missing MP, a posse of Czechoslovak spies and the mysterious trail he left behind.
Stonehouse was a young star in Harold Wilson s first Labour government of 1964, apparently heading for high office.
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