BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1979

BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4 IN 1979

1st January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Toad of Toad Hall (1930) by A A Milne (1882-1956), adapted from The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932).
Music by Harold Fraser-Simson (1872-1944) arranged by Peter Hope
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Marigold: Tina Heath
   Nurse: Diana Bishop
   Mole: Richard Goolden
   Rat: Bernard Cribbins
   Badger: Cyril Luckham
   Toad: Derek Smith
   Alfred: Brian Haines
   Chief Weasel: William Fox
   Chief Stoat: Fraser Kerr
   Chief Ferret: William Sleigh
   Judge: Hugh Paddick
   Usher: Terry Scully
   Policeman: Ronald Herdman
   Phoebe: Kate Binchy
   Washerwoman Jo: Manning Wilson
   Frightened Ferret: Sam Dastor
   Brave Weasel: Nigel Graham
   Duck: John Forrest
   Turkey: Andrew Rivers
Repeated from 21st and 23rd April 1973, repeated 1976
and later repeated 1981, 1990
[Actor Richard Goolden played Mole in the 1930 Lyric and 1932 Savoy stage productions]
[Not well known today, Fraser-Simpson wrote the music for the stage musical The Maid of the Mountains]


1st January 1979
18.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957), adapted by Alistair Beaton
1 of 6: Death Comes to Pyms
Producer Martin Fisher
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Chief Insp Parker: Allan Cuthbertson
   Mr lngloby: John Quentin
   Mr Willis: Richard O'Callaghan
   Mr Hankin: Frank Williams
   Miss Rossiter: Joanna Wake
   Miss Meteyard: Frances Jeater
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
    Amanda Murray, Beth Morris, Brian Wilde, Danny Schiller, Edward de Souza, Gordon Clyde, Greg Mandell, Lyndon Brook, Norman Shelley. Philip Voss
Pt2: 8/1/79 Pt3:15/1/79 Pt4:22/1/79 Pt5:29/1/79 Pt6:5/2/79
All 1979 episodes repeated after two days.
Series also repeated commencing 8th June 1981
[Repeated many times on BBC7/R4X 2006-2022]
[Also produced by Giles Cooper in 1957 with Ronald Barton as Wimsey]


1st January 1979:
19.45:
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
Directed by John Tydeman.
   Emmy: Margot Boyd
   Redpenny: Tim Brierley
   Sir Colenso Ridgeon: Derek Godfrey
   Leo Schutzmacher: John Gabriel
   Sir Patrick Cullen: Cyril Luckham
   Cutler Walpole: Hugh Manning
   Bloomfield Bonington: Stephen Murray
   Dr Blenkinsop: Robert Trotter
   Jennifer Dubedat: Sarah Badel
   Louis Dubedat: Gary Bond
   Minnie Tinwell: Frances Jeater
   Newspaperman: Peter Wickham
Repeated 26th May 1980, 28th December 1984
[Other productions: Year/Producer/Network/Actor playing Redpenny
1954/Wilfrid Grantham/Home/Henry Davies
1966 rptd 1971/Charles Lefeaux/4/Brian Hewlett
1999 rptd 2000/Michael Grandage/R3/Laurence Mitchell.]


2nd January 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: What else did Daddy say? by Ben Steed
An unhealthy marriage.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Patrick: Matthew Ryan
   Mum: Elizabeth Bell
   Dad: Peter Wickham
   Emma: Sarah Steed
Repeated from 16th May 1978


2nd January 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Rocking Horse Winner (1926) by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) dramatised by Liane Aukin
There is always the need for money.
Directed by David Spenser
   Hester Carter: Diana Bishop
   Oscar Cresswell: Moray Watson
   Paul Carter: Adam Godley
   Bassett: Sean Barrett
   Edward Carter: Rod Beacham
   Miss Wilmot: Joan Matheson
   Joan Carter: Katherine Hughes
Repeated from 10th August 1977,
Repeated 29th June 1986


3rd January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Friends and Neighbours by John Bond.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Douglas Davidson: David Mahlowe
   Louis Czezicki: Paul Webster
   Marjorie Davidson: Eileen Derbyshire


4th January 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Ginty by Gregory D Lyons
Directed by Michael Rolfe.
BBC Birmingham
   Ginty Stratton: Susan Sheridan
   Bob Stratton: John Hollis
   Jessie Stratton: Hilda Fenemore
   Mandy Stratton/ Sue: Elizabeth Proud
   Coroners Officer/Mark: Graham Weston
   Landlord: Ralph Lawton
   Jocelyn/ Woman PC: Jane Galloway
   Andy: John Bull
   Keith: Michael Harbour
   
   
5th January 1979
15.05:
The Tor Sands Experience by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
The space inside the atom.
Technical realisation by Lloyd Silverthorne
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Ellis: David Buck
   Flavia: Miriam Margolyes
   Verity: Kate Binchy
   Philemon: Stephen Murray
   Considine: Maurice Denham
   Alexis: Judy Bennett
   Magda Klein: Eva Stuart
   Mercer: Joe Dunlop
   Tom: John Bull
also with Adrian Egan and Jennifer Piercey
Repeated 8th and 11th January 1979
[Three broadcasts in one week - and this play has not been repeated since.]
[Tor Sands appeared in another Bruce Stewart play: Omegapoint 18/10/1975]


5th January 1979
23.45-0.00
Just Before Midnight: Getting Out by Christopher Russell
Directed By: Michael Bartlett
   Tom: James Bolam
   Titch: Ian Holm
Repeated 21st November 1979


6th January 1979
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Pity the Poor Potters by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
Poverty and criminality...
Directed by David Johnston
   Dad Potter: Alfie Bass
   Ma Potter: Patricia Hayes
   Carla: Diane Langton
   Darren: Graham Chinn
   Simon: Peter Wickham
   Propositioner / Detective /: Harold Kasket


6th January 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Investigation of a Murder by Eric Saward
The effect of an investigation into a crime on the relatives of the suspect.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Det-Sgt Burgess: Roger Hume
   Det-Con Bailey: Terry Molloy
   Det-Supt Armstrong: Geoffrey Matthews
   Jenny: Elizabeth Cassidy
   Malcolm: Sean Barrett
   Mum: Ysanne Churchman
   Mrs Marsden: Hilda Schroder
   Mrs Meadows: Peggy Ashby
   Raymond: Michael Irwin
   Doctor: Leonard Dixon
   Charlie: Earl Cameron
   Len Woods: Arnold Peters
   Desk Sgt: Ralph Lawton
   Radio operator: Hedli Niklaus
Repeated 8th January 1979


6th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: The Crack of Doom by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Jonathan: Andrew Branch
   His mother: Margot Boyd
   Edith Curve: Hilda Kriseman
   Brother Jack: Manning Wilson
   A lady: Brenda Kaye
   Silence, a butler: John Gabriel
   Mrs Grant/A girl: Jennifer Piercey
   Solicitor: Harold Kasket
[Also produced by Archie Campbell in 1964 for BBC Light]
[Note: The play title has been used by many other plays].


7th January 1979
14.30
Private Lives (1930) by Noel Coward (1899-1973), adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Music played and improvised by William Davies.
Directed by Ian Cottrell
   Elyot Chase: Paul Scofield
   Amanda Prynne: Patricia Routledge
   Sybil Chase: Miriam Margolyes
   Victor Prynne: John Bye
   Louise: Carole Boyd
[Other radio productions: Year/Network/Director/Actor playing Sybil:
1951/Light/Ayton Whitaker/Denise Bryer
1958/Home/Peter Watts/Denise Bryer
1969/R4/Norman Wright/Gudrun Ure]


7th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Something to do with Business by Edward Bruce
The last boxing match.
Directed by Peter King
   Harry: Bill Kerr
   Mully: Nigel Anthony
   Al: Gregory de Polnay
   
   
7th January 1979
15.35-16.31
Fame is the Spur (1940) by Howard Spring (1889-1965), adapted by Ken Whitmore.
Location recordings by Chris Webb and Mark Seyler
Theme music composed by Johnny Pearson
1 of 8: Born in Captivity.
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
   John Shawcross (as a boy): Gary Carp
   Tom Hannaway (as a youth): Phillip Pollitt
   Arnold Ryerson (as a youth): David Riley
   Grandfather: Geoffrey Banks
   Ellen, John's mother: Rosalie Williams
   Gordon Stansfield, his stepfather: Ian Flintoff
   Ma Hannaway: Elizabeth Kelly
   Charles Artingstall, the bookseller: George Hagan
   Ann Artingstall (as a girl): Susan Revill
   Hawley, her father: Graham Tennant
   Lizzie Lightfowler: Rosalie Crutchley
   Other Children: Jimmy Braddock, Phillippa Connell and Ruth Williams
Additional actors in later episodes:
Alan Meadows; Andrew Jackson; Ann Rye; Anthony Wingate; Colin Bean; Cynthia Michaelis; David Boardman; Delia Corrie; Geoffrey Wheeler; Helen Ryan; Herbert Smith; Ian McKellen; James Tomlinson; Jeffry Wickham; Joan Anstey; John Baldwin; John Franklyn-Robbins; June Barry; Lesley Nicol; Nina Holloway; Peter Bell; Peter Ellis; Peter Guiness; Randal Herley; Richard Clay-Jones; Richard Durden; Roger Grainger; Romy Baskerville; Rory Scase; Tom Harrison; Valerie Georgeson; Vida Paterson
With the children of Beckett Park School, Yorkshire
Pt2:14/1/79 Pt3:21/1/79 Pt4:28/1/79 Pt5:4/2/79 Pt6:11/2/79 Pt7:18/2/79 Pt8:25/2/79
Every 1979 episode repeated two days later.
Series repeated commencing 10th August 1984
[Also broadcast on R4X 2011-2020]


9th January 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Filleting Machine by Tom Hadaway (1923-2005)
Directed by Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester
   Alice: Christine Young
   Ma: Betty Hepple
   Davy: Keith Bollard
   Da: Tom Hidaway
[The author worked at age 14 on North Shields Fish Quay]


10th January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Father Valentine's Day by Raymund Fitzsimons.
Directed by Graham Gauld.
   Father Valentine: Richard Hurndall
   Father Walsh: John Levitt
   Father O'Toole: Bryan Murray
   Ursula: Hilda Kriseman
   Philomena: Amanda Murray
   
   
11th January 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Men of Violence by Jan Needle (1943-2023)
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Albert Winterbottom: Leslie Sands
   John Spragg: Eric Allan
   Polly: Amanda Murray
   Blaze: Kenneth Cranham
   Tom: Bill Monks
   Captain Clark: Norman Shelley
   Mrs Winterbottom: Betty Hardy
   Les: Kenneth Shanley
   Dave: John Vine
   Jim: Tim Bentinck
Repeated 27th March 1981
   
   
12th January 1979
15.05
Asya (1858) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) dramatised by Joan O'Connor
Music played by Hugo D'Alton
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Vlado: Michael Cochrane
   Gagin: Philip Bond
   Asya: Julie Hallam
Repeated from 30th June 1976
   
   
12th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: The Rubbish Tip by Peter Russell.
Directed by Liane Aukin.
   Giles: Stephen Murray
   Miriam: Georgine Anderson
   the Man: Bill Moats
   
   
13th January 1979
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Bryan Will Be So Upset by Jane Poncia
1941
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Marjorie: Penelope Lee
   Doctor Miller: Fulton MacKay
   Annabelle: Bernadette Windsor
   Bryan: Eric Allan
   Grandmother: Margot Boyd
   Alister Whiting: Philip Voss
   Katie: Gail Lidstone
   Shopkeeper: Brenda Kaye
Repeated 12th April 1980 and 29th September 1984


13th January 1979
20.30
Travellers by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Martha Ferry: Pauline Letts
   Joe Ferry: James Ellis
   Alan Frobisher: William Relton
   Siobhan Ferry: Alison Frazer
   Det-Sgt Roberts: Michael Graham Cox
   Det-Insp Percy Howard: Michael McStat
   Mrs Frobisher: Thelma Whiteley
   Mr Barker: Bill Monks
   Mrs Peters: Eva Stuart
   Garbett: Philip Voss
Repeated 15th January 1979 and 31st August 1980


13th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Poor Old Simon by James Saunders (1925-2004)
Directed By: Richard Wortley
   Helen: Amanada Murray
   Mother: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Father: Haydn Jones
Musicians: Susan Hampson, Desmond Heath, George Robertson
Repeated on Radio 3, on 3rd April 1979


14th January 1979
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Play Mas by Mustapha Matura
Carnival time Trinidad.
Directed by Betty Davies.
   Ilamjohn Gookool: Stefan Kalipha
   Samuel: Rudolph Walker
   Miss Gookool: Mercia Mansfield
   Frank: Norman Beaton
   Mr McKay: Michael Deacon
   Little girl: Elizabeth Morgan
   Dactor/Second undertaker: Tommy Eytle
   Woman Bishop: Lucita Lijertwood
   First undertaker: Frank Singuineau
   Mrs Samuel: Mona Hammond
   Chuck Reynolds: Peter Whitman
Repeated from 5th and 11th May 1975


14th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: The Velvet Carpet by Philip Levene.
The perfect lawn.
Directed by Cherry Cookson.
   Alan: Peter Howell
   Hopkills: Fred Bryant
[Also produced in 1964 (Light Programme) by Archie Campbell]
[Also produced in 1973 by Gerry Jones with Nigel Graham as Alan]


15th January 1979
19.45
The Monday Play: Typhoid Mary by Shirley Gee (1932-2016)
The discovery that someone in good health can carry infectious diseases.
Directed by David Spenser
   Mary Mallon (1869-1938): Margaret Whiting
   Dr George Soper: Daniel Massey
   Elliot Kendall: Ed Bishop
   Mary a child: Susan Sheridan
   Sister Joseph: Sheila Grant
   Fr John: Denys Hawthorne
   Immigration officer: Peter Whitman
   Agnus: Sandra Dickinson
   Elspeth: Elizabeth Proud
   Mrs Palmer: Carol Boyd
   Nurse Rhodes: Helen Horton
   Nurse Robinson: Nicolette McKenzie
   Franklyn: Andrew Branch
   lance: Tim Bentinck
   The Judge: Alan Tilvers
   Health Dept Official: Rod Beacham
   O'Rorke: Harry Towe
   Drunken spoon-player: John Bull
Also with Brenda Kaye, Jonathan Scott
Repeated 21st January 1979, 6th January 1980, and 30th September 1990
[Giles Cooper Award]


16th January 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tall Story by Robert Huxter
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Ray: Christian Robska
   Trixie: Adrienne Frank
   Marjorie: Carole Hayman
   Mike: Nigel Anthony
   Ernest/Policeman: Ronald Herdman
   Hilda: Kathleen Helme
   Old ma: Lizzie McKenzie


17th January 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Love of a Woman by John Graham
Directed By: Gerry Jones
   Gerald: Peter Jeffrey
   Esme: Shirley Dixon
   Miranda: Karen Archer
   Alastair Chambers: David Freedman
   Morris Cato: John Rye
   Livingstone: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Ruth: Eva Stuart


18th January 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Survivor by Jack Gerson (1928-2012)
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Siggy Mayer: John Shedden
   Chris: Martin Cochrane
   Mama: Katy Gardner
   Marie/Helga: Diana Olsson
   Steiner: Clement Ashby
   Kaminski: Alec Linstead
   Guard/Publisher: Arthur Boland
   Mrs Cutcheon: Jan Wilson
   Margaret: Esther Leitch
Repeated 5th July 1979


19th January 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Death of a Warhorse by John Stevenson
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Sir Joseph Pogg: Maurice Denham
   Lady Pogg: Jennifer Piercey
   Jeremy Neasdale: Clifford Rose
   Prime Minister: Edward Kelsey
   Sir Anthony Duncan: Philip Voss
   Councillor Samuel Fisher: Douglas Blackwell
   Dr James Warren/Jakes: John Baddeley
   Mrs Barbara Grosvenor-Officer: Heather Bell
   Andrew Dale: Gregory de Polnay
   Jack Stropp/Michael Anderson: Peter Wickham
   Claude: Graham Seed


19th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: No Way Home by Ben Steed.
Directed By: Christopher Venning
   John Davidson: Michael Cochrane
   Gustav Fulke: Roy Montague
   Frau Hoffman: Hilda Kriseman
   Josef Keplo: John Rapley
   Herr Schiller: Wolf Kahler
   Airport announcer: Fleur Chandler


20th January 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Bitter Almond by David Simpson
I've applied for eight jobs already and got nothing.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Denise: Carole Turner
   Dora: Ann Aris
   Eddie: John Franklyn-Robbins
   John: Paul Copley
   Brenda: Elisabeth Sladen
   Heppenstall: Brian Miller
   Denis: Christian Rodska
   Graham: Alun Bond
Repeated from 15th October 1976.


20th January 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Vendetta for a Judge by James Follett (1939-2021)
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Edward Dawlish: Bernard Horsfall
   Caroline Dawlish: Mary Law
   Tom Snaith: Roger Hammond
   Marion Snaith: Freda Dowie
   Lord Carthage: Brian Haines
   Drummond: Manning Wilson
   Brunt: Gregory De Polnay
   Foxy: Danny Schiller
   Castle: Adrian Egan
   Ben Dawlish: Fred Bryant
   Miss Jarvis: Brenda Kaye
   Rudge: Bruce Bennett
   Jimmy: Henry Knowles
Repeated 22nd January 1979


20th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Leavings by Rose Tremain
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Cherry Mattheson: Joan Matheson
   Dr Paul Mattheson: Colin Blakely
Repeated 12th December 1979


21st January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: X-Certificate by Michael Hardwick (1924-1991)
The claim is that cinema patrons are insured against death caused by the shocking nature of the horror film...
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Roma: Lorna Rosslyn
   Arnold Peake: Frank Windsor
   Mrs Critch: Eva Stuart
   Press Officer: Adrian Egan
   Photographer: Joe Dunlop


22nd January 1979
19.45
The Monday Play: The Defence (1929) by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) adapted by Terence Tiller
A genius chess master pays the price.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Lizaveta: Ellin Jenkins
   Luzhin: Ian Holm
   Young Luzhin: Dominic Cox
   Father: Jack May
   Mother: Penelope Lee
   Aunt: Rosalind Ayres
   Boris: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Valentinov: Peter Baldwin
   Madam Tcherepnin: Thelma Whiteley
   Tcherepnin: Stephen Thorne
   Olga: Lolly Cockerell
Also with Pascoe Cadman, Jonathan Ewbank, Peter Wickham, Philip Sully, Eric Allan, Susan Sheridan and Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 28th January 1979


23rd January 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Almighty Haddock by Patrick Ryan.
Directed By: Peter King
   Paddy: Laurence Hardiman
   Paddy's father: Michael Robbins
   Clancy: Ian Hoare
   Miss Sarah Petticombe: Dandy Nichols
   Stallholder: Leonard Fenton
   Policeman: Bill Monks
   publican: Peter Baldwin


24th January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: War Bride by Rachel Wyatt.
Director: Liane Aukin
   Sim: Rosemary Leach
   Bob: Robert Beatty
   Mandy: Heather Bell
   Jack: Peter Marinker
   

25th January 1979
15.35
The Quarry by Ian Taylor
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Major Faulkner: Eric Lander
   Maurice: Mark Buffery
   Donald: Peter Baldwin
   Robbie: Barry Jackson
   Charley: David Ponting
   Tom: Davis Ashford
   Jeff: David Jackson
   Mrs Faulkner: Hilda Kriseman
   Shillingford: Roger Snowdon


26th January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Willit and Scrope by Mike Walker.
Directed By: Christopher Venning
   Mr Willit: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Mr Scrope: Terence Alexander
   The Rev Treece: Timothy Bateson
   Gower: Fred Bryant
   Janey: Susan Derrick
   PC Truelove: Philip Sully
   Thompson: Danny Schiller
   Macabee: Ian Frost
Also with Peter Wickham and Sheila Raynor


26th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: End of the Picnic by David Campton (1924-2006).
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Cast: Lockwood West and Peggy Paige
[Also produced by Ronald Mason in 1964, for BBC Light, with Olga Lindo and George Merritt.]
[The story appeared in the 1969 book collection "Laughter and Fear"]


27th January 1979
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Offcuts by John Wilkie
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Joe: Iain Cuthbertson
   Neville: Sean Barrett
   Karen: Jo Anderson
   Pete: Mark Buffery
Repeated 22nd May 1981


27th January 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Other Paths to Glory (1974) by Anthony Price (1928-2019), adapted by Alison Plowden.
Directed by Harry Catlin
   Dr Audley: Tony Britton
   Paul Mitchell: Martin Jarvis
   Col Butler: Ronald Baddiley
   Mrs Mitchell: Lorna Rosslyn
   Constable Bell / Marcel Jarras: David Graham
   Mr Hutchinson / Capt Faversham: Douglas Blackwell
   Gen Leigh-Woodhouse: Jeffrey Segal
   Nicole MacMahon: Silvie Dattas
   Gatekeeper/Sorel: Steve Hodson
   Edouard Ollivier: Andre Maranne
Repeated from 15th and 17th May 1976
[The author wrote 19 novels with the character David Audley- BBC Radio 4 broadcast "The Labyrinth Makers" in 1992.]


27th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: How Far to Run by Grant C Eustace.
A plane has an engine fire.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Captain: Fred Bryant
   Peter: John Salthouse
   Hamish: Tom Cotcher
   Andrew: Richard Derrington
   Controller: Martin Read
Repeated 30th January 1980


28th January 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Sweet and Sour Strawberries by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Nesta: Carole Hayman
   Jeremy: Dominic Guard


29th January 1979
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Stringer's Last Stand by Stan Barstow (1928-2011) and Alfred Bradley
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
(in 1973 credited to "Tony Cliff from Leeds")
   Bessie: Janet Dale
   Gladys: Avis Bunnage
   Luther: Ronald Baddiley
   Bob: Alan Rothwell
   Jack: Graham Roberts
   Marjorie: Maggie McCarthy
   Carol: Sylvia Brayshay
   Ann: Beth Harris
Repeated from 15th and 17th September 1973


29th January 1979
19.45
The Monday Play: Who is Pari Passu by Allan Berrie
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Ed Starky: Bill Paterson
   Fr Rory: Kevin Flood
   Kit O'Leary: Alan Barry
   Val Starky: Carole Hayman
   Neury: Dexter Fletcher
   Reporter/Musician: John Bull
   Reporter/Counter clerk: Adrian Egan
   Henry Shaw: Peter Baldwin
   Unemployed man: Bill Ward
   Ed's mother: Christine Edmonds
   Ed's father: Joe Dunlop
   Desmond Cooper: Alaric Cotter
   Au pair: Gilly Gratham
   Headmaster: John Gabriel
   Ewa Cooper: Eva Haddon
   Dorothea: Sophia Ward
   Dolores: Heather Tobias
   Dr Hare: Rod Beacham
Repeated 4th February 1979


30th January 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Little White Lie by Glenn Chandler.
Director: Penny Gold
A mother would like a boyfriend, but...
   Linda: Jane Carr
   Joyce: Eleanor Bron
   Alan: Christopher Guard
   Mike: Bill Monks
   Kevin: Tim Bentinck
[Nothing to do with the 2022 film of this name]


31st January 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Where Heroes Tread by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Director: Graham Gauld
   Sam Wakefield: Christopher Bidmead
   Claudia: Phillida Nash
   Cullinane: John Hollis
   Purvis: Malcolm Hayes
   Brotherton: Rod Beacham
   Paddy: Alaric Cotter
   Barney: Jonathan Scott
   Mildred: June Spencer
Repeated from 14th April 1977


1st February 1979
15.35
Afternoon Theatre: Against All Odds by Ian Cullen (1939-2019).
A plane catches fire.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Sqn-Ldr Preedy: Henry Knowles
   Air Comm Laker: Fred Bryant
   Air Comm Edgcombe: Eric Lander
   Quaddy: Graham Faulkner
   Fallon: Michael Billington
   Stan Preedy: Cyril Shaps
   Aileen: Miranda Bell
   Hilda Preedy: Eva Stuart
   Air Traffic Controller: Richard Kay
   Bingo Brown: Leslie Heritage
   Flt-Lt Thorpe: Roy Montague
   HeUcopter Pilot: Stephen Kemble
   Reporter: Henry Davies
   Lt Hardy, RN: Robin Langford
   Newscaster: Ray Jones


2nd February 1979
15.05
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, adapted by Henry Reed.
Music by Antony Hopkins
Music played by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra with the BBC Northern Singers conducted by the composer
Directed by John Tydeman and Ian Cotterell
   Captain Ahab: Colin Blakely
   Ishmael: Philip Sully
   Father Mapple: Marius Goring
   Starbuck: Malcolm Hayes
   Pip: Adam Godley
   Stubb: Sean Barrett
   Flask: John Hollis
   Captain Peleg: Geoffrey Matthews
   Elijah: Lewis Stringer
   The Manxman: Bill Monks
   Queequeg: Mark Heath
   Captain Mayhew: Denys Hawthorne
   Captain Gardiner: Manning Wilson
   Fedallah: Saeed Jaffrey
   Tashtego: Danny Schiller
   Daggoo: Roger Hammond
   Doughboy: Andrew Branch
   Archy: Tim Bentinck
   Cabaco: John Bull
Repeated 4th February 1979 then on 19th November 1981 on Radio 3 and repeated on R4 on 17th August 1987.
[Also Produced by Stephen Potter for BBC Third in 1947, repeated 1951, with Ralph Richardson as Ahab.]


2nd February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Il Domestico by Joyce Merrick.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Tom: Jonathan Newth
   Janet: Amanda Murray
   Pauline: Janet Hargreaves
   Service Engineer: Graham Faulkner
[Although listed for 22nd December 1978, the program was not broadcast on that date as the BBC staff were on strike and all 4 radio channels broadcast a national programme from about 4pm]


3rd February 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Another Blue Day by David Bannister
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Jack Howard: John Hollis
   Marjorie Howard: Nancy Gower
   Hugh Pargetter: William Fox
   The Rev Lane: Roger Hume
   Miss Lanchester: Hilda Schroder
   Harry Sims: Edward Kelsey
   Gillian Robson: Maggie McCarthy
   Lesley Carmody: Marian Kemmer
   Simon Carmody: Peter Craze
   Helen: Sara Coward
   Colin: David Strong
   Mrs Louth: Eileen Barry
   Mrs Nicholson: Ysanne Churchman
   The School Director: John Breslin
   Mr Cobb: Alan Devereux
   
   
3rd February 1979
20.30
The Lackey's Daughter by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Blacksykes: Geoffrey Banks
   Diane: Elizabeth Bell
   Lady Katy: Christine Welch
   Sir Thomas: Derrick Gilbert
   Willie: Jack Carr
   Geoffrey: Christian Rodska
   Thelma: June Barry
   Jack: Judy Bennett
   Mann: John Arthur
Repeated 5th February 1979


3rd February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Remote Control by Stephen Grenfell
Directed by Margaret Etall
   John Carter: Nigel Hawthorne
   Rogers: Bruce Lidington


4th February 1979:
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Mr Jones by Alan Drury
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Arthur Cooper: Benjamin Whitrow
   his wife: Jennifer Piercey
   Mr Jones: Danny Schiller
   Mr Jones: Phillip Sully
Also with Heather Bell, Brian Coburn, Lolly Cockerell, Adrian Egan, Brenda Kaye
Repeated 14th November 1979


6th February 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Camera Often Lies by Jennifer Phillips
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Sonya: Penelope Lee
   Alex: David Sinclair
   Jimmy: Harry Towb
   Sydney: Danny Schiller
   Pianist: Mary Nash


7th February 1979
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: Jack by David Marshall
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Narrated by Joan Bakewell
   Jack: Alexander John
   Jill: Joanna Wake
   Mr Wright: Geoffrey Matthews
   Rowena: Karen Archer
   Vicar: Edward Kelsey
Repeated from 17th March 1977
[David Marshall also wrote:
   "Jack in Office" broadcast 9th February 1978, director Michael Rolfe, also with Alexander John as Jack.
   "Jack the Tripper" broadcast 30th May 1978, director Gerry Jones
   "Jack in the Box" broadcast 9th Feb 1993, directed by Richard Wortley. ]


8th February 1979
15.35
Afternoon Theatre: Changing Patterns by Jean Nelson
1908: A seaside holiday
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Kate: Anna Keaveney
   Polly: Anna Nygh
   Aunt BeUa: Constance Chapman
   Mrs Nugent: Cicely Victoria
   Father: Anthony Newlands
   Margaret Howarth: Ingrid Hafner
   Heckler: David Ponting
   Police officer: Christopher Bramwell
   Harry: Jeremy Roberts


9th February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Rage Among Lilies by Bruce Stewart
1848- an unusual legal case regarding matrimony.
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Cornelia Connelly: Colette O'Neil
   Pierce Connelly: David Buck
   Bishop Wiseman: John Rye
   Bishop Flaget: Gerald Cross
   Sir George Bowyer: Peter Howell
   Justice Sir Herbert Tenner: Alaric Cotter
   Cardinal: James Thomason
   Stanton: Gavin Campbell
   Annie: Valerie Murray
Repeated from 11th May 1977


9th February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: A Moving Discussion by Jane Hollowood
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Elizabeth: Vicky Ireland
   Adrian: John Rowe


10th February 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Spirit of Nendrum by James Mateer
The monastery of Nendrum and its end.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Sinech: Nora Connolly
   David: Stephen Rea
   Andrew: Toby Byrne
   Robert: Liam Neeson
   The Rev James Henderson: Bill Hunter
   William John: J C Devlin
   Doorkeeper: Michael Duffy
   Colum: Bryan Murray
   Brendan: Des McAleer


10th February 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Wolves of Grapenose Point by David Hopkins
Grapenose Point is a small peninsula in northern Scotland. The causeway to the mainland is under water most of the day.
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Liz: Heather Bell
   Geoff: Peter Wickham
   Rolf Lanstrum: John Green
   Howard Edwards: Adrian Egan
   Kyle Johnson: Rod Beacham
   James Garrott: Russell Dixon
   Willy Humphreys: John Graham
   Ada Humphreys: Jennifer Piercey
   Ralph Davis: Henry Knowles
   Jake Lessor: Joe Dunlop
   the Rev Barkworth: Jonathan Scott
   Angus/Coastguard: Fraser Kerr
   Duncan: Ronald Herdman
   Tom Lewis: Donald Bissett
   Teddy Mason/customer: Gregorie De Polnay
   Jamie: Jean Rogers
Repeated 12th February 1979


11th February 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Collector (1963) by John Fowles (1926-2005) adapted by David Parker
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Miranda: Judi Dench
   Clegg: Nigel Anthony
Also with Douglas Blackwell, Martin Friend, Jane Knowles and John Rowe
Repeated from 31st July 1972


11th February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Antique by Patrick Riddell
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Mrs Quayle: Margot Boyd
   Mr Abbott: Norman Shelley
   Mr Withers: Andrew Branch


12th February 1979
19.45::
The Monday Play: Attracta by William Trevor (1928-2016)
Directed by Michael Heffernan
   Sarah Crookham: Sylvia Coleridge
   Mrs Bamford: Anne Jameson
   Mrs Marsh-Hall: Betty Baskcomb
   Lady Faste: Grizelda Hervey
   Dr Friendman: Douglas Blackwell
   Attracta: Mary Wimbush
   Aunt Emmeline: Eithne Dunne
   Archdeacon Flower: Haydn Jones
   Ceraldine: Heather Bell
   Attracta as a child: Kate Binchy
   Mr Devereux: Kevin Flood
   Mr Ayrie: P G Stephens
   Maisie: Roisin Donaghy
   Mr Purce: Allan McClelland
   Barbara: Judy Bennett
   Penelope Vade: Elizabeth Bell
   Gangster: Stan McGowan
   Mr Jameson: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated from R3 25th September 1977, also broadcast on R3 on 25th May 1978
[William Trevor also worked as a teacher]


13th February 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Past Appearances by Jennifer Phillips
More adventures of two fading opera stars
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Sonya: Penelope Lee
   Alex: David Sinclair
   Jason: John Baddeley
   Audrey: Diana Olsson
   Mortimer: John Gabriel
   Pianist: Mary Nash
[The characters Sonya and Alex - with the same actors- are also in "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen" broadcast 13/3/76 rptd 10/1/1978.]


14th February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Little Get Together by John Speer
Directed by David Johnston
   David Reed: Bill Kerr
   Janet Mitchell: Ellen McIntosh
   Carol Bryant: Vivienne McKee
   Steve Bryant: Sean Barrett
   Michael Cartwright: Eric Allan
   Ernie Hookham: Richard Steele
   Mike Blair: Adrian Egan
   David Reed as a child: Tammy Ustinov
   Michael Cartwright. as a child: Jill Lidstone
   Ronny Muller: Heather Bell
   ARP Warden Green/ Photographer: Manning Wilson


15th February 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Honour's for the Birds by Peter Brent
How innocent is bird watching?
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Phil Brodie: John Ashton
   The Major: Paul Seed
   Anderson: John Graham
   Diplomat: Paul Meier
   Mrs Brodie: Constance Chapman
   Official: William Eedle
   Bellamy: Trevor Martin
   Interviewer: Colin Bower
Repeated from 16th March 1977


16th February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sergei's Strawberry Surprise by Robert Lord
A wondrous new yogurt treat
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Alex/Quiche Lorraine: Donald Crerar
   Smith: John Shedden
   Chef: Alex Norton
   Doris: Jill Fenner
   Zador: Arthur Boland
   Detective-Inspector Morrisey: Roy Boutcher
   Chief Inspector Mayhew: Martin Heller
   Ccnstable Pinfield: Gregor Fisher
   Eric: Nicholas Coppin
   Sergeant Ashley: Keith Bratt
   Actress: Diana Olsson


16th February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Nightmare by R D Wingfield (1928-2007)
Director: Glyn Dearman
   John Drummond: John Graham
   John Smith: Hugh Dickson
   Insp Thorpe: Philip Voss
   P C Drew: Malcolm Gerard
Also with Jennifer Pibrcey, Andrew Branch and Gregory De Polnay


17th February 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Clovis in the Country by Colin Tucker based on short stories by Saki (H H Munro)(1870-1916)
Directed by David Spenser
   Clovis Sangrail: Ronald Pickup
   Betty Coulterneb: Angela Pleasence
   Rex Dillot: John Rowe
   Mrs Olston: Gwen Cherrell
   Morton Lanner: William Eedle
   Teresa Thundleford: Mary Wimbush
   Bertie van Tahn: Steve Hodson
   Hugo Peterby: Andrew Seear
   Strinnit: Marcus Campbell
   Miss Schmidt, the governess: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated from 17th November 1976
Repeated 9th February 1985
[For the original stories see the book "The Chronicles of Clovis" (1911)]


17th February 1979
20.30-22.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Silent Scream by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Tom: James Laurenson
   Sal: Hannah Gordon
   Prime Minister: Colin Douglas
   Brian Forbes: Eric Allan
   Smith: Donald Hewlett
   Silkin: Peter Wickham
   Andy: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Alien Controller/Cabinet Minister: Manning Wilson
   Second Pilot/PC: Gregory de Polnay
   Cabinet Minister/Second Lieut: Philip Voss
   Gloria/Cabinet Minister: Brenda Kaye
   Opposition MP/Colonel: Peter Williams
   First Girl: Alison Draper
   First Boy: Andrew Branch
   Second Boy: Tim Bentinck
   Third Boy: Susan Sheridan
   Taxi Driver/Villager: Philip Sully
Repeated 19th February 1979
[Also broadcast in 3 parts on R7/R4X 2008-2020]


17th February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday by Joan O'Connor
Dublin 1919
Director: Glyn Dearman
   Riley: Bill Monks
   Mrs Riley: Paullne Delany
   Declan: Judy Bennett
   Cait: Kate Binchy
   Pat Feeney: Kevin Flood
   First Man: Sean Barrett
   Second Man: Alan Barry
[The play is not about the album / book by John Maguire published in 1973. The title is from the song by Glyn Hughes "The Ballad of Old Seth Davy" better known as "Whiskey on a Sunday" - which originally used London placenames.]


18th February 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Viviette by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001), based on "Two on a Tower"(1882) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Directed by Jane Morgan (Jane Graham)
   Viviette, Lady Constantine: Sarah Badel
   Louis Glanville: Christopher Bidmead
   Dobbs/verger: Peter Whitman
   Swithin St Cleeve: Michael Kitchen
   Granny Martin: Susan Richards
   Tabitha Lark: Emily Richard
   Hannah Underwood: Gladys Spencer
   The Rev: Denis McCarthy
   Bishop of Melchester: Haydn Jones
   Capt Humfrey: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated from 24th August 1974, 18th August 1975 and 17th July 1977.
[A different version by Jon Sen was produced in two parts by Stefan Escreet, in 2009, under the title "Two on a Tower" with Maggie O'Neill as Viviette - rptd R4X]
[Another version of "Two On A Tower", by Anita Sullivan was produced in two parts in 2021.]


18th February 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Heaven Scent by Barrie Keeffe (1945-2019)
Director: Ronald Mason
   Bob: Nigel Anthony
   Harry: Harold Kasket
   Percy: John Hollis
   Professor: Bill Monks
   Ghandi: Renu Setna
   Shop Assistant: Eva Stuart
[Giles Cooper Award]


19th February 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Episode on a Thursday Evening by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
To evacuate or not....?
Pianist Martin Goldstein
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Tom: John Hollis
   Jerry: Terry Scully
   Rose: Diana Bishop
   Proctor: Lewis Stringer
Repeated from R3 of 21st September 1978
Repeated 28th October 1990
[Note: Originally listed for R3 on 24/8/78 but NOT broadcast on that date]
[Giles Cooper Award]


20th February 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: New Signals by Christopher Jones
Early retirement.
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Tom: Manning Wilson
   Mick: John Bull
   Jimmy: Bill Monks
   Bill: Leonard Fenton
   Jenkins: Philip Voss
   Kevin: Adrian Egan
   Purvis: Philip Sully


21st February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cambric of Kings by Horst Schlotelburg translated by Martina Mayne (1925-2013), adaptated by Anthony Vivis (1943-2013)
Paper serviettes.
Music specially composed by Thomas Jahn
Directed by Liane Aukin (1936-2016)
   Georg Salbach: John Shrapnel
   Ursula: Tammy Ustinov
   Leskow: Geoffrey Matthews
   Herbert: Anthony Hall
   Lisbeth: Carole Boyd
also with Eva Stuart, Peter Baldwin, Margot Boyd, John Hull, Josie Kidd, Philip Sully, Philip Voss and Harold Basket
[Anthony Vivis was also a German-English translator]


22nd February 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Monkey Trial by Norman Partington
1925: The trial echoed through the whole of America.
Directed by Peter King
   Clarence Darrow: Don Fellows
   Bryan: Ramsay Williams
   John Scopes: Peter Whitman
   Pamela Scopes: Margaret Robertson
   Judge Raulston/Headmaster: Hal Galili
   Stewart: Peter Marinker
   Emeline: Toria Fuller
   Narrator: John Gabriel
Repeated 13th March 1980


23rd February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Melissa by Dorothy Gharbaoui
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Barbara Jackson: Valerie Lillet
   Stephen Jackson: Sean Barrett
   Kevin: Stephen Furphy
   Katy: Jennifer Wright
   Mrs Thurley: Trudy Kelly
   Derek: Desmond MacAleer
   Barbara's Mother: Margaret D'Arcy
   Audiologist: John Keegan
   Miss Lowry: Stella McCusker
   Sharon: Shireen Shah
   Mrs Adams: Catherine Gibson


23rd February 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Resting Place by David Campton (1924-2006)
Directed by Christopher Venning
with Isabel Dean and Geoffrey Bayldon
[Also produced by Keith Williams in 1964 for BBC Light]
   
   
24th February 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Music to Remember by Joan Sadler
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Norma, aged 60: Helena McCarthy
   Norma, aged ten: Susan Sheridan
   Beth: Eva Stuart
   Lily: Thelma Whiteley
   Mr Goldsmith: John Gabriel
   Arthur: Danny Schiller
   Percy Grey: Bill Monks
   Mrs Combridge: Penelope Shaw
   Sue: Alison Draper
   Charlie/Singer: Max Hafler
   Boys' voices: Andrew Branch and John Bull


24th February 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Spin a Loving Thread by Alick Rowe (1938-2009)
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Andy: Steven Pacey
   Mrs Deans: Betty Hardy
   Boyo: Douglas Blackwell
   Mrs Nairn: Diana Bishop
   Mr Nairn: William Eedle
   Willy: Peter Craze
   Tom: John Rowe
   Deb: Glynis Brooks
   Invigilator: Malcolm Reid
Repeated from 16th and 22nd August 1976


24th February 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Findings Keepings! by J. Mansel Thomas (1912-1979)
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Vi: Fiona Walker
   Mrs Griffiths: Elizabeth Morgan
   Sgt Ace: Douglas Blackwell
with Gareth Armstrong
[J Mansel Thomas was a member of the Gower Society, who collected oral history]


25th February 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Diana of the Crossways (1885) by George Meredith (1828-1909) adapted by Denis Constanduros
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Lady Dunstane (Emmy): Daphne Anderson
   Sir Lukin Dunstane: Garard Green
   Tom Redworth: David Buck
   Percy Dacier: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Lady Wathin: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Tonans: Douglas Blackwell
   Danvers: Hilda Schroder
   Manservant: Walter Hall
Repeated from 20th and 26th September 1976


25th February 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Dying to See You by Deborah Guarino
The motorway must be built.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Beth: Paula Wilcox
   Alan: Derek Seaton
   

26th February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: At Your Service by Alan Melville (1910-1983)
A TV show is to be made- Songs of Praise.
Directed by John Tydeman
   The Vicar.: James Thomason
   Mrs Mitchell.: Margot Boyd
   Mrs Grant.: Cecile Chevreau
   Miss Gray: Gudrun Ure
   Monique: Carolle Rousseau
   Anthony Anstruther: Michael Spice
   Col Gregson: William Fox
   Dr Thorburn: Leslie Heritage
   Miss Peel: Sheila Grant
   Mr Rees: David Neal
   Lady Granger: Mary Wimbush
   Minnie: Eva Stuart
   Robin Durnforth: Steve Hodson
   Era: Patrick Barr
   Fred: Malcolm Reid
   Gardiner: Michael Tudor Barnes
Repeated from 4th September 1976


26th February 1979
19.45::
The Monday Play: The Last Burning by Patrick Galvin (1927-2011)
Near Cork in 1885.
Radiophonic music by Dick Mills
Directed by Robert Cooper
   First Girl: Marcella O'Riordan
   Second Girl: Stella McCusker
   Third Girl: Ruth Hegarty
   Quilty: Des Perry
   Flynn: Louis Rolston
   Foley: Niall Toibin
   Michael: John Hewitt
   Blaney: J G Devlin
   Bridget: Nora Connolly
   Straw Man: Toby Byrne
Repeated 4th March 1979


27th February 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Coxcomb by John Kirkmorris
Putting on a theatrical costume.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Ellis Brandon: Peter Woodthorpe
   Frank, his dresser: Harry Towb
   Beth: Karen Archer
   Wally: Danny Schiller
[Giles Cooper award winner]
[Coxcomb is a name for a proud conceited person]


28th February 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), adapted by Jinnie Schiele
Music by Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed hy Patricia Brent
   Prince Rasselas: Christopher Guard
   Imlac: Julian Glover
   Princess Nekayah: Johanna Wake
Also with Michael Harbour, Peter Howell, Timothy Bateson, John Rowe, Jane Knowles, Anne Rosenfeld, Anthony Jacobs, Mary Wimbush and William Eedle
Repeated from 10th March 1977.
[Also produced by Terence Tiller for Third, 14/2/57]
[Also produced by Amber Barnfather in 2015 for R4, rptd R4X]
[The book was written in seven days to earn funds for Johnson to bury his mother who had just died.].


1st March 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Monsters by Margaret Crane
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Dyer: Rosalie Crutchiey
   Robert Harris: John Rowe
   Mrs Dyer: Rosalie Crutchley
   Robert: John Rowe
   Mrs Spence: Ann Rye
   Hugh: Russell Dixon
   Rosamond.: Rosalind Shanks
   Mr Harris: Malcolm Hedden


2nd March 1979
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: Say Goodnight. Bridget by Sarah Maxwell
New York - the mid 1930s.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Arty: Harry Towb
   Bridget: Norma Ronald
   Joey: Peter Whitman
   Hattie: Elaine Stritch
   Belle: Liza Ross
Repeated from 5th January 1978


2nd March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Treasure by Gwen Cherrell
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Laura: Anna Calder Marshall
   Paul: Geoffrey Collins
   Teresa: Katherine Parr
   Gloria: Brenda Kaye


3rd March 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Smoke Goes Up the Chimney Just the Same by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Directed by Peter King
   Mam: Sian Phillips
   Dad: William Squire
   Billy: Philip Madoc
   Auntie Maggie: Jan Edwards
   Keeper: William Ingram
[The title was used in a song written by Fred Chandler 1901 (You push the damper in...) ]


3rd March 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Dream of Murder by J. C. W. Brook
Radiophonic sound by Paddy Kingsland
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Paul: Nigel Anthony
   Roger: Sean Barrett
   Helen: Sheila Grant
   Andrew: Alan MacNaughtan
   Jean: Rosalind Shanks
   Sue Harris: Tammy Ustinov
   Mr Bruce: Manning Wilson
   Waitress: Alison Draper
   Barmaid: Josie Kidd
   Bus driver: Fred Bryant
Repeated 5th March 1979
[Also broadcast on R4X 2015-2020]


3rd March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Tunes by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
Music played by Brian Fitzgerald
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Tattersall: Ronald Herdman
   Frond: Malcolm Hebden
   Janet: Fiona Mathieson
Repeated 28th November 1979


4th March 1979
21.03
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte adapted by Allan McClelland
Piano: Ken Frith
1 of 6
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Helen Graham: Rosalind Shanks
   Gilbert Markham: Russell Dixon
   Mr Markham: Graham Roberts
   Mrs Markham: Kathleen Helme
   Rose Markham: Valerie Georgeson
   Fergus Markham: Alastair Wyllie
   Mrs Wilson: Rosalie Williams
   Jane Wilson: Linda Gardner
   Arthur: Matthew Stradling
   Mary Millward: Maureen Morris
   The Rev Millward: Harry Beety
   Eliza Millward/Esther: Kate Lee
   Mr Lawrence: Philip Voss
Actors in later parts:
   Annabella: Illona Linthwaite
   Aunt Maxwell: Hilda Kriseman
   Benson: Russell Dixon
   Grimsby/John: James Tomlinson
    Hargrave/Traveller: Henry Knowles
   Hattersley: Adrian Egan
   Lord Lowborough: Ian Flintoff
   Milicent: Amanda Murray
   Mr Boarham: Herbert Smith
   Mr Huntingdon: John Green
   Mr Wilmot: George Hagan
   Rachel: Judith Barker
   Uncle Maxwell: Harold Kasket
Pt2:11/3/79 Pt3:18/3/79 Pt4:25/3/79 Pt5:1/4/79 Pt6:8/4/79
All 1979 parts repeated after 2 days


4th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Footsteps by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Directed By: Kay Patrick
   Lawrence: Michael Spice
   Zoe: Petra Davies
   Miss Thorne: Sheelah Wilcocks
   Mrs Sims: Josie Kidd
   ?? (Peter Baldwin George Sims
   Edwin Brown) ??
[Final names in Programme Database jumbled, all are the names of actors, one or more could be characters in the play....]


5th March 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Miracles by Peter Whalley
What is a miracle?
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Judith: Diana Barker (??)
   Flacks: Marlene Sidaway
   Bishop: Geoffrey Banks
   Fr Izon: Peter Jeffrey
   Fr Arkwright: Ronald Herdman
   Fr Davidson: Russell Dixon
   Thief: Laurence Kenny
   Dr Browning: Enn Reitel
   Mrs Cooper: Eileen Derbyshire
   Mrs Jellicoe: Lynda Marchal
Repeated 11th March 1979, 16th March 1980
[First actor name unreliable in programme database, could be Diane Barker?]


6th March 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: You're Welcome to Immortality by Valerie Barker
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Johnnie: Peter Postlethwaite
   the Voice: Harold Innocent
   Joe: Mark Buffery
   Girl: Anna Keaveney
   Personnel officer: Phillip Manikum


7th March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Rattling The Railings By Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Old age.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Pauline: Elizabeth Proud
   Dad: Timothy Bateson
   Brenda: Anna Keaveney
   Alec: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Robert: Nigel Anthony
Repeated 3rd June 1981


8th March 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Scenes from Family Life by Barry Bermange
Directed by R. D. Smith
   Marie: Anna Cropper
   Eric: John Standing
   Walter: David March
Repeated from 27th September 1971
[Adapted from a tv program by Bermange, aired 25/9/69.]


9th March 1979
15.05
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, adapted by Eric Ewens.
Music: Graham Collier
Mexico 1938-1939
Director: John Tydeman
Narrator: Paul Scofield
   Doctor Arturo Vigil: William Fox
   Jacques Laruelle: David March
   Signor Bustamente: Trader Faulkner
   Geoffrey Firmin: Norman Rodway
   Yvonne, his ex-wife: June Tobin
   Hugh, his half-brother: Denys Hawthorne
   Everard: Gordon Dulieu
   ???????: Gregory de Polnay
   Dios: Andrew Branch
   Policeman: John Bull
   Maria: Eva Stuart
   Voice 1: Leonard Fenton
   Voice 2: John Bull
Repeated 12th AND 15th March 1979


9th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Thoughts of Chairman Thingummy by Julia Birley
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Chairman: Stephen Murray
   That Woman: Madi Hedd
   Senile Member: Harold Bennett
   Secretary: Josie Kidd
   ?????: Gregory de Polnay


10th March 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Dartist by Andrew Lynch
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Terry: Michael Angelis
   Tonto: Kenneth Gardnier
   Uncle Tal: Graham Roberts
   Brenda: Helen Worth
   Tommy: David Lincoln
   Arthur: David Casey
   T K Jackson: David Jackson
   Jenny: June Barry
   Landlord: Peter Wheeler
Repeated 25th September 1981
[Listed for 14th December 1978 but NOT broadcast on that date]


10th March 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Policy of Murder by Len Rush
Life insurance.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Pat: Nigel Anthony
   Cattie: Val Lilley
   Maggie: Kate Binchy
   Tom: Shane Connaughton
   Mrs Stanton: Sheila Fay
   Mrs Manville: Elizabeth Kelly
   Slattery: David Jackson
   Prosecuting Counsel: Malcolm Hedden
   Dr Whitworth: Russel Dixon
   Judge: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 12th March 1979


10th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Vacant Possession by John Wilkie
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Alison: Pat Heywood
   Harry: Roger Hume
   Vicar/Fred: Douglas Leach


11th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Bionic Blob or This bazooka on my left shoulder is loaded by James Follett (1939-2021)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Amy: Sandra Dickinson
   Control/Lenny: John Bull
   Senator/Big Louey: John Bay
   Slim Chance: Ed Bishop
   Mayor/Fingers: Harold Kasket
   Attini: Hywel Bennett
   Atta: Nerys Hughes
   The voice: Eve Karpf
Repeated 19th December 1979
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2005-2009; R4X 2011-2022]
[Related program: 26/8/79: The Bionic Blob and the Case of the Stolen Wavelengths]


13th March 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Paper Doll by David Calcutt
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Matthews: Richard Pasco
   Mick: Michael Staniforth
   Ronnie: Daniel Abineri
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2021]


14th March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mate o' Mine by Edna Nadler
"Computer" dating.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Rita: Rosemary Martin
   Daphne: Pat Heywood
   Mother: Joan Matheson
   Clara: Phyllida Nash
   Frederick Legrant: Leslie Heritage
   William Jones: Don Troedson
   Reg: William Eedle
   Reg: Michael Goldie
   Janet: Anne Rosenfeld
   Priest: Jeffrey Segal
Repeated from 5th May 1977


15th March 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Apple Tree (1916) by John Galsworthy (1867-1933) dramatised by Jane Beeson
Based on a Dartmoor legend.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Frank: Jeremy Clyde
   Megan: Rosalind Ayres
   Stella: Emily Richard
   Robert: Geoffrey Beevers
   Mrs Narracombe: Jane Wenham
   Phil: Graham Seed
   Joe/Waiter: Andrew Branch
   Jim: Danny Schiller
   Nick: Susan Sheridan
   Shop assistant/Child: Alison Draper
Repeated from 31st December 1978


16th March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Perfect Pitch by Tom Gallacher (1932-2001)
Opera.
The singing voice of Kathleen Livingstone (Soprano)
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   the Narrator and Bill: Patrick Malahide
   Frank: Finlay Welsh
   Elsie: Wilma Duncan
   Ada: Jennifer Angus
   Mrs Thompson: Joanna Tope
   Eric Delber: Keith Bratt


16th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Someone to Talk To by Michael Judge
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Bea: Elizabeth Begley
   Emma: Catherine Gibson
   Amanda: Margaret D'Arcy


17th March 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: In Mourning by Howard Curtis
Directed By: Bernard Krichefski
   David: Dominic Guard
   his mother: Maureen Lipman
   Uncle Lew: Leonard Fenton
   Auntie Gertie: Hilda Kriseman
   Sadie: Doreen Mantle
   Esther: Paula Jacobs
   Sammy: Harry Towb
   Fay: Maria Charles
   Jim: Tony McEvoy
   Sally: Rowena Roberts
   Brenda: Alison Draper
   Mr Digby: Gordon Dulieu


17th March 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Humane Solution By Steve Gallagher
A foggy airport.
Directed by John Tydeman
   Larry Niven: Patrick Mower
   Peter Anthony: Peter Pacey
   De Wint: Gregory de Polnay
   Paul Steen: Adrian Egan
   Josef Hals: John Gabriel
   Sally: Josie Kidd
   McArdle: Michael Deacon
   Robert Windeler: Anthony Hall
   The Minister: Malcolm Hayes
   Lennon: Joe Dunlop
   Charteris: Peter Wickham
   Eysen: John Bull
   Lotte: Petra Davies
   Dr Friedrich: Manning Wilson
Also with Bill Monks, Tim Bentinck, Eva Stuart
Repeated 19th March 1979


17th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: House Husband, a musical by Alex Glasgow (1935-2001)
Music arranged and conducted by Keith Statham
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Joe: Alex Glasgow
   Maggie: Eva Stuart
   Wanda: Elizabeth Seal
   Polly: Polly James
   Clara: Gaye Brown
   Gladys: Caroline Villiers
   Freda: Elizabeth Power
   Iris: Marcia Ashton
Repeated 28th November 1979
[Alex Glasgow was a "house husband" when his wife retrained for a new job]


18th March 1979
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Samson Agonistes (1671) by John Milton (1608-1674)
A dramatic poem. Samson, in the Prison at Gaza
Special music composed and recorded by Ron Geesin
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Samson: Stephen Thorne
   Manoah: Stephen Murray
   Dalila: Anna Massey
   Harapha: Trevor Martin
   the Messenger: Martin Jarvis
   Officer: David Ryall
   Chorus: Michael Deacon
also with Paul Gaymon, Peter Pacey, Peter Whitman, Carole Boyd, Madi Hedd


18th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Worm Will Turn by John Graham
Directed by Anton Gill
   Voice 1: Jill Lidstone
   Voice 2: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Edith: Hermione Gregory
   Marian: Amanda Murray
   Joseph: Bill Monks


19th March 1979
19.45
The Monday Play: China by Frederick Harrison.
Director: Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Barman: Colin Edwynn
   Robert: Christian Rodska
   George: Paul Webster
   Drinkwater: Edward Peel
   Jimmy: David Threlfall
   Charlie: John Wheatley
   Ernie: Russell Denton
   Father: Brian Peck
   Madge: Gwen Taylor
   Doris: Sylvia Brayshay
   Mrs Sullivan: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Mother: Meg Johnson
Repeated from 25th September 1978


20th March 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Load of Zlold by Alan Passes (aka Alan Pazolski)
Directed by Michael Heffernan
   Rose: Dandy Nichols
   Brian: Andrew Hyatt
   Zabinga: Angela Bruce
   Heating Engineer: Danny Schiller



21st March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Claudine in Paris (1901) by Colette (1873-1954), translated and dramatised by Yvonne Mitchell
Directed By: Liane Aukin
   Renaud: Hugh Dickson
   Uncle: Fred Bryant
   Monsieur Maria: Joe Dunlop
   Claudine: Angela Pleasence
   Papa: Edward Kelsey
   Melie: Rosalind Adams
   Luce: Pamela Moiseiwitsch
   Maid: Tammy Ustinov
   Aunt Heart: Eva Stuart
   Marcel: Kevin McNally
[Also produced by Celia de Wolff in 1999 for R4]


22nd March 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Night of the Long Aprons by John Wilkie
Piano: David G. Bleazard
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Neil: William Eedle
   Liz: Rosalind Adams
   Ben: Danny Schiller
   Joanne: Norma Ronald
   Azad: Saeed Jaffrey
   Cyrus: Fred Bryant
   Doris: Christine Pollon
   Pushpa: Patricia Gallimore
   Roger: Bill Monks
   Arthur: Joe Dunlop
   Harold: Tim Meats
   Landlord: Rex Holdsworth


23rd March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Uncle Moon by John Kirkmorris
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   William Moon: Peter Vaughan
   Lila Moon: Irene Sutcliffe
   Stanley Blair: Richard O'Callaghan


23rd March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Mercenary by Ken Blakeson
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Elliot: Andrew Branch
   Buller: Gordon Dulieu
   African Officer: Louis Mahoney
Repeated 30th January 1980


24th March 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Looking Back
by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Mouth organ: Harry Pitch
Directed by John Tydeman
   Arthur Hobbs: Arthur English
   Winnie, his wife: Katherine Parr
   Cris: Nigel Anthony
   Mick: John Rye
   Rita, Mick's wife: Rosalind Adams
   Jonathan: David Corti
   Lizzie: Julie Anderson
   Charlie Knuckles: Malcolm Hayes
   Tom: Anthony Smee
   Mrs Potter: Norma Ronald
   Young Arthur: Nigel Anthony
Repeated from 5th November 1975 and 4th November 1977.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


24th March 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Coat of Many Colours by Jim Crace
In March 1895. after 13 years of imprisonment Rudolph Slatin escaped.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Major Harry Jackson: John Hollis
   Captain Archie Hunter: Sean Arnold
   Captain George Chesney: Michael Cochrane
   Rudolph Slatin: John Rowe
   Hamed: Nigel Graham
   Desta: Valerie Sarruf
   Madibbo: Willie Jonah
   The Khalifa: Louis Mahoney
   Nur a fanatic: Fred Brobby
   Major Hammada: Neville Rofaila
   Hammada's servant: Hermione Gregory
   The Mahdi: Saeed Jaffrey
   General Gordon: Trevor Martin
   Bordeini Bey: Neville Rofaila
Repeated 26th March 1979.


24th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Plug for the Cabinet by Bill Stanton (1917-1999)
Do it yourself problems.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Lucius Tring: George Cole
   Cockfosters: Michael McClain
   Judge: Gerald Cross
[inspired by Gerard Hoffnung's Bricklayers Story in his address to the Oxford Union.]
[Also translated and broadcast on German radio]
[The full script is on his son's website 'http://www.andystanton.co.uk/BillStanton/']


25th March 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Flower of Immortality by Margaret Rose
The oldest story...the place is Sumeria.
Special sound by Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Gilgamesh: Nigel Anthony
   Enkidu: Stephen Rea
   Ninsun: Petra Davies
   Anu: Russell Dixon
   Utu: Philip Voss
   Inanna: Carole Hayman
   Siduri: Sally Gibson
   Ziusudra: Harold Kasket
   His Wife: Marlene Sidaway
   Ferryman: Denys Hawthorne


25th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Microcosm by J. C. Wilsher
Directed by Ian Cotterell
With Paul Scofield and Eric Allen
Repeated 2nd January 1980


26th March 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: As to the Meaning of Words by Mark Eichman
Massachusetts 1974: a court case relating to abortion.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Nurse Gloria Sanders: Carole Boyd
   Dr Winston Gerrard: Britton Sain Walker
   Radio commentator: Murray Kash
   Man: Tim Bentick
   Ned 'Scooter' Ryan, District At: Nigel Stock
   Alexander Thomas, Def At: Bob Sherman
   A bailiff: Roger Hammond
   Judge Wheeling: Alan MacNaugbtan
   Dr Madelyn Foster: Helen Horton
   Dr Ramon Norriega: William Roberts
   Dr Clarence Parrish: Manning Wilson
   Dr Jonathan Wallace: Philip Voss


27th March 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Louder than Words by A. J. Walton
Fantasy and fact are not the same.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   He: Peter Pacet
   She: Jill Shilling
   Mario/pc: John Bull
   Police sergeant: David Brierley
   Bus conductor: Haydn Jones
   Landlady: Joy Stewart
[The title has been used many times for various media.]


28th March 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Standard Procedure by Michael Wilcox
A teacher and a pupil alone together overnight.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Johnny James: John Wheatley
   Tony Kellett: Derrick Gilbert
   Mr James: Ronald Herdman
   Mrs James: Ann Rye
   Sgt Morris: Christopher Ravenscroft
   Supt MacDonald: Ronald Baddiley
Repeated 1st August 1979


29th March 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Game for All by A. G. Edwards
Poaching.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Da: Ronald Herdman
   Ma: Lizzie McKenzie
   Sally: Adrienne Frank
   Steve: Alan Rothwell
   Bob: Christian Rodksa
   Foreman/Sparks: David Casey


30th March 1979
15.05-16.35:
The Dybbuk (1914) by S. Ansky (1863-1920), translated by Henry G. Alsberg and Winifred Katzin
Music composed by Stephen Deutsch
Russia: the Kabala. The possesssed.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Leah: Angela Pleasence
   Channon: Anton Lesser
   Rabbi Azrael: Cyril Shaps
   Sender: David de Keyser
   The Maggid: Michael Poole
   Frade: Margery Mason
   Reb Schmelke: Benny Lee
   Reb Dov: Martin Friend
   Reb Aaron: Harold Kasket
   Meyer: Leonard Fenton
   Hannah Esther: Hilda Kriseman
   Chennoch: David Graham
   Gittel: Julia Swift
   Rabbi Samson: John Gabriel
   Rabbi Mendel: Danny Schiller
   Menashe: Tim Stern
   Reb Nachman: David Graham
   Beggar woman: Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 2nd and 5th April 1979
[Also known as "Between two worlds"]


30th March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Nightmare Story of Arnold Pottersbar by J. C. W. Brook
Growing younger ...
Directed by Ian Cotterell
With Charles Kay and Kathleen Helme
Repeated 9th January 1980


31st March 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Brandy for the Parson by Christopher Russell, based on The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy (1840-1926)
The late 1820s. The minister's first church.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Philip Carpenter: Hywel Bennett
   Dolly Pocock: Elizabeth Proud
   Reuben Sprake: Edward Kelsey
   Edna Sprake: Pat Keen
   Alan Webb: Hugh Futcher
   Harry Jolliffe: Peter Tuddenham
   Ralph Baker: Roger Tallon
   Mrs Wheeler: Betty Hardy
[There are several plays with this title].


31st March 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Diary of a Scoundrel (1868) by Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) adapted by Rodney Ackland
Moscow 1868. A diary can be dangerous.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Yegar Gloumov: James Aubrey
   Kleopatra Mamaeva: Fenella Fielding
   Neel Mamaev: Anthony Newlands
   Anton Kroutitzky: Maurice Denham
   Sophia Tourousina: Maxine Audley
   Glafira Gloumova: Patsy Smart
   Mashenka: Tammy Ustinov
   Ivan Gorodoulin: Kenneth Fortescue
   Madame Maniefa: Margot Boyd
   Dimitri Kourchaev: Philip Sully
   Alexander Golutvin: Andrew Branch
   Matriosha: Brenda Kaye
   Lubinka: Hilda Kriseman
   Styopka: Bill Monks
   Grigori: Gordon Dulieu
Repeated 2nd April 1979
["Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"- Also known as Too Clever by Half and several other titles.]


31st March 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Kitchen Maid by Peter Russell Bowen
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Insp Bowen: David Lodge
   Sgt Milton: Nigel Lambert
   Tim: Tim Bentinck
   Tracey: Karen Archer
Repeated 16th January 1980


1st April 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Blossom by Rose Tremain
The landlady of a bed and breakfast for commercial travellers.
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Grace: Ruth Goring
   Dennis: Malcolm Hayes
   Peter: Michael Cochrane
   Mr Shiner: Jonathan Scott
   Mr Marchant: George A. Cooper
   Lilian: Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated from 4th July 1977


1st April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: My Mouja by John Lucarotti (1926-1994)
Maryan has two passions in his life - falling in love and Mouja his yacht.
   Maryan: Olivier Pierre
   Hazel: Rosalind Adams


3rd April 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Prospect of Easy Street by Nigel Bellairs
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Lemming: George Cole
   Miss Cheeseman: Eva Stuart
   Mr Brass: Don Troedson
   Mr Polly: Jonathan Scott
   Perkins/Alf: Kenneth Shanley
   Miss Probert/Woman: Jane Knowles
   Miss Roberts/Anita/Ann: Heather Bell
Repeated from 4th April 1978


4th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Under the Loofah Tree by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
All Edward wants is a peaceful bath
The play was realised at the Radiophonic Workshop by Richard Yeoman-Clark and Roger Fenby
Directed by Desmond Briscoe
   Edward Thwaite: Cyril Shaps
   Muriel: Kathleen Helme
   Rory: Judy Bennett
   Traveller: Gabriel Woolf
   Judkins: Haydn Jones
   Sergeant: Garard Green
   Compere: Edward Kelsey
Repeated from R3, 25th March 1975 and 26th October 1975.
Repeated on R4 18th October 1997.
[Also produced in 1958 rptd 1959, for Third Programme, by Donald McWhinnie with Hamilton Dyce as Edward]
{Also produced by Martin Jenkins in 2006 with Michael Maloney as Edward]


4th April 1979
19.45:
Ice on an Eagle's Wing by Tim Rose Price
1930- what happened to the men who tried to reach the North Pole using a balloon.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Salomon August Andrge: Clifford Rose
   Nils Strindberg: Steven Pacey
   Knut Fraenkel: Peter Pacey
   Machuron/King Gustav: Geoffrey Matthews
   Anna Charlier: Jean Rogers


5th April 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Cold Earth Travelling by Mike Walker
Death stalks the earth. He should be killed.
Music specially composed and conducted by David Cain
Contralto: Doreen Walker; Flute: Nicholas McGegan; Lute: Christopher Wilson; Percussion: Nigel Shipway
Directed By: David Spenser
   Gib: Frederick Treves
   Slice: Nigel Anthony
   Geoff: David Timson
   Death: Gabriel Woolf
   Anselm: James Thomason
   Mal: Penelope Reynolds
   Knight: Kenneth Shanley
Repeated from 28th September 1977


6th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Bodies Beautiful by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Time to leave for a party.
Directed by Tony Curr
BBC Manchester
   Vincent: John Shrapnel
   Cheryl: Fiona Walker


7th April 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Devil and David Dobbs by Christopher Russell
Directed By: Kay Patrick
   David Dobbs: Brian Hewlett
   Grubgut: Hugh Paddick
   Mr Higgs: Stephen Thorne
   Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Lucy: Anne Rosenfeld
   Rachel: Patricia Denys
   The Rev Ian: Rod Beacham
   Dr Bradley: Jonathan Scott
   Bus conductor: Walter Hall
Repeated from 2nd September 1977


7th April 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Attard in Retirement by John Peacock
Life starts to be exciting.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
   Walter Attard: George Cole
   Oliver Hanwell: Philip Voss
   Eric Maybury: John Gabriel
   Miss Kirk: Miriam Raymond
   Wyn: Margot Boyd
   Hilda Stewart: Rosalie Crutchley
   Ian Stewart: Philip Sully
   Bingo caller: John Bull
   Alice Chapman: Patricia Hayes
   Terry Fisher: Peter Holt
   George Rochester: Mark Dignam
Also with Eric Allan, Peter Baldwin, Petra Davies, Alan Dudley, Michael Goldie, Josie Kidd and Eva Stuart
Repeated 9th April 1979


7th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Cellar by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Directed By: Gerry Jones
   Paul Baker: John Pullen
   Susan Baker: Rosalind Ayres
   Mr Crawford: Leonard Fenton
   Bill: Fred Bryant
   Alf: Gordon Dulieu
   Little Boy: Elizabeth Lindsay
[Also broadcast on BBC7 and R4X 2010-2022]


8th April 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Goose with Pepper by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed By: John Tydeman
   Brigadier Salt-Lumley (Pepper): Trevor Howard
   Gwen, his wife: Pauline Letts
   Patricia: Maria Aitken
   Sarah: Elizabeth Proud
   Jack Gooseley (Goose): Jack Watson
   Sir George Beaumains: William Fox
   Milly Floater-Rope: Noel Hood
   Maj Payne: James Thomason
Repeated from 7th September 1970, and 17th September 1972
Repeated 6th February 1988


8th April 1979
23.45
Falling by Jonathan Raban (1942-2023)
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Austen Landor: Robert Lang
   Announcer: Peter Donaldson
   Austen wife: Eva Stuart
   Teenage girl: Jenny Twigge
   Secretary: Brenda Kaye
   Halloran: Alan Barry
Repeated 21st November 1979


9th April 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Grass Roots by Joe Ashton dramatised by Stephen Wakelam
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Mick: Bobby Knutt
   Brenda: Janet Dale
   Sammy: Ronald Baddiley
   Billy: Bert Gaunt
   Mrs Bradstock: Lorraine Peters
   Tasker: Will Tacey
   Pat McMahon: Sally Gibson
   Bailey: Ronald Herdman
   Jennings: John Jardine
   Halpin: Russell Dixon
   Wilding: David Mahlowe
   Iane Poyser: Fiona Walker
   Sydney Prince: Malcolm Hebden
   Mayor: Geoffrey Banks
also with Keith Clifford, David Fleeshman, Andrew Jarvis, John McGregor, Kenneth Alan Taylor
Repeated 15th and 21st October 1979


10th April 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Return Visit by Dave Simpson
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Mary: Ruth Coring
   Mary (as a child): Rachel Beasley
   Jeremy: Leonard Fenton


11th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Disaster Course by Michael Kittermaster
Directed by Penny Gold
   Lynn Ryan: Frances de la Tour
   Grayson: Charles Gray
   Mr MacBride: John Graham
   Mrs MacBride: Audrey Muir
   Joan Hayward: Heather Tobias
   Mrs Jackson: Hilda Kriseman
   Diana Cross: Alison Draper
   Mrs Ferris: Diana Olsson
   Mrs Allerton: Petra Davies
   Geoffrey Hayward: Fred Bryant
   Miss Crossthwaite: Joan Matheson


12th April 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Old Man's Song by John George
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Ray Lloyd: Gareth Armstrong
   Luther: Haydn Jones
   Sandra Rees: Shirley Dixon
   Sgt Gower: Ronald Herdman
   Det-Sgt Galvin Francis: John Rowe
   Dai Sellick: Alan Downer
   Mark: Andrew Branch


13th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Temptation Game by John Gardner
A Gothic tale set in medieval England.
Violin: Diana Dixon
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Brother Ferly: Hugh Dickson
   the Peasant: Jack Watson
   Innkeeper: Peter Tuddenham
   Thomas: Roger Snowdon
   Ives: Miles Anderson
   Oswald: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Girl: Jo Anderson
   Fr Runyon: John Boswall
   First Monk: Richard Mayes
   Second Monk: Cornelius Garrett
   Third Monk: Rex Holdsworth
Repeated 28th March 1980


13th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Desert Island Risks by William Fox (1911-2008)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Julia, a novelist: Fenella Fielding
   Polly, an actress: Nicola Paget
   Rupert, a pianist: Michael Cochrane
Repeated 7th November 1979


14th April 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: John, Peter, Thomas and So Forth by Harry Williams
Palestine in 1947.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Wilson: Alan Moore
   Tapsell: Michael McStay
   White: Roger Hammond
   Roberts: Adrian Egan
   Ruth: Tammy Ustinov
   Reporter: Arril Johnson
   Burton: John Gabriel
   Rudi: Philip Sully
   Brigadier: Jack Holloway


14th April 1979
20.30:
She (1887) by H Rider Haggard (1856-1925) dramatised by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
She. who has power over all things living and dead, and whose life is eternal: She-who-must-be-obeyed.
Music specially composed by Anthony Smith-Masters
Directed by David Spenser
   Ayesha: Elizabeth Bell
   Horace Holly: Derek Godfrey
   Leo Vincey: Paul Seed
   Job: Donald Gee
   Billali: Joseph O'Conor
   Ustane: Tammy Ustinov
   Fat Woman: Margot Boyd
   Mohamed: Adrian Egan
   Amernatas: Petra Davies
   Ammerhagger Chieftain: Philip Voss
Also with Joe Dunlop and Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 19th April 1979.
[The first novel was followed by "The Return of She", "She and Allan" and "Wisdom's Daughter"]


14th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Chequemates by Roy Russell
Sound advice from a bank manager, but does he take it himself?
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Mr Pomfrey: James Cossins
   Ross: Ray Brooks
   April: Petra Davies
   Linda: Heather Tobias
Repeated 12th March 1980


15th April 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Trumpet-Major (1880) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
Songs arranged by Mary Nash
Trumpeters of the Blues and Royals
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Miller Loveday: Christopher Benjamin
   Mrs Garland: Diana Bishop
   Anne: Rosalind Ayres
   John Loveday: Ian Holm
   Bob Loveday: Carets Thomas
   Festus Derriman: Michael Attwell
   Cripplestraw: Peter Woodthorpe
   Matilda Johnson: Nicolette McKenzie
   Noakes: David Ashford
   Stubbs: David Cann
   Old Sailor: Anthony Jacobs
   Jim Cornick: Peter Craze
Also with Douglas Blackwell, Michael Goldie, Michael Harbour and Anne Rosenfield


15th April 1979
21.03-21.58
Westward Ho! (1855) by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), dramatised by Barry Campbell
Music composed and conducted by Nicholas Marshall
1 of 6: The Call of the Sea
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Narrator: William Squire
   Oxenham: Trevor Martin
   Yeo: Brian Jackson
   Amyas: Tim Woodward
   Richard Grenville: Richard Greene
   Mr Leigh: Barry Jackson
   Mrs Leigh: Ann Queensberry
   Brimblecombe: Danny Schiller
   Yeo's Mother: Daphne Heard
   Will Cary: Cornelius Garrett
   Frank Leigh: Richard Warwick
   Salterne: Hedley Goodall
   Eustace Leigh: Peter Baldwin
   Ostler: Fred Bryant
   Fr Campion: John Linstrum
   Eustace's Father: Phillip Manikum
   Fr Parsons: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Rose: Julie Dawn Cole
   Lucy Passmore: Constance Chapman
Additional actors in later parts:
Andrew Branch, Anna Nygh, Christine Winter, David Hyde, David Ponting, Derek Graham, Douglas Leach, Elizabeth Bell, Eric Allan, Eva Stuart, Geoffrey Serle, Harold Kasket, Ian Cross, John Abineri, John Bull, John Gabriel, John Telfer, June Marlow, Nicholas Marshall, Paul Nicholson, Peter Barlowe, Philip Sully, Rex Holdsworth. Roger Leach. Rosemary Sigel. Rosemary Whitfield, Sara Pugsley, Stephen Sylvester Tim Bentinck; Tim Meats
Pt2:22/4/79 Pt3:29/4/79 Pt4:6/5/79 Pt5:13/5/79 Pt6:20/5/79
All 1979 parts repeated after two dats


15th April 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: There Must be a Door by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by Roger Pink
BBC Birmingham
   Mr Dowsling: Douglas Blackwell
   Miss Wolmsley: Elizabeth Morgan


16th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Linden Tree (1947) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
England 1947, rationing and austerity.
Cellist: Rosalind Gonley
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Professor Linden: Geoffrey Banks
   Isabel, his wife: Kathleen Helme
   Rex Linden: Christopher Godwin
   Dr Jean Linden: Carole Hayman
   Marion de Saint Vaury: Joanna Wake
   Dinah Linden: Penelope Reynolds
   Alfred Lockhart: David Marlowe
   Edith Westmore: Sally Gibson
   Bernard Fawcett: Christian Rodska
   Mrs Cotton: Shirley Dixon
Repeated from 23rd July 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2022]


16th April 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Government Inspector (1836) by Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) translated By Edward O. Marsh and Jeremy Brooks Adapted by Walter Hall.
There's a Government Inspector on his way to see us.
Directed by Dickon Reed
(A BBC World Service Drama production)
   Khylestakov: Robert Powell
   The Mayor: Paul Hardwick
   Charity Commissioner: Edward Kelsey
   Judge: Gerald Cross
   School superintendent: Cyril Shaps
   Postmaster: Walter Hall
   Bobchinsky: Frank Williams
   Dobchinsky: John Baddeley
   Anna: Katherine Parr
   Ossip: Clifford Norgate
   Maria: Vicky Ireland
   Sergeant's widow: Diana Bishop
Repeated 22nd April 1979
[Other productions: year/network/director/actor playing Hlestakov(Khlestakov):
1952/R3/Mary Hope Allen/Max Adrian
2002/R4/John Fawcett Wilson/Julian Rhind Tutt (2 parts)(Rptd R7)
2009/R3/Sally Avens/Toby Jones (RPTD 2010)
2017/R3/Jeremy Herrin/Lenny Henry (rptd 2019)]
[The play is also known as The Inspector General.]


17th April 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Reflections of a Well-conditioned Madman: or Mind Over Matter by Jack Quarter (1942-2019)
012948 has a sense of humour, and he's getting fed up pressing a bar on demand ...
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Harrington: Kenneth Shanley
   Themidy: Liza Ross
   Reinholt: David March
   Announcer: Peter Baldwin
   Questioner: Bill Monks
   Felim: Blain Fairman
[The author has a pdf of the radio script on his website https://www.jackquarter.org. Play recorded in studio B11 on 4th April 1979]


18th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Trouble with Men by Peter Gordon
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Stuart Andrews: Joe Dunlop
   Helen Spencer: Frances Jeater
   Mrs Willey: Peggy Paige
   David Briggs: Gregory de Polnay
   Vernon/Taxi driver: Gordon Dulieu


19th April 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: It's a Wise Child by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
The search for his "real" parents.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Local Adjudicator: Vanessa Rosenthal
   Guv: Graham Roberts
   Eddie: Paul Chadwick
   Fred: John Hartoch
   Kev: Paul Copley
   Bret: Sam Kelly
   Norm: John Wheatley
   Kev's Mum: Ann Rye
   Madelaine: Sylvia Bratshay
   Ethel: Eileen Derbyshire
   Auntie Violet: Paula Tilbrook
   London Adjudicator: Jack Carb
   Jimmy Dickinson: Michael Turner
[Note: In 1979 an adopted child had few means of tracing their biological parents]
[No connection - except some theme elements- with the story by Rhona Uren, broadcast on R4 on 1st February 1979]


20th April 1979
23.50-00.05
Just Before Midnight: Casual Acquaintance by Malcolm Quantrill
Directed by John Tydeman
   Sarah: Sarah Lawson
   The Intruder: Kenneth Cranham
   Brian: Philip Voss


21st April 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Book from Beelzebub by Geoffrey Parkinson (1927-2014)
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
   Mr Newton: Dinsdale Landen
   Mrs Cornish: Sheila Grant
   Mr Cornish: David March
   The Vicar: Timothy Bateson
   The Gypsy: Kathleen Helme
   Mrs Pitt: Irene Sutcliffe
   The Colonel: William Eedle
   The Waiter: Michael Harbour


21st April 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Peace Games by Mike Walker
Piano: Stuart Hutchinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Paul Von Kleist: Paul Gregory
   Summerfield: Christopher Blake
   Tom Walshe: Nigel Anthony
   Katharyn Rolfe: Sian Phillips
   Geoffrey Buckland: Philip Voss
   Rear Admiral Old: Richard Hurndall
   Novslis: Garard Green
   Clairmont: Andrew Branch
   Patty: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 23rd April 1979 and 23rd December 1979


21st April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Devil to Pay by James Follett (1939-2021)
A car crash on a hot deserted road
Directed by Glyn Dearman
With Norman Rodway and Derek Seaton
Repeated 23rd January 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2021]


22nd April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: September Song by Peter Fieldson.
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Jack: Geoffrey Matthews
   Kenneth: John Baddeley
   Doreen: Jo Kendall
   
   
23rd April 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Sea Road West by Sally Rena, dramatised by Simon Brett
Problems with a vow of chastity.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Fr James: David Collings
   Meriel Finlay: Tammy Ustinov
   Charles Finlay: Stephen Murray
   Magnus Laver: Norman Rodway
   Miss Morag: Georgine Anderson
   Fr Lanni: John Gabriel
   Anne Finlay: Sandra Clark
   The Laird: Leonard Maguire
   Jeanie MacPherson: Eva Stuart
   Mrs MacKinnon: Margot Boyd
   Angus: Fred Bryant
   Danny: Joe Dunlop
Repeated 29th April 1979


24th April 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Turn in the Road by J. C. W. Brook
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Kath: Emily Richard
   Peter: Michael Cochrane
   Amy: Peggy Paige
   Bev: Alison Draper
[The title has been used for several published stories].


25th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Not Waving by Elizabeth Troop
circa 1935-1975, and the media's view of current trends.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Mrs Evans: Elizabeth Bell
   Doctor/Second Fisherman/Gino: Peter Wickham
   Nurse/Sonia: Petra Davies
   Arthur Evans/Mr Tibbs: Eric Allan
   Gran/Miss Spicer: Margot Boyd
   GI/Producer/First Fisherman: Kenneth Shanley
   Youth/Chris/Jack: Alaric Cotter
   Hamish: Robert Trotter
   Michel/Hitch-hiker: Andrew Branch
   Helene/Jade: Eve Karpf
   Mildred: Brenda Kaye
   Elderly Gentleman/Mr Sargeant: Philip Voss
   Mr Danby: Garard Green
   Mervyn: Sean Arnold
   Oscar: Fred Bryant
   Alan: Heather Bell
Repeated from R3 10th September 1978


26th April 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Caledonian Cascade (1977) by Alma Cullen (1938-2021)
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Psychiatrist/Commentator: John Sheddon
   Heather: Gwyneth Guthrie
   Kitty: Moira Shearer
   Lord Neilson: John Young
   Jordan: Gregor Fisher
   Delia: Ann-Louise Ross
[Adapted from a commercial television play 1977 (Granada tv)]


27th April 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Archie's Watergate by Allen Saddler
A small weekly paper is joined by a reporter from overseas...
Music by by Sam Richards played by Sam Richards and Tish Stubbs
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   American Voice/Jim: Tim Bentinck
   Freda: Christine Pollon
   Archie: Keith Alexander
   Sam: John Bennett
   Beryl: Brenda Kaye
   Charlie: Hedley Goodall
   
   
27th April 1979
23.50-00.05
Just Before Midnight: Fangs Ain't What They Used to Be! by David Pinner
Horror comics. Grave suspicions.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Albert Smethurst/Count Dracula: Bryan Pringle
   Jack Smethurst: Jean Rogers
   Margaret Smethurst: Anne Jamesoit
   Tracy Western: Petra Lear


28th April 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Poachers by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
A council maintenance grant is to be considered.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Bray: Ronald Baddiley
   Housekeeper: Sally Gibson
   Sir Alec/Alec: Russell Dixon
   Jack: Geoffrey Hinsliff
   Jean: Margo Gunn
   Philip: Judy Bennett
   Sir James: Geoffrey Banks
   Jennifer: Alison Skilbeck
   Barraclough: John Jardine


28th April 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Last Witch by Christopher Russell
1712: The last trial for witchcraft in England.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Jane Wenham: Sylvia Coleridge
   James Gardiner: John Pullen
   Elizabeth Gardiner/Queen Anne: Jennifer Piercey
   Sir Henry Chauncy: Gerald Cross
   Arthur Chauncy: Christopher Good
   Francis Bragge: Gabriel Woolf
   Anne Thorne: Elizabeth Proud
   Mr Grant: Peter Marinker
   John Chapman: Leonard Fenton
   David/Matthew Gilston: Andrew Branch
   John Powell: John Gabriel
   Mr Franklin: Ronald Herdman
   Constable/Thomas Ireland: Fred Bryant
   Susan Aylott: Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 30th April 1979


28th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Incident at Whitewater by Michael Robson
The Transvaal, 1900.
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Sergeant: Jeremy Kemp
   Rebecca: Roberta Durrant
   Thorpe: Bill Monks
   Dirk: Adrian Egan


29th April 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Jealous One (1976) by Giles Gordon (1940-2003)
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   First wedding guest: John Rye
   Second wedding guest: David McAlister
   Cole: Philip Voss
   Female wedding guest: Anna Nygh
   Cat: Valentine Dyall
   Angela: Frances Jeater
   Mrs Ankarah: Margot Boyd
   Vicar: Peter Tuddenham
   Det-Insp Flesh: Roger Hammond
   Edward/Police Constable: Adrian Egan


30th April 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Shadowfall by Bruce Stewart
1845: John Henry Newman becomes a Catholic..
Violins: Diana Dixon and Peter Tanfibld
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin.
BBC Bristol
   John Henry Newman: Richard Pasco
   Edward Pusey: Nigel Anthony
   Fr Dominic: Geoffrey Matthews
   John Keble: John Gabriel
   Hurrell Froude: Danny Schiller
   W G Ward: Andrew Hilton
   Blanco White: John Bull
   Maria Pusey: Karen Ford
   Mr Mayers: Roger Snowdon
   Jemima: Elizabeth Havelock
   Young Newman: Howard Shelton
   Gennaro: Joe Dunlop
   Stationmaster: Roger Hammond
   Registrar: Rex Holdsworth
   Doctor: Phillip Manikum
Repeated 6th May 1979
[The author studied to be a Catholic priest]


1st May 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Slender Voice by Leszek Prorok (1919-1984) translated by Marcus Wheeler
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Instructor: Eric Allan
   Barbara: Josie Kidd
   Yvonne: Alison Draper
   Victor: Andrew Branch
   Joe: Peter Wickham
   Con: Tim Bentinck
   Martin: Joe Dunlop
   Carl: John Bull
   Boy: Crispin Gillbard
   Marlene: Karen Archer
   Director: Manning Wilson
   Norman: Peter Craze
   Frank: John Shrapnel
   Girl: Kate Binchy
Repeated 21st November 1981


2nd May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Like Money in the Bank by Alex Gordon
The Phoenician Bank (Founder, Hasdrubal, 176 BC) provides a somewhat unique personal banking service.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Jimmy Jones: Peter Baldwin
   Betty Jones: Amanda Murray
   Bank manager: Lockwood West
   Miss Smith: Petra Davies
   Col Henry: William Pox
   Sir William Blythe: Garard Green
   Lady Blythe: Janet Burnell
   Police Inspector: Michael McStay
   Head clerk: Alan Downer
Also with Gordon Dulieu, Harold Kasket, Josie Kidd, John Rye, Gladys Spencer and Philip Sully


3rd May 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: This Football Lark! by Julia Jones
Football is a boys sport.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Linda: Susan Thomas
   George: Peter Pacey
   Mum: Patricia Gallimore
   Melvyn: Hector Ross
   Ada: Diana Bishop
   Malcolm: Terry Molloy
Repeated from 16th February 1977.


4th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Love on the Giro by Alan Howe
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Lester: Edward Wilson
   Jill: Stephanie Turner
   Headmaster: Russell Dixon
   Mr Clark: Geoffrey Wheeler
   Anonymous Man: John Jardine
   Mam: Lizzie McKenzie
   Miss Partridge: Brigit Forsyth
   Dad: Alan Hockey
   Uncle Vincent: Ronald Herdman
Repeated 29th June 1979.
[Background: National Giro was the name of a Bank operated by the Post Office. For a period government departments issued payments by cheque on this bank known as "Giro Cheque" payments. Although private customers could issue "Girocheques" the term became synonymous with payments of social welfare (unemployment) benefits. Hence the title is a variation on the classic book/play "Love on the Dole"]


4th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Pressing Appointment by John Stevenson
They found a job for him.
Directed By: Christopher Venning
   Shirkwell: Fred Bryant
   Max: Gordon Dulieu


5th May 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Alice by Kay McManus
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Alice: Thelma Whiteley
   Renee: Kathleen Helme
   Madge: Eva Stuart
   Bill: Roger Brierley
   Sandra: Janet Maw
   Jack: Henry Knowles
   Girlfriend: Tammy Ustinov
   Paula: Susan Brown


5th May 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Creepers by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Det Chief Insp Butler: Ian Holm
   Capt William Kent, RN: Jack May
   Det-Sgt Rogers: Elizabeth Bell
   Mary Cookham: Frances Jeater
   Charles Cookham: David Savile
   Jimmy 'Jonah' Jenkins: Philip Bond
   Mrs Batty: Katherine Parr
   Hilda: Gladys Spencer
also with Auric Cotter and Neville Jason
Repeated from 2nd and 4th April 1977


5th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Enemy in the Garden by Joan O'Connor
The American Civil War, a divided country and a divided family.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Judge Birnham: Ramsay Williams
   Hartley Birnham: John Bay
   Martha Birnham: Helen Horton
   Cindy: Hilda Kriseman
   Amos: Adrian Egan
   Confederate Soldier: William Roberts


6th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Epitaph by James Gibbins
A newspaper office.
Directed by Penny Gold
   Davies: William Squire
   Tom: Michael Cochrane


7th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Colder than of Late by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Sarah Minshull: Judith Barker
   Norman Minshull/George Sarum: Rusell Dixon
   Martha Murrain: Sheila Price
   Det Supt Baxter: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Peter/Sgt Titus: John Jardine
   Stanley Grinton: Harry Beety
   The Rev Arthur Sinico: Ronald Herdman
   Charlotte Perigorde/Susan Sarum.: Heather Stoney
   Dr Dunsany/Rose: Bonnie Hurren
Repeated from 18th and 20th December 1976


7th May 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Constant Hot Water by William Fox (1911-2008)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Charles Willoughby: Jeremy Irons
   Charity Rainham: Anna Massey
   James Brady: James Villiers
   Clarissa Grey: Madeline Smith
   Uncle Willie: Charles Gray
   Claudia: Rita Giovannini
   The Marquesa: Margaret Ward
   Harold: Philip Voss
   Belle: June Tobin
   Reuben: Leonard Fenton
   Col Bumford: William Fox
   Warrant Officer Benson: Manning Wilson
   Ex BBC Announcer: Alvar Lidell
Also with Peter Baldwin, John Bull, Gordon Dulieu and Eva Stuart
Repeated 13th May 1979 and 5th August 1984
[The third play with the character Charles Willoughby: 1: The Baghdad Baggage (2/08/75) 2: Willoughby's Phoney War (24/04/78) ]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]


8th May 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Fighting Man by Sarah Shaw
Britain, 1074 AD.
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Christian: David Collings
   Walter: Rugh Ross
   Robert: Geoffrey Beevers
   Edith: Sheila Grant
   Edmund: Graham Seed
   Gytha: Tammy Ustinov


9th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Brother Jack by T. R. Pugh
Brothers.
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Jack: David Graham
   Catherine: Amanda Murray
   Samantha: Elizabeth Lindsay
   William: Judy Bennett
   Mary: Stella Tanner
   John: Bruce Beeby
Repeated from 28th April 1977


9th May 1979
20.45:
Midweek Theatre: Mushrooms and Serpents by John Kirkmorris
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Alf: Geoffrey Matthews
   Thelma: Ann Morrlsh
   Spohr: Peter Marinker
   Chick: Gavin Campbell
Repeated from 19th April 1978.
[Unrelated to the 1987 film "Eyes of the Condor", a fictional film title mentioned in the play]


10th May 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Second by Dorothy Gharbaoui
The headmaster and his assiatant at Carrowforth School.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Jill Pinkerton: Kate Binchy
   Robert Mills: Denys Hawthorne
   Mr Phillips: Mark Mulholland
   Guy Farren: Niall Toibin
   Mr Burrowes: Harold Goldblatt
   Alison Farren: Kate Flynn
   Chris Farren: John Hewitt
   McCartney: John Keegan
   Ronnie Martin: Nicholas Grennell
   Tracy Robinson: Aingeal Grehan
   Miss Manning/Mrs Martin: Trudy Kelly
Also with Derek Hallican, Peter Templar and Libby Smyth


11th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Exercise of Discretionary Flexibility by Michael Kittermaster
The conscience of a benefits assessor.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
   Arnold Foster: Frederick Treves
   Edith Foster: Cecile Chevreau
   Mrs Hernandez: Mona Hammond
   Caroline Hernandez: Elizabeth Morgan
   Nurse/Ms Melina: Eva Haddon
   MS Odell: Patricia Trueman
   Mr Parsons/Knowles: Peter Williams
   Stokes/Police Sergeant: Alan Dudley
   Ms Vent/Ms Prentice: Kate Coleridge
   Sleeman/Clergyman: Sean Arnold
   Davis: Denis McCarthy
   Shop Assistant: Anthony Smek
Repeated from 19th February 1975


11th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Filling by Lee Torrance
Directed by Peter King
   Robert: Bernard Gallagher
   Helen: Lolly Cockerell
   Receptionist: Liza Flanagan
   Patient: Leonard Fenton
Repeated 20th February 1980


12th May 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Final Miracle by Ted Walker (1934-2004)
18th century pilgrimage.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Ellen: Mary Wimbush
   Becky: Jane Knowles
   James: Jack Watson
   Tom: Roger Hammond
   Canon Butler: John Boswall
   Mr Cheeseman: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Mrs Parker: Daphne Heard
   Youth: Andrew Branch


12th May 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Defector by Eric Saward
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Shaw: John Rowe
   Peters: Nicel Lambert
   Greer: John Samson
   Harvey: Haydn Jones
   Controller: William Eedle
   Scrooge: Terry Molloy
   The Expert: Stephen Hancock
   Agent: Peter Brookes
Repeated 14th May 1979


12th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: And No Birds Sing by Ted Willis (1914-1992)
What happened on that train?
Directed by David Johnston
   Philip Brooks: Hugh Burden
   Ann Brooks: Mary Miller
   Det-Sgt Syms: Adrian Egan
Repeated 12th December 1979
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]


13th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Land of Nod by Bill Ki????itton????
An Open University philosophy course
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Stan: Ray Brooks
   Mavis: Alison Steadman
[The land of Nod was where Cain settled- Genesis 4:8. It can also be found just off the A614 on Lock Lane- an author named Bill Kitson lived in the same county.]


14th May 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Sun Is Bleeding by Rod Beacham (1940-2013)
A human sacrifice will bring back the warming sun...
Directed by David Spenser
   The Young Priest: Steve Hodson
   The Old Priest: Manning Wilson
   The Wild Woman: Elizabeth Bell
   First Villager: Rod Beacham
   Rhya: Heather Bell
   Bran: Andrew Branch
   Old Woman: Margot Boyd
   Shura: Debby Cumming
   Second Villager: William Eedle
   Gloin: Michael Goldie
   Liril: Josie Kidd
   Alys: Hilda Kriseman
   Ranald: Geoffrey Matthews
Repeated 20th May 1979


16th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Clive by John Parker
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Clive: John Barron
   Doctor: Rex Bolssworth
   Albert: Matthew Adams
   Ann: Brenda Kaye
   David: Peter Baldwin
   Hilary: Hilary Newcombe
   Waiter: John Hartoch
   Monica: Caroline Goodall


17th May 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: I'm a Dreamer Montreal by Stewart Parker (1941-1988)
Music played by Clubsound and the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, conducted by Havelock Nelson
Directed by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Nelson Glover: John Hewitt
   Uncle Henry: William Hunter
   Dickie: Mark Mulholland
   Gaye: Joe McPartland
   Mr Hackett: Harold Goldblatt
   Dance Organiser: J. G. Devlin
   Sandra Carse: Kate McClay
   Detective: Wolsey Gracey
   Sergeant: Eoin White
   Secretary: Carolyn Taylor
   Scottish soldier: Derek Halligan
   Mortuary attendant: Liam Neeson
   Bus conductor: Tony McAuley
Repeated from 20th July 1977 (Commissioned by the BBC in 1975)
Repeated 6th October 1979
[Also made into a tv play in 1979- for ITV]
[The author was a poet, and also wrote a newspaper column on pop music].
[The play won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize]
[The title? Taken from a 1929 film which had a misheard song]
[Clubsound started 1970, and performed cabaret comedy.]


18th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bonkers by Anita Bronson
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Sylvia: June Barrie
   Ted: Geoffrey Beevers
   Kitty: Rosalind Adams
   Aeron: Peter Whitman
   The Professor: Peter Woodthorpe
   Cinema manager: Trevor Martin
   Doctor: Anthony Falkingham
Repeated 15th January 1981


18th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Anchors by Graham Blackett
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   George: Michael Robbins
   Flo: Carole Boyd
   Wayne: Steven Pacey


19th May 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Willie Banks and the Administrative Machine by Allen Saddler (1923-2011)
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Willie Banks: Terry Scully
   Mr Shapley: Malcolm Stoddard
   Carole: Penelope Reynolds
   Cyril Watson: Timothy Bateson
   Gerald: Robin Soans
   Joe/Journalist: Rod Beacham
   Politician/TV Interviewer: Gavin Campbell
   Muriel/Mrs Chalmers: Irene Sutcliffe
   Sociologist/Instructor: Walter Hall
   Minister: Peter Howell
   Shadow Minister: Anthony Chambers
Repeated from 27th May 1977


19th May 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Revolution at the Palace by Allen Saddler (1923-2011)
The Palace Theatre in a small seaside resort.
Piano: Arthur Parkman
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Jerry: Harry Littlewood
   Kay: Christine Pollon
   Cissie: Cicely Victoria
   Paul: Peter Dennis
   Judy: Jenny Twigge
   Sandra: Brenda Kaye
   Joe: Fred Bryant
   Lisa: Maureen Beddoes
   Carol: Vivienne McKee
   Blondie: Margot Boyd
   Stone: Gregory de Polnay
   Ian: Roger Hammond
   Jack/Sgt-at-Arms: Jack Holloway
   Mayor: John Linstrum
   Town Clerk: Paul Nicholson
   Len: John Sharp
   Crossley: John Gabriel
Repeated 21st May 1979


19th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: To Put It Frankly by John Arden (1930-2012)
The Minister is aggressive before his interview.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Announcer/Officer: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Joanna: Linda Gardner
   Julian: Peter Wheeler
   Minister: David Calder
   Soldier: Paul Clayton


20th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Death Duties by Carolyn Sally Jones
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Matthew: Peter Baldwin
   Gwilym: Neil Nisbet
   Ruth: Petra Davies
   
   
21st May 1979
18.30
What Ho! Jeeves: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954) by P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) adapted by Richard Usborne
1 of 6: The New Moustache
Producer David Hatch
   Jeeves: Michael Hordern
   Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
   Stilton Cheesewright: James Villiers
   Lady Florence Craye: Liza Goddard
   Policeman/Magistrate/Seppings: David Tate
Actors in later episodes:
   Aunt Dahlia: Vivian Pickles
   Daphne Dolores Morehead: Ann Davles
   L G Trotter: Norman Bird
   Percy Gorringe: Jonathan Cecil
   Uncle Tom: Ballard Berkeley
Pt2:28/5/79 Pt3:4/6/79 Pt4:11/6/79 Pt5:18/6/79 Pt6: 25/6/79
All 1979 episodes repeated after two days
Series also repeated commencing 2nd November 1981


21st May 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Hardman by Tom McGrath (1940-2009) and Jimmy Boyle adapted by Tom McGrath
A violent play recounting a savagely criminal career
Percussion by Ronnie Goodman
Directed by Tom Kinninmont
BBC Scotland
   Johnnie Byrne: Peter Kelly
   Bandit/Renfrew: Tony Roper
   Slugger: David Bannerman
   Maggie/Maw/Didi: Anne Scott- Jones
   Carole/Lizzie: Frances Low
   Big Danny/Lawyer: Alex Norton
   Michael/Mochan/Archie/Kelly: James Kennedy
   Commando/Paisley: Carey Wilson
   Johnstone: Benny Young
Repeated on R3 5th July 1979
[One of the authors, Jimmy Boyle, was a violent and sometimes ruthless moneylender who served time for murder at the Special Unit of Barlinnie and was released in the early 80's.]


22nd May 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Trouble at Hive Nine
by Mike Parker
The worker bees discover Socialism.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Queen Bee: Thora Hird
   Equerry: Philip Voss
   Albert: Peter Baldwin
   Arthur: John Hollis
   
   
23rd May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: That Lethal Summer by Michael Robson
Piano: Alan Farnill
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   David: Michael Cochrane
   Tessa: Petra Markham
   Eleanor: Christine Pollon
   Frost: Fred Bryant
   Sir Richard: Gerald Cross
   Raymond: Cornelius Garrett
   Julie: Rosalind Adams
Repeated 13th November 1980


25th May 1979
15.05-16.35:
The Tragedie of Charles, Lord Stourton by John Fletcher
16th-century troubles in South West England.
Dialogue coach Ray Burrows
Music composed by Vic Gammon
Musical consultant: Philip Picket
Musicians: The New London Consort
Technical team: Janet Mitchell, Penny Leicester and Enyd Clowes .
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Charles Stourton (1520-1557): Philip Sully
   William Hartgill: Peter Baldwin
   Will Farre: Michael McStay
   Herbert: Danny Schiller
   Thynne: Gordon Dulieu
   Protector Somerset: Harold Kasket
   Machute: Gregory de Polnay
   William Stourton: Brian Haines
   Eliza: Eva Stuart
   Lord Chancellor: Fred Bryant
   Ralph: Adrian Egan
   Maid Marian: Andrew Branch
   Blandford: Philip Fox
   Mad Tom: John Bull
   Roger Fitzjames: Philip Voss
   Girl: Liza Flanagan
   Elizabeth: Jenny Twigge
   Mary: Josie Kidd
Repeated 28th May 1979 and 31st May 1979
[The author's name is that of a dramatist who lived c 1579-1625, and the play is in keeping with those dates BUT is written by a modern John Fletcher- who converted to Catholicism.]


25th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Bognor Regis Vampire by J. C. W. Brook
What are you doing in Bognor Regis?
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Agnes: Margot Boyd
   Rodney: Philip Voss
   Bertrain: Gordon Dulieu
   Hilda: Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 23rd January 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2022]


26th May 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Michael Judge
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   John Delargy: Kevin Flood
   Ann Delargy: Roisin Donaghy
   Gerry Gleeson: John Hewitt
   Matt Kinsella: Louis Rolston
   Catherine Gibson: Bill Hunter
   Neighbour: Joe McPartland
   Superintendant/reporter: George Shane
   Sergent/O'shea: Patrick Brannigan
   Fr Golden: Harold Goldblatt
   Garda: John Keegan
   Announcer / Cornelius O'Sullivan.: Aiden Grennell
   William McGinley: Michael Duffy
   Mary McGinley: Sheila McGibbon
   Hotel manager: Jack McQuoid
   Sean O'Kelly: Desmond MacAleer
   Frank Hanley: Mark Mulholland


26th May 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Richard of Bordeaux (1932) by Gordon Daviot (= Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Josephine Tey, 1896-1952)
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Maudelyn: David Timson
   Second page/Henry's page: Anthony Smee
   Richard (1367-1400): Martin Jarvis
   Anne of Bohemia (1366-1394): Maureen O'Brien
   Thomas of Woodstock,Duke of Gloucester: Maurice Denham
   John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: Alan Rowe
   Edmund, Duke of York: Manning Wilson
   Michael De La Pole: Alan Dudley
   Earl of Arundel: Allan Cuthbertson
   Robert De Vere: Geoffrey Collins
   Sir Simon Burley/Doctor: Denis McCarthy
   Sir Thomas Mowbray: David Buck
   Sir John Montague: Roger Gartland
   Rutland/page: Peter Whitman
   Henry Bolingbroke: John Rowe
   Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury: Trader Faulkner
Repeated from 29th and 31st March 1975.
[Also produced by John Richmond in 1952 rptd 1953, with John Gielgud as Richard II - Gielgud originated the role on stage in 1932]


26th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: An Unbroken Chain by Jeremy Seabrook
A grandmother and her grandson
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Grandmother: Betty Hardy
   Victor: Ian Hoare
[No resemblance to the 1964 play by O'Kelly]


27th May 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Westerman Flat by John Kirkmorris
Technical assistance by Peter Novis, Anne Hunt and John Whitehall
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Strutt: Alan Debic
   Nora: Frances Jeater
   Foster: Simon Callow
   Radio announcer: Stephen Thorne
Repeated from 10th March 1975
[The only apparent use of the name "Alan Debic", which may be in error]


27th May 1979
19.15-22.20:
Othello (c 1603) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Directed By: John Tydeman
   Gentleman: Peter Egan
   Iago: Nicol Williamson
   Brabantio, Desdemona's father: Francis De Wolff
   Othello: Paul Scofield
   Cassio, Othello's Lieutenant: Martin Jarvis
   Duke of Venice: Godfrey Kenton
   First Senator: John Ruddock
   Second Senator: Brian Raines
   Desdemona, Othello's Wife: Rosalind Shanks
   Montano, Governor of Cyprus: Malcolm Terris
   Emilia, Iago's wife: Hannah Gordon
   Bianca, a Courtesan: Rosalind Adams
   Lodovico: John Rye
   Gratiano, brother of Brabantio: Martin Friend
   Also with Nigel Graham, Brian Haines, Michael Kilgarriff and Peter Tuddenham.
Repeated from R3 of 12th November 1972, 11th February 1973, 23rd September 1988


27th May 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Brainchild by Josie Taylor
The play is not in good health.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   The Play: Derek Fowlds
   The Doctor: Charles Gray
   A Director: Crawford Logan
   An Actress: Elizabeth Knight
   An Actor: Tom Kelly
   A Musical: Amanda Kirby
Repeated 5th December 1979


28th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Remember Me by Jill Hyem.
The Peak District at Easter.
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Thelma Weadon: Jill Balcon
   Paul Sutton: Julian Glover
   Margot Sutton: Sarah Badel
   Edgar Parsons: Peter Tuddenham
   Hester Drew: Pauline Letts
   Enid Gosler: Margot Boyd
   Nancy: Rowena Roberts
Repeated from 20th and 22nd May 1978
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]


29th May 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Game by Leo Arthurs
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Steve: Michael McStay
   Colin: Gregory De Polnay
   John: Christopher Hancock
   Julie: Jenny Twigge
   Brenda: Liza Flanagan
   Fireman: David Foxxe


29th May 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Boy with a Cart (1938) by Christopher Fry (= Arthur Hammond Harris 1907-2005)
   The Man of South England: Brian Blessed
   Bess: Sheila Reid
   Mildred: Sonia Fraser
   Matt: Michael Goldie
   Tib: Manning Wilson
   Cuthman: Kevin McNally
   Mother: Brenda Bruce
   Tawm: Timothy Bateson
   farmer: Christopher Benjamin
   Alfred: Brian Hewlett
   Demiwulf: Peter Wickham
   Mrs Fipps.: Cecile Chevreau
Also with Douglas Blackwell, Alaric Cotter, Richard Derrington, Malcolm Gerard, Michael Harbour, Kenneth Shanley, Valerie Sarruf
Repeated from 23rd December 1977
Repeated 22nd December 1985, 19th December 1992
[This play, mostly written in verse, was originally commissioned by the vicar of Steyning to celebrate St Cuthman of Steyning]
[Also made into a 1951 BBC TV drama]


30th May 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Time After Time by Gerry Jones
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Robert Carter: Nigel Anthony
   Paul Wood: John Pullen
   Porter: Roger Hammond
   Paul's mother/Cleaner: Eva Stuart
   Barman/Second man: Michael McStay
   Hotel manager: Philip Voss
   Policeman/First man: Peter Wickham
   Ann: Sarah Badel
   Shop assistant/Nurse: Susan Sloman
   Doctor: Peter Baldwin
   Garage man: Robin Browne
Repeated 18th June 1980, 25th April 1984
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2022]
[Also produced by Martin Jenkins in 2006 with Anton Lesser as Carter]


31st May 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Frost In May (1933) by Antonia White (= Eirene Adeline Bottin 1899-1980) dramatised by Jehane Markham
The first few years at a convent school in the early 1900s and a life changing event.
Technical presentation by Cedric Johnson and Lloyd Silverthorne
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Nanda Grey: Sarah Sutton
   Mr Grey: Lyndon Brook
   Mother Radcliffe: Rosalie Crutchley
   Mother Frances: Eva Haddon
   Mother Poitier: Yvonne Coulette
   Mother Percival: Hilda Kriseman
   Mother Regan/Mildred: Edwina Wray
   Mrs Grey/Sister Jones: Brenda Kaye
   Fr Parry: John Graham
   Fr Robertson: Lewis Stringer
   Leonie: Carole Hopkin
   Clare: Fleur Chandler
   Hitary: Karen Ford
   Rosario: Sandra Frieze
   Madeleine: Jean Rogers
   Monica: Carole Bollard
   Marjorie: Gail Lidstone
   Irishwoman: Gudrun Ure
   The voices of the pupils and staff of Virgo Fidelis Convent School
Repeated 9th December 1990
(A binaural recording to be listened to on earphones)


1st June 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Flo's Girls by Frances McNeil
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Mr Whizzo: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Liz: Kate Lee
   Flo: Meg Johnson
   Carol: Stephanie Turner
   Michael: Christian Rodska
   Disco customer: Jenny Edwards


1st June 1979
23.55:
Just Before Midnight: Getting Ahead by Elizabeth Kay
He criticises everything.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   the Critic: Hugh Dickson
   his wife: Thelma Whiteley
   the Hairdresser: John Rye
Repeated 27th February 1980



2nd June 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Sufficient Unto the Day by Ivor Wilson
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Coroner/Mr Tibbet: Geoffrey Banks
   Supt Wade: Russell Dixon
   Madeleine: Lynda Marchal
   Chief Supt MacLean: John McGregor
   Jill Ogilvy: Carole Hayman
   James Ogilvy: Charles Foster
   Bob Lewis: Malcolm Hebden
   Jean Bailey: Ann Rye
   Marie Anne: Kate Lee
   Man in restaurant/Dr: Christopher Ravenscroft


2nd June 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Bournemouth Nights by Bernard Kops
Beautiful Bournemouth and romance is in the air.
The Gauchos: Mike Steer, Bernard Shaw, Martin Frith
Musical director Mike Steer
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Simon Barnett: Warren Mitchell
   Sarah Abrahams: Maria Charles
   Izzy Fernandez: Joe Melia
   Fay: Miriam Margolyes
   Joe: Martin Friend
   Waiter: Benny Lee
   Mr Bloom: Harry Towb
   Bella Bloom: Ruth Goring
   Sonia Marks: Doreen Mantle
   Paul: Tim Stern
   Janice: Lesley Joseph
   Francesca: Leonie Cosman
   Policeman/Porter: Brian Carroll
Repeated 4th June 1979


2nd June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Changing Gear by Ian Buckley
He can teach his wife to drive.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Susanne: Rosalind Ayres
   Stephen: Martin Jarvis


3rd June 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Devil's Disciple (1897) by Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)
New Hampshire, 1777
Directed By: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   General Burgoyne: Tony Church
   Chaplain: Timothy Kightley
   Narrator: Denys Hawthorne
   Richard Dudgeon: James Laurenson
   Judith Anderson: Lucy Fleming
   Mrs Dudgeon: Constance Chapman
   Essie: Eva Haddon
   Christy: Terence Wilton
   The Rev Anderson: Tenniel Evans
   Uncle Titus: Esmond Rideout
   Uncle William: Dennis Bowen
   Lawyer Hawkins: Michael Rothwell
   Sergeant: Trevor Martin
   Major Swindon: Haydn Jones
Repeated from 4th July 1976 and 21st November 1976
[Also broadcast on BBC7 and R4X 2009-2015]
[Other productions: year/network/producer/actor playing Burgoyne:
1951 / Home / ? / Roger Delgado
1952 / Light / Mary Hope Allen / William Devlin
1966 rptd 1969 / R4 / Stewart Conn / Max Adrian
2002 / R3 / Rosalind Ayres / Simon Templeman]


3rd June 1979
21.03-21.58:
The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1870) by George Meredith (1828-1909) adapted by D. G. Bridson
1 of 7: In Search of My Father
February 1846
Directed by John Cardy
   Narrator: James Aubrey
   Sewis: Brian Carroll
   Richmond Roy: Anthony Newlands
   Squire Bettham: Sebastian Shaw
   Harry, as a boy: Howard Taylor
   Aunt Dorothy: Gwen Watford
   Janet, as a girl: Katherine Hughes
   Tempte, as a boy: David Wilson
   Flo: Jacqui Burin
   Amy: Jo Manning Wilson
   Joe Double: Ronald Baddiley
   Capt Welsh: Haydn Jones
   Clara Goodwin: Roberta Symes
   Col Goodwin: Garard Green
   Ottilia, as a girl: Gina Bellman
   The Margravine von Rippau: Brenda Bruce
   Burgomeister: Milo Sperber
   Miss Sibley: Elaine Mitchel
Additional cast in later parts:
David McAlister, Eva Stuart, George Pravda, Gregory de Polnay, Hilda Kriseman, James Thomason, Joanna David, John Bull, Liza Flanagan, Maev Alexander, Margot Boyd, Michael Deacon, Petra Davies, Philip Sully, Steve Plytas, Tammy Ustinov
Pt2:10/6/79 Pt3:17/6/79 Pt4:24/6/79 Pt5:1/7/79 Pt6:8/7/79 Pt7:15/7/79
All parts repeated two days later.


3rd June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Dear QM by Andrew Nickolds (1949-2022)
Directed by Michael Bartlett
With John Bott and Jill Balcon


4th June 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Comrade Ananias by David Hughes (1930-2005)
New Zealand after WW2.
Piano played by Mary Nash
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Arthur: Bruce Stewart
   Wilf: Ewen Solon
   Rose-Marie: Nicolette McKenzie
   Cecilia: Barbara Ewing
   Seamus McCann: Sean Barrett
   First nurse: Lisa Harrow
   Mr Menzies: Jonathan Elsom
   Mrs: Menzies: Jean Betts
   Mr Owens: Bruce Purchase
   Constance/Second nurse: Maryann Turner
   The Doctor: Alan Rowe
   therapist: Barbara Laurenson
   Taxi driver: Peter Wickham
   Undertaker: Paul Haley
Repeated 10th June 1979


5th June 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Photo of a Loved One by Alex Barber
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   George: Gregory De Polnay
   Karen: Liza Flanagan
   Mrs Raines: Margot Boyd
   Wanda: Sonia Elliman


6th June 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Passport to Power by Philip Honeywell
Politicians who want self advancement.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Wilfred Pillman: Anton Rodgers
   Helen Bosworth: Caroline Blakiston
   Simon Orvill: Neville Jason
   Linda Orvill: Jennifer Piercey
   Roy Banting: Peter Williams
   Clyde Hepworth: Norman Beaton
   Alan Dobon: Stefan Kalipha
   Mark Grigson: Philip Voss
   Alistair Wedderburn: Robert Trotter
   Waiter/Newvaster/Steward: Joe Dunlop
   Secretary/Pilot: Harold Kasket
Repeated from 2nd August 1978
[The second play of a trilogy. 1. Death of a Member, broadcast 30th June 1977. 3. Election of a Member broadcast 13th June 1979.] .


7th June 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Polaris by Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
Christmas Eve on board the Polaris missile submarine.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   No 1: Mark Wing-Davey
   Meg: Anna Calder-Marshall
   Zelda: June Barrie
   Tim the Navigator: Geoffrey Beevers
   The Captain: Frederick Treves
   Tony: Simon Callow
   Nurse: Jenifer Piercey
   Milkman: Robrrt Trotter
   Postman: Andrew McCulloch
   Farmer: Ken Drury
Repeated from 16th June 1978
Repeated on 3rd August 1985


8th June 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Other Side of the Coin by J. C. W. Brook
Two sides of a love affair.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Jean: Deborah Paige
   Basil: Ian Thompson
   Avis: Alison Draper
   Tony: Gregory de Polnay
   Harold: Geoffrey Serle
   Mrs Morris: Mollie Petrie
   Mandy: Tracey Miller
   Bus conductor/Mr Baldock: Jack Holloway
   Mrs Lowndes: Daphne Neville
   TV commentator: Pavel Douglas
Repeated 1st April 1982
[The typed script is held by The National Library of Wales, ref R3/873/39 ]


8th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Mother's Hot Milk by Keith Dewhurst
Directed by Penny Gold
   Television Announcer: Gordon Dulieu
   Norman: Bill Monks
   Television voices: Margot Boyd, Philip Sully
   
   
9th June 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Last Tenant(1977) by Michael Gilbert
Who owns the discovery?
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Det-Insp Petrella: Peter Gilmore
   Fred: Anthony McEvoy
   Johnny: Gordon Dulieu
   Augie: Gregory De Polnay
   Sheilagh: Liza Flanagan
   Mick: Kevin Moore
   Liam: Michael Deacon
   Mrs Sullivan: Pauline Delany
   Supt Watterson: Fraser Kerr
   Sgt Blencowe: Peter Craze
   Sgt Cove: John Bull
   MullinS: Fred Bryant
   Tasker: James Thomason
   Lempard: Harold Kasket
   Mrs Hinn: Eva Stuart
[One of a series of stories about Patrick Petrella]
[Unrelated to the US TV Movie of 1978 ]
   
   
9th June 1979
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Priest's Hat (1888) by Emilio De Marchi (1851-1901] translated and adapted by Joan O'Connor
Fr Cirillo could foretell the winning numbers in the lottery.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Fr Cirillo: Nigel Stock
   Baron Coriolano de Santafusca: Philip Voss
   Signor Jervolino: John Gabriel
   Maddalena: Pauline Letts
   Salvatore: John Ruddock
   Gennaio: Andrew Branch
   Filippo Mantica: Adrian Egan
   Fr Antonio: Lewis Stringer
   Martino: Alan Dudley
   Usilli: Philip Sully
   Di Spiano: Stephen Thorne
   Marinella: Valerie Sarruf
   Monsignor the Vicar: Roger Hammond
   Granella: David Sinclair
   Giorgio: Michael Goldie
   Lellina: Josie Kidd
   Cesare: Michael McStay
   Martinelli: Jonathan Newth
Repeated 11th June 1979
[Original title "Il cappello da prete" ]
   
   
9th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Going to See Auntie Ada by Philip Honeywell
Visiting an Aunt after a long absence.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Nell: Margot Boyd
   Bert: John Gabriel
   Ada: June Barrie
   Bus driver: Hubert Tucker
Repeated 6th February 1980


11th June 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Professional Foul by Tom Stoppard
A football-loving English philosopher on a visit to Prague
Directed by Gordon House
A BBC World Service-Drama production
   Professor Anderson: Peter Barkworth
   Bill McKendrick: John Shrapnel
   Pavel Hollar: Nigel Anthony
   Chetwyn: Andrew Branch
   Stone: Christopher Muncke
   Chairman: Ivan Jelinek
   Mis Hollar: Susan Strawson
   Sacha: Stefan Ceba
   Captain: George Pravda
   First policeman : Arnost Kopecky
   Second policeman: Milos Kirek
   Crisp/Frenchman: John Bull
   Broadbent: Bill Monks
   Chamberlain/Customs man: Manning Wilson
   Passenger/Grayston: Adrian Egan
   Stewardess: Brenda Kaye
   Airport announcer: Jarmila Lederer
   Football commentator/Translator: Jiri Nosek
Repeated 17th June 1979, 30th July 1990
[Adapted from a prior 1977 BBC tv play which had John Shrapnel playing McKendrick]
[Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia]


12th June 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Partnership Limited by Elizabeth Gowans
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Linda: Jenny Twigge
   Clive: Philip Sully
   Mr Gilchrist: John Rye
   Mr Elmberger: Ed Bishop
   Woman in club: Crania Haves


13th June 1979
15.05:
Election of a Member by Philip Honeywell
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Wilfred Pillman: Anton Rodgers
   Helen Bosworth: Caroline Blakiston
   Simon Orvill: Neville Jason
   Linda OrviU: Jennifer Piercey
   Mrs Quick: Margot Boyd
   Canvasser/Train guard/Returning officer: Peter Baldwin
   Mrs Trott/Announcer/ Audrey Treadwell: Jo Manning Wilson
[The third play of a trilogy. 1. Death of a Member, broadcast 30th June 1977. 2. Passport to Power, broadcast 2nd August 1978- rptd 1979. ] .


14th June 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: A Slight Insurrection by James Watson
Concertina played by Harry Boardman
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Dr Fell: Peter Jeffrey
   Nurse Spence: Elizabeth Bell
   Bosun: Peter Wheeler
   Jock McMordy: Malcolm Hebden
   Fabian Whixley: John Rowe
   Benozzo: Nigel Anthony
   Burnham Wood: Christopher Ravenscroft
   Hammers: David Fleeshman, John Branwell


15th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Human Error by James Gibbins
Directed By: Margaret Etall
   the husband: Frank Windsor
   the wife: Ysanne Churchman
   Radio announcer: Martin Friend


16th June 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Somebody Else's Smile by Elizabeth Kay
Institutionalisation..
Pianist Stuart Hutchinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Mary Bradley: Sylvia Coleridge
   Sarah Jane: Patricia Hayes
   Betty: Susan Richards
   Agatha: Joan Matheson
   Amy/Penelope: Anita Sharp-Bolster
   June: Aimee Delamain
   Nurse O'Hara: Jennifer Piercey
   Therapist: Heather Bell
   Miss Stanley/Ann: Hilda Kriseman
   Daphne/Meg: Margot Boyd
   First lady: Petra Davies
   Second lady: Brenda Kaye
Repeated from 9th June 1978
[Sequel: A Day at Sea broadcast 21st June 1979]


16th June 1979:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Weather in the Streets (1936) by Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) dramatised by Elspeth Sandys
Part 1 of 2.
Music arranged and directed by Mike Steer
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Olivia: Angela Pleasence
   Rollo: Simon Cadell
   Kate: Marian Diamond
   Etty: Rosalind Ayres
   Mrs Curtis: Monica Grey
   Lady Spencer: Maxine Audley
   George: Peter Wickham
   Lady Mary: Lolly Cockerell
   Sir John: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Marigold: Valerie Sarruf
   Anna: Susan Engel
   Simon: Jonathan Newth
   Colin: Sylvester Morand
Also with Bruce Purchase, Philip Fox And Michael McStay
Additional actors in part 2:
   Ivor Craig: Tom Wilkinson
   Mr Tredeaven: Peter Baldwin
also Fred Bryant, Brian Carroll, Eva Stuart, Gregory De Polnay and Roger Hammond.
Repeated 18th June 1979 and 31st July 1993.
Part 2: 23rd and 25th June 1979
[Also produced in one part by Sara Davies in 2002 with Eve Best as Olivia - rptd R4X]
[A continuation of an earlier novel "Invitation to the Waltz", broadcast 24th June 1978, rptd 25th November 1979, 31st July 1993]


16th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Visitor by Nicholas Allan
Night. A five-star hotel. Two men.
Directed by Brian Wright
   Sidney: Nicholas Ball
   Thompson: Jeffry Wickham


17th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Inventor's Corner by David Cregan (1931-2015)
A program about a live radio program.
Directed by David Hitchinson
   Angela: Paula Wilcox
   Thomas: Paul Chapman
   Producer: Gordon Dulieu
   Monitor P7: Martin Friend
   Professor Wainwright: Timothy Bateson
   himself: Richard Baker


18th June 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Day Return by Philippe Monnet.
Father and son meet after four years.
Guitar: John Bull
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Laurence: Stephen Murray
   Georgina: Norma Ronald
   Richard: Keith Drinkel
   Jenny: Lolly Cockerell
   Prince Antonia: Leonard Fenton
Repeated 24th June 1979 and 10th March 1980


19th June 1979
11.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Big Deal by Maurice Patterson
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Harry Walton: Joe Melia
   Lily Cooke: Pauline Moran
   Customer: Anthea Askey
   Sid Walton/Actman knitwear: Trevor Martin
   George/Jean-louis: Brian Carroll


20th June 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sea Wall by William Fox (1911-2008)
Directed by David Johnston
   John: Graham Faulknes
   Hazel: Frances Jeater
   Night porter: Lockwood West
   Bank manager/Sleeping car attendant: William Fox


21st June 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: A Day at Sea by Elizabeth Kay
A trip to Brighton.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Mary Bradley: Sylvia Coleridge
   Sarah Jane: Patricia Hayes
   Betty: Susan Richards
   Therapist: Heather Bell
   Nurse OHara: Jennifer Piercey
   Samantha: Gladys Spencer
   June: Aimee Delamain
   Agatha: Joan Matheson
   Matron: Eva Stuart
   Waitress Barmaid: Lolly Cockerell
   Mother: Josie Kidd
   Child: Krzvsia Newman
[A sequel to Somebody Else's Smile broadcast 16th June 1979]


22nd June 1979
15.05:
The Last Englishman by David Pinner
Hereward the Wake
Technical presentation by Peter Belham
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Anath: Jane Galloway
   Abbot Brand: Geoffrey Matthews
   Hereward the Wake: Jeremy Kemp
   Martin Lightfoot: Sean Barrett
   Lady Torfrida: Shirley Dixon
   Bishop Odo/Asbiorn: Edward Kelsey
   William the Conqueror: Richard Pasco
   Taillebois: Michael Deacon
   Captain/Earl Morcar: David Sinclair
   Lady Alftruda: Vivien Heilbron
   Cook: Geoffrey Matthews
   Witch/Dumb girl: Jane Galloway
   Abbot Thurstan/Abbot Herluin: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 24th and 28th June 1979
[Binaural recording, to be listened to on earphones]


22nd June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: How to Build Your Own Battleship by Geoffrey Hubbard (1923-1998)
The battleship in the garden.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Great-grandfather: Norman Shelley
   Grandmother: Margot Boyd
   Great-uncle George: Fred Bryant
   Policeman: Martyn Read
   Father,as a boy: David Parfitt
   Mother: Liza Flanagan
   Father: Danny Schiller
Repeated 9th January 1980


23rd June 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Wild Horses by Michael Davies
The Gower peninsula, Wales. Wild horses
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Steffan: Gareth Armstrong
   Sonja: Elizabeth Proud
   Harry Morgan: Gerald James
   Megan: Heather Bell
   Verner Sobieski: Ronald Herdman
   Mrs Sobiesk: Elizabeth Morgan
   David Huxley: Martin Friend
[The Gower horses are now few in number- visit Cefn Bryn to possibly see them]


23rd June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: I Grow Old, I Grow Old by Bernard Kops
Age is something we have to face.
Directed By: Liane Aukin
   Paul: Andrew Sachs
   Claire: Marion Diamond
   First nuise: Eva Stuart
   Second nurse: Jenny Twigge
   Mr Turner: Peter Baldwin


24th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Only the Lonely by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
Directed By: Martin Jenkins
with Manning Wilson and Gladys Spencer
Repeated 19th March 1980


26th June 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Commercial Break by Tony Bilbow
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Rob Hawkins: Richard Beckinsale (1947-1979)
   Harvey Gold: Nigel Anthony
   Graham Fitch: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Penny Bay: Heather Bell
   Sir Reginald Groat: Timothy Bateson
   Melvyn Hyde: Manning Wilson
   Oojah: Tony Bilbow
   Mrs Gold: John Matheson
   Cordon Dodd: Jonathan Scott
Repeated from 4th February 1978


27th June 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Skid Marks by Susan Kuzel
A small town in Czechoslovakia
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Maria: Elizabeth Bell
   Michael: Brian Carroll
   Voj tech: Leonard Fenton
   the Police Officer: Jonathan Scott


28th June 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Vegetating by Julia Jones
Today the reign of peace begins.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Henry: Geoffrey Palmer
   Janet: June Barrie
   Mr Burrows: Fred Bryant
   Mrs Coldthorpe: Julia Jones
   TV commentator: Phillip Manikum


29th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: These Kids Nowadays by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Piano: Geoffrey Burford
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Quibby: John Gabriel
   Hannah: Hilda Kriseman
   Sam: Leslie Heritage
   Mick: Mike McCabe
   Pat: Brian Carroll


30th June 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Slight Ache (1958) by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Directed by Guy Vaesen
   Flora: Vivien Merchant
   Edward: Michael Hordern
Repeated from 20th May 1970 and 24th November 1972
Repeated 5th February 1980 and 14th April 1987 on R3.
[Other productions:
Year/Producer/Network/Actor playing Flora:
1959/Donald McWhinnie/3/Vivien Merchant
2000 rptd 2002/Ned Chaillet/4/Jill Johnson]
[Written for radio]


30th June 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Present Laughter (1939) by Noel Coward(1899-1973)
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Daphne Stillington: Miriam Margolyes
   Miss Erikson: Diana Olsson
   Fred: Timothy Bateson
   Monica Reed: Patricia Routledge
   Garry Essendine: Paul Scofield
   Liz Essendine: Joy Parker
   Roland Maule: David Timson
   Henry Lyppiatt: Alan Rowe
   Morris Dixon: Vernon Joyner
   Joanna Lyppiatt: Fenella Fielding
   Lady Saltburn: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated from 23rd December 1974, 2nd and 3rd January 1977
Repeated 30th April 1989


30th June 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Squatter's Rights by Judy Allen
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Tom: Peter Wickham
   Phil: Nicolette McKenzie


1st July 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Daisy Crompton: Judith Barker
   Florence Crompton: Anna Keaveney
   Betsy Jane: Paula Tilbrook
   Wilfred Crompton: Alun Bond
   Harold Crompton: Bob Mason
   Hilda Crompton: Claire Kinsale
   Rafe Crompton: Geoffrey Banks
   Arthur: Alan Rothwell
   Pianist: Brian Layton
Repeated from 25th and 31st August 1975


1st July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Just After Midnight by Dave Simpson
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Ray: Alan Rothwell
   Sandra: Stephanie Turner


2nd July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Wind Cannot Read (1944) by Richard Mason (1919-1997) adapted by Malcolm Hulke
World War 2 - India.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Peter: Sean Barrett
   Michael: Martin Jarvis
   Woman radio announcer/ Nurse: Jo Manning Wilson
   Wing Cmdr/Major Fother: Peter Tuddenham
   Mervyn/Norris: Nigel Lambert
   Fenwick: Anthony Valentine
   Perry/Capt Manning: John Pullen
   Brigadier: Alan Wheatley
   Sabby: Tsai Chin
   Rosie: Barbara Mitchell
   Lamb/Japanese prisoner of war/Sgt Sakomitzu: Andrew Sachs
   Sikh: David Spenser
   Nakamura/Kono, the Japanese sentry: Kristopher Kum
Repeated from 9th and 11th January 1971
[The novel was written in India in 1944]


2nd July 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Hadrian VII (1904) by Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo. 1860-1913), adapted (1968) by Peter Luke (1919-1995)
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Fr William Rolfe: Alec McCowen
   Mrs Crowe: Eva Stuart
   First bailiff/Dr Talacryn, Bishop of Caerleon: Eric Allan
   Second bailiff/Dr Courtleigh, Cardinal Archbishop of of Pimlico: Cyril Luckham
   Agnes: Margot Boyd
   Jeremiah Sant: Patrick MacAlinney
   Fr St Albans: Gerald Cross
   Cardinal Berstein: John Gabriel
   Cardinal Ragna: Harold Kasket
   The Rector of St Andrew's College: Manning Wilson
   George Arthur Rose: Henry Knowles
Repeated 1st December 1989
[Also produced in 1959 rptd 1960, for R3, adapted by Rayner Heppenstall with Max Adrian as Rose]
[The sequel, also adapted by Peter Luke, was broadcast as "The Last of Baron Corvo" in 1986 rptd 1989 and was based on Rolfe's book 'The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole']
[Although he sometimes referred to himself as Fr. Rolfe, Rolfe failed in his efforts to gain the priesthood].


3rd July 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: One Third of the Wise Men by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Bill: Nigel Anthony
   With Ian Holm, Eric Allan, Peter Baldwin, Margot Boyd, John Bull, Henry Knowles, Pik-Sen Lim, Bill Monks, Amanda Murray, Stephen Thorne, Philip Voss
Repeated from 21st November 1978
[The title is from press referencing "The Three Wise Men" of Harold Wilson, which included Denis Lyons (Baron Lyons)(1918-1978) ]


4th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Notre Dame at Noon by Vladek Sheybal (1957-1992) and Hallam Tennyson (1920-2005)
Paris, July 1979
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Julia: Judi Dench
   Henri: Vladek Sheybal
   Madame Falaise: Nicolette Bernard
   Poet: Ann Heffernan
   Medium: Gladys Spencer
   Walter/Porter: Andre Karanni
   Rodger: Gordon Dulieu
   Veronica: Jenny Twigge
Repeated 27th August 1980


6th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Portrait of Isa Mulvenny by Tom Gallacher (1932-2001)
Domestic difficulties.
Directed by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Isa: Mary Riggans
   Bill Thompson: Patrick Malahide
   Train attendant: Willy Joss
   Andy Mulvenny: Tony Roper
   Andrew Mulvenny: Tom Watson
   Joe Harper: Martin Cochrane
   Ella Harper: Margot Gillies
Repeated from 27th January 1978


6th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Cold Tea by Karim Alrawi
Directed by Brian Wright
   with Patricia Hayes


7th July 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Part of the View by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
Directed by Betty Davies
   Clarissa: Jumo Kedebayo
   Jeremy: Earl Rhodes
   Gregory: Geoffrey Matthews
   Pauline: Kate Coleridge
   Skid: John Rye
Repeated from 1st August 1975
[Also produced in 1959 by Robin Midgley with Barbara Assoon as Clarissa]


7th July 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Cold Bath Fields by Christopher Russell
1833: An unlawful union meeting.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Police Constable: Michael Harbour
   Ruth Culley: Lolly Cockerell
   Jack Nesbit: Graham Faulkner
   Col Rowan: Manning Wilson
   Lord Melbourne: Michael Goldie
   Tom Flack: Philip Fox
   Sam A'Court: Malcolm Gerard
   Supt Baker: John Bott
   Sergeant: Gregory de Polnay
   Sgt Parry: John Graham
   Stilling: Gerald Cross
   Stockton: Jonathan Scott
   Henry Mears: Edward Kelsey
   Davis: William Russell
   Mary/Sally: Allison Hancock
Repeated 9th July 1979


7th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Thanks for Nothing by Jan Needle (James Albert Needle 1943-2023)
Leaving Africa..
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Mr Kettlewell: Brian Haines
   M'lbengo (Molly): Alton Kumalo


8th July 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Year of the Great Betrayal by Elizabeth Troop
Recalling 1931.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Stella Barrett: Diana Bishop
   Charles Barrett: Peter Jeffrey
   David Barrett: Kevin Hart
   Mr Hargreaves: Colin Douglas
   Mrs Taggart/Dancer: Elizabeth Bell
   Mrs Schwarz: Renee Goddard
   Mr Perkins: Lockwood West
   Mrs Roper: Gladys Spencer
   Miss Francis: Hilda Schroder
   Man on train: William Eedle
   Driver: Henry Knowles
   Boy: Alar1c Cotter
[In 1931, the Labour government fell (partly after spending cuts in answer to the recession). Election of Stanley Baldwin/ Ramsay McDonald.]


8th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Command Performance by Alan Wells
It's what you do night after night.
Directed by Clare Taylor
   Hannah: Cheryl Hall
   Youth: Mike Grady
   Kenny: Anton Phillips
   
   
9th July 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Ambassadors by Henry James adapted by D. G. Bridson
Part 1 of 2.
Directed By: David Spenser
   Lewis Lambert Strether: Robert Beatty
   Maria Gostrey: Prunella Scales
   Marie de Vionnet: Sarah Badel
   Chad Newsome: Christopher Good
   Waymarsh: Robert Henderson
   John Bilham: Blain Fairman
   Jane Barrace: Carole Boyd
   Jeanne Vionnet: Jenny Twigge
   Duchesse: Petra Davies
Additional actors in part 2:
   Christopher Good: Chand Newsome
   Sarah Pocock: Jane Knowles
   Jim Pocock: Christopher Muncke
   Mamie Pocock: Janene Possell
   John Bilham: Blain Fairman
   Hostess: Hilda Kriseman
   Waiter: Jonathan Scott
Repeated 15th July 1979
Part 2: 16th and 22nd July 1979
[Also produced in 1967 by Brian Miller with Edward Bishop as Chad]


10th July 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mild and Bitter by Eddie Forde
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Sid: Nigel Anthony
   Peddler: Ronald Herdman
   Andy: Jim McManus
   Slowey: Nigel Lambert
   Bootie: John Bollis
   Fr McQuade: P G Stephens
   First workman/Sgt Harrop: John Bull
   Second workman: Michael McStay
   First woman/Mrs Peddler: Josie Kidd
   Second woman: Margot Boyd
   First man: Brian Haines
   Second man: Martin Friend
   Mrs Sid: Jenny Twigge
   Mrs Bootie: Lolly Cockerell
[The only entry for Eddie Forde in the BBC Programme Database]


11th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Isn't He Lovely by Bill Corrigan
A new father feels left out.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Karen: Jill Shilling
   Terry: Peter Pacey
   Mr Savage: Haydn Jones
   Mrs Savage: Joy Stewart
   Derek: John Bull
   Virar: David Brierley


12th July 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Hunting Party (1884) by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) translated and dramatised by Arnold Hinchliffe adapted by Matthew Walters
A mystery is solved.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Anton Chekhov: Michael Spice
   Sergei Zinoviev: Jim Norton
   Olga: Maureen O'Brien
   Count Alexei: Martin Jarvis
   Urbenin, his steward: Martin Friend
   Kuzma: Brian Baines
   Kaetan, a Pole: Philip Sully
   Zosia, his sister: Liza Flanagan
   Kalinin: Roger Hammond
   Nadezdha, his daughter: Tammy Ustinov
   The Doctor/Mishka: Peter Baldwin
   Semyon: Graham Faulkner
Repeated 13th January 1981
[Original title Drama na okhote]


13th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Half Sick of Shadows by Lee Torrance
Minstrel's song composed by Stephen Willis
Lutanist: Peter Martin
Pianist: Mary Nash
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Actress: Shirley Cooklin
   Producer: Martin Friend
   Assistant: John Bull
   Donna: Jo Manning Wilson
   Edward: George Baker
   Paul: Henry Knowles
   Betty: Anne Clements
   Knight: Clive Hornby
   Minstrel: Robin Doveton
   Amelia: Joan Hart
   Attendant: John Levitt
   Woman: Gladys Spencer
   Doctor: Brian Haines


13th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Umpire's Thoughts Regarding a Certain Murder by Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   With Robin Bailey
[Binaural recording to be listened to on earphones]


14th July 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Nonconforming Nonconformist by Geoffrey Parkinson.
Autobiographical.
Harmonium: Anna Berenska
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
   Geoffrey Parkinson: Geoffrey Beevers
   Young Geoffrey: Judy Bennett
   Mother: Miriam Margolyes
   Mr Armitage: Stephen Thorne
   Minister: William Eedle
   Sybil: Carole Boyd
   Mr Booth: Timothy Bateson
   Young John: Ian Sharrock
   Joanne: Hilda Schroder
   Mrs Armitage: Diana Olsson
   Mr Tilley: David Timson
   Father: Sean Arnold
   Dick: Crispian Thorne
Repeated from 31st July 1974 and 25th March 1977
   
   
14th July 1979
20.30::
Saturday-Night Theatre: My Name is Linda by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
The problem of gambling.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Linda: Sherrie Hewson
   Brian: John Rowe
   Mrs Bates: Margery Mason
   Colin: Michael Spice
   Sally: Diana Bishop
   Bobby: Susan Sheridan
   Sharon: Tammy Ustinov
   Radio host/Croupier: John Bull
   Moira Dean: Liza Flanagan
   Miss Brewster: Josie Kidd
   Mr Finch,: Danny Schiller
   Jim: Philip Fox
   Bank Manager/Lawyer: William Eedle
   Pawnbroker/Dr Leighton: Michael McStay
   Vic: Michael Coldie
   Sheila: Cherry Gilliam
   PC: Peter Baldwin
Repeated 16th July 1979 and 6th July 1980


14th July 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: In the Nick of Time by Michael Gilbert (1912-2006)
An escaped prisoner.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   John: Jim Selby
   Miss Lavender: Frances Jeater
   Colonel Craddock: Valentine Dyall
   Bouncer: Percy Edwards
   Sgt Bailey/Radio announcer/Voice on telephone: Carl Forgione
[The author was at this time a partner in a London law firm. He wrote during his commute by train.]


15th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Crab Training by Henry Livings (1929-1998)
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Master: Bob Grant
   Sam Pongo: John Halstead
   Lorris: Sylvia Brayshay
   Crabseller: Meg Johnson


17th July 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Better Days, Better Knights (1971) by Stanley Eveling (1925-2008)
This is a story of long, long ago.
Directed by John Tydeman
   The Knight: Tony Haygarth
   The Water Sprite: Angela Pleasance
Repeated 2nd April 1980


18th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The President and the Angel by Ivan Klima translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
There is something in the wardrobe.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   President/ Angel: Richard Pasco
   Leon: Nigel Anthony
   Son: Philip Sully
   Doctor: Peter Williams


19th July 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: When Did You Last See Your Father? by Sarah Maxwell
New York in a heatwave.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Angie Offenbach: Ann Murray
   Walter Hoover III: Paul Maxwell
   Zizi Offenbach: Rosemarie Dunham
   Brown: Don Fellows
   Mrs McKenzie: Gladys Spencer
   Bubba McKenzie: Roger Hammond
   Dorian: Peter Whitman
   Cabbie: Harry Towb
   Cindy: Bessie Love
   Selma: Pauline Delany
   Lincoln: Brian Carroll
   Disc Jockey: Andrew Branch


20th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Day Out by Robert Catt
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Jack: Jonathan Newth
   Wendy: Jan Carey
   Bill: Roy Montagus
   Pauline: Barbara Ewing
   Georgie: Crawford Logan
   Harris: Stephen Garlick
   Miranda: Olwen Griffiths


20th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Grasp the Nettle Egregiously by Leonard Barras (1922-2008)
Libraries have more than books.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Niblo: Kathleen Helme
   Archie Niblo: Peter Wheeler
   Harriet Niblo: Adrienne Frank
   Ticket collector / Social Security clerk / Richard: Geoffrey Wheeler
   Martin Ingleby: Alan Rothwell


21st July 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton
Directed by John Tydeman
   Wilson: Kenneth Cranham
   Joyce: Avis Bunnage
   Mike: Dermot Kelly
Repeated from Third Program, 31st August 1964.
Also broadcast: 19/9/64 (3); 7/10/65 (3); 25/7/75 (4); 1 & 2/9/14 (R4X); 2/7/17 (3).


21st July 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Greenhill Pals by Brian Thompson
Survivors return to the battlefield.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Charlie Carter: Leslie Sands
   Frank Bennett: Graham Roberts
   Austin Wilkinson: Cyril Shaps
   Freddy Ryedale: Ronald Baddiley
   Jenkins: George A Cooper
   Hoskins: Herbert Smith
   Nokes: James Tomlinson
   Colin/PA on ship: David Troughton
   May: June Barry
   Denis: Malcolm Hebden
   Marie: Brenda Kaye
   Pierre: Tim Bentinck
   Cauvet: John McGregor
Repeated 23rd July 1979
[Adapted from an ITV play broadcast in 1975]
[The real Pals fought at Serre and lost 720 members of the West Yorkshire regiment in 20 minutes]


21st July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Casting Vote by Philip Honeywell
Political foul play.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Harold Wheeler: Peter Egan
   Samuel Dunsmore: George Baker
   Jonathon Howard: Philip Voss
   Reporter: Gordon Dulieu
   Sneaker: Fred Bryant
   Teller: Danny Schiller


22nd July 1979
21.03:
A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing (1951) (Book 1 of 12) by Anthony Powell (1905-2000), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Part 1 of 2.
Title music composed by Antony Miall
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Nicholas Jenkins, the narrator: Noel Johnson
   the young Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Charles Stringham: Simon Cadell
   Peter Templer: Christopher Good
   Kenneth Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   Jean Templer: Jane Asher
   Uncle Giles: Garard Green
   Le Bas: Peter Pratt
   Calthorpe: Adam Richardson
   Buster Foxe: John Pullen
   Tuffy Weedon: Margaret Ford
   Mrs Foxe: Monica Grey
   Mr Templer: William Eedle
   Sunny Farebrother: Hugh Dickson
   Jimmy Stripling: Charles Hodgson
   Babs Stripling: Liza Flanagan
   Gwen McReith: Carol Marsh
Additional actors in part 2:
   Commandant Leroy: Lewis Stringer
   Mme Leroy: Mary Wimbush
   Dubuisson: Gregory de Polnay
   Orn: Christopher Bidmead
   Lundquist: Eric Allan
   Sillery: Preston Lockwood
   Quiggin: Gordon Dulieu
   Mark Members: Paul Lowther
Bill Truscott: Jeffry Wickham
Part 2: 29th July 1979
Each part repeated after two days.
[The series title was also used on the radio for the other books, serialised as follows:
    A Question of Upbringing (1951)-2 parts comm 22/7/79
    A Buyer's Market (1952)-2 parts,comm 5/8/79
    The Acceptance World (1955)-2 parts comm 21/8/79
    At Lady Molly's (1957)-3 parts,comm 12/7/80
    Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)-2 parts comm 26/7/80
    The Kindly Ones (1962)-2 parts comm 9/8/80
    The Valley of Bones (1964)- 2 parts comm 14/6/81
    The Soldier's Art (1966)-2 parts comm 28/6/81
    The Military Philosophers (1968)-2 parts comm 12/7/81
    Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)-3 parts comm 18/7/82
    Temporary Kings (1973)-3 parts, comm 8/8/82
    Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)-2 parts comm 29/8/82
    Most parts were repeated two or three days later.]


22nd July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: I Only Cry When I'm On My Own by Chris Hawes
Life in a high-rise block of flats.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Sandra: Sue Wallace


23rd July 1979
19.20:
The Monday Play: Destiny (1976) by David Edgar
A by-election and racism.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Dennis Turner: Terence Rigby
   Gurjeet Singh Khera: Saeed Jaffrey
   Colonel Chandler: Frederick Treves
   Lewis Rolfe: Geoffrey Matthews
   Tony Perrins: Stephen Bent
   Paul McShane: Paul Copley
   Monty Goodman/Priest/Inspector/Secretary: Laurence Harrington
   Peter Crosby: David Robb
   Jim Platt: John Baddeley
   Mrs Chandler/Mayoress of Taddley: Patricia Gallimore
   Frank Kershaw: Geoffrey Palmer
   Sandy Clifton: Gabrielle Lloyd
   Robert Clifton: Eric Allan
   David Maxwell: Anthony Jackson
   Liz: Elizabeth Revill
   Mrs Howard: Kathleen Helms
   Attwood: Douglas Blackwell
   Richard Cleaver: Peter Woodthorpe
   Prakash Patel/Broadcaster: Sam Dastor
   Don Matthews/PC: Terry Molloy
   Carol: Kate Coleridge
[Also made into a BBC TV play, broadcast January 1978, with Frederick Treves as the Colonel, Saeed Jaffrey as Gurjeet]
[The stage play won the John Whiting Award]
[The stage play transferred to London in May 1979]


24th July 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Transaction by Leila Blake (1931-1991)
Marriage as a business arrangement.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   David: Martin Jarvis
   Lucy: Liza Ross


24th July 1979
20.00
A Ha'penny from Hell by Eric Ewens (1917-1998)
A libel trial in 1964.
Directed By: Christopher Venning
Narrated by Michael Tudor Barnes
   Lord Gardiner: Malcolm Hayes
   Colin Duncan, QC: David Garth
   Dr Clauberg: John Justin
   Judge: Godfrey Kenton
   Dr Dering: George Pravda
   Woman patient: Irene Prador
   Dr Brewda: Prunella Scales
   Dr Hautval: Hilda Kriseman
   Reader/Foreman: Danny Schiller
   Court official: Brian Carroll
Repeated 24th August 1980


25th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Chains by Conor Farrington (1928-1996)
Political prisoners.
Musical director: John Anderson
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Governor: Bill Hunter
   Chief Warder: Harry Beety
   Second Warder/Schuckert: John Hewitt
   Basafo: Lionel Ngakane
   Goring/Driver: Wolsey Gracet
   McEntagart: Maurice O'Callaghan
   Kuolomainen/Gonzalez: Mark Mulholland
   Stepanovich/Gizzard: Joe McPartland
   Archimandrite: Allan McClelland
   Minister: Harold Goldblait


16th July 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Teamwork by Anthony Vivis (1943-2013)
Sales points are everything.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Alex: Derek Seaton
   Jason: Terrence Hardiman
   Chloe: Carole Boyd
   Helen: Diane Fletcher
   Grossman: John Church
   Hatcher: Philip Fox
   Elizabeth: Ann Portus


27th July 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Answer in the Negative by Graham Blackett
A camera is stolen- with film inside it.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Stan Thompson: Haydn Jones
   Mrs Thompson: Elizabeth Morgan
   Andrew Denton: Nigel Lambert
   Gill Denton: Sara Coward
   Paul Denton: David Foster-Smith
   Carol: Francesca Waters
   Mrs Corbett: Patricia Gallimore
   Morgan: Aubrey Morris
   Sam: William Eedle


27th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Top Tomato by Gill Linscott
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Race: Rod Beecham
   Bengow: Haydn Jones
   Joe: Brian Haines
Repeated 19th March 1980


28th July 1979
14.30-15.25:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Collier's Friday Night by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
An evening at a colliers home.
Directed By: Guy Vaesen
   Ernest: Roy Spencer
   Nellie: Christine Welch
   Mother: Mary Griffiths
   Gertie Coomber: Jo Manning Wilson
   Father: David Brierley
   Barker: Neville Smith
   Carlin: George Woolley
   Maggie Pearson: Jane Knowles
   Beatrice Wyle: Stephanie Turner
Repeated from 16th August 1971 (60m)
Repeated 13th December 1974 (55m) and 15th December 1978 (55m)
[Note: Only the 1971 broadcast is in a 60m slot. The 1974, 1978 and 1979 broadcasts are in a 55m slot. The 1978 listing specifies "shortened".]
[Written about 1909 but not published until 1934]


28th July 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: People in Glass Houses by Ian Cullen (1939-2019)
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Albert Biggs: John Bott
   Maureen Biggs: Shirley Dixon
   Davinda: Indira Joshi
   Harold Clune: Martin Friend
   Dr Hertwig: Cyril Shaps
   Det-Con Castle: Michael McStay
   PC Peter Darrow: Philip Fox
   PC Alan Fawcett: Henry Knowles
   Sgt Bell: P.G. Stephens
   Det-Con Neill: Gregory de Polnay
   Dr Lomax: Philip Voss
   Dr Sinclair: James Taylor
Repeated 30th July 1979
[No relation to the play of the same title from Afternoon Theatre of 30/9/72 written by Michael Bertenshaw]


28th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Place by Geraldine O'Donnell
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   the Young Boy: Jeremy Booker
   the Older Boy: Paul Ellison
   the Eldest Boy: Howard Taylor


29th July 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Marching Song (1953) by John Whiting (1917-1963)
The General of a losing side is released after seven years imprisonment.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Harry Lancaster: Nigel Stock
   Dido Morgen: Frances Jeater
   Matthew Sangosse: Alan Dudley
   Fr Ansel: Manning Wilson
   Catherine de Troyes: Billie Whitelaw
   Rupert Forster: Michael Bryant
   John Cadmus: Alan Webb
   Bruno Hurst: David Timson
Repeated from 29/7/74 and 4/8/74
[Also produced by Peter Watts in 1954 rptd 1955 for R3 with Hartley Power as Harry.]

   
   
29th July 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Trafalgar Terrace Lepidopterist by David Hopkins
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Les: Norman Bird
   Marjorie: Josie Kidd
   Josie: Tammy Ustinov
   Ronnie: Ian Hoare
   Mr Smithers: Michael McStay


30th July 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Me Oul Segocia by Stewart Love
Life in Belfast and an end to a friendship.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Nortliern Ireland
   Danny Marshall: Desmond MacAleer
   Pat Doran: John Hewitt
   Dolly Marshall: Trudy Kelly
   Selcna Brown: Elizabeth Begley
   Uncle Marty: Louis Rolston
   Annie Dwyer: Stella McCusker
   Eileen: Anne Hasson
   Mr Maguire: Allan McClelland
   Cassie Doran: Catherine Gibson
   Accordion player: Colm Sands
Repeated 5th August 1979
[Segocia is Irish slang for good friend]


31st July 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Good to be Alive by David Wheeler
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Leonard: Timothy Bateson
   Greta: Tammy Ustinov
   Hettie Hetherington: Joan Miller
   Dexter Booth: Roger Hammond
   Barman/Doctor: Michael McStay
   Personnel Manager: Adrian Egan
   Cafe assistant: Hilda Kriseman
   Hospital Sister: Liza Flanagan
   Nurse: Jenny Twigge
   Patient: Martin Friend
   Annie: Margot Boyd
[A sequel to 'Leonard', broadcast 16/8/77]


2nd August 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Walk on the Lawn by Jane Beeson
A marriage gone sour.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Thomas: Peter Jeffrey
   Carol: Ann Bell
   Anthony: David Buck
   Maud: Valerie Sarruf
Repeated 13th January 1980


3rd August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Night Falls Too Soon by Lester Powell
On the motorway
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Norman: Richard Pasco
   the Hitchhiker: Joe Melia
   Helen: Elizabeth Bell
   Sam: William Eedle


3rd August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Maniacs by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   George: George A Cooper
   Fred: Colin Edwynn
   Mr Fish: Christopher Ravenscroft


4th August 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Free House by David Pownall (1938-2022)
The future for a small family brewer.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Nathan: Jack Carr
   Sam: Harry Markham
   Ted Risk: Graham Roberts
   Hunt: Geoffrey Banks
   Sylvia: Jennifer Piercey
   Norman: Christopher Godwin
   Exciseman: James Duckett
   Head Brewer: Roger Gartland
Repeated from 21st February 1973


4th August 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Power and Glory Man by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
A great invention.
Directed by David Johnston
   Sir Thomas Cottingham: Nigel Graham
   Lady Susannah: Maureen O'Brien
   Prince Karl: John Rye
   Coachman: Michael McStay
   Orffyreaus: Peter Woodthorpe
   Jean-Marie Sala: Peter Baldwin
   Vincenze Moro: Adrian Egan
   Captain Mueller/Servant: Gregory de Polnay
   Landlord of the Gaflel: Roger Hammond
Repeated 6th August 1979


4th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Siege by Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Insp Stubbins: Malcolm Hebden
   Mrs Sidlow: Eileen Derbyshire


5th August 1979
21.03:
A Dance to the Music of Time: A Buyer's Market (1952) (Book 2 of 12) by Anthony Powell (1905-2000), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Part 1 of 2.
Title music, Max Pilgrim's song by Antony Miall
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Sir Gavin WalpoIe-Wilson: Alan Wheatley
   Lady WalpoIe-Wilson: Lydia Sherwood
   Eleanor: Anne Rosenfeld
   Barbara Goring: Josie Kidd
   Archie: Brian Carroll
   Pardoe: Philip Sully
   Rosie Manaseh: Hilda Schroder
   Anne Stepney: Jenny Twigge
   Gypsy Jones: Susan Sloman
   Mr Deacon: Godfrey Kenton
   Milly Andriadis: Ysanne Churchman
   Max Pilgrim: David Alder
   Sillery: Preston Lockwood
   Bill Truscott: Jeffry Wickham
   Sultan the dog: Leonard Fenton
Additional actors in part 2:
   Nicholas Jenkins, the narator: Noel Johnson
   young Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Charles Stringham: Simon Cadell
   Kenneth Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   Janet: Hilda Kriseman
   Uncle Giles: Garard Green
   Barnby: Kenneth Shanley
   Sir Magnus Donners: Jack May
   Baby Wentworth: Petra Davies
   Prince Theodoric: John Bull
   Peggy Stepney: Phyllida Nash
   Mrs Widmerpool: Eva Stuart
Part 2: 12th August 1979
Each part repeated after two days.
Please see 22nd July 1979 above for full book and episode list.


5th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: What Are Friends For? by Mark Power
A phobia about darkness.
Directed by Kay Jamieson
BBC Manchester
   David: David Beames
   Steve: Brian Southwood


6th August 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Cirrhosis Park by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Peter Hardinge: Alfred Burke
   Joe Bradgate: Robert Lang
   Dixon: Adrian Egan
   Marjorie Hardinge: Sylvia Syms
   Oliver: William Relton
   Sarah: Josie Kidd
   Lucy: Tammy Ustinov
   Henrietta Wiedmeyer: Caroline Mortimer
   Bateman: Philip Fox
   Cripps: Brian Carroll
   Dolly: Liza Flanagan
Repeated 12th August 1979 and 3rd May 1981


7th August 1979
11.00:
Thirty Minute Theatre: The Cafe by Robert Jenkins based on the short story The Lighthouse (1951) by H E Bates (1905-1974)
Directed by Anthony Vivis
   Ju]ie: Karen Archer
   Julies mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Lighthouse keeper: Bill Monks
   Fred: Andrew Branch
   Richards: Martin Friend
   Receptionists: Liza Flanagan and Tammy Ustinov


8th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A View of Christminster by Margaret Crane
A teacher's ambition: to have a pupil go to Oxford University.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Colin: Christopher Ravenscroft
   Girl: Margo Gunn
   Clare: Fiona Walker
   Richard: Malcolm Hebden
   Janet: Stephanie Turner


9th August 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Legend of Mickey Ball by David Hopkins
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Mickey Ball: Christopher Godwin
   Len Bargate: Alan Dudley
   Jane Bargate: Sheila Reid
   Alice: Sue Withers
   Jonathan Hatch: Brian Carroll
   Roy Hinchcliffe: Gregory de Polnay
   James Donaldson: Michael McStay
   Martin Donaldson: Philip Fox
   Jackie: Josie Kidd
   Girl in lift,: Jenny Twigge


10th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Away From the Light by Robert Banks Stewart (1931-2016)
A drowning in a private pool.
Directed by Peter King
   Trevor: David Dixon
   Val: Patricia Brake
   Muriel: Lolly Cockerell
   Julian: Anthony Quayle
   Cubby: Robert Gillespie
   Fairley: Roger Hammond


10th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Letters to the Editor by Derek Raby
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Editor: Gregory de Polnay
   Aggrieved resident: Petra Davies
   Dog-lover: Margot Boyd
   Mother of three: Lolly Cockerell
   Wu's mummy: Eva Stuart
   First clubman: Philip Voss
   Second clubman: Brian Haines
   Concerned: Godfrey Kenton
   Worried: Roger Hammond
   Ratepayer: Martin Friend
   Collector: John Bull


11th August 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Random Moments in a May Garden (1973) by James Saunders (1925-2004)
A small dinner party.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Sophie: Barbara Jefford
   David: Peter Jeffrey
   Anne: Julie Hallam
   Katie: Helen Worth
   Photographer: Anthony Hall
   Surveyor: Vernon Joyner
   Digby: Denys Hawthorne
   Ann: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mark: Hugh Dickson
   Katherine: Ellen Sheean
First broadcast on R3, 9th March 1975 and 20th January 1974.
Repeated on R4 10th August 1985


11th August 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Blockbuster (1976) by Stephen Barlay (1930-2011)
A sunken ship in the Thames estuary contains explosives.-
Directed by Michael Heffernan
   Bucken: Brian Cox
   Walsh: Malcolm Hayes
   Cutter-Smith: Haydn Jones
   Rattray: Peter Woodthorpe
   Maxine: Frances Jeater
   Colonel Wade: Ian Lindsay
   Winnie Cutter-Smith: Hilda Kriseman
   Sarah: Lolly Cockerell
   MacDougal: Philip Fox
   Commander Allerton: Allan McClelland
   Carron: John Rye
   Linley: Michael Goldie
   Car Hire receptionist: Liza Flanagan
   Sergeant Patel: Sam Dastor
   River police sergeant: Jo Dunlop
Also with David Gillies and Edward Halstead
Repeated 13th August 1979


11th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Out In the Midday Sun by Rick Ferreira
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Partridge: John Carson
   Winston: Raul Newney
   Peartree: Leonard Fenton
Repeated 12th March 1980


12th August 1979
19.00-19.30
Call for the Dead (1961) by John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell) (1931-2020) adapted by Rene Basillico
1 of 5
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
BBC World Service production
   George Smiley: George Cole
   Mendel: Alfred Burke
   Peter Guillan: Douglas Blackwell
   Maston: Richard Hurndall
   Samuel Fennan: Anthony Newlands
   Els a Fennan: Hilda Kriseman
   Assistant Supervisor: Kenneth Shanley
   Josie: Jane Williams
Additional actors in parts 2-5:
Elsa Fennan, Frances Jeater, George Innes, James Thomason, Malcolm Gerard, Paul Meier, Rod Beacham, Shirley Dixon, Stephen Greif
Pt2:19/8/79 Pt3:26/8/79 Pt4:2/9/79 Pt5:9/9/79
Series first broadcast commencing 2nd October 1978.
[Also produced by Patrick Rayner in 2009 rptd 2021 with S R Beale as Smiley- rptd on R4X]
[The novel was filmed in 1967 as "The Deadly Affair" with a renamed spy due to rights issues]
[The author worked for MI6 and MI5. This was the first novel, begun while he still worked for MI5.]


12th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Condominium by Donovan O'Malley
Life in an high rise apartment building.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
with Elaine Stritch


13th August 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Patriotic Bunting by Brian Thompson
A history evening class.
Directed by Alan Ayckbourn
Producer Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Dr Rupert Salmon: Geoffrey Banks
   Harry Goodenough: John Arthur
   Jack Hemsworth: Robin Herford
   Jenny Ellis: Alison Skilbeck
   Molly Frankland/ Milly Frankland: Shelagh Stuttle
   Renate Burgholz: Avinia Bertram
Also with Heather Stoney
Repeated 19th August 1979
[The cast were members of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round at Scarborough - artistic director Alan Ayckbourn]


14th August 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Adam Courage by Steve Thorn and Paul Wolfson
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Lady M: Penelope Keith
   Adam Courage: Christopher Cazenove
   Adele: Liza Flanagan
   Tim: Andrew Branch
   Jane: Jenny Twigge
   Clive: Philip Sully
   Elizabeth: Lolly Cockerell
   Vicar/ Taxi Drivers/ Drinkers: Fred Bryant and Gordon Dulieu
Repeated 1st September 1984
[Also produced in 1985 by Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz in German]


15th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Keepsake by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Cecily: Sylvia Coleridge
   Annie: Betty Hardy
   Francesca: Liza Flanagan
   Wilf: Philip Sully
   
   
16th August 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Bedrock by Shirley Gee (1932-2016)
Directed by David Spenser
   Ellen Plowright: Daphne Heard
   Phyllis: Holly de Jong
   Derry: Ian Sharrock
   Dr Marchant: Geoffrey Collins
Repeated 10th June 1982 and 27th January 1983
   
   
17th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Slice of the Big Apple by T. D. Webster
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   John: Geoffrey Matthews
   Muriel: Anne Jameson
   Jill: Lisa Penny
   Peter Gifford: Gareth Armstrong
   Det-Sgt Weston: Sean Arnold
   Mark Rayner: Michael Kilgarriff
   Louis: Michael Deacon
   Reg Matthews: Jack Holloway
   Det-Insp Donaldson: Ralph Lawton
   Vince: Jonathan Owen
   Tillie: Elizabeth Revill
   Phil: Graham Weston
   Landlord: Arnold Peters


17th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Always in Love with Amy by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Amy: Carole Hayman
   Henry: Christopher Godwin


18th August 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Strawberry Ice by Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) translated (1973) by Henry Reed
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Barbara: Rosalind Shanks
   Tosca: Marjorie Westbury
   Flaminia: Jill Balcon
   Letizia: Kathleen Michael
   Cesare: John Rowe
Repeated from 24th January 1973 and 12th July 1974
[Original title Fragola e panna (1966)]
[Also translated in 2008 as "Strawberry and Cream,"]


18th August 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: An Affair of the Heart by Peter Russell
The 14th Century and a prophecy.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Jack: Martin Friend
   Gretchen: Josie Kidd
   Catherine Swinford: Maureen O'Brien
   Agnes Maudlyn: Caroline Burt
   Witch: Margot Boyd
   Robin: Andrew Branch
   John of Gaunt (1340-1399): Peter Jeffrey
   Phillipa Chaucer: Petra Davies
   Alice Perrers: Eva Stuart
   Edward III: Martin Friend
   Prince Edward: David Graham
   Pippa: Jenny Twigge
   John Wyclif: Brian Haines
   Geoffrey Chaucer: Roger Hammond
Repeated 20th August 1979


18th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Anatomy Class by Peter Terson (Peter Patterson)(1932-2021)
The speech and and private thoughts of a group of medical students during a lecture.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Jarvis: John Elmes
   Jane: Sally Dexter
   Sally: Sally Sheridan
   Martin: Paul Blackman
   Frances: Rosie Clayton
   Terry: Peter O'Creevy
   Lecturer: Peter Lennor
[First and only credited radio drama appearance of The National Youth Theatre ]


19th August 1979
21.03:
A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World (1955) (Book 3 of 12) by Anthony Powell (1905-2000), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Part 1 of 2.
Title music composed by Antony Miall
Technical assistance by Carol Mcshane, Roy Fraser and Diana Barkham
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Nicholas Jenkins: Noel Johnson
   Young Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Peter Templer: Christopher Good
   Jean: Jane Asher
   Uncle Giles: Garard Green
   Myra Erdleigh: Betty Baskcomb
   Barnby: Kenneth Shanley
   Quiggin: Gordon Dulieu
   Mona: Tammy Ustinov
   Jimmy Stripling: Charles Hodgson
Additional actors in part 2:
   Charles Stringham: Simon Cadell
   Kenneth Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   Members: Paul Lowther
   Maiden: Andrew Branch
   Le Bas: Peter Pratt
   Tolland: Martin Friend
Part 2: 26th August 1979
Each part repeated after two days.
[Please see 22nd July 1979 above for a complete list of books and episodes]


19th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Mrs Kleen by Frances McNeil
Directed by Kay Jamieson
BBC Manchester
   Freda: Jane Lowe
   Lionel: Robert McIntosh


20th August 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Trumpet Shall Sound by John Fletcher
The Second Coming is prophesised.
Dialect coach Ray Burrows
Music composed and directed by Vic Gammon
Violin:Fi Fraser; Oboe:Sue Harris; Bassoon: Rory Forsyth; Concertina:Vic Gammon; Singers: Eddie Upton and the cast.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Jacob Stone: Nigel Stock
   Mary: Mary Wimbush
   David: Peter Pacey
   Joseph Arch: Jack Watson
   Lady Anna Fitzpayne: June Barrie
   The Rev Mr Smith: Rex Holdsworth
   Harold: Gabriel Woolf
   Jonathan: Davld Graham
   Em: Fred Bryant
   Tiny: Geoffrey Matthews
   Tom: Danny Schiller
   Joanna: Margot Boyd
   Arthur: Cornelius Garrett
   Sammy: Nigel Keen
Repeated 26th August 1979


21st August 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Two Old Dolls and a Scallywag by David Parker
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Tetlow: Geoffrey Banks
   Bett: Paula Tilbrook
   Roger: Alan Rothwell


22nd August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Testimony by Gary Jaekel (1950-2004)
Two American couples in their 30s.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   George: Peter Marinker
   Everett: Peter Whitman
   Marion: Liza Ross
   Joan: Janene Possell
Repeated 6th November 1980


23rd August 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: All Too Human by Martyn Wade
Music specially composed and played by Nick Bicat
Directed by Michael Heffernan
   Max: Patrick Magee
   Linda: Miriam Margolyes
   Julie: Amanda Murray
   Bill: John Salthouse
   Trevor: Philip Sully


23rd August 1979
19.30-21.00
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler dramatised by Bill Morrison
Musical research Adrian Edwards
California, 1939.
Directed by: John Tydeman
   Philip Marlowe: Ed Bishop
   General Sternwood: Robert Beatty
   Carmen Sternwood: Liza Ross
   Vivian Regan: Diana Olsson
   Agnes: Nicolette McKenzie
   Bernie Ohls: Harry Towb
   Eddie Mars: Paul Maxwell
   Joe Brody: Blain Fairman
   Carl Lundgren: Weston Gavin
   Taggart Wilde: Rod Beacham
   Harry Jones: Don Felows
   Canino: Peter Marinker
   Mona: Irene Sutcliffe
   Capt Cronjager: Henry Knowles
   Art Huck/Butler/Croupier: Malcolm Gerard
   A Hood: Walter Hall
Repeated from 26th September and 2nd October 1977
Repeated in 3 parts commencing 4th January 1988
[Also broadcast on BBC7 & R4X 2007-2022]
[Also produced by Claire Grove in 2011 with Toby Stephens as Marlowe. Rptd R4X]


24th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Cause of Stress in Certain Males by Anita Bronson
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Dorathy: Nerys Huges
   Marian: Shirley Dixon
   Clive: David Gooderson
   Tom: Adam Bareham
   Waiter/Jeweller's assistant: Nigel Nevinson
   Waiter/Jeweller's assistant: Gavin Campbell
Repeated from 6th April 1977


24th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Pure of Heart by John B. Keane (1928-2002)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Bartholomew Lane: Louis Rolston
   Murt O'Brien: Bryan Murray
   Alphonsus Fonce: Aiden Grennell


25th August 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Exception and the Rule (c.1930) by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) translated by Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)
When is murder justified?
Music by Paul Dessau
Bassoon: Archie Camden; Percussion: James Blades; Piano: Peter Gellhorn
Adaptation of English words to music by Hedli Anderson
Directed by John Gibson
The Merchant: Deryck Guyler
Sung by: Robert Stalman
The Guide: Nigel Stock
Sung by: Ian Wallace
The Coolie: Wilfrid Brambell
Sung by: Lloyd Strauss-Smith
The Judge: Philip Cunningham
Sung by: Lloyd Strauss-Smith
An Actor: John Cazabon
The Landlord: Arthur Young
Coolie's Wife: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Also With John Boddington, Eva Stuart and Peter Wilde, John Cazabon
Repeated from R3 19th February 1959, 11th March 1959, and 7th August 1959
[Original title: Die Ausnahme und die Regel]


25th August 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Happiest Days of Your Life (1947) by John Dighton (1909-1989) adapted by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
1946: A girls' school is billeted by mistake in a boys' school
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Mr Pond: Roger Hammond
   Mr Billings: Philip Voss
   Mr Tassell: Gordon Dulieu
   Hopcroft Minor: Adam Godley
   Rainbow: Fred Bryant
   Mr Sowter: Brian Haines
   Mrs Sowter: Eva Stuart
   Miss Whitchurch: Margot Boyd
   Miss Gossage: Hilda Kriseman
   Miss Harper: Josie Kidd
   Barbara Cahoun: Tammy Ustinov
   The Rev Edward Peck: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Peck: Petra Davies
[A BBC TV play in 1947]
[Also produced by Ayton Whitaker in 1952, with Derek Hart as Tassell for Home, rptd Light 1953]
[Also produced by Joe Burroughs in 1965 with Gordon Gardner as Tassell]


25th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Picture of Yesterday by Ken Blakeson and Dave Simpson
A purchase of a painting.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Liz: Carole Hayman
   Bob: Alan Rothweil
   Landlord: Malcolm Hebden
   Shopkeeper: Christopher Ravenscroft


26th August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Bionic Blob and the Case of the Stolen Wavelengths by James Follett (1939-2021)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Slim Chance: Ed Bishop
   Amy: Sandra Dickinson
   Al Cinzano: John Bay
   Bugsy: Ramsay Williams
   Radio announcer: Brian Carroll
   Arthur Mow: Brian Haines
[Sequel to "The Bionic Blob or This bazooka on my left shoulder is loaded" broadcast 11th March 1979, rptd 19th December 1979]


27th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911) by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941),
A new master arrives at the school.
Directed by David H. Godfrey
   Narrator: Marius Goring
   Mr Perrin: Hugh Burden
   Mr Traill: Jeremy Clyde
   Isabel Desart: Sandra Clark
   Mrs Comber: Joan Matheson
   Mr Comber: Lewis Stringer
   Mr Birkland: Brian Haines
   Mr Dormer/M Pons: Henry Knowles
   Mrs Dormer: Eva Stuart
   Mr Clinton: Charles Hodgson
   The Rev Moy-Thompson: Hilda Kriseman
   Mr White: Jonathan Scott
   Mrs Perrin/The Elder Miss Madder: Janet Burnell
   The Younger Miss Madder: Carol Marsh
   The School Sergeant: Harold Kasket
   Pomfret-walpole: Howard Taylor
   Garden: Ian Hoare
   Rackets: Nicholas Camara
   Sexton: Andrew Jobins
   Larkin: Marek Kleiber
Repeated from 30th December 1978
[Also produced by Cedric Messina in 1960 for BBC Home with David Spenser as Mr Traill]
[Walpole drew upon his experiences as a teacher and his experience as a pupil at a Cornish school]


27th August 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: St Hugo of Central Park by Jeffrey Kindley
Music composed by Craig Carnelia arranged by Donald Fraser
Piano: Alan Bence; Organ: Jackie Clifton
with members of the Old Vic Chorus
Musical director Robin Davis
Directed by John Tydeman
   Solo singer: Peter Straker
   Hugo DePew: Peter Whitman
   Mrs DePew: Helen Horton
   Mr DePew: Don Fellows
   Dr Petricoff: Ed Bishop
   Mr Muncy/Perry Porter: Blain Fairman
   Dr Kitchener: Valerie Colgan
   Susie/Nurse Noble: Sandra Dickinson
   Ron Blodgett: Rod Beacham
   Judy/Jill: Gerard Lizaross
   Martha/Announcer: Nicolette McKenzie
   Mr Pinckney/First reporter: Hal Galili
   John/Second reporter: William Roberts
   Hawker/Third reporter: Ramsay Williams
   Elroy /Fourth reporter: Garrick Hagon
Repeated 2nd September 1979


28th August 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Something to Remember Me By by Stephen Mulrine (1937-2020)
Directed By: Tom Kinninmont
BBC Scotland
   Neil: Alex Norton
   Terry: Lesley MacKie
   Alison: Doreen Cameron
   Mrs McEwen: Jean Faulds


29th August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Treehouse by Peter Myers
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Andy: Peter Baldwin
   David: John Albineri
   Sue: Rosalind Adams
   Ann: Heather Bell
   Charles: Howard Shelton
   Becky: Petra Markham
   Paul: Petra Leah


30th August 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Prospect Point by Philippa Adams
A flock of pigeons.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Narrator Henry Knowles
   Arthur: Graham Roberts
   Garry: Susan Sheridan
   Gunter: Will Tacey
   Tully: Russell Dixon
   Grit: David Ericson
   Spen: Cliff Howells
   Graf: Christopher Ravenscroft
   Donald: Peter Wheeler
   John: Malcolm Hebden
   Walter: John Jardine


30th August 1979
19.30
The High Window (1942) by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) Dramatised by: Bill Morrison
Musical research Adrian Edwards
Directed by John Tydeman
   Philip Marlowe: Ed Bishop
   Merle Davis: Toby Robins
   Elizabeth Bright Murdock: Tucker McGuire
   Leslie Murdock: Peter Marinker
   Lt Jesse Breeze: Paul Maxwell
   Lois Magic: Nicolette McKenzie
   Lou Vannier: Blain Fairman
   George Anson Phillips: Bill Morrison
   Hench: Paul Meier
   Mr Morningstar: Don Fellows
   Alex Morny: David Healey
   Linda Conquest: Margaret Robertson
   Pop: Ramsay Williams
   Shifty Spangler: Rod Beacham
   Doll: Elizabeth Bell
   Apartment manager: Gavin Campbell
   Eddie Prue: Malcolm Gerard
Repeated from 17th and 23rd October 1977
[Also broadcast on R7]
[Also produced by Claire Grove in 2011 with Toby Stephens as Marlowe and repeated on R4X]


31st August 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Till the End of the Plums by Jeremy Sandford
British gypsies today.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Jim: Andrew Branch
   Maggie: Petra Markham
   Maggie's Mum: Eve Stuart
   Ruben: Eric Allan
   Pub Governor: Fred Bryant
   Jim's mum: Hilda Kriseman
   Prince: Peter Baldwin
   Jim's dad: Gordon Dulieu
Other Gypsies. gorgios, police and security men: Joe Dunlop, Kenneth Shanley, Stephen Thorne and Shirley Dixon


31st August 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Macbeth. or Unlucky for Some
Macbeth by Shakespeare in 13 minutes by John Wells (1936-1998) .
Directed hy Glyn Dearman
   Macbeth: George Baker
   Lady Macbeth: Norma Ronald
   a harassed Radio Director: John Wells
   First Witch/Son: Audrey Cameron
   Second Witch/Nurse: Margot Boyd
   Third Witch/Lady Macduff: Gudrun Ure
   Duncan/First murderer/ Doctor: Jack May
   Porter/First servant/Ban: Roger Hammond
   Ross/Macduff/Second servant: Fraser Kerr


1st September 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: I'll Find My Way Back from the Park by Gilly Fraser
Directed bv Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Nick: Russell Dixon
   Gordon: Stephen Thorne
   Christine: Elizabeth Morgan
   Beverley: Sylvia Brayshay
   Darren: Elizabeth Morgan
   Annie: Paula Tllbrook
   Taxi driver: John Franklyn-Robbins
Repeated from 21st October 1977


1st September 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Running of the Deer by Michael Robson
Directed by David Spenser
   Pamela Sutton: Faith Brook
   Edgar Lightcap: Robin Bailey
   India Lightcap: Anna Calder-Marshall
   Rupert Sutton: Philip Sully
   Sir Raven: Robert Harris
   Eric Petersham: Philip Voss
   Geoffrey Lightcap: Ronald Herdman
   Parriss: Godfrey Kenton
   Orlando: Tariq Yunus
Repeated 3rd September 1979


1st September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Last of the Long-Distance Travellers by Lawrence Blackmore
Directed by David Spenser
   Smith: John Bull
   Girl: Lolly Cockerell
   Man: Gordon Reid
   Station Man: Phillip Fox


2nd September 1979
21.03
The Bostonians (1885) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by Betty Davies.
A Southern Lawyer meets two Boston activist feminists...
Pianist Mary Nash
1 of 6
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Verena Tarrant: Maureen O'Brien
   Olive Chancellor: Prunella Scales
   Adeline Luna/Maid: Madi Hedd
   Basil Ransom: Ed Bishop
   Mrs Farrinder: Leueen Willoughby
   Miss Birdseye: Bessie Love
   Dr Prance: Pat Starr
   Mrs Tarrant: Sheila Grant
   Dr Tarrant: David March
   Matthias Pardon: Garrick Hagon
   Maid: Josie Kidd
Additional actors in later parts:
Brian Carroll, Don Fellows, Eva Stuart, James Patrick, Lolly Cockerell, Margaret Robertson, Marvin Kane, Michael McStay, Peter Marinker, Tammy Ustinov
Pt2:9/9/79 Pt3:16/9/79 Pt4:23/9/79 Pt5:30/9/79 Pt6:7/10/79
All parts repeated after 2 days
[Also produced in 1964 with Peter Marinker as Basil]


2nd September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Scorpio Mate Seeks Libran Mate by Catherine Heath (1924-1991)
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Sarah: Isabel Dean
   Lucy: Judy Parfitt
   Jim: Philip Voss
Also with Philip Sully, Brian Carroll, Adrian Egan and Lolly Cockerell


3rd September 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Open-Ended Prescription by Leland Bardwell (1922-2016)
Singer Janette Simpson
Musical Director: David Byers
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Joan: Kate Minogue
   M-yra: Nora Connolly
   Mother: Margaret D'Arcy
   George: Allan McClelland
   Dr Kenny: Bill Hunter
Repeated 9th September 1979


4th September 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tribute by James Gibbins
Directed by Gordon Emslie
   Daisy Ramsden: Diana Olsson
   McDonald: Leonard Maguire
   Ellen: Eileen McCallum
[First broadcast on Radio Scotland]


5th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Another Gaff, Another Night by Glenn Chandler
Fairground life.
Directed by Penny Gold
   Jimmy: Richard Derrington
   Heather: Tobias Wendy
   Andrulla: Brenda Bruce
   Steve: Kevin McNally
   Anita: Penelope Reynolds
   Terry: Andrew Branch
   Russell: Adrian Egan
   Paula: Liza Flanagan
   Fairground spieler: Martin Friend
   Stallholder: Philip Fox
[Gaff = "place to sleep, home"]


6th September 1979
15.35
When Wings Have Roots by Shirley Barrie (1945-2018)
Director: Peter King
   Angela: Toria Fuller
   Mother: Margaret Robertson
   Dad: Bruce Boa
   Charlotte: Zhivila Roche
   David: Peter Marinker
   Grandmother: Marion Harris
   Bill: Ray Jewers
   Gary: Billy J Mitchell
   Cheer Leader: Josie Kidd
   Andy: Simon Henderson
   Keith: Garrick Hagon
   ????: Lysandre de la Haye


6th September 1979
19.30
The Lady in the Lake (1943) by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) dramatised by Bill Morrison
Musical research Adrian Edwards
Directed by John Tydeman
   Philip Marlowe: Ed Bishop
   Crystal Kingsley: Toby Robins
   Derace Kingsley: Don Fellows
   Lt Al Degarmo: Harry Towb
   Adrienne Fromsett: Margaret Robertson
   Chris Lavery: Peter Marinker
   Bill Chess: Paul Maxwell
   Jim Patton: Ramsay Williams
   Birdie Keppel: Nicolette McKenzie
   Captain Webber: William Roberts
   Mrs Talley: Tucker McGuire
   Tex: Paul Meier
   Dobbs: Bruce Beeby
   Cooney: Michael Harbour
   Clerk: Kenneth Shanley
Repeated from 7th and 13th November 1977
Repeated in three 30m parts commencing 25th January 1988


7th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Conversations With a Child by Robin Glendinning
Domestic life in Belfast.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Bill: Michael Deacon
   Jean: Stella McCusker
   Mother: Margaret D'Arcy
   Madge: Valerie Lilley
   Michael: Susan Sheridan
   Arte: Patrick Brannigan
   Newrsreader: Su Evans
   The men in the bar: Mark Mulholland and Joe McPartland


7th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Homeward Bound by Donald Bull
Directed By: Penny Gold
   Ted Monk: Richard Leech
   Betty: Petra Davies
   Derry: Andrew Branch
   Dad: Godfrey Kenton
   Doctor: Gordon Reid
   Judge: Martin Friend
   Banker: Philip Frost


8th September 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: An Item on the Agenda by Ken Methold (1931-2020)
Leprosy.
Directed by John Theocharis
   Len Williams: Stephen Murray
   John Hughes: Peter Egan
   Suchitra Hughes: Elizabeth Proud
   Morrison: Stephen Thorne
   Thai doctor: Paul Meier
   Lady chairman: Mary Wimbush
   Mrs Wilson: Joan Matheson
Also with Rod Beacham. Walter Hall, Jeffrey Segal, Irene Sutcliffe, James Thomason
Repeated from 4th February 1977


8th September 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Joe by Michael Toft
1953 Leeds
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Mr Harper: George A Cooper
   Joe: Paul Copley
   Mrs Beever: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Lorna: Liz Goulding
   Mr Beever: Graham Roberts
   Arthur: Russell Dixon
   Mr Turvy: Paul Webster
   Mavis: Sylvia Brayshay
   Freda: Margo Gunn
   Mr Arnold: Geoffrey Banks
   Clive: Will Tacey
   Mrs Popplewell: Rosalie Williams
Repeated 10th September 1979


8th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Thank you for your Support by Martyn Read
Directed by Peter King
   Laetitia Plum: Lally Bowers
   Col Foskett: Nigel Stock
   Arthur Trumpington: Ellis Dale
   The Rev Wilfred Lupin: Roger Hammond
   The Bishop: John Bott
   Narrator: Gordon Reid
Repeated 5th March 1980


9th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Tutorial by Robert Davis
Does the teacher love the pupil?
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Peter Bates: Nigei Anthony
   Sue: Lolly Cockerell
Repeated 26th March 1980
[Binaural recording to listen to on earphones]


10th Septembern 1979
19.45
The Monday Play: The Daughter by Graham Swannell
Director: John Tydeman
   Ann: Joanna David
   Mary: Gwen Watford
   Margaret: Rosalie Crutchley
   Ronald: Nigel Hawthorne
Repeated 16th September 1979
[Graham Swannell's 1983 play "Mother and Daughter", also directed by John Tydeman, has different characters, and a different story, with Joanna David playing Harriet.]


11th September 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Daisy Chain by Lesley Clive
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Catherine: June Barry
   Tom: Andrew Branch
   Henry VIII: Robert Lang
   Archbishop Cranmer: Philip Voss


12th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Honey Life (Medeni Zivot ) by Vojislav Donic translated by Dasa Drndic
A young girl and boy play in a garden
Music composed by Milo-Rad Kuzmanovic and played by the Beograd Radio-Televis Music Ensemble
Technical assistance by Marjan Radojcic (Radio-Beograd) and Peter Belham (BBC)
Directed by Darko Tatic for Radio-Beograd and Michael Rolfe for the BBC
A BBC Birmingham production in collaboration with Radio-Televis Beograd
   The Girl: Katlin Brasic
   The Boy: Paul Clark
   Barnabas: Leonard Fenton
   Her mother: Gillian Gibbon
   Her grandfather: Leonard Fenton
   His mother: Patricia Gallimore
   His father: Olaf Pooley


13th September 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Island (1975) by James Saunders (1925-2004)
An island with four sisters.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Kay: Madeline Smith
   Jo: Frances Jeater
   Sue: Jo England
   Vi: Jennifer Piercey
   Pod: Geoffrey Beevers
   Mat: Rod Beacham
[Also broadcast on USA NPR 14th September 1980]
[One Danish website confuses this play with one of the same title written by three South African authors, very different.]


13th September 1979
19.30
The Little Sister (1949) by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) dramatised by Bill Morrison
Musical research Adrian Edwards
Directed by John Tydeman
   Philip Marlowe: Ed Bishop
   Dolores Gonzales: Toby Robins
   Mavis Weld: Margaret Robertson
   Orfamay Quest: Liza Ross
   Lt Christy French: Don Fellows
   Sgt Beifus: Rod Beacham
   Steelgrave: Michael Goldie
   Lester Clausen: Peter Marinker
   G W HickS: Bill Morrison
   Orrin Quest: Malcolm Gerard
   Flack: Blain Fairman
   Joseph Toad: William Roberts
   Ballou: Neville Jason
   Dr Lagardie: Paul Maxwell
   Lt Maglashan: Ramsay Williams
Repeated from 5th and 11th December 1977
[Also broadcast on R7]
[Also produced by Claire Grove in 2011 for R4, repeated R4X with Toby Stephens as Marlowe]


14th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Daddy's Little Treasure by Valerie Georgeson
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   David Coates: David Beames
   Marilyn Laycock: Adrienne Frank
   Mr Laycock: Ronald Herdman
   Mrs Laycock: Kathleen Helme
   Barry: David Casey
   LiZZie: Angela Bruce
   Mr Coates: Harry Beety
   Mrs Coates: Eileen Derbyshire
   Anthea: Kate Lee
   Jim: Stephen Mallatratt
Repeated from 22nd September 1978


14th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Mother Figure by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Lucy: Maureen Lipman
   Terry: Ray Brooks
   Rosemary: Diane Bull
Repeated 26th March 1980


15th September 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Tangled Web by John Graham
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Q Webb: David Valla
   Stella: Kate Coleridge
   Sir Alec Lithgow: Lockwood West
   Mr Thorneycroft: Jack May
   Hepple: Alan Downer
   Brian: Nigel Lambert
   Mrs O'Malley/Mrs Goulder: Katherine Parr
   Nurse/Mrs Jarvis: Madi Hedd
   Amanda: Norma Ronald
   Female voice/Voice: Pauline Letts
Repeated from 9th October 1974


15th September 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Death on a Fourth Wednesday by Joan Sadler
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Bernard Lane: Gordon Dulieu
   Jackie Jessell: Lolly Cockerell
   Inspector Burgess: Michael McStay
   Godfrey Gelder: Jonathan Newth
   Constance Gelder: Margaret Ward
   Martin Stanhope: Philip Voss
   Felicity Hargreaves: Hilda Schroder
   Julian: Brian Carroll
   Hellinan Smith: Gordon Whiting
   Albert Banks: Danny Schiller
   Sam Harrison: Pat Connell
   Frank: Geoffrey Drew
Also with Liza Flanagan and Philip Fox
Repeated 17th September 1979


15th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Susie Graham's Dance Trophy by Maurice Patterson
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Susie Graham: Catherine Kessler
   Her mother: Norma Griffin
   Interviewer: Adrian Egan
   DJ: Gordon Dulieu
   Mason: Peter Straker
   Careers Adviser/pc: Peter Baldwin
   Psychologist: Josie Kidd
Repeated 2nd January 1980


16th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Loving Room by Connie Bensley
Tearful neighbours and a quest for owls.
Directed by Alec Reid
   Meggie: Sheila Hancock
   David: Tim Pigott-Smith
   Graham: Tammy Ustinov
   Graham's father: Philip Voss
   Kate: Lolly Cockerell
   Jock: Tom Cotcher
Repeated 20th February 1980


17th September 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Death is King by Tanith Lee
1340: Black Death.
Music by John Lewis
Played by the New London Consort
Musical adviser Philip Pickett
Songs written and composed by the author
Directed by Kay Patrick
   Death/Tier: John Rye
   Jenieve: Deborah Makepeace
   Marisonne: Jill Balcon
   Duke Guyot: John Westbrook
Also with Narrators: Philip Voss, Leonard Fenton, Cordon Dulieu, and also with Margot Boyd, Andrew Branch, Petra Davies, Adrian Egan, Liza Flanagan, Martin Friend, Brian Haines, Josie Kidd, Danny Schiller, David Strong, Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 23rd September 1979


18th September 1979
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Five Pound Weekend by Jack Kent
Directed by Christopher Venning
   James Harrison: Godfrey Kenton
   Edith Harrison: Lolly Cockerell
Also with Eva Stuart, Josie Kidd, Philip Sully, Philip Voss, Brian Haines, Gordon Reid, Brian Carroll and Adrian Egan.


19th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Devil's Elbow by John Tarrant
Directed By Christopher Venning
[The BBC programme database data is in very poor shape for this play]


20th September 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Day the Young Ladies of Delphi Came into the Park by John Cardy
1940. Barrage balloons, digging for victory.,
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Alan: Andrew Branch
   Big Reg: Peter Alexander
   Little Reg: Roy Kinnear
   Vic Partridge: Jim McManus
   Boyce: Martin Friend
   Mollie: Shirley Dixon
   Mrs Buttivant: Margot Boyd
   Maisie: Lolly Cockerell
   Perdita: Liza Flanagan
   Victoria: Adrienne Byrne
   Winifred: Madeline Smith
   Xanthia: Jenny Twigge
   Yvette: Josie Kidd
   Zelda: Alwyne Taylor
   Colonel: Godfrey Kenton


21st September 1979
15.05
The Girl Who Came to Supper
- based upon the book of the musical of the play- contributing writers: Terence Rattigan (1953), Noel Coward (1963) and Harry Kurnitz(1963), Alan Melville (1979).
London 1911.
Musical director Richard Holmes
Director: Glyn Dearman
   The Regent: Keith Michell
   The Queen Mother: Peggy Ashcroft
   Ada Cockle: Doris Hare
   Northbrook: Edward Hardwicke
   The King: Stephen Bone
   Mary: Deborah Fallender
   Cabbie: John Hollis
   Charlie: John Bull
   Schonheim: Blain Fairman
   Karlinski: John Rye
   Hoffman: Danny Schiller
   Waitress: Paula Jacobs
Also with Jacquey Chappell, Rachel Cook, Gordon Dulieu, Jane Egan, Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 24th September 1979
[based on The Sleeping Prince (1953) by Terence Rattigan, filmed 1957 as "The Prince and the Showgirl", then a stage musical 1963 as "The Girl who came to supper"]



21st September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Buzz by Jill Hyem (1937-2015).
Rowing on the lake.
Director: Cherry Cookson
   Radio Announcer: Peter Donaldson
   Julia: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
   Rupert: Jeremy Clyde


22nd September 1979
14.30
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Adapted by Eric MacDonald.
Director: Glyn Dearman
   Mina: Frances Jeater
   Lucy: Rosalind Shanks
   Jonathan Harker: Michael Harbour
   Female Vampire: Kate Coleridge
   Arthur Seward: Christopher Good
   Warder: Andrew Sachs
   Van Helsing: Aubrey Woods
also with Pat Keen, Jim McManus, Madeleine Cemm, Malcolm Hayes
Repeated from 21st May 1976
Repeated 12th January 1985
[Glyn Dearman also directed productions of Vampirella (1976) and of Sherlock Holmes v Dracula (1981)]


22nd September 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Sins of the Father by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Inspector Vogel: Douglas Livingstone
   Superintendent Fraser: Nigel Hawthorne
   Mo: Diana Bishop
   Mrs Sutton: Petra Davies
   Charles Sutton: Philip Voss
   Jo Blackitt: Jenny Twigge
   Dave Walker: Brian Carroll
   Mayor: Brian Haines
   Tony Sutton: Merlin Ward
   Eric Roye: Fred Bryant
   Gerry Marshall: Dominic Cox
   Harris: Jeffrey Segal
   Tina: Tina Lyons
   Club Leader: David Sinclair
   Mrs Marshall: Eva Stuart
   Gaffer: John Bott
Repeated 24th September 1979
[Connected radio drama by Bill Lyons, also with the characters Vogel and Fraser:
23/10/76 Body on the Heath; 3/9/77 An Ordinary Bloke; 29/1/83 Background]


22nd September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Night Shift by Derek Raby
Counting sheep
Directed By: Margaret Etall
   Henry: Dinsdate Landen
   Sheep: Joan Sanderson
   
   
23rd September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Jake and Meself by Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003)
Directed by Brian Wright
   Thurston: James Bolam
   Jake: Danny Schiller
   Mother: Liz Smith
   
   
26th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Users by Bill Corrigan
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Norma: Christine Pollon
   Ted: Brian Haines
   Jill: Alison Draper
   Tom: Tim Bentinck
[The typed and annotated script is held by the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth - File R3/873/40, Box 873 (UID 238L674W.) ]


27th September 1979
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Encounter on Shieldrock by Jonas Arnason. translated by Alan Boucher, adapted by Rodney M. Bennett
1940: The British occupation of Iceland.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Kormak Torfason: Gunnar Hafsten
   Press Officer: Gordon Reid
   Catherine: Jennifer Piercey
   Major Stone: Allan Cuthbertson
   Cpt Nicholas Claxton: Anthony Jackson
   Paul Daniel Muller: Andrew Branch
   Birna/Jacobina: Ingibjorg Asgeirsdottir


28th September 1979
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Tissue (1978) by Louise Page (1955-2020)
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Sallly Fleur: Jennie Linden
   Simon: George Irving
   Mum/zoey: Patricia Gallimore
   Father: Roger Hume
   Fleur/Nurse: Hedli Niklaus
   Doctor/Lover: Eric Allan
   Receptionist/sister: Irene Sutcliffe
   Engineer/Boss: Peter Wickham
   Ex-lover: Nigel Anthony
   Female doctor: Nancy Diuguid
   Woman patient: Hilary Newcombe
   Second doctor: Paul Alexander


28th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The En-suite Bathroom by William Humble
Directed By: Christopher Venning
   Alan: Garrick Hagan
   Helen: Josie Kidd
   Joe: Steve Hudson


29th September 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Ecclesiastes by David Edgar
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   John Hammond: Eric Allan
   Judith Hammond: Elizabeth Proud
   Luke/American Preacher: Peter Marinker
   Bishop of Stanton/Mr Attwood: Haydn Jones
   Provost: Clifford Rose
   Appointments Secretary: William Fox
   Bishop Pugh: Geoffrey Matthews
   Bill Crosby/Customs officer: Sean Barrett
   Canon Sidney Willcox: Brian Hewlett
   Mrs Glllott/Middle-class Woman: Patricia Gallimore
Repeated from 1st April 1977


29th September 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: After School by Guy Meredith
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Weston: Christopher Blake
   Wilde: Keith Drinkel
   Frimley: Edward De Souza
   Lynne: Sherrie Hewson
   Roger: Peter Pacey
   Dennis: Graham Seed
   Barman/Operator: Leonard Fenton
   Wilde (as a boy): Peter Duncan
   Weston (as a boy): Simon Allen
   Schoolmasters: Roger Hammond
   Liz/Woman: Lolly Cockerell
   Chis/Operator: Jenny Twigge
   Security Guard: Danny Schiller
   Operator /BM Attendant / Radio Host: Gordon Reid
Repeated 1st October 1979


29th September 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Quid Pro Quo by Derek Hall
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Forbes: Frederick Treves
   Beauchamp: John Pullen
   Gillespie: Philip Voss
   Stella: Eva Stuart


30th September 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene (1904-1991) dramatised by Dennis Cannan and Pierre Bost, adapted by Peggy Wells
Mexico outlaws Catholicism and more or less enforces alcohol prohibition. What does a priest do with himself?
Produced by Ronald Mason
   Tench: Henry Stamper
   Chief of Police: Francis de Wolff
   Priest: Derek Godfrey
   Lieutenant: Brian Hewlett
   Maria: Patience Collier
   Brigitta: Jo Manning Wilson
   Franciso/Warder: Sean Barrett
   Miguel/Alvarez: Sean Arnold
   Francisco's mother/Peasant woman: Margot Boyd
   Mestizo/Vittorio: Andrew Sachs
   Governor's cousin: Malcolm Hayes
   Spinster: Kathleen Helme
   Drunkard/Obregon: Kerry Francis
   Lopez: Clifford Norgate
   Schoolmaster: Frederick Treves
   Obregon's wife: Elizabeth Proud
   Man: John Rye
Repeated from 22nd June 1970
[Also produced in two parts, by Emma Harding for R4 2016, rptd R4X]
[Published in the USA as "The Labyrinthine Ways."]


1st October 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty
Letters between G B Shaw and Mrs Campbell, 1809-1939.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Mrs Patrick Campbell: Isabel Dean
   G B Shaw: Cyril Cusack
Repeated from 1st and 7th July 1974


2nd October 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Foggy Anniversary by Nick Darke (1948-2005)
Fishing in fog.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Len: Jon Croft
   Boysie: Nick Darke
   Charlotte: Marion Fiodick
   Jane: Anna Perry
   Jack: John Witty
   George: Derek Graham
   Pilot: David Ponting
   Announcer: Peter Bond


3rd October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Luck of the Draw by A. S. Robertson
Will the prize draw be entirely honest?
Directed by Peter King
   Mrs Bannion: Dandy Nichols
   Wilf: John Bott
   Ronnie: Bernard Gallagher
   Mr Pessel: David Hill


4th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Forest Lodge (1977) by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin.
BBC Bristol
   Iris: Carole Hayman
   Tom: John Abineri
   Marge: Rosalind Adams
   Stavros: Brian Raines
   Phil: Andrew Branch
   Douglas: Leonard Fenton
   Addie: Jenny Twigge


5th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: All on a Summer's Day by Ivor Wilson
Down the pit (the coal mine)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Jack: Geoffrey Banks
   Harold: Paul Copley
   Earnshaw: Ronald Herdman
   Mrs Barlow: Lorraine Peters
   Vic: Christian Rodska
   Walter: Paul Webster
   Maureen: Margot Leicester
   Lizzy: Stephanie Turner
   Barlow: James Tomlinson
Repeated from 29th April 1977


5th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Mr Bruin who Once Drove the Bus, by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Directed by John Cardy
   Mr Bruin: John Bott
   Headmaster: Brian Haines
   Narrator: Philip Fox
   Connie Cupboard: Eva Stuart
   Fatty Foggon: John Bull
   Mr Pilchard: Roger Hammond
   Councillor Garbage: Peter Baldwin
   First boy in bus: Jean England
   First girl in bus: Tammy Ustinov
Other children: Gina Bellman, Adrian Cale, Lysandre De Lahave, Darren Phelan, Darren Smalley, Howard Taylor
Repeated 16th January 1980


6th October 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Gene Factor by Eric Saward
Directed by Roger Pink
   Bill: Terry Molloy
   Jenny: Rosalind Adams
   Jack: Sean Barrett
   Det Chief Inspector Moore: Geoffrey Matthews
   Burgess: Alexander John
   Peters: Alan Devereux
   Alec: Bob Docherty
   Shop assistant: Lisa Penny
   Mrs Rawlings: Nancy Gower
   Dr Lang: Roger Hammond
Repeated 8th October 1979


6th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Telephone Calls by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
The telephone rings again.
Directed by Tony Cliff
   Roger: Christian Rodska
   Pamela: Jane Collins
   Janet: Sally Gibson


7th October 1979
14.30
The Third Man (1949) by Graham Greene (1904-1991) adapted from the film.
Harry Lime is dead.
Directed by Richard Wortley.
   Rollo Martins: Ed Bishop
   Harry Lime: Ian Hendry
   Colonel Calloway: John Bentley
   Anna: Ann Lynn
   Harry Lime's porter: William Fox
   Sgt Paine/Dr Winkel: Henry Stamper
   Tombs: Geoffrey Beevers
   Carter: Leslie Heritage
   KurtZ: Dennis McCarthy
   Tyler: Peter Marinker
   Hansl/Austrian woman: Olwen Griffiths
   German hotel porter: John Samson
Repeated from 13th November 1971
Repeated on 21st November 1987
[The title had been used for a radio play by Marius Goring in July 1949, subsequent productions of that play used differing titles. The UK release of the film was September 1949.]


8th October 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Caiaphas the Priest by Josef Bor (Joesef Bondy 1906-1979) translated and adapted by Carey Harrison
Jerusalem.
Directed by John Theocharis
   Caiaphas: Lee Montague
   Pontius Pilate: Anthony Bate
   Judas Iscariot: Sean Barrett
   Aeneas: Godfrey Kenton
   Boaz: Anthony Newlands
   Gerson: Peter Welch
   Achiman: Martin Friend
   Jabin: John Church
   Woman: Maureen O'Brien
   Ariel: Philip Voss
   Corporal: Peter Baldwin
   Enom: William Eedle
   Barabbas: Stanley Lebor
   Servant: Michael McStay
   Legionary: Gordon Dulieu
[Original title "The Third" (1978) "The first Passion play written by a Jewish author"- Josef was a survivor of Terezin and Buchenwald and wished to bring the Jewish and Christian communities to an understanding, to avoid another holocaust.]


9th October 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Last Visit by Raymund Fitzsimons
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Sister Agnes: Joan Matheson
   Catherine McCarthy: Betty Hardy
   Sister Veronica: Pauline Delaney
   Good Mother: Eva Stuart


10th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: City Sounds by John Aldred (1921-2020)
A radio phone in show.
Jingles realised by Peter Howell in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Brian Wright
   Alan Crawley: Georgw Baker
   Maggie West: Lolly Cockerell
   Frank Northfield: Michael McStay
   Tony Spencer: Brian Carroll
   Disc Jockey: Philip Sully
   Cowboy: Andrew Branch
   Mrs Martin: Margot Boyd
   Inspector Hunt: Martin Friend
   Dr Smith: Adrian Egan
   Charles Clarke: Chas Bryer
   Woman on telephone: Josie Kidd


11th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Earthquakes in Peru by James Douglas
Directed by Robert Cooper
   Joe: Kevin Flood
   Joseph: P G Stephens
   Sadie: Anna Manahan
   Announcer/Mother: Catherine Gibson
   Mac: Alex McClay
   Saleslady/Girl: Helen Roche
   Jones/Dad: Bill Hunter
   Fr Patsy: Maurice O'Callagiian
   Bennett: Michael Duffy
   Peter: John Hewitt
   Saffron/Young man: Desmond MacAleer
   Betty: Ruth Hegarty


12th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Thimble Kiss for a Cornish Hug by Gwen Cherrell (1926-2019)
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Pen: Anna Calder-Marshall
   Michael: Michael Spice
   Alan: Malcolm Gerard
   Audrey: Diane Mercer
   Mr Harris: Jonathan Scott
   Rhoda: Joan Matheson
   Dorothy/Operator: Heather Bell
   Caroline Corner: Jan Carey
   Frances/Poppet: Jane Knowles
   Fawley/Police Sergeant: Henry Knowles
   WPC Farnworth: Shirley Dizon
Repeated from 17th February 1978


12th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Trouble Shared by Ivor Wilson
Directed by Peter King
   Professor St Lawrence: Freddie Jones
   Miss Edwards: Alex Marshall
   Mr Timpson: Bernard Gallagher


13th October 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1911) by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
A coal mining family.
Directed by Guy Vaesen
   Mrs Holroyd: Judy Parfitt
   Blackmore: Roy Spencer
   Jack: Patricia Leventon
   Minnie: Helen Worth
   Clara: Jane Knowles
   Laura: Christine Welch
   Holroyd: David Brierley
   Grandmother: Joan Matheson
   Rigley: Ronald Herdman
   Manager: George Woolley
   First miner: Christopher Crooks
   Second miner: Peter Bourke
Repeated from 23rd January 1973
Repeated on 4th May 1986
[Also produced by William Hughes in 1954 for R3]
[The play is an expansion of the short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" (1909)]


13th October 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Say it Again Sam by Aubrey Woods (1928-2013)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Angela: Norma Ronald
   Harry: Robert Lang
   Anthony: James Aubrey
   Ellen: Jennifer Piercey
   Sam: Patrick Barr
   Charmaine: Liza Flanagan
   Max: Brian Carroll
   Judi: Tammy Ustinov
   Doctor: John Bott
   Bank manager: Danny Schiller
   Sergeant: Gordon Reid
   Inspector: Aubrey Woods
Repeated 15th October 1979


13th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Over and Done With by Julia Jones
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Father: Jack Watson
   Sybil: Carole Hayman
   Mr Lumkin: Christian Rodska
   Mrs Worksop: Julia Jones
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019]


14th October 1979
21.03
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), dramatised by Brian Gear
Music by Sidney Sagar
A diamond is given as a gift in Yorkshire.
Director Brian Miller.
BBC Bristol
   Gabriel Betteredge: John Sharp
   Godrey Ablewhite: Geoffrey Beevers
   Franklin Blake: John Telfer
   Rachel Verinder: Sally Baxter
   Rosanna Spearman: Tammy Ustinov
   Mr Brutt: Nat Brenner
   Lady Verincler: Petra Davies
   Penelope: Josie Kidd
   Felicity: Lisa Penny
   Georgina: Deborah Jane Sharps
   Candy: Danny Schiller
   Mr Murthwaite: Gordon Dulieu
Additional actors in later parts:
   Adrian Egan, Barkley Johnson, Debby Cumming, Emlyn Harris, Geoffrey Serle, Godfrey Kenton, Jo Scott Matthews, John Franklyn-Robbins, June Barrie, Liza Flanagan, Margot Boyd, Matthew Adams, Philip Sully, Rex Holdsworth, Tom Eastwood
Pt2:21/10/79 Pt3:28/10/79 Pt4:4/11/79 Pt5:11/11/79 Pt6:18/11/79
Each part repeated after two days
The series was also repeated commencing 29th April 1983


16th October 1979
11.05
Thirty-Minute Theatre: At the Tennis Club by Arthur Frewin.
Pianist: Mary Nash
Tipperary, 1920
Director: Jane Morgan
   Fr McCarthy: Philip Sully
   Mrs Blunt: Ann Bell
   Eddie: Andrew Branch
   Dan Quirke: William Nighy
   Michael Ryan: John Bott
   Helen: Gail Lidstone
   Mrs Sadleir: Clare Richards
   Colonel: Philip Voss
   Capt Biddulph: Philip Fox


17th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: My Daughter, Oh My Daughter! by John Graham
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Stanley: Peter Jones
   Hilda: Sheila Steafel
   Maya: Sylvestra Le Touzel
   Granny: Nancy Nevinson
   James Primrose: Godfrey Kenton


17th October 1979
19.45
The Great Steeplechase Race by Matthew Walters
Director: David Geary
   Julian: Peter Baldwin
   Ludmilla: Diana Payan
   Julian's wife: Rosemary Martin
   Jenny: Sian Davies
   Football commentator: Leslie Heritage
   Athletics commentator: Clifford Norgate
   Motorist: Antony Higginson
   Bill: Charles Hodgson
   First headmaster: Ronald Forfar
   Applethwaite: John Westbrook
   Second headmaster: Noel Iliff
   Miss Smithers: Margot Boyd
Repeated from 17th March 1971 and 16th August 1974


18th October 1979
15.15
I Never Sang for My Father (1968) by Robert Anderson (1917-2009)
Directed by Daniel Freudenberger
   (Produced by Karl Schmidt for Earplay, the radio drama production centre for public broadcasting in the United States of America)
   Tom: Melvyn Douglas
   Gene: Kevin Conway
   Margaret: Dorothy Stickney
   Alice: Teresa Wright
also with Patrick Hines and Ann McDonough


19th October 1979
15.15
Enquiry (1969) by Dick Francis (1920-2010), dramatised by Barry Campbell.
A jockey loses his racing licence for something he didn't do.
Technical presentation David Greenwood , assisted by David Hitchinson and Diana Barknam
Directed by Jane Morgan.
   Kelly Hughes: Tony Osoba
   Lord Gowery: Jack May
   Dexter Cranfield: Philip Voss
   Lord Ferth: Robert Lang
   Charlie West: William Nighy (Bill Nighy)
   Mr Newtonnards: John Ronane
   David Oakley: Michael Graham-Cox
   Tony: David Savile
   Roberta Cranfield: Selina Cadell
   Archie: Michael McKevitt
   Mrs Cranfield: Eva Stuart
   Mrs West: Jenny Twigge
   Secretary: Lolly Cockerell
   Dewar: Gordon Reid
   Grace Roxford: Thelma Whitely
   Jack Roxford: David Sinclair
   Doctor: Brian Carroll
   Derek Hickson: Philip Fox
Repeated 22nd October 1979 and 25th December 1981
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2008-2014]
[Dick Francis was a steeplechase jockey]


19th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Full Frontal by Rob Gittins
Can naturism be permitted on the beach?
Directed by Alec Reid
   Mr Bradley: Brian Glover
   Mr Hebden: Jonathan Scott
   Mrs Jakes: Penelope Les
   Mr Farley: Roger Hammond
   Miss Simmons: Derby Cumming
   Mrs Bradley: Petra Davies
   Mrs Day: Josie Kidd
   Mrs Clegg: Jenny Twigge


20th October 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Monsieur La Souris (1938) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989) adapted by Fred Partridge.
Directed by Betty Davies.
   Monsieur La Souris: Peter Woodthorpe
   Lognon: Cyril Shaps
   Madame Lognon: Cecile Chevreau
   Inspector Lucas: David Ryall
   Sgt Janvier: Alan Dudley
   Lucile Boisvin: Liane Aukin
   Fred: John Hollis
   Louis: Peter Pacey
   Det Joly: Nigel Lambert
   Le Comte: John Rye
   First Sergeant: Bruce Beeby
   Gatekeeper: Paul Gaymon
Repeated from 16th May 1975
[The English film adaptation of 1950 was called "Midnight Episode"]


20th October 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Flight of the Arrow by Michael Davies
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Frank Morgan: John Bott
   Dr Helman: Shirley Dixon
   Saunderson: Peter Jeffrey
   Phillip Maitland: Clifford Norgate
   Harry Anderson: Jim McManus
   Gordon Harkness: Michael McStay
   Helen/Mrs Crawford: Tammy Ustinov
   Judith: Eva Stuart
   Nigel: Gareth Armstrong
   Jones: David Graham
   Mrs Williams: Mary Clare Nash
   Pilot: John Church
   Ground Control: Philip Voss
   Tower Control One: Gordon Dulieu
   Tower Control Two: Gordon Reid
Repeated 22nd October 1979 and 22nd March 1982


20th October 1979
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Last Week in August by Colin Finbow
Directed by Richard Jamison
   Doris: Doris Hare
   Roger: Trevor Cooper
   Barbara: Elizabeth Rider
   Mr Davis: Alan Downer
   Mrs Davis: Jo Manning Wilson
   Teabar man: John Bull


23rd October 1979
22.30
The Hornblower Story: Book 1: Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950) (5 parts) followed by Book 2: Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) (5 parts) by C S Forester (1899-1966). Adapted by Val Gielgud.
1 of 10.
1794.
Technical assistance and location recordings: The Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth; Mariners International; Roger Lucas, Mark Seyler, Chris Webb, David Fleming-Williams
Music score composed and conducted by Johnny Pearson
Directed by Trevor Hill and Christopher Hayton Webb (Chris Webb)
BBC Manchester
   Admiral Lord Hornblower, Rtd: Nigel Anthony
   Hornblower as new Midshipman.: Nicholas Fry
   Lieutenant Masters: Anthony Wingate
   Mr Midshipman Simpson: Ralph Lawford
   Captain Keene: Charles Foster
   Mr Midshipman Cleveland: Paul Herzberg
   Lieutenant Chalk: Ian Flintoff
   Mr Midshipman Caldwell: Keith Ladd
Additional actors in later episodes:
   Brian Southwood, Colin Bean, David Miller, David Peart, Delia Corrie, Geoffrey Banks, George Hagan, Gordon Astley, Graham Tennant, Herbert Smith, James Simmons, James Tomlinson, Joan Anstey, Joe Cook, John Baldwin, John Blain, John Jardine, John Pickles, Lawrence Mullin, Mark Hudson, Martin Scott, Nina Holloway, Peter Bell, Randal Herley, Robin Burch, Ron Davies, Ronald Herdman, Rosalind Knight, Russell Dixon, Terence Skelton
Subsequent parts weekly: 30 Oct, 6,13,20,27 Nov, 4,11,18,25 Dec 1979.
[Book 3 commenced 29th January 1980]
[The actual first book was 1937: The Happy Return, placed 6th in the chronology of the story]


24th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Child by Olwen Wymark (1932-2013)
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Policeman: Danny Schiller
   Policewoman: Lolly Cockerell
   Gemma: Miriam Margolyes
   Lily: Mary Wimbush
   Nina: Jane Wenbam
Repeated 10th September 1986


24th October 1979
19.45:
The Case of Leon Trotsky by Robert Wistrich (1945-2015) and David Robins
Producer: Brian Miller
   Trotsky: John Franklyn-Robbins
   V. I. Lenin: John Abineri
   J. V. Stalin: Timothy West
   John Dewey: Ramsay Williams
   Goldman: Jeffrey Segal
   Krupskaya: Petra Davies
   Natalia: Ann Bell
   Martov: Adrian Egan
   Kamenev: James Cairncross
   Zinoviev: John Bull
Also with Michael Derrington, Martin Friend, Brian Haines, Andrew Hilton, Barkley Johnson, Philip Sully
[Robert Wistrich was a leading opponent of antisemitism and antizionism, who was born in Kazakhistan but grew up in England.]


25th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Heathens and Blasphemers by Peter Brent
Introduction of Western Christian culture to a South Sea island.
Directed by David Spenser
   Parry: Denys Hawthorne
   Waritua: Karen Archer
   Chief Tamaroa: John Westbrook
   Priest: Martin Friend
   Manoa: Philip Voss
   Hamaki: Philip Sully
   Narrator: Adrian Egan


26th October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Josie by Rachel Wyatt
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Josie: Angela Pleasence
   Benjy: Andrew Branch
   Fred: Joiin Bull
   Mary: Jennifer Piercey
   Dad: Leslie Sands
   Mr Hammond: Godfrey Kenton
   Man in No6: Peter Baldwin
   Mrs Briggs: Margot Boyd
   Waitress: Jenny Twigge
   Customer: Adrian Egan
Repeated 11th October 1983
[Sequel: Josie's Man was broadcast 12th October 1983; further sequel "Josie: Family and Friends" was broadcast 6th January 1988]


26th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Gas Shortage by Andrew Lynch
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Clay: Andy Rashleigh
   Jeb: Geoffrey Banks
   Bella: Carole Hayman
   Carson: Feter Wheeler


27th October 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Fishing Party by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
The miners go to sea.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester.
   Art: Wilfred Fickles
   Abe: Harry Markham
   Ern: Geoffrey Banks
   Audrey: Stephanie Turner
   Brian: Ray Mort
   Teaman: Anthony Boden
   Waitress: Cleone Rive
   Fisherman: James Garbutt
First broadcast on R3 on 3rd October 1971, 6th February 1972 and on R4 on 1st May 1972.


27th October 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: His Honour by James Fairfax
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Judge Patrick Latimer: Ronald Baddiley
   Keith Latimer/PC Yarnold: Tim Bentinck
   Eileen Blaydon: Elizabeth Bell
   Inspector Mackenson: Russell Dixon
   Detective-Sergeant Collins: Alan Meadows
   Justice Halyard: Geoffrey Banks
   Mary Lunt: Jane Lowe
   Bob Lunt/Henson: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Kathy: Meryl Hampton
   Anna/Mrs Barraclough: Carolyn Pickles
   John Wentford: Paul Webster
   Bellerby/Fenby: Peter Wheeler
   Nick Barber: Jack Carr
Repeated 29th October 1979


27th October 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Eskimos by David Campton (1924-2006)
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Father: Christopher Benjamin
   Mother: Ingrid Hafner
   Monica: Rosalind Adams


28th October 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Gift of Illusion (La Grande Magia (1948) by Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) translated by Carlo Ardito
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   'Professor' Otto Marvuglia: Hugh Griffith
   Calogero Di Spetta: Robert Stephens
   Signora Locascio: Noel Hood
   Signora Marino: Betty Hardy
   Signora Zampa: Margot Boyd
   Signorina Zampa: Miriam Margolyes
   Marta Di Spelta: Frances Jeater
   Mariano D'Albino (her lover): Michael Spice
   A waiter: Gareth Johnson
   Gervasio D'Aioisi (Otto's associate): Jack May
   Arturo Taddel (Otto's associate): Andrew Sachs
   Zaira (Otto's wife): Madi Hedd
   police Inspector: Stephen Thorne
   Roberto Magliano: John Rye
   Gennarino Fucecchlo: Jack Carr
   Gregorio: David Sinclair
   Matilde: Gladys Spencer
   Rosa Intrugli: Jill Simcox
   Oreste Intrugli: Peter Williams
First broadcast on R3 12th January 1975 and 21st December 1975


29th October 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Have You Seen Guy Fawkes? by Rachel Billington
Bonfire night.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   the Narrator: Peter Purves
   Attorney-General: Chris Kay
   Christian Beam: Ian Masters
   Paul Beam: David Collings
   Virginia Beam: Gwen Cherrell
   Kitty: Alison Draper
   Gerry Fryam: Charles Kay
   Louise Fryam: Illona Linthwaite
   Eddie Fryam: Ian Hoare
   Lucy Fryam: Rachel Beasley
   Wendy Fryam: Vicky Ireland
   Olive Pratt: Peggy Paige
   Cath Kerridge: Brigit Forsyth
   Dick Kerridge: Steve Bodson
   Seamus Murphy: P. G. Stephens
   Singer: Sandra Dugdale
Repeated 4th November 1979


30th October 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Getting Through by Jeremy Treglown
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Mr Wheeler: Chris Gittins
   Debbie: Patricia Gallimore
   Dave: Eric Allan
   First nurse: Elizabeth Revill
   Second nurse: Jean Rogers
   
   
31st October 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Summer of 39 by David Wade
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Master: Andrew Seear
   Headmaster: Neville Jason
   Wade: E. K Lindsay
   Exley,: J. S Knowles
   Rosmarin: P. B Adams
   Buckler: J. England
   Manvell: D. P. R Bryer
   Hewlett: E A Proud
Repeated from 14th July 1977
[Sequel "The Facts of Life - or What Greenbaum Did at School" broadcast 5th December 1980]


1st November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Butt by Carol Richards
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Jack Arrowsmith: Emrys James
   Alice Arrowsmith: Peggy Ann Wood
   Ron Arrowsmith: John Baddeley
   Dr MacPherson: Roger Hume
   Tom Penny: Alan Lake
   Mandy: Thelma Whiteley
   Clark Darrington: Doug Lambert
   Clive: Rodert Austin
   Policeman: Jim Wiggins
Repeated 19th January 1980


2nd November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Shelling Peas by Christopher Russell
Pregnancy
Directed by John Cardy
   Sue Mitchell: Paula Wilcox
   Ken Mitchell: Brian Carroll
   Sue's parents: Margot Boyd and Edward Kelsey
   Ken's parents: Dilys Laye and Michael McStay
   Brenda: Lolly Cockerell
   Anne: Josie Kidd
   Nurse: Jenny Twigge
   Doctor: Philip Voss
   Medical students: Gordon Dulieu and Gordon Reid
   Radiographer: John Bott
Repeated 8th December 1984


2nd November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Your Own Boss by Robert Davis
19 brief scenes covering 16 years.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Joan: Glynis Brooks
   Mick: John Bull
   Friend: Graham Faulkner
   Manager: Brian Haines
   Vanessa: Jean Rogers
   Joe: Adrian Egan
   Bill: Gordon Dulieu
   Sid: Trevor Cooper


3rd November 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Peacock Screamed One Morning by R. C. Scriven (1907-1985)
Autobiographical verse play. Boarding on a farm during WW1.
Directed by Charles Lefeaux
   Narrator: Stephen Murray
   Ronald Scriven: Judy Bennett
   Neville Scriven: Jo Manning Wilson
   Slow Joe Robinson: David March
   Iron Ann his wife: Kathleen Helme
   Uncle James: Frederick Treves
   Edgar: Elizabeth Proud
   Edith Swaine: Hilda Schroder
Repeated from 25th March 1970 and 25th October 1974.


3rd November 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Conspiracy at Laxey by Helen J. Wilson
1879: The miners must work longer hours for the same pay.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Henry: David Beames
   Robert Lewney: David Fleeshman
   Jack Garrett: Ted Kelsey
   John: Russell Dixon
   Kewley: Alan Rothwell
   Mrs Kelly: Kathleen Helme
   Captain Reddicliffe: Nick Darke
   Captain Rowe/Ring: John McGregor
   Hetty: Helen Worth
   Maria: Sally Gibson
   Clague: John Jardine
   Cannon: Andy Rashleigh
   Skillicorn: Charles Foster
   High Bailiff: Geoffrey Banks
   Laughton: Paul Webster
   Edwars: Richard Clay Jones
Repeated 5th November 1979


3rd November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Sophie's Blues by Valerie Georgeson
Directed by Kay Jamieson
BBC Manchester
   Sophie: Kirsten McGlinchy
   Dad: Cliff Howells
   Mum: Eileen O'Brien
   Joan: Anne Raitt


5th November 1979
18.30-19.00
Three-Piece Sweet by Jill Hyem (1937-2015) and Jennifer Phillips
1 of 6: Perfect Choice
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Rita Simmons: Patricia Routledge
   Phoebe Simmons: Paula Wilcox
   Alistair Proudfoot: Christopher Good
Additional cast in later episodes:
   Mr Wainwright: John Bott
   Tom: Graham Faulkner
   Mrs Proudfoot Margot Boyd
Pt2:15/11/79 Pt3:22/11/79 Pt4:29/11/79 Pt5:6/12/79 Pt6:13/12/79
Each part repeated after two days.


5th November 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Down the Hill by Rose Tremain
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by John Tydeman
   Mrs Rivers: Sylvia Coleridge
   Adele, her companion: Petra Davies
   Mrs Opie: Margot Boyd
   Rickie Opie, her son: Eric Allan
   Male nurse: Philip Sully
   Patient: Leonard Fenton
Repeated 11th November 1979


6th November 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Barrow Load of Light by Nick McCarty
   Directed by Mark Jones
   Sarah: Patricia Routledge
   Jack: Mike Grady
   Jen: Veronica Sowerby
   Manager/Priest: Martin Friend
   Foreman/Barman: Brian Carroll
   Boss: Danny Schiller


7th November 1979
12.27-12.55
Double Act: Two plays:
1. The Dissolution of Dominic Boot (1964) by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Dominic: Derek Fowlds
   Vivian: Maria Aitken
   Taxi driver: John Junkin
   Girl clerk: Amanda Murray
   Shepton: Jon Glover
   Man: Peter Wickham
   Miss Bligh: Eva Stuart
   Cartwright: Anthony Newlands
   Mother: Noel Hood
   Father: William Fox
Repeated from 25th November 1978
Repeated 31st July 1990
[Also produced by Michael Bakewell in 1964 for BBC Light with Valerie Kirkbright]
2. Desert Island Risks by William Fox. Directed by John Tydeman
Repeated from 13th April 1979- see above.
   
   
7th November 1979
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: On Some Road by Phillip Callow (1924-2007)
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Malcolm: Barry Foster
   Janis: Jacqueline Tong
   Helen: Sally Sanders
   Consultant: Gordon Dulieu
   Bernard: John Bull
   Mrs Newman: Barbara Crundell
   Ben: Brian Carroll
   Mrs Knowjes: Nancy Gower
   Griffin: Pavel Douglas


8th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Khodary Takes a House by David Wheeler
Violin: Lionel Bentley
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Eugene Khodary: David March
   House agent: Gordon Dulieu
   Leon: Philip Sully
   Nadia: Jenny Twigge
   Redvers: John Bott
   Hermione: Yvonne Manners
   Beryl: Ann Windsor
   Douglas: Peter Baldwin
   Karen: Tammy Ustinov
   Morris: Trevor Cooper


9th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: This Time It's Spring by Bruce Stewart
Pianos: Ronnie Cass and Drew Pattersen
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Pat Lonergan: Bruce Stewart
   Stella James: Jennifer Piercey
   Margaret: Norma Ronald
   Moira: Elizabeth Rider
   Sean: Philip Sully
   Wilf Gisborne: Nigel Anthony
   Mrs Stanton: Peggy Paige
   Jonquil: Elizabeth Proud
   Saleslady: Ann Wrigg


9th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Everyone Says You Are by David Hopkins
Directed by Anton Gill
   The artist: Brian Croucher
   The artist's mother: Peggy Paige
   The art student interviewer: Lindy Alexander


10th November 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Vicki by John Kirkmorris
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Victoria M Endicott: Elizabeth Proud
   Stella: Elizabeth Bell
   Anne: Eva Stuart
   Pye: Robert Trotter
   Haynes: Peter Craze
Repeated from 5th May 1978


10th November 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Stars in My Hair by Bruce Stewart
Piano: Geoffrey Brawn
The song Stars in My Hair composed by Bruce Stewart
Singer: Josephine Cordon
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Amy Johnson: Elizabeth Bell
   Jim Mollison: John Pullen
   Smithy: Bruce Stewart
   Captain Baker: Peter Pratt
   Will Johnson: Malcolm Hayfs
   Alf: Peter Wickham
   Vera: Paddy Turner
   Claude: John Gray
   Chisholm: Jonathan Scott
   Patel: Alaric Cotter
   Mary Jo: Karen Archer
   Commandet: Hilda Kriseman
   British announcer: Charles Hodgson
   Indian announcer: Manning Wilson
   Australian announcer: Bruce Beeby
[Repeated from 1st and 3rd April 1978]


10th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Deadline by Lois Fulker
Directed by Alec Reid
   Barry: Peter Davison
   Annie: Jenny Twigge
   Roger: Andrew Branch


12th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Swim Off the Island by William Fox (1911-2008)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Claud Carrington-Blake: William Fox
   Colonel Robinson: Jack May
   Fiona: Rosalind Adams
   Taki: Saeed Jaffrey
   Willo Chater: Christopher Bidmead
   Maud: Rosalind Shanks
   Hotel manager: Trader Faulkner
   'Dark Classes'/ Apostolo: Sandor Eles
   Alastair: Anthony Smee
   Captain: Malcolm Hayes
   Policeman: Peter Woodthorpe
   Interrogator: Clifford Norgate
   James French: Geoffrey Beevers
   Sevastopoulos: Garard Green
   Abbot: Steve Plytas
Repeated from 10th and 12th January 1976


12th November 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Occupational Hazard by Bernard Krichefski
Directed by Piers Plowright
   Maggie: Glynis Brooks
   Mr Patel: Zia Moyheddin
   Jane: Anna Bentinck
   David: Christopher Guard
   Colin: Roger Heathcott
   Eric: Michael Harbour
   Maternity ward sister: Jennifer Piercey
   Social worker: Charlotte Mitchell
   Nurse: Heather Emmanuel
   Garage manager: Alan Dudley
   Housing officer: Keith Smith
   Prison officer: Gregory de Polnay
   Boy: Lee MacDonald
   Matron: Brenda Kaye
Repeated from 13th and 19th March 1978


13th November 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Alice's Ashes by Nancy Livingston (1935-1994)
Alice travels all over the country.
Directed by Peter King
   Tom: John Baddeley
   Edna: Alex Marshall
   Delroy Smith: Rudolph Walker
   Mr Mayhew: Ellis Dale
   Clergyman: Godfrey Kenton
   Railwayman: Brian Raines


14th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Let's Play Again by Bill Corrigan
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Alan: John Gillett
   Mary: Debbie Wheeler
   Eddie: Graham Roberts
   Ethel: Margot Boyd


15th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Hal by Charlotte Hastings (1909-2003)
Recorder: Antony Miall
Song composed by Nicholas Austin
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Alicia: Jane Knowles
   Julian: Sean Barrett
   Hal: Graham Faulkner
   Mr Pumphrey: John Ruddock
   Canon Climpson: Lockwood West
   Auctioneer: Gordon Dulieu
Repeated 5th March 1980 and 18th December 1981


16th November 1979
15.15:
An Alternative to Suicide by Steve Gallagher 22nd Century: After a spaceship accident.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Lydecker: Paul Maxwell
   Spacerwatch I/Marshall: Brian Haines
   Goldeneye/handyman: John Bull
   Lesterman: Michael Jayston
   Esther: Catherine Kessler
   Driver/Admin officer: Michael Drew
   First company agent: Adrian Egan
   Second company agent/Radio DJ/Vendor: Murray Kash
   Spacerwatch 2: Carole Boyd
   Capt Delisle: Margaret Robertson
   Chesman: Peter Marinker
   Wingman Anlaby: Nigel Lambert
   Dr Preger: Danny Schiller
   Dr Foresight: Roger Hammond
   Director: Patrick Barr
   Pickford: Henry Knowles
Repeated 19th November 1979
[The author also used pseudonyms John Lydecker, Stephen Couper and Lisa Todd]


16th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Present Continuous by Carolyn Sally Jones
Directed by Anton Gill
   Jane: Jenny Twigge
   Angel: Leonard Penton
   Dennis: Peter Wickham
   Ingram: Edward Cast
[No connection with the 1985 rptd 1987 play by Sonja Lyndon]


17th November 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Sketches from Life by Valerie Windsor
Directed by Piers Plowright
   Claire: Penelope Reynolds
   Kevin: Philip Davis
   Mick: P G Stephens
   Miss Todd: Irene Sutcliffe
   Miss CoateS: Anne Clements
   Emma: Jane Knowles
   Miss Jay: Karin Fernald
   Matron: Joan Matheson
   Girl: Sue Harwich
Repeated from 5th August 1977


17th November 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Evangelist (1963) by Sam Thompson (1916-1965) adapted by Sam Hanna Bell
Belfast - the mid 60s. An American evangelist.
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Arter: Stephen Rea
   Jobber Johnson: Sean Reid
   Manser Brown: J G Devlin
   Docker Graham: John McBride
   Johnny Bradford: Michael Stewart
   Bella McConachie: Catherine Gibson
   Pastor Mahood: Maurice O'Callagran
   Pastor Waid: William Hunter
   Finlay Bradford: Harold Goldblatt
   Pastor Earls: Ray McAnally
   Betty Williams: Diana Payan
   Agnes Bradford: Irene Bingham
   Eric Jones: Larry McCoubrey
   Norah: Kathleen Feenan
Also with Charles Owens, Jack McQuoid, Mina Doran, Peter Adair, Sandra Perry, Barbara Adair
Repeated from 14th March 1966 and 20th April 1969.
Repeated 19th November 1979, 14th October 1984,
[First broadcast in 1965 in the Northern Ireland Home Service]
[Ray McAnally also played the Pastor in the initial stage production in 1963]
[Sam thompson was a shipyard worker and a part time sexton in the Church of Ireland]


17th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Yorkshire Rubbish by Stephen Davis
Directed by John Tydeman
   the Man: Peter Woodthorpe
   the Lad: Philip Sully


18th November 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Daughters of Men by Jennifer Phillips
Marital breakdown.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Kate Lister: Judi Dench
   Mrs Kershaw, social worker: Diana Bishop
   Sally Lister: Jean Rogers
   Eddie Marchant: Peter Pacey
   Bahama Kelly: Liza Ross
   Anne Troubridge: Jane Knowles
   Bov Kruschefski: Harold Kasket
   David Lister: Malcolm Gerard
Repeated from 1st and 7th May 1978
[Giles Cooper Award winner]


20th November 1979
11.05:
Thirty Minute Theatre: Sunday by "GEMRDMCE.Et"??
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Colin: Terry ???
   Dad: John Bott
   Reg: Peter Baldwin
   Joyce: Eva Stuart
[BBC Programme Guide not in good condition for this play]


21st November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Very Private Poem by David Sheasby (1940-2010)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Maureen: Gwen Taylor
   Susan: Sylvia Brayshay
   Mr Newbould: Sean Barrett
   Henderson: Paul Webster
Repeated 27th February 1980
[A "Borstal" was a form of imprisonment for younger offenders, abolished 1982.]


22nd November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Dog's Life by Martyn Wade
Diogenes the Cynic
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Diogenes: Michael Aldridge
   Crates: Richard O'Callaghan
   Sphaerus: Alan Dudley
   Thrasyllus: Philip Voss


23rd November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Face in the Mirror by Delores Baron
Taking goods from a shop.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Kay: Pauline Letts
   Ian: John Carson
   Beth: Caroline Langrishe
   Alice/Girl in bureau: Jenny Twigge
   PC/Peter: David Timson
   Man on train/Magistrate: David Gooderson
   Nella: Josie Kidd
   Brenda/WPC: Janet Henfrey
   Miss Green: Peggy Paige
   Store Det/Porter/Operator: Graham Faulkner
   Manager/Driving instructor: Peter Baldwin
   Taxi driver/Solicitor/Man: John Church
   Mr Gordon: Roger Hammond
   Mrs Gordon/Woman: Eva Stuart
Repeated 19th November 1980


23rd November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Giveaway by Allen Saddler
Furniture needs a house.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Shaw: Philip Lowrie
   Julie: Rosalind Adams
   Charlie: Rod Beacham
   Jenny: Marion Fiddick


24th November 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: You Wouldn't Remember by John Wain
There is little to say about him when he dies.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Mrs Beeston: Liz Smith
   Mrs Webb: Brenda Kaye
   Brian: Malcolm Gerard
   Philip: Anthony Higgins
   Tess: Angela Pleasence
   Jack: Eric Allan
   Sally: Diana Bishop
Repeated from 10th March 1978


24th November 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sleeper and the Swallow by John Ashe
Why did he change his name?
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Joseph Channon: Sandor Eles
   Maria: Elizabeth Bell
   Claire: Karen Ford
   Major Webb-Austen: John Abinerl
   Lodge: Roger Snowdon
   Blanke: Brian Haines
   George: Michael Cochrane
   Mother: Sally Lahee
   Radio announcer: Geoffrey Ser1e
Repeated 26th November 1979


24th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Drip by Angela Huth
The rain is dripping.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Harry: David Buck
   Rebecca: Frances Jeater


25th November 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Invitation to the Waltz (1932) by Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) dramatised by Michael Voysey
Alone at a dance.
Music arranged and directed by Mike Steer
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Kate: Marian Diamond
   Olivia: Angela Pleasence
   James: Rusty Livingstone
   Mrs Curtis: Monica Grey
   Mr Curtis: Robert Trotter
   Uncle Oswald: Patrick Troughton
   Lace girl: Karen Archer
   Reginald: David Timson
   Marigold: Valerie Sarruf
   Lady Spencer: Maxine Audley
   Rollo: Simon Cadell
   Archie: Michael Cochrane
   Etty: Joanna Dunham
   Tony Herriot: Martin Jarvis
   Dolly: Suzan Farmer
   Maurice: David Ashford
   Peter Jenkin: Tom Wilkinson
   George: Peter Wickham
   Timothy Masters: Eric Allan
   Sir John Spencer: Peter Williams
Repeated from 24th June 1978
Repeated 31st July 1993
[Also produced by Sara Davies in 2001 rptd 2003 and R4X 2017-2023]
[The sequel The Weather in the Streets (1936) was directed by Jane Morgan and broadcast on 16th and 23rd June 1979, repeated 31st July and 2nd August 1993]


25th November 1979
21.03
Men at Arms (1952) by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
The title music played by the Band Of The Royal Corps Of Transport. Director of Music Major William Allen
1 of 4
Director: Jane Morgan
   Narrator: Hugh Burden
   Guy Crouchback: Hugh Dickson
   Apthorpe: Norman Rodway
   Brigadier Ritchie-Hook: Patrick Troughton
   Major Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner
   Trimmer: Nigel Anthony
   Leonard: David Timson
   Sarum-Smith: John Bull
   Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne
   Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond
   Virginia Troy: Jennifer Hilary
   Mr Crouchback: Carleton Hobbs
   Uncle Peregrine: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal
   Angela: Diana Olsson
   Tony: Paul Gregory
Also with Peter Baldwin, Alan Dudley, Brian Haines, Carole Boyd, Betty Huntley-Wright, and Elizabeth Morgan
Additional actors in later parts:
   Air Marshal Marshal Beech: Godfrey Kenton
   Ambrose Goodall: Alan Rowe
   Brigadier Jameson: Hugh Sullivan
   Captain McKinney: John Rye
   Daisy Leonard: Carole Boyd
   de Souza: Sean Arnold
   Major Erskine: William Eedle
   Nameless Major: Clive Swift
Also with Tony Matthews, Nigel Lambert, Sam Dastor, Sandra Clark, Sion Probert, Eric Allan, Hugh Ross
Pt2:2/12/79 Pt3:9/12/79 Pt4:16/12/79
All parts repeated after two days.


26th November 1979
19.20:
The Monday Play: Tughlaq (1964) by Girish Karnad (1938-2019)
Music specially composed by Donald Fraser and conducted by Robin Davis
Technical presentation: Janet Mitchell, Roy Fraser, Vanessa Ellner
14th Century India. Early attempts to unite Hindus and Muslims.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq: Robin Ellis
   Barabi: Saeed Jaffrey
   Najib: Cyril Shaps
   The Stepmother: Sheila Allen
   Ratansingh: Darien Angadi
   Prince Shihab: Neville Jason
   Sheikh Imam: Benu Setna and Timothy Bateson
   Aazam: Anthony Jackson
   Aziz: Peter Woodthorpe
   Old man: Martin Friend
   Young man: Andrew Branch
   Leader of the citizens: John Church
   Royal announcers: Philip Sully and Paul Grinbergs
   Sheikh Shams: Brian Raines
   The Three Amirs: Roger Hammond, Gordon Dulieu, Peter Baldwin


27th November 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Words of Love by Peter Tong
Directed bv Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   John: Christian Rodska
   Geraldine: Jane Coluns
   First aid man: Charles Foster
   Richie: John Wheatley
   Sandra: Carole Hayman
   Joe: Geoffrey Banks
   Baz: Martin Oldfield


28th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Alice (1965) by Dennis Potter (1935-1994] adapted by Derek Hoddinott
A BBC World Service production
Directed By: Derek Hoddinott.
   Dodgson: George Baker
   Dean Liddell: Richard Bebb
   Alice: Heather Bell
   Mrs Liddell: Jane Thomson
   Lorina Liddell: Alison Draper
   Edith Liddell: Emma Bakhle
   Macmillan: Philip Voss
   Stotman: Peter Baldwin
   Ellen: Brenda Kaye
   John: Lyndam Gregory
   Thornton: Tim Bentinck
   Hargreaves: Philip Sully
   Baker: Andrew Branch
[Also a BBC TV Play in 1965 rptd 1966 with George Baker as Dodgson and Deborah Watling as Alice]
[The play drew complaints from the descendants of Dodgson]
[Dennis Potter also wrote the screenplay for the 1985 film Dreamchild where an adult Alice recalls her childhood.]


29th August 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Prisoners by Jack Ronder
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Jane: Glynis Brooks
   Vincent: Hugh Quarshie
   Mike: Christopher Scoular
   Will: Steve Hodson
   Cherry: Penelope Lee
   Sue: Deborah Tullick
   Don: Gordon Reid
   Police Sergeant: Brian Haines
   LIZ: Amanda Jessel
   JOOd: Lolly Cockerell
   Nurse: Elizabeth Rider
[Jack Ronder died 9th December 1979]


30th November 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: What's it Coming To? by Nan Woodhouse
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Ian: Christian Rodska
   Pauline: Annette Robertson
   Gloria: Nina Holloway
   Evelyn: Judith Barker
   Gladys: Kathleen Helme
   Walter: Brian Southwood
   Percussion/Bus conductor: Andy Rashleigh
   Jock: Gordon Reid


30th November 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Weekend by Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Martha: Zena Walker
   Martin: Neil Stacy
   Katie: Meg Davies
   Jonathan: Howard Shelton
   Jolyon: Rupert Graves
   Jenny: Petra Leah
   Edna: Sarah Collier


1st December 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Daybreak (1928) by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) translated and adapted by Thomas Schwalm and Howard Thompson
Vienna- early 1900s gambling.
Directed by Colin Tucker
   Kasda: David Timson
   Leopoldine: Helen Fraser
   Wilram: Lockwood West
   Consul: Malcolm Hayes
   Dr Tugut: James Thomason
   Bogner: Nigel Anthony
   Joseph: Martin Friend
   Lt Greising: Antony Higginson
   Herr Kressner: John Bott
   Frau Kressner: Doreen Andrew
   Emilie: Stephanie Turner
   Guest: John Ruddock
Also with Geoffrey Beevers, Jane Knowles, Matthew Walters
Repeated from 1st January 1972


1st December 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Alibi for a Judge (1960) by Henry Cecil (Henry Cecil Leon 1902-1976), adapted by the author and Felicity Douglas (1910-1992)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Mr Justice Carstairs: Andrew Cruickshank
   Lesley Burford: Amanda Grinling
   Aubrey Woods: Thomas Empton
   Mr Hunt: Jonathan Scott
   William Burford: Trader Faulkner
   Mr Bell: Peter Howell
   Superintendent Neale: Michael Shannon
   Ernest Mott: Clifford Norgate
   Mr Campbell: Hector Ross
   Mrs Campbell: Carole Boyd
   Joe: Michael Burlington
   Inspector Martin: Anthony Smee
Repeated from 24th May 1975
Repeated 30th May 1988 and 21st November 1992
[Also produced by H B Fortuin in 1960]
[Henry Cecil was a County Court Judge]


1st December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Hospital Visitor by
   Frank Marcus (1928-1996)
Who is the patient and who is the visitor?
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Mrs Frobisher: Penelope Keith
   Rosalie: Eileen Atkins
   Nurse McNab: Jennifer Piercey
   the Porter: John Bull
[Also produced by Otto Duben in German as "Alles ganz normal" for ARD 31/12/1980]


2nd December 1979
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Rudin (1856) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) translated by Richard Freeborn dramatised by Geoffrey Beevers
Piano: John Fraser
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Alexandra Lipin: Selina Cadell
   Konstantin: John Bennett
   Mikhail Lezhnev: Michael Graham Cox
   Sergei Volyntsev: Tim Pigott-Smith
   Madame Lasunsky: Jill Balcon
   Natalya Lasunsky: Angela Pleasence
   Mile Boncourt: Cecile Chevreau
   Afrikan Pigasov: Bryan Pringle
   Dmitry Rudin: Ian Holm
also with Peter Craze and Valerie Murray
Repeated from 25th April 1977
[Also produced by Barbara Bray in 1960 rptd 1963 with Stephen Murray as Rudin.]


3rd December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: No Fear or Favour (1968) by Henry Cecil (Henry Cecil Leon 1902-1976)
Directed by Harry Catlin
   Mr Justice Hereford: Paul Daneman
   Margaret Vane: Sarah Badel
   Clifton Ledbury/ George Ledbury: Peter Sallis
   Lord Chancellor/Frank Baines: Timothy Bateson
   Henry Slaughter: Hector Noss
   Det Supt Brookside: Peter Williams
   Det Insp Drew/William Morgan: Manning Wilson
   John Hardcastle: Michael Shannon
   Mr Stokes: Peter Howell
   Clerk of Court: Antony Higginson
also with Michael Burlington and Michael Cochrane
Repeated from 5th and 7th July 1975, 3rd July 1976,
[Henry Cecil was a County Court Judge]


3rd December 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974) by Jennifer Johnston adapted by Denys Hawthorne
About the time of WW1.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Alec (as a young man): Robert Powell
   Alec (as a child): Susan Sheridan
   Padre/Patron: Denys Hawthorne
   Cave: Allan McClelland
   Alicia Moore: June Tobin
   Mr Moore: John Welsh
   Jerry (as a child): Elizabeth Lindsay
   Jerry (as a young man): Jim Norton
   Major Glcndinning: Haydn Jones
   Bennett: Nigel Anthony
   Sgt Barry: Harry Towb
   Major: Jonathan Scott
   O'Keefe: Sean Barrett
Repeated 9th December 1979 and 4th January 1981


4th December 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Striking Image by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Directed by Brian Wright
   Dr Corbin: Brian Carroll
   Mrs Pawle: Eva Stuart
   Brenda Pawle: Jenny Twigge
   Miss Grayson: Petra Davies
   lames Lloyd: John Bull
   Mrs Lloyd: Josie Kidd
   Marian Lloyd: Susan Sheridan
   Marian Lloyd: Elizabeth Rider


5th December 1979
12.27-12.55
Two Plays:
1. Interval by J C Wilsher
Director: Glyn Dearman
with Eileen Atkins and Edward Woodward
Repeated from 29th December 1978
2. Brainchild by Josie Taylor
   -repeated from 27th May 1979- see above.


6th December 1979
15.15
As the Sparks Fly Upward by Bruce Stewart
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Cure d'Ars: Anthony Newlands
   Leclerq: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Le Grappin: Peter Woodthorpe
   Catherine: Jo Anderson
   Raoul: William Hoyland
   Simone: Meg Davies
   Verniquet: Jack Holloway
   Mireille: Tracey Miller
   Gendarme: Christian Rodska
   Carter: Phillip Manikum
   Andre: Rex Holdsworth
   Man in coach: Geoffrey Serle
   Woman penitent: Sally Lahee


7th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre:
In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency by Penelope Gilliatt (1932-1993)
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Kate: Constance Cummings
   Simon: Ian Land
   Travel agent: Philip Voss
   Dutch Air hostess/German nurse: Lolly Cockerell
   Dutch Air captain/Tony: Sean Arnold
   French nurse/Molly: Sonia Fraser
   Italian nurse/Swiss air hostess: Virginia Denham
   Newspaper seller: Eva Stuart
   American air hostess: Josie Kidd


7th December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Miss Harriet Booth by Maureen Donegan
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Miss Harriet Booth : Joan Matheson
   Mr Pickard: Ronald Baddiley


8th December 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Mackerel Sky and Apple Green by Brian Lee
The bishop is a meat eater.
Directed by Shaun Macloughlin
   Kevin Leroy: T P McKenna
   Father Collins: Jim Norton
   Sara Leroy: Kate Binchy
   Liam Leroy: Judy Bennett
   Miss Dougan: Heather Gibson
   Cook: Martin Friend
   Bishop: Ronald Herdman
   Waiter: Jim Norton
Repeated from 13th January 1973 and 4th July 1975


8th December 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: No More A-Roving (1947) by John Whiting (1917-1963)
1946. 30 miles west of London.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Angus: Terrence Hardiman
   Kirsty: Ann Bell
   Benedict: Alan Howard
   Willy Yeats: Lolly Cockerell
   James: Philip Voss
   Elizabeth: Sonia Fraser
Repeated 10th December 1979
[Almost unrelated to the same title by Peter Ling of 1990. John Whiting wrote on a table formerly that of Lord Byron. Peter Ling's play is about the ghost of Lord Byron... the common item is the title, taken from a poem by Byron.]


8th December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Marionettes Incorporated (1949) by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) adapted by John Bay.
Directed by John Tydeman
   Mr Braling: Norman Rodway
   Mr Smith: John Humphry
   Mrs Braling: Eva Stuart


10th December 1979
12.27-12.55
Lord Peter Wimsey: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers adapted by Chris Miller
1 of 6:
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Bunter: Peter Jones
   George Fentiman: Martin Jarvis
   Mr Murbles: John Gabriel
   Dr Penberthy: Chris Emmett
   Culyer: Blain Fairman
   Challoner: John Dunbar
   Colonel Marchbanks: Wilfrid Carter
Additional cast in parts 2 to 6:
James Thomason, Allan Cuthbertson, Amanda Reiss, Antony Higginson, Clifford Norgate, Frances Jeater, Gabriel Woolf, Judy Bridgeland, Olwen Griffiths, Rosalind Adams, Ysanne Churchman
Pt2:17/12/79 Pt3:24/12/79 Pt4:31/12/79 Pt5:7/1/80 Pt6:7/1/80
Repeated from series commencing 23/6/1975
Repeated series commencing 3/4/1990
Repeated many times on R7/R4X
[NOTE: Not listed in BBC Genome for 10th December 1979, which lists Top of the Form, however the remaining 5 episodes dates indicate Wimsey MUST have been broadcast 10/12/79]
[Historic note: This was the first book published by Penguin Books with the green covers]


10th December 1979
19.45:
The Monday Play: Livingstone and Sechele by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Livingstone only made one convert in Africa
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   David Livingstone: John Shedden
   Mary Livingstone: Jennifer Piercey
   Sechele: Joe Marcell
   Mokoton: Shope Shodeinde
Repeated 16th December 1979 and 1st July 1984
[David Pownall lived for six years in Zambia]


11th December 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Rinni Bootsie. Tutti Frutti by Jonathan Gems
Aliens in our midst.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Bill: Eric Allan
   Stuart: Stuart Milligan
   Susan: Lesley Manville


12th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Chicken on the Road by Bob Wilson
A hitchhiker knows a lot about the driver.
Directed by Peter King
   Driver: Kenneth More
   Youth: Michael Kitchen
   Garageman: Martin Friend
   Girl: Amanda Murray
   Secretary: Alex Marshall
   Lorry driver: Leonard Fenton
   Policeman: John Church
Repeated 14th October 1981 on R4 and 15th October 1981 on R2.


13th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Desperate Hour by John Graham
On the run from the police.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Chief Con Norman Makepeace: Norman Rodway
   Det-Sgt Brian Benskin: Alan Downer
   WPC Annabelle Robey: Sarah Maywell
   Insp Groves: Brian Haines
   Sgt Thorogood: Gordon Dulieu
   Snelgrove: Jack May
   O'Connor: David Kelly
   Sarah Nelson: Jenny Twigge
Also with: Ruth Makepeace and Jennifer Piercey
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


13th December 1979
18.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers adapted by Chris Miller
1 of 6 (Pt 1 data from 1976 broadcast)
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   the Judge: Carleton Hobbs
   the Dowager Duchess: Charlotte Mitchell
   Harriet Vane: Ann Bell
   Attorney-General: Stephen Thorne
   Sir Impey Biggs: Robert Gillespie
   Sir James Lubbock: Garard Green
   Freddy Arbuthnot: Christopher Scoular
   Hannah Westiock: Christine Ozanne
   Foreman of the Jury: Clifford Norgate
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
Ambrosine Phillpotts, Anne Jameson, Betty Huntley-Wright, Christopher Bidmead, Frances Jeater, Gabriel Woolf, John Pullen, Margaret Guess, Margaret Robertson, Maria Aitken, Peter Jones, Peter Woodthorpe, Rosalind Adams
Pt2:20/12/79 Pt3:27/12/79 Pt4:3/1/80 Pt5:10/1/80 Pt6:17/1/80
[No entry at all for Part 1/1979 in the BBC Programme Database. Data above is from the first broadcast in 1976. For 1979 the BBC record that Top of the Form was broadcast on 13/12/79 at 18.30]
[Also broadcast many times on R7 and R4X 2008-2023]
[Also adapted by Felix Felton and produced by Audrey Cameron in 1963]
[Also produced by Fiona McLean in 1999. rptd 2001 with Russell Beale as Wimsey]


14th December 1979
15.15:
An inspector Calls (1945) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Arthur Birling: Ronald Baddiley
   Gerald Croft: Derrick Gilbert
   Sybil Birling: Ann Rye
   Sheila Birling: Barbara Flynn
   Eric Birling: Christian Rodska
   Edna: Teresa Moore
   Insp Goole: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 17th December 1979, 7th May 1984, 26th November 1990
[Also directed by Geoffrey Ost ("presented by Alfred Bradley") in 1960 rptd 1964 with Patrick Stewart as Gerald]


14th December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Softly Steal the Hours Till Dawn by James Follett (1939-2021)
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Mother: Margaret Ford
   Daughter: Rowena Roberts


15th December 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Winter Elegy by Susan Hill
Directed By: Guy Vaesen
   Bernard: Lewis Stringer
   Molly: Pauline Letts
Repeated from 31st March 1973


15th December 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Burglar's Bargains by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
The robbery of the century
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Charles Forbes: Peter Jones
   Governor Smith: Donald Hewlett
   George Evans: Lockwood West
   Bullet Head: Bernard Bresslaw
   First twin/Second twin: David Timson
   Brian Thompson: John Pullen
   Perkins: Adrian Egan
   Delia: Elizabeth Rider
   Simpson: John Rye
   Lift man/Tommy: Gordon Dulieu
   Adams: Philip Voss
   Bella Thompson: Diana Bishop
   Angelo Callont: Gordon Reid
   Sanjo Patel: Danny Schiller
   Doreen/Dolly: Josie Kidd
   Eric: Brian Haines
   Barry: Trevor Cooper
   Nick the Greek: Roger Hammond
   Fingers: Charles Hawtrey
   Billy: John Bull
   Ex-Lance Corporal: Fraser Kerr
Repeated 17th December 1979, 13th July 1981
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2004-2023]


15th December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Top of the Heap by Peter Gibbs
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Baines: John Hollis
   Topley: Lee Harrington
   
   
18th December 1979
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Hitch by Ian O. Chessman
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Bob Foxton: Bob Grant
   Derek Neals: David Beames
   Policeman: Nigel Bowden
   Barman: John Jardine


19th December 1979
12.27-12.55
Two Plays:
1. The Bionic Blob by James Follett.
Repeated from 11th March 1979 - please see above.
2. Antlanta by Bernard Kops (1926-2024)
Directed by John Tydeman
   Attini: Hywel Bennett
   Atta: Nerys Hughes
   the Voice: Eve Karpf
Repeated from 10th December 1978:


19th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: All the Bells of Paradise by Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
Baritone and Musical Director: Christopher Walker with the choir of St Nicholas Junior School, Bristol
Directed by Shaun Macloughlin
BBC Bristol
   Miranda: Bernadette Windsor
   Mrs Taylor: Sally Lamer
   Jack: Roger Snowdon
   Mr Watson: Rex Holdsworth
   Nurse: Eva Stuart


20th December 1979
12.27
Foley by Roy Clarke
Music performed by The Matthew Scott Quintet
Producer Griff Rhys Jones
   Foley: Colin Welland
   Charlie: Joe Gladwin
   Edgar: Olynn Edwards
   Mrs Almond: Charmian May
   Bloodiron/Chairman: Roger Hume
Repeated 15th January 1980


20th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: In-flight Reunion by Christopher Jones
Directed by David Johnston
   Chuck Lironowski: Douglas Lambert
   Walter Brinkman: Richard Borthwick
   Caroline: Victoria Fenton
   Richard: Michael McStay
   Harry/Gym instructor: Brian Haines
   Bernie/Mr Bronowski: Harry Towb
   Rose/Mrs Bronowski: Charlotte Mitchell
   Mandy/Charlotte: Jean Trend
   Valerie: Jennifer Piercey
   Student: Steve Robson
   Erica/Judy: Eve Karpf
   Fahim: Dino Shafeek
   Mr Phoenix / Navigator /Mr Brinkman: Adrian Bean
   Captain/Mr Sanderson: Leonard Fenton
   Old woman: Joan Dunn


21st December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Once a Year by Anita Bronson
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   William: Geoffrey Beevers
   Rosemary: Sandra Clark
   Edward: Rory Corsellis
   Josie: Binnie Rees
   Saleswomen: Christine Pollon
   Combat man: Miles Anderson
   Doll: Rosemary Whitefield
   Ghost of Christmas yet to Come: Michael Dehrington
   
   
21st December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Last Santa by Robin Taylor
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Margery: Charlotte Mitchell
   Kipling: Roy Kinnear
   Mr Perkins: Peter Bayliss
   
   
22nd December 1979
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa dramatised by Liane Aukin
Violin music arranged and played by Yossi Zivoni
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Angelo Diotti: Sandor Eles
   Francesca Diotti: Gladys Spencer
   Mrs Van Krall: Margot Boyd
   Mr Perkins: Leonard Fenton
   Mrs Llewelyn: Elaine Ives-Cameron
   Mildred Wallace: Ann Bell
   Simmons: Martin Friend
   Satan: Godfrey Kenton
   Mr Wallace: Hal Galili
   Jack Sanders: Ed Bishop
   Cabbie: Brian Carroll


22nd December 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Can-Can by Michael Robson
Paris 1858
Researched by Polly Binder
Directed by David Spenser
   Jacques Offenbach: Edward de Souza
   his wife Herminie: Maureen O'Brien
   Charles Comte: Edward Hardwicke
   Lise Tautin: Sarah Badel
   Hortense Schneider: Kate Coleridge
   Lucio Halevy: Gordon Dulieu
   Hector Cremieux: Andrew Branch
   Henri De Villemessant: Ian Masters
   Gustav Dore: Anthony Daniels
   Dufort: Philip Sully
   Lutard: Philip Voss
   Rochefort/Buffet: Stephen Thorne
   Le Comte de Morny: John Westbrook
   Herr Zimmer: Leonard Fenton
   Herr Pelzer: Danny Schiller
   Beggar/Herr Meyer: Martin Friend
   Daniel: Brian Carroll
   Workman: Trevor Cooper


22nd December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Aladdin by John Morley
Aladdin in 15 minutes.
Morgan the Organ spoken and played by Gary Yershon
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   The Genie/Horse: Fenella Fielding
   Abanazar: Alfred Marks
   Aladdin: Polly James
   Widow Twankey: Hugh Paddick
   Sphinx: John Bott
   Princess: Jenny Twigge
   Carpet driver: Michael McStay


25th December 1979
15.00:
The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) adapted by John Richmond
Theme music composed by: Alan Parker
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
   Mary Lennox: Helen Worth
   Mrs Medlock: Violet Carson
   Mrs Lennox Mary's mother: Merle Kessler
   Lieutenant Charlesworth: Mark Sheridan
   Mrs Crawford: Rosalie Williams
   Mrs Pelly: Marah Stohl
   Martha: Susan Moverley
   Ben Weatherstaff: Tom Harrison
   The Christmas Robin: Percy Edwards
   Dickon: Richard Tolan
   Mr Craven, Mary's Uncle: Ronald Herdman
   Colin, his son: Timothy Woolgar
   The nurse: Mary Kilduff
   The doctor: Ronald Harvi
   Sitar player/Indian servant: Sura J Mian
Repeated from 27th and 29th December 1975
[Also produced in six parts by John Keir Cross in 1962 with Kika Markham as Mary and Percy Edwards as the Robin.]
[Also produced in 6 parts by Herbert Smith in 1966 with Margaret Dew as Mary]
[Also produced in 5 parts by John Taylor in 1994]


25th December 1979
20.00:
Caste (1867) by T. W. Robertson (1829-1871)
Piano: Anna Berenska
Directed By: Norman Wright
   Narrator: William Sleigh
   Polly Eccles: Frances Jeater
   Captain Hawtree: John Rye
   Esther Eccles: Susan Maudslay
   George D'Alroy: Michael McClain
   Marquise de Saint Maur: Fabia Drake
   Eccles: Geoffrey Wincott
   Sam Gerridge: Robin Browne
Repeated from 18/9/72 and 10/2/1975
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1953 with Joan Newell as Polly]
[Based upon an 1866 short story "The Poor Rate Unfolds a Tale"]


26th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Real Inspector Hound (1968) by Tom Stoppard
A version of an Agatha Christie-like whodunnit.
Directed by Gordon House.
A BBC World Service production
   Moon: Nigel Anthony
   Birdhoot: Roger Hammond
   Mrs Drudge: Hilda Kriseman
   Simon Gascoyne: Nigel Lambert
   Felicity Cunningham: Frances Jeater
   Lady Cynthia Muldoon: Brenda Kaye
   Major Magnus: Manning Wilson
   Newsreader: Anthony Newlands
   Inspector Hound: Christoper Benjamin
Repeated 6th April 1985


26th December 1979
20.00
Brat Farrar (1949) by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh 1896-1952),dramatised by Cyril Wentzel
1949. Inheritance.
Directed by Richard Imison
   Alec Loding: John Rye
   Brat Farrar: Gordon Dulieu
   Bee Ashby: Jane Wenham
   Nancy Peck: Sally Home
   George Peck: George Baker
   Mr Sandal: Roger Hammond
   Ruth Ashby: Lisa Hayden
   Eleanor Ashby: Elizabeth Rider
   Simon Ashby: David Timson
   Sheila Parslow: Rowena Roberts
   Macallan: John Church
   Coroner/Roger Clint: Brian Carroll
   Abel Tusk: Brian Haines
Repeated 29th September 1980


27th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Place to Hide by Howard Curtis
Directed by Penny Gold
   Phil: Colin Jeavons
   Mary: Petra Davies
   Andy: Kenneth Cranham
   Sergeant Duffy: Michael McStay


28th December 1979
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Hunters by Malcolm Lynch
Directed by Brian Miller.
BBC Bristol
   Tom: Patrick Connor
   RN Lieutenant: Jack Klaff
   Mike: David Ashford
   Jim: Norman Bowler
   Dave: David Jackson
   Christine: Caroline Blakiston
also with Melvyn Bedford and Hubert Tucker


29th December 1979
14.30::
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Great Balloon Debate by Alick Rowe (1938-2009)
Directed By: Richard Wortley
   The Colonel: Patrick Barr
   The Vicar: Roger Hammond
   Mrs Stottle: Georgine Anderson
   Wilkins: Trevor Cooper
   Pilot: David Timson
   Base: Michael Goldie
   Wing Cmdr: Martin Friend
   Sergeant: Danny Schiller
   Thatcher/ Doctor: John Repsch
   Reginald/Commentator: David Gooderson
   Oswald/David: Philip Fox
   Embry/Pat: Jenny Twigge
   Corporal/Policeman: Russell Wootton
[Also produced by Colin Tucker in 1970 with Hugh Paddick as the Vicar.]



29th December 1979
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Wilaya 7 by John Kirkmorris
Algeria 1962
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Phillipe Leger: Michael Jayston
   Nadia Destouches: Caroline Blakiston
   Col Ferre: Patrick Troughton
   General: John Bott
   Cecile: Jane Wenham
   Picot: David Daker
   Mohgrebi: Philip Voss
   Rossi: Michael Harbour
   Velin: Rod Beacham
   Francoise: Elizabeth Rider
   Zohra: Valerie Sarruf
   Selim/Announcer: John Church
   Jacques/Sentry/Operator: John Bull
   Frederic/Tannoy: Michael McStay
Repeated on 28th January 1980 and 12th April 1981


29th December 1979
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Fairy Tale for Freudians by Valerie Windsor
Once upon a time there was a king who had many daughters - then his troubles began.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Storyteller: Rosalind Knight
   King Florizel: Peter Vaughan
   Queen Caroline: Brigit Forsyth
   Vogel: Herbert Smith
   Mrs Orchard: Rosalie Williams
   Princess Flora: Moira Brooker
   Prince Ferdinand/Prince Adalbert/Herald: Martin Oldfield


30th December 1979
The Soft September Air by Charlotte Hastings.
Title seng composed by Michael Blanchard
Guitar: Eric Hill
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Lindsey Ashe: Flora Robson
   Dickon: Andrew Branch
   Mrs Bevil: Betty Hardy
   Horace Bellamy: Hector Ross
   Chris: Sean Barrett
   Blitz: Kenneth Shanley
   Millicent: Margot Boyd
   Dr Porteus: Kenneth Barrow
   Di: Susan Sloman
   Doctor: Henry Knowles
   Sister: Brenda Kaye
   Philip: Gavin Campbell
   TV newsreader: Malcolm Gerard
   The student: Max Hafler
Repeated from 7th and 9th October 1978


30th December 1979
21.03:
The Story of a Penny Suit by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Muriel: Sheila Hancock
   Edward: Graham Roberts
   Beverley: Carole Turner
   Mr Massenbird: Arthur Lowe
   Pamela: Heather Stoney
Repeated from 25th June 1976


31st December 1979:
20.00
The Monday Play: You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw
Director: Betty Davies
   Dolly Clandon: Jo Manning Wilson
   Valentine: Denys Hawthorne
   Philip Clandon: Nigel Anthony
   Mrs Clandon: Betty Baskcomb
   Gloria Clandon: Prunella Scales
   Fergus Crampton: Godfrey Kenton
   Finch McComas: Lockwood West
   Waiter: Freddie Jones
   Walter Bohun: Michael Kilgarriff
   Parlourmaid: Jane Knowles
Repeated from 31st July 1971, 7th May 1973, 12th June 1977
[Also produced by Esme Percy in 1952 for Third Prog]
[Also produced by Frederick Bradnum in 1956 for Light with Rowena Cooper as Dolly]
[Also produced by Hugh Stewart in 1961 with Ysanne Churchman as Dolly]

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Compiled 2024 by Stephen Shaw (......many thanks, Stephen ..... - ND)