BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1980

BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4 IN 1980
Compiled 2023 by Stephen Shaw.
Another excellent listing -many thanks, Stephen ..... N.D.

1st January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fruit of the Vine by J. C. Wilsher
Directed by David H. Godfrey
   Ted Wallace: Manning Wilson
   Mick Wallace: John Salthouse
   Stevie: Alan Reid
   Mr Attwood: Gregory de Polnay
   Yvonne: Amanda Murray
   Dustman: Bruce Beeby
   Claire: Jennifer Piercey
   Rakoff: Hector Ross
   Mr Standish: Lewis Stringer
   Mr John Standish: Roy Spencer


2nd January 1980
12.27-13.00
Two plays:
1. Microcosm by J. C. Wilsher
Directed by Ian Cotterell
with Eric Allan and Paul Scofield
Repeated from 25th March 1979.
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022]
2. 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/Policeman: Peter Baldwin
   Psychologist: Josie Kidd
Repeated from 15th September 1979


2nd January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Other Alvar by Peter Gibbs.
He is happy living at home with his mother.
Directed by Penny Leicester
   Alvar: Christian Rodska
   His mother, Mrs Mellor: Jean Boht
   Joe: John Bott
   Wilf: David Daker
   Sylvia: Stephanie Turner
   Announcer: Alvar Lidell


3rd January 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
1 of 13: A Bit of Tomfoolery
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Daker
   Detective-Constable Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Dr Briggs: James Taylor
   Harry Dean: George Tovey
   Lady Dennery: Aimee Delamain
   Mr Stimson: Martin Friend
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


3rd January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Down to Earth by Aileen La Tourette
Hymns Sung By Pupils Of The Maria Fidelis Convent School, London
Directed By: Jane Morgan
   Mary: Maureen O'Brien
   Maureen: Kate Binchy
   Sister Regina: Eva Stuart
   Father Mulcahy: Denys Hawthorne
   Mary's mother: Petra Davies
   Simon: Ian Hoare
   Tim: Peter Baldwin


3rd January 1980
18.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers, adapted by Chris Miller.
Part 4 of 6.
Producer: Simon Brett
with Ian Carmichael, Ann Bell and Gabriel Woolf.
Part one was broadcast 13/12/1979.
Part5:10/1/80 Part6:17/1/80
Series first broadcast commencing 13th December 1976.
Also repeated on R7 and R4X


4th January 1980:
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Fond Memories by Carolyn Sally Jones
A visit to the same town each year.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Lewis Vaughan: Ray Smith
   Greta Vaughan: Christine Pollon
   Jenny Graham: Jan Edwards
   Robert Graham: Michael Barbour
   Miss Huggins: Avril Angers
Repeated from 30th September 1978


4th January 1980
23.45-00.00
Just Before Midnight: Conversations Prior to Kick-Off by Peter Whalley
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Dugdale: Charles Foster
   Huntley: Geoffrey Banks


5th January 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Mother Says by D. J. Hart
It used to be unthinkable to ordain a woman.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Marianne: Philomena McDonagh
   John: Gareth Armstrong
   Nessie: Pauline Letts
   Alison: Penelope Lee
   The Bishop: Noel Johnson
   The Vicar: Stephen Hancock
   Maggie: Heather Barrett
   Jenny: Jill Meers
   Simon: Jean Rogers
   Clare: Hedli Niklaus
   Donald Stephens: Nigel Lambert


5th January 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Maguire by Bill Morrison (William McKay) (1940–2011)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Harry Maguire: John Hewitt
   Shirley Maguire: Stella McCusker
   Mrs Coyle: Trudy Kelly
   Sergeant MacAuley: Sean Barrett
   PC Todd: Mark Mulholland
   Aunt Alice: Sheila McGibbon
   Mrs Small: Gertrude Russell
   Shafto: Desmond Macaleer
   Mousey: Patrick Brannigan
   Man at the graveyard: Joe McPartland
   Taxi dispatcher: Derek Halligan
   Cecil Quinn: Walter McMonagle
   Singer: Tony McAuley
   Maisie: Valerie Lilley
   Mickey,: Michael McKnight
   Joe: Bill Morrison
   Desmond: Alex McClay
   Taxi owner: Michael Duffy
   Desmond's father: Louis Rolston
Repeated 7th January 1980


6th January 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Typhoid Mary by Shirley Gee (1932-2016)
Directed by David Spenser
   Mary Mallon: Margaret Whiting
   Dr George Soper: Daniel Massey
   Elliot Kendall: Ed Bishop
   a child Mary: Susan Sheridan
   Sister Joseph: Sheila Grant
   Fr John: Denys Hawthorn
   Immigration officer: Peter Whitman
   Elspeth: Elizabeth Proud
   Mrs Palmer: Carole Boyd
   Nurse Rhodes: Helen Horton
   Nurse Robinson: Nicolette McKenzie
   Franklyn: Andrew Branch
   Lance: Tim Bentinck
   The Judge: Alan Tilvern
   Health Dept Official: Rod Beacham
   O'Rorke: Harry Towb
   Drunken spoonplayer: John Bull
Other parts played by Brenda Kaye, Alison Draper, Jonathan Scott
Repeated from 15th and 21st January 1979


6th January 1980
21.03:
Miracle at Tubbernanog by Frederick Mullally dramatised by Edward Marsh
Musical director John Anderson
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Paudeen: Sean Barrett
   The Fixer O'Toole: T P McKenna
   Lynch: Michael Golden
   Keegan: Allan McClelland
   Murphy: Kevin McHugh
   Garda McNamara/Emilio Bertorelli: Joe McPartland
   McLaughlin, 'The Terror': Mark Mulholland
   Maeve Mulcahy: Marcella O'Riordan
   Post boy/Colleen: Kate McClay
   Colleens and Floozies: Maureen Dow and Aingeal Grehan
Repeated from 4th August 1978


7th January 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: I Married You for Fun (1966) by Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991), translated 1969 from the Italian by Henry Reed
Directed by John Tydeman
   Giuliana: Zoe Wanamaker
   Pietro's mother: Patricia Routledge
   Pietro: Patrick Drury
   Vittoria: Elizabeth Proud
   Ginestra: Rowena Roberts
Repeated 13th January 1980 and 26th October 1981
[Original title "Ti ho sposato per allegria". also translated in 2008 as "I Married You to Cheer Myself Up"]


8th January 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Shift Work by Sue Glover
Directed by Tom Kinninmont
   Olly: Paul Young
   Sara: Rose McBain
   Wendy: Fiona Knowles
   Sven: Ron Bain
   Eric: Pat Doyle
   Jacquot: Carey Wilson
(First broadcast on BBC Scotland)


8th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Slip of the Disc by John Graham
Life gets awfully complicated.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Sally Hills: Nerys Hughes
   Peter Raven: George Baker
   Leonard Hills: Denys Hawthorn
   Mr Williams: Alan Downer
   Dr McKenzie: John Graham
   Mrs Raven: Margot Boyd
   Jocelyn Knight: Andrew Branch
   Porter: Manning Wilson
   Secretary: Eve Karpf
Repeated from 5th October 1978
Repeated 21st July 1984


8th January 1980
22.30-23.00:
Cider Cup by Christopher Wood and Jane Wood
Producer Geoffrey Perkins
   Janet: Gwen Watford
   Richard Baxter: Anton Rodgers
With Nigel Lambert, Sheila Steafel, Richard Gibson, Sylvestra Le Touzel and David Parfitt
Repeated from 13th December 1979


9th January 1980
12.27-12.55
Two plays:
1. The Nightmare Story of Arnold Pottersbar by J. C. W. Brook
Growing younger.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
with Charles Kay and Kathleen Helme
Repeated from 30th March 1979
2. How to Build Your Own Battleship by Geoffrey Hubbard
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: Liu Flanagan
   Father: Danny Schille
with Peter Tuddenham
Repeated from 22nd June 1979


9th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Driftwood by Alison Burnell
The return of two lost children.
Directed by Brian Wright
   Narrator: Charles Lewsen
   Peter: Susan Sheridan
   Ruth: Bernadette Windsor
   Monica: Sonia Fraser
   Martin: Martin Friend
   Stuart: Brian Carroll
   Grandmother: Ysanne Churchman
   Sergeant: John Bull


10th January 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr.
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
2 of 13: Operation Home-Coming
   Chief-Inspector Roach: David Dakeb
   Det-Con Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Judie: Jacqueline Tong
   Glenville: John Quayle
   Jarman: Timothy Carlton
   Chief-Inspector Benbow: Godfrey Kenton
   Jennings: Adrian Egan
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date. See notes for 3rd January 1980.


10th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Elephant and the Panda by Aileen La Tourette
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Kim: Heather Bell
   Allie: Maureen O'Brien
   Sal: Peter Baldwin
   Ben: Michael McStay
   Sam: Nicholas Cohen
   Peter: David Savile
   Panda: Liza Ross
Repeated from 9th November 1978


11th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Woman of This Description by Rachel Wyatt
All the roads across the Pennines are blocked, and the A1, the A4 and parts of the M1 are closed. Gladys fails to arrive in Nottingham.
Directed By: Liane Aukin
   Gladys Higgins: Eve Pearce
   DS Farnworth: Peter Baldwin
   Receptionist: Maggie Shevlin
   Bill Morris: Leonard Fenton
   Susan: Jenny Lee
   Alf Higgins: Manning Wilson
   Mark Higgins: Andrew Branch
   Porter: James Taylor
   Announcers: Rowena Roberts and John Church


11th January 1980
23.45-0.00:
Just Before Midnight: Militaria by J.C. Wilsher
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Mr Burgess: Norman Rodway
   The Reporter: Gordon Dulieu


12th January 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Summer of 28 by Stanley Wood
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Stan Wardle: Christian Rodska
   Pa Wardle: Geoffrey Banks
   Ma Wardle: Rosalie Williams
   Mr Clemishaw: John Jardine
   Mike O'Hara: Christopher Godwin
   Old Saul: Keith Clifford
   Alma: Jane Collins
   Gladys: Susan Jenkins
   Rita: Judith Barker
   Hospital orderly: Paul Webster


12th January 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The File on Leo Kaplan by Paul Bryers, based on his novel The Cat Trapper (1978)
Music composed and directed by Mike Steer
Electric violin: Alastair McLachlan; Guitar synthesiser: Kevin Peek; Keyboards: Keith Miller; Bass Guitar: John Richards; Percussion: Bernard Shaw
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Christopher Coney: Trevor Cooper
   Caroline Kovaks: Jenny Twigge
   Maggie: Lolly Cockerell
   Brewster: Brian Carroll
   Leo Kaplan: Godfrey Kenton
   Maurice Adler: Roger Hammond
   Andrei Levin: Gordon Reid
   Bohdan: John Church
   Salakov: Leonard Fenton
   Chebrikov: Gordon Reid
with John Bott, Sonia Fraser, Rowena Roberts, Eva Stuart, David Timson
Repeated 14th January 1980


13th January 1980
21.03:
Walk on the Lawn by Jane Beeson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Thomas: Peter Jeffrey
   Carol: Ann Bell
   Anthony: David Buck
   Maud: Valerie Sarruf
Repeated from 2nd August 1979


14th January 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Engaged (1877) by W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
Marriage and money.
Incidental music composed and played by Robert Docker
Directed by John Cardy
   Maggie MacFarlane: Lolly Cockerell
   Angus MacAlister: Gordon Reid
   Mrs MacFarlane: Mary Jones
   Belvawney: David McAlister
   Belinda Treherne: Sarah Badel
   Cheviot Hill: Simon Cadell
   Major McGillicuddy: Tom Watson
   Uncle Symperson: Anthony Newlands
   Minnie Symperson: Liza Flanagan
   Parker: Elizabeth Rider
Repeated 20th January 1980


15th January 1980
11.05
Thirty Minute Theatre: A Nest of Ravens by John Emlyn Edwards.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Henry: Barry Foster
   Dando: Michael Harbour
   Emily: Jennie Linden


15th January 1980
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: Tea at Gunters (1974) by Pamela Haines, adapted by Cherry Cookson.
1940's Annual Trip to London.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Lucy: Angela Down
   Winifred: Isabel Dean
   Gervase: Haydn Jones
   Peter: John Hollis
   Nell: Anne Jameson
   Juliet: Madilyn Taylerson
   Richard: Basil Moss
   Quentin: Terry Scully
   Bob: Roger Gartland
   Mrs Ingleson: Janet Henfrey
Repeated from 25th April 1975
Repeated 27th July 1985


16th January 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO plays:
1. 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 Johnbull
   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 from 5th October 1979
2. 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 from 31st March 1979


16th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Correspondence by Michelene Wandor
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Eileen: Maureen Lipman
   Richard: Peter Pacey
   Tessa: Susan Sheridan
   Jean: Jennifer Piercey
   Bertie: Eric Allan
Repeated from 18th October 1978


17th January 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
3 of 13: Bedtime Story (Part 1 of 2)
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Daker
   Jimmy Lowrie: Tom Bowles
   Hughie Crerand: Michael Packer
   Station officer: Gordon Reid
   Mr Evans: Philip Voss
   Jane Miller: Clare Clifford
   Mrs Stevenson: Betty Albergi
Part two of this drama was broadcast 24th January 1980.
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.


17th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Home of our Own by Martin Staniforth
Directed by Penny Gold
   Bill: James Bolam
   Carol: Penelope Lee
   John: Ian Barker
   Lisa: Lisa Coleman
   Doctor: Patrick Barr
   Spencer: Brian Carroll
   Bank manager: Brian Haines
   Solicitor: Danny Schiller
   Factory supervisor: Josie Kidd
   Gateman: Peter Tuddenham


18th January 1980
15.02:
The Devils (1953) by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), rewritten in 1960 by John Whiting (1917-1963).
France, 1623-1634: A priest is named by a nun as the cause of her demonic possession.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Fr Urban Grandier: Michael Bryant
   Sister Jeanne: Sarah Badel
   Fr Barre: Peter Jeffrey
   Phillipe Trincant: Angela Pleasence
   Fr Mignon: Cyril Luckham
   Mannoury, a surgeon: Nigel Anthony
   Adam, a chemist: Tony Robinson
   Guillaume De Cerisay: John Rye
   A Sewerman: Ronald Herdman
   Louis Trincant/ Fr Ambrose: Martin Friend
   Ninon, a young widow: Lolly Cockerell
   Fr Rangier: Gordon Dulieu
   Cardinal Richelieu/A Clerk of the Court: Peter Baldwin
   De La Rochepozay: Robert Eddison
   De Laubardemont: Danny Schiller
   Sr Claire: Rowena Roberts
   Sr Louise: Jenny Twigge
   Sr Gabrielle: Josie Kidd
   Prince Henri De Condxx: John Rowe
   Bontemps, a gaoler: Brian Haines
Repeated 21st January 1980
[Also produced in 1963 by Archie Campbell for R3 with Dorothy Tutin as Sr Jeanne, then a different production by Archie Campbell in 1964 for R3 with Virginia McKenna as Sr Jeanne]
[The character of The Sewerman was inserted by John Whiting to move the story along with narrative and commentary. The Whiting version of the story was used for the film version.]


18th January 1980
23.45-00.00
Just Before Midnight: Nubile by Gilly Fraser
Directed By: Bernard Krichefski
   Di: Pam St Clement
   Lalla: Carole Hayman
   Police constable: John Bott
   Woman police constable: Lolly Cockerell


19th January 1980
14.30:
Saturday-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: Robert Austin
   Policeman: Jim Wiggins
Repeated from 1st November 1979
[For clarity the Butt of the title is a water butt- a large barrel for storing rainwater.]


19th January 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sitting Tenant by John Peacock
She was the last tenant left in the house.
Technical presentation by Janet Mitchell
Directed by Jane Morgan
   May Gull: Patricia Hayes
   Harry Granger: Alfred Burke
   Jenny Granger: Anne Carroll
   James: Rusty Livingstone
   Milkman: Peter Baldwin
   Betty: Josie Kidd
   Oswald Blandford: Philip Voss
   Gordon: Simon Cadell
   Adam: William Nighy
   Robert: Andrew Seear
   Mr Donton: Jack May
With Eva Stuart, Thelma Whiteley, Brian Carroll, Michael Goldie, Alan Mason and David Timson
Repeated 22nd December 1980.
[Based upon a BBC tv program of 1973 written by John Peacock]


20th January 1980
21.03-22.00
Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence adapted by D G Bridson.
Just before World War I.
1 of 6: The Morels.
Theme music composed by Jack Trombe
Directed By: Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
   Gertrude Morel: Rosemary Leach
   Paul: Peter McEnery
   Walter Morel: Geoffrey Banks
   D H Lawrence, Narrator: Roy Spencer
   Mr Heaton, Church Minister: Mark Sheridan
   Paul, as a boy: Simon McEnery
   William Morel, his elder brother: Andrew Jackson
   Arthur, the youngest brother: Kevin Ryan
   Mr Jordan of Jordan and Sons: James Tomlinson
   Lily Western: Rowena Roberts
   Mrs Leivers of Willey Farm: Freda Jeffries
   Miriam, as a girl: Judith Bowman
   Edgar, as a youth: Timothy Norris
   A pit lad: Gary Carp
   A girl: Beverley Slater
   Telegraph boy: Richard Drabble
Additional actors in later parts:
Billie Whitelaw, Carolyn Pickles, Christine Burn, Joan Anstey, Joe Holmes, John Baldwin, John Daglish, John Franklyn-Robbins, Kathy Staff, Margot Leicester, Nina Holloway, Peter Ellis, Rosalie Williams, Rosalind Shanks, Vida Paterson
Pt2:27/1/80 Pt3:3/2/80 Pt4:10/2/80 Pt5:17/2/80 Pt6:24/2/80
Series first broadcast commencing 4th January 1977.


22nd January 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Danger! Man at Work! by Andrew Payne
Directed by Peter King
   Mr Congleton: Bernard Gallagher
   Mr Dixon: John Bull
   Mr Waters: Godfrey Kenton
   Mr Chuff: John Church


23rd January 1980
12.27-12.55
Two plays:
1. The Devil to Pay by James Follett (1939-2021)
Director: Glyn Dearman
with Norman Rodway and Derek Seaton
Repeated from 21st April 1979
[Also repeated on R7 and R4X 2005-2021]
2. The Bognor Regis Vampire by J C W Brook.
Director: Ian Cotterell (1930-1995).
   Agnes: Margot Boyd
   Rodney: Philip Voss
   Bertram: Gordon Dulieu
   Hilda: Tammy Ustinov
Repeated from 25th May 1979
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2022]


23rd January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Brothers of the Sword by Michael Abbensetts
A family reunion to remember.
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Larry Carter: Derek Griffiths
   Cecilia: Carmen Munroe
   Clifton: Norman Beaton
   Milton: Joe Marcell
   Robin: Fiona Walker
   MC: Bill Monks
Repeated from 30th August 1978


24th January 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
4 of 13: Bedtime Story (Part 2 of 2)
   Chief Inspector Roach: Bavtd Daker
   Jimmy Lowrie: Tom Bowles
   Hughie Crerand: Michael Packer
   Station officer: Gordon Reid
   Mr Dancte: Nicholas Selby
   Ma Lowrie: Hilda Fenemore
   Biliie Sellars: Colin Bell
Part one of this drama was broadcast 17th January 1980
Subsequent stories weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.


24th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Annunciation by Geoffrey Parkinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Graham: Michael Gambon
   Myra: Eva Stuart
   Vicar: Peter Howell
   Doctor/Radio announcer: Peter Baldwin
   Housekeeper: Brenda Kaye
   First librarian: Leonard Fenton
   Second librarian: Josie Kidd
Repeated 22nd December 1983
[Also broadcast on R4X 2015-2020]


25th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Black Marsden by Margaret Harris
Loosely based on the novel (1972) by Wilson Harris (1921-2018)
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Glenwearie/Jewellery assistant: Jennifer Piercey
   Clive Goodrich: John Graham
   Black Marsden: Stephen Murray
   Jennifer Gorgon: Liza Flanagan
   Jack Knife/Florist: Danny Schiller
   Johnny Harp: Gareth Armstrong
   Ralph Winter / menswear assistant: David Timson
[Margaret Harris was Wilson Harris wife]


25th January 1980
23.45-00.00:
Just Before Midnight: A Little Ripple by Max India
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Tim: Christopher Godwin
   Jane: Eileen O'Brien
   Ingrid: Linda Gardner
   Marilyn: Rosalind Knight
   Pete: Anthony Havering
   Chrissy: Kate Lee
[This is the sole credit to Max India in the BBC Programme Database]


26th January 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Lain by Andrew Tyrrell
A single parent has difficulty accepting their child has grown up.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Lalo: Patrick Magee
   Una: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
   Michael: Frank Grimes
   Father Gilbert: John Rogan
   Old woman: Anna Wing
   Young woman/Second schoolgirl: Maggie Shevlin
   Priest: John Bott
   First schoolgirl: Clare Travers-Deacon


26th January 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Girl Who Didn't Want To Be by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Sometimes the recipient of an "honor" does not want it.
Technical presentation by Jock Farrell, assisted by David Hitchinson.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Pamela Turner: Joanna David
   Timothy Turner: Simon Cadell
   Harold Thorpe: Christopher Benjamin
   Maggie Bell: Angela Pleasence
   Sam Knott: Eric Allan
   Mrs Knott: Gladys Spencer
   Orford: Henry Knowles
   Mrs Fry: Margot Boyd
   Mrs Nightingale: Susan Richards
   Mrs Kick: Pauline Letts
   Bishop: Philip Voss
   Bob Masters: Manning Wilson
   Anderson-Hay: John Gabriel
   Mrs Anderson-Hay: Janet Burnell
   Mrs Willis: Brenda Kaye
   Ponsonby: Kenneth Shanley
   Lord Hawkhurst: Richard Horndall
   Dobbs: Peter Wickham
   PC Black: Bill Monks
Repeated from 16th and 18th September 1978
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2021]
[Several churches still retain the old "virgin crowns" aka crants, referred to in this play, the writer of this summary has seen them. The last known usage was 1973.]


27th January 1980
14.30::
Afternoon Theatre: The Naylor Affair by Elisabeth Bond
Music by Stephen Boxer
An active evangelist has difficulty with personal pride.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Singer/Skippon: Stephen Boxer
   George Fox: John Franklyn-Robbins
   James Naylor: David Calder
   Martha: Gillian Hanna
   Edward/Desborough: Will Tacey
   Francis/Speaker: Russell Dixon
   Dorcas: Harriet Walter
   Ruth: Sally Gibson
   Followers of James Naylor: Polly Warren, Bob Eaton, Robert McIntosh
   Downing: John McGregor
   Pickering: Keith Clifford
   Anne Naylor: Marlene Sidawat
Repeated from 15th and 21st May 1978
[Records show the name of the evangelist as James Nayler with an e. His writings are available online.]


28th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Wilaya 7 by John Kirkmorris
1962 Algeria.
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
   Zohrai: Valerie Sarruf
   Selim/Announcer: John Church
   Jacques/Sentry/Operator: John Bull
   Frederic/Tannoy: Michael McStay
Repeated from 29th December 1979
Repeated 12th April 1981


28th January 1980
19.45
The Monday Play: After Moscow by Arnold Yarrow
What happened to Olga and Masha, following the story "The Three Sisters" by Chekhov. It is now 1917, twenty years later...
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Masha: Isabel Dean
   Olga: Thelma Whiteley
   Protopopov: John Carson
   Davidov: Brian Carroll
   Sofia (Sofochka): Patience Tomlinson
   Boris (Bobik): Jeffrey Perry
   Natasha: Judy Parfitt
   Veraninin: Timothy West
   Young man: Gordon Reid
Repeated 3rd February 1980


29th January 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cross Current by Alastair MacDougall
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Commander Kane: Michael McStay
   Mr Hannah: Brian Carroll
   Fisher: Patrick Barr
   Capt Barrett: Joe Dunlop
   Capt Sea Ranger: Gregory de Polnay
   Radio op Avenger: Hywel David
   Radio op Sea Ranger: Bill Monks
   Bill: Gordon Reid
   Engineer Sea Ranger: Adrian Egan
   Reporter: Elizabeth Rider


29th January 1980
22.30-23.00:
Hornblower and the Hotspur by C S Forester adapted by Val Gielgud.
Book 3 of the Hornblower series.
1 of 5: Hotspur Sails
Location recordings made in conjunction with Mariners International
Technical presentation by David Fleming-Williams assisted by Roger Lucas and Mare Seyler
Naval advisers: the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth
Music composed by Johnny Pearson
Directed by Trevor Hill / Christopher Hayton Webb
BBC Manchester
   Horatio Hornblower: Nigel Anthony
   William Bush: Terence Skelton
   Maria Hornblower: Nina Holloway
   Admiral Sir William Cornwallis: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Captain of the French fishing boat: Michael Poole
   Host at the George Inn: Brian Southwood
   Mr Prowse, sailing master: David Miller
   Mr Cargill, the mate: Ian Flintoff
Additional actors in later parts: Bill Ward, Charles Foster, Delia Corrie, Geoffrey Wheeler, Gordon Astley, James Simmons, James Tomlinson, Keith Ladd, Kenneth Alan Taylor, Robert Warner, Robin Burch, Ronald Herdman, Terry Wood
Pt2: 5/2/80 Pt3:12/2/80 Pt4:19/2/80 Pt5:26/2/80
Series also produced by Trevor Hill in 1968 with John Westbrook as Hornblower and Gordon Kaye as Mr Cargill. ]


30th January 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO plays:
1. How Far to Run by Grant C Eustace
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Captain: Fred Bryant
   Peter: John Salthouse
   Hamish: Tom Cotcher
   Andrew: Richard Derrington
   Controller: Martin Read
Repeated from 27/1/79
2. Mercenary by Ken Blakeson
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Elliot: Andrew Branch
   Buller: Gordon Dulieu
   African Officer: Louis Maboney
Repeated from 23/3/79


30th January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Gloria's Baptism by Lorna Bradley
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Gloria: Elizabeth Cassidy
   Mrs Spinks: Diana Bishop
   Kevin: Terry Molloy
   The Minister: Stephen Thorne
   Sally: Jane Galloway
   Dr Osbourne: Arnold Peters
[This is the sole credit to Lorna Bradley in the BBC programme Database]


31st January 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
5 of 13: The Bank Raid
   Detective-Constable Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Judie: Jacqueline Tong
   Collator: James Cosmo
   Mr Franklin: John Ringham
   Miss Rees: Liza Flanagan
   Matron: Margot Boyd
   Charles Owen: John Sharp
   Forensic expert: Roger Hammond
   Police officer: David Timson
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


31st January 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Proof of the Pudding by William Stephens
Lancashire, 1966.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Harry Brierley: Bill Monks
   Jimmy Holder: John Salthouse
   Jack Holder: Henry Knowles
   Mrs Brierley: Margot Boyd
   Betsy Joan: Maggie Ollerenshaw
   Mr Laycock: Gregory de Polnay
   Mrs Laycock: Jennifer Piercey
   Introducer: Eric Allan
Also with David Warwick and Gordon Reid
Repeated from 7th December 1978


1st February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Look at Mr Punch by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   A man: Robert Lindsay
   A girl: Barbara Flynn
   Carol: Brigit Forsyth
   Tomi: Michael Spice
   WPC: Sally Gibson
   Stall-keeper/Police Sergeant: James Tomlinson
   Pip: Ben Savill
   Woman on the beach: Victoria Hardcastle
   Punch and Judy man: Wilf Durham


1st February 1980
23.45-00.00:
Just Before Midnight: Child Harold by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed by Enyd Williams
   Harold: Gordon Dulieu
   Janet: Petra Davies
   Tom: Brian Carroll
   Joan: Margot Boyd
   John: Jack May


2nd February 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Selah by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Edward: John Carson
   Catherine: Emily Richard
[Selah is an old Hebrew word of unknown meaning, but some have read it as "pause and reflect" which fits with this play.]


2nd February 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Decent British Murder by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Vanessa Grace: Kathleen Helme
   Colonel Grace: Graham Roberts
   Marina Grace: Linda Gardner
   Fred Gingrich: Christopher Godwin
   Lionel Monro: David Calder
   Ella Chatto: Annette Robertson
   Albert Congleton: John Hollis
Repeated 4th February 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2020]


4th February 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Little Bit of Heaven by Maurice Leitch
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Gerry Mahood: Ian Hendry
   Linda: Jane Knowles
   Charley: J G Devlin
   Wilbur: Mark Mulholland
   Georgie: Trudy Kelly
   Mrs Mahood/Brenda: Doreen Hepburn
   Receptionist/Girl: Stella McCusker
   Barman/Bob: Maurice O'Callaghan
   Tom/Radio announcer: Desmond McAleer
   Pub woman: Catherine Gibson
   Sid: Patrick Brannigan
Repeated from 8th and 14th May 1978


5th February 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Fingers of Suspicion
by Mike Parker
Technical presentation by Jock Farrell
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Narrator: Philip Voss
   The Rev George Pike: John Bott
   Mrs Pike: Eva Stuart
   Mr Seed: Peter Baldwin
   Mrs Drum: Peggy Paige
   Mrs Pink: Josie Kidd
   Betty Atkins: Petra Davies
   Charlie Atkins: Brian Haines
   Lover: Gordon Dulieu


6th February 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. The Trafalgar Terrace Lepidopterist by David Hopkins
Director: Kay Patrick
   Les: Norman Bird
   Marjorie: Josie Kidd
   Josie: Tammy Ustinov
   Ronnie: Ian Hoare
   Mr Smithers: Michael McStay
Repeated from 29th July 1979
2. Casting Vote by Philip Honeywell
The House of Commons.
Director: Cherry Cookson
   Harold Wheeler: Peter Egan
   Samuel Dunsmore: George Baker
   Jonathon Howard: Philip Voss
   Reporter: Gordon Dulieu
   Speaker: Fred Bryant
   Teller: Danny Schiller
Repeated from 21st July 1979


6th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Prodigal by Anita Bronson
Directed by Shaun Macloughlin
BBC Bristol
   Bill: Stephen Thorne
   Colin: Peter Pacey
   Doris: Kathleen Helme
   Memphis: John Bull
   Dudley: Bill Monks
   Geoffrey: Philip Sully


7th February 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
6 of 13: The Do-it-Yourself Job
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Daker
   Detective-Constable Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Dickie Fenn: Bill Nighy
   Peter Parsons: Derek Francis
   Harry Dean: George Tovey
   Magistrate: Brian Haines
   Clerk: Peter Baldwin
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


7th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: All the Way Down by Christopher Denys
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Colin: Norman Bowler
   Janet: Marion Fiddick
   George: Manning Wilson
   Mrs Monks: Margot Boyd
   Sheila: Jenifer Armitage
   Adele: Hedli Niklaus
   Clifford: Simon Shaw
   Frank: Jack Holloway
   Joe: Barkley Johnson
   Gerry: Tim Bentinck
   Veronica: Maureen Beddoes


8th February 1980
15.15-16.10:
Afternoon Theatre: Five Days in 55 (The Gilberdyke Diaries) by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
A new lodger moves in - just at the time that Burgess and Maclean were moving out.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Narrator: James Cameron
   Mrs X: Barbara Mullaney
   Dvorak: Geoffrey Wheeler
   George, the Postman: Henry Livings
   Harvey: Bernard Cribbins
   Miss Garton: Eileen Derbyshire
[This is a revision of the program broadcast 18th June 1976, when listed as "Five Days in Fifty-five (The Gilberdyke Diaries)" ]


8th February 1980
23.45
Just Before Midnight: The Winner by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
She keeps winning competitions.
Director: Cherry Cookson
   Edna: Julia McKenzie
   Mr Stupendous: David McAlister
   Fred: Haydn Jones
[Betty Paul appeared often on radio as a singer, and was also a dancer and actress].


9th February 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: No Moon ... No Sun by Olwynne MacRae
Directed by Dickon Reed
   James: Denis Lill
   Julia: Nicolette McKenzie
   Tom: Paul Haley
   Bess: Jasmine Greenfield
   Margaret: Lorae Parry
   Mullins: Patrick Barr
   Don: Adrian Egan
   Air hostess: Sonia Fraser
[This play was a runner-up in the 1979 World Service Drama Competition]
   
   
9th February 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sleeper and the Swallow by John Ashe
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Joseph Channon: Sandor Eles
   Maria: Elizabeth Bell
   Claire: Karen Ford
   Major Webb-Austen: John Abineri
   Lodge: Roger Snowdon
   Blanke: Brian Haines
   George: Michael Cochrane
   Mother: Sally Lahee
   Radio announcer: Geoffrey Serle
Repeated 11th February 1980.
[Postponed from 24th November 1979 - it was also listed for 26th November 1979.]


10th February 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Widows of Clyth (1979) by Donald Campbell
Caithness, 1876-1886.
Directed by Tom Kinninmont
BBC Scotland
   Betsy: Beth Robens
   Helen: Fiona Knowles
   Keet Anne: Louise Ross
   Annie: Maureen Beattie
   Chrissie: Desi Angus
   Hector: Jimmy Chisholm
   George: Roy Hanlon
   Markie: James Yuill
[The John O'Groats Journal of 3rd February 1876 lists all the dependants left with no income- this play is a fictional account of the tragedy which was briefly reported in The Scotsman of 28th January 1876.]


11th February 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Miss Havisham's Wedding Day by Carolyn Sally Jones
Bengal, 1777.
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Ester: Elizabeth Proud
   Mr Havisham: Michael Williams
   Mrs Havisham: Maxine Audley
   Mrs Chumley: Margery Mason
   Mr Wadsworth: David March
   Dr Beck: Peter Baldwln
   Aunt Pocket: Georgine Anderson
   Jack Gill: Leonard Fenton
   Annie: Joan Matheson
   a child Harry: Neil Nisbet
   a young man Harry: Brian Carroll
   Meg Arthur: Diana Payan
   Stephen Compeyson: Kenneth Fortescue
   Matthew Pocket: Gordon Dulieu
   Seaman/Servant: John Church
Repeated 13th August 1981
[Miss Havisham is a character from Charles Dicken's Great Expectations who was jilted on her wedding day.]


12th February 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Hot Stuff by Granville Wilson
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Slattery: John Blythe
   Sam: Derrick Gilbert
   Nellie: Rosalind Knight
   Frank: John Jardine
   Jonathan: Alan Rothwell
   Police Superintendent: Keith Clifford


13th February 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. The Cellar by R D Wingfield
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
Repeated from 7th April 1979
2. End of the Line by Betty Davies
Directed by John Tydeman.
   Mary: Heather Bell
   Keith: Sion Probert
   Young Man: Philip Sully
Repeated from 10th February 1979
Repeated 15th March 1983


13th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Night by Elizabeth Troop
A cook on a ferry boat recalls her past.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Erika as a child: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Klimt: Martin Friend
   Mother on ferry: Josie Kidd
   Doris: Ann Murray
   McArthur: Phil Brown
   Mrs Bush: Margaret Robertson
   Paul: Ian Hoare
   Brin: Godfrey Kenton
Also with Trevor Cooper


14th February 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
7 of 13: The Birthday Party (Part 1 of 2)
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Baker
   Judie: Jacqueline Tong
   Tommy: Johnny Wade
   Thorn: Alan Lake
   Neale: Tony Anholt
   Butler: Danny Schiller
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


14th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Korsakoff's Psychosis by Geoffrey Parkinson
Auntie Mabel leaves her money to a clinic.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Auntie Mabel: Margot Boyd
   Dr Fowler: John Rye
   Frank Cocker: Michael Harbeur
   Gregory Blow: Steve Hodson
   Virginia Fowler: June Barrie
   Miles Whipple: Cornelius Garrett
   Elizabeth Whipple/Matron: Hilda Schroder
   Mrs Moot: Audrey Noble
   Doctor: Nicholas Grace
   First medical student: Andrew Hilton
   Second medical student: Julia Swift
   Student nurse: Jo Anderson
[The psychosis does exist and is associated with lack of thiamine or Vitamin B1 leading to delusions from fabricated memories.]


15th February 1980
15.15:
First Love (1860) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) translated and dramatised by Joan O'Connor
He loves Zinaida, so does another.
Music: Guitar: Eric Hill; Piano: John Fraser
Technical presentation by David Greenwood
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Vladimir Voldemar: Simon Cadell
   Maria Voldemar: Penelope Lee
   Piotr Voldemar: Hugh Dickson
   Fyodor: Alan Mason
   Vonifaty: John Boit
   Princess Zasyekina: Antonia Pemberton
   Zinaida: Rosalind Ayres
   Bielovzorov: Brian Carroll
   Philipp: William Nighy
   Count Malievsky: Michael Cochrane
   Dr Lushin: John Carson
   Captain Nirmatsky: Michael McStay
   Maidanov: Philip Sully
Repeated 18th February 1980 and also on BBC Radio 3 on 18th August 1989


15th February 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Man Who Invented Yesterday by James Follett (1939-2021)
His most recent experiment takes him slightly by surprise.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Sir Max Flinders: Alan Rowe
   Jerry: Graham Faulkner
   Sally: Jenny Twigge
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2009-2023]


16th February 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Night of the Badger by Graham Blackett
A car is found abandoned.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Susan Colson: Nicolette McKenzie
   John Colson: Richard Easton
   Sergeant Benbow: Morgan Sheppard
   Constable Swift: Terry Molloy
   Nigel Stoddart: Malcolm Gerard
   Mrs Allingham: Gillian Andrews
   WPC West: Jane Galloway
   Rupert Dalton: Stephen Hancock
   Jenny Allingham: Juliet Stevenson
Repeated from 30th November 1978


16th February 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Liverpool Match by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Jimmy Salmon: David Calder
   Duggie: Tony Robinson
   Narrator: Peter Wheeler
   Brown: Paul Webster
   Moreen: Kate Lee
   Catherine: Linda Gardner
   TV interviewer: Brian Miller
   Mr Charles: Malcolm Hebden
   Newlands: Alan Rothwell
   Foster: Andy Rashleigh
   MeGrath: Robert Warner
   Skates: Clive Duncan
   Fodder: Christopher Wilkinson
   Commentator: Brian Trueman
   Other parts played by: Simon Molloy, Martin Oldfield, Colin Meredith, John Jardink, Barry Markham, Geoffrey Banks, Karen Petrie, Charles Foster, Brian Southwood, and Marlene Sidaway
Repeated 18th February 1980


17th February 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: French Without Tears (1936) by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), introduced by the author.
The living-room at a villa in a the South of France.
Directed by Norman Wright
   Diana Lake: Frances Jeater
   The Hon Alan Howard: John Rye
   Monsieur Maingot: John Gabriel
   Jacqueline Maingot: Cecile Chevreau
   Kit Neilan: Kenneth Fortescue
   Lieut-Cmdr Rogers: Frederick Treves
   Kenneth Lake: Brian Hewlett
   Brian Curtis: Sean Barrett
   Marianne: Paulette Preney
Repeated from 25th December 1973 and 8th December 1974.


19th February 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: One Came Back by Marian Campbell
A play about a TV investigation of an early (fictional) airship disaster.
Directed by Alaric Cotter
BBC Birmingham
   Bernard Rackham: Haydn Jones
   Annie Rackham: Diana Olsson
   Jonathan: Gerald Cross
   Peter: Michael N Harbour
   Colin: Alexander Wilson


20th February 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. Filling by Lee Torrance
Directed by Peter King
   Robert: Bernard Gallagher
   Helen: Lolly Cockerell
   Receptionist: Liza Flanagan
   Patient: Leonard Fenton
Repeated from 17th February 1979
2. Loving Room by Connie Bensley
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 from 16th September 1979


20th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Hurdles by John Pilkington
Directed by Penny Leicester
   Ruth: Auriol Smith
   Alan: David Timson
   Deirdre: Irene Sutcliffe
   Bill: John Bott


21st February 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
8 of 13: The Birthday Party (Part 2 of 2)
   Det-Insp Mannock: Maurice Colbourne
   Thorn: Alan Lake
   Neale: Tony Anholt
   Barman: Adrian Egan
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


21st February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Molly Fisher and Her Donkey by Michael Davies
Cockle gathering in Wales.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Molly: Elizabeth Morgan
   Rhiannon: Elizabeth Proud
   Huw: Sion Probert
   Gwen: Nerys Hughes
   Meredith: Ian Thompson
   Mr Williams: Douglas Blackwell
   Mrs Price: Josie Kidd
   Helicopter pilot: Michael McStay
   Woman at meeting: Sonia Fraser
   Chairman: Derek Pollitt
   
   
22nd February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Summer School Blues by J. C. Wilsher
The nature and history of family life.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Pat: Jennylee
   Dave: Richard Latham
   Steven: Adrian Egan
   Beryl: Petra Bavies
   Harry: Leonard Fenton
   Liz: Rosalind Adams


22nd February 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Sharon, Elsie and Eddie Cochran by Arline Whittaker
Directed by John Cardy
   Elsie: June Barry
   Sharon: Rowena Roberts
[The characters Sharon and Elsie later had their own tv series in 1984]


23rd February 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Luxury Weekend by Alec Baron (1913-1991)
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Frank Lush: George Layton
   Barney Weinberg: Christian Rodska
   Sgt Mace/Albert/MP: Paul Webster
   Lt Morton / Sgt Maj/ Porter: Peter Wheeler
   Taffy/Colonel/M Desvalliers: Peter John
   Charlie/ waiter: David Threlfall
   Mme Desvalliers: Valerie Georgeson
   Christienne: Stephanie Fayerman
   Murielle: Athene Fielding
Repeated from 15th April 1977


23rd February 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Mark of the Warrior (1958). by Paul Scott (1920-1978) adapted by Donald McWhinnie
India: during the 1939-45 war
Directed by John Tydeman
   Major Craig: Patrick Barr
   Esther, his wife: Eva Stuart
   Bob Ramsay: Michael Cochrane
   Lawson: Michael McStay
   Sergeant-Major Thompson: Brian Haines
   Martin: Trevor Cooper
   Everett: Gordon Reid
   Dyson: Graham Faulkner
   Colonel Manville: Godfrey Kenton
   Lieutenant Blake: Brian Carroll
   Havildar Baksh: Danny Schiller
   A voice: John Church
Repeated 25th February 1980
[Paul Scott served with the Indian Army 1943-1946]


24th February 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Journey's End (1928) by R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975) adapted by Peter Watts
March 1918. The reality of war.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Captain Stanhope: Martin Jarvis
   Osborne: Garard Green
   Trotter: Kevin Brennan
   Hibbert: Michael Harbour
   Raleigh: Derek Seaton
   Colonel: Richard Hurndall
   Sergeant Major: John Bentley
   Mason: Malcolm Hayes
   Hardy: John Graham
   German soldier: Patrick Tull
[R C Sherriff fought at Vimy, Loos and Passchendale in WW1]
Repeated from 9th November 1970
Repeated 12th November 1990
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2022]


25th February 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Barley Sugar Lollipop by J C W Brook.
Friends and lovers.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Jill: Anna Cropper
   Clare: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Tom: Sean Barrett
   Jenny: Frances Jeater
   John: David Timson
   Andrew: Gordon Reid
Repeated 2nd March 1980


26th February 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Third Person by Ted Walker (1934-2004)
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Mary: Carmel McSharry (1926-2018)
   Landlord Sean Scanlan
   Johnson: John Rye


27th February 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. Getting Ahead by Elizabeth Kay
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   The Critic: Hugh Dickson
   his wife: Thelma Whiteley
   the Hairdresser: John Rye
Repeated from 1st June 1979
2. The Place by Geraldine O'Donnell
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Young Boy: Jeremy Booker
   Older boy: Paul Ellison
   Eldest boy: Howard Taylor
Repeated from 28th July 1979

   
27th February 1980
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 from 21st November 1979
[A "Borstal" was a form of imprisonment for younger offenders, abolished 1982.]


28th February 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
9 of 13: The Coming Out Present
   Det-Insp Mannock: Maurice Colbourne
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Daker
   Harry Dean: George Tovey
   Collator: James Cosmo
   Brennan: Alan Barry
   Ryan: Harry Towb
   Ross: Paul Angelis
   Moody: Michael McClain
   Barmaid: Jenny Twigge
   Police officers: Trevor Cooper and Michael McStay
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


28th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Guffy and the Dangerous Question by Barbara Foxe
Directed by Piers Plowright
   Lisa: Lolly Cockerell
   Sergeant Wood: John Bott
   PC Yates: Philip Sully
   Frederick Williams: Patrick Barr
   Joseph Williams: Godfrey Kenton
   Walt: Michael Spice
   Woman with horse: Eva Stuart
   Ward sister: Jenny Twigge
Repeated 11th April 1980


29th February 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Running Down by Mike Walker
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Graham: Henry Knowles
   Chris: Nigel Lambert
   Graham: Henry Knowles
   Father Bob: James Bayes
   Naomi David: Margot Boyd
   African/Man in the street: Hugh Quarshie


29th February 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Crucial Division by Laurence McDermott
A vote of no-confidence.
Directed by John Tydeman
   Member of Parliament: Richard Briers
   Another MP: Peter Baldwin.
   Diane: Jenny Twigge
   Cabbie: John Bott
   Maisie: Maggie Shevlin
   Chairman: Leonard Fenton
   Dissident: Adrian Egan
   Police sergeant: Michael McStat
   Police constable: David Timson
   Gypsy: Peggy Paige


1st March 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Outcast by Dorothy Gharbaoui
Bankruptcy.
Producer Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Richard: Denys Hawthorne
   Braffney/Kilpatrick: Mark Mulholland
   Veronica: Kate Flynn
   M'Ateer: Patrick McAlinney
   Parks: Sean Barrett
   Savage/headmaster: Barry Towb
   Bardley/O'neil: Desmond MacAleer
   Sue: Maggie Shevlin
   Graham/Bankruptcy master: Allan McClelland
   Jessie: Susie Kelly


1st March 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Other Days Around Me by Frederick Bradnum
Remembering a forgotten past.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Lady Jobson: Pauline Letts
   Sir Kenneth Jobson: William Fox
   Frankie Whelan: Cheryl Campbell
   Mrs Kempson: Eva Stuart
   Police sergeant: Michael McStay
   Gerald Thorne: John Bott
   Thomas Thewles: Brian Carroll
   Mrs Thewles: Carole Boyd
Repeated 3rd March 1980
[The title is from a poem by Thomas Moore: "Sad memory brings the light; Of other days around me".]
[Not related to the book by Florence Mary McDowell]


2nd March 1980
21.03:
Women in Love by D H Lawrence, "freely adapted" by Roy Spencer
Piano: Tom Steer
Theme music composed by Tony Hymas
Technical Presentation: David Fleming-Williams and Christopher Hayton Webb, Assisted by Mark Seyler and Jordie Morell
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
Part 1 of 6.
   D.H. Lawrence, the Narrator: Roy Spencer
   Ursula Brangwen: Sarah Badel
   Gudrun, her sister: Penelope Wilton
   Mrs Brangwen: Joan Anstey
   Will Brangwen: Norman Bird
   Diana Crich: Christine Welch
   Rupert Birkin: Peter McEnery
   Lieut William Lupton: Peter Bell
   Mr Crich: Graham Roberts
   Mrs Crich: Valerie Skardon
   Gerald, their son: Clive Francis
   Winifred, his youngest sister: Kate Lee
   Hermione Roddice: Eleanor Bron
   Mr Wright, a local chauffeur: Richard Williams
   Children from the local school: Jason Frost and Paul Biggins
   Church organist: Simon McGregor
Additional actors in later parts:
   Ann Rye, Anthony Havering, Colette O'Neil, Ernest Watson, Geoffrey Banks, George Pravda, Geoffrey Wheeler, Keith Ladd, Michael Greatorex, Robert Aldous, Romy Baskerville, Rosalie Williams, Stephen Muth
Pt2:9/3/80 Pt3:16/3/81 Pt4:23/3/80 Pt5:30/3/80 Pt6:6/4/80
All parts repeated after two days.


3rd March 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Mouse's Tail by Gaie Houston
Piano: Martin Goldstein
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Mu: Alison Steadman
   Dr Jamieson: Sonia Fraser
   Gran: Margot Boyd
   Receptinist: Lolly Cockerell
   Mother: Jenny Lee
   Father: Leonard Fenton
   Len: Adrian Egan
   Johnny: Jeremy Truelove
   Sister: Elizabeth Rider
   Mark a boy: Benjamin Midgley
   Mark as man: John Bull
   Philip a boy: Roy Featherstone
   Philip a man: Paul Chapman
Repeated 9th March 1980
[The spelling GAIE above is correct. The author is a "gestalt" expert.].


4th March 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Practical People by Monty Haltrecht (1932-2010)
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Margot: Margaret Courtenay
   Graham: John Flanagan
   Sylvia: Rowena Roberts
   Arthur: Rod Beacham
   Hilda: Peggy Paige


4th March 1980
22.30-23.00
The Hornblower Story: Book 4: Lord Hornblower, by C S Forester, adapted by Val Gielgud
Location recordings by David Fleming-Williams and Christopher Hayton Webb
Technical presentation by David Fleming-Williams, Roger Lucas and Mark Seyler Assistant director: Christopher Hayton-Webb
Music composed by Johnny Pearson
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
1 of 5: The Mutiny
   Horatio Hornblower: Nigel Anthony
   Lord St Vincent: James Maxwell
   Lady Barbara: Kate Binchy
   The Dean of Westminster: George Hagan
   Lieutenant Freeman: Malcolm Tierney
   Brown, Hornblower's servant: Robert Lindsay
   Nathaniel Sweet: Brian Southwood
Also with Robert Warner and Michael Morrisey
Additional cast in later parts:
   Brian Trueman, Hilda Schroder, Ian Flintoff, Joe Cook, Martin Scott, Michael Poole, Peter Bell, Peter Vaughan, Randal Herley, Sorcha Cusack, Terence Skelton, Terry Wood, Tom Harrison, Wilfred Harrison
Pt2:11/3/80 Pt3:18/3/80 Pt4:25/3/80 Pt5:1/4/80
[Book 4 was previously produced by Trevor Hill in 1969 with John Westbrook as Hornblower]
[Book 3 in 5 parts commenced 29th January 1980]


5th March 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. Thank You for your Support by Martyn Read (1944-2022)
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 from 8th September 1979
2. The Siege by Peter Tinniswood
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Insp Stubbins: Malcolm Hebden
   Mrs Sidlow: Eileen Derbyshire
Repeated from 4th August 1979


5th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Balloons by Verna Alexander
Paris 1808.
Music devised and performed by Stephen Deutsch, Barry Guy and Donald Ellman
Directed by Liane Aukin
   De Grandprg??: Michael Jayston
   Le Pique: Christopher Good
   Georges: John Bott
   De La Tour: Charles Lewsen
   Alicia: Lolly Cockerell
   Heurteloup: Leonard Fenton
   Theatre manager: Michael McStay
   Reporter: John Bull
[This is the sole credit for Verna Alexander in the BBC Programme Database].


6th March 1980
12.27-12.55:
Detective: The Legacy, written By Robert Barr
Set in London
Producer: Martin Fisher
   Det-Sgt Brook: Ray Brooks
   Det-Con Maxton: Christopher Blake
   Chief Inspector Roach: David Daker
   Det-Constable Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Mrs Kendall: Jessie Evans
   Billie Sellars: Roy Holder
   Susan Graham: Victoria Plucknett
   Tommy: Johnny Wade
Repeated 29th July 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


6th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Hal by Charlotte Hastings
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 Dulleu
Repeated from 15th November 1979
Repeated 18th December 1981


7th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Pope Joan Lives by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Did Pope Joan really exist?
Research by Joan Morris
Directed by David Spenser
   Sister Andrea: Anna Calder-Marshall
   Mother Lucy: Megs Jenkins
   Geoffrey Quintal: Eric Allan
   Monsignor O'Riordan: Kevin Flood
   Father Casimir: John Rye
   Solange/Woman: Eve Karpf
   Helene van Eyck: Hilda Kriseman
   Sacristan: Leonardo Pierroni
Repeated from 28th July 1978


7th March 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Time Out of Season by Colin Finbow
Thinking of past times.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Dennis: John Baddiley
   Wendy: Josie Kidd
   Sharon: Sarah Golding
   Woman: Lolly Cockerell
[Also produced for BRT in 1985 as "Buiten seizoen." (Flemish)]


8th March 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Brother, Brother by Frances McNeil
Two siblings, a brother and a sister.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Colin child/Andrew: Michael Gibbons
   Linda child/ Barbara: Wendy Jane Walker
   Mother: Judith Barker
   Colin: Christopher Godwin
   Linda: Sally Gibson
   Teacher / YUP 1 / Creche lady: Sue Jenkins
   Prompter/Head of Dept/ YUP 3: David Mallinson
   Swot/YUP 2/Student/Vice-Principal: Sean Flannagan
   Melvin: Brian Miller
   Doreen: Marian Kemmer
   
   
8th March 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Vivien the Blockbuster by Olwen Wymark (1932-2013)
An author's agent has a way to remove writer's block.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Sidney: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
   Jack: Anthony Bate
   Vivien: Harold Innocent
   Roddy: Peter Whitman
   Howard: William Fox
Repeated 10th March 1980


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


11th March 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: What Colour is the Sea? by J. C. Caliburn
A father copes with the adolescent difficulties of his son.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   David: Alexander John
   Sue: Marian Diamond
   Titus: Ian Hoare
   Juliette: Judy Bennett
[This is the sole entry in the BBC Programme Database for J C Caliburn]


12th March 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. Out in the Midday Sun by Rick Ferreira
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Partridge: John Carson
   Winston: Raul Newney
   Peartree: Leonard Fenton
Repeated from 11th August 1979
2. Chequemates by Roy Russell
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Mr Pomfrey: James Cossins
   Ross: Ray Brooks
   April: Petra Davies
   Linda: Heather Tobias
Repeated from 14th April 1979


12th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Nicky, by Peter Myers
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Joyce Meadows: Maureen O'Brien
   Fiona: Petra Markham
   Roger: Gabriel Woolf
   Beth: Rosemary Whitfield
   Man: Rex Holdsworth
   Sergeant Dye: Brian Haines
   First PC: Bill Wallis
   Second PC: Trevor Cooper
Repeated 19th October 1983


13th March 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
11 of 13: Time on their Hands
   Det-Con Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Det-Sgt Morgan: Godfrey James
   Meg: Norma Ronald
   Keller: David Kelly
   Paddy: Vass Anderson
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


13th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Monkey Trial by Norman Partington
Tennessee, USA, 1925.
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
[This is the only entry in the BBC Programme Database for "Norman Partington"]


14th March 1980
15.02:
Equus (1973) by Peter Shaffer (1926-2016)
The boy maims horses.
Special sound by Dick Mills of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by David Spenser
   Martin Dysart: Peter Barkworth
   Alan Strang: Ian Sharrock
   Hesther Salomon: Jennifer Piercey
   Frank Strang: Malcolm Hayes
   Dora Strang: Jane Wenham
   Jill Mason: Jenny Twigge
   Harry Dalton: Ronald Herdman
   Young Horseman: Philip Sully
   Nurse: Jan Carey
   Other voices:: Richard Gibson, Nigel Greaves, David Parfitt, Jonathan Scott
Repeated 17th March 1980


14th March 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Plans and Ashes by P. Pike
Bureaucracy.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   John Baxter: Jon Glover
   Stephen: Peter Baldwin
   Mary: Felicity Hayes McCoy
   Doreen: Elizabeth Rider
   Switchboard: Madi Hedd
   Planning: Brian Carroll
   Fireman: Malcolm Gerard
   Supervisor: Eva Stuart
[This play is the only programme with the name P Pike in the BBC Programme Database]


15th March 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Beyond the Book by Ray Jenkins (1935-2023)
Instrumental music arranged and played by George Weigand. Guitar: Robin Jeffrey
Directed by Peter King
   Judge: Patrick Barr
   Frank Moss: Alan Lake
   Det Chief Supt Knight: Peter Vaughan
   Det Chief Insp Shirley: Michael McStay
   Stella Moss: Alex Marshall
   Harriet Moss: Lysandre de la Have
   Athanasia/Schoolgirl: Nicolette Joseph
   Andreou: Steve Plytas
   Det-Sgt Williams: Norman Mitchell
   Cmdr Beavons/President: Brian Haines
   Bender: Barry Lowe
   Det Supt Gaynor / Cmdr Davies: Robert Gillepsie
   Cmdr Holton: Peter Baldwin
   Culshaw: Brian Carroll
   Danny Taylor: Eric Mason
   Friend: John Hollis
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


15th March 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Spoils of Poynton (1896) by Henry James (1843-1916) dramatised by William Ash
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Gereth: Maxine Audley
   Fleda Vetch: Maureen O'Brien
   Owen Gereth: Gordon Dulieu
   Mr Vetch: Herbert Smith
   Mona/Maid: Kate Lee
   Stationmaster: George Hagan
Repeated 17th March 1980
[ Also produced in 1960 rptd 1961 for R3 by Mary Hope Allen with Clare Austin as Fleda.]
[The book was first called "The Old Things"]


16th March 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Miracles, by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Women: Judith Barker, Diana Flacks and Marlene Sidaway
   Bishop: Geoffrey Banks
   Father Izon: Peter Jeffrey
   Father Arkwright: Ronald Herdman
   Father Davidson: Russell Dixon
   Thief: Laurence Kenny
   Dr Browning: Enn Reitel
   Mrs Cooper: Eileen Derbyshire
   Mrs Jellicoe: Lynda Marchal


18th March 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Total Security by Karl Barry
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Miss Jenkins: Janet Dale
   Targe: Derrick Gilbert
   Pepper: Ernest Hopner
   Salt: Nicholas Owen
   Miss Crumble: Rosalind Knight
   Ramp: John Blythe
[Background: 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 benefits.]

19th March 1980
12.27-12.55
TWO PLAYS:
1. Top Tomato by Gill Linscott
Director: Cherry Cookson
   Race: Rod Beacham
   Bengow: Haydn Jones
   Joe: Brian Haines
Repeated from 27th July 1979
2. Only the Lonely by Wally K Daly
Director: Martin Jenkins
with Manning Wilson and Gladys Spencer
Repeated from 24th June 1979
   
   
19th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Golden Wedding by John Parker
Divorced 25 years ago...
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Ian: Christopher Hancock
   Jill: Ingrid Hafner
   Stanley: Frank Middlemass
   Heather: Clare Travers-Deacon
   Jonathan: Crispian Balmer
   Cynthia: Peggy Lodger
   Moira: June Marlow


20th March 1980
12.27-12.55
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
12 of 13: The Pin-Up Murder (1 of 2)
   Det Chief Insp Mannock: Maurice Colbourne
   Det-Con Harrison: Peter Cleall
   Kate Ryan: Liz Gebhardt
   Cindy: Carol Hawkins
   Doctor: David Strong
Subsequent shows weekly, cast details given below on the broadcast date.
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


20th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Sound that Time Makes, by Susan Hill
Recalling old school days.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Fay: Patricia Gallimore
   Her husband Robbie: John Rowe
   Chloe: Frances Jeater
   David: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Daniel: Jill Lidstone
   Headmistress: Sonia Fraser
   Photographer: Gordon Reid
   Matron: Eva Stuart
   School mistresses: Lolly Cockerell and Elizabeth Rider
   Dorcas Lee: Rowena Roberts
   Kee-Kee: Jenny Twigge
with Clare Travers-Deacon


21st March 1980
15.15
Hush, Hush by Jacky Gillott (1939-1980)
Director: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Harold: Deryck Guyler
   Hilda: Barbara Mullen
   Rose: Allison Hancock
   Dilys: Kathleen Michael
   George: Phillip Manikum
   Eric: David March
   James: Nicholas Orchard
   Anna: Carole Mowlam
Repeated from 12th October 1978


21st March 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Night Vision by Grant C. Eustace
A Rescue Helicopter Adventure.
Directed by David Johnston
   Gus: Michael Mundell
   Jan: Peter Wickham
   Bill: Steve Hodson
   Controller: Jenny Twigge
   Coastguard: Martin Friend
[Grant Eustace has had several careers including time spent as an RN Helicopter Pilot, partly as search and rescue.]


22nd March 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: A Life Here Between Us by Jane Beeson
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Eve: Allison Hancock
   Joe: Tim Bentinck
   Angy: Heather Bell
   Tom: Danny Schiller
   Hepjohn: Peter Wickham
Repeated from 16th November 1978


22nd March 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Go Down in Darkness by Rod Beacham (1940-2013)
Directed by David Johnston
   Matt: Steve Hodson
   Maggie: Frances Jeater
   Susan: Glynis Brooks
   Aunt Ellen: Jill Balcon
   The Rev John Franklyn: Nicholas Courtenay
   Jamie: Peter Baldwin
   Felix: Roger Hammond
   Fraser: Michael McStay
   Dave: Rod Beacham
Repeated 24th March 1980


23rd March 1980:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Who is Pari Passu? by Allan Berrie
Director: Bernard Krichefski
   Ed Starky: Bill Paterson
   Fr Rory: Kevin Flood
   Kit O'Leary: Alan Barry
   Val Starky: Carole Haymam
   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: Sophie Ward
   Dolores: Heather Tobias
   Dr Hare: Rod Beacham
Repeated from 29th January and 4th February 1979
[Pari Passu is Latin meaning approximately "equal rank"]


24th March 1980
19.55:
The Monday Play: The Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
Singer and musical direction Tony Mcauley
Dublin, 1920.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Donal Davoren: Bryan Murray
   Seumas Shields: Alan Devlin
   Maguire: Vincent McCabe
   Mr Mulligan: Alan Barry
   Minnie Powell: Marcella O' Riordan
   Tommy Owens: Niall Buggy
   Mrs Henderson: Anna Manahan
   Mr Gallagher: Sean Babrett
   Mrs Grigson: Pauline Delany
   Adolphus Grigson: Joe McPartland
   Auxiliary: John Hollis
Repeated 30th March 1980
[The play was first presented on BBC TV in 1973 and remade for tv in 1995]
[There was a production on R4 (probably relaying the World Service) in 2005, no details available.]
   

25th March 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Is it Something I Said? by Richard Harris
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Mr Wallace: Peter Jeffrey
   Arthur: John Hollis
   Stella: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated from 9th May 1978.
[This play won a 1978 Giles Cooper Award]
[This play was first presented in 1974 on BBC tv]


26th March 1980
12.27-12.55:
TWO PLAYS:
1. Mother Figure by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Lucy: Maureen Lipman
   Terry: Ray Brooks
   Rosemary: Diane Bull
Repeated from 14th September 1979
[Also produced by Dan Garrett in 1987 for R4 Schools]
2. Tutorial by Robert Davis
Directed by Richard Wortley.
   Peter Bates: Nigel Anthony
   Sue: Lolly Cockerell
Repeated from 9th September 1979


27th March 1980
12.27-12.55:
Detective - stories written by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
The setting is London.
Produced by Martin Fisher
   DS Brook: Ray Brooks
   DC Maxton: Christopher Blake
13 of 13: The Pin-Up Murder (2 of 2)
   Det Chief Insp Mannock: Maurice Colbourne
   Judie: Jacqueline Tong
   Frank and George Catling: Keith Buckley
   Bill: John Hollis
The series was repeated commencing 27th May 1980.
Series 2 followed -ten stories commencing 16th March 1982. In 1984 and 1985 two further series were broadcast on R2.
[Stories from the several series were also broadcast on R4X 2013-2022]


28th March 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Temptation Game by John Gardner(1933-1982)
Medieval England. A monk plays the temptation game ...
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
   Monks: Richard Hayes, Cornelius Garrett, Rex Holdsworth
Repeated from 13th April 1979
[Not to be confused with the English author John Gardner (1926-2007).]
[This play was earlier produced for Minnesota Public Radio by Karl Schmidt - 1977 and it won "The Armstrong Prize"]


28th March 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Push of the Domino by Rob Gittins
Directed by Enyd Williams
   Sneakly: Dinsdale Landen
   Murman: Anthony Newlands
   Chairman: William Fox
   Convenor: Brian Carroll
   George: Timothy Bateson
   Doris: Eva Stuart
   Gladys: Peggy Paige
   Typist: Rowena Roberts
   Lenfoot: Gordon Dulieu
   Mcdonnell: Graham Faulkner
   Birbridge: Philip Sully
   
   
29th March 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Fighter by Robin Smyth (aka Ronnie Smith and John Naismith)
Boxing.
Directed by Peter King
   Jimmy Johnson: Alan Lake
   Bet Johnson: Alex Marshall
   Mitchell: Bernard Kay
   Brewster: Arthur Lovegrove
   Georgie Simms: Brian Hall
   Julie: Josie Kidd


29th March 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Long, Lonely Voyage of U-395 by James Follett (1939-2021)
10 November 1941: U-395 The longest rescue operation in maritime history
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Kapitan Emsman: David Buck
   Oberleutnant Max Stauss: Rod Beacham
   Leutnant Werner Malin: Michael Maloney
   Chief Engineer: Trevor Cooper
   Kapitan Hermann Bloh: John Bott
   Captain Walt Dyas: Bob Sherman
   Miss Stone: Margot Boyd
   Jenny: Tammy Ustinov
Repeated 31st March 1980


31st March 1980
11.05-11.50
The Farewell Reading of Charles Dickens* by Raymund Fitzsimons
The final years of Charles Dickens.
Producer: John Knight
Narrator: Michael Williams
   Charles Dickens: Roy Dotrice
   George Dolby: Joss Ackland
   Edmund Yates: Andrew Sachs
   Charley Dickens: David Timson
*Repeated 5th April 1980 with a differing title. Repeat title: Garish Lights. The Farewell Reading Tour of Charles Dickens"- which was nearly one of the many titles of the 1970 Fitzsimons book, "Garish Lights. The Farewell Reading Tours of Charles Dickens". Every edition or print seems to have used a differing title.
[Also see "Charles Dickens Commits Murder" by Raymund Fitzsimons, broadcast 20/12/1987].
[Dickens final readings in England concluded in 1870.]


31st March 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Famous Voyage by Francis Dillon.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Francis Drake: John Hallam
   Queen Elizabeth I: Elizabeth Bell
   Francis Fletcher: Philip Fox
   Thomas Doughty: Brian Carroll
   Nuno da Silva: Andrew Sachs
   John Drake: Graham Faulkner
   Tom Moone: Edward Kelsey
   Walter Barnes: Michael McStay
   Jan Bray/Singer: Danny Schiller
   John Brewer/Singer: Gordon Reid
   Ned Bright: Peter Tuddenham
   Thomas Hood: Simon Coady
   Francis Walsingsam/Thomas Drake: John Church
   Dr Dee: Brian Haines
   Burrell: John Bott
   Don Francisco/Fisher man: Peter Forest
   Staper/Don Juan de Anton: Leonard Fenton
   Dyer/Hugh Smith: Trevor Cooper
   Saracold: Gordon Dulieu
   Whitney: Colin Kaye
   Winter/Viceroy: Michel Jayes
   John Chester: Martin Friend
   John Thomas / John Dougty: Philip Sully
Repeated 6th April 1980
[The first broadcast of this play was produced by Francis Dillon in 1949 for BBC Home]


1st April 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Haste by Joel Kaye
To be a poet.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Frank's mam: Rosalie Williams
   Frank: Russell Dixon
   Frank's dad: John Jardine
   Pete: Martin Oldfield
   Roger: Colin Meredith
   Mavis: Karen Petrie
   Billy: Peter Wheeler
   Eve: Sally Gibson
[This is the only reference to Joel Kaye in the BBC Programme Database]


1st April 1980
18.30:
Urn by Henry Livings (1929-1998)
Storage of cremation ashes.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Harold: Bob Grant
   Norma: June Barry
   Pam: Marcia Warren
   Betty: Jean Boht
   Geoff: Ronald Baddiley
Repeated 3rd March 1981


2nd April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Help Stamp Out Quicksand by Stephen Wyatt
Temple music specially realised in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Malcolm Clarke
Singer: Caroline Clack
Directed by Brian Wright
   Simon: Brian Carroll
   Heather/Child: Rowena Roberts
   Temple disciple: Christopher Scott
   Leader of the Temple: Danny Schiller
   Jim/Bandleader: Adrian Egan
   Headmaster: Brian Raines
   Mr Nicholls/Husband: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Holligsworth/Wife: Eva Stuart
   Old man: Leonard Fenton
   Brian: Philip Wright
   Tracy: Sandra Ling
   Derek: Oscar Romp
[This was Stephen Wyatt's first radio play. His website says 1977, but the BBC Programme Database has only this 1980 broadcast]


2nd April 1980
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Better Days Bettcr Knights by Stanley Eveling (1925-2008)
A Knight in conversation sitting by the river.
Directed by John Tydeman
   Knight: Tony Haygarth
   Water Sprite: Angela Pleasencc
Repeated from 17th July 1979


3rd April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Collections (1972) by L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) dramatised by Archie Campbell
The problems of collections.
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Ambrose: Richard Pearson
   Arthur: Martin Friend
   Barbara: Sian Phillips
   Anthony: Christopher Good
   Edith: Elizabeth Rider
   Edwina: Eva Stuart
   Cunliffe: John Bull
   Police officer: Peter Baldwin
   Mrs Parmiter: Sonia Fraser
[An annotated typescript of the novel is held by the University of Manchester library- John Rylands]


4th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Closed Circuit by Valerie Georgeson
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Michael: Brian Southwood
   Sandra: Diana Bishop
   Wyn: Rosalie Williams
   George: Stephen Hancock
   Janie/Mrs Shandy: Sally Gibson
   Lesley: Nina Holloway
   Miss Greaves: Paula Tilbrook
   Ellen/Mrs Jones: Kate Lee
   Mrs MacGill: Shirley Dixon
Also with Herbert Smith and Peter Wheeler


5th April 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Philbert's Underworld by Malcolm Quantrill
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
Electronic music by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by John Cardy
   Jack Philbert: Harold Innocent
   Club waitress: Suzanne Delaney
   The Rev Peter Moss: Adrian Egan
   Janet: Jill Raymond
   Rachel: Jenny Twigge
   Charlotte: Maxine Audley


7th April 1980
15.15
The Chiltern Hundreds (1947) by William Douglas Home (1912-1992),
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Lord Lister: Roland Culver
   Lady Lister: Peggy Ann Wood
   Beecham: Laurence Payne
   Cleghorn: Jack Watson
   Tony Lister: Tim Fearon
   Caroline: Heather Chasen
   June: Pauline Kelly
   Bessie: Sue Withers
Repeated from 26th April 1975.
[Also produced by Norman Wright for Light in 1954, rptd 1956 on Home]
[An appointment to the Chiltern Hundreds is one of the ways an English elected MP can "resign".]
[William Douglas Home's brother Alec was the last Prime Minister to be a Lord while PM, and the first to disclaim his title after the Peerage Act of 1963- and was then a life peer from 1974.]


7th April 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Life (1883) by Guy De Maupassant (1850 - 1893) adapted by Joan O'Connor
Music composed and conducted by Mike Steer
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Jeanne de Lamares: Angela Pleasence
   Viscount de Lamares: David Buck
   Baroness de Perthuis: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Baron Jacques de Perthuis: Harold Kasket
   Rosalie: Valerie Lilley
   Abbe Picot: David March
   Countess de Fourville: Carole Hayman
   Count de Fourville: Philip Voss
   Abbe Tolbiac: Kenneth Shanley
   Aunt Lison: Margot Boyd
   Simon: Gregory De Polnay
   M Fernel: John Gabriel
   Mme Dupuis: Brenda Kaye
   Marcel/Dr Couillard: Bill Monks
   Paul: Heffie Moraes
Repeated from 2nd October 1978
[Original novel title "Une Vie", also known as L'Humble Verite, Maupassant's first novel.]


8th April 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sea Shell by Caroline Graham
Young Davey is going on a very special journey.
Directed by David Spenser
   Davey Jones: Joseph West
   Mrs Jones: Josie Kidd
   Alf: Rod Beacham
   Mr Jones: John Church
   Mavis: Sonia Fraser
   Policemen: Trevor Cooper and John Baker
   Milkman: John Bull
   Captain: Graham Faulkner


9th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Jonathan's Dig by Hadrian Rogers
The neighbours fail to understand the digging in the garden.
Directed by Roger Pine.
BBC Birmingham
   Jonathan: Geoffrey Matthews
   Mildred: Elizabeth Morgan
   Trickett: John Baddeley
   Briggs: Haydn Jones
   Walters: Terry Molloy
   Policeman: Ralph Lawton


10th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: O Flower of Scotland by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
No smoke without fire?
Directed by Marilyn Ireland (aka Imrie)
BBC Scotland
   Mary: Harriet Buchan
   Bob: Tony Roper
   Johnnie: Henry Stamper
   Claire: Ann Scott-James
   Desk Sergeant: Iain Agnew
   Det-Sergeant: Tom Watson
   Police Surgeon: John Shedden
   Girl in pub/Woman pc: Jenny Baird
Repeated 9th January 1981
[This play won a Pye Award for Best Original Drama 1980]
[First broadcast on Radio Scotland]


11th April 1980
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Here Comes the Bride by Susan Hill
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Helena the bride: Carole Hayman
   a child Louisa/Helena: Eve Karpf
   Edwin: John Bott
   Grace: Josie Kidd
   Postman/Telegram boy: Alaric Cotter
   Milkman/Delivery boy: Christopher Scott


12th April 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Bryan Will Be So Upset by Jane Poncia
1941: An army officer is billeted with a widow and her young daughter.
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Marjorie: Penelope Lee
   Dr Millar: Fulton Mackay
   Annabelle: Bernadette Windsor
   Bryan: Eric Allan
   Grandmother: Margot Boyd
   Alister Whiting: Philip Voss
   Katie: Gail Lidstone
   Shopkeeper: Brenda Kaye
Repeated from 13th January 1979
Repeated 29th September 1984


12th April 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Circus of State by Valerie Georgeson
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Catherine: Elizabeth Bell
   Empress: Ruth Goring
   Peter: David Timson
   Alexis Razumovski: Del Henney
   Madame Choglokov/Maid: Delia Corrie
   Shuvalov: Martin Oldfield
   Naryshkine: Geoffrey Beevers
   Serge Saltikov/Footman: Russell Dixon
   Madame Shuvalov/Joanna: Jo Kendall
   Bestujev: Paul Webster
   Sir Hanbury Williams: John Bott
   Count Poniatowski/Chernishev: Matthew Marsh
   General Apraxine: Geoffrey Banks
   Simon Theodorski: Simon Molloy
   Midwife: Victoria Hardcastle
Repeated 14th April 1980


13th April 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey, adapted by Walter Hall.
Directed by Dickon Reed
   Jack Clitheroe: Niall Buggy
   Nora Clitheroe: Roisin Donaghy
   Peter Flynn: Kevin Flood
   Fluther Good: Denys Hawthorne
   The young Covey: Sean Arnold
   Bessie Burgess: Pauline Delany
   Mrs Gogan: Peggy Marshall
   Rosie Redmond: Brenda Fricker
   Mollser: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Capt Brennan: Vass Anderson
   Lieut Langon: Alan Barry
   Corp Stoddart: Walter Hall
   Sgt Tinley: Alaric Cotter


13th April 1980
21.03:
The Inheritance (1841) by Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) adapted by Joan O'Connor
1 of 3: 1829-1837. The nieces and nephews fear losing the inheritance.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Mme Levrault: Margot Boyd
   M Levrault: Ronald Herdman
   Cabriolle: Alan Devereux
   Mme Massin: Patricia Gallimore
   M Cremiere: Haydn Jones
   Goupil: Sean Barrett
   M Dionis: Stephen Thorne
   Desire Levrault: Terry Molloy
   M Massin: Edward Kelsey
   Mme Cremiere: Patricia Gibson
   Dr Minoret: Denys Hawthorne
   Ursule Mirouet: Elizabeth Cassidy
   La Vicomtesse de Portenduere: Penelope Shaw
   L'Abbe Chaperon: Geoffrey Matthews
   Maitre Bongrane: Alexander John
   Toinette: Patricia Greene
Additional actors in later parts:
Godfrey Kenton, Peter Harlowe, Philip Lowrie, Simon Carter, Tim Brierley
Pt2: 20/4/00 Pt3: 27/4/80
Each part repeated after two days.
[Original novel title "Ursule Mirouet"]


14th April 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Love Match ("On ne badine pas avec l'amour) (1834) by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), adapted by Derek Coltman.
Directed by Jane Morgan
The cousins might marry each other.
   Chorus: Brian Haines
   Blazius: Peter Woodthorpe
   Dame Pluche: Eva Stuart
   Baron: Christopher Benjamin
   The Rev Bridaine: Denys Hawthorne
   Perdican: Simon Cadell
   Camille: Marian Diamond
   Rosette: Joanne Pearce
Repeated 20th April 1980


15th April 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dear Edith by Jessie Kesson (1916-1994)
The walls of my room seem to imprison me. Emptiness has taken hold of me.
Directed By: Marilyn Ireland (aka M. Imrie)
BBC Scotland
   Miss Cresswell: Gudrun Ure
   The Warden: Eileen McCallum
   Asst Warden: Jan Wilson
   Miss Miller-Browne: Lennox Milne
   First Old Lady: Anne Scott-Jones
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)


16th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cook by Margaret Dunn
Directed by Enyd Williams
BBC Wales
   Laura Martin: Pauline Yates
   Odette: Alexandra Bastedo
   Richards: Geoffrey Matthews
   Monica: Petra Markham
   TJ: Patrick Barr


17th April 1980
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: Don't be Cruel by Rose Tremain
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Humble: James Villiers
   Joan: Amanda Murray
   Humble as a boy: Laurence Hardiman
   Tracy: Sarah Golding
   Curtis: Peter Baldwin
   Blunden: Charles Hodgson
   Marissa: Heather Bell
   Laura: Margot Boyd
Repeated from 18th November 1978


18th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Manana Man by Ken Blakeson
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Alan: Russell Dixon
   Ferret: Geoffrey Banks
   Duncan: Alan Meadows
   Donny: Alan Rothwell
   Sue: Brigit Forsyth
   Mam: Kathleen Helme
   Dad: Charles Foster
   Chinese Waiter: Mark Bond
   Mr Cheng: Peter Wheeler
[Unrelated to the book The Manana Man by James Birrell]


19th April 1980
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Before the Bird Has Flown by Grant C. Eustace
Who would take a helicopter.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Anthony Scott Mortimer: Martin Jarvis
   Cdr Timothy Beaumont: Roy Spencer
   Lt-Cdr Warren Kendall: Anthony Chambers
   Lt-Cdr Peter Wilkinson: Adrian Egan
   Second Officer Nicola Taylor: Sue Best
   Captain: Laurence Harrington
   Steward: David Cann
   Inspector Nancholas: Harold Kasket
   Mrs Goddard: Elspeth Charlton
   PC Martin: Nick Brimble
   Maureen Kendall: Amanda Murray
   Sub-Lt Jack Curtis: David Griffin
   Jumbo Hazlitt: Fred Bryant
Repeated from 21st October 1978


19th April 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: In Praise of Love (1973) by Terence Rattigan(1911-1977)
She is dying.
Directed by Peter King
   Sebastian Cruttwell: Anthony Quayle
   Lydia Cruttwell: Muriel Pavlow
   Mark Walters: Robert Beatty
   Joey Cruttwell: John Bull
   TV announcer: Brian Carroll
   TV actors: Godfrey Kenton and Danny Schiller
Repeated 21st April 1980, 4th May 1981, 28th May 1984, 30th December 1986,
[Also produced in 2011 by John Tydeman, directed by Celia de Wolff.]
[The original title of the play was "After Lydia"]


21st April 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Last Dirty Man by Rod Beacham (1940-2013)
Directed by David Spenser
   Michael: John Rowe
   Jane: Jane Knowles
   Beth: Elizabeth Bell
   The Minister: Jennifer Piercey
   Mick: Jack Carr
   Martin: Hugh Dickson
   Malcolm: Sean Arnold
   Tefler: Brian Carroll
   Sullivan: Leonard Fenton
   Controller: Denys Hawthorne
   Sheila: Rowena Roberts
   Geoffrey: Roger Hammond
   Rainer: John Church
   Nurse: Amanda Murray
   Hamer: Christopher Scott
   Tannoy: Lolly Cockerell
Repeated 27th April 1980


22nd April 1980
11.05
Thirty-Minute Theatre: [Unknown by Anon]
Directed by Peter King
   Mike Roberts: Graham Faulkner
   Frank/Car Driver: Bernard Gallagher
   Stan: Barry Lowe
   John: Eric Mason
   Ann: Irene Richard
   Thomas Grey/Inspector: Alan Lake
   Cooper: Peter Baldwin
[I have drawn a blank on this one, which seems to have had one broadcast and lacks significant information in the BBC Genome database and elsewhere.].


23rd April 1980
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: One Afternoon by John Foster.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
With the Pupils of St Bede's Comprehensive and ss Peter and Paul (Cathedral) Schools, Bristol.
   Keith: Ian Sharrock
   Grandad: Malcolm Hayes
   Jean: Louise Jameson
   Jack: Bill Wallis
   Pam: Caroline Holdaway
   Second schoolboy: Rupert Graves
   Michael: Howard Shelton
   West: John Abineri
   Mrs Gray: Jo Anderson
   Mrs Hebditch: Christine Pollon
   Young Keith: Seamus MacLoughlin


24th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: There is No God in Godalming by Simon Carr
Seeking peace.
Directed by David Spenser
   Robin Bentley: Christopher Guard
   Robin as a child: Bernadette Windsor
   Mr Bentley: John Pullen
   Mrs Bentley: Carole Boyd
   Victoria: Jamila Massey
   Mrs Midway-West: Pauline Letts
   Mr Johnson: Christopher Scott
   Mrs Johnson: Rowena Roberts
   Amajeet: Garard Green
   Tas: Renu Setna
   Rutherford: Anthony Hyde
   Nun: Amanda Murray
Repeated 9th July 1981


25th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Getting Away by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Alaric Cotter
BBC Birmingham
   Gerard: Peter Tuddenham
   Margaret: Jill Meers
   Louise: Anne Jameson
   Bernard: Danny Schiller
   Sheila: Penelope Reynolds
   Landlady/Fortune teller: Kathleen Helme
   Man in pub/Photographer: John Cornfield


26th April 1980
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Nursery School by Martin Worth (1926-2018)
Directed by Anton Gill
   Rosemary Adams: Ellen McIntosh
   Geoffrey Adams: Michael Spice
   Tricia Dale: Naomi Buch
   Clifford Dale/Mr Harris: Adrian Egan
   Alec Stratton: Struan Rodger
   Sophie: Sally Knyvette
   Juliet Hazleden: Amanda Murray
   Roger Hazleden: Bill Hewitt
   xxxxx: Martyn Read
   Caroline/Susan: Rowena Roberts
   Mary Hunter: Petra Davies
   Ted Hunter/Mr Hudson: John Bott
   Peter: Peter Marinker


26th April 1980:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Resistance to Pressure by Steve Gallagher
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Peter Lewis: Gareth Armstrong
   Insp Stoker: John Rowe
   Sgt Reid/TV producer: Michael McStay
   David Foster/Mr Payne: John Church
   Victoria Foster: Jane Knowles
   Mr Farmer: John Baker
   Catherine Lewis / Mrs Farmer: Eve Karpf
   Petrov Sr: Brian Haines
   Petrov Jr/TV editor: Gordon Reid
   Spalinski: Danny Schiller
   Telephone caller/TV reporter: Peter Baldwin
   Lianski: David Timson
   Mr Freeman: Lee Harrington
   Mrs Freeman/Mrs Wyndham: Eva Stuart
Repeated 28th April 1980


28th April 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Very Nuclear Family by Jennifer Phillips
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Nora: Prunella Scales
   Harry: James Warwick
   Jill: Glynis Brooks
   Joe: Rod Beacham
Repeated 11th May 1980


29th April 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Crew Wanted by Phillip What
Directed by Brian Wright
   John: Trevor Cooper
   Chris: Elizabeth Rider
   Harry: Patrick Barr
[This is the only mention of "Phillip What" in the BBC Programme Database]


30th April 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Gifted Child by Peter Tinniswood
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Curtis: Christopher Martin
   Mr Hemingway: Philip Jackson
   Mrs Hemingway: Judith Barker
   Mrs Cowleyshaw: Marlene Sidaway
   Sam: Colin Edwynn
   Peggy: Kate Lee
   Elisabeth: Sally Gibson
   Mother's Mother: Paula Tilbrook
   Mrs Mazarene: Rosalind Knight
   Inquisitor: Peter Wheeler


1st May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Snowstorm (1830) by Alexandre Sebgevitch Pushkin (1799-1837) dramatised by Jane Beeson
1811 - Napoleon's army is advancing through Russia.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
NOTE: Although listed for this date the play was not broadcast due to news coverage, but was broadcast later on 26th June 1980


3rd May 1980
14.30-15.25
Little Dorrit (1855-1857) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) dramatized by Betty Davies
1 of 10: The Father of the Marshallsea.
Title music: the second movement of Finzi's Cello Concerto.
Piano: Mary Nash.
Technical presentation by Peter Novis, assisted by David Hitchinson and Richard Beadsmoore
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Little Dorrit: Angela Pleasance
   Arthur Clennam: Daniel Massey
   Mrs Clennam: Pauline Letts
   Mr Dorrit: Peter Vaughan
   Charles Dickens: Simon Cadell
   Maggy: Selina Cadell
   Mrs Merdle: Sylvia Syms
   Jeremiah Flintwinch: Patrick Troughton
   Mr Pancks / John Chivery: William Nighy
The total cast list contained 63 different actors.
Pt2:10/5/82 Pt:17/5/80 Pt4:24/5/80 Pt5:31/5/80 Pt6:7/6/80 Pt7:14/6/80 Pt8:21/6/80 Pt9:28/6/80 Pt10:5/7/80
Each episode repeated after three days.
[Marshallsea was a prison for debtors]


3rd May 1980
20.00:
Major Barbara (1905) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Directed by Ronald Mason
   Lady Britomart Undershaft: Gwen Watford
   Stephen, her son: Christopher Guard
   Morrison, her butler: Michael McStay
   Barbara, her elder daughter: Anna Massey
   Sarah, her younger daughter: Josie Kidd
   Adolphus Cusins: Jeremy Clyde
   Charles Lomax: Christopher Good
   Andrew Undershaft: John Phillips
   Rummy Mitchens: Peggy Paige
   Snobby Price: Brian Carroll
   Jenny Hill: Judy Harris
   Peter Shirley: Leonard Fenton
   Bill Walker: John Hollis
   Mrs Baines: Joan Matheson
Repeated 29th August 1983 and 27th December 1984


4th May 1980
14.30-16.00
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), shortened by Cedric Messina.
Directed By: Graham Gauld
   Narrator: Alexander John
   Lady Cicely Waynflete: Sybil Thorndike
   Sir Howard Hallam: Cecil Parker
   Captain Brassbound: Gabriel Woolf
   Drinkwater: James McManus
   Rankin: Denys Hawthorne
   Osman: Frank Henderson
   Marzo: Robert Rietty
   Redbrook: Bernard Brown
   Johnson: Ralph Truman
   Sidi el Assif: Alaric Cotter
   The Cadi: Antony Viccars
   Bluejacket: Nigel Clayton
   Capt Kearney: John Justin
A repeat from 25th September 1967, 6th September 1970, 29th July 1973, 9th November 1975.
[The play was first broadcast by the BBC on 2LO and 5XX in 1929 with Baliol Holloway as Cptn Brassbound.]
[Also produced by Cedric Messina in 1961, rptd 1962 for R3 with Kenneth More as Cptn Brassbound.]


5th May 1980
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: Blithe Spirit (1941) by Noel Coward (1899-1973).
Directed by Norman Wright.
   Elvira: Dulcie Gray
   Charles: Michael Denison
   Ruth: Gudrun Ure
   Mme Arcati: Sylvia Coleridge
   Dr Bradman: Peter Pratt
   Mrs Bramdman: Dan Matheson
   Edith the maid: Olwen Griffiths


5th May 1980
20.30-21.00
The Not-so-merry Widow by Douglas Slater.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Ludwig Karpath: Gordon Reid
   Franz Lehar: David Timson
   Vilmos Karczag: Peter Baldwin
   Victor Leon: Roger Hammond
   Anton: John Bott
Repeated 30th December 1980


6th May 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Legal Rights for Bulls by Jurgen Runau translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Lopez: Barry Foster
   Manager: Julian Curry
   Parrera: Geoffrey Beevers
   Bullfighter: Trevor Cooper
   Breeder: Roger Hammond
   Mayor: John Bott
   
   
7th May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Great Day for Bonzo (1956) by H. E Bates (1905-1974), adapted by David H. Godfrey
Directed by David Johnston
   Bonzo: Percy Edwards
   Janey: Natalie Ceeney
   Biff: Piers Eady
   John: Timothy Stark
   Man: Brian Carroll
   Girl: Lolly Cockerell
   Girl's Father: John Bott
   Farm Labourer / First Stonemason: Denys Hawthorne
   John's father / Second Stonemason.: Patrick Barr


8th May 1980
15.15
The Man of Destiny (1897) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Northern Italy, 1796.
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Napoleon: David Suchet
   The Lady: Paola Dionisotti
   Lieutenant: David Timson
   Giuseppe: John Bott
Repeated 23rd July 1981, 13th April 1986, and 21st December 1991,
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]
[Also produced by Archie Campbell in 1962 for BBC Light, rptd 1964, 1966, and 1970 on Home- with June Tobin as The Lady]
[The BBC first broadcast this play in 1928]


9th May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Towards the Sunset Coast by David Marshall
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Tom: Neville Jason
   Jean: Norma Ronald
   Liz: Joanna Wake
   Paul: John Bull
Repeated 18th June 1981
[The four characters appeared again in "Suddenly" broadcast 25th June 1981 and 23rd July 1981]


10th May 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: London, Look You by Julia Jones
1930s depression. Teachers cannot find work.
With members of the Cardiff Polyphonic Choir
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Mrs Evans: Sian Phillips
   Ifor: Sion Probert
   David: Phillip Joseph
   Maudie Swallow: Mary Wimbush
   Woodcrutch: Malcolm Hayes
   Ethel: Loulse Jameson
   Betty: Meg Davies
   Aunt Wyn: Ruth Madoc
   Crad Jones: Haydn Jones
   Rachel: Christine Pritchard
   Doctor: Roger Hammond
Repeated 12th May 1980, 3rd May 1982


12th May 1980:
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette by Charles Causley (1917-2003).
Music composed by Stephen McNeff
Additional chorus: Stephen Foulkes, Clare Griffel, George Hubbuck, Jennifer Jillich, Mollie Petrie, Cyril Royall, Margaret Small, Hubert Tucker
Oxford Pro Musica Orchestra,conducted by Stephen McNeff
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   the Ballad Singer: Ian Caddy
   Aucassin: David Firth
   Nicolette: Imelda Staunton
   Bougars: David Gwynne
   Garin/Tartik: Peter Woodthorpe
   Countess / Old Woman (singer): Janet Howd
   Viscount / Dick / King of Carthage: Philip Fox
   Old Woman / Queen of Torelore: June Marlow
   Watchman/King of Torelore: John Bull
   Johnny/Martin Oxboy: Adrian Egan
   Tom/Knight: David Timson
Repeated 18th May 1980
[The tale comes from a 12th/13th Century manuscript rediscovered in 1752. The format is alternating song/prose.]


13th May 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Reunion by Arthur Franks
Remembering Palestine 1946.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   The Man: Jeremy Kemp
   Landlord: Brian Haines
   First youth: Graham Faulkner
   Second youth: Anthony Hyde
   Third youth: Christopher Scott
   Arthur: John Church
   Albert: Gordon Reid
   The JCW: Leonard Fenton


14th May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Long Dig by Philip Hayes.
When life becomes boring, try a different viewpoint.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Robert: Richard Pasco
   Morwenna: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
   Sir Alec: Iain Cuthbertson
   Policewoman: Jo Anderson
   Telephone operator: Heather Moray
   Announcer: Geoffrey Serle


15th May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Half Time by Rose Tremain.
Recollections of a life at half time.
with pupils of St Bede's School, Lawrence Weston, Bristol
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Head teacher: John Abineri
   Colin: Eric Allan
   Lizzie: June Barrie


16th May 1980
15.15
Press Cuttings (1909) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), adapted by Jack Willis.
Prevent demonstrators from massing.
Directed by David H Godfrey
   Gen Mitchener: Arthur Lowe
   Orderly: Clifford Norgate
   Mr Balsquith: Gerald Cross
   Mrs Farrell: Sheila Manahan
   Mrs Banger: Joan Sanderson
   Lady Corinthia Fanshawe: Sonia Fraser
Repeated from 6th January 1971
Repeated 2nd December 1990
[Also broadcast on R4X 2015-2021]


17th May 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Switchback by Eric Saward
Left Wing/ Right Wing/ Special Branch- the link.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Det Insp Marti: John Hollis
   Det Insp Moore: Roger Hume
   Det-Sgt Sutton: Terry Molloy
   Det-Sgt Carter: Sean Barrett
   Det Supt Hunter: Manning Wilson
   John Harvey: Haydn Jones
   Det Insp Miles: Jack Holloway
   John Styles: Stephen Hancock
   Head of Records/ Wilkins: Ray Llewellyn
   Martin Cooke: Alan Devereux
   WPC Snow: Patricia Gallimore
   Arthur Johnson: Michael Kilgarriff
   Det-Con Benson: Tim Brierley
Repeated 19th May 1980


19th May 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A New Step Every Day by Robin R. Taylor
Coping with an incurable illness.
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by David Spenser
   Tom Biryceland: Michael Maloney
   Maggie Cunningham: Jill Balcon
   Gwen: Charlotte Mitchell
   Rosie: Diana Bishop
   Jack Feathers: Bryan Haines
   Larry: Tim Bentinck
   Choreographer: Michael Deacon
   Doctor: Geoffrey Collins
   Barry Jenkins: Jack Carr
   Joyce Clarke: Eve Karpf
   Brian Maybury: Peter Baldwin
   Alix Wakefield: Sonia Fraser
   Mr Wingate: Malcolm Hayes
   Mrs Stone: Margot Boyd
   Muriel: Josie Kidd
   Pam: Eva Stuart
   Alan Cunningham: John Bull
   Stephen Marley: Nigel Greaves.
Repeated 25th May 1980


20th May 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Garments by Ian Burford.
The garden of Eden.
Directed by John Cardy
   Adam: Paul Eddington
   Eve: Fenella Fielding


21st May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Albertine Pays a Call by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
No one ever sees the car arrive, and no one ever sees it leave.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Blanche: Gladys Spencer
   Clarice: June Barrie
   Albertine: Valerie Murray


22nd May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Corpy Compo by David R. Roberts
The Evans family is having a run of bad luck.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Evans: Stephanie Fayerman
   Mam: Valerie Lilley
   Jim: David Lincoln
   Alison: Jane Collins
   Betty: Moira Hughes
   Carl: Michael Angelis
   Mr Green: Ernest Hopner
   Dad: Ken Jones
   Fred: David Jackson
   Mr Lewis: Peter Wheeler
   Chairman: Charles Foster


23rd May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Fictions, by Gordon McKerrow
When a stunt man can't cope anymore.
Directed by Penny Gold
   Martin: Rodney Bewes
   Dilly: Carole Hayman
   David Daker: Fisher
   Wormwood: Roger Hammond
   Secretary: Josie Kidd
   Stanley: Gordon Reid
   Diggory: Danny Schiller
   Social Security Officer: Christopher Scott
[The 4th play in a row with no repeats...]

[Several times this year Radio 4 simulcast with Radio 3 from 15.25 to 17.00- with programming from R3]


24th May 1980
20.00-21.58
Man and Superman(1903) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Directed by John Tydeman
   John Tanner: Alec McCowen
   Ann Whitefield: Anna Massey
   Roebuck Ramsden: Michael Denison
   Mrs Whitefield: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
   Octavius Robinson: Gary Bond
   Mr Malone: Norman Rodway
   Henry Straker: Nigel Anthony
   Miss Ramsden: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Violet Robinson: Carole Boyd
   Hector Malone: Peter Whitman
   Maid: Norma Ronald
   Narrator: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated from 25th November 1974.
Repeated 24th December 1984.


26th May 1980
15.02
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Set in 1903. Medical resources are limited. The doctor can save one life- whose?
Directed by John Tydeman
   Emmy: Margot Boyd
   Redpenny: Tim Brierley
   Sir Ridgeon: Derek Godfrey
   Leo Schutzmacher: John Gabriel
   Sir Patrick Cullen: Cyril Luckmam
   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 from 1st January 1979.
Repeated 28th December 1984
[Also produced by Wilfrid Grantham in 1954]
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1966 rptd 1971]
[Also produced by Michael Grandage in 1999 rptd 2000 for R3]
[Shaw wrote an excellent preface to this play which amongst other things called for better living conditions- and a public health service. He also warned of later privatisations ("for efficiency") if a public service was introduced. ]


26th May 1980
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Bracelet by Gilly Fraser
A painter hears voices.
Music composed and conducted by Ilona Sekacz
Piano: Claire Van Kampen;
Guitar: Ray Bussell;
Bass guitar: De Lisle Harper;
Drums: Barry De Souza.
Directed By Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Frankie and Alice: Maureen O'Brien
   Chrissie and Francesca: Carole Hayman
   Dan and Daniel: Martin Jarvis
Repeated 1st June 1980


27th May 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: After India by Chris Barlas
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Bajaj: Ronald Herdman
   Scrivener: Ronald Baddiley
   Everett: Geoffrey Banks
   Peters: Peter John
   Govinda/ Vernon: Peter Wheeler
   Ros: Eileen O'Brien
   Herbert: Graham Roberts


28th May 1980
15.15
The Great God Mogadon by Barry Oakley
Directed for the Australian Broadcasting Commission by Michael Ingamells
   Anderson: Tony Sheldon
   Keefe: Phillip Hinton
   Voice coach: Tim Eliot
   Johnson: Ronald Falk
   Lampedusa: Brian Harrison
   Lord Mayor: Richard Meikle
Also with Colin Gibson and Michael Gow


29th May 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Time Regained by Eva Figes (1932-2012).
Memories of a WW2 refugee to the countryside.
Piano: Geoffrey Burford
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Narrator: Susan Engel
   Mother: Susan Kodicek
   Eva: Anne Traill
   Ernest: Bertram Beilke
   Orlando: Nigel Greaves
   Hillier: Sonia Fraser
   Zoe: Avril Elgar
   Isolde: Zoe Blaney
   Jean: Amanda Murray
   Christel: Sarah English
   Ruth: Madeline Cemm
   Jack: John Church
   Joyce: Selekma Brohi
also with Diana Bishop, Josie Kidd, Graham Faulkner, Anthony Hyde , Michael McStay, Haydn Wood and The Children of St Barnabas and St Philip's Church Of England Primary School
[The author was 8 when she was evacuated- and she was a German born child in England.]


30th May 1980
15.02
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), dramatised by Athene Fielding
   Violin: Lionel Bentley
   Piano: Stuart Hutchinson
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Yevgeny Bazarov: John Castle
   Arkady Kirsanov: Michael Cochrane
   Madame Odintsova: Ann Bell
   Nikolai: Maurice Denham
   Pavel: John Carson
   Vassily: Patrick Troughton
   Arina: Mary Wimbush
   Katya: Emily Richard
   Princess Marintsova/ Princess Mavra: Anna Wing
   Fenetchka: Amanda Murray
   Timotheitch: Brian Haines
   Sitnikov/ Fedka: Brian Carroll
   Kolvazin: John Bott
   Dunyasha/ Sonya: Josie Kidd
   Narrator/ Governor: Alexander John
   Bazarov (as a child): Jill Lidstone
Also with Gordon Reid, Nigel Greaves, Christopher Scott
Repeated 2nd June 1980


31st May 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Blithedale Romance (1852) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) dramatised by William Ash
A commune in the USA in 1841.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Miles Coverdale: Jonathan Newth
   Zenobia: Sarah Badel
   Zenobia: James Laurenson
   Priscilla: Deborah Makepeace
   Silas Foster/Spectator: James Tomlinson
   Westervelt / First companion: Andy Rashleigh
   Moodie / Second companion: Simon Molloy
   Woman: Diana Flacks
[The author was a founding member of a utopian farming commune]
[BBC Genome lists two actors for Zenobia, in the book a female role]


3rd June 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Small Desperation by Pete Lowe
School days.
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
Actors: Michael Hordern and Michael Maloney
Repeated 17th October 1981
[ A BBC Radio Medway play competition prize-winner ]


4th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Last Tango in Salford by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
The attractions of dancing.
Directed by Alaric Cotter
BBC Birmingham
   Graham: Paul Copley
   Sandra: Jill Meers
   Donald/Chinese waiter: Geoffrey Matthews


5th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Grand Gesture by Ian Taylor
Walking the line.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Peter: David Goodland
   Jenny: Jenny McCracken
   Mrs Bartram: Nan Munro
   Bloomdale: Hedley Goodall
   Howard: Roy Spencer
   Lawrence: Paul Nicholson
   Paula: Wendy Lovelock
   Tim: John Hartoch
   Joe: Nat Pearn


6th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Badbury Rings by Ian Dougall
Directed By: Richard Wortley
   the writer: John Rowe
   Zoe: Lolly Cockerell
   Man in dance hall: Nigel Greaves
   Woman in dance hall/Raver: Rowena Roberts
   Guest-house owner: Diana Bishop
   ????: Christopher Scott
   Wife: Carol Marsh
   Solicitor: Leonard Fenton
   Separated men: Martin Friend and Michael McStay
   Raver/Riding mistress: Penelope Reynolds
   Dot: Jenny Lee
[Badbury Rings is in east Dorset]


7th June 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Geminus by Guy Meredith (1953-2023)
People sometimes look alike.
Guitar: John Bull
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   John (Geminus): Michael Byrne
   Wendy (Gemina): Carole Hayman
   Researcher 1: George Baker
   Researcher 2: William Nighy
   Mother: Sonia Fraser
   Professor: Patrick Barr
   Operator: John Rogan
   Ex flatmate: Michael McStay
   Robert's mother: Diana Bishop
   Greta Douglas/Teacher: Carrie Lee-Baker
   Headmaster: John Bott
   Voice: Alexander John
   Teachers: Gordon Reid and John Bull
Repeated 9th June 1980


8th June 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: What Maisie Knew by Henry James, dramatised by Joan O'Connor
The child of a failed marriage.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Nannie: Peggy Aitchison
   Beale Farange: David Buck
   Maisie: Helen Worth
   Ida Farange: Moira Redmond
   Isabel: Diana Bishop
   Mabel: Bonnie Hurren
   Maude: Hilda Schroder
   Miss Overmore: Caroline John
   Susan: Sylvia Brayshay
   Mrs Wix: Katherine Parr
   Sir Claude: Edward Fox
   Mr Perriam: John Samson
   Maid: Sandra Clark
   Captain: Vernon Joyner
   Countess: Elaine Ives Cameron
   Porter: Robin Browne
Repeated from 25th June 1973 (Producer then listed as Jane GRAHAM)
[Also directed by Celia de Wolff in 2003 in two parts with Rebecca Padley as Maisie ]
[Also directed in five parts of 14 minutes, by Nadia Molinari on R4X in 2018-2023 with Talia Barnett as Maisie.]


9th June 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Find Me (1977) by Olwen Wymark (1932-2013)
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Jean, the mother: Hannah Gordon
   Verity: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Edward, the fattier: Michael Spice
   Narrator: John Church
   Mark, age 10: Jill Lidstone
   Mark, age 15: Nigel Greaves
   Miss Everitt: Amanda Murray
   Nicky: Maggie Peacock
   French waitress: Eve Karpf
   Dottie: Jenny Lee
   Tom: Alexander John
   Nurse: Lolly Cockerell
   Geoff: Sian Probert
   Ted: Brian Haines
   Dora: Diana Bishop
   Cosultant: Denys Hawthorne
   Sister M'oses: Sonia Fraser
   Teacher: Josie Kidd
Repeated 15th June 1980
[In the acknowledgements at the start of the script, Wymark explains that she worked very closely with the parents of the child that the story is based on. The girl herself is believed to have written a swimming gala scene.]


10th June 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Probe by Peter Hawkins
Shopping for spectacles.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   David: Christian Rodska
   Grandad: Geoffrey Banks
   Mum: Judith Barker
   Lorry driver: John Jardine
   Woman: Kathleen Helme
   Receptionist: Sally Gibson
   Optician: Paul Webster


11th June 1980
15.15-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: ? No title by ? No name
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   John: Peter Henderson Jeffrey?
   Mrs Brock: Eva Stuart
   Malcom: Christopher Scott
   Godfrey Burgess: Gordon Reid
   Dolly Armstrong: Eve Karpf
[BBC Genome gives no identifying details for this play. The first named actor may be Peter Jeffrey.]


12th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Our Children's Children by Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill
Cruel teenagers.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Edith: Pauline Letts
   Lee: Peter Duncan
   Steven: Patrick Field
   Debbie: Rowena Roberts
   Karen: Sylvestra Le Touzel
   Frank: Gordon Reid
   Norma: Jenny Lee
   Ken: Haydn Wood
   Tricia: Maggie Peacock
   Neighbour: Josie Kidd


13th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Nobby by A. S. Robertson
A seaside boarding house.
Directed by Peter King
   Nobby: Jimmy Jewell
   Elaine: Diana Dors
   Gerry: Ronald Herdman
   Cathy: Gabrielle Daye
   Margaret: Anne Dyson
   Peter: Haydn Wood


14th June 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Girl at Risk by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Inspector Savage: John Bott
   Sergeant Eaves: Henry Knowles
   Sylvie Eaves: Josie Kidd
   Jan Ridings: Karen Archer
   Molly Ridings: Shirley Dixon
   Ellis Smales: Lee Harrington
   Sandy Smales/Vera: Norma Ronald
   Terry: Gordon Reid
   Policewoman: Eve Karpf
   Jo: Rowena Roberts
   Admirer in strip show: Martin Friend
   Boy with long hair: Nigel Greaves
   Chief Supt Jeffries/Publican: Leonard Fenton
Repeated 16th June 1980
[Savage and Eaves also appear in Prior's plays "The Takers" broadcast 23rd June 1980, also in "Burglars" broadcast 12th May 1984]


16th June 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Now and at the Hour of Our Birth by Bruce Stewart
Paranoia and drugs mix badly.
Organ and celeste: Geoffrey Brawn
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   The Rev Jim Jones: Lee Montague
   Edith Bessamer: Hilda Kriseman
   MacElvane: Murray Kash
   Marceline Jones: Helen Horton
   Bridie Pastorelle: Catherine Kessler
   Harriet Trent: Amanda Murray
   Richard Trent: Ed Bishop
   Sweet Daddy Grace: Brian Haines
   Don Harris: John Church
   Congressman Ryan: Paul Maxwell
   Larry Schacht: Tim Bentinck
   Maria Katsaris: Beth Porter
   Ben Larsen: Robert Beatty
   Lenin: Brian Carroll
   Sharon Amos: Annie Ross
   Luscombe: Anthony Hyde
Repeated 22nd June 1980


17th June 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Back Step by Lesley Clive
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Eunice: June Barry
   Pat: Maureen O'Brien
   Arthur: Ken Jones
   Ruth: Sheila Fay
   Keith: Brian Carroll


18th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Time After Time by Gerry Jones
A strange place he cannot leave...
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
   Garage man,: Robin Browne
   Ann: Sarah Badel
   Shop assistant/Nurse: Susan Sloman
   Doctor: Peter Baldwin
Repeated from 30th May 1979
Repeated 25th April 1984
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2022]
[Martin Jenkins also produced a version in 2006 with Anton Lesser as Robert and Michael Delaney as Paul]


19th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Another World (1972) by James Hanley (1897-1985)
Directed By: David Spenser
   Miss Vaughan: Anna Cropper
   Mrs Gandell: Frances Cuka
   Mr Jones: Anthony Hall
   The Rev Melvyn Thomas: William Squire
   Marged Thomas: Rachel Thomas
   Mr Prothero: Derek Pollitt
   Sarah Traton: Rowena Roberts
   Mr Blair: Michael McStay
   Mr Wills: Sion Probert


20th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Bingley's Nero Complex by Allan Surtees (1924-2000)
Whodunnit
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Brenda Bingley: Frances Jeater
   Joseph Bingley: John Baddeley
   Hetty Bingley: Katherine Parr
   Inspector Lockwood: Alan Downer
   Sergeant Redding: David Sinclair
   Jessica Maddox: Sonia Fraser
   Sheila Shepherd: Amanda Murray
   Tony: Nigel Greaves
   Mr Burnage: Denys Hawthorne
   Douglas Langdale: Brian Carroll
["Nero Complex: To take the position of ignoring something that should require your immediate attention."]


21st June 1980
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Takers by Allan Prior (1922-2006).
Directed by Gerry Jones.
   Inspector Savage: John Bott
   Sergeant Eaves: Henry Knowles
   Sylvie Eaves: Josie Kidd
   Morris: Geoffrey Matthews
   Lois: Heather Bell
   Roy: Jim McManus
   Solly: Ronald Herdman
   Clem: Martin Friend
   Clerk: Brian Carroll
   Bar manager/Money man: John Church
   Barman/Radio announcer: Gordon Reid
   Racing commentator: Christopher Scott
Repeated 23rd June 1980


23rd June 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Traveller Without Luggage (1937) by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) translated (1959) by John Whiting
France 1936.
Directed by Graham Gauld
   The Duchesse Dupont-Dufort: Flora Robson
   Mme Renaud: Mary Ellis
   Valentine: Jane Asher
   Gaston: Geoffrey Beevers
   Georges: Brian Haines
   Maitre Huspar: Leonard Fenton
   Juliette: Diana Bishop
   Butter: Jonathan Scott
   Valet: Haydn Wood
   A small boy: Arthur Baycraft
   Maitre Pickwick: Sion Probert
Repeated 29th June 1980
[Raymond Raikes produced a version in 1953 for R3 rpt R4 1954, using a translation by Lewis Galantiere]
[Original title "Le Voyageur sans bagage" the play's first English stage performance was under the title "Identity Unknown"]


24th June 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Albert's Quest by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Abert: Doug Fisher
   Dennis: Brian Southwood
   Irene/Barmaid: Christine Welch
   Policeman/Customer: Keith Ladd
   Edwin/Photographer: Michael Poole
   Barbara: Kate Lee


25th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Audience (1975) by Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
Place: Czechoslovakia.
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
   Ferdinand Vanek: Harold Pinter
   Head Maltster: Peter Vaughan
First broadcast on Radio 3 on 3rd April and 2nd October 1977.
Repeated on Radio 3 on 22nd May 1994.
[Havel worked for a brief time at Krakonos Brewery]
[The character Ferdinand also appeared in the plays 'Protest'(R3 13/7/80, 29/10/80, 9/10/86);'Unveiling' and 'Dozens of Cousins' - and appeared in plays written by at least five others.]


26th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Snowstorm (1830) by Alexandre Sergevitch Pushkin (1799-1837), dramatised by Jane Beeson
1811: Napoleon's army is advancing through Russia.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Marya: Janet Maw
   Burmin: David Savile
   Vladimir: Michael Maloney
   Praskovya: Mary Wimbush
   Tanya: Rosalind Adams
   Teryoshka: John Bull
   Gavrila: Anthony Newlands
   Priest: Brian Haines
   Dravin: Philip Voss
   Postmaster: Peter Baldwin
   Schmidt: Gordon Reid
   Uhlan/Ivan: David Timson
   Old peasant/Second peasant: Danny Schiller
   Sonya/2nd Girl: Josie Kidd
Also with Eve Karpf
[Book also known as "The Blizzard"]
[Originally scheduled for 1st May 1980, the news events of the Iranian Embassy Siege took precedence]


27th June 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Echoes by Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019)
Directed by Liane Aukin
   Marika: Linda Polan
   Jimmy: Richard Proctor
   Shopkeeper: Lolly Cockerell
   Mrs Price: Sonia Fraser
   Children: Elinor Jason and Benjamin Midgley
   Clive: Ian Hoare
   Mother: Diana Bishop
   Father: Simon Coady
   Jan: Leonard Fenton
   Firemen: John Bott and Gordon Reid


28th June 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Over the Moon/Sick as a Parrot by Neville Smith
The play will be written and performed on location following the European Football Championship in Italy
Technical presentation by Cedric Johnson (Italy) and David Greenwood (London)
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Niall Grogan: Tony Osoba
   Kenneth Oakley: Neville Smith
Repeated 30th June 1980
[England dropped out of Group 2 on 18th June. The final was won on 22nd June 1980 by West Germany.]


30th June 1980
19.45-21.40
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
Music composed and conducted by Terence Allbright
Musicians: Harp: Skaila Kanga; Trombone: Alan Tomlinson; Trumpets: Michael Laird and Peter Reeve; Percussion: John Royston Mitchell.
Technical Assistance: Peter Novis; Janet Mitchell; Enyd Clowes
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Caesar: Alan Badel
   Cleopatra: Sarah Badel
   Ftatateeta: Beatrix Lehmann
   the God Ra: David March
   Pothinus: Peter Woodthorpe
   Rufio: Hector Ross
   Britannus: Nigel Lambert
   Apollodorus: Sandor Eles
   Theodotus: Alan Dudley
   Ptolemy: Judy Bennett
   Achillas: Paul Gaymon
   Lucius Septimius: Alan Rowe
   Centurion: Anthony Smee
   Iras: Emily Richard
   Charmian: Eva Haddon
   Major Domo: Peter Whitman
A revision of the broadcast of 21st April 1975, repeated 6th March 1978.
Repeated 27th August 1990
[Shaw wrote two versions of The Prologue and was constantly rewriting the play].
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1966 with Maurice Denham as Julius Ceaser and Dorothy Tutin as Cleopatra].


1st July 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Marking Time by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Boys at a private school have harmful fun.
With the children of St Barnabas and St Philip's Church Of England Primary School
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Edward Crabtree: Richard Hurndall
   Evelyn Crabtree: Georgine Anderson
   the Headmaster: Michael Spice


2nd July 1980
15.15
Afternoon Theatre: Impostors by Peter Francis Browne
The priest is a poet.
Director: Enyd Williams
BBC Wales
   Father Parry: Meredith Edwards
   Bennett: Nigel Anthony
   Mrs Owen: Pauline Letts
   Narrator: Petra Davies


3rd July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Geometry by Rachel Wyatt
A new teacher arrives.
Directed By: Pat Trueman
   George: Alfred Burke
   Ellen: Anna Cropper
   Giles: Anthony Hyde


4th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Grandad Never Told Lies by Ivor Wilson
Grandad leaves home.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Annie: Lorraine Peters
   Raymond: Colin Meredith
   Grandad: Geoffrey Banks
   Jack: Andy Rashleigh
   Josie: Judith Barker


5th July 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The 40 Shilling Trick by David Parker
The problems faced by a union shop-steward.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Anne Flyn: Carole Hayman
   Jamie Flyn: Russell Dixon
   Sandra: Reggae Ranjha
   Maren: Geoffrey Hinsliff
   McGregor: Robert McIntosh
   Sanderson: Malcolm Hebden
   Mrs McGregor: Margo Gunn
   Jones: Alan Rothwell
   Automatic: John Jardine
   First striker: Martin Oldfield
   Second striker: Colin Meredith
   Mrs Atkinson: Anne Reid
   Atkinson: Peter Wheeler
   Jacobson: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 7th July 1980


6th July 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: My Name is Linda by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
The problems 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 Goldie
   Sheila: Cherry Gilliam
   Police Constable: Peter Baldwin
Repeated from 14th July 1979


7th July 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Father and his Fate (1957) by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969), dramatised by Priscilla Allen
A widower plans on remarrying.
Directed by John Cardy
   Miles: Joss Ackland
   Eliza: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Malcolm: Brian Carroll
   Verena: Maureen O'Brien
   Ursula: Petra Markham
   Ellen: Margaret Ward
   Nigel: Christopher Scott
   Rudolf: Anthony Hyde
   Miss Gibbon: Sonia Fraser
Repeated 13th July 1980
[Also produced by Christopher Sykes for R3 in 1957 with Prunella Scales as Verena]


8th July 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sky High Dreamer by Sheila Hodgson (1921-1971)
Directed by David Johnston
   Wayland Scott: Lockwood West
   Dyson: Nelson Ward
   Felix: Gerald Cox
Repeated 16th June 1981.


9th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Man Without a Face by Erik Rohde Nielsen translated by Dick Platt.
There are noises on the roof.
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Hans: James Greene
   Inger: Eve Karpf
   Petersen: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Petersen: Jenny Lee
   Hansen: Patrick Barr
   Mrs Hansen: Sonia Fraser
   Andersen/First policeman: Leonard Fenton
   Ernst/Second policeman: Graham Faulkner
   Doctor/Soren: John Church
   Pastor/Jesen: Martin Friend
   Men in crowd: Haydn Wood and Anthony Hyde
[The title has been much used elsewhere but other works are not related]


10th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Pot of Gold by Titus Maccius Plautus (c 254 BC-184 BC) translated, modernised, and adapted by Martyn Wade
His daughter's wedding day.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Euclio: Nigel Stock
   Lyconides: Christopher Good
   Eunomia: Margot Boyd
   Megadorus: Philip Voss
   Strobilus: Peter Baldwin
   Phaedria: Eve Karpf
   Staphyla: Sonia Fraser
   Anthrax /cashier: Michael McStay
   Congerio/Man in queue: John Rye
   Flute girl: Josie Kidd
Repeated 26th March 1982 and 11th November 1990.
[The original play was "Aulularia", which had a missing ending, and only a summary of the end].


11th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Certain Souvenirs by Jan Needle (James Albert Needle).
Two people share a long train journey.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Joe: Sean Barrett
   Irene: Elizabeth Proud
   Narrator: Alfred Burke


12th July 1980
14.30
A Dance to the Music of Time: At Lady Molly's (1957) (Book 4 of 12) by Anthony Powell (1905-2000), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Part 1 of 3.
Title music composed by Antony Miall
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Nicholas Jenkins: Noel Johnson
   the younger Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Lady Molly: Sian Phillips
   Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   General Conyers: William Fox
Other actors taking part:
   Peggy Paige; Gordon Dulieu; Garard Green; John Bott; John Levitt; John Church; Sonia Fraser; Phyllida Nash; Anne Rosenfeld; R S Campbell; Josie Kidd;
Additional actors in later parts:
   Christopher Good; Elizabeth Proud; Lolly Cockerell; Alexander John; Paul Lowther; Brian Carrol; Margaret Ford; David Alder; Sion Probert; Leonard Fenton; Jenny Lee; Andrew Branch; John Bull; Iain Mitchell; Christopher Scott; Godfrey Kenton; Martin Friend; Anthony Hyde; Bernard Brown; Penny Brownjohn; Paddy Turner; Geoffrey Collins; Liza Flanagan; Jill Balcon; Monica Grey; Amanda Murray; Josephine Gordon
Pt2:19/7/80 Pt3:26/7/80
Each part repeated after three 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.]


12th July 1980
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Obituary by Peter Silcock
Brazil. 1976. A teacher from Britain arrives to teach at the University in Rio.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Richard McNeil: Russell Dixon
   Valeria de Couto: Judith Arthy
   John Bowers: Anthony Hyde
   Jerry Lister/Alvares: Alexander John
   George Ginley: Roger Snowdon
   Oliver: Patrick Barr
   Marcia/Lana: Rosalind Adams
   Carlos/Gerry Murphy: Peter Craze
   Merle: Keith Alexander
   Secretary: Madeleine Cemm
   Clerk/Ricardo de Couto: Rex Holdsworth
Repeated 14th July 1980


14th July 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot (George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880)) dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
The story of a weaver.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Silas Marner: Michael Deacon
   Narrator: Gordon Reid
   Pastor/Dr Kimble: Henry Knowles
   William Dane: Albert Welling
   Mrs Osgood/Mrs Oates: Diana Mull
   Dunstan: Nigel Greaves
   Godfrey: Tony Chambers
   Boy: Simon Richmond
   Mr Bryce: John Church
   Mr Macey: Brian Haines
   Ben Winthrop: Bunny Reed
   Dolly Winthrop: Jill Balcon
   Mr Snell: Chris Hallam
   Mr Dowlas: Sion Probert
   Nancy Lammeter: Mandy Cuthbert
   Squire Cass: Patrick Barr
   Solomon/Rodney,: Graham Faulkner
   Eppie: Rosalind Adams
   Aaron: Christopher Scott
   Voice/ Huntman: Nigel Lambert
Repeated 20th July 1980


16th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Brontes of Haworth
by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
1 of 5: The Little King
Directed by Dickon Reed
A BBC World Service Drama production
   Jane Knowles: Estelle Kohler
   Charlotte, Emily, and Anne: Vicki Ireland
   Branwell: Brian Hewlett
   The Rev Patrick Bronte: Denys Hawthorne
   Aunt Branwell: Janet Burnell
   Woolven/Sugden: Kevin Flood
   Bennett/Man in pub: Manning Wilson
   Branwell as a boy/Mary Taylor: Rosalind Adams
   Tabitha: Kathleen Helme
   John Brown/Tom Spring: Christopher Saul
   Feather/Waiter: Harold Kasket
   Bob: Edward McCarthy
   Elizabeth: Jane Knowles
   Mrs Gaskell, who tells the story: Sheila Allen
Additional cast in later episodes:
   Brian Hewlett, Alaric Cotter, Andre Maranne, Anthony Newlands, David Strong, Gavin Campbell, Hilda Kriseman, Jennifer Piercey, Joan Blackham, John Rowe, Julian Fox, Margot Boyd, Peter Pacey, Philip Sully, Roberta Symes, Shirley Dixon, Susan Sheridan
Pt2:23/7/80 Pt3:30/7/80 Pt4:6/8/80 Pt5:13/8/80
[Christopher Fry wrote the script for the four part 1975 Yorkshire tv program of this name]


17th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Fall of Leaves by Colin Haydn Evans
The new teacher is a novelty.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin.
BBC Bristol
   John: Colin Baker
   Clare: Sarah Sutton
   Kate: Meg Davies
   Josie: Louise Jameson
   Mr Mayhew: Roger Snowdon
   Mrs Mayhew: Sally Lahee
   Ann Jennings: Heather Moray
   Arthur: Rex Holdsworth
Repeated 12th February 1982


18th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Variation on the Snow Queen by Valerie Windsor
A world of chaos.
Technical presentation David Fleming-Williams, Mark Skyler and Maggie Richmond
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Katherine Anson: Brigit Forsyth
   Nurse Bateman: Sally Gibson
   Staff Nurse Dawkins: Eileen O'Brien
   Jack/Dr Hamble: Andy Rashleigh
   Pat (In therapy): Daphne Oxenford
   Philip/Dr Lomax: Russell Dixon
   Nurse Ivieson/Pat: Sue Jenkins
   Dr Furness: Simon Molloy
   Nurse Jones: Judith Barker
   Katherine's mother: Diana Flacks
   Katherine's father: John Jardine
   Mr Clarke/Dr Knightly: Alan Rothwell
Repeated 25th January 1982
[A binaural broadcast for listening to on stereo headphones]


19th July 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Love on the Dole (1933) by Walter Greenwood (1903-1974) adapted (1935) by Ronald Gow
1934. An ordinary Lancashire family.
Directed by Eric Thompson
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Sally Hardcastle: Johanna Kirby
   Mrs Hardcastle: Carmel McSharry
   Larry Meath: Joseph Peters
   Johnny Hardcastle: Alan Parnaby
   Mr Hardcastle: John Bardon
   Mrs Jike: Rosalind Knight
   Mrs Dorbell: Judith Barker
   Mrs Bull: Rita Lester
   Helen Hawkins: Lindsay Blackwell
   Charlie: Ron Emslie
   Sam Grundy: Nick Stringer
   O'Leary: Alan McMahon
Repeated 21st July 1980
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1955 with Brian Wilde as Larry, and Belle Chrystall as Sally]
[Also produced by Vivian A Daniels in 1965. rptd 1972, with Billie Whitelaw as Sally, James Bolam as Larry, Roy Kinnear as Sam]
[Also produced by Pat Trueman in 1987 with David Schofield as Larry and Stephen Thorne as Sam]


21st July 1980
18.30
Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Magnus Piecan: John Church
   Mr Winter: Anthony Hall
   Oswald Gladstone: Kelvin Omardi
   Mr Justice Everglades: Godfrey Kenton
   Detective Inspector Arthur: John Hollis
   Nick Rumpole: Michael Maloney
Repeated 23rd July 1980
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2008, 2009]


21st July 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: God's Chosen Children by Ramsay Williams (1917-1981)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was established 150 years ago this year. This is its story.
Hymns sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City, USA
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Brigham Young: Ramsay Williams
   John Taylor: Bob Sherman
   Mary Kendall: Ann Murray
   Amelia Kendall: Eva Haddon
   Kendall: Hal Jeayes
   Lydia: Amanda Murray
   Will: Peter Whitman
   Nephi/Sam Houston: Garrick Hagon
   Rigdon: Keith Alexander
   Kimball: Patrick Barr
   Pratt: Rex Holdsworth
   Filbert/Horace Greeley/Porter: Bill Wallis
   McBride/Leon: Tim Bentinck
   Larsen/Silas Creel: Graham Faulkner
   Jones/Stanger/Dennis: Kerry Shale
   Flora/Hepzibah: Amanda Bell
   Angel: Margaret Robertson
Repeated 27th July 1980


22nd July 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Round Trip by John Farrimond
Directed by David Sheasby
BBC Manchester
   Mick: Andrew Myers
   Tommy: Stephen Unsworth
   Man: John Jardine
   
   
24th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Super-hero for Our Times by Chris Allen
Radiophonic music by Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Dr Beavan Graham Callan
   Gerry Kipling: Barry Foster
   Celia Kipling: Sonia Fraser
   Simon Pendry: Brian Carroll
   Bob Pendry: Tony Chambers
   Therese: Emily Richard
   Brian Parker: Basil Moss
   Melvyn Dennis: Peter Forest
   Mr Marriott/Chairman: John Church
   Professor Maitland: John Bott
Also With Marie Collett, Judy Franklin, Haydn Wood, Sion Probert, Brian Haines, Astley Jones, Stuart Blake, Roy Montague and Simon Richmond
Repeated 20th November 1981


25th July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Long Weekend by Ken Blakeson
They visit his parents.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Philip: Christian Rodska
   Louise: Eve Karpf
   Dad: John Bott
   Mum: Katherine Parr
   Billy: Brian Haines
   Jackie: Frances Jeater


26th July 1980
14.30
A Dance to the Music of Time: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) (Book 5 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: Noel Johnson
   the younger Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   Lady Isobel: Elizabeth Proud
   Moreland: Sion Probert
   Maclintick: Leonard Fenton
   Audrey Maclintick: Jenny Lee
   Norman Chandler: Andrew Branch
   Barnby: John Bull
   Carolo: Iain Mitchell
   Gossage: Christopher Scott
   Mr Deacon: Godfrey Kenton
   St John Clarke: Martin Friend
   Robert Tolland: Anthony Hyde
   George Tolland: Bernard Brown
   Priscilla Tolland: Penny Brownjohn
   Veronica Tolland: Paddy Turner
   Roddy Cutts: Geoffrey Collins
   Susan Cutts: Lolly Cockerell
   Matilda Wilson: Liza Flanagan
   Katherine Warminster: Jill Balcon
   Mrs Foxe: Monica Grey
   Norma: Amanda Murray
   Street singer: Josephine Gordon
Additional actors in part 2:
Simon Cadell, Gordon Dulieu, John Levitt, Phyllida Nash, Paul Lowtrer, Margaret Ford, Leonard Fenton, Paddy Turner, John Pullen.
Pt2:2/8/80
Each part repeated after three days.
[Please see 12th July 1980 above for a full list of the books and broadcast dates.]


26th July 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Paper Tigers by Edwin Pearce
What follows an industrial dispute.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Peter Barnwell: Paul Copley
   Geoff Harmer: Terry Molloy
   Sarah: Patricia Gallimore
   Lawrence: John Rowe
   Gerald: Stephen Hancock
   Karen: Heather Barrett
   Editor: Martin Friend
   Editor's secretary: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   Jock Galloway: Bob Docherty
   Jacko: Ralph Lawton
   PC Macklin: Graham Padden
   Solicitor for the defence: Alexander John
   Solicitor for the prosecution: Jack Holloway
   Waiter: Garard Green
Repeated 28th July 1980


28th July 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Dear Departed by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Miss Beasley: Jill Balcon
   Mr Pontefract: Preston Lockwood
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Mr Justice Venables: Peter Pratt
   Percival Ollard: Martin Friend
Repeated 30th July 1980
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2008, 2009 and R4X 2011,2013,2016]


28th July 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The World Walk by Jonathan Smith
Based on Spandau: The Secret Diaries (1975) by Albert Speer (1905-1981). translated by Richard Winston (1917-1979) and Clara Winston(1921-1983)
On 30 September 1966 Speer was released from Spandau prison. He had completed the full term of 20 years.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin.
BBC Bristol
   No 5: Albert Speer: John Franklyn-Robbins
   No 7, Rudolph Hess: Timothy Bateson
   No 1, Baldur Von Schirach: Bill Wallis
   No 2, Grand Admiral Donitz: Brian Haines
   Anton, the medical orderly: Christian Rodska
   Private Watkins: Peter Postlethwaite
   French guard: John Bull
   British director: David Timson
   Margret Speer: Rosemary Whitfield
   Speer's father: Ronald Russell
   Gauleiter Karl Hanke: Martin Friend
Repeated 3rd August 1980
[This play was controversial in 1980 as being an oversimplification of a long work - a work which was a self recreation of disputed honesty by Speer. The play is a work of fiction.]


29th July 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Festival of Bacchus by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) translated and adapted by Basil Ashmore (1915-1998)
And thus a marriage ends.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Dr Guido Wernig: Martin Jarvis
   Agnes Staufner: Maureen O'Brien
   Felix Staufner: Dinsdale Landen
   Waitress: Josie Kidd
   Ticket inspector: Gordon Reid
[The story appeared in the book "Comedies of Words and Other Plays" (1917)]


31st July 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Summer Madness by John P. Rooney
India: November 1920. A peaceful demonstration.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Colonel Deacon: Ronald Baddiley
   Lt Leader: Steve Hodson
   Father Baker: Basil Moss
   James Daly: Jim Norton
   Joe Hawes: Sean Barrett
   Sergeant: Michael Duffy
   Pat Gogarty: Barry McGovern
   The singer: Tony McAuley
   Poems read by: Alan Devlin
Repeated 13th May 1982, 30th July 1982


1st August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: When There's Nowhere Else to Go by T. D. Webster
The return of the prodigal son.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Bill: Roger Hume
   Arthur: Colin Douglas
   Brian: Nigel Lambert
   Ann: Maggie McCarthy
   Gwen: Patricia Gallimore
   Alice: Heather Barrett
   Linda: Jane Galloway
   Mr Martin: Ralph Lawton


2nd August 1980
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: South Sea Bubble by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
A British colonial territory in the Pacific.
Directed By: David Johnston
   John Blair-Kennedy (Boton): Hugh Burden
   Capt Christopher Mortlock.: Nigel Greaves
   Sir George Shotter: Michael Denison
   Lady Alexandra: Moira Lister
   Punalo Alani: Bryan Pringle
   Sanyamo: Leonard Fenton
   Edward Honey: Lockwood West
   Cuckoo Honey: Margaretta Scott
   Admiral Turling: Patrick Barr
   Mrs Turling: Grizelda Hervey
   Hall Alani: Tony Osoba
   Robert Frome: Michael McStay
Repeated 4th August 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017]
[The play was performed in 1951 as "Island Fling" but rewritten in 1956]


4th August 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: And Margot Boyd
   P J Fosdyke: Alan Dudley
   Sue Galton: Emily Richard
   Peter Vernon: Nigel Greaves
   Humphrey Grice: Gerald Cross
   Sir Alan Tufnell: Trevor Baxter
   Bernard Crompton: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Judge: Brian Sanders
Repeated 6th August 1980
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2008, 2009, and R4X 2011, 2013, 2016]


4th August 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Norwich Incident by Paul M. Levitt
Norwich, 1144. A community is punished badly for "being different".
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Hugh Bigod: Michael Spice
   Bulwer Stowt: Henry Knowles
   Mapes/Henry de Sprowston: Peter Tuddenham
   John Cheyney: John Castle
   Richard Malebysse: Anthony Hyde
   Sir Simon des Noyers: Denys Hawthorne
   Lanarsa: Anna Cropper
   Jurnet: Leonard Fenton
   Eleazar: Martin Friend
   Mary/Fausset Mensonge: Diana Bishop
   Godeliva/Lady Legarda: Jenny Lee
   Bishop Turbe: Anthony Newlands
   Godwin Sturt: Michael Deacon
   ElVina: Amanda Murray
   Aelward Ded: Christopher Scott
   Theobald: Gordon Reid
Repeated 10th August 1980


5th August 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: An Office Romance by Philip Marriott
The stationery order has been phoned weekly for some years.
Directed by David Hitchinson
   Jill Morris: Shirley Dixon
   Ted Jellico: Peter Baldwin
   Telephone operator: Norma Ronald
   Kitty: Linda Robson


7th August 1980
15.15-16.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Unman, Wittering and Zigo by Giles Cooper. Abridged by Gordon House.
A new schoolmaster.
Directed by Gordon House
A BBC World Service Drama production
   John Ebony: Gawn Grainger
   the Headmaster: Benjamin Whitrow
   Cary Farthingale: David March
   Nadia: Alison Draper
   Winstanley: Fred Bryant
   Landlord/Porter: Eric Allan
   Inspector: John Bull
   Mrs Winstanley: Brenda Kaye
   Terhew.: Adam Godley
   Cloistermouth: Russell Lewis
   Cuthbun: Matthew Ryan
   Orris: Richard Porter
   Wittering: Michael Sampson
   Bungabine: Joey Clark
   Unman: David Courte
   Aggeridge: Laurence Wenlock
   Lipstrob: Jeremy Stacey
[Also produced by Donald McWhinnie for R3 in 1958, rptd 1961, 1962 with John Sharp as Cary - this version also broadcast on R4X]
[Also produced by Richard Wortley in 1984, rptd 1985, 1992 for R4]


8th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: A Fair Hearing by J. C. Wilsher
The difficulties of going to an industrial tribunal.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Ronnie Peters: Ray Lonnen
   Frank: Michael McStay
   Ann Johnston: Sandra Freeman
   Mr Exton: Brian Haines
   Tribunal Chairman/Mr Lockwood: Michael Spice
   First Tribunal member/ Mr Gardener/Mr Burgess: Robert Cawdron
   Second Tribunal mcmber/ Mr Jones: Alan Barry
   Veronica/Girl assistant: Jill Connick
   Old lady: Peggy Paige


9th August 1980:
14.30
A Dance to the Music of Time: The Kindly Ones (1962) (Book 6 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: Noel Johnson
   the younger Nicholas: Gareth Johnson
   Widmerpool: Brian Hewlett
   Lady Isobel: Elizabeth Proud
   Peter Templer: Christopher Good
   Moreland: Sion Probert
   General Conyers: William Fox
   Mrs Conyers: Peggy Paige
   Captain Jenkins: Brian Haines
   Mrs Jenkins: Ursula Hirst
   a boy Nicholas: Stephen Rooney
   Uncle Giles: Garard Green
   Roddy Cutts: Geoffrey Collins
   Matilda Moreland: Liza Flanagan
   Albert: Fred Bryant
   Dr Trewlaney: Patrick Barr
   Sir Magnus Donners: Jack May
   Bracey: Gordon Reid
   Billson: Tara Soppet
   Lady Anne Umfraville: Jenny Twigge
   Betty Templer: Eve Karpf
   Betty Templer: Nigel Greaves
Additional actors in Part 2:
   Lady Molly: Sian Phillips
   Tuffy Weedon: Margaret Ford
   Mrs Widmerpool: Eva Haddon
   Bob Duport: Michael Spice
   Ted Jeavons: John Borr
   Stanley Jeavons: Michael McStay
   Gypsy Jones: Susan Sloman
   Mrs Erdleigh: Betty Baskcomb
Part 2: 16th August 1980
Each part repeated after three days.
Please see 12th July 1980 above for list of the books and broadcasts in this series.

9th August 1980
20.30
The Silver Sky by Tanith Lee (1947-2015)
Time travel.
Music and effects created by David Fleming-William
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Paul Baxter: Paul Darrow
   Elzereth: Elizabeth Bell
   Dene: Simon Molloy
   Francesca Baxter: Anne Reid
   Clyde/Computer: Andy Rashleigh
   Sir Arthur Maddock: John Jardine
   Sir Arthur Maddock: David Fleeshman
   Reporter: John Talbot
   Reporter: Nina Holloway
   Nurse: Mary Cunningham
   Technician: Martin Oldfield
Repeated 11th August 1980


11th August 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Rotten Apple by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Director: Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Henry: Haydn Wood
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Dianne: Rowena Roberts
   Claude Erskine-Brown: Brian Carroll
   Inspector Dobbs: Don Henderson
   Mr Morse: Leonard Fenton
   Superintendent Glazier: Bernard Gallagher
   Charlie Pointer: Arthur Lovegrove
   Moreton Colefax: Jonathan Elson
   Mr Justice Vosper: Robert Harris
Repeated 13th August 1980
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2008, 2009]


11th August 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Sitting Duck by Bloke Modisane (William Modisane 1923-1986)
Technical presentation: Anna Smith, assisted by Carol Mcshane and Richard Beadsmoore
Directed By: Brian Wright
   Bra Namib: John Matshikiza
   Dr Matthew: Kerry Shale
   Father Chobe/First Elder: Lionel Ngakane
   Karamanga/Second Elder: Willie Jonah
   First villager/Sergeant/ Major: Victor Lindsay
   Second villager: Louie Mahoney
   Judge: Brian Carroll
   Zip Herzog: Ronald Lewis
   Sugar I?amara: Alton Kumalo
Repeated 17th August 1980


12th August 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Bad Samaritan by Deborah Freeman
Ruth is a house-wife.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Ruth: Linda Gardner
   Samaritan: Pauline Jefferson
   Ruth's husband: Martin Oldfield
[Not related to the play by Val Gielgud]


14th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Baby Girl by Polly Devlin
The day after the birth...
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Mrs Hallett: Maureen O'Brien
   Tom: David Buck
   Dr Barnes: David Allister
   Nurse Rawlings: Irene Sutcliffe
   Victoria: Judith Coke
   Dr Blair: Denys Hawthorne
   Nurse Cromer: Josie Kidd
   Mrs Burford: Sonia Fraser
   Mrs Koza: Valerie Murray


15th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Day Trip by Ken Blakeson and Dave Simpson
Sandra and Chris meet at the seaside.
Directed bv Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Sandra: Gwen Taylor
   Janice: Carole Hayman
   Eric: Peter Ellis
   Anne: Brigit Forsyth
   Chris: Russell Dixon
   Keith: David Beames


16th August 1980
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: And a Little Love Besides (1973) by Alan Plater (1935-2010).
The new church minister deals with a problem.
Director: Caroline Smith
   Carter: Michael Jayston
   Briggs: Malcolm Hebden
   Amy: Annette Robertson
   Mitchell: Stephen Hancock
   Hennessy: Roger Rowland
   Mrs Hennessy: Jean Rimmer
   Mis Carter: Lynda Marchal
   Linda: Sue Jenkins
Repeated 18th August 1980


18th August 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Man of God by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Judge George Frobisher: Denys Hawthorne
   Lally Bowers: Evelyn Skinner
   The Rev Mordred Skinner: Richard Vernon
   Mr Morse: Leonard Fenton
   Mrs Tempest: Jenny Lee
   Judge Bullingham: John Savident
   Mr Pratt: Michael McStay
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Erskine-Browne: Brian Carroll
   Uncle Tom: Patrick Barr
Repeated 20/8/1980
[Also broadcast on R7 2008, 2009]
[Also produced by Marilyn Imrie (45 mins) in 2012, rptd 2013 with Timothy West as Rumpole]


18th August 1980:
19.45
Misalliance (1910) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Parents and children.
Directed by John Tydeman
   John Tarleton: John Robinson
   Mrs Tarleton: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davles
   Hypatia: Anna Massey
   Johnny: Peter egan
   Lord Summerhays: Michael Aldridge
   Bentley: Christopher Tood
   Joseph Percival: Anthony Smee
   Una Szczepanowska: Jane Wenham
   The Man: Christopher Bidmead.
Repeated from R3 25/11/75, and 18/7/76
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1965 rptd 1966 for R3 with Kenneth Williams as Bentley and Andrew Sachs as The Man]


19th August 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: It's a Madness Mr Weisenfeld! by Martin De Friend
Directed By Anton Gill
   Lou: Leonard Fenton
   Millie: Miriam Margolyes
   Bernie: Harry Towb
   Rabbi Berman: John Gabriel


20th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Feast of all Fools by Sue Papworth
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Arthur: Colin Edwynn
   Tim: David Fleeshman
   Annie: Paula Tilbrook
   Fire officer/Income-tax man: Peter Wheeler
   Willie: John Branwell
   Shops Inspector: Christine Cox
   Keith Clifford: Factories Inspector
   Weights and Measures Inspector: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   VAT woman: Marlene Sidaway
   Mrs Harris: Sally Gibson


21st August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Far-off Drum by Stewart Love (1934-2021)
My mother, my father ... now it's my turn.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Sandy: Harry Towb
   Doctor/Mr Jones: Walter McMosacle
   Judith: Trudy Kelly
   Mary/Ann: Susie Kelly
   Miss Martin: Margaret D'Arcy
   Mr Nelson: Harold Coldblatt
   Sandy as a child: Judy Bennett
   Mrs Brown: Catherine Gibson
   Mr Brown: Louis Rolston
   Mr Ford/Skipper: Allan McClelland
   Grannie/Miss Nicholls: Doreen Hepburn
   Brian/Billy: Derek Halligan
   Mr Bruce/Mr Neill: P. G. Stephens
   Joe: Michael McKnight


22nd August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Centre Circle by Don Webb
A new manager of a Third Division football club solves his teams problems.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Kent: Nigel Anthony
   Jimmy/Equipment rep: Leo Atkin
   Davy: Simon Molloy
   Stone: Christopher Godwin
   Councillor Jones: Ronald Baddiley
   Chris: June Barry
   Brian Jones/Photographer: Russell Dixon
   Tommy Cole: Malcolm Hebden
   Billy Taylor: Martin Oldfield
   Roberts: Keith Clifford
   Model: Karen Petrie
   Waites: Randal Hurley


23rd August 1980
14.30
The Golden Bowl (1904) by Henry James (1843-1916), dramatised by William Ash
Directed by David Spenser
1 of 6
   Maggie Verver: Maureen O'Brien
   Charlotte Stant: Zoe Wanamaker
   the Prince: James Laurenson
   Mrs Assingham: Gwen Watford
   Henry James: David March
   Col Assingham: John Bott
   Antique Dealer: Martin Friend
Additional actors in later parts:
   Italian Ambassador: John Church
   Mrs Hance: Jenny Lee
   Adam Verver: Paul Maxwell
Pt2:30/8/80 Pt3:6/9/80 Pt4:13/9/80 Pt5:20/9/80 Pt6:27/9/80
All parts repeated after three days.
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen for R3 in 1955 rptd 1956 with Peter Wyngarde and Clare Austin]
[Also produced by Nadia Molinari in three parts in 2018, rptd 2021, with Daisy Head and Toby Jones, repeated R4X 2022]


23rd August 1980
19.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Events at Black Tor by Roy Clarke
A witches coven in West Yorkshire.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Pam: Sue Jenkins
   Jamie: David Goodland
   Sergeant: Del Henney
   Probert: James Laurenson
   Radio voice/Maggie/ Woman: Rosalie Williams
   Coroner/Brown/Spider One: Simon Molloy
   Superintenent: Ian Flintoff
   Vicar/Newsreader/Chief Inspector/Foreman: Antony Baird
   Tramper/Web/Handler: David Ross
   Spider Five/PC/Man: Charles Haggith
   Child: Jack Ravenscroft
[Also produced by Alan Ayckbourn for R2 in 1968, in six parts with Bob Grant as Probert and James Beck as Sergeant - the 1968 version is the one also broadcast on R4X 2017-2023].


24th August 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Attard in Retirement by John Peacock
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Walter Attard: George Cole
   Oliver Hanwell: Philip Voss
   Eric Maybury: John Gabriel
   Miss Kirk: Mirian Raymond
   Wyn: Margot Boyd
   Hilda Stewart: Rosalie Crutchley
   Ian Stewart: Philip Sully
   Bingo caller: Johh 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, Eva Stuart
Repeated from 7th and 9th April 1979
[This play was a winner of the Giles Cooper Award for 1979]
[A German version "Attard Im Ruhestand" was broadcast on SWF in 1981]


25th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1887) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) adapted by Constance Cox
Music arranged and played by Terence Allbright
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Lord Arthur Savile: Richard Briers
   Baines: Alan Rowe
   Sybil Merton: Diana Olsson
   The Dean of Paddington: Godfrey Kenton
   Lady Windermere: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Lady Clementina Beau-champ: Kathleen Helme
   Lady Julia Merton: Sylvia Coleridge
   Mr Podgers: Timothy Bateson
   Nellie: Emily Richard
   Herr Winkelkopf: Roy Kinnear
Repeated from 10th and 12th August 1974
[Also produced by Eoin O'Callaghan in 1992]
[Also produced by Gemma McMullan in 2006]


25th August 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Defence of Guthrie Featherstone by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Bertie Timson: Michael Elphick
   Marigold Featherstone: Angela Thorne
   Mr Keith: Lockwood West
   Mr Justice Vosper: Robert Harris
Repeated 27/8/1980, 7th September 1988
[Also broadcast on R7 2008, 2009, 2010 and R4X 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016]


25th August 1980
21.00-21.30:
An Early Lunch by Helena Osborne (Georgina Moore nee Galbraith, 1930-2017)
Directed by Christopher Venning
   Frances: Betty Hardy
   Kate: Jill Balcon
   Betty: Josie Kidd
   Jeff: Alan Rowe
Repeated 28th December 1980


26th August 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Rise and Shine by Sean McCarthy (1945-2022)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Judy: Fiona Walker
   Tim: Stephen Rea
[Previously a television play directed by Roderick Graham, BBC Scotland in 1978 with Angie Rew as Judy]


27th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Notre Dame at Noon by Vladek Sheybal (1923-1992) 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 Maranne
   Rodger: Gordon Dulieu
   Veronica: Jenny Twigge
Repeated from 4th July 1979


28th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Best Man by Chris Barnard
The bride prefers the best man.
Directed by John Cardy
   Louise: Sherrie Hewson
   Mother: Margot Boyd
   Suzie: Rowena Roberts
   Uncle Silas: Martin Friend
   Football players: Christopher Scott, Haydn Wood, Nigel Greaves


29th August 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Designing Alternatives by Don Webb
There's a lot more to success than simply being good architects.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Diana: Imelda Staunton
   Peter: Russell Dixon
   Joan: Ann Rye
   Alison/Waitress: Karen Petrie
   Rote: Ernest Hopner
   Secretary/Miss Bright: Sally Gibson
   Greenhalgh: Will Tacey
   Target: John Jardine
   Councillor Jones: Ronald Baddiley
   Wright: Peter Bell
   Tommy Cole: Malcolm Hebden
   Target Junior: Graham Fellows


30th August 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Victim of the Aurora (1977) by Thomas Keneally dramatised by J. C. Wilsher
A murder down South.
Directed By: Glyn Dearman
   Anthony Piers: Sean Barrett
   Sir Eugene Stewart: Peter Jeffrey
   Older Anthony Piers: Godfrey Kenton
   Barry Fields: Peter Dahlsen
   The Rev Quincy: Anthony Hyde
   Dr Waldo Warwick: Christopher Good
   Lt John Troy: Sion Probert
   Paul Gabriel: Andrew Branch
   Victor Henneker: Martin Friend
   AB Bernard Mulroy: Nigel Greaves
   Forbes-Chalmers: Haydn Wood
   PO Ernie Henson: Gordon Reid
Repeated 1st September 1980


31st August 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Travellers by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Joe Ferry: James Ellis
   Alan Frobisher: William Relton
   Siobhan Ferry: Alison Frazer
   Det-Sgt Roberts: Michael Graham Cox
   Det-Insp Percy Howard: Michael McStay
   Mrs Frobisher: Thelma Whiteley
   Mr Barker: Bill Monks
   Mrs Peters: Eva Stuart
   Garbett: Philip Voss
   Martha Ferry: Pauline Letts
Repeated from 13th and 15th January 1979


1st September 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Show Folk by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Director: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Maggie Frere: Margaret Robertson
   Mr Croft: Steve Hodson
   Kirsten Hope: Diana Bishop
   Alan Copeland: Robin Browne
   Mr Handyside: Hector Ross
   Jarvis Allen: Jonathan Scott
   Mr Justice Skelton: Derek Farr
   Tommy Pierce: Peter Woodthorpe
   Dannie Derwent: Alec Bregonzi
   Mr Senior: John Church
Repeated 3rd September 1980, 21st September 1988
[Also broadcast on R7 2008, 2009, 2010 and R4X 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2016]


1st September 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Order of Merit by Richard Austin
An author who has been awarded the Order of Merit.
Directed by Christopher Venning
   David Harvey: Robert Harris
   Juliet Harvey: Isabel Dean
   Gerry Clements: Richard Kay
   Bill Jenson: Martin Friend
   Sarah Harvey: Cheryl Kennedy
   Stella Herbison: Frances Jeater
   Sir Colin Ffrench: Patrick Barr
Repeated 7th September 1980


2nd September 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Going to the Dogs by Paul Allen
You can never be absolutely certain with dogs.
Directed by: David Sheasby
BBC Manchester
Contributors
   Janice: Stephanie Turner
   Flange: Ray Ashcroft
   Terry: Paul Copley


3rd September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Just Come to Say Goodbye. Sir by Simon Broad and Paul Marshall
Girls in the Sixth Form?
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Headmaster: Richard Vernon
   Bevis Hodge: Ballard Berkeley
   Pringle: Andrew Branch
   Dorothy: Lolly Cockerell
   Mr Greene/Taxi driver: John Church
   Mr Clinton: Haydn Wood
   Fairthorpe: Nigel Greaves
   Stillman: Neil Nisbet
   Mellow: Christopher Scott
   Girl pupil. Rowena Roberts


4th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: That Bread Should Be So Dear by Olwynne MacRae
Mary decides to go back to work.
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
   Mary: Fiona Walker
   David: John Rowe
   Angus: Douglas Storm
   Judith: Jenny Lee
   Duncan/Registrar: Gordon Reid
   Dick: Sion Probert
   Jenny: Amanda Murray
   Mr Charles: Martin Friend
   Tessa/Nurse: Clare Travers-Deacon
   John/Chemist: Jill Lidstone
   Doctor: John Church
Repeated 19th November 1983


5th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Oboe at the Embassy by James Follett (1939-2021)
A nice cosy. ripple-free routine.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Caroline: Jane Knowles
   Gillian: Rowena Roberts
   Henry: Peter Jeffrey
   Alex: Philip Voss
   Eugen: Michael Spics


6th September 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Englishman Abroad by Christopher Douglas
1932 Cricket Tour to Australia.
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Douglas Jardine (Capt): Michael Cochrane
   Gubby Allen: Robert East
   Bob Wyatt: Haydn Wood
   The Nawab of Pataudi: Sam Dastor
   Harold Larwood: Michael Kitchen
   Bill Voce: David Threlfall
   Bill Bowes: Peter Joyce
   Maurice Leyland: John Church
   Pelham Warner (Manager): Robert Lang
   Perrin: Patrick Barr
   Higson: John Bott
   Bill Woodfull (Capt): Edmund Pegge
   Donald Bradman: Christopher Blake
   Jack Fingleton: Nick Tate
   Vic Richardson: Damon Sanders
   Stan McCabe: Peter Dahlsen
   Tim Wall: Graham Faulkner
   Oxlade: Philip Dunbar
   Jeanes: Gordon Reid
   Jack Ryder: Gordon Gostelow
   Allan Kippax: Michael McStay
   Alf Noble: Martin Friend
   Gaumont British News: Christopher Douglas
   Arthur Carr (Notts Capt): Stephen Thorne
   Commander O'Sullivan: Michael Spice
   George V: Brian Haines
Repeated 8th September 1980 (as "An Englishman Abroad"), 29th August 1981 and 4th October 1992 (as "The Englishman Abroad")
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2009 and R4X in 2023]


8th September 1980
18.30
Rumpole and the Fascist Beast by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Director: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Capt Rex Parkin: Jack May
   Lutuf Khan: Saeed Jaffrey
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Henry: Haydn Wood
   Erskine Trant: Brian Carroll
   Uncle Tom: Patrick Barr
   Mr Simmonds: Anthony Hyde
   Clifford Worsley: Cordon Reid
   Sydney Cox: Sion Probert
   Mavis Parkin: Peggy Paige
   Inspector: Leonard Fenton
   Judge Jameson: John Bott
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Mr Keith: Lockwood West
Repeated 10th September 1980,
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X]


8th September 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Darts with the Boys by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Directed by Enyd Williams
BBC Wales
   Gwyn: Huw Ceredig
   Adrian: Tim Bentinck
   Ruth: Myfanwy Talog
   Mam: Margaret John
   Dad: Gerald James
   Trevor: Sion Probert
   Dilwyn: Dewi Morris
   Uncle Gwil: Dillwyn Owen
Repeated 14th September 1980


9th September 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Shanghai Conspiracy by Alex Page
The US Army in Shanghai.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Pete: Peter Whitman
   Jocko: Tim Bentinck
   Scolly: Peter Marinker
   Wang: Ric Young
   Capt Musgrove: David Healy
   Major Rocklyn: Bruce Boa
   General Schmiedeking: John Church


10th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Plan by Stephen Swailes
He plans his life. Some things you can't plan.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Arthur Groombridge: Andrews Sachs
   Mrs Groombridge: Diana Bishop
   Michael Walker: Patrick Barr
   Howard Silver: Brian Haines
   George Johnson: Sion Probert
   Shirley: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
   Sarah Weedon: Jane Knowles
   Denise: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   Felicity Carmichael: Sara Coward
Repeated 17th March 1982


11th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Bea Backwards by Elizabeth Troop
A refuge for battered women. The attitudes and issues that have motivated women over the last few years.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Bea: Diana Bishop
   Charley/Clare: Susan Sheridan
   Owen: Sion Frobert
   Sonia: Amanda Murray
   Edith: Jenny Lee
   Sam Watson: Brian Carroll
   Pete: Haydn Wood
   Vivien: Eve Karpf
   Jake: Michael Spice
   Mr Patrick: Anthony Hyde


12th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Notes from a Provincial Island by Robert Catt.
Collier is an unpopular boy, an outsider.
Directed by Penny Gold
   Mr Vickers: Maurice Denham
   Narrator: Gavin Campbell
   Collier: Gerard Kelly
   Ellis: John Fowler
   Boys: Alan Badman, Clarke Flanagan, Graham Fletcher-Cook
   Mr Bannister: Sion Probert
   Prostitute: Rowena Roberts


13th September 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Under Pressure by David Baume (1943-2023)
An off-shore gas rig.
Director: Gerry Jones
   Brian Blundell: Neville Smith
   Ken Dunn: Sean Arnold
   Carlos Estimar: Gregory de Polnay
   Peter Harries: John Rowe
   John McIver: Michael Deacon
   Ed Moss: Henry Knowles
   Sis: Nona Shepphard
   Beth Wickham: Jenny Lee
   Helen Harries: Jan Edwards
   Radio operator: Christopher Scott
   Drilling engineer: Anthony Hyde
   Drilling supervisor: Don Fellows
   Drilling technician: Leonard Fenton
   Sub-diving supervisor: Gordon Reid
   TV newsreader: John Church
   Newspaper reporter: Haydn Wood
Repeated 15th September 1980
[David Baume -amongst very many other roles- spent a period as a deep sea diving instructor.]


15th September 1980
18.30
Rumpole and the Case of Identity by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed by Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Dave Ansley: Philip Davis
   Freddie Allbright: David Daker
   Detective-Inspector Ives: Michael McStay
   Angela: Judy Franklin
   Henry: Haydn Wood
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Feenan: John Church
   Mr Justice Vosper: Robert Harris
   Betty Anstey: Rowena Roberts
   Featherstone, QC, MP: Brian Carroll
Repeated 17th September 1980
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2008-2016]


15th September 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: Wedderburn's Slave by Douglas Dunn
An Edinburgh court case in 1778 regarding slavery.
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   John Wedderburn (1729-1803): Brown Derby
   Sinkum Caddy: John Grieve
   Joseph Knight: John Shedden
   Lord Kames: David Stewart
   Mrs Knight: Sheila Donal
   Maclaurin, Knight's advocate: Lloyd Quinan
   Cullen, Wedderburn's advocate: Michael Elder
   Lord Dundas: Ian Gilmour
Repeated 21st September 1980
[The script is in the collection of the University of St Andrews (id ms38640/1/7/1/70) (also see id 7/1/65, 7/1/66 and 7/1/67) ]


16th September 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Speak No Evil by Juliet Ace
Directed by Enyd Williams
BBC Wales
   Mam: Elizabeth Morgan
   Geraint: John Griffiths
   Gareth: Rhys Powys
Repeated 11th September 1982


17th September 1980
15.15: :
Afternoon Theatre: Is He All Right, Nurse? by Anne Spillard
Why can't he lead his own life?
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Will: Paul Copley
   Lucy: Eileen O'Brien
   Herbert: Ronald Baddiley
   Nurse: Jane Lowe
   ?????: Margaret Robertson
   Doctor: Simon Molloy


18th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Second Time Around by Dave Simpson
How to get a job...
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Arthur: Ray Mort
   Doreen: Marlene Sidaway
   Jackie: Jane Collins
   Geoff: Alan Rothwell
   Sam,: Colin Meredith
   Gill: Susan Jenkins
   Man/Basil: Ernest Bopner
   Fellows: Charles Foster
   Helen/Fay: Rita Howard
   ????? : Rosalie Williams
   Carol: Barbara Marten
   Janet: Sally Gibson
[This is the only credit on BBC Genome for "Ernest Bopner"].


19th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Cold Storage, by C.M. Stubbs
But are they dead?
   Mr Pinbeck: Brian Carroll
   Miss Plum: Leueen Willoughby
   Dr Friberger: Bill Reimbold
   Mr Tod: John Bott
   Taxi Driver: Adrian Egan
[This is the sole credit for C M Stubbs in BBC Genome]


20th September 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Idiot Lady (1610) by Lope De Vega (1562-1635) translated by George Brandt
Music by David Selwyn; Harpsichord: Kenneth Mobbs; Guitar: John Edwards Oboe: Helen Forbes; Flute: Sarah Bale
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Finea: Madeline Smith
   Laurencio: James Warwick
   Nise: Petra Markham
   Liseo: Peter Dennis
   Octavio: Joseph O'Conor
   Turin: Mark Buffery
   Leandro: Sean Arnold
   Celia: Margaret Barrass
   Rudino: Haydn Andrews
   Clara: Penny Ryder
   Duardo: Michael Batz
   Feniso: Ronald Forfar
   Pedro: David Goodland
   Miseno: Rex Holdsworth
Repeated 22nd September 1980


22nd September 1980
18.30
Rumpole and the Expert Witness by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed by Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Dr Ned Dacre: David Collings
   Henry: Haydn Wood
   Dr Harry Dacre: Norman Mitchell
   Owen Munroe: Ellis Dale
   Mr Justice Skelton: Derek Farr
   Dr Pamela Gorle: Elizabeth Bell
   Sally Dacre: Rowena Roberts
[Also broadcast on BBC7 and R4X 2008-2016]
[Also directed by Marilyn Imrie in 2012 rptd 2014 with Timothy West as Rumpole]



22nd September 1980
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Shipbuilder by Ken Mitchell
Saskatchewan, during the Depression.
Music by Adrian Secchi; Percussion: Charles Stoddart
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Jaanus Koronkola: Roy Marsden
   Karen: Vivienne Dixon
   Betsy: Diana Olsson
   JOkl: Alec Heggie
   Bender: Ken Mitchell
   Scholler: Roy Hanlon
   Charlie Nettles/Guard: Lloyd Quinan
   Jimmy Cannon/Judge: Don Crerar
Repeated 28th September 1980


23rd September 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mystery Tour by David Wheeler
The problems of early retirement.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Leonard: Timothy Bateson
   Elsie: Peggy Paige
   Herbert: John Bott
   Hettie: Joan Miller
   Des: Christopher Scott
   Dorothy: Lolly Cockerell
   Elliot: Anthony Hyde
   Woman: Diana Bishop
   Clerk/Taxi driver: Haydn Wood


24th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: The Tenants by Jeremy Tiptaft
A landlord wishes to get rid of a tenant.
Directed by David Bitchinson
   Maurice: Timothy Bateson
   Lolly: Hilda Braid
   Arnold Cope: George Cooper
   O'Brien: Sean Barrett
   Joyce: Judy Franklin


25th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Bogeyman by Michael Judge
An ambulance callout in Dublin.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Stan: Denys Hawthorne
   Billy: Sean Barrett
   Colette: Virginia Cole
   Kate: Kate Dinchy
   Rosemary: Angela Harding
   Charlie/minister: Alan Barry
   Mrs Chester/Lily: Marjorie Hogan
   Alice/Girl: Anna Manahan
   Joe/Sergeant: Michael Duffy
   dave/policeman: Kevin Moore
   O'brian fireman: P. G. Stephens
   Andy/Man: John Hewitt


26th September 1980
15.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Don't Forget the Umbrella by Richard Fawkes (1944-2020)
A final holiday.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   Hugh Pearson: Patrick Barr
   Sylvia Pearson: Diana Bishop
   Liz: Elizabeth Proud
   Julia: Karen Archer
   James Pearson: Nigel Greaves
   Roger: Christopher Scott
   Harold: Gordon Reid
   Man at airport/Pilot: Alexander John
[The fourth play in a row to have no repeats...]


27th September 1980
20.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Cruel Sea (1951) by Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979) dramatised by Barry Campbell
The WW2 shipping convoys.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Lt-Commander George Ericson: Richard Pasco
   Lt Lockhart RNVR: Michael N Harbour
   Narrator: Martin Muncaster
   Lt Bennett: Graeme Eton
   Sub-Lt Ferraby: Terry Molloy
   Sub-Lt Morell: John Rowe
   CPO Tallow: Ray Dunbobbin
   Chief ERA Watts: Bob Docherty
   Vice-Admiral Murray-Forbes: Noel Johnson
   PO Wells: Sean Arnold
   Leading Seaman Tonbridge.: Careth Armstrong
   Prostitute: Maggie McCarthy
   Mrs Ferraby: Heather Barrett
   Gladys Bell: Diana Bishop
   Yeoman: Jack Holloway
   German Captain: Graham Padden
   Second Officer Julie Hallam: Emily Richard
   Lt Allingham: Alaric Cotter
   Mr Midshipman Holt: Jonathan Owen
   Sub-Lt Vincent: Peter Brookes
   Sub-Lt Raikes: Alan Devereux
   PO Phillips: Ralph Lawton
   Flag Lt Smethers: Ray Llewellyn
   John Ericson: Adrian Bracken
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux for BBC Light in 1955 rptd BBC Home 1956,1963, with Jack Hawkins as Ericson]
[Also directed by Jonathan Ruffle in six episodes for BBC Radio 2 in 1998 with Philip Madoc as Ericson]
[Also produced by Marc Beeby in 2 parts in 2012 with Jonathan Coy, rptd R4X 2013-2017]
[Monsarratt served on Royal Naval convoys, initially on a Flower Class corvette (Campanula). Although fiction, the book was written from contemporary notes he wrote while serving.]


29th September 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh 1896-1952) dramatised by Cyril Wentzel (1909-1986)
1949: The Heir is about to become An Adult.
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 from 26th December 1979
[Also produced in 1954 by Peter Watts with Frank Duncan as Brat, repeated in 4 parts on BBC Light 1959]


29th September 1980
18.30:
Rumpole and the Course of True Love by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed by Peter King
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Francesca Capstick: Rebecca Saire
   Ronald Ransom: Anthony May
   Mr Grayson: Gordon Reid
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Judge George Frobisher: Denys Hawthorne
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Erskine-Brown: Brian Carroll
Repeated 1st October 1980
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2008-2016]


29th September 1980
19.50
The Monday Play: The Adventures of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha (Pt1:1605 Pt2:1615) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616], adapted by John Arden.
Part 1 of 2:
Music composed by Stephen Boxer
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Don Quixote: Bob Grant
   Sancho Panza: Bernard Cribbins
   Cervantes: Ronald Baddiley
   Moor: Geoffrey Banks
   Innkeeper: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Fr Perez: David Sumner
   Barber-Surgeon: Peter Wheeler
   Housekeeper: Kathleen Helme
   Antonia: Kate Lee
   Dorothea: Linda Gardner
   Market boy: Alan Parnaby
   Serjeant: Alan Meadows
   Don Fernando: Simon Molloy
   Aldonza: Meg Johnson
Additional actors in part 2:
   Duke: Russell Dixon
   Samson: Stephen Boxer
   Teresa Panza: Paula Tilbrook
   Altisidora: Harriet Walter
   Scholar,: Malcolm Hebden
   Puppet Master: Ken Campbell
   Duchess: Judith Arthy
   Veiled Lady: Anne Reid
   Steward: John McGregor
Part2:6/10/80
Both parts repeated after six days.
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2008-2023]


30th September 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Very Last Mr Universe by Robin Smyth (aka Ronnie Smith aka John Naismith)
Directed by Peter King
   Bert Brewer: Brian Glover
   Tommie Anderson: Don Henderson
   Mrs Brewer: Liz Smith
   Naomi Dillon: Liz Fraser
   Gerry: Gordon Reid


30th September 1980
16.15:
The Martyrdom of St Stanislaw by Wojtek Plazak
The death of Stanislaw, Bishop of Cracow, at the altar in 1079.
Directed by Jenyth Worsley
   Narrator: Godfrey Kenton
   Stanislaw (1030-1079): Alexander John
   King: Gordon Reid
Also with Christopher Scott and Eve Karpf.
[The sole credit for Wojtek Plazak on BBC Genome]


1st October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: The Joy of the Worm by Jennifer Phillips
Egypt: 30 BC
A tale of an asp.
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Neccho: Derek Griffiths
   Tui, his wife: Linda Polan
   Kenamun: Gordon Reid
   Ta'kha'et: Diana Bishop
   Tojo: Leonard Fenton


2nd October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Small Earthquake by Oliver Davies
   Directed by: David Johnston
   Jo: Jenny Lee
   Rob: Haydn Wood
   Becky: Susan Sheridan
   Isobel: Diana Bishop
   Tricia: Lolly Cockerell
   Eddie: Martin Friend
   Denis: Sion Probert
   Peter: John Church


3rd October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Bitter Loyalty by Sue Rodwell
London, 1813.
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Helen Norris: Angharad Rees
   Frederick Norris, QC: Malcolm Stoddard
   Recorder: Gordon Reid
   Emily Pearson: Christine Absalom
   Charlotte Baxter Lady Scott: Diana Bishop
   Mr Baxter: Martin Friend
   Mr Pearson/Sir William Scott: Brian Haines
   Edward Scott: Nicholas Gecks
   Kent: Sion Probert
   Mason: John Church
   Turnkey: Gordon Reid
   Elizabeth/Mary: Lolly Cockerell
   Jackson/Mr Cotton: Christopher Scott
   Mr Eldon/Harvey: Alexander John
   Old Kate: Peggy Paige
Repeated 5th November 1982


4th October 1980
14.30-15.25
Goodbye Mr Chips (1934) by James Hilton (1900-1954), dramatised by Margaret Simpson
Part 1 of 2
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Mr Chipping: John Church
   Mrs Wickett: Katherine Parr
   Kathie: Lolly Cockerell
   Dr Merivale: Lewis Stringer
   Wetherby: Godfrey Kenton
   Lucy: Hilda Schroder
   Rowden: Alaric Cotter
   Barker: John Bott
   Whitby: John McAndrew
   Meldrum: John Forbes-Robertson
   Bryce: Haydn Wood
   Brookfield boys: Adrian Breeze, Matthew Emerson, Ian Land
   Mission boys: Paul Beardshaw, Colin McDonagh, Stuart Sampson
Additional actors in part 2:
   Sutton: Gordon Reid
   Ralston: Nigel Anthony
   Chatteris: Walter Hall
   Staefel: Graham Faulkner
   Williams: Christopher Scott
   Wadham: Harold Reese
   Deakin: John Gray
   Midwife: Sonia Fraser
   Linford: Arthur Haycraft
   Brookfield boys: Adam Bass, Adam Landor
Part 2: 11th October 1980
Both parts were repeated three days later.


4th October 1980
20.30
So What Do We Do About Henry? by Charlotte Hastings (1909-2003)
Directed by Graham Gauld
   Henry: Flora Robson
   Dino: Graham Faulkner
   Elsie: Jane Knowles
   the Admiral: Timothy Bateson
   Meredith: Sean Barrett
   Emily: Margot Boyd
   Sabrina: Carol Marsh
   Wallace: Brian Haines
   Charles: Martin Friend
   Rupert: Kenneth Barrow
   Delia: Paula Tinker
Repeated 6th October 1980
[All of Charlotte Hastings radio plays were directed by Graham Gauld and all but one ("Hal") had actress Flora Robson.]


6th October 1980
18.30
Rumpole and the Perils of the Sea by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Henry: Haydn Wood
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Mr Tonkin: Christopher Scott
   Jackie Jason: Dilys Laye
   Sam: Sion Probert
   Dora: Eve Karpf
   Buster: Graham Faulkner
   Rosemary: Jenny Lee
   Henry Arthur Spong: Brian Haines
   Gerald Gaunt: John Bott
   Insp Salter: Michael McStay
   Judge: Norman Shelley
   Frederick Jason: Gordon Reid
Repeated 8th October 1980, 14th September 1988
[Also broadcast R7 and R4X 2008-2016]


7th October 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Lunch Duty by Rony Robinson
The educational climate of 1980.
Directed by David Sheasby
BBC Manchester
   Janet: Maggie McCarthy
   Keith: Will Tacey
   Richard: John Wheatley
   Dad: John Jardine
[Adapted from a tv play broadcast in 1974]
[Rony spent time as an English teacher]


8th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: A Tentative Maybe by Don Webb
There's more to launching a new product than meets the eye.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Payton: Garard Green
   Gates: Christopher Godwin
   West/Good: David Ross
   Smith: Kate Lee
   Robinson/Pollock: Simon Molloy
   Pitt/Tonks: John Branwell
   Glover/Lisa: Angela Catherall
   
   
8th October 1980
18.30-19.00
The Senior Partner by Donald Bull
1 of 8: Skinning the Cat
Producer Edward Taylor
Cast: Joe Dunlop, Nancy Mitchell, John Kane, Sandra Clark and Fraser Kerr.
Weekly, all episodes repeated after two days.
[Also a second series in ten parts in 1981]


9th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs Potter's Portrait by Carol Richards
When commisioning a painting, you need to specify the style you are looking for....
Music by Clive Whitburn
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Nicholas Smith: Gareth Armstrong
   Aunt Etty Smith: Eliza Hunt
   Mrs Daphne Potter: Patricia Gallimore
   Mr Peter Potter: John Baddeley
   Mrs Marjorie Picton: Jill Meers
   Mr Dennis Picton: Gordon Reid
   Mr Amos Strike: Terry Molloy
Repeated 25th August 1982


10th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Moving by Patrice Chaplin
Two couples buy a house together
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Jean: Anna Massey
   Connie: Rosalind Ayres
   Benjamin: David Collings
   Malcolm: Hugh Dickson
   Julian Starr: Malcolm Stoddard
   Mrs Leachman: Catherine Willmer
   Receptionist/Pupil: Eve Karpf
   Jonny: Sean Arnold
   
   
11th October 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Over the Rainbow by Bernard Kops
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Malcolm: Derek Fowlds
   Sidney: Neville Jason
   Henry: Leonard Fenton
   Janette/Gloria: Sonia Fraser
   Uncle Harold: Brian Haines
   Derek: William Eedle
   Marie: Eva Stuart
   Joe: Manning Wilson
   Stanley: Peter Woodthorpe
   Sandra: Maureen Lipman
Repeated 13th October 1980 and 4th October 1982
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2021]
   
   
13th October 1980
18.30-19.00
Rumpole and the Age for Retirement by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Directed by Ian Cotterell.
   Rumpole: Maurice Denham
   Hilda: Margot Boyd
   Percy Timson: Alfie Bass
   Noreen Timson: Peggy Paige
   Det-Insp Broome: Alexander John
   Erskine-Brown: Brian Carroll
   Mr Rowland: Godfrey Kenton
   Mr Justice Vosper: Robert Harris
   Vi Timson: Josie Kidd
   Phillida Trant: Amanda Murray
   Bertie Timson: Michael Elphick
   Fred Timson: John Church
   Guthrie Featherstone: Michael Spice
   Judge George Frobisher: Denys Hawthorne
   Uncle Tom: Patrick Barr
   Henry: Haydn Wood
Repeated 15th October 1980


   
13th October 1980
19.50
The Apple Cart (1928) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   King Magnus: Peter Barkworth
   the Prime Minister: Nigel Stock
   Boanerges: Colin Douglas
   Lysistrata: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Amanda: Dilys Laye
   Orinthia: Prunella Scales
   Pamphilius: Brian Sanders
   sempronius: Christopher Scott
   The Princess Royal: Amanda Murray
   Nicobar: Brian Baines
   Pliny: Patrick Barr
   Balbus: Michael McStay
   Crassus: Godfrey Kenton
   The Queen: Sonia Fraser
   Mr Vanhattan: John Church
   The Narrator: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated 25th December 1980 and 26th December 1984
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1952 in a shorter version]


14th October 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tiger by Derek Raby
Directed by Betty Davies
   The Child: Judy Bennett
   The Tiger: Norman Shelley
Other parts played by Nigel Graham , Anthony Hall and Diana Bishop
Repeated from 13th February 1974 and 1st May 1976


15th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Martyr of the Hives by Peter Redgrove (1932-2003)
The mystical qualities of bees
with the Boys From Clifton College, Bristol
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Beekeeper: Martin Friend
   Henry: Richard Morant
   Hanger: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Librarian: Rex Holdsworth
   Julia: Hildegard Neil
   Jennie: Catherine Owen
   James: Leonard Fenton
   Paul: John Justin
Repeated 12th June 1981
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017]
[awarded a Giles Cooper Award]
[In bookform known as The Beekeepers (1980)]


16th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Daydream Believer by Harry Duffin
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Sue: Annie Tyson
   Man/Dad/Man Two: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Mary: Judith Barker
   Alice: Ann Rye
   Tony: Alan Parnaby
   Barman/Man One: Tim Iremonger
Repeated 14th April 1982 and 24th November 1982


17th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Associated Residents by Tony Parker (1923-1996)
A hostel for ex-prisoners
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Celia Canning-Whyte: Penelope Lee
   Jill Phillips: Margot Boyd
   The Reverend Bigsby: William Eedle
   Colonel Wilfred Johnson: Patrick Barr
   Mr Morgan Davies: Ray Dunbobbin
   Councillor Ernest Blakely: Anthony Benson
   Len: Alan Devereux
   Kevin: John Rowe
   Simon: Nigel Anthony
   Tommy: Ralph Lawton
   Mrs Wilkinson: Patricia Gibson
   Peter Wilson:. Terry Molloy
   Jennifer Scott: Patricia Gallimore
   Geoff Scott: Graham Padden
   
   
18th October 1980
14.30-15.25
Middlemarch by George Eliot dramatised by Hallam Tennyson.
1 of 12: Miss Brooks
Piano: Tom Steer
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   George Eliot: Jill Balcon
   Dorothea Brooke: Elizabeth Bell
   Celia Brooke,: Sue Jenkins
   Mr Brooke: Garard Green
   Mr Casaubon: David Collings
   Dr Lydgate: Russell Dixon
   Sir James Chettam: Anthony Gardner
   Mr Bulstrode: Simon Molloy
   Mrs Vincy: Kathleen Helme
   Rosamond Vincy: Judith Arthy
   Fred Vincy: Alan Rothwell
Additional actors in later parts:
   Matthew Stradling, James Tomlinson, Stuart Richman, John Talbot, Anthony Gardner, Martin Oldfield, Malcolm Seymour, Gwenda Hughes, Linda Gardner, Graham Roberts, Andy Rashleigh, George Hagan, Bernard Horsfall, Stuart Richman, John Hollis, Alan Partington, Geoffrey Banks, Marlene Sidaway, Rosalind Knight, Diana Flacks, Nona Williams, Betty Hardy, Ann Rye, Val Eliot, Dinah Handley, Graham Faulkner, Pauline Jefferson, Steven Pacey
Weekly, each part repeated three days later.
Part 12=3rd January 1981


18th October 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The First Flame By Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Wesley: Christopher Good
   Foy: Jill Baker
   Den: Jonathan Newth
   Cheryl: Clare Higgins
   Lew: Christopher Guinee
   Marjorie: Rosalind Knight
   Christina: Sandra Voe
Repeated 20th October 1980


19th October 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Electra by Sophocles (about 497BC-406BC). translated in verse form by Derek Coltman
A few years after the Trojan war. She has to live with her father's murderers.
Directed by Jane Morgan.
A World Service production
   Electra: Jane Lapotaire
   Orestes: Michael Pennington
   Clytemnestra: Margaret Tyzack
   the Mentor: Jeremy Kemp
   Chrysothemis: Cheryl Campbell
   the Nurse: Pauline Letts
   Aegisthus: Philip Voss


20th October 1980
12.27-12.55
Lord Peter Wimsey: The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957), adapted by Alistair Beaton.
1 of 8: The Bells are Rung Up.
Producer: Martin Fisher
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Bunter: Peter Jones
   The Rev Theodore Venables: Philip Latham
   Stephen Driver: Stephen Greif
   Mrs Agnes Venables: Noel Dyson
   Emily: Jenny Twigge
   Mr Godfrey Johnson: Haydn Wood
   Ezra Wilderspin: John Church
   Narrator: John Westbrook
Additional actors in later episodes:
Alexander John, Andre Maranne, Antony Hyde, Brian Haines, Clare Clifford, Diana Bishop, Fiona Mathieson, Keith Drinkel, Leonard Fenton, Lolly Cockerell, Malcolm Terris, Margery Withers, Martin Fisher, Martin Friend,
Michael Spice, Peter Tuddenham, Timothy Bateson
Pt2:27/10/80 Pt3:3/11/80 Pt4:10/11/80 Pt5:17/11/80 Pt6:24/11/80 Pt7:01/12/80 Pt8:08/12/80
All 1980 episodes repeated after two days.
Series repeated commencing 22/6/89
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2009-2021]
[Other radio productions with director and actor playing Whimsey:
1954 rptd 1957-Norman Wright- Light- Alan Wheatley.
1986 rptd 1987-Vanessa Whitburn-4 -Gary Bond - the version with talking bells.
2007-Justine Willett-4-cast not on Genome]


20th October 1980
18.30
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Part 1 of 7
Directed By: Glyn Dearman
Full cast list:
Aaron Burchell, Alexander John, Amanda Murray, Andrew Maranne, Anthony Hyde, Blain Fairman, Bob Sherman, Brian Haines, Christopher Scott, Edward de Souza, Eve Karpf, Francis Matthews, Fred Gray, Godfrey Kenton, Gordon Reid, Haydn Wood, Jeffrey Archer, Jeremy Clyde, John Bott, John Church, Leonard Fenton, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Spice, Olivier Pierre, Patrick Barr, Paul Darrow, Peter Marlnker, Robert Beatty, Robin Bailey, Sean Arnold, Sion Probert, Sonia Fraser, Stratford Johns
Also with Lord Lichfield, Peter O'Sullevan and Robin Gray
Pt2 2:27/10/80 Pt3:3/11/80 Pt4:10/11/80 Pt5:17/11/80 Pt6:24/11/80 Pt7:1/12/80
Each 1980 episode repeated after 3 days.
Series repeated (daily) commencing 24th December 1984


20th October 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: Men on White Horses by Pamela Haines dramatised by Shirley Gee
Her musical talent gave her the will to survive.
Piano: Druvi Si Saram
Directed by David Spenser
   Edwina: Harriet Waller
   Fanny: Polly James
   Ben: Ian Sharrock
   Mrs Illingworth: Carole Boyd
   Marchesa: Betty Hardy
   Uncle Frederick: David Timson
   Miss Batterhurst: Pauline Letts
   Adelina: Eve Karff
   Babs: Bernadette Windsor
   Madge: Elizabeth Rider
   Vita: Mary Greco
   Meresia: Polly March
   Mr Maycock: Roger Hammond
   Reverend Mother: Hilda Schroder
   Meresia's father: Brian Haines
   Franz: Danny Schiller
   Mr Illingworth: Michael Spice
   Stefano: Geoffrey Beevers
   Taddeo: Andrew Branch
   Girls: Sarah McLeilan, Deborah Tullick, Natalie Pennington, Karen Jones, Samantha Weysom
Repeated 26th October 1980


21st October 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Uprooted by Frank O'Connor (Michael O’Donovan 1903-1966) adapted by Frederick Aicken
Two brothers, a priest and a schoolteacher,
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Tom: Barry McGovern
   Ned: Desmond Cave
   Da: Aiden Grennell
   Ma: Marjorie Hogan
   Pat: Michael Golden
   Annie/Barmaid: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
   Kate: Veronica Quilligan
   Pianist: John Anderson


22nd October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Me and My Shadow by Caroline Bennett (Caroline Mortimer 1942-2020)
Who do you love best, me or the dog?
Recorded by Julian Walther and Nigel Edwards
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Amy: Caroline Mortimer
   Alan: John Bennett
   Michael: Nigel Greaves
   Mum: Pauline Letts
   TV Announcer: Judy Franklin
   Child: Eve Karpf
   Pooh: Satchmo
[The dog was Caroline's real life pet dog]


23rd October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Summer Trade by Nick Darke (1948-2005)
The pub is modernised.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Molly: Judith Sydney
   Olive: Constance Chapman
   Maynard: Matthew Solon
   Huffy: Donald McBride
   John: Christian Rodska
   Leicester: Jon Croft
[Co-winner of the George Devine Award for Best Play of 1979 ]
[Nick Darke lived in Cornwall and had the Bardic name Scryfer Gwaryow]


24th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: The Corporation's Man by Norman Thomas
Office politics.
Directed by Gerry Jones
   David: Andrew Branch
   Jim: Allan Cuthbertson
   Pamela: Jenny Lee
   Sam: Manning Wilson
   Ann: Elizabeth Rider
   Mother: Pauline Letts
   Binney: Leonard Fenton
   Safety Officer: Sion Probert


25th October 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Last Invasion of London by John Robert King
1497 The Cornish are rebelling.
Brenda Wootton sings songs by Richard Gendall
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   An Gof: Geoffrey Matthews
   Tomas Flamank: Donald McBride
   Peder: Peter Pacey
   Jane: June Marlow
   Henry VII: John Rowe
   Daubeney: Christian Rodska
   Oby: Roger Snowdon
   Audley: Tim Bentinck
   Mary: Gwen Taylor
   Whalley: John Abineri
   Sir Richard: Ronald Russell
   John Rosewarne: David Ponting
   Woman in crowd: Stella Riley
Repeated 27th October 1980


27th October 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: Motorcade by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Bauidron Snead: Ed Bishop
   Howard W Sheckley: Blain Fairman
   Karl Kurtz: Paul Maxwell
   Otha Skaggs: Ramsay Williams
   Luella Skamser: Peggy Ashby
   Caralee Sheckley: Liza Ross
   Ramona Gulley: Maggie McCarthy
   Tape voice 1/Political staffer/Radio announcer: Garrick Hagon
   Tape voice 2/Political staffer/Secret Service agent: Kerry Shale
   Political staffer/Utah delegate / Des Moines delegate: Peter Whitman
   Secret Service agent/New York delegate: Stephen Thorne
   Chicago delegate/Traffic cop/TV director: Roger Hume
Repeated 2nd November 1980


28th October 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: All in a Day's Work by Edward Kelsey
Directed by David Hitchinson
   Henry Larkin: Nigel Anthony
   Miss Golightly: Pauline Letts
   Miss Smythe-Winterton: Eva Stuart
   commissionaire: Edward Kelsey
   Angela Hawkins: Penelope Brownjohn
   Mr King: Patrick Barr
   Workmen: Leonard Fenton, Martin Friend
   Lift voice: Haydn Wood


29th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Melissa by Dorothy Gharbaoui
Her daughter is deaf.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Barbara Jackson: Valerie Lilley
   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
Repeated from 23rd February 1979
[Also produced by ARD Germany]


30th October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Owen's Black Friday by Peter Silcock
Directed by David Sheasby
BBC Manchester
   Owen: Christopher Godwin
   Lindsey/Gloria: Kate Lee
   Berkeley/Postlewhite: Geoffrey Banks
   Jimmy: Peter Bell
   Mrs Deakin: Kathleen Helme
   Skillicorn/ Docherty: Geoff Tomlinson
   Deirdre: Karen Petrie
   Cath: Judith Barker


31st October 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Prodigies by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Piano: Stuart Hutchinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Tom: David Buck
   Gabrielle: Sonia Fraser
   Sarah: Elizabeth Rider
   Isolda: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Jeremy: David Bradshawe
   Peter: Roger Hammond
   Cynthia: Judy Franklin
   Felix: John Webb


1st November 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Gunpowder Treason and Plot adapted by A J Walton from the book "Guy Fawkes - The True Story of the Gunpowder Plot*" by Francis Edwards (*or not- see note at end).
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Guy Fawkes: Michael Spice
   Thomas Wintour: Christopher Scott
   Robert Cecil: John Moffatt
   King James I: Fraser Kerr
   Sir William Waad: John Bott
   Christopher Wright: Alexander John
   Francis Tresham: Haydn Wood
   Walter Ralegh: Robert Lang
   Northumberland: Harvey Ashby
   Thomas Percy/Executioner: Gordon Reid
   Robin Catesby: Anthony Hyde
   Suffolk: Peter Robert Scott
   Worcester: Graham Faulkner
   Sir Edward Coke: Leslie Glazer
   Gaoler: Sion Probert
   Meg: Rowena Roberts
   Landlord: Chris Jenkinson
   Popham: John Church
Repeated 3rd November 1980
[* Francis Edwards name is found on a number of books with differing titles relating to the Gunpower Plot. The one the BBC gives "The True Story.." is not one of them. Note that Edwards was a Jesuit (Roman Catholic) priest.]


3rd November 1980
19.50::
The Monday Play: My Dear Palestrina by Bernard MacLaverty
Directed by Marilyn Ireland (aka Imrie)
BBC Scotland
   Miss Schwartz: Gwyneth Guthrie
   Danny: Iain Andrew
   Mother: Jan Wilson
   Father: Peter Adair
   Tam/Man: Carey Wilson
   Danny (mature): Tony Roper
   Mingo: Ian Henderson
   Smith: Alec Heggie
   Wyroslawski: Arthur Boland
   Letty/Voice: Sheila Donald
   Priest: Finlay Welsh
   Pianist: Robert Pettigrew
Repeated 9th November 1980, 22nd March 1982
[Winner of the 1981 Scottish Radio Industries Club Award for Best Drama Production]
[Pope Pius IX used to address Liszt as "My dear Palestrina"]


4th November 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: One for the Album by Peter Gibbs
Enthusiasm for a new hobby.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Jack: Peter Wheeler
   Norma: Judith Barker
   Edwin: Charles Foster
   Keith: Colin Meredith
   Waiter: Geoffrey Banks
   Jean: Sue Jenkins


5th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Out of the Mouths ... by John Challen
Journalistic success.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
   Linda Erskin: Patricia Gallimore
   Roger Erskin: Eric Allan
   Wayne Erskin: Nicholas Barnes
   Mr Lee: Martin Friend
   Andy: Paul Lockwood
   Chris: Chip Sweeney
   Mr Turner: Jon Clover
   Marilyn: Karen Jokes
   Janet: Lolly Cockerell
   Ken Abbott: Peter Tuddenham
   Alan Cairn: Alexander John


6th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Testimony by Gary Jaekel
Two American couples in their 30s.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   George: Peter Marinker
   Everett: Peter Whitman
   Marion: Liza Ross
   Joan: Janene Possell


7th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Agnus Dei by Louise Page (1955-2020)
A female priest?
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Agnes: Margaret Tyzack
   Tess: Rosalind Shanks
   Gerald: Philip Voss
   Lucia: Carole Hayman
   Brother Simon: John Gillett
   Fr Paul: Frank Gatliff
   Nigel: David Strawn
Repeated 19th April 1984


8th November 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Sense of Touch by E. L. Summers
The remote community has a new minister, his first parish.
Flute: Adrian Brett
Directed by John Cardy
   Gareth Oldys: Rupert Frazer
   Amoret Saul: Lolly Cockerell
   Jacob Saul: Brian Haines
   Mary Saul: Clare Richards
   Ezra Tavistock: Sean Arnold
   Liza Tavistock: Jenny Lee
   Sammy Tavistock: Jill Lidstone
   Esther Saul: Sylvia Coleridge
   Grace Saul: Margot Boyd
   Voice in barn: Dino Shafeek
   Nurse: Eve Karpf
Repeated 10th November 1980


10th November 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: All We Need is an Elephant by Chris Curry
They're not a 'formal' kind of family.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester,
   Tom: Bob Mason
   Cath: Angela Curran
   Janie: Claire Kinsale
   Mum: Judith Barker
   Dad: Charles Foster
   Btrt: Geoffrey Banks
   Alice: Paula Tilbrook
Repeated 16th November 1980


11th November 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Very Good Piece of Work by Antonio Skarmeta translated and adapted by Evelyn Fishburn
Chile shortly after 1973.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Pedro: Susan Sheridan
   Father: John Levitt
   Mother: Dorit Welles
   Teacher: Lolly Cockerell
   Aunt: Sonia Fraser
   Captain Romo: John Church
   Radio announcer: Patrick Barr
   Tubby: Judy Bennett
   Leiva: Elizabeth Lindsay
also with Judy Franklin


11th November 1980
20.20:
Company K by William March, adapted by David Hoyle
1917: America joins the War: And Company K set off with high spirits.
Directed by Peter King
   the Unknown Soldier: Tom Hunsinger
also with David Bait, William Hootkins, Charles Keating, Stuart Milligan, Kerry Shale
Repeated 14th November 1980


12th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Magic by Peter Simpkin
Today's professional footballer
Directed by Matthew Walters
   Roy Gregory: Billy Murray
   TV commentator: Sean Arnold
   Tom: Leonard Fenton
   Bob/Peach: Haydn Wood
   Joe/Lewis: Anthony Hyde
   TV director/Steve: Brian Wright
   Bernie/Doug: Michael Spice
   Bill McEwan: Gordon Reid
   Fat Sam: John Church
   Sister Gabriel/Wayne: Susan Sheridan
   Brenda: Amanda Murray
   Mr Gregory/Bank manager: Godfrey Kenton
   Justin/Au pair: Mary Claire Nash
   Mr Scott: Patrick Barr
   Manny Cohen: John Bott
Repeated 21st May 1982


13th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: That Lethal Summer by Michael Robson
She's outgrown governesses.
Piano: Alan Farnill
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   David: Michael Cochran
   Tessa: Petra Markham
   Eleanor: Christine Pollon
   Frost: Fred Bryant
   Sir Richard: Gerald Cross
   Raymond: Cornelius Garrett
   Julie: Rosalind Adams
Repeated from 23rd May 1979


14th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Death of an Echo by Lawrence Sail
Meeting an old school friend after 30 years.
Directed by Brun Miller
BBC Bristol
   Mary: Jennie Linden
   David: David Savile
   Chris: David March
   Annie: Catherine Owen
   Lucas/Clergyman: Alexander John
   Young David: Paul Lockwood


15th November 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Knightsbridge Memorial by Josephine Achillini
A special ops agent in Paris in the 1940's.
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Narrator: Alexander John
   Noor Inayat Khan: Angharad Rees
   Vilayat Khan: Graham Faulkner
   Raymonde Prdnat: Eve Karpf
   Joan Clifton: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   Capt Jepson: Sion Probert
   Maj Buckmaster: Michael Spice
   Vera Atkins: Jenny Lee
   Phono: Gordon Reid
   Marguerite: Amanda Murray
   Antoine: Haydn Wood
   Georges: John McAndrew
   Le maitre: John Bott
   Viennot: Sean Arnold
   S3 Kieffer: Leonard Fenton
   Vogt: Anthony Hyde
   SS Holdorf: Christopher Scott
   Dr Goetz: Godfrey Kenton
   Mme Prdnat: Pauline Letts
   Informer/Pearl: Lolly Cockerell
   British officer: John Webb
Repeated 17th November 1980
[This is the only mention of "Josephine Achillini " in BBC Genome].


17th November 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Leveret by Larry McCoubrey, adapted by Matthew Walters
Northern Ireland seemed an idyllic place to live.
Radiophonic music by Dick Mills
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Sarah Graham: Susan Sheridan
   Nicholas Graham: Bernadette Windsor
   Ruth Graham: Sandra Clark
   John Graham: Sean Barrett
   Mrs McClelland: Elizabeth Begley
   Michael Lynch: John Hewitt
   Dr John Eagleson: P. G Stephens
   Doreen Clegg: Ann Hasson
   Geoff Cranston: Denys Hawthorne
   Bill Clegg/Terrorist: Desmond MacAleer
   Vickie Cranston: Gertrude Russell
   Terrorist: Kevin Moore
Repeated 23rd November 1980
[A hare less than a year old is called a leveret. The play references Irish folklore and the special role of the hare.]


18th November 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Shadow Tick by Lesley Clive
Holiday romance.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Madge: Sheila Fay
   Mavis: Julie Walters
   Doreen: Nona Shepphard
   Paul: Andrew Branch


19th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Face in the Mirror by Delores Baron
Shoplifting.
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
   Mr Gordon: Roger Hammond
   Mrs Gordon: Eva Stuart
Also with Peter Baldwin, Graham Faulkner and John Church
Repeated 23rd November 1980


20th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: So Does the Nightingale by Shelagh Delaney (1938-2011)
Planning a future.
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Alice: Linda Polan
   Amy: Barbara Laurenson
   Auntie Agnes: Margot Boyd
   Joe: Leonard Fenton
   Priest: Martyn Read
Repeated 28th January 1981


21st November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: The Amboise Affair by Jane Poncia
Learning the facts of life.
Directed By Cherry Cookson
   Luke: Chris Fairbank
   Sheri: Lois Butlin
   Munir: Neville Jason
   Mother: Judy Franklin
   Father: Patrick Barr
   Francois: Olivier Pierre
   Madame Benoit/Francois' wife: Cecile Chevreau
   Jo/Waiter: Leonard Fenton


22nd November 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Wind of Heaven by Emlyn Williams adapted by Barbara Couper.
Wales, 1856.
Directed by Enyd William
BBC Wales
   Dilys Parry: Sian Phillips
   Ambrose Ellis: Freddie Jones
   Pitter: Nigel Stock
   Bet: Lisabeth Miles
   Menna: Angharad Rees
   Mrs Lake: Margot Boyd
   Evan: Stewart Jones
Repeated 24th November 1980, 18th November 1985, 30th November 1987
[Also produced in 1964 by Herbert Davies with Rhoda Lewis as Dilys]
[Also produced by Gerry Jones in 1973 with Eva Haddon as Dilys]


24th November 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Slaves of Solitude (1947) by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) dramatised by William Fox
Late 1943. The Americans are taking over.
Directed by John Cardy
   Miss Roach: Gwen Watford
   Mr Thwaites: Raymond Huntley
   Lt Dayton Pike: Peter Marinker
   Vicki Kugelmann: Jill Bennett
   Mrs Barratt: Joyce Carey
   Miss Steele: Lala Lloyd
   Mrs Payne: Yvonne Manners
   Sheila.: Jenny Lee
   Mr Prest: Leonard Fenton
   Lt Lummis: Anthony Hyde
   Maisie: Lolly Cockerell
   Jill/Hospital sister: Diana Bishop
   US Major/Ambulance driver: John Church
   Comedian's stooge: Alexander John
   Roger: Stephen Garlick
   Doctor: John Bott
Repeated 30th November 1980


25th November 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Waving to a Train by Martyn Read (1944-2022)
A summer day. late in June 1953.
Directed by David Spenser
   Richard: Michael Jayston
   Mother: Diana Bishop
   Susan: Elizabeth Lindsay
   a boy: Richard: Jim Lidstone
Repeated 13th June 1981
[Best radio plays of 1980- The Giles Cooper Award]


26th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: You Can't Go Home by Hanik Kureisbi
The child of an immigrant is in between two differing cultures.
Directed by David Spenser
   Jameela: Miriam Margolyes
   Amjad: Saeed Jaffrey
   Banoo: Zohra Segal
   Roy: Tony McEwan
   Arshad: Marc Zuber
   Hotel receptionist: Lolly Cockerell


27th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Following Suit by Derrick Buttress (1932-2017)
The business must move with the times.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   MichaeL: Cyril Shaps
   Leah: Miriam Margolyes
   David: Gordon Reid
   Charlie Axel: Alan Dudley
   Frank: Christopher Scott
   Deborah: Eve Karpe
Repeated 3rd March 1982


28th November 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: The Search by Antonio Skarmeta translated by Evelyn Fishburn
Chile after 1973.
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Cosme Soriano: John Hollis
   Daniel: David Ryall
   Ernesto: Ian Thompson
   Grandmother: Peggy Paige
   Laura: Diana Bishop
   Mme Pinochet: Judy Franklin
   Secretary: Martin Friend
   Fr Franz: Patrick Harr
   Client and aurason: Stuart Blake
   Radio announcer/Carlos: Sion Probert
   First lawyer/Civil guard/Workers' leader: Gordon Reid
   Reporter/Second lawyer: Alexander John
   Captain/Railway clerk: John Livesey
   Priest/policeman: John Church
   Car dealer/Waiter: Christopher Scott
   Soldier/Worker: Nigel Greaves
[Set in the same place and time, also see above- 11th November 1980: Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Very Good Piece of Work]


29th November 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter, 1913-1995) adapted by Alick Rowe
It is 1137 and the prior seeks to acquire Welsh bones.
Directed by Richard Wortley
   Brother Cadfael: Ray Smith
   Brother John: Steven Pacey
   Sioned: Lolly Cockerell
   Prior Robert: Gordon Reid
   Bened: Glyn Owen
   Sub-Prior Richard: Russell Wootton
   The Abbot: Godfrey Kenton
   Brother Columbanus: Nigel Anthony
   Brother Jerome: Anthony Hyde
   Brother Edmund: John Church
   Brother Matthew/Cai: Richard Derrington
   Fr HUW: Derek Pollitt
   AnneSt: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   Peredur: Sion Probert
   Brother Rhys / Lord: Douglas Blackwell
   Engelard: David Bradshawe
Repeated 1st December 1980
[This was the first Cadfael story]
[Shrewsbury acquired the relics of St Winifred in 1138. It is claimed that a finger remains, half in Holywell and half in Shrewsbury.]


1st December 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Unlit Lamp (1924) by Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) adapted by Michelene Wandor
1903: How easy is it for a female to go to university?
Directed by Cherry Cookson
   Joan: Joanna David
   Elizabeth: Caroline Mortimer
   Mary: Pauline Letts
   Milly: Amanda Murray
   Richard: Michael Troughton
   Colonel: John Bott
   Felicity/Aunt Ann: Gladys Spencer
   Helen: Joan Matheson
   Lawrence/First doctor: Christopher Scott
   Ralph: Michael Spice
   Mrs Benson: Brenda Kaye
   doctor: Jenny Lee
   Girl on train: Lolly Cockerell


2nd December 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Bomb (1966) by James Douglas
Directed by Robert Cooper
   Mark: Derek Hand
   Eddie: Jim Culleton
   Miss Jenny: Sylvia Coleridge
[This play was first published as a 16 page stapled booklet]


3rd December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Field Event by Stephen Sylvester
Divorced, with children, new girlfriend.
Directed by John Cardy
   Ned: Philip Bond
   Rachel: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   Oliver: David Bradshawe
   Lucy: Bernadette Windsor


3rd December 1980
18.30
What Ho! Jeeves: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse adapted by Richard Usborne.
1 of 6:The Menace of Totleigh Towers.
Producer: David Hatch
   Jeeves: Michael Hordern
   Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
   Aunt Dahlia: Vivian Pickles
   Emerald Stoker: Ann Davies
   The Rev Harold Pinker: Douglas Blackwell
   Gussie Fink-Nottle: Jonathan Cecil
Additional actors in later parts:
   Aimi MacDonald, Denise Coffey, Graham Faulkner, John Le Mesurier, Paul Eddington, Percy Edwards, Ronald Fraser
Pt2:10/12/80 Pt3:17/12/80 Pt4:24/12/80
Pt5:31/12/80 Pt6:7/1/81
All 1980 parts repeated after 2 days.
Series repeated commencing 5th July 1982.
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, and R4X 2011, 2012 ,2014 ,2016, 2019, 2022, 2023]
[Also produced by Rosalind Ayres in 2018, with Martin Jarvis as Jeeves, repeated R4X 2020]


4th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Moonlight and Aspirins by Grant Cathro
A household with more than two people...
Directed by Tom Kinninmont.
BBC Scotland
   Mark: Rupert Frazer
   Miriam: Miriam Margolyes
   Duncan: David Rayman
   Delivery man: John Webb


5th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: The Facts of Life - or What Greenbaum Did at School, written and narrated by David Wade
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Headmaster: Michael Spice
   Mr Potter: Sion Probert
   Mr Harvey: Leonard Fenton
   Wade E: R Lindsay
   Greenbaum: J S Knowles
   Barrington E: A Proud
   Johnson: D C Bradshawe
   Hocken: I Lidstone
   Venables: J England
   Manvel: P R Adams
   Anstey: S Sheridan
   Music master: Neil Rhoden
[A continuation of "Summer of 39" broadcast 14/7/77, rptd 31/10/79 - this is 30 months later.]


6th December 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Plots Have I Laid by Jon Rollason (1931-2016)
The final shot of the film cannot be repeated.
Directed by Peter King
   Masters: Alan I Ake
   Button: Oscar James
   Lew: Derek Newark
   Fatman: Roger Hammond
   Ian Rodway: Jon Rollason
   Jean: Rosalind Adams
   Rogers: Gordon Reid
   Hetherington: Michael Spice
   Arthur: Haydn Wood
   Rummo: John Church
   Hilary: Theresa Streatfeild
Repeated 8th December 1980


8th December 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Assassin (Les Mains Sales - 1948) by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) translated by Frank Hauser
Early 1940s, why a politician is to be assassinated.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Olga: Miriam Margolyes
   Hugo: Christian Rodska
   Charles: Christopher Scott
   Franz: John McAndrew
   Louis: Martyn Read
   Ivan: David Bradshawe
   Jessica: Jane Knowles
   Georges: Anthony Jackson
   Slick: Tony Robinson
   Hoederer: Robert Lang
   Karsky: Brian Haines
   Prince Paul: Geoffrey Matthews
[Also broadcast on R3 9/10/1983]
[Mains Sales = "Dirty Hands".]


9th December 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Housing Expert by David Norris
Directed by Margaret Etall
   Jan: Lisa Evans
   Clive: David Barry
   Stewart: Christopher Scott
   Mrs Clifford: Jenny Lee
   Fireman: Sion Probert
   Mr Penn: Leonard Fenton


10th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Open to Abuse by Graham Blackett
An intruder forces his way into a country house and the police seem unwilling to pursue an investigation
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
   Anne: Shirley Stelfox
   John: Bob Docherty
   Tench: Don Henderson
   Ferdi: Anthony Benson
   Cain: Peter Brookes
   Constantine: Terry Molloy
   Dobson: Sion Probert
   Sergeant/George: Alan Devereux


11th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Are You Stone-Colo, Santa Claus? by Rick Ferreira
Directed by Michael Bartlett
   Esme: Vikki Richards
   Sam: Raul Newney
   Auntie: Mona Hammond
   Clifton: Decima Francis
   Jonah: Jeffrey Kissoon
   Mrs Henson: Diana Bishop
   Girl: Jane Knowles
   Man in shop: Haydn Wood
[Rick Ferreira was born in Tobago]


12th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Myself by Dorothy Gharbaoui
The price of success
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Julia Mercer: Margaret D'Arcy
   Evelyn Barbour: Eithne Dunne
   Philip MacDonald: Desmond McAleer
   Mama: Doreen Hepburn
   Father: Allan McClelland
   Marian Mercer: Maggie Shevlin
   Rose Mercer: Heather Tobias
   Julia Mercer: Eileen Pollock
   Evelyn Mercer: Susie Kelly
   Tom Elwood: Sean Barrett
   Lizzie: Gertrude Russell
   Miss Herriott: Kate Binchy
   David Barbour: Walter McMonagle


13th December 1980
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Smoke Screen by John Lawson
The body cremated- who and why.
Directed by Tom Kinninmont
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
   Adrian Lucas: Victor Carin (1933-1981)
   Elsie: Gwynneth Guthrie
   Athelstane Pyrus: Arthur Boland
   Edie Gallagher: Mary Riggans
   Charlie Brown: Robert Trotter
   Vincent Gerard: Ron Bain
   Jason/Mr Squair/McLaren: John Shedden
   Trevor/Torrance: Jimmy Chisholm
   Wilberforce Warwick: Robert Trotter
   Chief Insp Huntley: David Peate
   Mrs Teague: Sheila Latimer
   Girl/ Woman/Stewardess: Rose McBain
Repeated 15th December 1980


14th December 1980
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Beyond the Pale by William Trevor (1928-2016)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
   Milly: Prunella Scales
   Mr Malseed: Michael Spice
   Mrs Malseed: Penelope Lee
   Strafe: Maurice Denham
   Dekko: Jonathan Scott
   Arthur: J. G Devlin
   Kitty: Sheila McGibbon
   Cynthia: Sylvia Coleridge
   The red-haired man: as an adult: Michael McKnight
   The red-haired man:as a child: Jonathan Furphy
   The woman: as an adult: Maggie Shevlin
   The woman:as a child: Jennifer Wright
[Repeated from Radio 3, 8th July 1980]
[Giles Cooper award 1980]


15th December 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Mendip Demoniack by John Fletcher
1745
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
   Michael Durbin: Steve Hodson,
   Henry Durbin: Jack Watson
   the Demoniack: Bill Wallis
   Surgeon Bees: Haydn Jones
   Parson Mogg: Geoffrey Matthews
   Joan the whore: Miriam Margolyes
   Jepthah: Donald McBride
   Caleb: Christian Rodska
Repeated 21st December 1980
[Title is as stated in BBC Programme Archive: George Lukins was actually known as the Yatton Daemoniac - modern spelling is demoniac]


16th December 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Visit from Miss Prothero by Alan Bennett
Mr Dodsworth is happy in retirement.
Directed By: Matthew Walters
   Narrator: Alan Bennett
   Miss Prothero: Patricia Routledge
   Mr Dodsworth: Hugh Lloyd
Repeated 28th August 1982
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013]
[Hugh Lloyd and Patricia Routledge were also in the 1978 tv version]


17th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: What the Butler Did by David Wheeler
Directed by Margaret Etall
Contributors
   Craig: Peter Sallis
   Lord Babington: Godfrey Kenton
   Lady Babington: Jenny Lee
   Camilla: Rosie Kerslake
   Pomfret: David Bradshawe
   Mrs Craig: Diana Bishop
   William: John Webb
   Marvyn: Douglas Lambert
   Jawkins: Martyn Read
   Dr Steinhagen: Sion Probert
   Mrs Appleton: Pamela Buchner


18th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Bobby Wants to Meet Me by Janey Preger
Summer 1978
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
   Neville Morris: Jimmy Hibbert
   Frankie 'Lee' Palmer: David Beames
   Suze: Annette Robertson
   Baz Whiston: John Wheatley
   Vera: John Talbot
   Customer/Bouncer: Andy Rashleicb
[Made into a tv play in 1981]


19th December 1980
15.02:
Afternoon Theatre: Love Support System by Sue McCauley
Women's fantasies
Directed by Pat Trueman
   Rachel Freed: Amanda Murray
   Peter Shaw: Martyn Read
   Janet: Aviva Goldkorn
   Shirley: Kathryn Hurlbutt
   George Wilkinson: Haydn Wood
   Doctor: John Livesey
   Mr Hughes: John Church
   Editor: John Webb
Also with Judy Franklin, Jane Knowles and David McAlister
[In 1992 the author wrote a Penguin book relevant to this play.]



20th December 1980
20.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Fifteen Strings of Cash by James Forsyth
Music by Terence Allbright
Flute and mouth organ: Brenda Dykes; Clarinet: Vic Ash; Guitar: Christopher Kelvington; Percussion: John Royston Mitchell
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Governor Chou Chen of Soochow: Godfrey Kenton
   Prefect Kuang of Soochow: Denys Hawthorne
   Judge Kuo of Wushi: Roger Hammond
   Clerk to Prefect Kuang: Christopher Scott
   Court runner: Graham Faulkner
   Executioners: Anthony Hyde and John Church
   Headman Chiao of the Village: John Bott
   Watchman Wu: Brian Haines
   Yu Hu-Lu: Gordon Reid
   Su Hsu-Chuan: Rowena Roberts
   Neighbour Wong: Peggy Paige
   Lou 'The Rat', a gambler: Danny Schiller
   Hsiung Yu-Lan: Brian Carroll
   Villagers: Lolly Cockerell and Amanda Murray


21st December 1980
20.00
The Last Christmas by Christopher Russell.
Music played by Gary Yershon
Directed By: Michael Bartlett
   Grum: George Baker
   Santa: Maurice Denham
   Irk: Colin Jeavons
   Albert: Haydn Wood
   the Narrator: Peter Woodthorpe
   Uncle Pineher: John Church
   Mary: Jane Knowles
   Vapus: Roger Hammond
   Castigon: David McAlister
   Announcer: Peter Jefferson


22nd December 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz by Alfred Bradley
Inspired by the stories of Frank L. Baum
The Scarecrow, who became ruler of the Land of Oz after the Wizard retired. sets off to find the Wicked Witch of the North.
Music written by Ronnie Bridges
Lyrics by Brenda Johnson and Alfred Bradley
Directed hy Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Dorothy: Wendy Padbury
   The Scarecrow: Christopher Godwin
   The Lion: Brian Murphy
   The Tin Man: David Beames
   Aunt E/Wicked Witch of the North: Carole Hayman
   Uncle Henry/Wizard of Oz: Ronald Herdman
   Brat, the Witch's son: Freddie Lees
   Witch's cat: Vivienne Dixon
   Glinda the Good: Vivienne Dixon
   Guardian of the Gates: Frank Elliott
   Music Man: Frank Elliott
   Kay. the Queen of the Kaleidoscope: Susan Tracy
   The Spirit of Midnight: Malcolm Hebden
Repeated 28th December 1980
[The BBC transcription disk was CN3990/S]


23rd December 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Christmas Footing by Stan Bradshaw
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Fozzard: Judith Barker
   Shirley: Kate Lee
   Desmond: Russell Dixon
   Grandad: Herbert Smith


24th December 1980
19.20
Carol in the Advent Calendar by Ken Whitmore
Music composed by Paul Todd
Music played by Paul Todd and Iain Hawkins
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Carol Kringle: Helen Worth
   Mr Kringle/ Father Christmas: Frank Middlemass
   Gloria Shiner/ Sun Goddess: Linda Gardner
   Mrs Gorblestone/ Snow Witch: Meg Johnson
   Mr Gorblestone/Old Father Time: Bob Grant
   Boy/ Cotton: Tony Robinson


25th December 1980
15.00:
Kind Hearts and Coronets. Adapted for radio by Gilbert Travers Thomas from the film screenplay by Robert Hamer and John Dighton, based upon the book Israel Rank (1907) by Roy Horniman (1874-1930)
Music composed and played by Terence Allbright
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Louis Mazzini and members of the d'Ascoyne family : Robert Powell
   Sibella: Elizabeth Bell
   Edith: Fiona Walker
   The Hangman: Timothy Bateson
Also with Patrick Barr, Diana Bishop, John Church, Sonia Fraser, Alexander John, Godfrey Kenton, Jenny Lee, John Livesey, David Mcalister, John Mcandrew, Sion Probert, Martyn Read. John Rye, John Webb, Haydn Wood
Repeated 26th April 1981, 28th May 1990
[Other radio productions: year/network/producer/ actor playing Louis:
1950/Home/Archie Campbell and Norman Wright/Griffith Jones.
1965/Home/David H Godfrey/Dennis Price rptd 1967.
1996/R4/Andy Jordan/Michael Kitchen, repeated many times R4, R7, R4X]
[There was a sequel on R4 2012, rptd R4X: "Kind Hearts and Coronets: Like Father, Like Daughter" and a dramatised fictional making of in 2006, "Kind Hearts", director Clive Brill].


25th December 1980
17.20
Toytown (1928) by S G Hulme-Beaman (1887-1932): "Golf- Toytown Rules".
Producer: Claire Chovil
   Narrator: Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac")
   Larry the Lamb: Derek McCulloch
   Dennis the Dachshund: Preston Lockwood
   Mayor of Toytown: Felix Felton
   Mr Growser: John Glyn-Jones
   Ernest the Policeman: Peter Claughton
   Captain Higgins/ The Magician: Norman Shelley
   The Inventor: Ivan Samson
Repeated from 5th September 1959- many sources indicate 1962, incorrectly. It was also repeated 5th November 1962, 3rd February 1964, 11th April 1966
and also repeated on R7 in 2006.
[Also produced by Josephine Plummer in 1955, rptd 1957, with Ernest Jay as Dennis]
[This story was first broadcast 13th October 1931]
[This play was episode 25 of 30 Toytown radio plays - 1929 to 1932]


26th December 1980
14.45-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre:- The Wild Swans (1838) by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) adapted by John Peacock
The Queen hated her step-children.
Music composed, arranged and conducted by Philip Thorby and played by Musica Antiqua of London
Radiophonic sound by Elizabeth Parker
Technical presentation by David Greenwood, Alma Cadzow, Richard Beadsmoore
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Elise: Angela Pleasence
   the Nurse: Pauline Letts
   King Arne: Stephen Thorne
   Queen Margrethe: Valerie Sarruf
   Arne: Andrew Seear
   Elronde: Toby Hales
   Kurt: John McAndrew
   Erik: James Imber
   Claus: Michael Goodman
   Peter: Toby Landau
   Hans: Paul Bradbury
   Johanne: Francis Wilford
   Karl: Caspar Norman
   Sven: Tristram Fetherstonhaugh
   Kristien: Malcolm Ingram
   Waldmaar: Philip Voss
   Ivar: Anthony Hyde
   Edrich: John Church
   Jakob: John Bott
   The Lamias: Diana Bishop, Lolly Cockerell, Jenny Lee, Alexander John, Michael Spice, Gordon Reid
Repeated 20th February 1993
Possibly repeated on Saturday Night Theatre on 2nd April 1983- 75 mins. BBC Programme Database has no programme detail for 1983.
[Think of a lamia as a female demon- and then add two male actors???]


27th December 1980
20.30-21.58
The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), adapted by Richard Fawkes.
Special effects: Anthea Davis.
New York- 1874. A play is performed illustrative of Irish life and character
Music by Cyril Ornadel
Producer Robert Cooper
Northern Ireland.
   Claire Ffolliott: Miss Kate Binchy
   Mrs O'Kelly: Miss Anna Manahan
   Capt Molineux: Mr Nigel Anthony
   Arte O'Neal: Miss Sorcha Cusack
   Corry Kinchela: Mr J. G. Devlin
   Fr Dolan: Mr Denys Hawthorne
   Harvey Duff: Mr Desmond Perry
   Robert Ffolliott: Mr Tony Doyle
   Moya/Nancy: Miss Felicity Hayes-McCoy
   Conn O'Kelly-'the Shaughraun': Mr Alan Devlin
   Sergenat/Mangan: Mr Colm Meaney
   Biddy: Miss Marjorie Hogan
   Sullivan/Soldier: Mr Chris Gannon
   Doyle/Donovan/Soldier: Mr Michael Golden
Repeated 29th December 1980, 29th December 1991,
[Shaughraun = 'wanderer, errant person, a roguish poacher']

29th December 1980
19.50:
The Monday Play: The Achurch Letters by Don Taylor
Shaw first saw her on stage on 16 June 1889.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Bernard Shaw: Norman Rodway
   Janet Achurch: Jan Francis
   Mrs Patterson: Barbara Jefford
   Charrington: Michael Burrell
   Florence Farr: Pamela Salem
Also with Margot Gunn, Michael Batz and John Hartoch
Repeated 14th November 1982


30th December 1980
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The-Not-So-Merry-Widow by Douglas Slater
About the Merry Widow operetta.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
   Ludwig Karpath: Gordon Reid
   Franz Lehar: David Timson
   Vilmos Karczag: Peter Baldwin
   Victor Leon: Roger Hammond
   Anton: John Bott


31st December 1980
15.02 :
Afternoon Theatre: Best Side Story by Andrew Lynch
Returning to the UK after ten years he finds a new landlord is at the pub.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Margaret: Kay Adshead
   Ross: David Beames
   Tom: Bob Keegan
   Celia: Judith Barker
   Don: Geoffrey Hinsllff
   Sharon: Barbara Marten
   Eric: Malcolm Hebden


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Compiled 2023 by Stephen Shaw
Another excellent listing - thank you! ..... Ed.

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