BBC Radio Plays, radio 4, 1984

Repeats on 4X and R7 are only listed below when positively identified- the lack of credits on most listings for these stations means many repeats which are not given below. Short plays in the children's programme segments are also omitted due to lack of clear credits.

Note on names- the BBC used OCR software to transfer Radio Times to a database and there were some irregularities. These have been corrected where spotted but occasionally there are ambiguities.

Stephen Shaw

(......Many thanks to Stephen for another excellent listing ..........Ed.)

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1st January 1984
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
The living-room of a house in Kent.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Charles Condomine: Paul Eddington
Ruth Condomine: Julia McKenzie
Elvira: Anna Massey
Madame Arcati: Peggy Mount
Dr Bradman: Richard Pearson
Mrs Bradman: Jane Wenham
Edith: Jill Lidstone
Repeated from 27th December 1983
Repeated 4th May 1985, 26th May 1991, 29th December 1992
(Repeated R4X 2012, 2020)
[Other radio productions of this play:
1954 rptd 1956 - Ayton Whitaker
1972, rptd 1974 and 1980 -Norman Wright
2008 -Philip Franks/ Patrick Rayner
2014 -Lynda Snell (broadcast as an "Archers" episode).]
[The play was also broadcast on BBC World Service 1994, 1999, 2004, producers not stated.]
[The title was taken from a poem "To a skylark"]


1st January 1984
19.00-19.30:
The Magic Carpet by David Beaty (1919-1999)
6 of 7: R101, one engine had failed and the weather was deteriorating.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Narrator Conrad Philips
Johnston/Leech: Pavel Douglas
Irwin: Ian Moore
Atherstone/Bell: Elwyn Johnson
Binks/O'Neill Buck: Phillip Manikum
Colmore/Brancker: Hubert Rees
Thomson: Esmond Hideout
Olive: Ingrid Hafner
Hunt: Rex Holdsworth
Scott/Church: John Hartoch
Additional cast in part 7:
Disley/Reporter: Richard Curnow
Lily: Sarah Benfield
Gloria: Sarah Jane Bickerton
Kirk: Norman Bowler
Announcer/Simon: James Kerry
McWade/Attorney-General: John Linstrum
Episode one was 27th November 1983
Episode seven: 8th January 1984
All episodes were repeated 3 days later.
[David Beaty was a pilot and psychologist]
[R101 flew 1929-1930]


1st January 1984
21.00-22.00:
Roderick Hudson (1975) by Henry James (1843-1916), dramatised by David Williamson
1 of 4: A rich man decides a poor sculptor would benefit from sponsorship.
Music composed by Joanna MacGregor
Directed by James Runcie
Rowland Mallet: Stuart Milligan
Roderick Hudson: James Aubrey
Mrs Hudson: Helen Horton
Mary Garland: Liza Ross
Madame Grandoni: Avril Elgar
Gloriani: Brett Usher
Cecilia: Carole Boyd
Singleton: Geoffrey Collins
Striker: William Eedle
Bessie: Moir Leslie
Additional actors in later parts:
Christina Light: Susan Wooldridge (2)
Mrs Light: Margaret Robertson(2)
Cavalier: Henry Stamper(2)
Prince Casamassima: Scott Cherry(2)
Part2:8/1/84 Part3:15/1/84 Part4:25/1/84
All parts repeated after 5 days.
[There was also a 1956 production by Mary Hope Allen]


2nd January 1984
12.27-13.00:
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome adapted by Jeremy Nicholas
1 of 3
Music by: Jeremy Nicholas, performed by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Producer Paul Mayhew Archer
Narrator: Jeremy Nicholas
Part2:9/1/84 Part3:16/1/84
The series was repeated commencing 20th June 1989
Also broadcast on R4X in 2012 and 2020


2nd January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Trail of Blood by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant based on the novel (1971) by Jeremy Potter (1922-1997)
Did either or both of the princes survive the Tower in 1483? A lay monk seeks the truth, which others are also interested in.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Walter Skelton: Peter Tuddenham
Gervase: James Kerry
Abbot: Jack May
Robert Aske: Stephen Thorne
Chancellor Rayne: Brett Usher
Prior: Preston Lockwood
Brother Thomas: Michael Kltchen
Friar/Soldier: James Bryce
Warder Martyn: Arne Gordon
Leper/Quincy: David Peart
Agnes: Christine Pollon
Repeated from 30th May 1983
[Jeremy Potter was Chairman of the Richard III society from 1971-1989.]


2nd January 1984
19.20:
The Monday Play:- The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) dramatised by Jacek Laskowski
London, 1886 and the life of a secret agent is complex and dangerous.
Directed by Richard Imison
Narrator: Michael Bilton
Verloc: David March
Assistant Commissioner: Brett Usher
Vladimir: Stanley Lebor
Sir Ethelred: Manning Wilson
Chief Insp Heat: Aubrey Woods
Ossipon: Steve Hodson
Winnie: Alexandra Mathie
Stevie: Stephen Garlick
Michaelis: James Bryce
Professor: Brian Haines
Toodles: Alex Jennings
Lady Petra: Hilda Schroder
Annie: Madi Hedd
Repeated 26th December 1985
[There were several productions of this play]


3rd January 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre:- The Winter Plan by Barbara Champion
Planning to go abroad.
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Mrs Steadman: Lydia Sherwood
Mr Corman: Michael Bilton
Mrs Partington: Catherine Wilmer
Miss Revell: Ellen McIntosh
Mrs Tullock: Mary Kenton
Mr Mercer: David Goudge
Shop assistant: Eileen Tully
Roy: Clive Panto
Repeated from 31st December 1983


3rd January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The View From the Hill by Margaret Steward
The poet does not feel up to celebrating his 70th.
Directed by John Cardy
Tom: John Phillips
Bella, Tom's wife: Marjorie Westbury
Andrew, his son: Geoffrey Collins
Henrietta, his daughter: Maggie McCarthy
Donald, his son-in-law: John Livesey
Anna: Zara Kattan
Bevis: Andre Newall
Martin, his publisher: William Eedle
Mrs Ambrose: Margot Boyd
Stephen Fowler: Brett Usher
Edward Sampson: Michael Bilton
Boy: Susan Sheridan
Repeated 27th October 1984


4th January 1984
15.00-15.47:
Afternoon Theatre: French Leave by Shirley Cooklin based on a story (A Family Affair - 1881) by Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893)
Granny goes and does something extraordinary.
Directed by David Johnston
Rosalie: Patsy Rowlands
poor put-upon Albert: John Warner
Madame Caravan: Monica Grey
Granny: Kathleen Helme
Marie Louise: Moir Leslie
Regine: Jane Wenham
Fred: Clive Panto
Chenet: Henry Stamper
Madame Lebaudin: Sheila Grant
Priest: Michael Bilton
Bonassot: William Eedle
Repeated 12th October 1986
[No connection to the play by Reginald Berkeley]


5th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Mouse Race by Michael Toft
Bribing people to buy your products...
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Stainbeck: John Jardine
Duncan Emmett: Andrew Hay
Jerry Hickling: James Tomlison
Charles Eckington: Charles Cookson
Linda Emmett: Jane Hollowoon
Peter Minnelli: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Ted Fletcher: John ????


7th January 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: There's No Place Like Home by Karl Barry
All because I expressed a desire to own my own home...
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Doris Briggs: Sue Johnston
Andy Briggs: Anton Brookes
Ted Briggs: Vic McGuire
Joe Briggs: William Maxwell
Sam Spade: David Jackson
Enoch Radcliffe: Cliff Howells
Repeated 10th January 1984
[The title is a quotation from The Wizard of Oz]


7th January 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Anderby Wold (1923) by Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) adapted by Gale Houston
A kiss in a cornfield on a hot day.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
Mary Robson: Joanna MacKie
John: Derek Smith
Sarah/Mrs Coast: Lorraine Peters
Tom/Mr Coast: Nigel Anthony
Violet: Jayne Dowell
Uncle Dick/Ezra Dawson: Robert Keegan
Aunt Jane/Miss Taylor: Rosalie Williams
Ursula/Mrs Greenwood: Eileen O'Brien
David: Joseph Peters
Mike/Hunting: Keith Clifford
Eli Waite: Jack Carr
Jack: Jason Littler
Little girl: Jenny Luckraft
Repeated 9th January 1984.


8th January 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: An Unfortunate Occurrence At Hounslow by Colin Haydn Evans
Ballads set and sung by John Bull
1846: A man is flogged.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Private Frederick: Gary Cady
Col Ralston: John Livesey
Dr Wakely: John Turner
The Rev Trimmer: John Warner
The Duke of Wellington: Maurice Denham
Captain Shirley: Stephen Thorne
Sgt Darley: John Bull
Marianne Ralston: Jean Trend
Dr Taggart: Andrew Crawford
Dr Hall: Godfrey Kenton
Sarah Trimmer: Wendy Murray
William Brent: David Gooderson
Bette Brent: Theresa Streatfeild
Private Sparkes: Fraser Downie
Private Matthewson: Stephen Garlick
Dr Wilson: Alan Dudley
George Clark: Hugh Dickson
Repeated from 22nd May 1982.
[Based on The Strange Death of Private White (1977) by Harry Hopkins]
[The title of this play is taken from Colonel Peel, quoted in Hansard of 7/8/1846 which recorded that Wellington had reduced the maximum number of strokes that could be sentenced in future.]


9th January 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play:
The Electronic Lover by Richard Edmunds (aka Ric Edelman)
An obsession with computer technology.
Guitar: Megg Nigol
Song lyrics and music by Richard Edmunds
Directed by David Spenser
Gavin: Keith Drinkel
Noelle: Heather Bell
Ben: Nigel Hughes
Michael: Mark Straker
David's PA: Helen Atkinson-Wood
DHSS clerk: Jon Strickland
Registrar: Scott Cherry
Repeated 15th January 1984


10th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Can You Hear Me? by Trisha Fine
Adjusting to life with multiple sclerosis.
Directed by Marilyn Ireland
BBC Scotland
Jenny: Maureen Beattie
Jeff: Alec Heggie
Lisa: Jane Reilly
Sheila: Phyllis Logan
Mrs Burgess: Mary Rlggans
Dr Massie: Tom Watson
Headmaster: Robert Trotter
with the children of Bruntsfield Primary School. Edinburgh
Repeated from 30th April 1982.
[Maureen Beattie won 1981 Pye Radio Award (Best Performance by an Actress) in this play]
[(First broadcast on Radio Scolland)]


11th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Sam Shepherd's Shark by Philip Barker
Every year a holiday in Cornwall with the intent to catch a shark.
Directed by Graham Gauld
"Lucy and Sam: Edward Kelsey" (1930-2019)
Ben: Gordon Reid
Helen: Ursula Hirst
Tom: Jon Croit
Gerda: Maggie Mullarkey
Reporter: Anthony Hall
[Only one entry in the BBC programme guide for this play, and no mention anywhere else. Did Edward Kelsey play Lucy? No copy of the play to hand to check.]


12th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Two Weeks by Dave Simpson
First holiday without her parents. She visits Blackpool.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Jean: June Barry
Dennis: Alan Rothwell
Linda: Jane Hollowood
Tracy: Diane Whitley
Dorothy: Judith Barker
Kevin: Andrew Hay
Ken: Neil Adams
Repeated 8th October 1985


14th January 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: She Belongs To Me by Rob Gittins
London 1969. He goes to London and meets a girl.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
Advertising executive/ Reporter: Kenneth Alan Taylor
James: Paul Copley
Elizabeth: Sally Edwards
Caroline: Jenny Luckraft
Repeated 17th January 1984


14th January 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley (Anthony Berkeley Cox) (1893-1971) dramatised by Neville Teller
The chocolates were for someone else.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Roger Sheringham: Neil Stacy
Mrs Fielder-Flemming: Hilda Schroder
Sir Charles Wildman: Conrad Phillips
Moresby: Victor Winding
Chitterwick: Michael Bilton
Bradley/Smithson: Geoffrey Collins
Alicia: Jane Wenham
Lockwood: William Eedle
Bendix: Mark Straker
Sir Eustace: Clive Panto
Mrs Bendix: Eileen Tully
Marguerite: Deborah Cranston
Repeated 16th January 1984.
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017 and 2020.
[The author used a number of names including Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts.]


15th January 1984
19.00:
The Killing Season by Arthur Jefferson (aka R D Wingfield - 1928-2007)
1 of 6: It's Christmas Eve at Melford Police Station.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Det Con Nuttall: Michael Jenner
Det Insp Carter: Sean Barrett
Police Sgt Plummer: John Hollis
Arthur Ferris: Manning Wilson
Farnham: Allan Cuthbertson
Debby Garwood: Rosalind Thomas
Armstrong/Sandy Harris: Jon Strickland
Doctor: Mark Jones
Vicar: Anthony Hall
Nurse: Monica Grey
Additional actors in later episodes:
Henry Thomas: Timothy Bateson(2)
PC Jordan: Mark Straker(3)
Jane Driscoll: Dione Inman(3)
Det Sgt Bishop: William Eedle(4)
Mrs Digby: Margot Boyd(5)
Mrs Norton: Hilda Schroder(6)
Ep2:22/1/84 Ep3:29/1/84 Ep4:5/2/84 Ep5:12/2/84 Ep6:19/2/84
All episodes repeated after 3 days


16th January 1984
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Chota by Jean Binnie
An English family move to a remote part of the Punjab.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Margaret: Annabelle Alnyon
Ayah: Shireen Shah
Munna: Maureen O'Brien
Fa: John Shrapnel
McMillan: Bill Simpson
Bearer: Madhav Sharma
Repeated 22nd January 1984


17th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Returning the Favour by Grant Eustace
A plane crashes in 1936 Norfolk.
Directed by David Johnston
Peter Godfrey: Basil Moss
Pauline Lawrence: Judy Franklin
David Wallace: Jon Strickland
Kingsley-Smith: William Eedle
Lady Stanforth: Margot Boyd
Mrs Corbett: Ann Morrish
Mr Wrightson/Undertaker: Peter Tuddenham
Josie: Moir Leslie
Jim/Klaus/Innkeeper: Mark Rolston


18th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Happy Jack (1982) by John Godber
A Yorkshire miner and his wife
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Jack: Andrew Livingstone
Liz: Jane Clifford
[The play won "National Student Drama Festival Outstanding Production Award" in 1982 and subsequently won a 'Fringe First' at the Edinburgh Festival].
[A different presentation directed by Toby Swift, starring Jane and John Godber broadcast 2/5/2015, also broadcast on R4X in 2018 ]


19th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Shakespeare on $5 a Day by Douglas Kennedy
A visiting American academic in Dublin.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Bradshaw: Blain Fairman
Miss Hennessey: Margaret D'Arcy
Morrow: John Sheddon
Davies: Alan Standford
Quinn-Liven: Denys Hawthorne
Vicar/Tour guide: Maurice O'Callaghan
Student/Thompson/Waiter: Colm Meaney
Fedelma: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Repeated from 1st January 1982
[This play was also produced for radio by RTE Ireland and ABC Australia]
[Douglas Kennedy was born in New York and moved to Dublin in 1974]


21st January 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Selling Space by Felicity Hayes-Mccoy
Three out of work actresses share a flat.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Meg: Helen Atkinson-Wood
Lynne: Sherrie Hewson
Diana: Arwen Holm
Steve: Michael Jenner
Sid: Peter Baldwin
Repeated 24th January 1984


21st January 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: That Corpse You Planted in Your Garden by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Bristol and the slave trade as the past intrudes into the present.
Piano: Philip Martin
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Roper: John Castle
Cranleigh: Peter Copley
Dina: Tessa Wojtczak
Belcher/ Shantyman: Jonathan Nibbs
Briggs: Bill Wallis
Starkie: Trevor Thomas
Cherokee: Frank Singuineau
Cyrus: Jack Watson
Sheila: Moir Leslie
Doctor: Andrew Hilton
Jake: Tony Robinson
Repeated 23rd January 1984
[The title is from T S Eliot, The Waste Land].


23rd January 1984
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Orange Earth (1978) by Adam Small (1936-2016)
A young man is on trial for a serious crime.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Brenda (Babie) Adams: Yvonne Bryceland
Johnny Adams: Tony Osoba
the Warder: Jack Klaff
Pappa Adams: Lionel Ngakane
Judge: Mel Oxley
Counsel for the Defence: Sean Barrett
State Prosecutor: Adrian Egan
Clerk of the Court: Alfred Hoffman
Also with Michael Shevelew, Ben Ellison, Carole Boyd, Leonie Hofmeyer and Anthony Hall
Repeated 29th January 1984
[Written in Afrikaans and translated by the author into English in 1984]


24th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Teddy Boys Picnic by Colin Finbow
Recalling the good old days.
Directed by Peter King
Eddie: Norman Jones
Rita: Alex Marshall


25th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: London Fox by Victor Canning (1911-1986)
A man finds a wounded fox.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Belle: Ysanne Churchman
Harry: John Pullen
Miss Crampton: Margot Boyd
Det Sgt Hicks: David Goudge
Mrs Tarlin: Katherine Parr
Receptionist: Patience Tomlinson
Repeated from 27th January 1982
[Screenplays of this play are held at the University of Wyoming and by a private owner in Thailand.]


26th January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Where are You Now Margaret McCulla? by Paul Angelis(1943-2009)
What can a school crush of many years ago lead to?
Directed by Jane Morgan
Martin: Michael Angelis (1944-2020)
Jo: Shirin Taylor
Peter: Robert Hamilton
Carol: Irene Marot
Murphy: Tony Haygarth
McGee: Tom Georgeson
Receptionist: Jane Wenham
Ticket Inspector: Mark Jones
Repeated 10th September 1985
[Paul Angelis mother Margaret McCulla died when he was very young]


28th January 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Fine Company of Men by Dave Sheasby (1940-2010)
A return to the battlefields of Flanders is a private matter.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Phil: Paul Copley
Bernard: Roger Rowland
Jill: Natasha Pyne
Repeated 31st January 1984


30th January 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Albatross and the Elephant Eggs by Harry Barton (1916-2006)
1945: An aircraft carrier officer is looking after 500 elephant eggs.
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Clementina: Ingrid Craigie
Purbright: Shaun Scott
Daddy: William Gaunt
Captain: Duncan Carse
Engineering officer: Brett Usher
Commander: Henry Stamper
Stewart: Jon Strickland
Berry: . Christopher Ettridge
Also with Geoffrey Collins, Mark Rolston, Michael Jenner, Scott Cherry and Mark Straker
Repeated 5th February 1984, 19th October 1985, 9th September 1995
[Harry Barton served in the Royal Navy including on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.]
[No Aepyornis has been seen since 17th Century and there are few complete eggs left. Christies in London sold one in 2013 and Sotheby's London one in 2019.]


31st January 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Fine Edge by Ken Blakeson
He likes cricket.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Lenny Simpson: Geoffrey Hinsliff
'Spuggy' Sparrow: Ian Sharrock
Albert Armatroyd: Geoffrey Banks
Frank Hardcastle: Jack Carr
Alec Johnstone: James Tomlinson
Granny Sparrow: Lorraine Peters
Jean Simpson: Jean Fergusson


1st February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Love Me Tender by Simon Moss
Godfrey has a model railway in his garden.
Directed by Michael Bartlett
Godfrey: Dinsdale Landen
Annie: Anna Cropper
Terry: Simon Hewitt
Marge: Wendy Murray
Brigadier: Anthony Newlands
Reid: Hugh Dickson
Jock: Henry Stamper
Repeated from 13th October 1982


2nd February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Liberation of Eileen by Noel Robinson
A working mother chooses to be a full time housewife.
Directed by: Cherry Cookson
Greta: Fiona Walker
Tom: Geoffrey Palmer
Coley: Robert Lang
Philip: Brett Usher
Daniel: Michael Jenner
Eileen: Carole Boyd
Sylvia: Ellen MacIntosh
[Previously a tv play, ITV in 1974 in which Geoffrey Palmer also played Tom]


29th January 1984
21.00:
The Fountain Overflows (1957) by Rebecca West (aka Cicily Isabel Fairfield) (1892-1983) dramatised by Joan O'Connor
1 of 3: Despite his brilliant journalism, Papa gambles compulsively. The family move to London.
Directed by Margaret Windham
Clare: Anna Nygh
Piers: William Nighy
Cordelia: Yvonne Antrobus
Mary: Jill Lidstone
Rose: Phoebe Nicholls
Mrs Weir: Ellen McIntosh
Jeannie/Jenny: Moir Leslie
Constance: Angela Thorne
Rosamund: Flora Page
Kate: Maggie McCarthy
Rose (as an adult): Margot Boyd
Jock: Henry Stamper
Additional actors in parts 2 and 3:
Aunt Lily: Patricia Routledge(2)
Miss Beevor: Patricia Quinn(2)
Richard Quin: Rupert Baderman(2)
Nancy: Alix McAllister(2)
Hot cross bun man/George: Brett Usher(2)
Mayor: Anthony Hall(2)
Mrs Phillips: Jane Wenham(2)
Mr Phillips: Timothy Bateson(2)
Schoolgirl: Emma Bell(2)
Mr Pennington: Jon Strickland(3)
Part2:5/2/84 Part3:12/2/84
Each part repeated after 5 days.
[The first and only part of a planned trilogy, this is semi-autobiographical with Rose as Rebecca]
[A second production by Claire Grove and Cherry Cookson, in 6 parts, was broadcast in 2006]


4th February 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Roman Fever (1934 revised 1936) by Janet Goodwyn based on a short story by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
A restaurant in Rome in 1925. Two ladies recall their pasts.
Directed by David Johnston
Mrs Slade: Rosemary Leach
Mrs Ansley: Maggie McCarthy
Barbara: Helena Breck
Jenny: Narissa Knights
Waiter/American: Clive Panto
Lydia/English tourist: Diana Martin
Repeated 7th February 1984
[There was a different production by Celia de Wolff in 1998]
[Janet Goodwyn is the author of "Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters" 1989]


4th February 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The House of the Arrow (1924) by A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948) adapted by Alan Downer
A young woman living in France is accused of murder.
Music composed and directed by Terence Allbright
Directed by Christopher Venning
Inspector Hanaud: Richard Pasco
Jim Frobisher: Benedick Blythe
Betty Harlowe: Moir Leslie
Ann Upcott: Deborah Makepeace
Francine Rollard: Carole Boyd
Boris Waberski/Girardot: Alfredo Michelsen
Carlos Espinosa/Gaston: Clive Panto
Maurice Thevenet: Mark Jones
Repeated 6th February 1984.
[Several different radio productions of this title]
[The second book in the Insp Hanaud series]
[This tale was inspired by a news report of a murder]


6th February 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: Just Between Ourselves (1976) by Alan Ayckbourn adapted by Richard Wigmore
His wife's not in the best of health, but she only needs cheering up a bit.
Directed by Gordon House
A BBC World Service production
Dennis: Peter Vaughan
Vera: Jennifer Piercey
Neil: Nigel Anthony
Pam: Frances Jeater
Marjorie: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 12th February 1984
[Gordon House also produced a version in 2008 with Stephen Critchlow as Dennis, repeated R4X in 2022]


7th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Welbourn Street by Rachel Wyatt
One person stirs in the street before 8am.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Bob: Garrick Hagon
Martha: Liza Ross
Elsa: Shelley Thompson
Helen: Margaret Robertson
Joan: Bonnie Hurren
Marianne: Moir Leslie
Mercer: Ed Bishop
The Rev Cline: Don Fellows
Inquiry chairman: William Hope
Lilly O'Brien: Maggie McCarthy
Sam: Kerry Shale


8th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break by Joan MacAlpine
A mother wanted to feed her baby in the restaurant, that's all.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Angie Taylor: Karen Archer
Barry Taylor: Geoffrey Collins
Mrs Ford: Margot Boyd
Mr Crisp: John Rye
Howard Levington: David McAlister
Mr Stephenson: Timothy Bateson
Lucinda: Moir Leslie
Emma: Helen Atkinson Wood
Waitress: Carole Boyd


9th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Sing Until Tomorrow by Diana Bishop
On holiday and not in your own country- and a tooth needs attention.
Directed by Richard Wortley
She: Maggie McCarthy
I: Valerie Sarruf
Phil: Hugh Dickson
the Frenchman: Neville Jason
George: Jon Strickland
Mim: Moir Leslie
Mark: Mark Straker


11th February 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Champion by Gwyn Clark
A journalist looks for frustration and finds love.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Mrs Rees: Elizabeth Morgan
Jean: Carole Boyd
Geraint: Sian Probert
Repeated 14th February 1984


11th February 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Sea Changes by Olwen Wymark (1932-2013)
The landlord seeks desperately for a way to avoid her tenants.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Addie: Anne Bell
Lila: Maureen O'Brien
Lewis: Nicholas Courtney
Victor Nelson: Rod Beacham
Myra Nelson: Maggie McCarthy
Charlie Spencer: Scott Cherry
Roberta: Theresa Streatfeild
Lisle Meredith: William Hope
Mr Carr: Clive Panto
Miss Gibson: Narissa Knights
Miss Johnson: Ellen McIntosh
Repeated 13th February 1984


13th February 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: Babylon Has Fallen by John Fletcher
1840s- an evangelist arrives and some local customs face being altered.
Directed By Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Cottage organist: Ian Carson
Augustus Hare: John Castle
Edith Worth: Maureen O'Brien
David Worth: John Rowe
Captain Joshua Slocum: David March
Elisha: Owen Garmon
Annie: Shireen Shah
Repeated 19th February 1984
["Maureen O'Brien spent hours researching period Bristolian by listening to a hundred year old woman from Totterdown, Bristol."]


14th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: But, Robert, Nobody Dies for Love Anymore by Chris Curry
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Robert: Russell Dixon
Julie: Helen Worth
Raymond: Alan Rothwell
Greg: Bernard Latham
Repeated from 18th August 1983


15th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Figures by Colin Haydn Evans
The house waited to be bought and the new owner to sit in the upstairs room, locked for so long...
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Ann: Anna Massey
Ralph Symons: Blain Fairman
Rebecca Symons: Jill Lidstone
Peter Fuller: Jon Strickland
Alex Slade: Michael Bilton
Repeated 22nd January 1986
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017, 2021


16th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Love Me Do by Lesley Davies
Albert Schweitzer does not reply to her letters, but then she meets a boy.
Piano: Stuart Hutchinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Suzanne: Suzanna Hamilton
David: Julian Firth
Mum: Jennifer Piercey
Dad: William Eedle
Mr Richards: Anthony Hall
Miss Shaw: Narissa Knights
Hilda: Clare Travers Deacon
Penny: Amanda Kirby
Annabelle: Rosalind Adams
Old lady: Margot Boyd
Repeated 10th November 1984


18th February 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Bump in the Road by Graham Holliday
Taking a driving test.
Directed by John Candy
Trevor Leybourne: Trevor Bannister
John Campion: Clive Panto
Joyce: Carole Boyd
Man in the test centre: Michael Garner
Receptionist: Helen Atkinson Wood
Repeated 21st February 1984


18th February 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Snake by James Douglas
A determined house buyer and a reluctant owner.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Mrs Pym: Sheila Burrell
Freddie: Valerie Lilley
Brigid: Catherine Gibson
Toole: Louis Rolston
Georgina: Doreen Hepburn
Brogan: Denys Hawthorne
Mervyn: Jonathan Scorr
Kelly: Michael Duffy
Uncle George Fitzmaurice: James Green
The Rev Armstrong: Anthony Finigan
Repeated 20th February 1984


19th February 1984
21.00-22.00:
Kipps - The Story of a Simple Soul (1905) by H. G. Wells (1866-1946) dramatised by Michelene Wandor
Music by Ilona Sekacz
1 of 5: The Making of Kipps
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Emily: Rosalind Ayres
Henry Walshingham: Spencer Banks
Carshot: Christopher Biggins
Mr Shalford: Michael Bilton
Miss Lomax: Margot Boyd
H G Wells: Paul Daneman
Chester Coote: Christopher Good
Chitterlow: Nickolas Grace
Uncle: John Hollis
Miss Walshingham: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Sid Pornick: Michael Jenner
Ann: Moir Leslie
Kipps: Mark Straker
Driver: Jon Strickland
Buggins: John Webb
Aunt: Jane Wenham
Flo: Helen Atkinson Wood
Additional actors in later parts:
Miss Coote: Helena Breck(3)
Mrs Walshingham: Penelope Lee(3)
Masterman: Nigel Anthony (4)
Waiter/Sid Revel: John Rye(4)
Fanny: Theresa Streatfeild(4)
Baby Walt: Judy Bennett(4)
Mrs Bindon Botting: Maggie McCarthy(4)
Clergyman: Arnold Diamond(4)
Architect: Brett Usher(5)
Pt2:26/2/84 Pt3:4/3/84 Pt4:11/3/84 Pt5:18/3/84
Each 1984 episode was repeated after five days.


20th February 1984
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Slipping Away (1979) by Elizabeth Troop
A film director goes to Italy to finish a script, with his writer, his wife and his son.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Claudia Palmer: Fiona Walker
Michael: Graham Cox
John McAndrew: Howard Palmer
Peter Whitman: Sam Palmer
Howard Palmer: Tom Vermeer
Sebastian: Michael Jenner
Ettore: William Eedle
Constanze: Ellen McIntosh
Father: Geoffrey Collins
Mother: Narissa Knights
Child: Jay Bura
also with Helen Atkinson Wood
Repeated 26th February 1984


21st February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Going Home is Such a Ride by Daisy Lithgow
Your father is dead and it's a long way home to the funeral
Directed by Jane Morgan
Emily: Barbara Ewing
Tom: James Laurenson
Wayne: Bruce Purchase
Trevor: Brett Usher
also with Maggie Mccarthy, Helen Atkinson Wood, Scott Cherry, Anthony Hall, Jon Strickland, Stephen Thorne
[This is the sole credit for Daisy Lithgow in the BBC Programme Database].


22nd February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs M by David Campton (1924-2006)
The guesthouse offers a carefree holiday.
Directed by Peter Windows
BBC Birmingham
Mrs Meadowsweet: Rosemary Leach
Madge: Anne Jameson
Arthur: Roger Hume
Simon: Terry Molloy
Miss Brazenose: Joyce Gibbs
Inga: Patricia Gallimore
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017 and 2021
[Presented on theatre stage as "Mrs Meadowsweet"]


23rd February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Recording by Douglas Slater
The early life of Elgar and the making of his last recording.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Sir Edward Elgar: Timothy West
Lady Elgar: Pauline Letts
Carice Elgar Blake: Miranda Forbes
Willy Reed: David Gooderson
August Jaegar: Nicholas Courtney
Ernest Newman: John Warner
Fred Gaisberg: Cyril Shaps
Repeated from 19th February 1982


25th February 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mary by Frances Gray
A teacher and her pupil recall past days.
Hymns sung by St Philips Church of England Primary School, Salford
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Mary Rutherford: Gladys Spencer
Young Mary Rutherford: Jayne Dowell
Mary Hart: Moir Leslie
Father: Derek Smith
David: Nigel Caliburn
Paul: Piers Henschel
Mrs Tighe: Ann Aris
Walter: Alex Jennings
Home help: Rosemary Chamney
Repeated 28th February 1984


25th February 1984
20.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham (1904-1966), dramatised by Gregory Evans
The London fog hides a terrible evil.
Directed By: Brian Miller
Narrator John Linstrum
Albert Campion: Basil Moss
Luke: Tim Meats
Levett: John Hartoch
Meg: Julia Hills
Duds/Doll: Clive Panto
Picot/Roly: Ray Handy
Avril: Ronald Russell
Amanda: Pat Field
Doctor: Henry Stamper
Mrs Collie: Jane Wenham
Oates/Sam: Larry Noble
Fishmonger: Hilda Schroder
Mary: Audrey Noble
Mrs Cash: June Barrie
Havoc: Patrick Malahide
Repeated 27th August 1984
[Audrey Cameron also produced this play in 1963]
[There were 21 Albert Campion books, this was the 14th]


26th February 1984
19.00-19.30:
The Bird of Dawning (1933) by John Masefield (1876-1967), adapted by Colin Finbow
1 of 6: The great China tea-clipper races.
Music coach: Geoffrey Collins
Additional research and shanty man Henry Stamper
Technical presentation David Greenwood, Richard Beadsmoore and Roger Danes
Directed by Peter King
Narrator: Brett Usher
Cruiser Trewsbury: Michael N Harbour
Fairford: Norman Jones
Frampton/McNab: Henry Stamper
Captain: Geoffrey Collins
Coates: Paul Dalton
Chedglow: Chris Chescoe
Stratton: Timothy Bateson
Efans: Anthony Hall
Bauer: Colin Starkey
Corny/Perrot: Peter Acre
Pt2:4/3/84 Pt3:11/3/84 Pt4:18/3/84 Pt5:25/3/84 Pt6:1/4/84
All episodes repeated after three days.
[There was a production by John Gibson in 1965]


27th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Geneva Run by Michael Davies
A British armaments expert goes missing at the Geneva talks.
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Sir Robert Clyne: George Baker
David Yarm: Ian Saynor
John Altwen Lassam: William Roberts
Bowinger/Korientov: Nigel Graham
Laura: Guinevere John
Annie Booth: Monica Grey
Major Cunningham: Ray Handy
Inap Crab: Ivor Roberts
Sgt Lewis: Roger Nott
Harry Stein: Mark Rolston
Also with Erica Eirian, James Benson
Repeated from 31st December 1983


27th February 1984
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Never in My Lifetime by Shirley Gee (1932-2016)
Romance in a difficult situation. Mid 70's Romeo and Juliet.
Drums: Nigel Shipway
Directed by David Spenser
Tom: Robert Glenister
Charlie: Bill Nighy
Tessie: Angael Grehan
Moira: Maggie Shevlin
Wife: Harriet Walter
Mother: Kate Binchy
Old man: Anthony Newlands
Young man: Jim Reid
Voices: Wendy Murray
Repeated 23rd July 1984
First broadcast on Radio 3 on 23rd October 1983
[The play won the Samuel Beckett Award, 1985 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 1983 BBC Giles Cooper Award]


28th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Another Applicant by Nick Fisher
The old business needs a new man to help it adjust to the modern era.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Mr Wheeler: Peter Baldwin
Cummings: Clive Panto
Rowena: Sherrie Hewson
Miss Each: Carole Boyd
Receptionist: Mia Soteriou
Lift: Hilda Schroder


29th February 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Origami by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Pronunciation adviser: Masatoshi Tobita
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Mr Shimojo: Sean Barrett
Helen Bestall: Carole Boyd
Lucy Bestall: Helen Worth
Peter Trent: Christopher Scoular
Enid Shelley/Young woman: Kate Lee
Repeated 7th May 1986
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017 and 2021


1st March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Diary of a Suburban Housewife by Sandra Clayton
Emancipation should begin at home
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Anne: Jill Meers
Martin/Scottish vet: Graham Padden
Peter: Alex Jones
Young Peter: Neil Coker
Susan: Maggie Tarver
Margaret/Operator: Patricia Gallimore
Colonel Fernihough/Vet/Telephone engineer: Terry Molloy
Al/Waiter: John Dixon
Betty/Receptionist: Diana Davies
Jeremy/Young man: Kim Durham
Herbert/Graham Tyler/Stables proprietor: Roger Hume
Repeated 3rd November 1984 and 17th June 1986
Also broadcast on 3AR Melbourne in 1989


3rd March 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Purple Suit by Robert McFarlane
Directed by Stewart Conn
Mark: Jonathan Watson
Isa: Kirsty Miller
Tiger: Ray Dunsire
Gus: Steven Whinnery
Mrs Diamond: Anne Downie
Repeated 6th March 1984


3rd March 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Fit Up by Peter Simpkin
Two boys grow up together, then their lives take parallel, but very different paths.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Terry Marcus: Ray Brooks
Mike Bull: Billy Murray
Simon Mount: Philip Barnes
Trevor/Ted/Dave: William Hope
Bull (as a boy): Joe Sullivan
Marcus (as a boy): John Drummond
Bull (as a youth): Richard Huw
Marcus (as a youth): Martin Phillips
Supt Gates: Jon Strickland
Carol: Kerryann White
Anita/Sue/Barmaid: Helena Breck
Marilyn (as a girl): Sarah Doyle
Marilyn: Carole Boyd
Simpson: Colin Starkey
Phil: Russell Keith-Grant
Beaky/Doctor/Chief Supt: Douglas Blackwell
June: Teresa Collard
Fred/Fat man: Gilbert Harrison
Repeated 5th March 1984


4th March 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: A Cuckoo in the Nest (1925) by Ben Travers (1886-1980) adapted by Peter King.
In 1925 the divorce laws required one party to spend the night with someone not their spouse.
Music composed and played by Ed Welch (piano) with Ron Aspery
Directed by Peter King.
Mrs Bone: Joan Hickson
Major George Bone: Freddie Jones
Peter Wykeham: Ian Lavender
Margaret Hickett: Phoebe Nicholls
Mrs Spoker: Margaret Tyzack
Barbara: Yvonne Antrobus
Hickett: Brett Usher
The Rev Sloley Jones: Ellis Dale
George: James Kerry
Alfred: Henry Stamper
Noony: Timothy Bateson
Gladys: Alex Marshall
The garage: James Bryce
Newsagent: Maggie McCarthy
Pansy the dog: Percy Edwards
First broadcast 25th December 1983
Repeated 22nd November 1986, and 26th April 1992
Also broadcast on R4X in 2020


5th March 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: Temporary Shelter by Rose Tremain
Larry and Marje decide to holiday on a French campsite.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Larry: Roy Kinnear
Marje: Fiona Walker
Trist: Anthony Newlands
Jean-Louis: Yves Aubert
Annette: Grazyna Monvid
Repeated 11th March 1984 and 30th June 1985
Also broadcast on R4X 2018.
[Giles Cooper Award winner]


6th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Plain Jane and the Joker by Alan England
A course of Transactional Analysis.
Directed by Peter King
Tony: Bernard Gallagher
Joyce: Alex Marshall
Arlina: Elizabeth Bell
Bella: Katherine Parr


7th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Dracula in White by Peter Redgrove (1932-2003)
Prisoners up and down the country seem to be disappearing.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Joanna: Maggie McCarthy
Dr Exeter-White: Benjamin Whitrow
Sam Mellish: Jerold Wells
Toby/Cooper: Tim Meats
Ron/Governor: John Linstrum
Judge: Paul Nicholson
Mrs Petit/Wardress: June Barrie
Also with Richard Curnow and John Linstrum
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017 and 2021]
[This play starts in the middle of a conversation- it isn't that the start is missing]


8th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Flying High by Aisling Donelan
You never know who may be hiding in the hedge.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Mrs Austin: Trudy Kelly
Gloria: Brid Brennan
Tom Swift: Trevor Moore
James Austin: Adrian Gordon
Matt Shaw: Derek Halligan
Tony: Brian Hogg
Hector McDaid: Maurice O'Callaghan
Air Hostess: Brigid Erin Bates
Airport announcer: Ellen McIntosh
British officer: Clive Panto


10th March 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: English Toys by Margaret Crane
The cleaner was not used to taking orders.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Mrs Jarczynska: Kathleen Helme
Mrs Dennis: Linda Gardner
Matthew: Jason Moss
Repeated 13th March 1984


10th March 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: With a Whimper to the Grave by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
The earth welcomes aliens.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Tom Harris: John Shrapnel
Sally Harris: Maureen O'Brien
A P Smith: Donald Hewlett
Marge: Angela Thorne
George: Patrick Troughton
'642': Timothy West
Alien controller: Manning Wilson
Baby Sam/Gloria: Moir Leslie
Doctor: Arnold Diamond
Charles: Henry Stamper
Silkin: Peter Wickham
Geoffrey Palmer: Robert Dawes
Alien: Peter Acre
Vera: Margot Boyd
Ray/Pilot: Clive Panto
Sally's mother: Katherine Parr
David/Paul: Crawford Logan
Corporal/Vince: Michael Jenner
Foreign pilot/Barry: Mark Rolston
Repeated 12th March 1984
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2004, 2008, 2009 - using a cassette recorded by Wally K Daly]
[Part of a trilogy: 1: Before the screaming begins (1978); 2: The Silent Scream (1979) ]


12th March 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Wasted Years by Caryl Phillips
A teenager is having a bad time at school.
With Members of the Birmingham Youth Theatre
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Solly: Tony Armatrading
Mrs Daniels: Carmen Munroe
Roy Daniels: Rudolph Walker
Mr Teale: Graham Padden
Chris Daniels: Adrian Harvey
Tagger: Mark Audley
Tracey: Ann Bell
Jenny: Amanda Dainty
Gym teacher: Peter Brookes
Bates: David Hannah
Station announcer/British resident: Shirley Stelfox
First immigrant: Tony McPherson
Second immigrant: Cornel John
Repeated 18th March 1984 and 7th July 1985
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017
[BBC Giles Cooper Award winner for Best Radio Play]


14th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Marie by Brian McAvera
Is independence possible or even what she wants?
Directed by Penny Gold
BBC Northern Ireland
Marie: Maggie Shevlin
James: Desmond McAleer
Eddie: Derek Halligan
Mum: Trudy Kelly
Mr Prentice: Ian McElhinney
Josie: Libby Smith
Bill /Announcer: Niall Cusack
Sam/Commentator: George Shane
Frank: Paul Harden
Jim: Neil Irwin
Repeated 19th February 1986


15th March 1984
15.00-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Witch Water Green by Don Webb
A mother and child are alone in a new remote home.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Barbara Tate: Pam Ferris
Dr Jane Rayner: Jenny Lee
The Rev Roy Brown: Nigel Anthony
Johnny Goad: Brian Southwood
Wendy Williams: Kate Lee
Repeated 17th November 1984
Also broadcast on R4X in 2017 and 2021


17th March 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mother and Daughter by Graham Swannell
A lonely woman has a visit from her daughter.
Directed by John Tydeman
Joan the mother: Avril Elgar
Harriet her daughter: Joanna David
Repeated from 15th November 1983


17th March 1984
20.30: :
Saturday-Night Theatre: Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock by Geoffrey M Matthews based on the novel (1968) by H.R F. Keating (1926-2011)
A member of Bombay Criminal Investigation Department arrives in London and becomes involved in a missing person investigation.
Song composed by Jim Parker and Wally K. Daly
Directed by Peter Windows
BBC Birmingham
Insp Ghote: Sam Dastor
Vidur Datta: Garard Green
Mira Datta: Ursula Mohan
Inspector Smart: Geoffrey Matthews
Jill Rimmer: Sarah Neville
Johnny Bull: Michael Praed
Kefkar/Goodhuis: Henry Stamper
Protima/Sandra: Carole Boyd
Robin: Alan Dudley
Reen: Moir Leslie
Pat: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Ada: Shirley Stelfox
Bily/Producer: Coun Starkey
Singh/Pete/Marc: Terry Molloy
DJ/Waiter: Dinesh Bhardwaj
Jack: David Vann
Repeated 19th March 1984
[There were 25 Inspector Ghote books- this was the fifth]


19th March 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre by Steve May
A confused man seeks safety in a hazardous area.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Percy: John Hartoch
Counsellor: Angela Phillips
Susan: Deborah Cranston
Brenda: Narissa Knights
Vim: John Telfer
Gavin: Pavel Douglas
Heather: Helen Atkinson Wood
Angie: Tracy Harper
Surly man: John Abineri
Perdita: Miranda Richardson
Bernard: Tim Meats
CID man: William Hope
Also with Anthony Hall
Repeated 25th March 1984,
[Brian Miller produced the play again, reduced from 90 minutes to 75 minutes and with a differing cast, in 1985. Brenda was played by Helena Breck, Heather was played by Mia Soteriou.]


20th March 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Principles of Rocketry by Bob Couttie (1950-2021)
Clare must build herself a space rocket.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Clare: Rosalind Adams
Del: Ray Burdis
Mother, Queen: Jean Trend
Father, King: Hugh Dickson
Shirl: Kim Clifford
Doctor: Nigel Graham
Repeated from 30th October 1982
[See also 21st March 1984 for more of Clare's adventures in "Principles of Flight"]


20th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Getting Through to Polly by Valerie Barker
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
John: Mark Straker
Mary: Elizabeth Sladen
Lawrence: Christian Rodska
Mrs Maylor: Margot Boyd
Doreen: Deborah Cranston
Dick/Policeman: Derek Graham
Elsie: Sarah-Jane Bickerton
Polly: Mary MacLoughlin


21st March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Principles of Flight by Bob Couttie
Clare disappears on her wedding night.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Mum: Jean Trend
Dad: Hugh Dickson
Del: Ray Burdis
Shirl: Kim Clifford
Fireman/Coroner: William Eedle
Bookman: Timothy Bateson
Doctor/Clare: Rosalind Adams
[See also 20th March 1984 for more of Clare's adventures in "Principles of Rocketry"]


22nd March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Marches of Wales by George Baker
The American War of Independence.
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Mr Mackenzie: T P McKenna
Sgt Daniel: Gerald James
Jonathan Harrington: Kerry Shale
John Parker: Danny Brainin
Sgt Thomas: Ray Handy
Peggy Evans: Christine Pollon
Bess: Lisabeth Miles
William: Philip Howe
Maj Piteairn: James Benson
Mr Treads: Christian Rodska
Hawkins: Jim Mills
Ruth: Marilyn Le Conte
Roger: Philip Lober


24th March 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Evening Class by Matthew Solon
To learn to play the violin.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Margot: Alison Skilbeck
Mr Craddock: David Gooderson
Frances: Moir Leslie
Les: Henry Stamper
Mary: Brid Brennan
Caretaker: Mark Jones
Repeated 27th March 1984


24th March 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Craft by Guy Meredith.
An unexpected sale of one of his paintings for a large sum changes the life of an artist.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Artist: Adam Bax
Bax: Norman Rodway
Robert: Geoffrey Collins
Quartermain: James Grout
Tessa: Carole Boyd
Constantine: Neville Jason
Fenwick: John Rye
His manservant: John Webb
Susan: Helena Breck
Nutley/Sergeant: Colin Starkey
Col Dalby: Garard Green
Rivetti: Michael Percival
Beth: Ellen McIntosh
Repeated 26th March 1984 and 8th February 1993.
[A sequel "The Tokyo Correction" with the same principal cast was broadcast on 15/2/93 and 23/4/94]


25th March 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
Has a dead man any use for money?
1 of 10: Cut Adrift
Directed by Jane Morgan
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Gaffer Hexam: Henry Stamper
Mr Veneering: Geoffrey Collins
Mrs Veneering: Jane Wenham
Twemlow: Timothy Bateson
Mr Podsnap: Jack May
Mrs Podsnap: Narissa Knights
Lady Tippins: Cecile Chevrau
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Charley Hexam: Michael Jenner
Mr Inspector: Stephen Thorne
Mrs Wilfer: Avril Elgar
Mr Wilfer: Hugh Dickson
Lavinia: Moir Leslie
Miss Abbey Potterson: Margot Boyd
Also with with William Eedle, Clive Panto, Mark Rolston and Mark Straker
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt2:1/4/84 Pt3:8/4/84 Pt4:15/4/84 Pt5:22/4/84 Pt6:29/4/84 Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


26th March 1984
20.00:
The Monday Play: Too Late the Phalarope (1953), by Alan Paton (1903-1988) dramatised by Stewart Conn
Unlawful conduct by an Afrikaner policeman.
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
Tante Sophie: Yvonne Bryceland
Pieter van Vlaanderen: Jack Klaff
Jakob, his father: Stratford Johns
Nella, his wife: Mavourneen Bryceland
Stephanie: Felicia Nkomo
Captain Massingham: Peter Cartwright
Sergeant Steyn: Daniel Davies
Kappie: Richard E Grant
Dick/Vorster: Michael O'Brien
Repeated 1st April 1984 and 8th October 1988


27th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Fragments by Owen Holder (1921-2016)
On his way to hospital he recalls how his life started to go downhill on his honeymoon.
Directed by Ian Cotterell (1930-1995)
Richard: Geoffrey Collins
Jane: Maggie McCarthy
Sister: Jane Wenham
Mr Winn: Owen Holder
MacClaver: Fraser Kerr
Det Sgt Prime: Michael Bilton
Felix: Michael Spice
Gerda: Rula Lenska
Thelma: Jennifer Piercey
Steve: Blain Fairman
Also with Scott Cherry, Nigel Graham, Alex Jennings, Hilda Schroder and Eileen Tully


28th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Visiting by Colin Haydn Evans
The park should be a place for peace and relaxation.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Philip Stanton: Roger Hammond
Jenny Winters: Helena Breck
Mrs Sergeant: Eva Stuart
Sharon: Tilly Vosburgh
Detective Sergeant: Mark Rolston


29th March 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Four Legs, One at Each Corner by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
When your gambling is not paying off, could higher odds be the answer?
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Tommy: John Hollis
Betty: Julia McKenzie
Erna: Stella Tanner
Jack: Victor Spinetti
Blarney O'Brien: Tony Doyle
Hooray Henry: Mark Rolston
Hooray Henry's mother: Jane Wenham
Tailor: Arnold Diamond
Race track commentator: Henry Stamper
Radio commentator: Peter Acre


31st March 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Ellie Bagg's Account by Alison Prince
The bank manager befriends a customer.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Bill: Anthony Bate
Ellie: Vivian Pickles
Gerald: Jon Strickland
Sylvia: Brenda Kaye
Shirley: Carole Boyd
Chairman: Michael Bilton
Repeated 3rd March 1984


31st March 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Snapping Out by Martin Worth (1926-1968)
The parents of a recruit to the Californian Unification Church take action to get their daughter back.
Directed By: John Cardy
Anne: Jane Wenham
Susan: Lesley Dunlop
Michael: Jack Watling
Mark: Mark Straker
Casey McCann: Timothy Bateson
Julia: Ellen McIntosh
Chairman: Michael Bilton
Joe Alexander: Don Fellows
Esther Alexander: Hilda Schroder
Chris Carlson: Kerry Shale
Noah Ross: William Roberts
Brenna Steinberg: Sarah Keller
Mrs Steinberg: Kate Harper
Harry Biddulph: William Eedle
Johnny: Stuart Milligan
Wayne: Malcolm Ingram
Morris: Bob Sherman
Alice: Helena Breck
Gary: Alan Polonsky
Repeated 2nd March 1984


1st April 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
2 of 10: The Golden Dustman
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Mr Veneering: Geoffrey Collins
Twemlow: Timothy Bateson
Mr Podsnap: Jack May
Mrs Veneering: Jane Wenham
Mr Lammie: Brett Usher
Mrs Lammie: Maggie McCarthy
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
The Rev Frank Milvey: William Hope
Mrs Milvey: Penelope Freeman
Coachman: Colin Starkey
Lavinia Wilfer: Moir Leslie
Mrs Wilfer: Avril Elgar
Mr Inspector: Stephen Thorne
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt3:8/4/84 Pt4:15/4/84 Pt5:22/4/84 Pt6:29/4/84 Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


2nd April 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: An Uncommon Love by Michelene Wandor
Based upon the diaries of Arthur Munby (1828-1910) and Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909).
The mixing of the classes was frowned upon. This relationship was more unusual still.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Arthur Munby: John Rowe
Hannah Cullwick: Elizabeth Rider
Robert: Brett Usher
Mrs Williams/Girl musician: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Photographer: Peter Acre
Mr Henderson: Bernard Brown
Mrs Henderson/Helen: Hilda Schroder
Miss Knight: Narissa Knights
Mary: Helena Breck
Gower: David Sinclair
Sarah: Helen Atkinson Wood
Repeated 8th April 1984
[The pair's diaries and photos of Hannah by Arthur were left with Trinity, Cambridge, with the boxes opened in 1950. Note- Hannah's published diaries (1984) are unauthorised and selective.]


3rd April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Servants by Donald Campbell
Edinburgh 1936: There is a war in Spain....
Directed by Patrick Rayner
BBC Scotland
Sylvia Wishart: Monica Gibb
Older Sylvia: Gwyneth Guthrie
Henry Wishart: Iain Agnew
Grace: Mary Riggans
Nan: Ann Louise Ross
Christina: Isabella Jarrett
Charlie: Finlay Welsh
Repeated from 1st March 1983
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)


4th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: It's Only Natural by Chris Curry
When a couple becomes a single, the care of a child can be an issue.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Disc jockey/Douglas: Jack Carr
Andy: Bernard Latham
Cheryl: Helen Worth
Baz: Russell Dixon
Mr Roberts: George A Cooper
Mrs Roberts: Paula Tilbrook


5th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre:- Halt by Alun Owen(1925-1995)
Is a country cottage an answer to life's problems?
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Bob: Russell Dixon
Ellen: Jane Carr
Geraint: Ian Saynor
William: Timothy Bateson
Mrs Jones: Lisabeth Miles


7th April 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The First Day of Spring by Sophie Bohdan (=Zofia Chadzynska) (1912-2003)
As his wife pushes him in his wheelchair, he reveals the whole story behind the accident.
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Irene: Helen Lindsay
Stephen: Patrick Barr
Repeated 10th April 1984
[This is the only credit in the BBC Programme database for Sophie Bohdan. ]


7th April 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Tragedy at Law (1942) by Cyril Hare, dramatised by James Pickles (1925-2010)
How seriously should the threats be taken?
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Mr Justice Barber : Benjamin Whitrow
Sheila Bartram: Moir Lesue
Sheriff/Sebald-Smith: John Linstrum
Beamish: Timothy Bateson
Pettigrew: Haydn Jones
Derek Marshall: Paul Wilce
Hilda Barber: June Barrie
Michael/Dr Fairmile: Michael Jenner
Mrs Habberton: Ellen McIntosh
Insp Mallet/Martin Flack: William Eedle
Lord Chancellor: Conrad Phillips
Commisioner: Rex Holdsworth
Repeated 9th April 1984
[This was the first in a series of five books about Francis Pettigrew who was also in "That Yew Tree's Shade" broadcast 26/4/58 and 11/8/58.]
[James Pickles was a barrister and Judge].


8th April 1984
19.00-19.30:
Curlew In Autumn by Edward Boyd (1916-1989)
1 of 6: A lawyer with a large amount of money in his bank account, and no idea how it got there.
Directed by Patrick Rayner
BBC Scotland
Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Jenny: Stella Forge
Magda: Vivienne Dixon
Old Hansford: Ian Stewart
Douglas: Robert Paterson
Jock: John Shedden
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Anderson/McLeod: John Buick
Nurse Nicolson: Anne Cullen
Additional actors in later episodes:
Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher(2)
Scholl: Brown Derby(3)
Mary: Doreen Cameron(3)
Dr Webber: Sandy Neilson(3)
Brill: Finlay Welsh(4)
Walter Hansford: Ronald Aitken(5)
Bullivant: Arthur Boland(5)
Brill/Clerk: Finlay Welsh(5)
Leighton: Tom Criddle(6)
Pt2:15/4/84 Pt3:22/4/84 Pt4:29/4/84 Pt5:6/5/84 Pt6:13/5/84
All parts repeated after three days.
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2020]


8th April 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
3 of 10: The Doll's Dressmaker
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Pianist Mary Nash
Directed by Jane Morgan
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Mr Inspector: Stephen Thorne
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Betty Higden: Pauline Letts
Sloppy: Peter Acre
Johnny: Daniel Thomason
Mrs Lammie: Maggie McCarthy
Georgiana Podsnap: Eva Griffiths
Mr Podsnap: Jack May
Mrs Podsnap: Narissa Knights
Mr Lammie: Brett Usher
Charley: Michael Jenner
Miss Peecher: Theresa Streatfeild
Mary-Anne: Helen Atkinson Wood
Also with Mark Rolston and Colin Starkey
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt4:15/4/84 Pt5:22/4/84 Pt6:29/4/84 Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


9th April 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Burning the Arc by Mike Dorrell
This play traces 12 hours in the life of a South Wales industrial community.
Guitar: Glyn Goll, Greg Saunders
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Willy: Ioan Meredith
Grandfather: Robert Blythe
Aled: Michael Gardiner
Mavis: Sian Owen
Bob: Gareth Armstrong
Willy's mum: Shirley King
Sandra: Kathryn Dimery
Tony: Gareth Snook
Dorah: Shelagh Gough
Mair: Adele Griffiths
Salubrius: Terry Jackson
Gareth: David Dooley
Schoolboys: Alistair Jenkins
Repeated 15th April 1984


10th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Just Like Leslie Howard by Tony Van Den Bergh
In 1942 war-time London was shocked by a series of vicious murders.
Directed by David Johnston
Gordon Frederick Cummins (1914-1942): Michael Cochrane
Rose: Elizabeth Rider
Cox: Arnold Diamond
Mike: Jon Strickland
Chris: Steve Hodson
Mother: Jane Wenham
Father: Bernard Brown
Alice: Narissa Knights
Sgt Rait: Jack McKenzie
Oily: Geoffrey Collins
Massey: Peter Acre
Evelyn: Ellen McIntosh
Sandy: Carole Boyd
Nina: Antonia Swinson
May: Jane Knowles
Inspector: Mark Rolston
Det Supt Cherrill: David Sinclair
Chief Insp Greeno: Haydn Wood
Constable: Mark Straker
Det Sgt Finlay: John Bott
Doris: Eva Stuart
Mr Jouannet: Michael Bilton
Billy: William Hope


11th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Inside Job by Grant C. Eustace
A death at an international conference.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Simon Cochrane: Steve Hodson
Clive Howard: David McAlister
Royston Fairweather: Francis Drake
Malensky: Alan Dudley
Baron de Savoie: David Gooderson
Von Sandbach: Ronald Herdman
Gregor: John Warner
John Tremayne: Brian Jackson
Alice Tremayne: Jacqueline Tong
Peter Nicholls: Brian Darnley
Amelia Wilkinson: Miranda Forbes


12th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Name for the Day by Colin Haydn Evans
Some places are easier to get into than out of.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Clive: Christopher Ettridge
Jo: Ingrid Hafner
Ann: Angela Phillips
Dr Millham: William Eedle
Peter Cavanagh: Bill Wallis
Nurse: Kim Hicks
[Originally a BBC TV play in 1980]


14th April 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Taking Over by Mervyn Jones (1922-2010)
A landowner has people in the meadow she can't remove.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Bonzo: Jon Strickland
Pop Disney: John Hollis
Lady Patricia Poulteney: Vivian Pickles
Francesca Poulteney: Yvonne Antrobus
Archibald Poulteney: Freddie Jones
Snow White: Frances Jeater
Goldie: Maggie McCarthy
Pluto: Peter Acre
Inspector: Colin Starkey
Sir James Carstairs: Henry Stamper
Mickey: Michael Jenner
Repeated 16th April 1984


14th April 1984
23.30:
Earwig :- Johnny and the Duchess by Alun Owen (1925-1994)
Directed by John Tydeman
Mr Emmanuel: Hugh Burden
the Duchess: Marie Kean
Jake: Jim McManus
Emma: Moir Leslie
the Solicitor: David Gooderson



15th April 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
4 of 10: A Riddle Without an Answer
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Mr Fledgeby: Bill Nighy
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Georgiana Podsnap: Eva Griffiths
Sophronia Lammie: Maggie McCarthy
Alfred Lammie: Brett Usher
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Mrs Wilfer: Avril Elgar
Lavinia: Moir Leslie
R W Wilfer: Hugh Dickson
Betty Higden: Pauline Letts
Johnny Higden: Daniel Thomason
Doctor: Anthony Hall
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Charley Hexam: Michael Jenner
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt5:22/4/84 Pt6:29/4/84 Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


16th April 1984
19.50:
The Monday Play: Scenes From a Voyage to the Indies by John Harrison
A late 18th Century sea voyage and the cramped living conditions provoke tensions.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Captain Josiah Bennett: Paul Scofield (1922-2008)
Matthew Cropper: David McAlister
Bobby Stark: Brian Southwood
Judge Henry Wedderburn: Maurice Denham
Lucy Wedderburn: Linda Gardner
Arthur Cosway: Francis Middleditch
Donald Gowdie: Peter Laird
Repeated 27th December 1985


17th April 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Right Thing by Anthony Miller
Women talk about their relationships.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Rose: Patricia Hayes
Stella: Diana Fairfax
Tracey: Michele Winstanley


17th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Haven by Dawn Lowe-Watson
An animal haven takes in another stray, a man.
Guitar: John Bull
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Beryl: Charlotte Mitchell
Silas: Paul Copley
Edwin: David Sinclair
Cynthia: Carole Boyd
Shopkeeper: Hilda Schroder
Tex: William Hope
Dave: John Bull
Rebecca: Michele Winstanley


18th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Macker's Riots by Richard Hill and Alan McDonald
On one hand was an assault - then there was the racing bike and the parrot and the piano accordion
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Policeman: William Maxwell
Macker: Paul Barber
Fay: Claire MacDonald
May: Sheila Fay
Joe: Anton Brookes
Tommy: Peter Faulkner
Dinah: Sue Johnston
Denny/Pat: Sean Barrett


19th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Agnus Dei by Louise Page (1955-2020)
The church is not yet ready for 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 from 7th November 1980


21st April 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Wild Horses by Jon Beer
Ambition can lead to interesting places.
Directed by Matthew Walters
Frank: Richard Vernon
Royde: Philip Jackson
Alan: Michael Jenner
Pearson: William Eedle
Bill/Johnson: Colin Starkey
Joan: Hilda Schroder
Repeated 24th April 1984, 2nd January 1985, and 3rd January 1989


21st April 1984
20.00-22.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Welcome Sister Death. Words and lyrics by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
A play with music about the life of Francis of Assisi (1182-1226).
Music by Jim Parker
Singers: David James, David Timson, Alan Dudley
Choir John Bull, David Mcalister, John Mcandrew, John Rye, Christopher Scott and Michael Spice
Harp: Fiona Hibbert
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Br Illuminato: David Timson
Bishop Guido: Peter Jeffrey
Br Elias: Donald Hewlett
Pietro Bernadone: Manning Wilson
Pica, his wife: Petra Davies
Francis, his son: William Nighy
Bernard: Christopher Scott
Leo: Sean Arnold
John/Clare's brother: John Bull
Angelo: John McAndrew
Giles/Ruffino: John Webb
Masseo: David McAlister
Favorite Scifi: Patrick Barr
Clare, his daughter: Elizabeth Rider
Doctor: Alan Dudley
Sultan: Michael Spice
Bishop Ugolino: John Rye
also with William Nighy, Peter Jeffrey and Donald Hewlett
Repeated from 6th April 1981


21st April 1984
23.30:
Anna and the Dame by Alun Owen
Directed by John Tydeman
Mr Emmanuel: Hugh Burden
Anna: Angela Pleasence
Dame Laura Angela: Margaret Courtenay
Jake: Jim McManus
Emma: Moir Leslie
Peter: Brett Usher


22nd April 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Voyage of St Brandon (1980)* by George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)
Music by Thomas Wilson
Harp/Clarsach: Sanchia Pilou. Percussion: Heather Corbett. Gordon Rigby. Synthesiser: Jim Henry
Singers: Alec Wands, Scott Cooper, Ian McGlashan, John Purser, Peter Richfield
Technical presentation: Jim Ross, Gordon Chalmers and Iain Hunter
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
St Brandon: Cyril Cusack
Scribe Brian/Finn: Tony Doyle
Doorkeeper Tomas: Denys Hawthorne
Tramp Byrne: Michael Golden
Malachi: Patrick Malahide
Colm/Rook: Alan Barry
Cormac: Patrick Hannaway
Liam: Bosco Hogan
Seamus/Laird: Iain Agnew
Old man: Ian Stewart
Man on the rock/Fergus: Paul Kermack
Islander/Sean: John Shedden
[* The title of the play is indeed Brandon but refers to St Brendan. Brandon is an Anglo-Saxon form]
[The typescript etc of the play is held by Edinburgh University Library (Gen 2029/7, MS 2842/2-4) and also Orkney Library Archive (D124)]
[The earliest version of this tale was in Latin (Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis) written around 900, regarding the Abbots travels around the 5th/6th Century]
[A clarsach is a Celtic harp]


22nd April 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
5 of 10: Some Affairs of the Heart
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Sloppy: Peter Acre
Betty Higden: Pauline Letts
Pleasant Riderhood: Carole Boyd
George Radfoot: Michael Lumsden
Charley Hexam: Michael Jenner
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt6:29/4/84 Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


23rd April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Old Ladies (1924) by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) adapted by Rodney Ackland (1908-1991)
Three elderly ladies in a rooming house.
Directed By: Martin Jenkins
Narrator Jon Strickland
May Beringer: Joyce Carey
Agatha Payne: Fabia Drake
Lucy Amorest: Margot Boyd
Repeated 25th August 1984
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1968]


23rd April 1984
19.50-22.00:
The Monday Play: Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Music by Ilona Sekacz
Directed by Martin Jenkins
First witch: Carole Boyd
Second witch: Susan Brown
Third witch: Pauline Siddle
Duncan King of Scotland: Clifford Rose
Malcolm, his son: Stuart Organ
Bloody sergeant/Porter: John Hollis
Lennox: Geoffrey Collins
Ross: Sean Barrett
Macbeth: Denis Quilley
Banquo: Nigel Terry
Angus: David Peart
Lady Macbeth: Hannah Gordon
Seyton: John Webb
Fleance Banquo's Son/
Lady Macduff son: Elizabeth Lindsay
Macduff: John Rowe
Donalbain, Duncan's son: Richard Huw
Old man/Doctor: Michael Bilton
First murderer: Kerry Francis
Second murderer/Menteith: James Bryce
Hecate, Queen of the witch/Gentlewoman: Jane Wenham
Scottish lord/Old Siward: Manning Wilson
Lady MacDuff: Jane Knowles
Caithness: James Kerry
Young Siward: Michael Jenner
Repeated on Radio 3 on 28th November 1984.


24th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Get It Off Your Chest by Tony McHale
A radio phone in takes a call from a young listener.
Directed by Peter King
Alan Best: Gary Waldhorn
Helen Best: Helena Breck
Kathy Best: Oona Kirsche
Debbie Thomas: Catherine Clarke
Eileen Thomas: Alex Marshall
Maurice Thomas: Bernard Gallagher
Liz Stafford: Carole Boyd
TV Producer: Colin Starkey
Dora: Hilda Schroder
Don: David Sinclair
Bernard: Michael Bilton
[Inspired by the author listening to a late night phone-in radio program on Capital Radio.]


25th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Time After Time by Gerry Jones
How and why are you in a hotel- and unable to 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 and 18th June 1980.
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017, 2019]
[Martin Jenkins also produced the play in 2006 with Anton Lesser as Carter and Andy Taylor as Porter.]


26th April 1984
12.27-13.00
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C. Potter by Basil Boothroyd .
Book 4, Chapter 1.
Producer Bobby Jaye
Gerald C Potter: Ian Carmichael
Mrs Potter: Charlotte Mitchell
Also with Margot Boyd, Pauline Letts and Brian Haines
Repeated from 27th April 1981.
Additional actors in identified later Chapters:
Also with Lolly Cockerell, Jane Knowles, Michael Spice (2)
Also with Edward Kelsey(3)
Also with Preston Lockwood(4)
Book4 Ch2:3/5/84 Book4 Ch3:10/5/84
Book4 Ch4:17/5/84
Further/other broadcasts are difficult to identify due to lack of detail in Radio Times. There were 25 episodes across 4 series with a number of repeats. All episodes exist.


26th April 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Big City Incident by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
A move to London for a new job and a new life...
Directed by Christopher Venning
Karen: Moir Leslie
Tim: James Newall
Gloria: Patience Tomlinson
Debbie: Helen Atkinson Wood
Chris: Basil Otoin
Mrs Craig: Hilda Schroder
Bill: Colin Starkey
Train conductor/Doorman: Bernard Brown
Girl/Secretary: Katie Hebb
Landlord/Porter: Arnold Diamond
Receptionnist/Sandie: Vanessa Knox-Mawer
DHSS interviewer/Friendly woman: Teresa Collard


28th April 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Shaggy Sokolov by Bob Forrest-Webb
On the retreat, Napoleon Bonaparte comes across the home of a Russian peasant.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Sokolov: Terry Molloy
Mother: Mary Wimbush
Napoleon: Michael Graham Cox
Russian officer/French guard: Arnold Diamond
French officer: Anthony Hall
Latvian/Russian corporal: Edward Kelsey
Polish civilian: Henry Stamper
Repeated 1st May 1984
[This play is the only credit in the BBC Programme Index for Bob Forrest-Webb ]


28th April 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Under Wraps by Chris Allen
Really important inventions often don't make it.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Dr Oliver Burton: Clive Francis
Claire Greenwood: Frances Jeater
Dr Anthony Daniels: John Moffatt
Dorothy Daniels: Narissa Knights
Thomas: Jon Strickland
Alex: Mark Straker
Roy Greenwood: C J Allen
Richard Beavis: Allan Ivan
Lampard: Michael Walker
Gail: Deborah Makepeace
Rosemary Palmer: Helena Breck
Dr Ruth Lal: Carole Boyd
CID Sgt: Robert Russell
CID Con: Richard E Grant
Repeated 30th April 1984


28th April 1984
23.30:
Earwig: Nick by Alun Owen.
The life story of an artist.
Directed by John Tydeman
Mr Emmanuel: Hugh Burden
Nick: Dudley Sutton
Jake: Jim McManus
Emma: Moir Leslie
Herbert Trevor: Timothy Bateson


29th April 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Caiaphas the Priest by Josef Bor (1906-1979) translated and adapted by Carey Harrison
Christ's trial seen through the eyes of Caiaphas the High Priest. The crucifixian quota has to be met.
Directed by John Theocharis
Caiaphas: Lee Montague
Pontius Pilate: Anthony Bate
Judas Iscariot: Sean Barrett
Woman: Maureen O'Brien
Corporal: Peter Baldwin
Barabas: Stanley Lebor
Enom: William Eedle
Ariel: Philip Voss
Aeneas: Godfrey Kenton
Boaz: Anthony Newlands
Gerson: Peter Welch
Achiman: Martin Friend
Jabin: John Church
Servant: Michael McStay
Legionary: Gordon Dulieu
Repeated from 8th and 14th October 1979
[The original book by Bor is not named and not readily found but may be "Der Dritte"]


29th April 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
6 of 10: A Flight and a Fall
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mr Fledgeby: Bill Nighy
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Lady Tippins: Cecile Chevrau
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Alfred Lammie: Brett Usher
Sophronia: Maggie McCarthy
Mr Twemlow: Timothy Bateson
Miss Abbey Potterson: Margot Boyd
Pleasant Riderhood: Carole Boyd
R W Wilfer: Hugh Dickson
Mrs Wilfer: Avril Elgar
Lavinia: Moir Leslie
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Also with Michael Bilton, Geoffrey Collins, William Eedle, Anthony Hall, Colin Starkey, and Mark Straker
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt7:6/5/84 Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


30th April 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Going On by Maureen O'Brien
A mother and the daughter who cares for her.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Edna: Patricia Hayes
Meggie: Maureen O'Brien
Dad: Arthur Kelly
Ellen: June Barrie
Meggie as a child: Mary MacLoughlin
Parson: Paul Nicholson
Repeated 6th May 1984


1st May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Dunroamin' by Janet Howorth
A head of state is assassinated.
Directed by John Cardy
Iris: Maria Charles
Harold: Warren Mitchell
the Striker: Jack Carr
TV commentator: Anthony Hall
Radio newsreader: Helena Breck
Dolly Willis: Margot Boyd
Mary: Moir Leslie
PC Spalding: Clive Panto
Police Sgt: William Eedle
Chief Supt: Henry Stamper
TV reporter: Maggie McCarthy


2nd May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Hanging at Weeping Friday by Roy Bolitho
In the Cornish village of Weeping Friday, 1809 there is to be a hanging.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Narrator Brett Usher
Squire: Conrad Phillips
Ned Pye: Michael Jenner
Wood Harris: Stephen Sylvester
Vicar: Bernard Brown
Mayor: Rex Holdsworth
Richard: Richard Curnow
Rope Sparrow: Henry Stamper
Mrs Coad: Margot Young
Mowatt: Geoffrey Collins
Esther: Jenny Barnes
Rosie Gray: Petra Leah
Tommy Gray: Ray Handy


3rd May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Gothic Romances by Simon Brett
An author and a publishing editor grow close.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
George: Ronald Baddiley
Mark: Christopher Good
Bill: Christopher Scott
Greg: Alex Jennings
Madeleine: Sarah Badel
Radleigh: Godfrey Kenton
Babs: Miriam Margolyes
Repeated from 21st December 1982


5th May 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Moth in the Closet by Jeremy Kingston
The Earl faces poverty.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Mrs Beamish/Governess: Pat Heywood
Beamish: Stanley Lebor
Fifteenth Earl: Michael Drew
Lord Rupert: Malcolm Gerard
Lady Rupert/ Lady Mickleton: Angela Phillips
Breakspear: Patrick Malahide
Also with Brian Gear, Janet Howd, Elizabeth Lindsay, Deborah-Jane Sharpe
Repeated 8th May 1984


5th May 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Maigret and the Millionaires (1957 as "Maigret Voyage") by Georges Simenon (1903-1989) translated (1974) by Jean Stewart and dramatised by Malcolm Stewart
A dead man is found in a Paris hotel room.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Superintendent Maigret: Maurice Denham
Inspector Lucas: Brian Haines
Inspector Lapointe: John Rye
Mr Arnold: Andrew Sachs
the Countess: Jane Wenham
Van Meulen: David March
Jules: Michael Bilton
Maid: Moir Leslie
Nurse: Carole Boyd
Director: William Eedle
Manager (George V): Geoffrey Collins
Hotel doctor: Timothy Bateson
Prosecutor: Arnold Diamond
Magistrate: Clive Panto
Dr Paul: Michael Tudor Barnes
Insp Benoit: Ian Oliver
Jean: Sean Barrett
Masseur: Mark Straker
Manager (Lausanne-Palace): Bernard Brown
Repeated 8th October 1984
[Book 51 in the Maigret series of 75 novels]


5th May 1984
23.30:
Earwig: Fraser and Son by Alun Owen
A journalist and his son seem to have little in common.
Directed by John Tydeman
Emma: Moir Leslie
Mr Emmanuel: Hugh Burden
James Fraser: Fulton MacKay
Robin Fraser: John Graham
Jake: Jim McManus


6th May 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
7 of 10: Meaning Mischief
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mr Fledgeby: Bill Nighy
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Betty Higden: Pauline Letts
Mr Dolls: David Sinclair
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Sophronia: Maggie McCarthy
Alfred Lammie: Brett Usher
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt8:13/5/84 Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


6th May 1984
22.15-23.00
The World's Debate by John Scotney
1 of 6: 1099- The Way of the Cross
A story of the 11th and 12th Century fighting around Jerusalem.
Music by Philip Pickett and the New London Consort
Plainchant arranged by Christopher Francis and David and Anthony Bevan
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
William of Tyre: Cyril Cusack
Fulcher of Chartres: Michael Pennington
Anonymous chronicler: Michael Robbins
Stephen of Blois /Godfrey of Bouillon: Christian Rodska
Emperor Alexius: David March
Anna Comnena: June Barrie
Pope Urban: Jack Watson
Bohemond: Bill Wallis
Raymond of Agiles: Michael Drew
Guilbert of Nogent: Paul Nicholson
Albert of Aachen/ Raymond of Tripoli: William Eedle
Robert: Conrad Phillips
Additional actors in later parts:
Ousama: Garard Green(2)
St Bernard: Hugh Dickson(2)
Ibn Al-Athir/Old man of the mountain: Sam Dastor(2)
Ibn Jubair/ Saladin: Roshan Seth(2)
Rabbi Eliezer: Cyril Shaps(2)
James of Vitry: Timothy Bateson(2)
Raymond of Agiles: Michael Drew(2)
Baha Ad-Din.: Zia Mohyedoln(3)
Marco Polo: Geoffrey Matthews(3)
Ayub: Renu Setna(3)
El Afdal: Raad Rawi(3)
Nur-ed-Din: Farouk El-Demerdash(3)
Ernoul: Geoffrey Bateman(3)
Reader of Koran: Geoffrey Collins(3)
For actors in parts 4-6 please see 27/5/84 below.
Pt2:13/5/84 Pt3:20/5/84 Pt4:27/5/84 Pt5:3/6/84 Pt6:10/6/84


7th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: An Inspector Calls (1945) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
An inspector inquires about a suicide. Who is responsible?
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Insp Goole: Geoffrey Banks
Arthur Birling: Ronald Baddiley
Gerald Croft: Derrick Gilbert
Sybil Birling: Ann Rye
Sheila Birling: Barbara Flynn
Eric Birling: Christian Rodska
Edna: Teresa Moore
Repeated from 14th & 17th December 1979
Repeated 26th November 1990
[There was an earlier production by Geoffrey Ost, presented by Alfred Bradley, 12/11/60 rpt 1964, with Patrick Stewart as Gerald]


7th May 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Facing the Sun by Sam Jacobs (1942-2022)
Bullfighting included.
Directed by Piers Plowright (1937-2021)
Tino Carerra: Peter Pacey
Araceli: Paola Dionisotti
Chano: Alfred Marks
Esperanza: Annie Hayes
Dolores: Katherine Parr
Madame: Carole Boyd
Also with Bernard Brown, Arnold Diamond, Anthony Hall, William Hope, Hilda Schroder, David Sinclair and Jon Strickland
Repeated 13th May 1984


8th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: River Sunday by Gill Linscott
The Sunday morning train from Paddington to Maidenhead took varied people for a day on the river.
Songs composed by David Timson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Clara: Rosemary Martin
Hetty: Sherrie Hewson
Jack: Edward De Souza
Jeremy: David Timson
Anthony: Graham Seed
Melinda: Miranda Forbes
Col Tubbish: Edward Cast
Repeated from 17th March 1983


9th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Dance of the Genes by Mollie Hargreaves
Teenagers can be difficult to live with.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Mrs Freeman: Sheila Grant
Jay Freeman: Sue Jenkins
Dr Freeman: David Brierley
Jean Worthington: Jayne Dowell
Mrs Worthington: Joanna Wake


10th May 1984:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Time to Say Goodbye by Owen Holder (1921-2016)
Music composed and played by Terence Allbright
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Mabel: Joyce Carey
Actor: Fabia Drake
Grace: Gladys Spencer
Edgar: Owen Holder
Rhoda: Margot Boyd
Celia: Kathleen Helme
Violet: Pauline Letts
Vera: Eva Stuart
Mr Finch: Michael Bilton
Adela: Sylvia Barter
Flora: Hilda Schroder
Dr Meadows: Godfrey Kenton
Mr Podmore: Roger Hammond


12th May 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Unicorn Calling by Judy Allen
You don't often see a unicorn.
Music and effects by Ed Nelson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Christopher Venning
Kate: Isabel Dean
Mel: Hugh Burden
Jan: Helena Breck
Toby: William Hope
Dustman: Mark Rolston
Repeated 15th May 1984


12th May 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Burglars by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
A series of small crimes becomes larger, more professional.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Inspector Sid Savage: Leslie Sands
Sergeant Jack Eaves: Sean Barrett
Mack: Don Henderson
Rod: Mark Straker
Liz: Moir Lesue
Limpy Harry: Timothy Bateson
Barry/Brief: Bernard Brown
Tom: Jon Strickland
Terence: Elizabeth Lindsay
Beak: Arnold Diamond
Repeated 14th May 1984


13th May 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
8 of 10: Setting Traps
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Mr Boffin: Michael Gaham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mr Fledgeby: Bill Nighy
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Mr Twemlow: Timothy Bateson
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Sophronia Lammle: Maggie McCarthy
R W Wilfer: Hugh Dickson
Alfred Lammie: Brett Usher
Georgiana Podsnap: Eva Griffiths
Mr Podsnap: Jack May
Lady Tippins: Cecile Chevrau
Mr Dolls: David Sinclair
Also with Peter Acre, William Eedle, Clive Panto, Mark Rolston and Jane Wenham
For actors in later episodes please refer to the broadcast date as below.
Pt9:20/5/84 Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


14th May 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Sweet Dreams by Richard Kane
Music composed and played by Peter Jarvis (Clarinet)
Marie Stopes (1880-1958)- a fictitious view of her early private life.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Marie Stopes: Jenny Lee
Kenrio: Richard Kane
Professor Blumenthal: Henry Stamper
Nigel: Geoffrey Collins
Shioji: Timothy Bateson
[Kenrio = Kenjiro Fuiji]
[Stopes book "A Journal from Japan" was -she insisted- fictional]


15th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: "A Tulip, a Sword, a Stone" by Carlos Cerda (1942-2001) and Omar Saavedra Santis (1944-2021) translated by Margaret Etall
A teacher cancels his holiday plans to assist an arrested student.
Directed by David Spenser
Exequiel Soto: Alan Dudley
Salcedo: David Timson
Elisa: Carole Boyd
Farias: Mark Straker
Benzi: Clive Panto
Perez: David Sinclair
Senora Farias: Narissa Knights
Race commentator: William Hope
Also with Rosalind Adler and Gwynn Beech


16th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Winning Ways by Margery Mason (1913-2014)
Directed by Jane Morgan
Sylvia: Rosemary Leach
Vic: Michael McStay
Gerry: Tony Steedman
Bob: John McAndrew
Helen: Sonia Fraser
Sue: Elizabeth Rider
Janet: Maggie McCarthy
Hugh: Clive Panto
Joan: Narissa Knights
Phyllis: Ellen McIntosh
Harry: Peter Acre
[Not connected with the play of this name by E Eynon Evans]


17th May 1983
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Louise and the Puppet Man by Andrew Rissik
A young girl becomes friends with a puppeteer.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Bill Oakes: Aubrey Woods
Louise: Moir Leslie
Peter Williams: Mark Straker
John Matthews: Colin Maitland
Louise's mother: Carole Boyd
Louise's father: Bernard Brown
Mrs Harris: Margot Boyd
Linda Lloyd: Jill Lidstone


19th May 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: From Here to the Library by Jimmie Chinn
Directed by Gerry Jones
Beryl Tidy: Brigit Forsyth
Mr Gostilow: John Rowe
Dad: George A Cooper
Repeated 22nd May 1984


20th May 1984
19.00-19.30:
Deep Six by John Fletcher
1 of 6: Terry is hired by the Secret Services to do a special 'job'.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Terry: Freddie Lees
Thompson: John Abineri
Fortescue: Hubert Rees
Sturley/Georghiu: John Linstrum
Simpson: Conrad Phillips
Chris: Elwyn Johnson
Linda Taylor: Madeleine Cemm
Nick: Brett Usher
Watson: Ray Handy
Trader: Colin Starkey
Additional actors in later parts:
Keith: Rod Beacham (2)
Frank: Thomas Heathcote(2)
Josie: Hilda Schroder(2)
Hobson: David Sinclair(4)
Radio voice: Roger Leach(5)
Manny Silverman: Arnold Diamond(6)
Pt2:27/5/84 Pt3:3/6/84 Pt4:10/6/84 Pt5:17/6/84 Pt6:24/6/84
All 1984 parts repeated after 3 days.
Also broadcast on R4X in 2020 and 2021.


20th May 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
9 of 10: A Cry For Help
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Mr Fledgeby: Bill Nighy
Mr Riah: Cyril Shaps
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Narrator: Simon Cadell
R W Wilfer: Hugh Dickson
Mrs Wilfer: Avril Elgar
George Sampson: Mark Straker
Lavinia: Moir Leslie
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Charley Hexam: Michael Jenner
Sophronia Lammie: Maggie McCarthy
Alfred Lammie: Brett Usher
Also with Michael Bilton, Mark Rolston and Henry Stamper
For actors in episode 10 please refer to 27/5/84 below.
Pt10:27/5/84
All Sunday episodes repeated five days later on Friday.


21st May 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: The Labyrinth by Valerie Georgeson
Avoiding the slide into depression.
Technical presentation David Fleming Williams, Maggie Richmond, Jordi Morell
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Evelyn: Frances Jeater
John/surgeon: Christian Rodska
Librarian/Nurse: Pauline Jefferson
Evelyn's mother: Valerie Georgeson
Evelyn's father: Adrian Stokes
Julia: Maggie Riley
Janis/Woman on phone: Joanne Zorlan
Jamie/Giles/Anaesthetist: Peter MacQueen
Receptionist/Woman in street/Mary: Linda Gardner
TV producer/Chemist assistant: Ann Rye
Photographic assistant: Kate Lee
The Cats: Percy Edwards
Repeated 27th May 1984


22nd May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Colliers' Cathedral by Robin Brooks
A miner leaves his home and occupation to find fortune elsewhere.
Directed by David Johnston
Samuel Lender: Jon Strickland
Mrs Lender: Hilda Schroder
Jo Trussock: Clive Panto
Effie: Helen Atkinson Wood
Thomas: Michael Jenner
Josiah Cruddeley: Geoffrey Collins
Erma Grimley: Moir Leslie
Mr Grimley: Arnold Diamond
Wickens: Colin Starkey
Mrs Grimley: Ellen McIntosh
Turvey: Michael Bilton
Miner: William Eedle
Jack Cratch: Mark Rolston
Joss Whatton: Peter Tuddenham
Beryl: Jane Wenham
Balladeer: Margot Boyd
Voice: William Hope
Dog-Bone: Louis Mahoney
Leader of the slaves: Anthony Hall
Boy: Gary Beadle
Whistler: Lorne Gibson
Repeated 17th October 1985


23rd May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Artillery Terrace Hot Five Stomp Again by David Luck
A get together is sought before one of the members of the Hot Five dies.
Trumpet played by Dave Browning
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Grandad: Bob Grant
Arthur Scholey: Robin Bowerman
Gran: Ann Rye
Ron Naburn: Roy Barraclough
Chas Wilstrop: Bryan Pringle
Wilf Tewitt: David Ross
Stan Lupset: Ronald Herdman
Tom Chatterton: Harry Beety


24th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Detention by David Calcutt
A teacher in his first year faces violence at a large school.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn and Tim Manning
Nick: David Vann
Sarah: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Blower: Neil Coker
Mrs Hepworth: Patricia Gallimore
Mr Johnson: Ray Llewellyn
Mandy: Amanda Dainty
Makhan: Ashok Kumar
Turner: David Hannah
First mate: Dale Bayford
Second mate: David Conner
Policemen: Peter Brookes
Terry Pearson: Stanley Page
[(First broadcast on BBC Radio WM) ]
[David Calcutt taught for ten years]


26th May 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Love and Marriage by Jan Merriman
Two woman of different generations consider their lives to date.
Directed by David Johnston
the Younger woman: Wendy Craig
the older woman: Patricia Hayes
Repeated 29th May 1984
[This is the sole credit for Jan Merriman in the BBC Programme Index]


26th May 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: One False Step by John Ashe
A boy on holiday from school visits his father.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Michael O'Brien: Terence Harvey
Barr: David Sinclair
Maulay: James Snell
Jarnac: David March
Tremaine: David Parth
Wendy: Emma Sutton
Paul: James Humphries
Junot: Mark Rolston
Galvi: Clive Panto
Briolle: William Hope
Hocking: Alan Coveney
Receptionist: Angela Barlow


27th May 1984
21.00-22.00:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Betty Davies
10 of 10: The Trap Springs
For episode one please see 25th March 1984 above.
Technical presentation by Tim Sturgeon and Richard Beadsmoore, Assisted by Anna Nesbitt, Sarah Rosewarne, Vanessa Ellner, Anthony Cherry and Diana Barkham
Directed By: Jane Morgan
John Rokesmith: Michael Kitchen
Lizzie Hexam: Janet Maw
Bella Wilfer: Pippa Guard
Eugene Wrayburn: Michael Cochrane
Rogue Riderhood: Robert Lang
Bradley Headstone: Tom Wilkinson
Mr Boffin: Michael Graham Cox
Mrs Boffin: Megs Jenkins
Silas Wegg: Douglas Livingstone
Jenny Wren: Angela Pleasence
Narrator: Simon Cadell
Mortimer Lightwood: Steve Hodson
Mr Inspector: Stephen Thorne
Miss Abbey Potterson: Margot Boyd
Mr Venus: Jon Strickland
Sloppy: Peter Acre
Lady Tippins: Cecile Chevreau (1917-1992)
Mr Podsnap: Jack May
Mr Twemlow: Timothy Bateson
with Helena Breck, William Eedle, Anthony Hall, William Hope, Michael Jenner, Mark Rolston, Henry Stamper
Repeated 1st June 1984


27th May 1984
22.15-23.00
The World's Debate by John Scotney
4 of 6: The Lion of the North
For part one please see 6th May 1984 above.
A story of the 11th and 12th Century fighting around Jerusalem.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Richard Lionheart: Richard Pasco
Saladin: Roshan Seth
Frederick/ Oliver the Scholastic: Geoffrey Matthews
Ambrose: Sean Barrett
Gerald of Wales: Sion Probert
Baha Ad-Din: Zia Mohyeddln
Roger of Howden: Paul Nicholson
Pierre Vidal: James Benson
Imad Ad-Din: Garard Green
Robert of Rheims/St Francis: William Eedle
Joinville: John Rowe
Crusader's wife: Maryon Ellor
Additional actors in later parts:
William of Tyre: Cyril Cusack(5)
Nicetas Choniates: Steve Plytas(5)
Villehardouin: Jack Watson(5)
Robert of Clari: Geoffrey Bateman(5)
Dandolo: Haydn Jones(5)
Procopius: Peter Copley(5)
Anna Comnena: June Barrie(5)
James of Vitry: Timothy Bateson(5)
Emperor Alexius: David March(5)
Emperor Isaac: Hedley Goodall(5)
Pope Innocent: Stephen Thorne(5)
St Louis: Steve Hodson(6)
Queen Blanche: Penelope Lee(6)
St Alban's chronicle: Geoffrey Collins(6)
Messenger: Henry Stamper(6)
Sultan of Egypt: Garard Green(6)
Ibn Al-Athir: Sam Dastor(6)
Ibn Wasil: Renu Setna(6)
Emperor Frederick: Bill Wallis(6)
Pt5:3/6/84 Pt6:10/6/84


28th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: In Praise of Love (1973) by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
A woman's last wish is the reconciliation of her husband with their son.
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 actor: Godfrey Kenton
TV actor: Danny Schiller
Repeated from 19th and 21st April 1980, also 4th May 1981
Repeated 30th December 1986
[In a later 2011 production by Celia de Wolff, Lydia was played by Sarah Badel]


28th May 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Orlando (1928) by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) dramatised by Peter Buckman
Orlando was born as a boy in the reign of Elizabeth I, but died as a woman.
Music by James Walker played by James Walker and Simon Walker
Directed by Penny Gold
Orlando: Jennie Stoller
the Narrator: Vivian Pickles
Queen Elizabeth: Margot Boyd
Lady Margaret: Heather Tobias
Earl: Danny Schiller
Sasha: Amanda Murray
Stubbs: Lockwood West
Mrs Grimsditch: Jane Wenham
Dupper: John Bott
Greene: Peter Woodthorpe
Archduke: Richard O'Callaghan
King Charles: William Eedle
Nell Gwyn: Helena Breck
Sea captain: Arnold Diamond
Shelmerdine: David McAlister
Shop assistant: Hilda Schroder
Repeated 3rd June 1984 and 11th January 1993


29th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Hitler's the Boy by John P. Rooney
A family holiday in Germany revives within the father memories of his youth.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Frank: Joe McPartland
Kate: Frances Quinn
Hans: Wolf Kahler
Mary: Trudy Kelly
Mrs Muller: Hilda Schroder
Young Frank: Michael McKnight
Pries/Commandant: Harry Towb
First soldier: Mark Straker
Second soldier: Michael Jenner
Newsreel commentator: Arnold Diamond


30th May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Marigold by Margaret Miles
A wife is killed in a car accident.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Jessica: Anna Cropper
Bill: Michael Tudor Barnes
Jane: Theresa Streatfeild
Radio compere: James Bryce


31st May 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Rimer in Residence by John Kirkmorris
An isolated rural location may give rise to a need for stimulation.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Robert: David Collings
Nell: Sarah Badel
Julian: Brett Usher
Sophy: Melissa Katsoulis
Charley: Peter Tuddenham


2nd June 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: In Acacia Gardens by Robert Shaftoe
A lodger helps his landlady.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Mr Packham: Peter Sallis
Mrs Roseacre: Georgine Anderson
Repeated 5th June 1984
[This is the only play in BBC Programme Index listed for Robert Shaftoe]


2nd June 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Trade of Man by T. D. Webster
How easy is it for a German teacher to work in England when there are local wartime memories.
Directed by Peter Windows
BBC Birmingham
Peter: Nigel Davenport
Gwen: Isabel Dean
David: John Rowe
Ian: Geoffrey Collins
Rachel: Carole Boyd
Muller: George Pravda
Gardner: Geoffrey Matthews
Frith: Graham Padden
Janice: Natasha Pyne
Hafler: Crawford Logan
Repeated 4th June 1984
[T D Webster, who worked in education, also wrote as David Bannister.]


3rd June 1984
15.00:
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Jeffrey Segal (1920-2015)
1 of 4: To be an artist! Flight from London.
Directed by John Cardy
Maugham: Ronald Pickup
Charles Strickland: Patrick Allen
Amy Strickland: Margaret Whiting
Robert Strickland: Michael Tudor Barnes
Rose Waterford: Phyllida Nash
Colonel MacAndrew: Bernard Brown
Mrs MacAndrew: Ellen McIntosh
Also with Helen Atkinson-Wood, Arnold Diamond, David Garth, Narissa Knights, Clive Panto, Hilda Schroder
Additional actors in later parts:
Dirk Stroeve: Ronnie Stevens(2)
Blanche Stroeve: Rosalind Ayres(2)
Dealer: James Bryce(2)
Jouvert: William Hope(2)
Doctor/Australian: Jon Strickland (3)
Sister: Helena Breck(3)
Nichols: Douglas Blackwell(4)
Tough Bill: Henry Stamper(4)
Tiare Johnson: June Tobin(4)
Ata: Valerie Murray(4)
Capitaine Brunot: Jeffrey Segal(4)
Dr Coutras: Andre Maranne(4)
Part2:10/6/84 Part3:17/6/84 Part4:24/6/84
All parts repeated five days later.
[Story inspired by the life of painter Paul Gauguin.]
["He was urged to make merry over the man who, looking for the moon, missed the sixpence at his feet, but having reached years of maturity he is not so sure that this was so great an absurdity as he was bidden to believe. Let him who wishes pick up the sixpence; but to pursue the moon seems the most amusing diversion"]


4th June 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Paradise Garden Attained by Douglas Slater
The early life of Delius (1862-1934) in Paris.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Fritz Delius: Charles Dance
Jelka Rosen: Anna Massey
Halfdan Jebe: David Timson
Princesse de Cystria: June Tobin
Madame Charlotte: Margot Boyd
Ida Gerhardi: Fiona Walker
Daniel de Monfried: Brian Saunders
Repeated 10th June 1984


5th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Summer Changes by Robert Forrest
Three strangers meet in an abandoned factory.
Directed by Patrick Rayner.
BBC Scotland
Ian: Jonathan Watson
Cathy: Elaine Collins
Donnie: Russell Hunter
Repeated 26th October 1985


6th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Prodigal by Elizabeth Cross
A couple return home from a party- but their home has someone there already.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Liz: Anna Massey
Mike: Lee Montague
James: Michael O'Connor


7th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Seeing Off Arthur by Ruric Powell (1933-2017)
The complexities of arranging a funeral.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Bruce Pringle: Nigel Lambert
Laura: Anne Rldler
David: Peter Acre
Fr Rooney: Denys Hawthorne
Miss Fairbrother: Hilda Schroder
Mr Nutcombe: Peter Pratt


9th June 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Proper Conversation by Dee Phillips
Two people meet in hospital.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Mrs Barker: Pauline Letts
Mrs Prestwood: Margot Boyd
Arthur: Alan Dudley
Sheila: Helen Atkinson Wood
Sister: Jane Wenham
Nurse: Helena Breck
Woman: Rita Davies
Repeated 12th June 1984


9th June 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Dead Men's Shoes by Simon Masters
Experience vs Ambition.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Insp Branigan: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Insp Ray Duerdon: Colin Meredith
Vic Lawson: Colin Douglas
Insp Terry Collier: Graham Padden
Sgt Alan Crew: David Peart
Colin Steen: Haydn Jones
Sandra/Kay Crowther: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Claire Duerdon: Patricia Gallimore
Gwen Branigan: Margot Boyd
Chief Supt Noel Stanworth: Stephen Hancock
Supt Harry Ramsdon/ Lorry driver: Colin Starkey
Sgt Harry Crowther/Geoff: John Dixon
Insp Phillpott/Doctor: Martin Matthews
WPC Jean Fenton/Peggy Ramsdon: Hedli Niklaus
Irene Stanworth: Shirley Stelfox
Traffic PC: Alan Devereux
PC Trevor Clegg/Barman: Jon Strickland
PC Yates: Jonathan Owen
Repeated 11th June 1984
[Not connected to the 2000 play of this name]


11th June 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Silent Wing by David Zane Mairowitz
You can run from a place but not your past
Directed by Jane Morgan
Gisela/Monika: Diana Quick
Kevin: Nick Conway
Rod: Philip Fox
Pam: Carrie Lee-Baker
Catherine: Elizabeth Rider
Prison guard: Peter Acre
Bar tender: Ellen McIntosh
Robyn/Masseuse: Cleo Sylvestre
Jane: Helen Atkinson Wood
Ulli: Wolf Kahler
Waitress: Jill Brooke
Doherty: Bernard Brown
Police officer: Michael Goldie
First interrogator: Paul Humpoletz
Second interrogator: Michael Jenner
Prison doctor: Jon Strickland
English interrogator: Brett Usher
Repeated 17th June 1984
[David Zane Mairowitz was a founding editor of IT- Internatioal Times (1966), a counter- culture magazine.]


12th June 1984
Afternoon Theatre: Testing for Rust by David Buckley
Man meets married woman.
Directed by John Cardy
Vic: Steve Hodson
Shirley: Jill Meers
as Philip: Crawford Logan
Frank: Ronald Baddiley
Mary: Miranda Forbes
Repeated from 25th January 1983


13th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Disagreeable Oyster by Giles Cooper(1918-1966)
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Charles Lefeaux (1909-1979) and Desmond Briscoe
Bundy: William Eedle
Bundy Minor: John Graham
Also with Timothy Bateson, Diana Bishop, Malcolm Hayes, Kathleen Helme, Vernon Joyner, Elizabeth Morgan, Hilda Schroder and William Sleigh
Repeated from 6th December 1973
Repeated 8th September 1989
Also broadcast on R4X in 2018
[This is the version released on BBC Cassette ZCF507]
[There was an earlier production by Donald McWhinnie on BBC 3rd in 1957 (twice), rptd 1962 -with Hamilton Dyce and June Tobin.]


14th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Midstream by Michael Voysey (1920-1987)
Bereavement in middle age.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Bernard: David Garth
Amy: Moir Leslie
Hilary: Wendy Murray
David: Mark Straker
Repeated 22nd April 1986


16th June 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Little Behind on the Video by Richard Everett
When your manager asks you to record a tv program for him, what could go wrong?
Directed by Glyn Dearman
John: Jon Glover
Janet: Gillian Bailey
Sir Quentin Briggs: Peter Pratt
Catherine: Margot Boyd
Colin/Fabian: Mark Straker
Greg: Don Fellows
Jacob: William Hope
Milly: Carole Boyd
Giles: Geoffrey Collins
Repeated 19th June 1984


16th June 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Incorporated (1980) by William (Bill) Ash (1917-2014) dramatised by Barry Campbell
A new executive recruit finds it is difficult to fulfill his first simple task- to root out corruption.
Special music by Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
John Kay: Kim Durham
Edwina Frith: Susan Jameson
Julian Pelham: John Rowe
Harold Behrens: Stephen Hancock
Ray Gardiner/Phil Greenhough: Peter Harlowe
Miles Mandel: Geoffrey Matthews
Peter Warley/Harry: Scott Cherry
Jack Tyndale: Terry Molloy
Ian Chalmers/Frank: David Peart
Courier/Pete: John Dixon
Anna: Hedli Niklaus
Van Gelder: Cyril Shaps
Jan Visser: Steve Ubels
Miss Grantham: Eileen Barry
Mandel's secretary: Maggie Tarver
Warley's secretary: Susan Mansell
Repeated 18th June 1984


18th June 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: The Manchester Enthusiasts by John Arden (1930-2012) and Margaretta D'Arcy
part 1: 1831: the first agricultural commune in Ireland.
Musical director: Tony McAuley
Technical presentation: Tim Sturgeon
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
Liam Frawley: Stephen Rea
Mary Craig: Judith Barker
Edward Craig: Christian Rodska
John Vandeleur: Alan Rickman
Molony: Denys Hawthorne
Priest: Alan Barry
Pegeen: Brenda Fricker
Hastings: Sean Barrett
Peter Jo: P G Stephens
Mrs Vandeleur: Maggie McCarthy
Her daughter: Helen Atkinson Wood
Mrs O'Halloran: Pauline Delany
Brendan O'Halloran: Ciaran Hinds
Colm O'Halloran: John Quinn
Ruari: Alan Devlin
Raisin: Fiona Victory
Annie/singer: Marcella O'Riordan
Doyle: Harry Webster
Mrs Murphy: Marjorie Hogan
Hickey: Mark Lambert
Mrs Foley: Kate Binchy
Additional cast in Part 2:
Cox/Pare: Colin Starkey
Anna Wheeler: Jane Wenham
English women: Carole Boyd and Narissa Knights
Thompson: James Greene
Kaitlin Dubh: Carmel McSharry
George Vandeleur: Mark Straker
Wallscourt: Timothy Bateson
Owen: Arnold Diamond
Part 2: 25/6/84
[Refers to the experimental commune at Ralahine, County Clare, 1831-1833]
[Margaretta d'Arcy is an activist]


19th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: War Song by Michael Davies
1961: the Swansea Valley.
With the Swansea Male Choir, conducted by Ken Wheeler
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Harry: Robert Blythe
Hans: Christian Rodska
Ruth: Guinevere John
Esme: Shirley King
Megan: Gwenllian Lewis
Willie Schroeder: Ray Handy
Mr Pritchard.: Dillwyn Owen


20th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Before the Monday by Giles Cooper
Jane tries to deliver flowers to a flat whose occupant is in bed.
Music played by Dave Hancock and Tom Nichol
Directed by John Tydeman
Jane: Jo Kendall
Desmond: Christopher Godwin
Alfred: Aubrey Woods
[There was a previous production by Michael Bakewell in 1959 on BBC 3rd, repeated BBC Home in 1960, repeated on 3rd in 1962.]


21st June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Westmorland by Robert Ferguson
It may be easier to face fantasy than reality.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Billy: Peter Faulkner
Rose: Janet Rawson
Hester: Gilly Coman
Jimmy: Cliff Howells
Rose as a child: Suzanne Cleary
Billy as a child: Darren Shaw
Lake attendant/Man in boat/Job centre clerk: Stuart Organ
Repeated 11th May 1985


23rd June 1984
14.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Bezzle by James Pettifer
A fictional fantasy of an accountant charged with embezzlement.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Ann: Amanda Murray
Sadie: Pauline Delany
Ross: Carole Boyd
Warder: Maggie McCarthy
Prisoner: Helen Atkinson Wood
Repeated 26th June 1984


23rd June 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Looking After Ourselves by Margaret Crane
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Gwen Lucas: Rosalie Crutchley
Edith Lucas: Rosalind Shanks
Gwen (aged 15): Jayne Dowell
Mr Barker: Stephen Thorne
Marjorie: Kate Lee
Mrs Barker: Gilllan Cally
Schoolmistress: Ann Rye
Bunty: Sue Jenkins
Repeated 25th June 1984


24th June 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Unman Wittering and Zigo by Giles Cooper
A boys boarding school after a teacher dies. Was it an accident?
Directed by Richard Wortley
John Ebony: Geoffrey Collins
Nadia Ebony: Miriam Margolyes
Cary Farthingale: Robert Lang
the Headmaster: Hugh Dickson
Cuthbun, a clever little boy: Paul Hawkins
Cloistermouth, a good little boy: John Holmes
Orris, a boy who is good at French: Mark Straker
Bungabine, a buffoon of a boy: Michael Jenner
Unman, a tiresome boy: Alex Bullion
Lipstrob, a lout of a boy: Adam Godley
Aggeridge, an athletic boy: Stephen Garuck
Terhew, an interesting boy: Michael O'Keeffe
Wittering, a wretched little boy: Boy Parsey
Trindle, a fly boy: Andrew O'Brien
Mr Winstanley: William Eedle
Mrs Winstanley: Ellen McIntosh
Inspector: Jon Strickland
Repeated 12th May 1985, 2nd March 1992
[There was an earlier production by Donald McWhinnie on BBC 3rd in 1958 repeated 1961, 1962]
[Gordon House produced a version in 1980 (60 mins)]
[John Mackenzie produced a later version on R4X in 2017]


26th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Man of Letters by Peter Myers
Publishing in a modern world.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol.
John Phelps: Nigel Stock
Richard: Thomas Henderson
Howard: David Ponting
Beth: Pat Field
Amy: June Barrie
Robert: Clifford Norgate
Linda: Janet Howd
Colin: Bruce Lewis
Secretary: Catherine Owen


27th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: All the Way Home by Giles Cooper
Two people get together for a weekend.
Directed Glyn Dearman
Ellis: Michael Bryant
Una: Jan Waters
Ticket collector: Michael Jenner
Barmaid: Narissa Knights
First traveller: Henry Stamper
Second traveller: David Sinclair
Mr Barnes: Arnold Diamond
Police officer: Clive Panto
Larry: Christian Comber
Daph: Tammy Ustinov
[There was an earlier production by Charles LeFeaux on BBC Third in 1963 repeated 1964]


28th June 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Ordinary Levels by Reginald Hill (1936-2012)
Their daughter's friend disappears.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Andrew Kershaw: Crawford Logan
Belle Kershaw: Susan Uebel
Alice Kershaw: Deborah Makepeace
Stanley Johnson: Stuart Organ
Mary Johnson: Frances Jeater
Det Sgt Inch: James Kerry
Repeated from 29th July 1982.
[Reginald Hill was a secondary school teacher 1962-1967]


30th June 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Russian Roulette by Peter F Ferguson
The office cleaner ends up running the business on her own when a foreign trade delegation arrives.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Miss Haley: Prunella Scales
Sonya: Eleanor Bron
Alexandre: Andrew Sachs
Stanton: Blain Fairman
Kent: Trader Faulkner
Also with Valerie Colgan, Michael Deacon, Malcolm Hayes, Hector Ross, David Rydall, Alan Rowe
Repeated from 7th May 1975


30th June 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Angela's Wedding by Barry Thomas
Father expects to pay for his daughter's wedding.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Geoff: Garard Green
Myrtle: Ellen McLntosh
Angela: Melinda Walker
Glynn: Peter Rumney
Stacey: Roger Snowdon
Derek: John Forbes Robertson
Secretary: Diana Kyle
Repeated 2nd July 1984


1st July 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Livingstone and Sechele by David Pownall
Livingstone made only one convert in Africa, and rethought his own position.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
David Livingstone: John Shedden
Mary Livingstone: Jennifer Piercey
Sechele: Joe Marcell
Mokokon: Shope Shodeinde
Repeated from 10th and 16th December 1979


1st July 1984
19.00-19.30
The Big March by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
1 of 8: Mister Television and the Lady in the Cheongsam
Directed by David Johnston
Danny Watson: Barry Morse
Alison Bowers: Judy Franklin
Joe Donaghy: Peter Marinker
Rossi: Harry Towb
Silver: Blain Fairman
Elaine Watson: Maggie McCarthy
Ginny Sims: Helena Breck
Janey: Helen Atkinson-Wood
Additional actors in later parts:
the General: Robert Beatty(2)
Vance Seeling: Mark Straker(2)
Jimmy Wilberforce: John Rye(2)
Major Kustov: Richard Borthwick(2)
Young constable: Michael Jenner(2)
Two protesting women: Charlotte Mitchell and Shirley Cooklin(2)
Robert Bowers: Basil Moss(3)
Mick Molloy: John Bull(3)
Nora Bryant: Carole Boyd(3)
George Bryant: Peter Tuddenham(3)
Archie Moulder/Jonathan Alton: Peter Acre(3)
Bunny Bullivant: David Sinclair (4)
Ken, the Director: Gary Waldhorn(4)
Ron Dale: Jon Strickland(4)
Chloris: Helen Atkinson-Wood(4)
Joan: Narissa Knights(4)
Studio manager: Colin Starkey(4)
For actors in later parts please see 22nd July 1984 below.
Pt2:8/7/84 Pt3:15/7/84 Pt4:22/7/84 Pt5:29/7/84 Pt6:5/8/84 Pt7:12/8/84 Pt8:19/8/84
All 1984 episodes repeated three days later
[A Cheongsam is a light dress worn by Chinese women with typically tight collar]


1st July 1984
21.00-22.00:
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
1 of 11: The first world war.
Title music played by the Band Of The Royal Corps Of Transport, Director of Music Major William Allen
Directed by Jane Morgan
Trimmer: Nigel Anthony
Uncle Peregrine: Geoffrey Bayldon
Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond
Sarum-Smith: John Bull
Narrator: Hugh Burden
Guy Crouchback: Hugh Dickson
Tony: Paul Gregory
Mr Crouchback: Carleton Hobbs
Maj Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner
Angela: Diana Olsson
Apthorpe: Norman Rodway
Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal
Leonard: David Timson
Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne
Brigadier Ritchie-Hook: Patrick Troughton
Also with: with Peter Baldwin, Alan Dudley, Brian Haines, Carole Boyd, Betty Huntley-Wright and Elizabeth Morgan
Additional actors in later parts:
Virginia Troy: Jennifer Hilary(2)
Air Marshal Beech: Godfrey Kenton(2)
Captain McKinney: John Rye(2)
Ambrose Goodall: Alan Rowe(2)
Leonard: David Timson(3)
Maj Erskine: William Eedle(3)
Maj Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner(3)
with Tony Matthews, Nigel Lambert and Sion Probert(3)
For actors in later parts please see 22nd July 1984 below.
Pt2:8/7/84 Pt3:15/7/84 Pt4:22/7/84 Pt5:29/7/84 Pt6:5/8/84 Pt7:12/8/84 Pt8:19/8/84 Pt9:25/8/84 Pt10:2/9/84 Pt11:9/9/84
Repeated from 1974,Pt1=4th and 6th August 1974.
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2008]
[There was also a 2013 production, by several producers, also broadcast on R4X in 2016, with Paul Ready as Guy]
[The whole work is a trilogy of books: Part 1="Men at Arms" 1952; Part 2="Officers and Gentlemen" 1955 Part 3="Unconditional Surrender" 1961]


2nd July 1984
20.05:
The Monday Play: Carried by Storm by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
The 1812 battle of Badajoz and what followed.
Songs arranged and played by John Bull
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Duke of Wellington: Harry Andrews
Dick Jervis : Michael Jenner
Louis Dillon: John Bull
Lt-Col Jones: Brett Usher
Sgt Thirkettle: David Sinclair
Flag Annie: Maggie McCarthy
Tinder: Carole Boyd
Sal Leggat: Moir Leslie
Ned Errington: Jon Strickland
Colonel Alabaster: Geoffrey Collins
Private Day: Peter Acre
Private Flynn: Mark Straker
Private Oates: Timothy Bateson
Captain Dakers: David Garth
Maj-Gen Sir Thomas Picton: John Bott
General Walker: Colin Starkey
Surgeon-General McGrigor: Arnold Diamond
Ensign Blake: William Hope
Alvarez: Clive Panto
Provost Marshal: William Eedle
Repeated 8th July 1984
[There was an earlier production by Douglas Cleverdon in 1966 with Stephen Murray as the Duke]


3rd July 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Anything for a Game by Scott Cherry
A golfing comedy
Directed By: James Runcie
Roger: Peter Jeffrey
Brian: Nickolas Grace
Repeated 3rd September 1985


3rd July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Why Don't You go Back Where You Came From? by Michael Wall
When a patient accuses a doctor of indecent conduct, who is the victim.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Mohan Chowdhury: Sam Dastor
Sylvia: Rosalind Adams
Miss Barr: Jill Lidstone
Vijaya: Indira Joshi
Mother: Jamila Massey
Tom Cody: Henry Stamper
Policeman: Steve Hodson
Repeated from 14th December 1982.


4th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Sunday Visiting by Ken Blakeson
Alan visits his sister's grave.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Alan: Jason Littler
Tom: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Hannah: June Barry
Nursing sister: Lorraine Peters
Mr Quentin: James Tomlinson


5th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Happy Lies (1981) by C. P. Taylor (1929-1981)
A boy who has difficulty reading asks a question.
Directed by Dickon Reed
A BBC World Service production
Derek: Susan Sheridan
Shirley: Elizabeth Lindsay
Kamala: Shireen Shah
Miss Graham Heather: Rosalind Adams
Health Officer: Heather Emmanuel
Derek's mother: Catherine Terris
Derek's father: Edward Wilson
Charity worker: Sion Probert
Vicar: Ronald Herdman


6th July 1984
15.00:
Jane by Liane Aukin (1936-2016) from the short story ("Jane"-1923) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Directed by Ronald Mason
'Willie' Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
Marion Tower: Nicolette Bernard
Brine/Dickie Baltimore: James Thomason
Jane Fowler: Mary Wimbush
Gilbert Napier: David Brierley
First broadcast 5th March 1969, repeated 23rd August 1974.


7th July 1094
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Knight of the Long Trousers by Donald Bull
The night before receiving a knighthood.
Directed by John Tydeman
Dan Hepton: Peter Woodthorpe
Alison, his wife: Irene Sutcliffe
George, their son: Steve Hodson
Sarah, their daughter: Joanna Wake
Mark Damon: William Eedle
Elsie, his ex-wife: Shirley Dixon
Mr Ryden: Leslie Heritage
Waiter: Malcolm Reid
First broadcast 11th August 1976, repeated 6th April 1978.


7th July 1984
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Casa Clara by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
Clare: Meg Wynn Owen
Elaine: Jill Balcon
Teddy: Gary Waldhorn
Annie: Annabelle Lanyon
Gerda: Maggie McCarthy
Repeated 9th July 1984


9th July 1984
20.15: :
The Monday Play: Mathry Beacon by Giles Cooper
A remote army post is not advised that hostilities have ceased.
Trumpet: Colin Smith
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Evans Sion: Tudor Owen
Blick: Brett Usher
Rita: Helena Breck
Betsy: Allison Hancock
Olim: Jeffrey Kissoon
Gann: Norman Jones
Children: Moir Leslie and Jill Lidstone
Repeated 15th July 1984
[There was an earlier production by Donald McWhinnie on BBC Third in 1956 rpt 1962, 1967, 1980]


10th July 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Stag Night by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Gerald: Sion Probert
Lucinda: Myfanwy Talog
Ieuan: Gareth Armstrong
Hugey: Geoffrey Morgan
Merv: Gwynn Beech
Rhys: Michael Gardiner
Little Billy: Phillip Howe
Exotic Karima Pasha: Sian Owen
Repeated 8th July 1987


10th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: September's Here and I Can't Sing by Don Webb
A man, his wife, his wife's brother, at the seaside.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester.
Constance: Maggie McCarthy
Donald: John Rowe
Harry: Brian Southwood
Jackie: Joanne Zorian
Matthew: Nigel Anthony


11th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Return of Uncle Arthur by Victor Canning (1911-1986)
The executors for Uncle Arthur have a surprise for his relatives.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Nancy: Chrys Salt
John: Gareth Armstrong
Uncle Arthur: Richard Warner
Mrs Appleton: Edwina Wray
Tom: Cyril Conway
Repeated from 21st September 1983
[Canning also used the pseudonym Alan Gould]


12th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Benjamin by Sue Glover
Directed by Marilyn Ireland
Milly: Harriet Buchan
Edwin: Alec Heggie
Maureen: Linda Muchan
Wendy: Kirsty Miller
Teacher: Evelyn Langland
Jamie: Ray Dunsire
Scobie: Stephen Casciani
Allison: Tom Watson
Beaver: Peter Casciani
Other parts played by children from Stockbridge Primary School, Edinburgh
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
["The Benjamin" has various meanings originating in the Bible story of Jacob and his family, generally meaning the youngest child]


13th July 1984
15.00:
Jamaica Inn (1936) by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989), dramatised by Brian Gear
1 of 4: Cornwall 1810.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Aunt Patience: Elizabeth Boxer
Mary's Mother: Angela Brooking
Farmer's wife: Richenda Carey
Mary Yellan: Kim Hartman
Frightened man: Paul Lavers
Jem Merlyn: Alan Moore
Narrator George Raistrick
Driver/Richards: Esmond Rideout
Squire Bassat: Stephen Sylvester
Old Man/Harry the pedlar: Norman Tyrrell
Joss Merlyn: Jack Watson
Additional actors in later episodes:
Mrs Bassat: Liane Aukin(2)
Second dealer/Driver: Timothy Kightley(2)
First dealer: Clifford Norgate(2)
Francis Davey: Laurence Payne(2)
Hannah: June Barrie(3)
Manservant: Rex Holdsworth(3)
Pt2:20/7/84 Pt3:27/7/84 Pt4:3/8/84
First broadcast commencing 6th and 8th July 1975
[The Inn originated in 1750, and remains open in 2022]


14th July 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Philately Will Get You Nowhere by Andrew Sachs(1930-2016)
Producer: Betty Davies
Sid Vane: Edward Kelsey
Wally Potter: Bunny May
Sheena: Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Grace Lorrimar: Barbara Mitchell
George Henderson: Peter Tuddenham
Froelich: Manning Wilson
Gayton Faucit: Gerald Cross
Veronica: Jo Manning Wilson
First broadcast 10th and 11th February 1971, repeated 15th January 1976


14th July 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Armenian Purchase by Arnold Yarrow
Directed by David Spenser
Georgi Gashvili: Edward De Souza
Leila Gashvili: Narissa Knights
Harold Seddon: George Baker
Sami Bey: David March
Grace Seddon: Jane Wenham
Narrator/Joe: Colin Starkey
First brother: Cufford Norgate
Second brother/Mortensaul: David Garth
Lord Axmuir: Tony Mathews
Prinsepp: Bernard Brown
French cashier/Purser: Brett Usher
Tefler: Clive Panto
Repeated 16th July 1984


16th July 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Campus Blues by Andrew Davies
Learning is not something they have a lot of time for in Westchester. But the extracurricular activities can be fun.
'Campus blues' sung and performed by Mitch Dalton
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Karl: Garrick Hagon
Sally-Anne: Shelly Tompson
Arthur: Christopher Godwin
Egerton: Julian Curry
Elwyn Price: Ioan Meredith
Ralph Brownlow: Edward de Souza
Vera Brownlow: Jane Wenham
Megan Price: Myfanwy Talog
Liz Butcher: Helena Breck
Geoffrey: William Hope
Repeated 22nd July 1984
[Andrew Davies was a teacher / university lecturer]


17th July 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Up and Down by Helen Keith Smith
The lift attendant offers her cups of tea.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Miss Pettifer: Margot Boyd
Mr Fredericks: Nigel Stock
Chrissie: Moir Leslie
Dennis: Peter Acre
Manager: Colin Starkey
Typist: Narissa Knights
Woman on bus: Hilda Schroder


17th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Late Spring(1981) by Elaine Feinstein
An American former scholar returns to Cambridge after ten years.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Jenny: Maureen O'Brien
Maurice: Hugh Dickson
Maurice's mother: Mary Wimbush
Head porter: Arnold Diamond
Junior porter: Joe Dunlop
Tom: Peter Marinker
Hollis: Stuart Organ
Sybil: Frances Jeater
College Fellows: Crawford Logan and David McAlister
Repeated from 8th October 1982
[Script held at University of Manchester Library, ref GB 133 EFP/6/1]



18th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Not That Sort of Beach by Jim Hitchmough (1934-1997)
A French topless beach is one thing- but everything off?
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Doreen Cooper: Jane Collins
George Cooper: Christian Rodska
Kate Cooper: Suzanne Hitchmough
Sandra Cooper: Carole Diamond
Henshaw: Edward York
Mrs Henshaw: Rosalind Knight
Repeated 28th May 1986


18th July 1984
20.45-21.40:
Hearts of Gold by Neil Shenton
Helping people with their problems - but he has his own problems.
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
Michael: David Ross
Clare: Anne Reid
Di: Kate Lee
Terry: Brian Southwood
Andrew/Julian: Jack Carr


19th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Orbital Decay by J. C. Wilsher
The Astronaut Twins, along with Peggy Sue set off on the routine job of recovering a faulty satellite.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Neil: Nigel Anthony
Buzz: Sean Arnold
Peggy Sue: Beth Porter
Yuri: Andrew Sachs
Control/Dad: Peter Marinker


19th July 1984
20.10-20.48:
The Shutter Falls by Norman Malcolm MacDonald
1880s: a photographer comes to the port to take pictures of the herring girls - and of one girl in particular.
Music played by Norman Chalmers
Directed by Patrick Rayner
Narrator: Maureen Beattie
Ceit: Gerda Stevenson
Alexander Watson: Carey Wilson
Donald: Domhnall Ruadh
Flett: John Buick
Singers: Kathleen MacDonald
also with Peigi MacDonald, Rhona MacKay and Mairi MacArthur
(First broadcast on R Scotland)
[The play drew upon oral histories in "The Fisher Lassies" 1982 by Billy Kay -series three of the radio series "Odyssey", published in 1996 as "The Complete Odyssey"]


21st July 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Slip of the Disc by John Graham
Peter got stuck in Sally's bath and life gets awfully complicated.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Sally Hills: Nerys Hughes
Peter Raven: George Baker
Leonard Hills: Denys Hawthorne
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 8th January 1980
[Two German tv movies of this play were made- in 1987 and in 2013, as "Hexensus"]


21st July 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) by Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
In 1970's Boston, a 14th Century manuscript is missing.
Music composed and played by Ed Welch (piano) with Ron Aspery
Directed by Peter King
Spenser: Gary Waldhorn
Terry Orchard: Nicky Croydon
Iris Milford: Stacey Hughes
Lowell Hayden: Bob Sherman
Judy Hayden: Gay Baynes
Quirk: Harry Towb
Roland Orchard: Bruce Boa
Marion: Margaret Robertson
Tower: Don Fellows
Mrs Tower: Alex Marshall
Forbes: Alan Tilvern
Dennis Powell: Stuart Milligan
Brenda Loring: Karen Mann
Repeated 23rd July 1984
[Parker taught at an American University- his Ph D dissertation was about fictional private investigators.].
[This was the first of around 40 novels about Spenser and produced a US TV series Spenser for Hire.].


22nd July 1984
19.00-19.30
The Big March by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
For part one please see 1st July 1984 above.
4 of 8: The Biggest Thing Since Roots
Guitarist John Bull
Directed By: David Johnston
Jonathan Alton: Peter Acre
Chloris: Helen Atkinson-Wood
Silver: Blain Fairman
Alison Bowers: Judy Franklin
Joan: Narissa Knights
Joe Donaghy: Peter Marinker
Danny Watson: Barry Morse
Bunny Bullivant/ Police Sergeant: David Sinclair
Studio manager: Colin Starkey
Vance Seeling: Mark Straker
Ron Dale/ Monsignor: Jon Strickland
Rossi: Harry Towb
Ken, the Director: Gary Waldhorn
Additional actors in later parts:
Mick Molloy: John Bull(5)
Government Minister: John Bott(5)
Jimmy Wilberforce: John Rye(5)
Japanese man: Timothy Bateson(6)
Black man: Gary Beadle(6)
herself: Sonia Beesley(6)
East Ender: Nick Brimble(6)
Officer: Bernard Brown(6)
Bishop: Adrian Egan(6)
Superintendent: David Garth(6)
Reg: William Hope(6)
Young marcher: Wayne Jackman(6)
Alf Tubbs: Clive Panto(6)
Inspector: Brett Usher (6)
His wife: Jane Wenham(6)
For actors in parts 7 and 8 please see 12/8/84 below.
Pt5:29/7/84 Pt6:5/8/84 Pt7:12/8/84 Pt8:19/8/84
All 1984 episodes repeated three days later


22nd July 1984
21.00-22.00:
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
For part one please see 1st July 1984 above.
4 of 11: Nine weeks of alternating chaos and order.
Title music played by the Band of the Royal Corps of Transport, Director of Music: Major William Allen
Directed by Jane Morgan
de Souza: Sean Arnold
Daisy Leonard: Carole Boyd
Sarum-Smith: John Bull
the Narrator: Hugh Burden
Guy Crouchback: Hugh Dickson
Major Erskine: William Eedle
Mr Crouchback: Carleton Hobbs
Col Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner
Apthorpe: Norman Rodway
Brig Jameson: Hugh Sullivan
Nameless Major: Clive Swift
Leonard: David Timson
Brigadier Ritchie-Hook: Patrick Troughton
Also with with Peter Baldwin, Sandra Clark, Sam Dastor, Alan Dudley, Tony Matthews, Sion Probert and Hugh Ross
Actors in later episodes:
Trimmer: Nigel Anthony(5)
Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond(5)
Katie: Sandra Clark(5)
Mrs Campbell: Diana Olsson(5)
Ivor Claire: Michael Pennington(5)
Miss Vavasour: Hilda Schroder(5)
Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal(5)
Jumbo Trotter: Norman Shelley(5)
Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne(5)
Laird of Mugg: Tom Watson(5)
Chatty Corner: Brian Wilde(5)
Virginia Troy: Jennifer Hilary(6)
Major Hound: Timothy Bateson(6)
Major Graves: Paul Chapman(6)
Dr Glendenning-Rees: Talfryn Thomas(6)
General Whale: Alan Lawrance(6)
Julia Stitch: Christina Greatorex(6)
Kerstie Kilbannock: Colette O'Neil(6)
also with Diana Bishop and David Sinclair(6)
For actors in later parts please see 12/8/84 below.
Pt5:29/7/84 Pt6:5/8/84 Pt7:12/8/84 Pt8:19/8/84 Pt9:25/8/84 Pt10:2/9/84 Pt11:9/9/84
Repeated from 1974,Pt1=4th and 6th August 1974.
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2008]


23rd July 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Never In My Lifetime by Shirley Gee
Please see 27th February 1984 above.


24th July 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Puma Hunt by R E.T. Lamb
A land owner faces opposition when he wants to kill a roaming and dangerous wild animal.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol.
Denis Lockington: Martin Jarvis
James: Geoffrey Bateman
Vicar: Peter Copley
Maud: June Barrie
Jim: Cornelius Garrett
Carol: Angela Phillips
Journalist: Moir Leslie
Ted: Paul Nicholson
Mick: David Sivier
Buzz: Christian Rodska


24th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Poole Harbour by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
A holiday for pupils from an approved school goes adrift when one of them disappears with a canoe.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Lynne: Maggie McCarthy
Bill: Timothy Bateson
Kendrick: Thomas Henderson
Mrs Lowndes: Margot Boyd
Nick: Mark Straker
Mr Farthing: William Eedle
Mrs Kendrick: Carole Boyd
Warden: David Sinclair
Nature park supervisor: Geoffrey Collins
Scouts: Jesse Lawrence and Ben Rodska
with Ruth Lloyd, compere at Rockley Sands Palladium. Recorded on location at Poole Harbour
["Approved Schools", established 1933, were replaced in 1969 by "Community Homes" for children in trouble or at risk. The use of these replacements also declined as "Care in the Community" with assisted fostering was introduced.]


25th July 1984
15.00-15.47:
Afternoon Theatre: Going for Broke, by George Baker
1 of 6: The Builder That Bothers. John can cope- just.
Mouth Organ: Harry Pitch
Directed by Glyn Dearman
John Morse: Andrew Sachs
Bill Yates: Bryan Pringle
Wendy: Miriam Margolyes
Ethel: Dilys Laye
Anne: Denica Fairman
himself: Terry Wogan
Shaun: Sean Barrett
Ellen: Fiona Walker
Mr Coseling: William Eedle
Alf: Arnold Diamond
Additional actors in later episodes:
Jane: Narissa Knights(2)
Bernard: Geoffrey Collins(3)
Mrs Williams: Margaret Courtenay(4)
Mr Manderson: Clive Panto(4)
Clerk: David Sinclair (5)
Scaffolder: Jon Strickland(5)
Roger: Michael Jenner(5)
Denise: Helen Atkinson Wood(5)
Sam: Mark Straker(6)
Judy: Helena Breck(6)
Bob: John Bott(6)
Pt2:1/8/84 Pt3:8/8/84 Pt4:15/8/84 Pt5:22/8/84 Pt6:29/8/84
[No relation to the 2007 play by Mike Yeaman]


26th July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Lisa by Mervyn Jones
Who is jealous of whom?
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Maggie Sutherland: Sheila Grant
Bill: Dudley Sutton
Phyl: Moir Lesue
Greg: Michael Jenner
Paul King: William Gaminara


28th July 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Requiem by Berlie Doherty
The progress of one pupil through convent school.
Members of the choir of Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham, Cheshire conducted by Mary Pethica
Organist Lucina Swain
Recorded in binaural stereo (for headphone listening)
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Cecilia: Moir Leslie
Mother Rose: Kathleen Helme
Mother Joseph: Ann Rye
Mother Agnes: Pauline Siddle
Fr Carolyn: Russell Dixon
Patricia Keenan: Sue Jenkins
Noni: Cory Pulman
Bridget: Janet Rawson
Repeated from 8th September 1983
[This play started as a short story for radio, developed into this play, and then further developed into a novel].


28th July 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Forgive Me Father by David Hopkins
Trouble at the disco (dancing venue).
Directed by Peter King.
Brian Slater: Martin Murphy
Mrs Slater: Alex Marshall
Christy German: Jon Strickland
Julie Gorman: Moir Leslie
Bernie Manners: Julian Silvester
Dave Manners: Chris Chescoe
Mrs Manners: Carole Boyd
Johnny Hoskins: Clive Panto
Kevin Mahar: Peter Acre
Debbie: Catherine Clarke
Disco manager: Arnold Diamond
Det Insp Brasin: David Sinclair
Fr Malachy: Brett Usher
Repeated 30th July 1984


29th July 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Willoughby's Phoney War by William Fox
1939. Downhill from Munich.
Directed by John Tydeman
Charles Willoughby: Jeremy Irons
Charity Rainham: Anna Massey
Clarissa Grey: Madeline Smith
Commanding Officer: William Fox
Mona: Mary Wimbush
Peregrine: Charles Hodgson
Christopher: Jeffry Wickham
Adjutant: John Rye
Sergeant: Manning Wilson
Newsreader: Alvar Lidell
also with Rod Beacham, Kenneth Shanley, Peter Wickham, Jonathan Scott, Malcolm Gerard Robert Trotter
Repeated from 24th and 30th April 1978
Repeated 2nd September 1989
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2018]
[The radio sequel was "Constant Hot Water" broadcast on R4 on 7th and 13th May 1979 and 5th August 1984, also on R4X (2018)]


30th July 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Road to Rocio by Douglas Livingstone (1934-2021)
Four English people go on pilgrimage to Rocio in Spain.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Dianne: Sara Kestelman
Brian: James Bolam
Richard: Michael Kitchen
Pauline: Christine Absalom
Federico: Carlos Douglas
Sylvia: Jane Wenham
Air hostess: Jean Trend
Carlos: Trader Faulkner
Jose: Clive Panto
Spanish TV man: John Bull
Repeated from 16th May 1983
[1984 Sony Radio Award for Best Drama]
[This was the first of a series of twelve "Road to..." radio plays from 1984 to 2019, by Livingstone]


31st July 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Incognito by Melville Jones
When you meet someone on holiday do you tell them the truth about yourself?
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol.
David: David Goodland
Susan: Heather Baskerville
Jim/Franz Joseph: Elwyn Johnson
Jane: Sarah Benfield
Captain/Talbot: Jon Strickland
Biffo: Phillip Manikum
Vanessa Stephens: Helen Atkinson. Wood
Captain Scorer: John Abineri
Jilly: Helena Breck


31st July 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Fluke by Tony Dennis
An up and coming footballer has increasing difficulties.
Directed by James Runcie
Rick: Cyril Nri
Jenny: Samantha Bond
Mum: Jane Wenham
Bob Mulligan: John Hollis
Colin: Jonathan Tafler
Manager: William Eedle
Edwin: Rudolph Walker
Rick's father: Victor Lindsay
Girl: Helen Atkinson-Wood
Also with Moir Leslie and Maggie McCarthy
[Tony Dennis was a footballer, born 1963 - he played 1981-1998]


2nd August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Cargo of the Cathay Queen by Philip Latham (1929-2020)
Looking for a missing man in Hong Kong
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Sutton: Keith Alexander
Samantha: Sally Baxter
Radio announcer/Triad lieutenant: David Peart
Paul Lee/Triad boss: Timothy Bateson
Margaret Chang: Miranda Forbes
Rogers: Hugh Dickson
Mrs Wang: Madi Hedd
Marshall: Stephen Thorne
Van Duren: Edward Cast
Captain: Peter Tuddenham
Repeated from 17th February 1983


4th August 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Obsession in August by Michael Robson
What had Lord Sackville discovered in Dorset in 1892?
Directed by David Spenser
Professor Dulac: Robert Morris
Lord Sackville: John Westbrook
Lady Helen: Wendy Murray
M Griffith: Hugh Dickson
Sir Edmund Gautrey/Canon Enright: Nigel Graham
Rob Myers: Alex Jennings
Sally Chaytes: Hilda Schroder
Bess Gautrey: Rosalind Adams
Dickon Myers/Insp Dunlapp: Stephen Thorne
Mother Superior: Jean Trend
Repeated from 20th December 1982


4th August 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Musk and Amber by William Frankland
India 1872. A murder investigation.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Dr James Maxwell: Patrick Malahide
Fazil Khan: Garard Green
Col Grahame: Peter Howell
Capt Glyn Mytton: David Ponting
Capt Smith-Fletcher: Tim Meats
Major Bannister: Andrew Hilton
Mrs Rose Bamford: Meg Ritchie
Shusha: Shireen Shah
Repeated 6th August 1984 - when the writer was incorrectly credited as Jon Manchip White- who wrote "Musk of Amber".
[The play is unrelated to Musk and Amber (1942) by A E W Mason]


4th August 1984
23.30-00.00
The First Time by Steve Taylor
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Donald/Narrator: Christian Rodska
Mother/Customer: Judith Barker
Father/Psychiatrist: Russell Dixon
Ruth/ Assistant: Norma Cohen
Wendy's Mum/Olivia/Kim: Kate Lee
Janet/Customer: Cory Pulman
Celia: Sunny Ormonde
Jim/Cyril: Francis Middleditch
Steve/Martin: Colin Meredith


5th August 1984
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Constant Hot Water by William Fox
World War 2- Egypt, Italy- and Peace.
Directed by John Tydeman
Charles Willoughby: Jeremy Irons
Charity Rainham: Anna Massey
James Brady: James Villiers
Uncle Willie: Charles Gray
Clarissa Grey: Madeline Smith
Marquesa: Margaret Ward
Harold: Philip Voss
Belle: June Tobin
Ruben: Leonard Fenton
Col Bumford: William Fox
W/O and Benson: Manning Wilson
BBC announcer: Alvar Lidell
Claudia: Rita Giovannini
Also with Peter Baldwin, John Bull, Gordon Dulieu and Eva Stuart
Repeated from 7th and 13th May 1979
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2018]
[Sequel to "Willoughby's Phoney War" -see 29th July 1984 above]
[the character Charles Willoughby was also featured in William Fox play "The Baghdad Baggage" broadcast 2nd and 4th August 1975, rpt 11/4/77 produced by Shaun MacLoughlin and with Christopher Good as Charles.]


6th August 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Show of Hands by Alan Howe.
When the Monday morning shift goes in, there's just an oilstain on the floor where a lathe had been standing.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Kit Bradford: Malcolm Terris
Bostock: Edward Wilson
Sylvia: Lizzie McKenzie
Jean: Belinda Chapman
Simmy: Alan Hockey
Rushworth: Adrian Stocks
Molly Bradford: Barbara Marten
Harry Nesbit: Brian Southwood
Bogie: Peter Wheeler
Club organist: Nigel Ogden
Repeated 12th August 1984


7th August 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Defensible Space by J. C. Wilsher
A couple restore an old terraced house.
Directed by Richard Imison
Tim: Trevor Cooper
Sarah: Maggie McCarthy
Albert Dobson: Wilfrid Brambell
Malcolm, the barman: Mark Ashton
Mrs Ericson, social worker: Margot Boyd


7th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Model Answers or Tarzan and the Cross-eyed Baby by Juliet Ace
A sociology A level exam causes the invigilator and a student to reflect upon their lives.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol.
Jane: Elizabeth Proud
Harry: Marcus D'Amico
Mum: June Barrie
Dad: Paul Nicholson
Joanie: Carole Boyd
Tom: Geoffrey Bateman
Henry: Thomas Reeves
Freddie: Thomas Henderson
Repeated 3rd July 1986


9th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Modes of Discourse by Terence Lewis
The difficulties of being understood after a stroke.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Mum: Patricia Hayes
Tony: Nicholas Le Prevost
Ben: David Sinclair
Alice: Helena Breck
GP: William Hope
Registrar: Geoffrey Collins
Also with Helen Atkinson Wood, Maggie McCarthy and Narissa Knights
Repeated 17th August 1985.


10th August 1984
15.00:
Fame is the Spur (1940) by Howard Spring (1889-1965) freely adapted by Ken Whitmore
1 of 8: Born in Captivity: Manchester: 1880 to 1920. The development of protest movements and social concern.
Theme music composed by Johnny Pearson
Location recordings by Chris Webb and Mark Seyler
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
Hamer Shawcroft: Ian McKellen
John Shawcroft as a boy: Gary Carp
Tom Hannaway as a youth: Phillip Pollitt
Arnold Ryerson as a youth: David Riley
Grandfather: Geoffrey Banks
Ellen, John's mother: Rosalie Williams
Gordon Stansfield: Ian Flintoff
Ma Hannaway/Lillian: Elizabeth Kelly
Charles Artingstall: George Hagan
Ann Artingstall as a girl: Susan Revill
Hawley, his father: Graham Tennant
Lizzie Lightowler: Rosalie Crutchley
Also with Jimmy Braddock, Phillippa Connell and Ruth Williams
Additional cast in episode 2::
Ann Artingstall: June Barry
Tom Hannaway: Geoffrey Wheeler
John Hamer, as a boy: Gary Carp
George Artingstall, bookseller: George Hagan
Polly Burnsall, the widow: Romy Baskerville
Hilda, the maid: Lesley Nicol
Arnold Ryerson, now a young man: Andrew Jackson
Pen Muff: Vida Paterson
Ellen, Hamer's mother: Rosalie Williams
Richardson, the agent: Randal Herley
Ezra Crompton: Jimmy Braddock
For cast in episodes 3 onwards please see 24/8/84 below
Pt2:17/8/84 Pt3:24/8/84 Pt4:31/8/84 Pt5:7/9/84 Pt6:14/9/84 Pt7:21/9/84 Pt8:28/9/84
With The Children of Beckett Park School, Yorkshire
First broadcast commencing 7th and 9th January 1979


11th August 1984
14.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Some Sunny Day by David Bannister (better known as T D Webster)
A wounded soldier returns to his peacetime job, but the staff and rules are different.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Lilian: Pauline Letts
Elizabeth: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Hugo: Roger Hume
Mr Laing: Michael Spice
Ken: Terry Molloy
Michael: Jonathan Owen
Malcolm: John Asbury
Headmaster: Terence Coates
Miss Sutherland: Patricia Gibson
Repeated from 6th November 1981
[The author worked in education. During the war younger teachers were called to the frontline and retired teachers- and older women- took their place.]


11th August 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: La Bolshie Vita by Ken Whitmore, inspired by Nikolai Gogol's "The
Government Inspector" (1836).
A campaign to stop corruption in the Soviet Union.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Ivan Alexandrovich: Christian Rodska
Osip Konstantinovich: Nigel Anthony
Anton Antonovich: John Arthur
Anna Andreyevna: Meg Johnson
Natasha Antonovna: Bonnie Hurren
Sonya Alexandrovna: Julia Sharon
Stepan Bullbich: Peter John
Bobchinsky: Roy Barraclough
Dobchinsky: David Ross
KGB sergeant: Peter Wheeler
Repeated 13th August 1984


11th August 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: No Exceptions by Steve May
A winning athlete behaves badly in class.
Directed by Alec Reid
The Teacher: Rod Beacham
Repeated from 18th October 1983.
[Giles Cooper 1983 Award winner]


12th August 1984
19.00-19.30
The Big March by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
7 of 8: Tricross is Here in this English Field.
For episode one please see 1st July 1984 above.
Guitarist: John Bull
Directed by David Johnston
Major Custov: Richard Borthwick
Police chief: John Bott
Second woman protester: Shirley Cooklin
Alison Bowers: Judy Franklin
Reg: William Hope
Marcy Bowers: Narissa Knights
Joe Donaghy: Peter Marinker
First woman protester: Charlotte Mitchell
Danny Watson: Barry Morse
Robert Bowers: Basil Moss
Alf Tubbs: Clive Panto
Military policeman: Philip Rowlands
Jimmy Wilberforce: John Rye
Vance Seeling: Mark Straker
March steward: Jon Strickland
Rossi: Harry Towb
Young farmer: Brett Usher
Ken, the Director: Gary Waldhorn
Marchers: Margot Boyd, Moir Leslie, Maggie McCarthy, Jane Wenham
Additional actors in part 8:
Silver: Blain Fairman
Newsreader: Hilda Bamber
Peacenik: Geoffrey Collins
Young militant: Michael Jenner
Police Superintendent: David Garth
Third marcher: Margot Boyd
Pt8:19/8/84
All 1984 episodes repeated three days later


12th August 1984
21.00-22.00:
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
7 of 11. For part one please see 1st July 1984 above.
Title music played by the Band Of The Royal Corps Of Transport, Director of Music: Major William Allen
Directed by Jane Morgan
Major Hound: Timothy Bateson
Capt Roots: Geoffrey Beevers
Corporal Major Ludovic: Michael Bryant
the Narrator: Hugh Burden
Guy Crouchback: Hugh Dickson
Col Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner
Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne
Capt Luxmore: John Rye
GOC: Godfrey Kenton
Also with Peter Baldwin, Walter Brown, Alan Dudley, Kerry Francis, Peter Pacey and Alan Rowe
Additional actors in later parts:
Trimmer: Nigel Anthony (8)
de Souza: Sean Arnold(8)
Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond(8)
Julia Stitch: Christina Greatorex(8)
Virginia: Jennifer Hilary(8)
Ivor Claire: Michael Pennington(8)
Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal(8)
Nameless major: Clive Swift(8)
[Some actors names in Part 8 lost in BBC Database]
Uncle Peregrine: Geoffrey Bayldon(9)
Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond(9)
Sir Ralph Brompton: Tenniel Evans(9)
Loot: Blain Fairman(9)
Mr Crouchback: Carleton Hobbs(9)
Angela Box-Bender: Diana Olsson(9)
Kerstie Kilbannock: Colett O'Neil(9)
Miss Vavasour: Hilda Schroder(9)
Jumbo: Norman Shelley(9)
Everard Spruce: Philip Voss(9)
Also with Christopher Benjamin, Carole Boyd, Nigel Graham and Hector Ross(9)
For actors in parts 10 and 11, please see 2nd September 1984.
Pt8:19/8/84 Pt9:25/8/84 Pt10:2/9/84 Pt11:9/9/84
Repeated from 1974


13th August 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: The Mist from the Glen by Frederick Aicken
A former villager returns after some years to find something sinister and dangerous.
Directed by Penny Gold
BBC Northern Ireland
Andrew: Denys Hawthorne
Sarah: Catherine Gibson
Alex: Jonathan Boyle
Cab driver: Mark Mulholland
Liam: Louis Rolston
Joe: Joe McPartland
Billy: John Hewitt
Mr Wilson: Anthony Finigan
Mick: Martin McCarney
Dan: Kevin Flood
Preacher: Maurice O'Callaghan
McVeigh: Derek Halligan
Cockney soldier: B J Hogg
Repeated 19th August 1984


14th August 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Sound Explosion by Michael Wall (1946-1991)
They met on the train and she asked no questions.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Annie Weaver: Tessa Peake-Jones
Michael: Christopher Fairbank
Steph: Amanda Kirby
Repeated 23rd October 1985


14th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Purely from Principle by Lynne Reid Banks
A single parent has trouble with her son.
Directed by John Cardy.
Joan Wilson: Lynne Reid Banks
Stephen: Philip Barnes
Sharon: Linda Cray
Ramsay: Bernard Brown
Mrs Dawson: Margot Boyd
Lyn: Meussa Katsouus
Solicitor: Geoffrey Collins
Clerk: Moir Leslie
Magistrates: Jane Wenham, Arnold Diamond and David Sinclair
Repeated 22nd May 1986


16th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: An Easy Game to Play by Ray Connolly
After the football match...
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Des: Michael Angelis
Gerry: Tony Haygarth
Boy: Elizabeth Lindsay
Angela: Helena Breck
Mr Pye: Ken Jones
Publican: Ronald Forfar
Footballer/guest: Stuart Organ
Student/guest: Nona Shepphard
Celia: Di Botcher
Jean: Jane Knowles
Repeated 24th August 1985


18th August 1984
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Special Occasion by Bill Naughton (1902-1992)
The challenge of a calamity late in life.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Joe: John Bott
Maudie: Katherine Parr
Fred: George A Cooper
Thelma: Gabrielle Daye
Karen: Annette Robertson
Ruby: Shirley Dixon
Clifford: Stephen Thorne
Repeated from 14th October 1982


18th August 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Eddie and Miss Simpson by Roger Davenport
A toy saleman is asked to find a missing six year old.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Eddie: Anton Rodgers
Miss Simpson: Carole Boyd
Jacob Kricheffski: Cyril Shaps
Titch: Guy Holden
Terence: Colin Maitland
Insp Wilkins/Snooker player: Gareth Armstrong
Mr Stapleton/Martin Roberts: David Graham
Chalky: David Timson
Geoff Harrison: Sean Arnold
Eric Harrison: John Hollis
Alan/Sophie: Elizabeth Lindsay
Shirley: Helen Atkinson Wood
Repeated 20th August 1984


18th August 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Torrington Rises by Richard O'Keeffe
An MP makes a controversial speech and then has professional and personal problems.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Torrington: Timothy West
Hilda: Gwen Watford
Katie: Glynis Brooks
Brian: Michael Goldig
Roy: Rod Beacham
Old lady: Grizelda Hervey
Ministry driver: Mary Elliot-Nelson
Repeated from 12th and 15th November 1977


20th August 1984
19.50-21.50:
The Monday Play: Her Privates We (1930) by David Buck (1933-1989) based on the novel "The Middle Parts of Fortune" (1929) by Frederic Manning (1882-1935)
First world war: the life of the private soldier
Technical presentation: David Greenwood , David Chilton and Paul Pearson
Military adviser: Maurice E. Jones of the King's Shropshire Light Infantary
Directed by Richard Wortley
Pte Bourne: Peter Pacey
Pte Shem: Colin Starkey
Pte Martlow: Michael Jenner
Cpl Tozer: Michael Tudor Barnes
Pte Weeper Smart: Trevor Cooper
Pte Pritchard: Bernard Brown
Regt Sgt Maj/Carpenter: Norman Jones
Colour Sergeant: David Garth
Pte Glazier: Sean Barrett
Pte Madeley: William Eedle
Pte Pacey: Spencer Banks
Cpl Hamley/LCpl Johnson: Brett Usher
Lt Clinton/Cpl Greenstreet: Geoffrey Collins
Sgt Glasspool: Henry Stamper
Pte Jakes/Capt Malel: Peter Acre
Lt Marsden/Pte Hines: Mark Straker
Therese: Helena Breck
Therese's mother: Cecile Chevreau
[Frederick Manning was in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry during WW1]
[Her Privates We was originally an expurgated version of an earlier "anonymous" book "The Middle Parts of Fortune" published in 1929 but not widely available until 1977 and then republished as "Her Privates We" in 1999.]


21st August 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Sixty Tons Through the Iron Curtain by Daniel P. Possumato
One side will give anything for the latest miracle weapon the other side has.
Directed by John Cardy
Tom Chambers: Brett Usher
Col Voloshin: Bernard Brown
Buzz Geiger: William Hope
Col Kelly: William Eedle
Ivanov: Geoffrey Collins
Also with Peter Acre, Arnold Diamond, Michael Jenner, Clive Panto, David Sinclair, Colin Starkey


21st August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Money and the Chimney Pots by William Ingram (1930-2013)
A retired actor gets a fresh interest in life.
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Doll: Jane Wenham
Jonah Jones: Guy Holden
Crewe: Margot Boyd
Richard: Brett Usher
Cynthia/Matron: Helena Breck
Louis/DHSS officer: Clive Panto
Pearl: Helen Atkinson Wood


23rd August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Dear Aunt by Julia Jones (1923-2015).
After a long time, Eve goes to visit her Aunt.
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
May: Margaret D'Arcy
Eve: Meg Davies


24th August 1984
15.00:
Fame is the Spur (1940) by Howard Spring (1889-1965) freely adapted by Ken Whitmore
3 of 8: The Fight for St Swithin's
For part one please see 10th August 1984 above.
Location recordings by Chris Webb and Mark Seyler
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
Ann: June Barry
Bellows, the butler: Peter Bell
Lizzie Lightowler: Rosalie Crutchley
Arnold Ryerson: Andrew Jackson
Haslett, the gamekeeper: Alan Meadows
Pen Muff: Vida Paterson
Lady Lettice: Helen Ryan
Marsden: Herbert Smith
Tom Hannaway: Geoffrey Wheeler
Lord Lostwithiel: Jeffry Wickham
with the Children of Beckett Park School, Yorkshire
Additional cast in episodes 4 and 5::
Jimmy Newboult: John Baldwin(4)
Harry, Viscount Liskeard: Peter Guinness(4)
Sgt Newboult: Tom Harrison(4)
Hamer Shawcross: Ian McKellen(4)
Edith Ryerson, Arnold's mother: Ann Rye(4)
Hawley Artingstall: Graham Tennant(4)
Hilda, now Mrs Artingstall: Lesley Nicol(4)
Ellen Stansfield: Rosalie Williams(4)
Election official: Anthony Wingate(4)
Nell Richards: Nina Holloway(5)
Evan Vaughan: Richard Clay Jones(5)
Parry Powell: Herbert Smith(5)
Gallery assistant: Rory Scase(5)
Carrickfergus: James Tomlinson(5)
for cast in episodes 6 onwards please see 14/9/84 below.
Pt4:31/8/84 Pt5:7/9/84 Pt6:14/9/84 Pt7:21/9/84 Pt8:28/9/84
First broadcast commencing 7th and 9th January 1979


25th August 1984
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), Dramatised by Eric Ewens
Part 1 of 2.
1930 - a teacher is on the train to Berlin- a fellow passenger seems nervous.
Directed by David Spenser
Mr Norris: David March
William Bradshaw: Michael Maloney
Helen Pratt: Sheila Grant
Fraulein Schroeder: Hilda Schroder
German official/Policeman: Danny Schiller
Friedrich/Otto: Haydn Wood
Waiter: Spencer Banks
Schmidt: Adrian Egan
Baron von Pregnitz: Sean Arnold
Whore/Portress: Denica Fairman
Anni: Deborah Paige
Bayer: Wolf Kahler
Part 2: 1st September 1984
Repeated: Part 1:16/9/84 Part 2: 23/9/84
{Earlier production by Donald McWhinnie for BBC Third in 1957]
[There was an earlier production by Archie Campbell in 1967 rptd 1971, with Robert Eddison as Mr Norris]
[Mr Isherwood moved to Berlin in 1929 and left in 1933]
[David March won a Radio Academy Award for Best Radio Actor for his performance]


25th August 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole adapted by Rodney Ackland
Please refer to 23rd April 1984 above.


25th August 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Lady and the Double-bass Case by Arnold Hinchliffe based upon "Romance with a Double-bass" (1886) by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
A nude swim on a hot day while the double bass is safe on the bank.
Double-bass played by Adrian Beers
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Ivan Sergeivich Smichkov: James Bryce
the Princess: Moir Leslie
the narrator: Geoffrey Collins
Peasant: William Eedle
Flautist: Henry Stamper
Clarinetist: Michael Bilton
[Also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 17th November 1986]


26th August 1984
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Long Sunset (1955) by R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)
The Roman Empire is crumbling; the occupation of Britain is at an end. Southern England. AD 410
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Julian: Stephen Murray
Serena Pauline Letts
Arthur: Julian Glover
Marcus, a Roman tribune: John Rye
Paula: Jane Knowles
Otho: David Spenser
Lucian: Lockwood West
Portius: John Gabriel
Gawaine: David Valla
Lugar: Edward Kelsey
First broadcast 10th April 1971, repeated 21/3/76
Repeated: 5/11/90
[There was an earlier production by Ayton Whitaker in 1955, repeated on BBC Light in 1956]


26th August 1984
19.00-19.30:
Death May Surprise Us by Ted Willis (1914-1992)
The incident at Okefield Park.
1 of 6: The Fortune Teller
Directed by Graham Gauld
Jack Stoddart: Leslie Sands
Jess Stoddart: Mary Wimbush
Victor: Cyril Shaps
Hugh Lashwood: Preston Lockwood
Chief Constable: Peter Tuddenham
Daines: Jonathan Scott
Simon: Peter Acre
Sue Swinton: Charlotte Long
George Sharp/Valchik: Anthony Daniels
Insp Wiley: Scott Cherry
Hemmings: Francis Middleditch
Julia Hammond: Narissa Knights
Additional actors in later episodes:
Commander Knowles: Geoffrey Matthews(2)
Home Secretary: Leslie Heritage(2)
Sir George Owen: Henry Stamper(2)
Sir Maurice Jennings: Lockwood West(2)
Insp Wiley: Scott Cherry(2)
Hemmings: Francis Middleditch(2)
Karel: Jonathan Owen(2)
Mrs Hoddle: Margot Boyd(2)
Jane: Moir Leslie(2)
Kevin Fraser: Jimmy Chisholm(2)
Sunderland: Alaric Cotter(2)
James Lang: Arnold Diamond(4)
Home Secretary: Leslie Heritage(4)
Det Insp Martin: Colin Starkey(4)
Ben Tomkins: David Goudge(4)
Cheryl: Helen Atkinson Wood(4)
WP Sgt Bellamy: Ellen McIntosh(4)
Marlow: Lewis Stringer(4)
For actors in parts 5 and 6 please see 23/9/84 below.
Pt2:2/9/84 Pt3:9/9/84 Pt4:16/9/84 Pt5:23/9/84 Pt6:30/9/84
All 1984 episodes repeated after three days.


26th August 1984
20.00:
The Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth by Derek Wilson
July 1575: The last and greatest Tudor knees-up.
Recorded on location in Boughton Monchelsea Place, Kent. Outside broadcast engineers Julian Walther, Andy Leslie, Simon Winchester technical presentation by Anthony Cherry
Directed by Margaret Windham
Robert Laneham: Peter Woodthorpe
Katherine: Carole Boyd
Anthony Forster: Peter Acre
Sir Piers Machyn/Capt Cox: Bernard Brown
Robert Dudley/Arion: David Timson
Sybil/Echo: Helen Atkinson Wood
Hercules/Sylvanus: Stephen Thorne
Wildman: William Eedle
Lady of the Lake: Ellen McIntosh
Deepdesire: John Bull
Repeated 4th January 1985 (revised)


27th August 1984
15.00-17.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Tiger in the Smoke(1952) by Margery Allingham (1904-1966) dramatised by Gregory Evans
Please see 25th February 1984 above.


27th August 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Arms and the Man (1894) by (George) Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
1885. War and hypocrisy.
Directed by John Tydeman
Bluntschli: Andrew Sachs
Sergius: Gary Bond
Raina: Jackie Smith-Wood
Petkoff, her father: David March
Catherine, her mother: Mary Wimbush
Nicola, a servant: Michael N Harbour
Louka, another servant: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Repeated 2nd September 1984 and 30th September 1991.
[The title comes from The Aeneid]


28th August 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Poor Wilfred (or Poor Wilfrid) by Barbara Lucas
Wilfred is an odd sort of fellow.
Directed by David Johnston
Wilfred: Lockwood West
Marjorie Hughes: Charlotte Mitchell
Alison Fox: Dilys Laye
News reader/Voice on the telephone: Brett Usher
[The name Wilfred appears three times in the BBC Database for this programme- it is spelt Wilfrid twice and Wilfred once....].


28th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Man Who Stood in the Sea by Michael Campbell
Violin: Peter Tanfield
A child whose father has left home, goes with mum and sibling to the seaside and sees something rather odd.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Margaret: Ingrid Hafner
Tamsin: Petra Markham
Tish: Jonathan Waterman
Edward: Jon Croft
the Man: Bill Wallis


30th August 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Year of the Prize by David Hopkins
The owners of a failing business raise funds by raffling themselfves off.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Abigail: Rosalind Shanks
Paul: Brian Carroll
Kath: Diana Kyle
Jimmy: John Levitt
Sue Diner: Narissa Knights
Del: William Eedle
Steve: John Gray
Ron: Bernard Brown


1st September 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Legion of the Lost by Paul Bryers
22nd February 1797: An American leads a French invasion of Fishguard in Wales.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
the Narrator: Tenniel Evans
Col Tate: David Healy
Nancy: Zelah Clarke
St Leger: Bryan Murray
Madame: Maggie McCarthy
Carnot/Knox/Lattimer: Gordon Dulieu
Marcel: Olivier Pierre
Emile: William Hope
Pat: Robert Hamilton
Jerry: Philip Fox
Antoine/Cawdor: Arnold Diamond
Mona: Helena Breck
Tone/Whitesides: Joe Dunlop
Hoche: Colin Starkey
Repeated 3rd September 1984
[The surviving French were returned to France in 1798.].


1st September 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Adam Courage by Steve Thorn and Paul Wolfson
Directed by Matthew Walters
Lady M: Penelope Keith
Adam: Christopher Cazenove
Adele: Liza Flanagan
Tim: Andrew Branch
Jane: Jenny Twigge
Clive: Philip Sully
Elizabeth: Lolly Cockerell
Vicars/taxi-drivers/drinkers: Fred Bryant, Gordon Dulieu


2nd September 1984
21.00-22.00:
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
10 of 11. For part one please see 1st July 1984 above.
Title music played by the Band Of The Royal Corps Of Transport, Director of Music: Major William Allen
Directed by Jane Morgan
Guy: Hugh Dickson
Cpl Maj Ludovic: Michael Bryant
Virginia: Jennifer Hilary
Uncle Peregrine: Geoffrey Bayldon
the Narrator: Hugh Burden
Capt Freemantle: Martin C. Thurley
Chief instructor: Michael Goldie
De Souza: Sean Arnold
Gilpin: Peter Baldwin
Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond
Kerstie Kilbannock: Colette O'Neil
Also with Roger Brierley and Tim Munro
Additional actors in part 11:
Ritchie-Hook: Patrick Troughton
Madame Kanyi: Jill Balcon
Nameless major: Clive Swift
Loot: Blain Fairman
Commissar: Sandor Eles
Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal
Gen Whale: Alan Lawrence
Angela Box-Bender: Diana Olsson
Eloise Plessington: Monica Grey
Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne
Elderberry: Alan Dudley
Also with John Ray, Brian Grellis, Denis Mccarthy, Peter Pacey
Pt11:9/9/84
Repeated from 1974


3rd September 1984
19.50-21.35
The Monday Play: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Burton narrates the classic story of the village of Llareggub, its people and its places.
The songs set by Daniel Jones
The children's songs and singing game recorded at Albert Road Junior School, Penarth
Directed by Douglas Cleverdon
The Narrator: Richard Burton (1925-1984)
Captain Cat/The Voice of the Guide Book: Hugh Griffith
Willy Nilly: Mervyn Johns
Mrs Willy Nilly/Mrs Pugh: Rachel Thomas
Rosie Probert/Lily Smalls: Gwenyth Petty
Polly Garter/Miss Myfanwy Price/Gossamer Beynon: Margo Jenkins
Mog Edwards: Aubrey Richards
Mr Waldo: David Rees
The Rev Eli Jenkins: T H Evans
Sinbad Sailors: Talfryn Thomas
Mary Ann Sailors: Betty Lloyd-Davis
Mr Ogmore/Nogood Boyo: David Garfield
Mr Pritchard/Cherry Owen/Dai Bread: John Gill
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Dorothea Phillips
Mrs Cherry Owen: Buddug Mair Powell
Butcher Beynon: Richard Curnock
Mrs Beynon: Olwen Brookes
Mae Rose Cottage/Mrs Dai Bread One: Guinevere Roberts
Mrs Dai Bread Two: Patricia Mort
Mr Pugh: Raymond Llewellyn
The Child: Julia Cleverdon
Young Waldo: Philip Davies
Matti: Judith Davies
Gwennie: Elizabeth Ponsford
Billy, Johnnie Christo, Dicky: Christopher Ballard
First broadcast on the Third Programme 11 Oct 1963 and 10 Nov 1963
This version was repeated on BBC R4 on 1st October 1988.
[There was an earlier version on BBC Third in 1954, also produced by Cleverdon but with Rachel Thomas as Rosie, and Diana Madox as Polly. The 1954 version was repeated on Radio 4 on 30th October 1972.]
[A later production by Alison Hindell in 2003, rptd 2004 and 2014, used Burton's voice from the 1963 version but with an otherwise new cast]


4th September 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Intruders by Nigel Gray
They do not realise they are being watched.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Murphy: John Lynch
Felicity: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Eamon: Stanley McGeagh
Commander: Denys Hawthorne
Insp Leigh: Peter Woodthorpe
Sgt Hill: Jon Strickland


4th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs Battley's Will by Margaret Simpson
Directed by Peter King
Louise Battley: Liz Smith
Joe Battley: Arnold Diamond
Gwen: Margot Boyd
Eric: David Garth
Ken: Bernard Gallagher
Ava: Alex Marshall
French warden: Michael Jenner
Timmy: Thomas King


5th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Someone I Used to Know by David Marshall
Directed By: Richard Wortley
Ralph: Nigel Stock
Chris: Ralph Robert Glenister
Laura: Jennie Stoller


6th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Docks by Tunde Ikoli
He has spent so long writing the book - will it be destroyed by the burglar.
Directed by David Spenser
Eddie: Brian Hall
Tony: Trevor Laird
Merlin: Decima Francis
Alice: Moir Leslie
George: Lennard Pearce
Storeholder/Driver: Christopher Douglas
Ali: Peter Acre
Miss Baker: Helen Atkinson Wood


8th September 1984
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Daybreak by Don Haworth
Two airmen returning to base. One of them had a secret.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Harold: David Threlfall
Fred: Christian Rodska


8th September 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Dangerous Corner(1932) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Secrets become unhidden at a country estate houseparty.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester.
Robert Caplan: Martin Jarvis
Olwen Peel: Stephanie Turner
Freda Caplan: Heather Stoney
Betty Whitehouse: Helen Worth
Charles Stanton: Paul Webster
Gordon Whitehouse: Christian Rodska
Miss Mockridge: Ann Rye
Radio actress: Julia Sharon
Repeated 10th September 1984
[Also broadcast on BBC R4X: 13th September 2014]
[An earlier production by Peter Watts in 1955- there were also prior productions.]
[Another prior production by R D Smith in 1968 on R4]
[Priestley's first "play". It was influenced by J. W. Dunne's theory of time(1927)("serialism")- as was Priestley's "Time and the Conways" (see 15/9/84 below) and "An Inspector Calls"]


8th September 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Angels They Grow Lonely by Gerry Jones (1931-2005)
Levitation is so easy.
Narrator Jim Norton
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Geoffrey Johnson: Nigel Anthony
Dr Conway: Stephen Thorne
Hannah Johnson: Jean Trend
Dr Williams: David Gooderson
Mr Blake: Robert Lang
Ambulanceman: Roger Walker
Receptionist: Hilda Schroder
Third doctor: Edward Cast
Repeated from 5th and 8th March 1983.
Repeated on 22nd June 1995.
[Also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd September 1987]
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2003]
[Giles Cooper Award winner 1983]


9th September 1984
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Emperor by Colin Thubron
The year is 312. Emperor Constantine, 272-337, was in conflict with the brother (Maxentius) of his wife (Fausta) amounting to civil war, terminating with a battle - after which Constantine claimed his conversion to Christianity.
Music composed and conducted by Christos Pittas. Percussion: Anne Collis; Horn: Michael Dore; Oboe/Cor Anglais: Christopher O'Neal
Directed by John Theocharis
Constantine (272-337): Martin Jarvis
Fausta: Juliet Stevenson
Synesius: Cyril Luckham
Hosius: Arnold Diamond
Verinus: Philip Sully
Tetricus: John Church
Geta: Hugh Dickson
Livilla: Helen Atkinson Wood
a child: Moir Leslie
Repeated 15th September 1985.
(This is a fictional work relating to historic people, filling in deliberate blanks in historic texts. Opinions differ on what really happened...]


9th September 1984
23.15-00.00:
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson by Julia Keay
Looking for the North-West Passage.
Directed by Patrick Rayner
BBC Scotland
Hudson: John Shedden
Abacuck Prickett: Finlay Welsh
Robert Bylot: Stuart Bishop
Also with Ron Bain, Arthur Boland, John Buick, Martin Clunes and Gerard Slevin
Repeated from 27th November 1983
[In 1956 Francis Dillon produced the same tale but written by H A L Craig, as "The Open Grave of the Sea"]


10th September 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Absolute Decline by Stephen Jeffreys(1950-2018)
Choosing between three people you like.
Musicians Chris Monks and Chris Hayward
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester
Keith Fuller: Lewis Fiander
Trueman: Wyllie Longmore
Becky: Patience Tomlinson
Meiko: Megumi Shimanuki
George: James Tomlinson
Tom/Alan: Russell Dixon
Elizabeth/ Sandra: Jane Hollowood
Grace: Fiona Nelson
Repeated 16th September 1984


11th September 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre : The Tallest Man in the World by Paul Sheen
Directed by David Johnston
Alvin: Michael Deeks
Peter, his father: Steve Hodson
Dee, his mother: Sandra Clark
Marie: Helen Atkinson Wood
'Vinegar Lil': Elizabeth Rider
Chip shop philosopher: Arnold Diamond
Ecstasy: Rosalind Adams
Bus conductor: William Eedle
Craig: Robin Summers
[This is the only credit in the BBC Program Database for Paul Sheen]


11th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Breakers by Veronica Cecil
A holiday in Cornwall.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Perdita: Jennie Linden
Young Perdita: Annabelle Lanyon
Steve: Mark Straker
Jackie: Theresa Streatfeild
Albert: Hugh Dickson
Millie: Carole Boyd
Tristram: Rusty Livingstone
Pete: Michael Jenner
Barry: Clive Panto
Sandra: Helena Breck
Man: David Sinclair
South African boys: Joseph Wright and Michael Jenner
[The author spent some of her childhood in South Africa]


12th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Abba Dabba Honeymoon by Elizabeth Troop
Marriage after a period living together. The honeymoon is revealing.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Honor/Lil: Madi Hedd
Theo: David Gooderson
Youth/Waiter: Andrew Breakwell
Jack: Spencer Banks
Gloria: Theresa Streatfeild
Mo: Jessica Turner
Fred/Barman: Kenneth Shanley
Rose: Katherine Parr
Repeated from 14th July 1982


13th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Arthur's Angel by Ken Blakeson
A patient in a psychiatric unit is drawn out of himself by another patient- and they wish to set up a life together
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Bill Peacock: Jon Strickland
Geoff Mannaway: Brett Usher
Alison Whitely: Maggie McCarthy
Jim Blackmore: Brian Glover
Nelly Fothergill: Patricia Hayes
Arthur Watson: Brian Haines
Ann Owram: Helena Breck
Raschid: Colin Starkey
Landlady/Elsie: Carole Boyd
Repeated 22nd February 1987


14th September 1984
15.00:
Fame is the Spur (1940) by Howard Spring (1889-1965) freely adapted by Ken Whitmore
Theme music composed by Johnny Pearson
Part 6 of 8: Hamer' Women 1901-09
For part one please see 10th August 1984 above.
Location recordings by Chris Webb and Mark Seyler
Directed by Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
Hamer Shawcross: Ian McKellen
Ann: June Barry
Lizzie Lightowler: Rosalie Crutchley
Lady Lettice: Helen Ryan
Charles Shawcross, aged 8: David Boardman
Jimmy Newboult: John Baldwin
Ellen Stanseld: Rosalie Williams
Harry Liskeard: Peter Guinness
Arnold Ryerson: Andrew Jackson
Pen, his wife: Vida Paterson
Hawley Artingstall: Graham Tennant
Tom Hannaway: Geoffrey Wheeler
Organ-grinder: Colin Bean
First prison wardress: Joan Anstey
Second wardress: Delia Corrie
Prison doctor: Roger Grainger
Additional cast in later episodes:
Charles Shawcross, Hamer's son: Richard Durden(7)
Mrs Amberley-Rosewater: Cynthia Michaelis(7)
Lloyd George: John Franklyn-Robbins(7)
Alice Ryerson, Pen's daughter: Valerie Georgeson(7)
Lady Hannaway: Romy Baskerville(7)
Election official: Peter Ellis(7)
Reporter: Peter Bell(8)
Pendleton, the butler: Rory Scase(8)
Pt7:21/9/84 Pt8:28/9/84


15th September 1984
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven by John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Lewis Luby is suddenly somewhere else.
Produced by John Tydeman
English guide: Leslie Heritage
French guide: Gilles Dattas
Italian guide: Leonardo Pierroni
German guide: Michael Wolf
Japanese guide: Yasukon Agazumi
Jennifer: Deborah Paige
Her mother: Norma Ronald
Her father: Michael Shannon
Nun: Gigi Gatti
Miss Waterlow: Madi Hedd
Dr Benjamini: Robert Reitty
Lewis Luby: John Gielgud
Tommy Fletcher: Peter Woodthorpe
Sophie: Hana Maria Pravda
Repeated from BBC Radio 3, 19th February 1976 and 12th August 1976
Repeated 1st February 1986
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2006]
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2013, 2017]
[A further production in 2008 produced by Jeremy Mortimer. with Mr Luby played by Jeremy Irons, repeated 2011]
[The play was inspired by a visit by John Mortimer to a hospital in Siena with ceiling paintings of heaven and hell]


15th September 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Time and the Conways(1937) by J. B Priestley
The dreams of a family and what happened.
Pianist: Tom Steer, Singer: Eve Shickle
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester.
Mrs Conway: Zena Walker
Hazel Conway: Sue Jenkins
Carol Conway: Jane Hollowood
Alan Conway: Joe Dunlop
Madge Conway: Liz Gebhardt
Kay Conway: Barrie Shore
Robin Conway: Terence Wilton
Joan Helford: Christine Welch
Gerald Thornton: Alan Cody
Ernest Beevers: Nigel Anthony
[A further production by Sue Wilson in 1994, with Marcia Warren as Mrs Conway, repeated BBC7 in 2010, R4X in 2012]
[Another production on Radio 3 in 2014, 2016 by David Hunter with Harriet Walter as Mrs Conway]
[Also see "Dangerous Corner", 8/9/84 above]


15th September 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Boundary by Elmer Andrews, from the story by Harry Mulisch (1927-2010)
Everything goes wrong.
Directed by Margaret Windham
Zak Little: John Cater
Also with Alan Dudley, John Grillo, Ronald Herdman, Steve Hodson, Alex Jennings, Jill Lidstone, David McAlister, Wendy Murray, Jessica Turner and John Warner
Repeated from 3rd and 6th July 1982
[No credit given for the translation]


17th September 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Crash Course (1982) by Sion Eirian (1954-2020)
Three people and "Welshness".
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
Frances: Patricia Napier
Twm: Ian Saynor
Steve: Alun Lewis
Grannia: Nora Connolly
George: Robert Blythe
Ray: Paul Angelis
Millie: June Barrie
Tutor: Dyfan Roberts
[Twm is the Welsh form of Tom]


18th September 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Fourth Person, Single by Michael Jenner
A fourth flatmate is advertised for.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Robert: Jon Strickland
Gerry: Jeremy Flynn
Daniel: Steve Hodson
Jason: Mark Straker
Scot: Henry Stamper
Beth: Maggie McCarthy
Tony/Clive: Peter Acre
Sue/Karen: Frances Jeater
Sally/Jane: Moir Leslie
Simon: Clive Panto
Repeated 22nd October 1985


18th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Odd Feet by Noel Robinson
Two people each have left and right feet of different sizes. Perhaps they can buy two pairs of shoes and swap one shoe?
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Angela: Fiona Walker
Judy: Sandra Clark
Richard: Colin Starkey
Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
The Accountant: William Eedle:


19th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Maurice in Memoriam by Graham Blackett
A neglected young boy befriends a burglar.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Roger: Denis Lill
Shirley: Diane Fletcher
Matthew: Jesse Lawrence
Joe: Jerold Wells
Damien: Alan Coveney
Ivy: Hilda Schroder
Mick: Pavel Douglas
George/Inspector: David Sharp


20th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Tom by Michael Wall
Directed by David Johnston
Tom: Louis Mahoney
Andy: Andrew Burt
Stephanie: Heather Bell
Astrid: Helena Breck
Flossie: Jo Kendall
Ginger: Brian Smith
Kong: Lionel Ngakane
Vet: Peter Acre
Mathilda, his assistant: Helen Atkinson Wood
Bonzo and Other Four-Footed friends: Percy Edwards


22nd September 1984
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Watching the Plays Together by Rhys Adrian (1928-1990)
Watching television every evening, fact and fiction become confused.
Directed by John Tydeman (1936-2020)
Rosemary: Rosemary Leach
Gerald: James Grout
Also with Frances Jeater and Ronald Herdman.
Repeated from 17th October 1982, rptd 18th August 1983.
[ A Giles Cooper Award Winner 1983 ]


22nd September 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1937) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
A group at an inn experience deja vu and wonder if different decisions can be taken.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester.
Sally Pratt: Lesley Nicol
Sam Shipley: George A Cooper
Dr Gortler: Geoffrey Banks
Walter Ormund: Ronald Baddiley
Janet Ormund: Susan Tracy
Oliver Farrant: Alan Ruthwell
Repeated 24th September 1984
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2014, 2020]
[Inspired by "A New model of the Universe" by P D Ouspensky ]


23rd September 1984
19.00-19.30:
Death May Surprise Us by Ted Willis
5 of 6: Confession
For episode one please see 26th August 1984 above.
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Jack Stoddart: Leslie Sands
Jess Stoddart: Mary Wimbush
Victor: Cyril Shaps
Commander Knowles: Geoffrey Matthews
Hugh Lashwood: Preston Lockwood
Valchik: Anthony Daniels
Karel: Jonathan Owen
Insp Wiley: Scott Cherry
WP Sgt Bellamy: Ellen McIntosh
Det Insp Martin: Colin Starkey
Ben Tomkins: David Goudge
Sgt Evans: Jon Strickland
Alan Peploe: William Eedle
Jane: Moir Leslie
Sgt Macey: Brett Usher
Sue Swinton: Charlotte Long
Additional cast in part 6:
Col Ackland: Bernard Brown
Pt6:30/9/84
All 1984 episodes repeated after three days.


25th September 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Meritorious Service by Berkely Mather (=John Evan Weston-Davies) (1909-1996)
A battalion leader must choose one of his men to receive the rare Meritorious Service Directed by Richard Imison
Lt Col Peter Ennion: David Sinclair
Kate, his wife: Penelope Lee
Brigadier Melrose: Peter Howell
Major General Benson: Frederick Treves
Also with William Eedle, Clive Panto


25th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: When It Was Always Summer by Dorothy Gharbaoui
A widow's son is killed in action, and the nurse who cared for him comes to stay.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
BBC Northern Ireland
Mrs Calvert: Trudy Kelly
Alice Kenny: Brid Brennan
John Calvert: Gerard O'Hagan
Major Gaffikin: Mark Mulholland
Private McNeill/Butcher's boy: Derek Halligan
Emma Calvert: Joanna Spenser
Maggie: Catherine Gibson
Arthur Calvert: David Coyle


26th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Jennifer by Paul Abbott
A teenager send her mother to Coventry.
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester
Jean: Judith Barker
Frank: Andrew Hay
Vera: Lesley Nicol
Samaritan/Nurse: Belinda Chapman


27th September 1984
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Touch of the Mondays by Michael Bartlett
He's left his wife and children. Why?
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Gordon Jones: Haydn Wood
Male voice: Stuart Organ
Female voice: Carole Boyd
Psychotherapist: Ellen McIntosh
Policeman/Minister: David Garth
Brenda: Moir Leslie
Gordon's friend: Mark Straker
Martin: William Hope
Headmaster: Martyn Read
Sheila: Jill Lidstone
Manager: Bernard Brown
Interviewer: Jill Brooke


29th September 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Bryan Will Be So Upset by Jane Poncia
1941: Her tenth birthday and an army officer arrives to be billeted in the house.
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 and 12th April 1980


29th September 1984
20.30-22.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: To Each His Just Deserts (A Ciascuno il Suo (1966)) by Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) translated and adapted by Alfred Alexander from the dramatisation by Ghigo De Chiara (1921-1995)
Is a schoolmaster the right man to tackle the power and influence of the Mafia?
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Paolo Laurana: Christopher Good
Romeris/Deputy Abello: Brian Smith
Corvaia: Anthony Newlands
Manno: Ronald Herdman
Pecorilla: Geoffrey Matthews
Rosello: Michael Cochrane
Inspector: Christopher Douglas
Signora Laurana: Katherine Parr
Colonel Salvaggio: Garard Green
Teresa Manno/Concetta: Maggie McCarthy
Luisa Roscio/Anna: Tammy Ustinov
Dean Rosello: Trevor Baxter
Parish priest: Michael Jenner
Chaplain/Young man: William Hope
Deputy Castelli/Postman: Robin Summers
Professor Roscio: Godfrey Kenton
Benito: Lockwood West
Repeated 1st October 1984
[Sciascia was an MEP from 1979-1984 and lived in Sicily. Alexander wrote "Stories of Sicily".]


29th September 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Captain Rex by Anthony Miller
A wheelchair user has trouble sleeping.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Rex: William Nighy
Mum: Ellen McIntosh


30th September 1984
21.00
The Deceivers (1952) by John Masters (1914-1983) dramatised by David Wade
Part 1 of 5 (total series in 18 parts)
1825: The Grave at Bhadora: Mutilated bodies in a shallow grave.
Music specially composed by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Directed by Penny Leicester
Executive producer: Christopher Venning
William Savage: David Collings
Mary: Karen Archer
Mr Wilson: Terence Alexander
Chandra Sen: Saeed Jaffrey
George Angelsmith: Steve Hodson
Hussein: Nlzwar Karanj
Yasin Khan: Sumar Khan
Widow at Kahari: Rita Wolf
Sikh: Renu Setna
Merchant: Raad Rawi
Sher Dil: Tony Wredden
Ferryman: Badi Uzzaman
The Rev Matthias: William Eedle
Also with Vincent Ebrahim, Dev Sagoo, Peter Acre, Guy Holden, Maggie McCarthy and Hilda Schroder.
Additional actors in part two:
Trooper: Andrew Johnson(2)
Ganesha: Derek Chabrol(2)
Harrison: Michael Jenner(2)
For actors in later parts of Book One please see 14/10/84 below. The cast for books 2 to 4 will commence with Part One of each book.
Book 1: Pt2:7/10/84 Pt3:14/10/84 Pt4:21/10/84 Pt5:28/10/84
Book 2: (Nightrunners of Bengal (1951) in 4 parts) Pt1:4/11/84 Pt2:11/11/84 Pt3:18/11/84 Pt 4:25/11/84
Book 3: (The Lotus and the Wind (1953) in 4 parts): Pt1:2/12/84 Pt2:9/12/84 Pt3:16/12/84 Pt4:23/12/84
Book 4: (Bhowani Junction (1954) in 5 parts): Pt 1:30/12/84 Pt2:6/1/85 Pt3:13/1/85 Pt4:20/1/85 Pt5:27/1/85
All 1984 episodes repeated after 5 days.
[The following dates are for Book 1 Part 1: Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2006, 2007, 2009 and on R4X in 2012]
[John Masters was in the Indian Army. Book 2 was written before Book 1]


1st October 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: The Man Who Gave Up First Place in the Race by Nigel Baldwin
A runner stops mid race to help a fallen fellow runner.
Directed By: Richard Wortley
Pat Scott: Christopher Fairbank
Les: Michael McStay
Annie: Rosalind Ayres
Louise: Dona Croll
Robbie: And Mark Straker
Careras: Arturo Venegas
Bern: Carole Boyd
Chooser 1: David Garth
Chooser 2: Colin Starkey
Chooser 3: Bernard Brown
Headmaster: David Sinclair
Schoolboy: Simon Meacock
Schoolteacher: Narissa Knights
Jonathan: Daniel Thomason
Pressmen, athletes, commentators and officials played by Christopher Douglas, William Hope, Peter Acre, Colin Starkey, David Garth, Clive Panto, David Sinclair and Louis Mahoney
Repeated 7th October 1984


2nd October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Secrets by Giles Cole
A man moves into Hannah's house.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Hannah: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Felix: Paul Brooke
Claudia: Carole Boyd
Christopher: Michael Cochrane


3rd October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Queen Lucia (1920) by E. F. Benson (1867-1940) dramatised by Aubrey Woods (1928-2013)
1 of 5: The Guru. Summer 1920. Returning from a period in London, Lucia finds the village following someone else now.
Pianist: John Owen Edwards
Directed by John Cardy
narrated by Aubrey Woods
Lucia: Barbara Jefford
Georgie Pillson: Jonathan Cecil
Daisy Quantock: Jane Wenham
Col Boucher: Bernard Brown
Robert Quantock: Anthony Newlands
Peppino: David Garth
Guru: Badi Uzzaman
Grosvenor: Narissa Knights
Station staff: Michael Jenner and Mark Straker
Additional actors in later parts:
Lady Ambermere: Fabia Drake(2)
Olga Bracely: June Tobin(2)
Hermy/ Guest at seance: Helen Atkinson Wood(2)
Ursy: Moir Leslie(2)
Foljambe: Helena Breck(2)
Tiptree: Leonard Fenton(2)
Miss Lyall: Ellen McIntosh(3)
Mrs Weston: Margot Boyd(3)
Footman: Colin Starkey(3)
Princess Popoffski:Margaret Robertson(4)
Cortese: Nicholas Courtney(4)
Princess's secretary: Arnold Diamond(4)
Newsagent: Clive Panto(5)
Pt2:10/10/84 Pt3:17/10/84 Pt4:24/10/84 Pt5:31/10/84
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017]
[Also produced in 2003 by Celia de Wolff with Belinda Lang as Lucia]
[Sequel "Lucia in London"(1927) commenced 2/10/1985]


4th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Old Friends by Jo Gill
An old lady lets the ground floor flat of her home.
Pianist: Ken Moule
Directed by John Cardy
Marigold: Elizabeth Sellars
Oliver: Paul Daneman
Chatty: Mary Wimbush
Gerry: Peter Woodthorpe
Angela: Patience Tomlinson
Robert: Crawford Logan
Repeated from 19th March 1982


6th October 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Sport of Angels by Ken Whitmore
Dawn Bembow discovers that she can project herself through time and space.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Alistair: Frank Middlemass
Jane: Jane Lowe
Dawn Bembow: Miriam Margolyes
Godfrey: Susan Sheridan
Gladys: Kay Adshead
Mablethorpe: David Sumner
Prime Minister/Newreader: Peter Wheeler
Col Bryant: Randal Herley
Repeated from 12th February 1981.


6th October 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: When the Wind Blows (1982) by Raymond Briggs
Nuclear war. A couple take all the advised precautions.
Directed by John Tydeman
Hilda: Brenda Bruce
Jim: Peter Sallis
Repeated from 7th and 13th February 1983.
[Winner of the Broadcasting Press Guild for the most outstanding radio programme of 1983.]
[There were several prior radio plays that used this title]


6th October 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Yard Sale by Arnold Wesker (1932-2016)
It's a funny thing, a yard sale. You wonder who is getting rid of what. And why?
Directed by Margaret Windham
Stephanie: Sheila Steafel (1935-2019)
[Wesker wrote this monologue for Sheila Steafel]


7th October 1984
19.00-19.30:
No Place to Hide by Ted Allbeury(1917-2005)
1 of 8: How it all began
Directed by Christopher Venning
Rennie's father: William Eedle
Hugo Paynter: David Garth
Young Rennie: James Holland
Williams/French driver: Michael Jenner
John Rennie: James Kerry
Fleur Mason: Maggie McCarthy
Mary Rennie: Ellen McIntosh
Kathy Swenson: Margaret Robertson
Adam Fredericks: Lockwood West
Additional actors in later parts:
Adele Palmer: Susannah Fellows(2)
Hugo Paynter: David Garth(2)
Peter Lambert: Simon Hewitt(2)
Young Mary: Samantha Holland(2)
Jan Branders: Ali Refaie(2)
Derek Humphries: Julian Wadham(2)
Beth: Karina Wilsher(2)
Gabriella/Girl: Carole Boyd(3)
Joanna de Vries: Colette Hiller(3)
Khalim Said: Richard Kay(3)
Dutchman/Porter: Mark Straker(3)
Policeman: Charles Whaley(3)
Johan de Vries:Harry Towb(4)
Mike Ryan/Waiter: Keith Bartlett(4)
For actors in later parts please see 4/11/84 below.
Pt2:14/10/84 Pt3:21/10/84 Pt4:28/10/84 Pt5:4/11/84 Pt6:11/11/84 Pt7:18/11/84 Pt8:25/11/84
All 1984 parts were repeated three days later.


8th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play:_ Maigret and the Millionaires(1957) by Georges Simenon(1903-1989) translated by Jean Stewart, dramatised by Malcolm Stewart
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Superintendent Maigret: Maurice Denham
Lucas: Brian Haines
Lapointe: John Rye
Mr Arnold: Andrew Sachs
the Countess: Jane Wenham
Van Meulen: David March
Jules: Michael Bilton
Maid: Moir Leslie
Nurse: Carole Boyd
Director: William Eedle
Manager of George V: Geoffrey Collins
Hotel doctor: Timothy Bateson
Prosecutor: Arnold Diamond
Magistrate: Clive Panto
Dr Paul: Michael Tudor Barnes
Inspector Benoit: Ian Oliver
Jean: Sean Barrett
Masseur: Mark Straker
Manager of Lausanne-Palace: Bernard Brown
Repeated from 5th May 1984
[Original book title "Maigret voyage" also known as "Maigret Travels"]


8th October 1984
19.50-21.35:
The Monday Play: The Long March by Anne Devlin
A student protester - ten years later.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Helen: Maggie Shevlin
Cliff: Brendan Somers
Rose Walsh: Gertrude Russell
Joe Walsh: Michael Duffy
Michael Canning: John Hewitt
Cassandra Sloane: Valerie Lilley
Fergus Sloane: Sean Barrett
Frank Molloy: Louis Rolston
Bridie Molloy: Catherine Gibson
Malcolm: Derek Halligan
Fr Oliver: Denys Hawthorne
Mona: Aingeal Grehan
Mrs McCoy: Doreen Hepburn
Damien: George Shane
Jimmy: Desmond McAleer
Publican: Adrian Dunbar
Repeated from 8th November 1982
[Also a tv program 1984, with actors Doreen Hepburn as Rose Walsh and Valerie Lilley as Cassandra]


9th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Life Story by Adrian Reid
Just two more sales required to get the salesman of the Year Award.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Don: Martin Jarvis
Babs: Frances Jeater
Caspar: Michael Jenner
Jennie: Helena Breck
Karen/Trish: Jill Lidstone
Pete: Gregory de Polnay
Deirdre: Lucinda Smith
Freddie/Paul: Christopher Douglas
Daisy/June: Tessa Worsley
George: Colin Starkey


11th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Reputation by John Challen
It is fairly safe for a tv program to attack someone who is dead- but the muddy waters stirred up could hide something harmful.
Directed by David Johnston.
Piers Weston: Colin Starkey
Jenny Marsham: Helena Breck
Ann Leeming: Betty Huntley-Wright
Helen: Anne Clements
Richard Massey: David Garth
Announcer: Guy Holden


13th October 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Creative Writing by Martyn Wade
After redundancy, a course in Creative Writing beckons.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Leonard: Peter Jeffrey
Phyllis: Eva Stuart
Dean: David Timson
Verity: Vicky Ireland
Ms Sacofsky: Wendy Murray
Frank: Alan Dudley
Timothy: David Gooderson
Jane: Jill Lidstone
Repeated from 24th June 1982
Repeated 29th October 1992


13th October 1984
20.15:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Jane Clegg (1913) by St John Ervine (1883-1971), adapted by Michael Heffernan
When a woman finds financial independence, she can rethink her marriage.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
BBC Northern Ireland
Jane Clegg: Fiona Mettam
Henry Clegg: Patrick Romer
Mrs Clegg: Brigid Erin Bates
Jenny Clegg/Johnny Clegg: Susan Sheridan
Mr Munce: Brian de Salvo
Mr Morrison: Martin Fisk
Repeated 15th October 1984
[Also produced in 1953, rptd 1956 by Ronald Mason with Margaret D'Arcy as Jane]
[Also produced in 1967, rptd 1970 by Graham Gauld with Sybil Thorndike as Jane]
[Also produced in 1974 by Michael Heffernan with Margaret Robertson as Jane]
[Broadcast in Welsh in 1938, 1948 and 1950]


13th October 1984
23.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Spangled Unicorn by Noel Coward
Read by John Moffatt, Poems read by Elizabeth Proud and Sean Barrett.
Producer Glyn Dearman
[Unusually a simple reading in this normal drama slot]


14th October 1984
14.30:
The Afternoon Play: The Evangelist (1961) by Sam Thompson (1916-1965) adapted by Sam Hanna Bell (1909-1990)
An American Evangelist comes to Belfast.
Directed by Ronald Mason
Pastor Earls: Ray McAnally
Manser Brown: J G Devlin
Finlay Bradford: Harold Goldblatt
Arter: Stephen Rea
Jobber Johnson: Sean Reid
Dicker Graham: John McBride
Johnny Bradford: Michael Stewart
Bella McConachie: Catherine Gibson
Pastor Mahood: Maurice Ocallaghan
Pastor Waid: William Hunter
Betty Williams: Diana Payan
Agnes Bradford: Irene Bingham
Eric Jones: Larry McCoubrey
Norah: Kathleen Feenan
Also with Charles Owens, Jack Mcquoid, Mina Doran, Peter Adair, Sandra Perry and Barbara Adair
Repeated from 14th March 1966, repeated 20th April 1969, 17th November 1979.
[The first stage production included Ray McAnally and Catherine Gibson,


14th October 1984
21.00
The Deceivers (1952) by John Masters (1914-1983) dramatised by David Wade
Part 3 of 5 (total series in 18 parts) - please see 30/9/84 above for part one and full date list.
The Goddess of Destruction
Music specially composed by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Technical presentation: Tim Sturgeon, Colin Duff, Diana Barkham and Vanessa Ellner
Directed by Penny Leicester
Executive producer: Christopher Venning
Mr Wilson: Terence Alexander
Mary: Karen Archer
William Savage: David Collings
Nawab: Tapan Ghosh
Hussein: Nizwar Karanj
Yasin Khan: Sumar Khan
Piroo: Motl Makan
Jemadar: Tariq Yunus
Additional actors in parts 4 and 5:
Woman: Sheila Chitnis(4)
Azim: Vincent Ebrahim(4)
George Angelsmith: Steve Hodson(4)
Gopal: Kaleem Janjua(4)
Chief digger: Dev Sagoo(4)
Usha/Widow: Rita Wolf(4)
Sher Dil: Tony Wredden(4)
Chandra Sen: Saeed Jaffrey(5)
Piroo: Mon Makan(5)
Chadler: Garard Green(5)
Merchant: Badi Uzzaman(5)
Johnson: Andrew Johnson(5)
Benham: Geoffrey Collins(5)
The cast for books 2 to 4 will commence with Part One of each book- see 30/9/84 above for full episodic dates..
Pt4:21/10/84 Pt5:28/10/84
All 1984 episodes repeated after 5 days.


15th October 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play:- Howlcroft by Jonathan Smith
1794: He was indicted on a charge of high treason - but what of his son?
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol.
Horne Tooke (1736-1812): Cyril Cusack
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809): John Rowe
William Holcroft: Mark Straker
William Godwin: Bill Wallis
Thomas Hardy: Henry Stamper
Erskine: Christlan Rodska
Lord Chief Justice: Hedley Goodall
Violinist: Helen Goodman
Flautist: Sue Buckland
Repeated 21st October 1984
[See Thomas Holcroft "Memoirs written by Himself and continued down to the Time of his Death, from his Diary, Notes and other Papers, by William Hazlitt," 1816]


16th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Pending by Antonio Skarmeta translated by Margaret Etall
Gabriel's grandparents remember their former life in Chile with love and longing.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Gabriel: Simon Hewitt
Grandad: Lockwood West
Gran: Sheelah Wilcocks
Mum: Jean Trend
Dad: Nigel Graham
Cristina: Jill Lidstone
Fishmonger: Alex Jennings
Repeated from 18th January 1983


18th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: A View from Calvary (1976) by Patrick Boyle adapted by Brian McAvera
There are rumours about his friend.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
BBC Northern Ireland:
Joe: Louis Rolston
Molly: Aingeal Grehan
Jim: Desmond McAleer
Hammond: Donal McCann
McArvill: Michael Duffy
Fr Sheridan: Kevin Flood
Sergeant: Maurice O'Callaghan
Customer: Derek Halligan


20th October 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Gear Change by Dave Simpson
Chris wants to be a car mechanic.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Chris: Diane Whitley
Chris's mother: Meg Johnson
Gary: Adam Kotz
Kathy/Sandra: Janet Rawson
Uncle Jim/Solicitor: Geoffrey Banks
Don: Keith Clifford
Davis: Robert Keegan
Gus: Bernard Latham
Robbo: John Branwell
Deck: Colin Meredith
Tel: Cliff Howells
Bev/Equal opportunities woman: Jane Cox
Repeated from 22nd February 1983


20th October 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Lord Byron's Last Command by Rowland Morgan
Is Byron alive and well and plotting revolution in England?
Directed by Gerry Jones
Sir John Hobhouse: John Rye
Annabella, Lady Noel-Byron: Elizabeth Morgan
Sir Arthur Delavere: Stephen Thorne
Dr Julius Millingen: David Sinclair
Thomas Fletcher: John Hollis
Lega Zambelli: Arnold Diamond
Colonel Stanhope: Garard Green
Edward Trelawny: Alan Thompson
Dr Francesco Bruno: Sean Barrett
William Parry: Ioan Meredith
Prince Lukas: Mark Straker
Dora: Lucinda Smith
Repeated 22nd October 1984


22nd October 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) dramatised by William Ash
Music written, sung and recorded by Daniel Agu
As things fall apart around him, as the society he belongs to begins to change, he makes his stand.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Narrator Lionel Ngakane (1928-2003)
Okonkwo Okonkwo: Hugh Quarshie
Nwoye/Messenger: Leo Wringer
Ikemefuna: Cyril Nri
Obierika/Elder: Louis Mahoney
Ekwefi: Shope Shodeinde
Uchendu: Victor Lindsay
Ezinma: Shiva Martin
Ezeudu: John Adewole
Town Crier/Okika: Abraham Osuagwu
Mr Brown: David Sinclair
District commissioner: Clive Panto
Repeated 28th October 1984
[There was a two part version produced by Ralph Rolls on R4 in 1998]


23rd October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play:- Troubled by the Scenery by Howard Wakeling
A widow retires to the Isle of Skye for comfort.
Directed by Caroline Raphael
Sheila: Gwen Watford
Lally: Gudrun Ure
Marni: Sian Thomas
Bobs: Leila Bertrand
Repeated 7th August 1986


25th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Mountain Ashes by Alan England
Two friends hike to a cave.
Directed By: Peter King
Phil: Brian Cox
Arnold: Paul Copley
Repeated 8th March 1986


27th October 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: The View from the Hill by Margaret Steward
The 70th birthday of a poet.
Repeated from 3rd January 1984- please see above.


27th October 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Maroon Cortina by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Everything mars a birthday celebration.
Directed by Philip Martin
BBC Birmingham
Barry: Don Henderson
Janice: Lynda Rooke
Ron: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Pauline: Kate Fitzgerald
Curtiss: Colin Meredith
Alan: Joe Searby
Repeated 29th October 1984


29th October 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play:- Young Coleridge by Martyn Wade
Keswick 1803. One day in the life of Coleridge.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Coleridge: Tom Wilkinson
Southey: Gary Bond
Sara: Jennie Stoller
Hazlitt: Christopher Good
Edith: Narissa Knights
Mary Lovell: Moir Leslie
Asra: Amanda Murray
Mary Evans: Elizabeth Rider
Man/Lovell: Christopher Douglas
Schoolmaster/Landload: Brian Smith
Hartley: Elizabeth Lindsay
Mrs Fricker: Ellen McIntosh
Repeated 4th November 1984 and 20th November 1993
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2008]
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2022]


30th October 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Ashley by Philip Latham (1929-2020)
In World War 2, children were evacuated to the countryside. Many did not enjoy the experience.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol.
Miss Sims: Jane Wenham
Mrs Stubbs: Catherine Owen
Arthur: Nick Orchard
Ashley: James Humphreys
Stubbs: Brian Carroll
Sgt Black: Stephen Sylvester
[In 1941 Philip Latham was age 12]
[Philip Latham played the part of a character called Ashley in a 1985 tv program]


1st November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Bran Underground by Gordon McKerrow
Directed by Peter King
Bran: Roger Lloyd Pack
Myrtle: Belinda Sinclair
Cutty: Jim Norton
Roma: Alex Marshall


3rd November 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Diary of a Suburban Housewife by Sandra Clayton
Repeated from 1st March 1984- please see above.


3rd November 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Hand of the Hunter by Gaylord Meech
Who is the dead man?
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Richard: Gary Waldhorn
Louise: Kate Harper
Cregar: John Turner
Julie: Melinda Walker
Marion: Ellen MacIntosh
Jarret Ruggles: Peter Marinker
Sheriff Onslow: Harry Towb
Professor Drummond: David Garth
Janis Malik: Lorna Lewis
Halvar Malik: William Hope
Lawrence Malik: Peter Whitman
Repeated 5th November 1984


4th November 1984
19.00:
No Place to Hide by Ted Allbeury
5 of 8: The Kidnap
For part one please see 7/10/84 above.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Mike Ryan: Keith Bartlett
Gabriella: Carole Boyd
Arab servant/First policeman: Peter Van Dissel
Adele Palmer: Susannah Fellows
Hugo Paynter: David Garth
Joanna de Vries: Colette Hiller
Khalim Said: Richard Kay
John Rennie: James Kerry
Kathy Swenson: Margaret Robertson
Second policeman: Charles Whaley
English voice/Male voice: Albert Welling
Additional actors in parts 6,7,8:
Messenger: Michael Jenner(6)
Mrs Paynter/Receptionist: Narlssa Knights(6)
Dr Coombs: John Forbes Robertson(6)
Harry Mason: Malcolm Ward(6)
Adam Frederick: Lockwood West(6)
Mary Rennie: Ellen McIntosh(7)
Tommy Parks: William Eedle(7)
Taxi driver: Peter Acre(7)
Doctor: Wolf Kahler(8)
Mr Bernstein: Aaron Swartz(8)
Telephone operator/Secretary: Janie Booth(8)
Pt6:11/11/84 Pt7:18/11/84 Pt8:25/11/84
All 1984 parts were repeated three days later.


4th November 1984
21.00:
Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters' dramatised by Barry Campbell
The saga is in 18 parts across four books. This is part one of four, of Book 2. For details of all books and dates please see 30/9/84 above.
1 of 4: Kishanpur 1856
Directed by Christopher Venning
Alan Torrance: Peter Acre
Lady Isobel Hatton-Dunn: Isabelle Amyes
Caroline Langford: Carole Boyd
Rodney Savage: Michael Cochrane
Sumitra, the Rani of Kishanpur: Souad Faress
Joanna Savage: Eva Haddon
Robin Savage: Jill Lidstone
Sitapara: Jamila Massey
Colonel Bulstrode: Geoffrey Matthews
Julio Mervuglio: Clive Panto
Commissioner Dellamain: John Rye
The Silver Guru: Renu Setna
The Dewan of Kishanpur: Madhav Sharma
Colonel Caversham: Brett Usher
Geoffrey Hatton-Dunn: Julian Wadham
Capt Prithvi Chand: Tariq Yunus
also with Sumar Khan, Feroza Syal, Bhasker, Dev Sagoo, Andrew Johnson
Additional actors in later parts:
Major Anderson: Nigel Graham(2)
Capt Eddie Hedges: Richard Kay(2)
Dr McArdle: David Sinclair(2)
Piroo: Tony Wredden(2)
Also with . Wendy Murray, Hilda Schroder, Helena Breck, Ellen McIntosh, Raj Patel, Colin Starkey, Jon Strickland, Moti Makan, Kumal Grewal, Badi Uzzaman(2)
For actors in parts 3 and 4 please see 18/11/84 below.
Pt2:11/11/84 Pt3:18/11/84 Pt 4:25/11/84
All epsiodes repeated 5 days later.
Please see 30/9/84 above for dates of all books and parts.


5th November 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Gizmology by Derek Lister
The worship of gizmos.
Pianist: Antony Saunders
Directed by Jane Morgan
Sir Tommy Witton: Norman Rodway
Nancy Witton: Lillias Walker
Sylvia: Sheila Reid
Snarski: George Pravda
Sir James Hart: Philip Voss
Sir Keith Wilshaw: Jon Strickland
Duncan Fiske: David Collings
Lord Habermel: Davld Garth
also with Helena Breck, William Eedle and William Hope
Repeated 11th November 1984


6th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Curfew by Lee Gallaher
Politics, success, compromises...
Directed by Penny Gold
Frank: Norman Rodway
Cathy: Samantha Bond
Chris: Margaret Robertson
Saul: Harry Towb
Jack Kells: Alan Barry
The Chief/Male Nurse: Denys Hawthorne
McPenn: Sean Barrett
Hobbs/Barman: Arnold Diamond
Des: Adrian Dunbar
Mother/Receptionist: Pauline Delany
Lisa/Nurse: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Marcus: Peter Acre
The new girlfriend: Tessa Worsley


7th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Day War Breaks Out by Allen Saddler (1923-2011)
Local civil defence ("Home Guard") in the nuclear age.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol.
Bob Wilson: Michael Williams
Alf: Christian Rodska
Fred: Ray Handy
Major: Conrad Phillips
Rita: Christine Pollon


8th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: My Aim is True by Mark Brennan
It can be unsettling when a new life grows within you.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester.
Alison: Rosalyn Elvin
Robert: Anton Lesser
Robert's secretary: Diane Whitley
Librarian: Barbara Marten
Other Librarian: Malcolm Raeburn
Maria: Marcella Evaristi
Repeated 18th January 1986
[Mark Brennan took the title from Elvis Costello's debut album on which track 5 is "Alison" which includes the words "My aim is true". This play has a character named Alison.]


10th November 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Love Me Do by Lesley Davies
Please see 16th February 1984 above.


10th November 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Almost Time for School by Gordon McKerrow
The deputy head and the party of pupils have failed to return from Europe; the school has a new computer; and the staff are behaving oddly.
Directed by David Spenser
Poon: Andrew Sachs
Mr Bliss: Robert Eddison
Mrs Dooley: Margot Boyd
Alan Knox: Mark Straker
Jack Routh: John Rye
Voice of Comptich: Robin Summers
Janet: Zoe Nathenson
John: Adam Smith
Miss Flood: Jane Knowles
Policeman/Driver: Guy Holden
Irene: Moir Leslie
Mr Elstead: Stephen Thorne
Patrick: Peter Acre
Nicholas: Christopher Douglas
May: Helena Breck
Andrea: Melinda Walker
Mrs Hindemith: Eva Stuart
Repeated 12th November 1984


12th November 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Swimmer by Christopher Russell
Obsession is not good for you.
Location recording at the Porchester Baths, London, by Cedric Johnson, Julian Walther and Brian Prior
Technical presentation by David Greenwood, Paul Pearson and Vanessa Ellner
Directed by Richard Wortley
Neil: Julian Firth
Michelle: Tilly Vosburgh
Ken, the swimming instructor/Official: John Rowe
Neil's mother: Jane Wenham
Neil's father: James Bryce
Jacko: Alex Jennings
First boy: Michael Jenner
Second boy: Ian Hoare
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 1st April 1984
Repeated on R4 6th July 1985
[BBC Giles Cooper Award winner]


13th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play:- Hello Out There by Keith Hagenbach
Astronauts from two nations contact each other in space - but there is a third party...
Directed by Christopher Venning
Presenter: Danny Brainin
Luke: David Baxt
Frank: Aaron Swartz
Tom: Kerry Shale
Erica: Beth Porter
Gen Merryweather: Harry Towb
Vladimir: Jonathan Burn
Lev: Alfredo Michelson
Aliens: Colin Starkey and Melinda Walker
Repeated 26th May 1987
[Not related to the earlier play by William Saroyan]


14th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Why Not Take All Of Me? by Alan W. Lear (1953-2008)
Outdoor mime and dance in Edinburgh.
Flute music composed and performed by Robert Pettigrew, with David Swanson (percussion) Technical presentation by Gregor Graham, Anne Diack and Christopher Lampton
Directed by Patrick Rayner
BBC Scotland.
Owen Laird: Simon Donald
Mrs Veitch: Sheila Donald
Ellie: Jenny Ross
Ken: Tony Roper
Sonoko: Diana Olsson
Larry: Garry Stewart


15th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: A Surfeit of Smiths by John Graham
An MP and his girlfriend book into the hotel as Mr and Mrs Smith. Chaos and difficulties arise.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Ashley Parker, MP: Dinsdale Landen
Mr Salvadori: Hywel Bennett
Mr Hobbs: Alan Dudley
Mrs Hobbs: Eva Stuart
Samantha Hobbs: Helen Fraser
Diane: Frances Jeater
Receptionist: George Parsons
Culver Smith: Cyril Shaps
Birdie Smith: Bessie Love
Operator: Judy Franklin
Barman: Spencer Banks
Keith: David Timson
Repeated from 5th June 1981.
[Filmed in German in 1989 as Jede Menge Schmidt]


17th November 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Witch Water Green by Don Webb
Please see 15th March 1984 above.


17th November 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Riding to Jerusalem by Elspeth Sandys
1873. The land was not as productive as it should be and the gentry was not well appreciated. Leaving the country had its attractions.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Robert Wheatcroft: Bruce Purchase
Clarissa: Pippa Guard
Jack Cook: Norman Jones
Sarah: Tessa Worsley
Amos Man: Peter Acre
Albert Norton: William Eedle
Jeremiah Smith: Christopher Douglas
Duke of Marlborough: David Sinclair
Squire Edgeworth: Brian Smith
The Rev Branwyn Mallock: Brian Carroll
The Hon Hugh Leighton: Trevor Nicholls
Lucy Norton: Katherine Parr
Amelia Man: Victoria Wicks
Jacob Moss: Mark Straker
Landlord: Colin Starkey
Martha Moneybone: Melinda Walker
With the children of Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
Repeated 19th November 1984.
[Elspeth Sandys came from New Zealand]


18th November 1984
14.30:
The Afternoon Play: Frank by John Wain (1925-1994)
Frank was born a slave in the West Indies.
Directed By Jane Morgan
Frank: Tony Osoba
Levet: Peter Vaughan
Miss Williams: Sian Phillips
Betsy: Jill Lidstone
Dr Wright: Hugh Dickson
Sister: Katherine Parr
Frank (as a child)/Sam: Susan Sheridan
Dr Johnson/Plantation owner: Michael Graham Cox
Abigail: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Col Bathurst: Jack May
Richard Bathurst: David Banks
Captain: Roger Allam
Repeated from 4th and 10th October 1982


18th November 1984
21.00-22.00:
Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters dramatised by Barry Campbell
Part 3 of book 2: Remember Mangal Pande
Please see Book 1 Part 1 on 30/9/84 above for full list of episodes. Total 18 parts across 4 books.
Music by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Technical presentation: Tim Sturgeon, Diana Barkham, Sue Templeman and Vanessa Ellner
Directed by Christopher Venning
Rodney Savage: Michael Cochrane
Caroline Langford: Carole Boyd
Bulstrode: Geoffrey Matthews
Piroo: Tony Wredden
Lady Isabel Hatton-Dunn: Isabelle Amyes
Geoffrey Hatton-Dunn: Julian Wadham
Major Anderson: Nigel Graham
Mrs Hatch: Dilys Laye
Robin Savage: Jill Lidstone
Joanna Savage: Eva Haddon
Dr McArdle: David Sinclair
Dellamain: John Rye
The Dewan of Kishanpur: Madhav Sharma
Sumitra, the Rani of Kishanpur: Souad Faress
Capt Prithvi Chand: Tariq Yunus
Sitapara: Jamila Massey
also with Barbar Bhatti, Kaleem Janjua, Jon Strickland, Colin Starkey, Mot1 Makan, Raj Patel, Andrew Johnson, Lyndam Gregory, Kumar Ranji, Tapan Ghosh, Kumal Grewal, Dev Sagoo, Mamta Kash
Additional actors in Part 4 of Book 2:
Silver Guru: Renu Setna
Gen Sir Hector Pierce: Geoffrey Bayldon
also with Kumar Ranji, Badi Uzzaman, Zohra Segal, Ranjit Nakara, Bhasker, Tanveer Ghani, Clive Panto, William Hope, Sumar Khan, William Eedle
Book 2: (Nightrunners of Bengal (1951) in 4 parts) Pt 4:25/11/84
Book 3: (The Lotus and the Wind (1953) in 4 parts): Pt1:2/12/84 Pt2:9/12/84 Pt3:16/12/84 Pt4:23/12/84
All 1984 episodes repeated after 5 days.


19th November 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: New Anatomies (1981) by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Algeria 1904. A traveller looks for peace.
Directed by Pat Trueman
BBC Manchester
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904): Sally Edwards
Sidi Brahim/Trofimovitch/Col: Michael Shaw
Lyautey: Peter Alexander
El Hassai/Alfred/Si Lachmi: Adrian Stokes
Defence/Soubai/Hadj: Steve Swinscoe
Judge/Saleh/Jean-Louis: Simon Molloy
Antoine: Philip Childs
Anna/Lydia Pashkof: Catherine Terris
Severine: Barbara Marten
Verda Miles/Yasmina: Jenny Howe
Bou Saadi/Abdallah/Martin: Clive Duncan
Repeated 25th November 1984
[The original play was written for the "Women's Theatre Group", with the intent that the same five actresses played several characters including males. It had no male actors.]


20th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Child in a Dark Wood by Ellen Dryden
Paris, 1859. A mother was separated from her sons, who now reestablish contact with her.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Caroline Norton: Penelope Wilton
George Norton: George Baker
Maid: Carole Boyd
Fletcher (Penney): Alex Jennings
Fletcher as a boy: Jonathan Taylor
Miss Vaughan: Madi Hedd
Brin: David Peart
Brin, as a Boy: Samuel Durrans
Sailor: Richard Huw
Repeated from 19th May 1983


21st November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Echoes from the Abbey by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001) (based on an idea by M. R. James)
James was invited to spend Christmas at the Abbey.
Directed by David Johnston.
James: David March
Arthur Layton: Arnold Diamond
Nora: Ysanne Churchman
Harley: Timothy Stark
Mary: Helena Breck
Gladys: Tessa Worsley
Cook: Anne Jameson
Also with Peter Acre, Brian Smith, Christopher Douglas and Colin Starkey
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2021]
[See M R James "Stories I have tried to write" 1929]


22nd November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Bevil by Catherine Storr (1913-2001)
Bevil helps Jon to stand up for himself, but he also leads Jon into dangerous acts of revenge.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Jon: Joe Sullivan
Mum: Charlotte Martin
Will: Spencer Banks
Sally: Helena Breck
Mrs Telman: Katherine Parr
Pete: Ian Hoare
Les: Stephen Garlick
Young Pete: Willian Peel
Young Les: Joseph Wright
Mr Foster: Alan Thompson
Also with Robin Summers and Melinda Walker
[Many of Catherine's stories concern evil being internal and controllable.]


24th November 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: A Study in Sin by Michael Robson
An idyllic country life faces the arrival of a stranger.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Gemma Yates: Karen Ford
Hobart: John Pullen
Griffin: Gabriel Woolf
Collinge: Timothy Bateson
Sarah: Peggy Ann Wood
Louise: Joanne Pearce
Mrs Norton: Sally Lahee
Guy: Norman Bowler
Penhallow: David Ponting
Desmond: John Abineri
Repeated from 18th September 1981


24th November 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Customs of the Country by Philip Latham (1929-2020)
Hong Kong, 1858. A new Attorney General arrives from England and determines to make his mark.
Directed by Alec Reid
BBC Bristol
Richard Caldwell: John Forbes-Robertson
Stella Caldwell: Angela Phillips
Emma Caldwell: Moir Leslie
Chisholm Anstey: Alan Moore
William Bridges: Bernard Brown
Charles May: William Eedle
Freddie Hulme: Conrad Phillips
Repeated 26th November 1984


26th November 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play:- The Birdcage by Rose Tremain
A rewarding nurse-patient relationship.
Directed by Penny Gold
Radcliffe: Alan Dobie
Stella: Maggie McCarthy
Ann: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs Bennett: Jane Wenham
Sgt Bennett: Norman Jones
Tony Samuels: John Forbes-Robertson
Repeated 2nd December 1984


27th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Tom Tiddler's Ground by Janet Allen
A murder to solve.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Potter: David Daker
Kathy: Susan Jameson
Gill: Russell Keith-Grant
Mrs Brill: Avril Clarke
Det Insp Kenway: Brian Carroll
Sgt Morris: Brian Smith
Sandra: Melinda Walker
[Not connected with several other stories with the name including those by Charles Dickens and by John Mortimer]
[The play title was recorded as a children's game in 1823, and can mean unclaimed land, uncertain status etc]


28th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play :- Don't Worry About Matilda by Shelagh Delaney (1938-2011)
The difficult relationship between a brother and sister.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Matilda: Gabrielle Lloyd
Alex: Sam Kelly
Repeated from 23rd March 1983


29th November 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play:- From a Great Height by Martin Lucas
The countryside may not be as tranquil and peaceful as the urban dweller imagines.
Directed by David Spenser
Peter Fuller: Michael Maloney
Diana Fuller: Helena Breck
Isabel Wilson: June Tobin
Jack: Geoffrey Matthews
Hedley: Anthony Daniels
Charlotte: Melinda Walker


1st December 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play:- Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Neville Smith
Poor exam results and a job for the time being.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Terry: William Nighy
Victoria: Susan Littler
Barstow: Philip Fox
Medley: Hugh Dickson
Molly: Lynda Marchal
Kneale: Steve Hodson
Dixon: John Livesey
MacDonald: Stephen Thorne
Salesman: Ronald Herdman
Lesley: Pamela Power
Glynis: Wendy Murray
Melanie: Patience Tomlinson
Radio 3 announcer: Tom Crow
Band: David Woolfson and Mickey Sparrow
Singer: Steve Hodson
Repeated from 6th May 1982 and 3rd June 1982


1st December 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Yang Chi Jade by Michael Campbell, based on a short story by Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957)
The beauty consists of the flaws that are visible in the transparent stone.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Charles: Geoffrey Bateman
Denise: Karen Ford
Peter: Neil Stacy
Helen: June Barrie
Inspector: Conrad Phillips
Sergeant: Bill Wallis
French: William Eedle
Hobbs: Bernard Brown
Accordionist: Pamela Cantor
Repeated 3rd December 1984


2nd December 1984
19.00-19.30:
Father Brown Stories: The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) dramatised by John Scotney
Directed by Alec Reid
BBC Bristol
Father Brown: Andrew Sachs
Flambeau: Olivier Pierre
Bagshaw: Bill Wallis
Valentin: John Abineri
Sergeant: Alan Thompson
Constable/Horse-bus driver: Trevor Nichols
Porter: Graham Blockey
Restaurateur: Trader Faulkner
Lady shopkeeper: Ellen McIntosh
Waiter: Robin Summers
Repeated 5th December 1984
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2006, 2011, and on R4X in 2021]


2nd December 1984
21.00-22.00:
The Lotus and the Wind by John Masters (1914-1983) dramatised by David Wade
Part 1 of book 3 in the series. Death of a Tribesman
Please see Book 1 Part 1 on 30/9/84 above for full list of episodes. Total 18 parts across 4 books.
Music by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Technical presentation: Tim Sturgeon, Auck Hale-Monro, Diana Barkham, Vanessa Ellner
Directed by Penny Leicester
Narrator: John Rowe
Anne: Juliet Stevenson
Ashraf Khan: Vincent Ebrahim
Findlater: Sean Arnold
Franklin: Stephen Thorne
General Alma: Richard Caldicot
Gluck/Corporal: Gordon Reid
Mr Hildreth: John Bott
Mrs Hildreth: Irene Sutcliffe
Jagbir: Dhirendra
Major Hayling: Nicky Henson
Mclain: Struan Rodger
Maniraj: Garard Green
Messenger: Andrew Johnson
Robin Savage: William Nighy
Additional actors in Parts 2-4 of Book 3:
Mrs Collett: Maggie McCarthy(2)
Caroline Savage: Carole Boyd(2)
Sgt Major: Gordon Reid(2)
Captain: David Sinclair(2)
Muir: Guy Holden(2)
Watchman: Badi Uzzaman(2)
Muralev: Brett Usher(3)
Lenya: Frances Jeater(3)
The wife of Selim Beg: Souad Faress(3)
Haidar/Mongol Chief: Ali Refaie(3)
The Governor/Shepherd: Jon Strickland(3)
Zarfaraz: Nigel Graham(3)
Yakub: Adam Hussein(3)
Gol/Horse Trader: Raad Rawi(3)
Shepherd/Alif: Colin Starkey (3)
Colonel Savage: Bernard Brown(4)
Book 3: (The Lotus and the Wind (1953) in 4 parts): Pt2:9/12/84 Pt3:16/12/84 Pt4:23/12/84
Book 4: (Bhowani Junction (1954) in 5 parts): Pt 1:30/12/84 Pt2:6/1/85 Pt3:13/1/85 Pt4:20/1/85 Pt5:27/1/85
All 1984 episodes repeated after 5 days.
[Also rebroadcast on BBC7 and R4X]


3rd December 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: One Man Killed by Rachel Wyatt
Directed by Penny Gold
Vera: Jill Meers
Jean: Elizabeth Bell
Nance: Tessa Worsley
Minnie: Kathleen Helme
Else: Theresa Streatfeild
Announcer: Peter Acre
First Councillor: Arnold Diamond
Harris/Policeman: William Eedle
Second Councillor: Alan Thompson
Repeated 9th December 1984


4th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Dragon Box by Una Flett (1932-2021)
A red lacquer box from Burma.
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
Marian: Maureen Beattie
Lucy: Sarah Collier
Deirdre: Melinda Walker
Mrs Carlton: Vivienne Dixon
Mrs Campbell: Harriet Buchan
Miss Hastie: Sheila Donald
Headmaster: Iain Cuthbertson
Repeated from 16th August 1983
[Previously broadcast on Radio Scotland]
[Una Flett was born in India and moved to Scotland]


5th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: Thanksgiving by Jehane Markham
Three friends get together after a long time apart - it isn't like it used to be.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Laura: Elizabeth Bell
Anna: Anna Nygh
Jose: Petra Markham


6th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: A Little Learning by Julia Jones(1923-2015)
A village school needs a certain number of pupils to remain open.
Made with the assistance of the Llandaff Church In Wales Junior School, Cardiff
Directed by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales.
Gwyneth: Christine Pollon
Mary: Jan Edwards
Megan: Sian Owen
Phyllis: Esyllt Roberts
Morgan: Sian Probert
Dai: Dillwyn Owen
Helen: Helen Roberts
Jenny: Donna Edwards
Ellen: Clare O'Carroll
Owain: Matthew Cadman
Adrian: Owain Kember
Girl: Charlotte Whittaker
Boy: Andrew Davies


8th December 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Shelling Peas by Christopher Russell
Everyone has a view regarding Sue's pregnancy. It is as though her state of being Human had changed.
Directed by John Cardy
Sue Mitchell: Paula Wilcox
Ken Mitchell: Brian Carroll
Sue's mother: Margot Boyd
Sue's father: Edward Kelsey
Ken's mother: Dilys Laye
Ken's father: Michael McStay
Brenda: Lolly Cockerell
Anne: Josie Kidd
Nurse: Jenny Twigge
Doctor: Philip Voss
Medical students: Gordon Duilieu and Gordon Reid
Radiographer: John Bott
First broadcast 2nd November 1979


8th December 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Intimations of a Raid by John Kirkmorris
His life and his work are in turmoil and he finds respite where he can.
Directed by: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Bill Groves: Bill Wallis
Andrea: Angela Phillips
Cyril: Conrad Phillips
Tony: Christian Rodska
Alec: Henry Stamper
Neville: Mark Straker
Gwen: Rosalind Adams
Doctor: Jane Gambier
Alfred: Paul Nicholson
Typist: Erica Eirian
Repeated 10th December 1984


9th December 1984
19.00-19.30:
Father Brown Stories: The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) - dramatised by John Scotney
Who stole the silver fish service? How many waiters are there?
Directed by Alec Reid
BBC Bristol
Father Brown: Andrew Sachs
Flambeau: Oliver Pierre
Hector: Kerry Shale
Lever: David Graeme
Duke: Christopher Scott
Colonel/Cabby: Nat Brenner
Giovanni: Arnold Diamond
Jean-Pierre: Robin Summers
Doctor: David Sinclair
Audley: Alan Thompson
Repeated 12th December 1984
[Also broadcast on BBC Radio 7 and R4X]
[A prior production by Archie Campbell in 1974 had Leslie French as Fr Brown]
[The story appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911]


10th December 1984
20.15-21.45:
The Monday Play: Titus Groan (1946) by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), dramatised by Brian Sibley
Directed by Glyn Dearman.
Steerpike: "Sting" (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner)
Keda: Melinda Walker
Rantel: Graham Blockey
Braigon: Peter Acre
The Artist: Freddie Jones
Dr Prunesquallor: Bernard Hepton
Irma Prunesquallor: Judy Parfitt
Sepukhrave: David Warner
Gertrude: Eleanor Bron
Clarice and Cora: Sheila Hancock
Fuchia: Jill Lidstone
Flay: Cyril Shaps
Sourdust: Robert Eddison
Barquentine: Maurice Denham
Swelter: Stratford Johns
Bellgrove: Michael Aldridge
Nannie Slag: Hilda Shroder
Titus, aged 7: Vicky Ireland
Titus, aged 17: Julian Firth
Repeated 7th April 1985, 25th December 1992
[The novel was followed by "Gormenghast" (1950), broadcast on R4 on 17th December 1984 (see below), 8th April 1985 and 25th December 1992.]
[Also broadcast on R4X]
[The storyline continued in the book "Titus Alone" (1959)]


11th December 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Miracle Play by Roger Wood
1414, Christmas Eve. A stranger arrives on an errand concerning the rector's predecessor, John Wycliffe (1331-1384).
Directed by David Johnston
Robin Ashurst: Trevor Nichols
Brother Michael: Steve Hodson
Nicholas Palmer: Peter Tuddenham
Cully Taylor: Peter Acre
Matthew Merrydew: David Sinclair
Old Will Brewer: Arnold Diamond
Young Will Brewer: Mark Straker


11th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play:- Father Figure by Dawn Lowe-Watson
A ballerina retires to have a child. There is a disturbing newspaper report.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Natalie: Lorna Heilbron
James: Michael Cochrane
Pauline: Frances Jeater
Frances: Gwen Cherrell
Lionel Hunter: Bernard Brown
Christopher: Christopher Scott
Mr Smythe: John Webb
Henry: Colin Starkey
Betty: Margot Boyd


12th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Winged Lions by Angus Graham-Campbell
Their parents take them off to holiday in Venice - where they meet someone interesting.
Directed by David Spenser.
Mrs Bolton: Sheila Grant
Mr Bolton: Stephen Thorne
Marilyn: Deborah Makepeace
Tom: Kerry Shale
Julie: Emma Kate Da Vies
Gondolier: Graham Blockey
Guide: Danny Schiller
Repeated 11th December 1985


13th December 1984
15.00-16.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Barbary Angel by Sarah Maxwell
The childrens home will close if they don't have the money by Christmas Eve.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
The Rev Edmund Washington: Blain Fairman
Evangelina Smith: Claire Moore
Miss McMurdo: Gudrun Ure
Bishop Legree: David March
Adelaide Van Der Pump: Margaret Robertson
Augusta Legree: Valerie Colgan
Nelly: Elizabeth Proud


15th December 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
An English football team takes on an International player - who can't speak English and doesn't seem that good at football.
Directed by Dickon Reed
A BBC World Service drama production
Vasilije Bogdanovic: Sandor Eles
Announcer/Urwin: Peter Wheeler
Stewardess: Kate Lee
Chadwick: Graham Roberts
Gosling: Henry Livings
Nicholson: Nick Owen
Buchan: Leo Maguire
Sturgess: Jack Carr
Repeated from 14th June 1983
[1983 Sony Award winner]
[Typescript with notes by Alan Plater is held at Hull University Archives (U DPR/1/24) ]


15th December 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Ride a Red Pony by Angela Sewell
The story of Juana la Loca (1479-1555)
Directed by Graham Gauld
Juana: Anne Rosenfeld
Alviriz: John Church
Queen Isabella: Jill Balcon
King Ferdinand: Jack May
Philip the Fair: Owen Scott
Duchess: Margot Boyd
Lequiros: Alaric Cotter
Stableboy: William Hope
Old man: Brian Smith
Old woman: Gwen Cherrell
Flemings: Narissa Knights, Walter Hall, Trevor Nichols
Repeated 17th December 1984


16th December 1984
14.30-16.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Friend of the Family (1859) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) dramatised by David Blum
Russia, 1859. A stranger moves in with the family.
Directed by Martin Jenkins.
Foma Fomich: Clive Merrison
The Colonel: David Suchet
Yezhevikin: Alan Dudley
Sergei: John Webb
Sashenka: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Natasha: Helena Breck
Falaley: Graham Blockley
Bahcheyev: Bernard Brown
Madame La Generale: Margot Boyd
Miss Perepelitsyn: Eva Stuart
Gavrila: Lockwood West
Tatyana Ivanovna: Maggie McCarthy
Obnoskin: Gary Cady
Mizinchikov: Colin Starkey
Servant: Alan Thompson
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014, 2016, 2019]
[This story is paired with "Uncle's Dream", which also has the character Gavrila, directed by Brian Miller, broadcast on R4 on 13th February 1981]


16th December 1984
19.00:
Father Brown Stories: The Eye of Apollo by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) dramatised by John Scotney
Inspector Bagshaw is baffled....
Directed by Alec Reid
BBC Bristol.
Father Brown: Andrew Sachs
Flambeau: Olivier Pierre
Bagshaw: Bill Wallis
Sister: Melinda Walker
Wilson: Garrick Hagon
Pauline Stacey: Narissa Knights
Joan Stacey: Lisa Flanagan
Kalon: Bruce Boa
Newsvendor/Navvy: Robin Summers
Repeated 19th December 1984
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2011 and on R4X, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2021]
[The story appeared in the collection "The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911)]


17th December 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Gormenghast (1950) by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), Dramatised by Brian Sibley
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Steerpike: "Sting" (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner)
The Artist: Freddie Jones
Dr Prunesquallor: Bernard Hepton
Irma Prunesquallor: Judy Parfitt
Gertrude: Eleanor Bron
Clarice and Cora: Sheila Hancock
Fuchsia: Jill Lidstone
Flay: Cyril Shaps
Barquentine: Maurice Denham
Bellgrove: Michael Aldridge
Nannie Slagg: Hilda Schroder
Titus, aged seven: Vicky Ireland
Titus, aged 17: Julian Firth
Mulefire: Arnold Diamond
Cutflower: David Garth
Shrivell: Alan Thompson
Shred: David Sinclair
Opus Fluke: John Forbes-Robertson
Perch-Prism: David Gooderson
Repeated 25th December 1992
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]
[The first book in the series, Titus Groans, was broadcast on 10th December 1984- please see above.]
[The storyline continued in the book "Titus Alone" (1959)]


18th December 1984
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Teddy Bear's Picnic by Paul King
The toy robots seem to have their own intentions.
Directed by John Tydeman
Teddy: Norman Rodway
James: Susan Sheridan
His mother: Ellen McIntosh
Tran, a robot: Bob Sherman
LCD, another robot: Robin Summers
Action Man: John Webb
Repeated on 23rd December 1984


18th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: A Few Kind Words by Rib Davis
A retired miner finds it difficult to connect with his family.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham.
Tommy: Emrys James
Jenny: Patricia Gallimore
Roy: Terry Molloy
Louise: Jayne Dowell
Repeated 16th September 1986


19th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: See a Friend this Weekend by Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)
A conversation between two strangers on a train.
Directed by Richard Wortley
The Woman: Maureen O'Brien
The Man: John Rowe
Sailor/Taxi-driver: Christopher Douglas
Businessman/Guard: Brian Smith
Barman: Robin Summers
[Previously made for ITV in 1978]
[The title is from a British Rail Inter-City advertising slogan from 1967 to the 1970's, many featuring a welcoming "Monica".]


20th December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Humanisation of George Mayhew by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
The routine regular mechanical hum drum life is to be changed.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester.
Ellie: Moir Leslie
George Mayhew: John Rowe
Reg: John Hollis
Policeman: Danny Schiller
Radio counsellor: William Hope

22nd December 1984
11.30-12.00:
A Christmas Story by Joe Mahon
Well, if he could get down the chimney, then he really was supernatural ...
Producer Maureen Gallagher
BBC Northern Ireland
Joe/Old Tom: Joe Gormley
Miss Kincaid: Sheila McGibbon
Repeated 21st December 1985
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017]
[First broadcast on BBC Radio Foyle]


22nd December 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play: Rose at Roquebrune by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Rose and her mother take a holiday and meet a couple.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Rose: Mary Peach
Evelina: Joyce Carey
Simon: Christopher Scoular
Lydia: Elizabeth Rider
Jane: Pauline Siddle
French voice: Clive Panto
Repeated from 1st December 1983


22nd December 1984
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Christmas at Dingley Dell by Constance Cox (1912-1998) (adapted from The Pickwick Papers and Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens)
23 December 1827: The friends journied to Dingley Dell for an old-fashioned Christmas.
Musicians: Violins: Ruth Ehruch, Andrew Walton. Harp: Skaila Kanga
Directed by David Johnston
Mr Pickwick: David March
Dickens: Nigel Graham
Sam Weller/Tom Smart: James Bryce
Mr Tupman: John Bott
Mr Snodgrass: Geoffrey Edwards
Mr Winkle: Nicholas Courtney
Mr Wardle: Michael Bilton
Old Mrs Wardle: Sheila Grant
Miss Rachel: Ellen McIntosh
Miss Emily: Eileen Tully
Miss Isabella/Miss Martin: Helen Atkinson Wood
Miss Arabella Allen: Maggie McCarthy
Mr G Trundle: Mark Rolston
Joe (the fat boy): Stuart Organ
Benjamin Allen: Peter Wickham
Bob Sawyer/ Christopher: Steve Hodson
Emma/ Mrs Pratchett: Carole Boyd
Repeated from 25th December 1983


23rd December 1984
14.30:
The Afternoon Play: When the Snow Lay Round About by James Forsyth (1913-2005)
The country of King Wenceslas is being invaded- but there are other enemies closer to hand.
Music composed by David Cain
Directed by David Spenser
King Wenceslas: David Buck (1933-1989)
Drahimira: Mary Wimbush
Prince Boleslav: Philip Sully
Samo: Rosalind Adams
Uncle Yani: Fred Bryant
Teta: Christine Absalom
Matji: Peter Baldwin
Beatrix: Diana Olsson
Henry/Felix: Stephen Thorne
Voronov/Grigor: Roy Spencer
Krok: John Westbrook
Igor: Anthony Daniels
First broadcast 16th and 18th December 1978


23rd December 1984
16.30-17.00:
The Rector of Howarth by Denys Hawthorne (1932-2009)
Producer Paul Muldoon
Patrick Brunty (Bronte): Denys Hawthorne
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)


23rd December 1984
18.15-19.15:
The Woodland Gospels by Jeremy Lloyd (1930-2014) dramatised by Brian Sibley
Captain Beaky and his Band discover how little they know about the real Gospel story.
Producer Graham Gauld
Directed by John Forrest.
Artful Owl: David Langton
Captain Beaky: Jeremy Lloyd
Timid Toad: Clive Swift
Reckless Rat: Nigel Davenport
Batty Bat: Beryl Reid
Hissing Sid: Leslie Phillips


24th December 1984
11.05-12.00:
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen (1775-1817) dramatised by Denis Constanduros
1 of 6:
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Sager
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Elizabeth Bennet: Elizabeth Counsell
Darcy: Frank Barrie
Mrs Bennet: Eleanor Summerfield
Mr Bennet: Robert Sansom
Narrator: Madi Hedd
Lydia: Sheridan Fitzgerald
Kitty: Sue Withers
Jane: Gabrielle Drake
Mr Bingley: Alan Moore
Charlotte Lucas: June Barrie
Sir William Lucas: Timothy Kightley
Miss Bingley: Charlotte Cornwell
Mr Collins: Michael Rothwell
Col Forster: Adrian Cairns
Mr Wickham: George Raistrick
Mrs Gardiner: Nancy Gower
Lady Catherine de Burgh: Anne Jameson
Col Fitzwilliam: Roger Davidson
Mr Gardiner: Rex Holdsworth
Housekeeper: Moyra Babington
Miss Darcy: Kim Hartman
Part2:25/12/84 Part3:26/12/84 Part4:27/12/84
Part5:28/12/84 Part6:29/12/84
First broadcast commencing 16/11/75, each 1975 episode repeated two days later.


24th December 1984
17.35-17.50:
Asterix in Britain (1965) by Rene Goscinny (1926-1977) and Alberto Uderzo (1927-2020). Translated and dramatised by Anthea BelL and Derek Hockridge
Caesar has conquered Britain- except for one village which seeks help from Asterisk.
Part 1 of 6
Music by David Fleming Williams
Directed by Caroline Smith
BBC Manchester.
Asterix: David Ross
Obelix: Roy Barraclough
Anticlimax/Caconofix: Cliff Howells
Narrator: Russel Dixon
Ancient Briton: Geoffrey Banks
Pirate Captain/Stratocumulus: Peter Wheeler
O'Veroptimistix/ Lookout/Decurion/Mucus/ Nauseus/Dogmatix: Keith Clifford
Mykingdomforanos/ Captain: Jimmy Hibbert
Part2:25/12/84 Part3:26/12/84 Part4:27/12/84 Part5:28/12/84 Part6:29/12/84
[Original title: "Asterix chez les Bretons"]


24th December 1984:
19.30-21.30:
Shaw at Christmas: Man and Superman (1903) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Directed By: John Tydeman
Narrator Denys Hawthorne
John Tanner: Alec McCowen
Ann Whitefield: Anna Massey
Roebuck Ramsden: Michael Denison
Mrs Whitefield: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Octavius Robinson: Gary Bond
Henry Straker: Nigel Anthony
Miss Ramsden: Betty Huntley-Wright
Violet Robinson: Carole Boyd
Hector Malone: Peter Whitman
Maid: Norma Ronald
Mr Malone: Norman Rodway
First broadcast 25th November 1974, repeated 24th May 1980.
[This version omits the lengthy Act 3]
[The play was published with a short book "by John Tanner" (one of the play's characters)-'The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion']
[Act 3 of the full play, often not performed, "Don Juan in Hell" (80 mins) was broadcast on 26/11/1974 on Radio 3]


25th December 1984
14.00-15.30:
The Adventure Play: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) : by Anthony Hope (1863-1933), adapted by Eric Maschwitz and Kay Patrick
A swashbuckling tale of English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll and his adventures in Ruritania.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Lady: Rose Burlesdon
Innkeeper: Diana Bishop
Lord Burlesdon: Clive Swift
Antoinette de Mauban: Anne Kidd
Duke Michael: Michael Spice
Train guard: William Sleigh
Customs officer: Brian Haines
Rosa: Cherry Gilliam
Johann: Sam Dastor
Count Fritz von Tarlenheim: David Timson
Colonel Sapt: Nigel Stock
Josef: Haydn Jones
Princess Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Captain Detchard: Terry Scully
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Bersonin: David Gooderson
Repeated from 19th May 1973, repeated 25/12/78
Repeated 28/12/89
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013, 2021]
(Sequel: Rupert of Hentzau (1898) on 27/12/84 below]


25th December 1984
19.30:
Shaw at Christmas: Saint Joan (1923) by Bernard Shaw abridged by Norman Wright
Directed by John Theocharis
Narrator Alan McClelland
Joan (1412-1431): Judi Dench
Dunois: Michael Williams
the Dauphin: John Rye
the Inquisitor: Stephen Murray
the Earl of Warwick: Noel Johnson
Cauchon: Maurice Denham
John de Stogumber: Douglas Storm
De Beaudricourt: Kerry Francis
Steward: Peter Tuddenham
De Poulengey: Nigel Lambert
De la Tremouille: Alan Dudley
Archbishop: John Richmond
Gilles de Rais: Michael Spice
Captain la Hire: Sean Arnold
Duchesse de la Tremouille: Cecile Chevreau
Canon John d'Estivet: Alan Rowe
Canon de Courcelles: Stephen Thorne
Brother Martin: Michael Deacon
Executioner: Clifford Norgate
Pages: Peter Whitman and David Ericsson
With students of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
[The play premiered three years after Joan of Arc was canonised. The published play has a long preface by Shaw.]


26th December 1984
14.00:
The Adventure Play: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by John Keir Cross
Directed by Harry Catlin and Martin Jenkins.
Long John Silver: Timothy West
Ben Gun: Geoffrey Bayldon
Mrs Hawkins: Charlton
Captain Smollett: Allan Cuthbertson
Jim Hawkins (as a man): John Rowe
Jim Hawkins (as a boy): Crispin Gillbard
Squire Trelawney: William Fox
Dr Livesey: Rolf Lefebvre
Israel Hands: Geoffrey Matthews
Blind Pugh: John Baddeley
Billy Bones/Tom Morgan: John Bentley
George Merry: William Sleigh
Coastguard: Anthony Hall
Pirate: Fraser Kerr


26th December 1984
19.30:
Shaw at Christmas: The Apple Cart (1928) by Bernard Shaw
A king, a Prime Minister, and several political philosophies.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Narrator Denys Hawthorne
King Magnus: Peter Barkworth
the Prime Minister: Nigel Stock
Orinthia: Prunella Scales
Boanerges: Colin Douglas
Lysistrata: Elizabeth Spriggs
Amanda: Dilys Laye
Pamphilius: Brian Sanders
Sempronius: Christopher Scott
The Princess Royal: Amanda Murray
Nicobar: Brian Haines
Pliny: Patrick Barr
Balbus: Michael McStay
Crassus: Godfrey Kenton
The Queen: Sonia Fraser
Mr Vanhattan: John Church
First broadcast 13th October 1980, repeated 25th December 1980
[The published play has ample notes by Shaw regarding the play and the philosophies.]


27th December 1984
14.00:
The Adventure Play:- Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope adapted by Cynthia Pughe and Kay Patrick
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania
Directed by Martin Jenkins
King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Fritz von Tarlenheim: David Timson
James: Timothy Bateson
Queen Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Station-master: Wilfrid Carter
Rischenheim: Kerry Francis
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Farmer/Chancellor Helsing: Peter Williams
Colonel Sapt: Nigel Stock
Bernenstein: Sean Barrett
Simon/Thug: Fraser Kerr
Herbert/Bauer: Nigel Anthony
Hermann/Anton von Strofzing: David Sinclair
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rosa: Cherry Gilliam
Thug/Constable: Vernon Joyner
Fraulein Helsing: Bonnie Hurren
Madame Helsing/Mother Holf.: Diana Bishop
First broadcast 26th May 1973
Repeated 31st December 1978
[A sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) broadcast on 25th December 1984- see above]


27th December 1984
19.30:
Shaw at Christmas: Major Barbara (1905) by Bernard Shaw
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, Sarah's fiance: 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
First broadcast 3rd May 1980, then repeated 29th August 1983


28th December 1984
19.30:
Shaw at Christmas: The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) by Bernard Shaw
1903: Whose life should a doctor save
Directed By: John Tydeman
Dr Blenkinsop: Robert Trotter
Jennifer Dubedat: Sarah Badel
Louis Dubedat: Gary Bond
Minnie Tinwell: Frances Jeater
Newspaperman: Peter Wickham
Emmy: Margot Boyd
Redpenny: Tim Brierley
Sir Colenso Ridgeon: Derek Godfrey
Leo Schutzmacher: John Gabriel
Sir Patrick Cullen: Cyril Luckham
Cutler Walpole: Hugh Manning
Bloomfield Bonington: Stephen Murray
First broadcast 1st January 1979, then repeated 26/5/80.
[Charles Lefeaux produced a version in 1966, rptd 1971 with Brian Hewlett as Redpenny]
[Michael Grandage produced a version for Radio 3 in 1999, rptd 2000 with Martin Jarvis as Cutler]
[As is usual with Shaw the play was published with a long preface:- in which he proposes a National Health Service... the title and subject were suggested to him by Almroth Wright.]


29th December 1984
14.00:
The Afternoon Play:- Daughters of the Late Colonel (1922) by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) dramatised by R. S. Byram
Two daughters must fend for themselves when their father dies.
Directed by Penny Gold
Josephine: Anna Cropper
Constantia: Elizabeth Bell
Nurse: Jane Wenham
Kate: Moir Leslie
The Rev Farolles: Brett Usher
Colonel: Patrick Barr
Cyril: Simon Butteriss
[Jessica Dromgoole produced a version on 2020]


29th December 1984
20.00:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Directed by Jane Morgan.
Sam Spade: Tom Wilkinson
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Jane Lapotaire
Mr Gutman: Peter Vaughan
Joel Cairo: Nickolas Grace
Effie: Mia Soteriou
Miles Archer: William Hope
Iva: Liza Ross
Wilmer: Peter Acre
Tom Polhaus: Norman Jones
Lt Dundy: Harry Towb
DA Bryan: Don Fellows
Also with Keith Edwards, Robin Summers and Arnold Diamond
Repeated 25th May 1985
[Also broadcast on BBC7 in 2009, 2011]


30th December 1984
14.30:
The Afternoon Play: The Killing of Mr Toad (1982) by David Gooderson
The private life of Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Richard Wortley
Mrs Elspeth Grahame: Barbara Jefford (1930-2020)
Kenneth Grahame: Edward Hardwicke
their son, Alastair: Stephen Garlick
Figgis: Colin Starkey
Miss Noyce: Narissa Knights
Miss Parker: Tessa Worsley
Rattie/Quiller-Couch: John Warner
Alastair as a child: Susan Sheridan
Badger: Geoffrey Matthews
Doctor: John Webb
Official: Brian Smith
Clayton: Willlam Hope
Prefect: Michael Jenner
Coroner: David Garth
Repeated 27th May 1985 and 31st December 1990


30th December 1984
21.00:
Masters' India: Book Four: Bhowani Junction by John Masters (1914-1983) dramatised by Barry Campbell
Part 1 of 5, of book 4 in the series.
Please see Book 1 Part 1 on 30/9/84 above for full list of episodes. Total 18 parts across 4 books.
Music composed by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by Christopher Venning
Col Rodney Savage: Gary Bond
Patrick Taylor: Sean Barrett
Victoria Jones: Shireen Shah
Mr Thomas Jones: Garard Green
Lt Macaulay: Brett Usher
Mr Surabhai: Saeed Jaffrey
Ranjit Singh Kasel: Andrew Johnson
Mr Govindaswami: Geoffrey Matthews
Det Supt Lanson: John Golightly
Kartar Singh: Kaleem Janjua
Station Master: Tariq Alibai
Rose Mary Jones: Josephine Welcome
Sir Meredith Sullivan: Steve Hodson
Also with Charu Bala Chokshi, Ali Refaie, Mamta Kash, Jiggy Bhore and Guy Holden
Book 4: (Bhowani Junction (1954) in 5 parts): Pt2:6/1/85 Pt3:13/1/85 Pt4:20/1/85 Pt5:27/1/85
All 1984 episodes repeated after 5 days.


31st December 1984
15.00:
The Afternoon Play: The Happiest Women by M. J. Read
After many years, an author has a book published. Life becomes more complex.
Directed by David Spenser.
Marjorie: Mary Morris
Madeleine: Hannah Gordon
Rosie: Elizabeth Proud
Frank: Martyn Read
Repeated 28th March 1987


31st December 1984
20.15:
The Monday Play: Miss Julie (1889) by August Strindberg (1849-1912) translated by Michael Meyer
Flirting may have consequences.
Directed By: James Runcie
BBC Scotland
Miss Julie: Janet Maw
John: David Rintoul
Kirsty: Terry Cavers
Repeated 6th January 1985
[There are many varied presentations of this play, including a ballet. In this production the location has been set in Scotland.]
[There was an earlier radio production of this translation in 1973 produced by Betty Davies- not set in Scotland.]




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