Nigel Anthony Radio Plays:
Home Service & Radio 4
Twenty selected one-off plays from the Home Service / Radio 4 featuring Nigel Anthony, 1956-2009, from the hundreds in which he has been involved. A more comprehensive list is being prepared by Alistair Wyper.
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28.10.1961 The Professionals
By John Conlan. Nigel Anthony/Sheila Grant/Mary O'Farrell
29.9.1962 It Was Only A Joke
By Jonny Rollason & Keith Williams.
Afternoon Theatre, Home Service. ' So they're university students and we're factory apprentices, so what! They have a Rag, why can't we-what's the difference? Come on, it'll be a bit of a lark.'[A play showing the differences between town and gown - Ed.] Eddie: Sean Barrett, Ron: Anthony Hall, Garth: Nigel Anthony, June: Shirley Cooklin, Mr Barton: George Merritt, Chris Manson: Andrew Irvine, Tony Hooper: Charles Hodgson, Mr Manson: Peter Howell, Mrs Manson: Janet Burnell, Jack Lloyd: Kenneth Hyde, Miss Primrose: Elizabeth Morgan, Detective: Peter Pratt, Police Sergeant: Lee Fox, Police Constable: George Hagan. Producer: Peter Bryant.
2.2.1966 Birds Ain't Worth The Trouble
By Robin Smyth. Nigel Anthony/Anthony Hall/John Dearth/Henry Webb
12.12.1968 Albert's Bridge
By Tom Stoppard. In ALBERT'S BRIDGE (1967), John Hurt plays Albert, who spends much of the time obsessively painting the railway bridge over Clufton Bay. The bridge comes to possess his mind, to the detriment of other areas of his life: the monotonous routine of painting both enslaves and liberates him. The play won two prizes and was often repeated. Paul Copley played the lead in a later production. John Hurt/Nigel Anthony/Alexander John/Victor Lucas. (Repeated 1.1.1971 and 3.8.1973)
5.12.1970 A Passing of Power
By Alick Rowe. Edward Kelsey/Olwen Griffiths/Nigel Anthony/Clive Morrison
10.3.1971 A Shape Like Piccadilly
By Jill Hyem. Anne Stallybrass/Nigel Anthony/Cecile Chevreau/Nigel Lambert (Repeated 2.11.1973)
A girl working in a library strikes up a friendship with a young man she meets during her lunch hour. Gradually it transpires that he cannot read. She decides to take a hand. 60m.
3.9.1976 No Quarter
By Barry Bermange. Nigel Anthony/Gerald Cross/Walter Hall/Victor Lucas
28.9.1977 Cold Earth Travelling
By Mike Walker. Frederick Treves/Nigel Anthony/David Timson/Gabriel Wolf (Repeated 5.4.1979)
Rpt. by "Earplay" c1980. (Earplay was a long-running drama series broadcast by NPR in America, 1972-c1990) - here's their introduction:
.....Inspired by the Pardoner's Tale of Chaucer, Cold Earth Travelling is Mike Walker's first professional production. Walker is a young English writer who received his training in the theatre by working as a stage hand and scene painter at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The play stars Frederick Treves, Nigel Anthony, David Timpson and Gabriel Wolf......
17.6.1979 Professional Foul
By Tom Stoppard. Peter Barkworth/John Shrapnel/Nigel Anthony
15.5.1983 Urbane Riots
By Peter Whalley. Nigel Anthony/Susan Tracy
12.2.1984 Just Between Ourselves
By Alan Ayckbourn Peter Vaughan/Jennifer Piercy/Nigel Anthony/Frances Jeater
30 Sep 88 15:00 - Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons, adapted in four parts by Elizabeth Proud. Ep.4 - Flora's Rights Again.
Will she get her rights at last?
Flora Poste .......... Patricia Gallimore,
Reader .......... John Westbrook,
Stella Gibbons .......... Elizabeth Proud,
Adam Lambsbreath .......... Cyril Shaps,
Mrs Beetle .......... Miriam Margolyes,
Earl P Neck .......... Nigel Anthony,
Mr Mybug .......... Michael Spice,
Seith Starkadder .......... Sion Probert,
Aunt Ada Doom .......... Fabia Drake,
Judith .......... Margaret Robertson,
Rennett/Phoebe .......... Christine Absalom,
Amos Starkadder .......... John Hollis,
Reuben .......... Trevor Martin,
Mrs Hawk-Monitor .......... Margot Boyd,
DrMandel .......... John Rye,
Abba .......... Malcolm Hayes,
Letty .......... Pauline Letts,
Susan .......... Diana Bishop,
Elfine Starkadder .......... Jane Knowles,
Hawk-Monitor .......... Stephen Garlick,
Micah .......... Alexander John,
Harkaway .......... David Timson,
Urk .......... Christopher Scott,
Pent-Hartigan .......... Nigel Anthony,
Charles Fairford .......... David McAlister,
Piano .......... Terence Allbright,
Cello .......... Richard Apley,
Producer.......... Ian Cotterell.
21 Jan 89 19:45 - Saturday-Night Theatre - Our Family
A love story in three plays by Victor Pemberton. 3 ... Down by the Sea.
1963-80 .......... Letty and Oliver reach the sunset of their lives, spent in a seaside bungalow bought for them by their children. Now, alone, they have to resolve the problems of old age.
Letty Hobbs .......... Nerys Hughes,
Oliver Hobbs .......... Nigel Anthony,
Beatrice .......... Sheila Grant,
Mick .......... Spencer Banks,
Eddie .......... Sean Barrett,
Mary .......... Karen Archer,
Jonathan .......... Rory McNicholl,
Bill Brooks .......... Michael Tudor Barnes,
Tilly Brooks .......... Emily Richard,
Fred Golding .......... Norman Bird,
Gladys Golding .......... Joan Matheson,
Cypriot man .......... John Baddeley,
Cypriot woman .......... Julie Berry,
Reporter .......... Kim Wall,
Doctor .......... Steven Harrold,
Dance band .......... Les Brown Trio.
Directed by David Spenser.
3 Oct 92 14:30 - Saturday Playhouse - Lost for Words
by Ken Blakeson. Adam Lowell is a leading member of the Labour Party, and a man confidently tipped to be a future Prime Minister. But when Adam is struck down by an unpleasant and incurable illness - Motor Neurone Disease he finds himself facing a very uncertain future.
Adam: Nigel Anthony,
Adam's Computer Voice: Kerry Shale,
Penny: Elizabeth Mansfield,
Jack: Logan Murray,
Nurse O'Brien: Marcella Riordan,
Marjorie: Sandra Clark,
Andrew: Terence Edmond,
Speaker: Peter Penry Jones,
Delegate: Peter Penry Jones,
Delegate: Andrew Wincott,
Wendy: Theresa Streatfeild,
Producer: Gordon House.
16 Sep 95 23:30 - Stephen King's Salem's Lot
A seven-part dramatisation of the classic vampire story from the master of modem horror. 6: Ben, Matt and Jimmy return to Barlow's lair to find Susan, but has she joined the vampires? Wwith Doug Bradley , Nigel Anthony, Kerry Shale, Gavin Muir, Vincent Marzello and Lorelei King. Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Dramatised by Gregory Evans. Director Adrian Bean. (Rpt)
27 Dec 00 14:15 - Afternoon Play: The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll , dramatised by Dylan Ritson. A surreal odyssey in which a bizarre group of characters sets off in search of the elusive and mysterious Snark. Comedy meets suspense in a quest of enormous proportions.
Dramatised by Dylan Ritson;
Barrister: Nigel Anthony,
Bellman: David Bamber,
Baker: James Fleet,
Banker/Bonett: Jasmine Hyde,
Beaver/Boots: Jane Whittenshaw,
Butcher/Billmarker: Mark Williams.
Director: Karen Rose.
5.6.2003 Carmilla
By Sheridan Le Fanu. Anne-Marie Duff/Brana Bajic/David Warner/Kenneth Grantham/Celia Imrie/Nigel Anthony/Jacqueline Pearce
19.11.2005. Nuremburg Trials
By Peter Goodchild.,R4. Bernard Hepton/Henry Goodman/David Timson/Goeffrey Whitehead/Mike Nussbaum/Gerard Murphy/David Collings/Ian Hogg/John Shrapnel/Michael Cochrane/Jane Wittenshaw/Nigel Anthony/Bob Sherman/John Rowe/Andrew Branch/John Hartly/John Hollis/Paul Copley.
8.3.2007 Accolades
By Christopher William Hill. In 1973; Oxford academic AL Rowse published the work that would establish his name internationally - Shakespeare The Man; in which he claimed to have decoded Shakespeare's sonnets and finally discovered the identity of the playwright's mysterious Dark Lady. But was his 'discovery' based on a simple misreading? AL Rowse ...... Ian Richardson Alex Laing ...... Joseph Kloska Professor Burnett ...... Nigel Anthony Gillian Lawrence ...... Stella Gonet Prosser ...... Sean Barrett .
3.4.2010 Goldfinger
By Ian Fleming. A dramatisation of the novel. When Bond begins his pursuit of a monstrous international criminal he discovers that a daring robbery is on the agenda - plus mass murder. Goldfinger ..... Ian McKellen , James Bond ..... Toby Stephens, 'M' ..... John Standing, Col. Smithers ..... Ian Ogilvy , Pussy Galore ..... Rosamund Pike , Tilly Masterton ..... Lisa Dillon , Du Pont ..... Henry Goodman , Hawker ..... Alistair McGowan , Helmut Springer ..... Hector Elizondo , Jill Masterton ..... Anna Louise Plowman , Johnny Solo ..... Tim Pigott-Smith, Mr Strap ..... Tom Hollander , Felix Leiter ..... Lloyd Owen, Jed Midnight ..... Nigel Anthony, Oddjob ..... Jon David Yu, Alfred ..... Alan Shearman, Nigel ..... Matthew Wolf , Fleming ..... Martin Jarvis, Doctors and Pilot ..... Kyle Stoller , Nurse ..... Tracy Pattin. Dramatised by Archie Scottney. Music composed by Mark Holden and Sam Barbour. Director Martin Jarvis. Producer Rosalind Ayres.Jarvis & Ayres Productions.
18 Dec 2012: Rumpole, Episode 1
By John Mortimer. Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. In 1964, Rumpole returns to Oxford, where he studied law, to defend a young gardener, Peter Vernon, accused of blackmailing the Master of St Joseph's College, Sir Michael Tuffnell. Peter and Sir Michael had enjoyed a friendship provoking rumours of homosexuality, which was illegal... Older Rumpole ....... Timothy West, Younger Rumpole ....... Benedict Cumberbatch, Hilda Rumpole ....... Jasmine Hyde, Nicholas Rumpole ....... Louis Tafler-Hyde, Humphrey Grice ....... Stephen Critchlow, Judge Everglades ....... Stephen Critchlow, Sue Galton ....... Faye Castelow, Peter Vernon ....... Adam Gillen, Sir Michael Tuffnell ....... Adrian Scarborough, Claude Erskine-Brown ....... Nigel Anthony, Porter ....... Nigel Anthony, Producer....... Marilyn Imrie. Indie (Catherine Bailey production).
Compiled by ND from info sent by Clive Lever / Diversity website
