Radio 3 Drama, 1983
Compiled by Stephen Shaw
1983
Radio drama on Radio 3.
[Due
to industrial action no Radio Times was published covering the
broadcast dates 2nd to 15th April 1983 nor on 3rd to 9th December
1983. ]
2nd
January 1983:
19.10:
Plenty
by David Hare
The
experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during
the war and her life in the following 20 years Changing values and
the collapse of ideals embodied in a single life.
Directed
By: Richard Wortley
Susan
Traherne: Jane Lapotaire
Raymond
Brock: John Rowe
Alice
Park: Zoe Wanamaker
Codename
Lazar: Michael Spice
Frenchman:
Jean Driant
Leonard
Darwin: Geoffrey Palmer
Mick:
Nigel Greaves
Louise:
Rowena Roberts
M
Aung: Frank Singuineau
Mme
Aung: Zohra Segal
Dorcas
Frey: Lolly Cockerell
John
Begley: Graham Faulkner
Sir
Andrew Charleson: John Bott
Another
Frenchman: John Church
Repeated
from 29th March 1981
6th
January 1983:
19.30
:
Caritas
by Arnold Wesker
Norfolk
1377 The Medieval Church's stern doctrine of self-denial and
subservience inspires devotion and revolt. For Christine Carpenter,
ordinary faith is not enough: she forsakes friends and family to
become an anchoress. For Wat Tyler and his followers, the Church is
part of the feudal tyranny which must be overthrown.
Directed
By: Margaret Windham
Christine
Carpenter: Patti Love
Agnes
Carpenter: Anna Cropper
William:
Peter Tuddenham
Robert
Lonle: Greg Hicks
Matilde:
Mary Miller
Bishop:
Robert Stephens
Matthew:
Patrick Drury
Priest:
Paul Bentall
Richard
Lonle: Terry O'Brien
Tax
collector: James Taylor
Villagers.:
David Gooderson
Villagers.:
Alan Dudley
Villagers.:
Steve Hodson
Villagers.:
Miranda Forbes
Villagers.:
MadI Hedd
Villagers.:
Wendy Murray
with
the children of St Ursula's School, Bristol
Repeated
12th May 1983
[Patti
Love created the role of Christine at the National Theatre 1981]
[There
was also an operatic version of this play]
9th
January 1983:
19.30
:
The
Death of the Pythia or What Really Might Have Happened to Oedipus by
Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted for radio by Hans Hausmann and Martin
Esslin.
Are
our lives governed by pre-ordained fate, determined by the Inexorable
laws of nature, or do we live by pure coincidence, chance, and
accident? The Swiss Playwright, Friedrich Durrenmatt, poses this
question in re-telling and rethinking the age-old story of Oedipus in
the form of a philosophical fable, halfway between drama and Platonic
dialogue.
Directed
by Martin Esslin
Oedipus:
John Rowe
Jocasta:
Barbara Jefford
Tireseas:
Robert Eddison
The
Pythia: Freda Dowie
The
Sphinx: Margaret Wolfit
The
Narrator: David March
Playwright:
Peter Tuddenham
Merops:
Anthony Newlands
Lalos:
Henry Stamper
Repeated
9th June 1983.
13th
January 1983:
19.35
:
A
Dream Play by August Strindberg in a version by Ingmar Bergman ,
translated by Michael Meyer
Music
By: Ilona Sekacz
The
inconsequent yet transparently logical shape of a dream. The
characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, disperse,
assemble. But one consciousness rules over them all.
Adapted
for radio and directed by Martin Jenkins
Agnes:
Lynsey Baxter
the
Officer: Denis Quilley
as
the Advocate: Frank Finlay
as
the Schoolmaster: Clifford Rose
and
as Strindberg, the Poet: Ian Richardson
Glazier:
Alan Dudley
Father/He:
David McAlister
Mother/Wife:
Frances Jeater
Lina/Edith:
Jill Lidstone
Stage-door
keeper: Katherine Parr
Bill
poster: Ronald Herdman
She:
Miranda Forbes
Coal
carrier: Brian Coburn
Dean
of Law/Coal carrier: Michael Tudor Barnes
Prompter/Dean
of Philosophy: Nicholas Courtney
Blind
man...: Hugh Dickson
Quarantine
master: John Hollis
Naval
officer/Nils: Spencer Banks
Kristin:
Theresa Streatfeild
Repeated
from 17th June 1982
16th
January 1983:
19.15
:
Letter
to the Old Man on a Cassette Recorder by Nigel Baldwin
A
pop singer gets unthinkingly caught up with Irish revolutionaries.
From prison he is allowed to visit his dying father. Meanwhile, he
has sent the old man a cassette recording to explain other aspects of
his troubled life.
Twelve
string and acoustic guitar played by Max Britain.. Special music
composed and conducted by Ilona Sekacz
Directed
By: Richard Wortley
Michael:
William Nighy
the
old man: Geoffrey Matthews
Letty:
Maggie Shevlin
a
boy/Irish-Michael woman: Susan Sheridan
a
boy David: Elizabeth Lindsay
Jean,
Michael's mother: Heather Bell
Teacher/nurse:
Patience Tomlinson
a
man David: David McAlister
Headmaster:
Michael Spice
Tudor:
Spencer Banks
Hospital
sister: Riana Bishop
Irishman:
Sion Probert
School
Corps Captain/ Prison warder: Alan Dudley
Repeated
from 18th February 1982
23rd
January 1983:
18.30
:
Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer
Producer:
David Spenser
Directed
by Peter Hall
Antonio
Salieri: Paul Scofield
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart: Simon Callow
Constanze
Mozart: Felicity Kendall
Joseph
II: John Normington
Gottfried,:
Baron Van
Swelten..:
Nicholas Selby
Count
Franz Orsini Rosenberg: Willoughby Goddard
Johann
Kilian von Strack: Basil Henson
Venticeill:
Donald Gee, Dermot Crowley
Citizens
of Vienna: Nigel Bellairs, Susan Gilmore, Peggy Marshall, Robin
Meredith,
Anne
Sedgwick, William Sleigh, Glenn Williams
Repeated
10th November 1983, 1st December 1991
30th
January 1983:
19.55
:
Rivers
to Cross by David Zane Mairowitz
Polanowski
is used to people not being able to Pronounce his name. even after 20
years of living in this country. But one night he's made to realise
that he's an alien with no rights at all.
Directed
By: Jane Morgan
Polanowski:
Robin Ellis
Marjorie:
Diana Bisbop
Bryant:
David Daker
Man
from the Home Office/Solicitor: Paul Chapman
Kracauer:
Czeslaw Grocholski
Jones:
Alan Igbon
With
Alan Dudley, Philip Fox, Ronald Herdman, John Livesey, Moti Makan,
George
Parsons, Michael Spice, Haydn Wood and Theresa Streatfeild
Repeated
from 13th December 1981
[David
Zane Mairowitz was one of the founding editors of International
Times- it, an "underground" paper founded 1966.]
3rd
February 1983
19.30
:
Drinks
Before Dinner (1978) by E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015).
An
intrepid trek through the darkest rhetoric of a New York dinner
party. When one of the guests pulls a gun, his hostess thinks it 'the
end of the world '.
Directed
by Yuri Rasovsky of the National Radio Theatre of Chicago
Edgar:
Paul Daneman
Claudette:
Toby Robins
Alan:
Barry Morse
Joan
Jane: Jordan Rogers
Joel:
Bob Sherman
Andrea:
Valerie Colcan
Michael:
Blain Fairman
Grace:
Kadi Hedd
Children:
Frances Jeater,
Children:
Jill Lidstone
6th
February 1983:
20.05
:
Talk
of Love and War by Don Haworth
In
a Second World War setting, two young men banter in a mood of gentle
irony about their work as fighter pilots, but we are not allowed to
forget the penalties of war, both general and personal.
Directed
by: Richard Wortley
Tom:
William Nighy
James:
Hugh Ross
Repeated
from 29th November 1981
Also
repeated on BBC 7: 2003,2005,2006
[Winner
of the 1981 Giles Cooper Award.]
10th
February 1983:
19.30
:
Translations
by Brian Friel
Set
in the small village of Ballybeg, Co Donegal, at a time when, like so
many villages in Ireland, the local people had established a 'hedge
school' to replace the other forms of education suppressed by the
British Government,
Brian
Friel's play begins with the arrival of the British Army Ordnance
Survey in 1833 - to map the country and translate Irish place names
into English equivalents.
Directed
for stage and adapted for radio by Donald McWhinnie
Producer:
Robert Cooper
BBC
Northern Ireland
Manus:
Gabriel Byrne
Sarah:
Marie Ni Ghrainne
Jimmy
Jack: Sebastian Shaw
Maire:
Bernadette Shortt
Donalty:
Ron Flanagan
Bridget:
Anna Keaveney
Hugh:
Ian Bannen
Owen:
Tony Doyle
Captain
Lancey: Peter Barnes
Lieutenant
Yolland: Shaun Scott
Repeated
from 31st January 1982.
Repeated
25th April 1989.
13th
February 1983:
19.30
:
Wedding
Belles and Green Grasses by Marcella Evaristi
It's
not my wedding day - no pressure on me. Listen, it's going to be a
great day. With Peter and Rita and you - and Garry and me.
Directed
By: Tim Fywell and Marilyn Ireland
BBC
Scotland
Steph:
Sarah Collier
Jo:
Valerie Fyfer
Rita:
Janice Laurie
Peter:
Tony Roper
Directed
By: Tim Fywell
Repeated
from 1st July 1982
17th
February 1983:
19.00-21.30
with a ten minute interval.:
Torquato
Tasso by J. W. von Goethe, a new translation by Alan and Sandy
Brownjohn
Where
other men must suffer grief in silence. God gave me the power to
speak my pain.
The
poet Tasso lives in the palace of the enlightened Duke Alfonso in
16th-century Ferrara. He has finished his masterpiece, Jerusalem
Liberated, and is symbolically crowned by his admiring patrons.
Goethe presents a highly-cultured court, dedicated to the pursuit of
artistic excellence. The play is centrally concerned with the
discrepancy between the artist and the rest of the world.
Music
by Michael Steer
Directed
by John Theocharis
Tasso:
Michael Pennington
Prince
Alfonso: David Buck
Antonio:
David Suchet
the
Princess: Eileen Atkins
Leonora:
Rosalind Shanks
[In
1995/1996 Radio 3 aired a play by Roberta Berke on the life and work
of Torquato Tasso, called "Over the Precipice"]
20th
February 1983
18.00-21.00
:
The
Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Music
composed by David Timson
sung
by Alan Dudley, Theresa Streatfeild, David Timson, Patience
Tomlinson
Directed
By: Martin Jenkins
Leontes,
King of Sicilia: Ronald Pickup
Hermione,
his wife: Hannah Gordon
Polixenes,King
of Bohemia: Gary Bond
Paulina:
Barbara Jefford
Antigonus:
Michael Gough
Camillo:
Michael Spice
Autolycus
a rogue: Derek Smith
the
old shepherd: Cyril Luckham
the
clown, his son: David Timson
Perdita,
his daughter: Angela Pleasence
Florizel:
Christopher Guard
Time:
John Gielgud
Mamillius/Dorcus:
Patience Tomlinson
Dion/Court
officer: John Livesey
Archidamus/Cleomenes:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Doctor/Servant:
Spencer Banks
Pauline's
steward: Alan Dudley
Emilia:
Pauline Letts
Mopsa:
Theresa Streatfeild
Lady:
Jill Lidstone
First
Lord/Mariner: Stephen Thorne
Gaoler/Rogeto:
George Parsons
Lord/Shepherd's
servant: Steve Hodson
Gentleman:
Hugh Dickson
Shepherdess:
Stella Forge
Repeated
from 21st January 1982
24th
February 1983:
19.00-22.00
with a 10 minute interval. :
Ironhand
by John Arden after Goethe's Goetz von Berlichineen
Through
the glass of this medieval story. Goethe saw modern free man in
chains; the princes absolute, stupid, surrounded by unscrupulous
counsellors; the church stagnant: the law unjust and corrupt. Goetz
Ironhand is a man who raises his iron fist against a decadent
civilisation.
Music
by David Timson
Adapted
for radio and directed by Martin Jenkins
Goetz
Ironhand: David Suchet
Weislingen:
John Woodvine
Adelheid:
Anna Massey
Marco:
Anna Cropper
Maria:
Maureen O'Brien
Selbitz:
Patrick Troughton
Sickingen:
John Turner
Lerse:
David Buck
the
Bishop: Harold Innocent
Karl:
Jill Lidstone
Georg:
Gary Cady
Franz:
Spencer Banks
Liebetraut/Officer:
David Timson
Margaret:
Wendy Murray
Dr
Olearlus/Second merchant: John Warner
Emperor/Chief
Judge: Hugh Dickson
Metzler:
John Hollis
Slevers:
David Gooderson
First
merchant/Bride'sfather: Alan Dudley
Peter:
Stephen Garlick
Goetz's
officer: Crawford Logan
Baron
von Sirau: David McAlister
Martin
Luther/Serjeant: Christopher Scott
Landlord/Wild:
Lee Harrington
Repeated
from 15th April 1982
27th
February 1983:
19.30
:
Pan
(1894) by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), translated and dramatised for
radio by Robert Ferguson
Set
in North Norway, this is the story of a summer idyll with a tragic
outcome. On a hunting holiday Lieutenant Glahn discovers that the
mystery of nature is less perplexing than the enigma of human
passion.
Directed
by Anthony Vivis
Lieutenant
Glahn: Robin Ellis
Edvarda:
Lynsey Baxter
Doctor:
John Normington
Mack:
Nigel Stock
Eva:
Jill Lidstone
Baron:
Hugh Oickson
Pedersen:
Alex Jennings
Maggie:
Rosalind Adams
Emma:
Frances Jeater
Karen:
Jean Trend
Jakob:
David Gooderson
Shop
assistant: Crawford Logan
3rd
March 1983:
19.30
:
The
Mist People by David Pownall
Three
down-and-outs who lean on one another for support are shaken when the
youngest begins to hear voices telling him to start a new life.
Directed
By: Alfred Bradley
BBC
Manchester
Paddy:
Gerard Mannix Flynn
Cyril:
Ronald Baddiley
Bob:
Freddie Jones
Waitress:
Paula Tilbrook
Ice-cream
man: John Jardine
Repeated
from 6th December 1981
6th
March 1983:
20.05
:
A.
N. Other by Ted Moore
Three
quick years in London as an unqualified osteopath and you come back
with a reject from the knacker's yard.
Footballer?
Him? It's like Jason coming home with a clip mat instead of the
Golden Fleece....'
Directed
by Tony Cliff
BBC
Manchester
Willy:
Alan Hockey
Miriam:
Adrienne Frank
Eric:
Arthur Blake
Sam:
Edward Wilson
Nelly:
Lizzie McKenzie
Little
Nettie: Christian Rodska
Hannah:
Kathleen Helme
Girl:
Denise Welch
Repeated
30th October 1983
[Leading
characters Sam and Eric also appeared in "Courting Miriam"
(1979), and "The Holy Road to Salford" (1983), Radio 3]
10th
March 1983:
19.00-21.45
:
The
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
A
1938 warning to the world against the criminality of Hitler, by
portraying him as, literally, a cheap hoodlum from Brooklyn who
exploits the cauliflower trade's depression by letting up protection
rackets which ultimately gain him total power in Chicago and Cicero.
But lest one think the play dated, Brecht later appended these final
words to his Epilogue:
<i>This
was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't
yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although
the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The
bitch that bore him is on heat again. </i>
Adapted
for radio and directed by Brian Miller BBC Bristol
Arturo
Ui: Bill Wallis
Newsboy:
Sonia Ritter
Pastor.:
Tom Watson
Flake/Bowl/Inna:
Mark Buffery
Woman/Batty
Dullfeet: Miranda Forbes
Counsel:
Leslie Heritage
Roma:
Malcolm Gerard
Clerk/Judge:
Ian Price
Butch/Prosecutor:
Brian Haines
Sheet/Gaffles:
Alan Dudley
Dogsborough:
John Gabriel
Young
Dogsborough/ Crocket: Peter Whitman
Girl:
Peter Woodthorpe
Givola:
Barry Dennen
Dockdaisy:
Heather Baskerville
Repeated
1st January 1984
13th
March 1983:
19.25
:
A
Small Apocalypse by Tadeus Konwicki adapted for radio and translated
by Janina David
Unable
to put pen to paper, a Polish writer living in Warsaw has tried
unsuccessfully to end his life. Suddenly a far more drastic solution
presents itself.
Directed
by Martin Jenkins
the
Writer: Alfred Burke
Hubert:
Maurice Denham
Edward:
Jim Norton
Richard:
Keith Drinkel
Nadiehzda:
Karen Archer
Interrogator:
Anthony Jackson
Tadzio:
Nigel Anthony
First
militiaman/TV commentator/Voice on screen: Nigel Graham
Caban/Robber:
Stuart Organ
Kolka:
Leonard Fenton
Halina:
Theresa Streatfeild
Usher/Mark:
Alex Jennings
Cinema
manager/Doctor: James Kerry
Kobialka/
John: Manning Wilson
Bulat:
Hugh Dickson
Hans
Jurgen Gonsiorek: Crawford Logan
Mrs
Gosla/Second woman: Madi Hedd
Sacher/Doctor:
Godfrey Kenton
Walter/Postman:
Jim Reid
Chef/American:
Roger Hammond
First
woman: Jean Trend
Third
woman: Gillian Rhind
Repeated
from 7th October 1982
17th
March 1983:
19.30
:
The
Flower Case by James Saunders
Purkiss
is a seedy Enquiry Agent and taking on the case of Mr Flower adds to
his natural state of suspicious confusion.
Directed
by Richard Wortley
Purkiss:
John Le Mesurier
Mr
Flower: Robert Lang
Mrs
Flower: Gwen Watford
Wilburt:
Derek Fowlds
Gita:
Rosalind Adams
Repeated
from 24th October 1982
Also
repeated on Radio 4 on 10th October 1983 and 22nd June 1985.
19th
March 1983
19.10-19.30
:
The
Honeywood File by H. B. Creswell, Dramatised By Judi Price
The
trials and tribulations of a young architect in the 1920s.
Directed
by Peter King
Sir
Leslie Brash: Alan Dudley
James
Spin love: Spencer B Anks
Frederick
Dalbet: Hugh Dickson
Phyllis:
Alex Marshall
Potch:
John Warner
[Previously
Broadcast as 3 x 5 minute episodes, 17/5/82, 18/5/82, 19/5/1982]
[There
was an earlier version in 1961/2 produced by Robert Gunnell]
20th
March 1983:
17.30-18.15:
Out
of the Cell
An
exploration of the writer as prisoner by Ronald Hayman
Directed
By: Piers Plowright
The
Prisoner: Dinsdale Landen
Prisoner's
Wife: Frances Jeater
Also
with: Deborah Norton, Godfrey Kenton, Robin Browne, Simon Hewitt,
Kate Beswick, Irene Hanlon
27th
March 1983:
18.30-21.00
with a ten minute interval.:
The
British Empire by John Spurling
Part
1 of 3: Dominion Over Palm and Pine.
The
British Empire has no single hero. but a succession of semi-heroes,
semi-villains, whose intentions and actions echo and contrast with
one another through half-a-century and 59 scenes. Courage and
treachery, efficiency and ineptitude, philanthropy and inhumanity are
its themes. These people lived and these things happened between 1820
and 1885; they are part of a symphonic drama and not a documentary.
Technical
team: David Greenwood, David Chilton, and Vanessa Ellner
Directed
by Richard Wortley
Burton:
John Turner
Isabel
Burton: Thelma Whiteley
Letty
Landon: Marly Cruickshank
Captain
Maclean: Bill Paterson
Nana
Sahib: Zia Mohyeddin
George:
John Hollis
Dr
Brydon: Geoffrey Beevers
Also
with: Gordon Reid, Phillip Voss, David Brierley, Patience Tomlinson,
Crawford Logan, Anthony Newlands, Peter Tuddenham, Joe Dunlop,
Mahdav Sharma, Manning Wilson , Sean Barrett, Renu Setna, George
Parsons, David Gooderson, Ronald Herdman, James Kerry, Michael
Spice, Alan Dudley, Steve Hodson, Miranda Forbes, Spencer Banks, Alex
Jennings, Louis Mahoney , Lionel Ngakne, Minoo Golvala and Albert
Moses
Repeated
from 25th November 1982
[Part
2- see 31/3/83; Part 3 was in 1985]
31st
March 1983:
19.45:
The
British Empire by John Spurling
Part
2 of 3: The Christian Hero
Technical
team: Carol McShane, David Chilton and Bert Coules
Directed
by Richard Wortley
Burton:
John Turner
General
Wolseley: David Buck
Isabel
Burton: Thelma Whitely
General
Gordon: John Rowe
Jordan:
Norman Beaton
Gladstone:
David March
Also
with Ronald Herdman, Anthony Newlands, Peter Baldwin, Stephen Thorne,
Jim Reid, James Kerry, Charles Hodgson, Garrick Hagan,
Steve
Hodson , Simon Hewitt Peter Tuddenham, Stuart Organ, Theresa
Streatfeild, Geoffrey Kissoon, Anton Phillips, Frank Singuineau,
Norman Beaton, Hugh Dickson, Joe Dunlop and Miranda Forbes
Repeated
from 2nd December 1982
[Part
3 was in 1985- note that the BBC have no record of programs
transmitted 2-15/4/83]
Due
to industrial action no Radio Times was published covering the
broadcast dates 2nd to 15th April 1983.
21st
April 1983:
19.00
:
I,
William Shakespeare by John Wilders and John Powell
Imagined
scenes from a documentary life
Music
directed by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson
Music
played and sung by Philip Astle and Paul Williamson with their NOYSE
OF MUSITIANS and Evelyn Tubb (soprano) John Potter (tenor), Graham
Jeffery (treble)
Special
sound by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Technical
production by Robin Cherry
Directed
by John Powell
William
Shakespeare: Martin Jarvis
James
Burbage: Douglas Blackwell
Richard
Burbage,: Michael Williams
Richard
Tarleton: John Hollis
John
Shakespeare: David March
Gilbert,
his younger: David Brierley
Anne,
his wife: Frances Jeater
Susanna,
his daughter: Rosalind Adams
William,
the boy: J Lidstone
John
Bretchgirdle, the minister: Leonard Fenton
Thomas
Jenkins, the school master: Timothy Bateson
Henry
Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton: John Rye
Queen
Elizabeth: Mary Wimbush
Also
with Hugh Dickson, Steve Hodson and Crawford Logan.
Repeated
from Radio 4, 22nd April 1982, repeated 2nd May 1982
28th
April 1983
20.00
:
Journey
to Jura by James Robson
Throughout
their unhappy childhood, Michael and Janey clung to the belief that
the island of Jura somehow contained the mystical solution to their
problems. Now, 20 years later, they revisit the island....
Directed
by Caroline Smith
BBC
Manchester
Michael:
Jonathan Newth
Janey:
Sue Jenkins
teacher/Jean:
Maggie McCarthy
a
boy Michael: Susan Sheridan
Tarbet:
Jack Carr
Henry/Vet:
Russell Dixon
Repeated
from 26th December 1982
29th
April 1983:
19.05-19.30:
Yes
and No
A
theatrical fragment by Graham Greene
Producer:
John Tydeman
Actor:
Alex Jennings
Director:
Clive Francis
Repeated
20th March 1984
1st
May 1983:
19.45
:
Five
Hours with Mario by Miguel Delibes, translated from the Spanish by
Nick Caistor
In
a small Spanish town, Carmen mourns the sudden death of her
husband,Mario. Memories of their life together flood through her
mind.
Directed
By: Cherry Cookson
Carmen:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mario:
Simon Hewitt
Valen:
Madi Hedd
Also
with Josefina Molina, Santiago Paredes, Jose Samano
Repeated
27th October 1983
5th
May 1983:
20.00
- 22.00 :
Over
the Hills and Far Away by Martyn Wade
The
Australian-born composer Percy Grainger was a unique personality.
Strikingly handsome, a brilliant pianist, he was much loved by all
who knew him, and devoted to his mother. This play celebrates the
life of a most unusual and talented musician.
Stuart
Hutchinson (piano and harmonium)
Technical
presentation by Marsail MacCuish with Richard Beadsmoore and Paul
Peartson.
Directed
by Cherry Cookson
Musician,
Delius: Jack May
Young
Percy: Jill Lidstone
Percy
Grainger: David Collings
Rose
Grainger: Vivian Pickles
Ella
Grainger: Sarah Badel
Burnett
Cross: David Healy
Cyril
Scott: David Timson
Balfour
Gardiner: Christopher Scott
John
Grainger: Peter Baldwin
Herman
Sandby: Geoffrey Matthews
Grieg:
Philip Voss
Also
with: Neville Jason, Garrick Hagon, Miranda Forbes, Rosalind Adams,
Stuart Organ, Madi Hedd, Crawford Logan, Peter Tuddenham and Alex
Jennings
First
broadcast on Radio 4 on 27th December 1982
Repeated
on Radio 3: 2nd July 1995
8th
May 1983
19.45
:
Diana's
Uncle and Other Relatives by David Cregan
The
middle 1950s up to the present day
Diana
has been trying to ' find herself ' by finding a purpose and mission
in life. It has not been easy. and she has adopted many disparate
causes in one way and another.
Directed
By: John Tydeman
Diana:
Anna Massey
Uncle
Saul: Bernard Hepton
Annie
her friend: Sheila Grant
Miss
Twentyman her teacher: Sylvia Coleridge
her
father: Michael Spice
her
mother: Mary Wimbush
Martin
her sometime husband: Bruce Alexander
Kampuchean
leader: Burt Kwouk
Other
parts played by Rosalind Adams, Nigel Graham, Alex Jennings, James
Kerry, Stuart Organ, Jim Reid and Patience Tomlinson
Repeated
from 11th November 1982
12th
May 1983:
20.00
:
Caritas
by Arnold Wesker
Repeated
from 6th January 1983 - please see above.
15th
May 1983:
19.55
:
The
Dog it was That Died by Tom Stoppard
Rupert
Purvis is a spy. He is also a counter-spy and even a
counter-counter-spy. When, confused as to who his real masters are
and why, he cracks and writes a suicide note making wild allegations
about his colleagues and superiors, there has to be an investigation.
The truths revealed are stranger than any fictions.
Directed
By: John Tydeman
Giles
Blair: Charles Gray
Rupert
Purvis: Dinsdale Landen
Pamela
Blair: Penelope Keith
Hogben:
Kenneth Cranham
Seddon:
John Le Mesurler
Arlon:
Stephen Murray
Matron:
Betty Marsden
The
Chief: Maurice Denham
the
Vicar: Noel Howlett
Wren:
Lockwood West
Slack:
Peter Tuddenham
Mrs
Ryan: Katherine Parr
Repeated
from 9th December 1982.
Repeated
on Radio 4 on 14th August 1983 and 12th August 1990
Repeated
on BBC World Service September 1993.
Repeated
on BBC7 June 2003
[There
was also a play with this name on Radio 4 by H R F Keating, in
November 1971]
18th
May 1983:
21.55-22.35:
Visions
Before Midnight by Francis Watson.
An
anatomie of Sir Thomas Browne drawn from his own writings and those
of his friends and critics.
by
Francis Watson with David Buck as Sir Thomas Browne Anthony Newlands
as Dr Samuel Johnson Hugh Dickson as The Rev John Whitefoot and
Crawford Logan as Sir Kenelm Digby
Producer:
Piers Plowright
Sir
Thomas Browne: David Buck
Dr
Samuel Johnson: Anthony Newlands
John
Whitefoot: Hugh Dickson
Sir
Kenelm Digby: Crawford Logan
Repeated
from 19th October 1982
19th
May 1983:
20.00
:
Travellers
by William Trevor.
Mrs
Daveridge cannot sleep, troubled by memories and by doubts. Perhaps
she should have cancelled the Venice holiday, after her husband's
death. Now she travels with her son. Slowly. uncertainly, one
thought leads to another. and a horrifying image takes shape in Mrs
Daveridge's mind.
Directed
By: Michael Heffernan
Mrs
Daveridge with: Avril Elgar
Gerard:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Signora
Lotti: Gigi Gatti
Police
Insp: Stephen Thorne
Ex-gondolier:
Robert Rietty
Mrs
Eames: Madi Hedd
a
boy Gerard: Milo Twomey
Guide:
Alexandra Mathie
Yo-yo
seller: Jim Reid
Army
chaplain: James Kelly
Doctor:
Alex Jennings
Tourist:
Frances Jeater
Repeated
from 12th December 1982
22nd
May 1983:
20.05
:
A
Strangled Cry (Vor dem Ersticken ein Schrei) by Christoph Buggert,
English version by Alan Miles.
A
disturbing view of contemporary life is unfolded in a kaleidoscope of
bizarre and macabre events.
["A
woman is supposed to describe her husband, who probably died in an
accident, she can not think of anything." ]
["Of
all the interpretations of the situation in which we live, the most
plausible to me is that we are moving into a state of total
disorientation. My radio play is a description of the increasing
tiredness in us, the exhaustion, the inability to continue to
separate what should actually be and what should not be so." -
Buggert]
Technical
presentation by David Greenwood, David Chilton and Bert Coules
Directed
By: Richard Wortley
With
Frances Jeater, Alex Jennings, Pauline Letts, Jill Lidstone, Crawford
Logan, Amanda Murray, Henry Stamper, Peter Tuddenham
Repeated
on 1st December 1983
[Part
1 of a 3 part trilogy- other titles -not BBC plays- were Nullmord
(1987), and Roter Hahn (1989)]
26th
May 1983:
20.15
:
Autumn
Sunshine by William Trevor (1928-2016)
The
death of Canon Moran's wife is obviously a terrible loss to him.
although the old man's sadness is alleviated a little by the
unexpected return of his favourite daughter, Deirdre.
Unfortunately
Deirdre's friend, Harold, with his morbid fascination for violence,
is less than a blessing.
Piano:
Philip Hammond
Technical
presentation by Colm Flanacan
Directed
by Robert Cooper
BBC
Northern Ireland
Canon
Moran: John Welsh
Deirdre:
Deirdre Donnelly
Harold:
Tony McEwan
Una:
Susie Kelly
Carley:
Kevin Flood
Emma:
Roisin Donaghy
Thomas:
Mark Mulholland
Linda:
Stella McCusker
John:
John Hewitt
Slattery:
Ian McElhinney
Publican:
Catherine Gibson
Mrs
Roche: Margaret D'Arcy
Newscaster:
Paddy Scully
Repeated
from 2nd Noveber 1982
Repeated
on BBC Radio 4 on 2nd April 1986
Repeated
on BBC7 2003
[This
play won a Giles Cooper Award, 1982]
29th
May 1983
20.00
:
The
Holy Road to Salford by Ted Moore
'Come
with me, Sam! We'll gaze upon white towers and sleek cupolas,
exchange dialectics on corporation buses. There'll be deep spiritual
exchanges in Hankey Park, moments of carefree transcendental joy as
we paddle idly in the Irwell and talk of illumination.'
Directed
by Tony Cliff
BBC
Manchester
Erie:
Arthur Blake
Sam:
Edward Wilson
Willy:
Alan Hockey
Nelly:
Lizzie McKenzie
Miriam:
Adrienne Frank
Dorothy:
Denise Welch
Hannah:
Kathleen Helme
Little
Nettie: Christian Rodska
2nd
June 1983:
20.00
:
Oedipus
by Seneca, the Ted Hughes version.
Music
by Ilona Sekacz
Seneca's
reworking of the Greek legend.
Having
solved the riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus Is proclaimed King of Thebes
and marries the Queen Jocasta, but he is faced with a new riddle when
the city is struck by a deadly plague. Who is responsible?
Directed
by Martin Jenkins
Oedipus:
Martin Jarvis
Jocasta:
Slim Phillips
Creon:
John Rowe
Tiresias:
Hugh Dickson
Manto
his daughter: Frances Jeater
Corinthian
Messenger: Nigel Graham
Phorbas:
Timothy Bateson
Theban
Slave: David Cooderson
Chorus
Leader: Stephen Thorne
Chorus.:
James Bryce, Jill Lidstonie, David Peart, Jean Trend
Repeated
23rd February 1984
5th
June 1983
19.30
:
Thyestes
by Seneca, Translated By: Jane Elder
Atreus
and Thyestes have fought a long and bitter civil war. Exiled,
Thyestes is persuaded to return home, ostensibly to share the throne
but, in reality, Atreus Is plotting a horrifying act of revenge.
Music
By: Christos Pittas
Singer:
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Thyestes:
Denis Quilley
Atreus:
Richard Pasco
The
Messenger: Anton Lesser
Fury:
Hugh Dickson
Ghost
of Tantalus: David March
Courtier:
Anthony Newlands
Tantalus,
Thyestes' son: Crawford Logan
His
brothers: Stuart Organ, Simon Hewitt
Chorus:
Hugh Dickson, David Gooderson, Simon Hewitt, Anton Lesser,
Crawford Logan, Stuart Organ, Richard Pasco, Denis Quilley, Peter
Tuddenham
Repeated
16th Februaru 1984
9th
June 1983:
19.30
:
The
Death of the Pythia or What Really Might Have Happened to Oedipus by
Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted for radio by Hans Hausmann and Martin
Esslin.
Repeated
from 9th January 1983- please see above.
12th
June 1983
20.00
:
Return
from Paradise (Fudaraku-no-Kishlbe) by Kiyokazu Yamamoto translated
from the Japanese by John Bester
Music
by Seiichiro Uno
This
play, set in 16th-century Japan, deals with a clash of Christian and
Buddhist Ideas about the voyage to Fudaraku (paradise) - in western
eyes a type of ritual suicide.
This
play won the RAI prize at the 1981 Prix Italia in its Japanese
production by NHK. This English production uses the original music
and sound effects tapes.
With
members of the Gekidan Subaru
Directed
By: Ian Cotterell
Father
Joao Almeida: Hugh Dickson
Tozen,
the Holy Voyager: Steve Hodson
Haru,
a blkuni: Jill Lidstone
Chief
Supervisor: John Bott
Official
Senshiro Harada: Anthony Newlands
Old
Women: Margot Boyd, Peggy Paige, Katherine Parr, Gladys Spencer
Repeated
from 14th Noveber 1982
Repeated
on Radio 4 on 20th April 1985
16th
June 1983:
19.30
-21.50 :
Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare
with
Music composed by Ilona Sekacz
Technical
presentation by Tim Sturgeon, Richard Beadsmore,
Sarah
Rosewarne and on location by Cedric Johnson and Andy Leslie.
Directed
by Richard Wortley
Romeo:
Ian Saynor
Juliet:
Harriet Walter
the
Nurse: Elizabeth Spriggs
Friar
Laurence: Stephen Thorne
Mercutio:
William Nighy
Benvollo:
Alex Jennings
Chorus/Prince
of Verona: Hugh Dickson
Tybalt:
Stuart Organ
Paris:
David Gooderson
Capulet:
Timothy Bateson
Lady
Capulet: Frances Jeater
Montague:
Ronald Baddiley
Lady
Montague: Hilda Schroder
Peter:
David Peart
Balthazar:
Steve Hodson
Apothecary:
James Bryce
Friar
John: Danny Schiller
Page:
Jeremy Booker
Other
parts ptayed by James Bryce, Steve Hodson, David Peart and Danny
Schiller
Repeated
26th January 1984
19th
June 1983:
19.05
:
The
Dutch Curtezan (1605) by John Marston (1576-1634) adapted for radio
by Peter Barnes
Two
friends, one repressed and Puritan the other quite the opposite and
about to be married, both with a relationship with a courtesan.
Fabulae
Argumentum. The difference betwixt the love of a Curtezan and a wife,
is the full scope of the Play, which intermixed with the deceits of a
wittie Citie Jester, fils up the Comedie.
Music
composed and conducted by Stephen Deutsch
Melissa
Phelps (cello); Thomas Martin (double-bass); Maxim Rolands (piano)
John Leach (cimbalom); Ann Cherry (flute); Malcolm Messiter (oboe,
cor anglais); David Campbell (clarinet, bass clarinet); conducted by
Stephen Deutsch
Directed
By: Ian Cotterell
Young
Freevill: Martin Jarvis
Francischina:
Dilys Laye
Malheureux:
Clive Francis
Beatrice:
Tina Marian
Crispinella:
Elizabeth Proud
Cocledemoy:
Alan Rickman
Maister
Mulligrub: Roy Kinnear
Caqueteur:
John Warner
Tysefew:
Michael Spice
Mary
Faugh: Kathleen Helme
Holifernes
Rains-Cure: Spencer Banks
Mistresse
Mulligrub: Ann Beach
Putifer:
Peggy Paige
Maister
Burnish: Ronald Herdman
Lionell:
Stuart Organ
Sir
Lionell Freevill: Ronald Herdman
Sir
Hubert Subboys: John Livesey
Repeated
from 18th November 1982
[Background-
London had a brothel called "Holland's Leguer". Mary Faugh
and the Mulligrubs are identified as "Familists" (Family of
Love) a Christian sect, possible forerunners of the Quakers.]
23rd
June 1983
19.30
:
True
West by Sam Shepard
Southern
California. Cool nights and days of blazing heat and blinding light.
Austin has come to his mother's home to work on a screenplay. Then a
visitor arrives from the desert. Hall wild, half domesticated, like
the coyotes that nightly scavenge the trash cans.
Directed
By: Peter King
Lee:
Lee Montague
Austin:
Jonathan Pryce
Saul
Kimmer: Alan Tilvern
Mom:
Mildred Shay
Repeated
9th February 1984
3rd
July 1983:
19.30
:
The
Trial by Franz Kafka dramatised for radio by Hanif Kureishi
Joseph
K is an unexceptional man. He lives a quiet life and works in a bank.
But one ordinary morning he is woken by two men, and finds himself
under arrest. What Is his crime? From that moment on Joseph K enters
a strange, bewildering world of nightmare.
Directed
By: David Spenser
Joseph
K: Mike Gwilym
Willem:
David Peart
Franz:
Stuart Organ
Frau
Grubach: Madi Hedd
Inspector:
Simon Hewitt
Neighbour:
Eva Stuart
Block:
Michael Bilton
Woman
in the Courtroom: Rosalind Adams
Advocate:
Nigel Graham
Examining
Magistrate: Edward Cast
Secretary:
Jean Trend
Girl:
Wendy Murray
Representative
of Enquiries Department: Ray Jones
Bank
Clerk: Robi Browne
Uncle:
Stephen Thorne
Leni:
Miriam Margolyes
Titoralli/Whipper:
Jim Reid
Priest:
Hugh Dickson
First
broadcast on Radio 4 on 29th November 1982 and 5th December 1982
4th
July 1983:
22.00
:
Fear,
Again and Again written By: Michael Foss
A
reconstruction of the final years of Franz Kafka. On Tuesday 3 June
1924, Dr Franz Kafka, a writer in German who used to live in Prague,
died in Kierling Sanatorium, near Vienna. Here in Prague very few
people knew him, for he was a hermit, a man of insight who was
frightened by life. He was shy, timid, gentle and kind, but his books
were cruel and painful.'
Directed
By: Maurice Leitch
Kafka:
Kenneth Cranham
with
Timothy Bateson, Charlotte Cornwell, Hilda Schroder, James Bryce,
James Kerry, Michael Bilton and Brett Usher
7th
July 1983:
19.30
:
All
for Love (or The World Well Lost) John Dryden
To
conform to the dramatic rules of his day. Dryden reconcelved and
rewrote Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The result is a powerful
example of post- Restoration tragedy.
Directed
By: Martin Jenkins
Anthony:
John Turner
Octavia:
Maureen O'Brien
Cleopatra:
Barbara Jefford
Ventidius:
Nigel Stock
Alexas:
David March
Dollabella:
John Rowe
Serapion,
a Priest: Hugh Dickson
Myris:
Stephen Thorne
Iras:
Jill Lidstone
Charmion:
Frances Jeater
Repeated
22nd March 1984
10th
July 1983:
19.15
:
Summer
by Edward Bond
Marthe
lives In a cliff- top house on the Yugoslavian coast. Once the house
was Xenia's and Marthe was her servant. Xenia visits her and the two
of them are forced to reconsider the life they once shared ...
A
National Theatre production
Executive
producer Anthony Vivis
Directed
by Edward Bond
Marthe:
Yvonne Bryceland
Xenla:
Anna Massey
Ann:
Eleanor David
David:
David Yelland
German:
David Ryall
Drunk:
Robert Oats
Other
parts played by Jill Lidstone, Crawford Logan, Wendy Murray, Patience
Tomlinson
Repeated
from 23rd December 1982
14th
July 1983:
19.30
:
The
Seagull by Anton Chekhov translated by Elisaveta Fen
'
... An idea suddenly came into my head. A subject for a short story:
a young girl, like you, has lived beside a lake from childhood. She
loves the lake as a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a
seagull. But a man chances to come along, sees her, and having
nothing better to do, destroys her just like this seagull here.'
Directed
By: Gerry Jones
Arkadina:
Gwen Watford
Nina:
Petra Markham
Trigorin:
James Laurenson
Konstantln:
Michael Maloney
Masha:
Patience Tomiinson
Dr
Dorn: Richard Pearson
Sorin:
Cyril Shaps
Polena:
Jennifer Piercey
Medviedenko:
Sion Probert
Shamrayev:
Nicholas Courtney
Yakov:
Haydn Wood
Repeated
from 27th April 1981
17th
July 1983
19.30
:
The
Spectre by David Cregan (1931-2015)
A
middle-ranking Foreign Office diplomat has committed suicide. Such
was his nature in life, and such the circumstances of his death, that
there is inevitably an investigation into the reasons for it. Perhaps
it was really a question of loyalties, personal ones rather than
patriotic ones.
Directed
By: John Tydeman
Roberts:
Edward Hardwicke
Investigator:
Clive Swift
Smith:
Charles Kay
Emily:
Helen Horton
Spencer:
William Roberts
Mario:
Steve Hodson
Repeated
18th November 1984
20th
July 1983
21.00-21.20:
Kin
by Gabriel Josipovici
A
man sitting alone in the middle of an empty room is visited by
another man. They engage in an intensely personal dialogue, part
interrogation, part confession. Are the two men friends? Brothers? Is
one, or indeed either of them, in that empty room at all?
Directed
By: John Theocharis
Parts
played by Kenneth Haigh and Bernard Gallagher
Repeated
5th April 1984
21st
July 1983
19.30
:
A
Mad World, My Masters (1605) by Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) adapted
for radio by Peter Barnes (1931-2004)
Directed
By: Penny Gold
Dick
Follywit: Roy Marsden
Sir
Bounteous Progress: James Villiers
Francesca:
Theresa Streatfeild
Penitent
Brothel: Ian McDiarmid
Hoboy:
Steve Hodson
Mawworm:
Simon Hewitt
Francesca's
mother: Brenda Bruce
Shortrod
Harebrain: Stephen Thorne
Mistress
Harebrain: Miranda Forbes
Posset
¶: James Kerry
Inesse:
Jim Reid
Sir
Colewort/Jasper: Hugh Dickson
Gunwater
(Gumwater)/Rafe (Ralph): Ronald Baddiley
Constable/Watchman:
Chas Bryer
Footman:
David Gooderson
[¶
The original play has no character named Posset, this may refer to a
character called Possibility, who holds land <i>in posse</i>
-anticipated possession- as opposed to <i>in esse</i> in
possession. In the play Inesse and Possibility are brothers, the
names should be linked! Two other names differ from the original
text, the original character names are in brackets() above. The
Courtesan was unnamed in the original. Gumwater was a solution of gum
arabic. A maw-worm was a nemotode parasite. ]
[Peter
Barnes adapted two other Middleton plays for radio 3]
Repeated
7th October 1984.
28th
July 1983:
21.50
:
You've
Never Slept in Mine by Jessie Kesson (1916-1994)
A
day In the life of 15-year-old Debbie, newly-arrived in a girls'
assessment centre where no one keeps secrets for long, and the law of
the jungle is rigid and vicious.
Music
composed and played by Robert Sandall
Directed
By: Marilyn Ireland
Debbie:
Elaine Collins
Ginny:
Maureen Carr
Carol:
Phyllis Logan
Wilma:
Caroline Guthrie
Susan:
Tracey Spence
Miss
McCabe: Terry Cavers
Debbie's
mother: Eileen McCallum
Debbie's
father: Finlay McLean
(First
broadcast on Radio Scotland)
[32
page script held by University of Glasgow]
31st
July 1983:
22.00
:
Kisch-Kisch
by Alun Owen
Two
brothers meet again after the funeral of David's wife. It becomes an
evening of confession and expiation.
Directed
By: John Tydeman
David:
Geoffrey Palmer
John:
Charles Kay
Repeated
from 19th October 1983
August
brings the Proms with short readings or monologues in between the
music, plus poetry, discussions, conversations, presentations,
histories- not a lot of drama.
14th
August 1983:
18.50
- 19.30:
Fishfall
on 47th Street by Ruth Brandon.
Charles
Fort couldn't get the Book of the Damned published because it
contained no love interest. Theodore Dreiser's novel The Genius was
banned because of lewdness. Taking their long correspondence as her
starting point, Ruth Brandon has written a fictional account of how
the two writers planned authorial revenge.
Directed
By: Clare Taylor
Charles
Fort: Lou Hirsch
Theodore
Dreiser: Ed Bishop
Anna
Fort: Frances Jeater
Jones:
Nigel Graham
Mrs
Konopke: Miranda Forbes
Ellen:
Theresa Streatfeild
Mona:
Wendy Murray
Reporter:
Crawford Logan
Repeated
from 7th December 1982
18th
August 1983:
21.45
:
Watching
the Plays Together by Rhys Adrian.
Every
evening Rosemary and Gerald sit down in front of their television set
and watch the plays together. Sometimes she leaves the room to make
tea or phone her mother, sometimes he reads the paper. Every evening
they talk to each other as successive teleplays unfold upon the
screen. Occasionally they recognise similarities between the screen
fiction and people they know. There comes a point when fact and
fiction become confused.
Directed
By: John Tydeman
Rosemary:
Rosemary Leach
Gerald:
James Grout
The
actors in the plays within the play are played by Frances Jeater and
Ronald Herdman.
[A
Giles Cooper Award Winner 1983]
Repeated
from 17th October 1982
Also
repeated on Radio 4 on 22nd September 1984.
21st
August 1983:
17.45-20.00
:
A
Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) translated by Isaiah
Berlin.
Engaged
by Natalaya Petrovna as a temporary tutor for her son, the student
Beryaev's fresh young presence disturbs the fragile balance of
everything in the quiet provincial world of her house in the country.
Music
composed by Max Early
Directed
by David Spenser
Natalaya
Petrovna: Maureen O'Brien
Mikhail
Aleksandrovich Rakitin: Mike Gwilym
Vera
Aleksandrovna: Sylvestra Le Touzel
Ignaty
Ilyich Shpigelsky: Benjamin Whitrow
Aleksey
Nikolayevich: Gerard Murphy
Arkady
Sergeyevich Islayev: Gabriel Woolf
Anna
Semyenovna Islayeva: Jill Balcon
Afanassi
Ivanovich: Roger Hammond
Kolia:
Jill Lidstone
Lizavyeta
Bogdanovna: Maggie McCarthy
Adam
Ivanovich Schaaf: Danny Schiller
Matvei:
Clive Panto
Katya:
Pauline Siddle
Repeated
13th February 1985
[There
have been a number of radio productions of this play in various
translations, from 1941 onwards...]
25th
August 1983:
21.35
:
The
Barometer by Alexandr Kliment (1929-2017) translated by James
Naughton
Two
elderly people meet on a train. They get into conversation and
gradually they discover that they needn't settle for rife as it is
...
Directed
By: Christopher Venning
Clara
Stepankova: Pauline Letts
Emmanuel
Navratil: Michael Spice
Other
parts played by Jean Trend, David Peart
28th
August 1983:
19.30
:
Liberty
Comes to Krahwinkel (Freiheit in Krahwinkel) by Johann
Nestroy(1801-1862) translated and freely adapted for radio by Sybil
and Colin Welch.
This
satirical comedy, first produced in Vienna in 1848, lightheartedly
reflects the excitement of the student revolution of that year and
the downfall of Metternich, Chancellor of Austria.
Music
composed by Elizabeth Poston.
The
Richard Hickox singers and the City of London Sinfonia Instrumental
Ensemble. Music direction by John Rutter
Directed
By: Glyn Dearman
Ultra:
George Layton
Burgomaster:
John Hollis
Klaus:
Timothy Bateson
Frau
von Frankenfrei: Frances Jeater
Nightwatchman:
Eric Allan
Pemperl:
Alan Dudley
Schabenfellner:
Geoffrey Collins
Cacilie:
Jill Lidstone
Wachs:
John Webb
Pfilfspitz:
Peter Tuddenham
Reaczerl:
John Rye
Emerenzia:
Hilda Schroder
Actor-manager:
Michael Bilton
Sperling:
Clive Panto
Rummelpuff:
James Bryce
Frau
Pemperl: Margot Boyd
Frau
Schabenfellner: Jane Wenham
Frau
Kloppel: Jill Simcox
Frau
von Schnabelbeiss: Kadi Hedd
Adele:
Pauline Siddle
Walpurga:
Kathhyn Hurlbutt
Other
parts played by Christian Comber, Michael Jenner and Alex Jennings
4th
September 1983:
18.15
:
They
Are Dying Out (Die Unvernunftigen sterben aus - 1973) by Peter
Handke translated by Michael Roloff
Are
the great capitalist entrepreneurs the dinosaurs of our society? If
so, Hermann Quitt, a leading industrialist alienated from both
himself and the world, is determined to go out with a bang.
Music
by James Walker
Music
played by James Walker and Tony McVey
Directed
by Penny Gold
Hermann
Quitt: Tom Wilkinson
Count
von Wullnow: Robert Stephens
Hans:
Ronald Herdman
Franz
Kilb: Bill Nighy
Berthold
Koerber-Kent: Kerry Francis
Karl-Heinz
Lutz: Ian Frost
Paula
Tax: Monica Grey
Quilt's
wife: Maggie McCarthy
8th
September 1983
21.45
:
Portions
Mechanically Reproduced by Carol Adorjan
Roberta
and Ernest are obsessed with tape recorders and video equipment. So
much so that the outside world has lost its reality. Their lives are
filled with games and illusions.
Directed
By: Peter King
Roberta:
Margaret Tyzack
Ernest:
Gary Waldhorn
Repeated
from 9th November 1982
15th
September 1983
21.30
:
Rotunda
Blue by Neil Donnelly
Two
couples meet in a Dublin flat for a swinging party but by the end of
the evening perhaps no one's hopes will be realised.
Directed
by Marilyn Ireland
BBC
Northern Ireland
Siobhain:
Deirdre Donnelly
Ollie:
Michael Lally
Doreen:
Marcella O'Riordan
Fergus:
Maoliosa Stafford
Repeated
8th July 1984
[A
radio script is held by the University of Glasgow]
18th
September 1983
19.00-21.00
:
Serjeant
Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
A
serjeant and three soldiers arrive in a strike-ridden northern town
during the winter time, 100 years ago.
Ostensibly
they are there to find recruits, but, in fact, they are deserters,
and the serjeant is obsessed with a passionate belief that he must
wake his countrymen to the futility and brutality of war.
Music
arranged by: Ilona Sekacz
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Private
Sparky: Keith Drinkel
Private
Hurst: William Nighy
Private
Attercliffe: Norman Jones
Bludgeon,
a bargee: Bryan Pringle
Serjeant
Musgrave: John Thaw
Parson:
John Rye
Mrs
Hitchcock: Katherine Parr
Annie:
Annette Robertson
Constable:
Nigel Graham
Mayor:
George A Cooper
Slow
collier: Steve Hodson
Pugnacious
collier: Don Henderson
Walsh,
an earnest collier: Crawford Logan
Trooper:
Stuart Organ
An
Officer: Jim Reid
First
broadcast on Radio 4 on 27th September 1982
Other
versions were produced by John Gibson (1962, rpt 1976) and Toby Swift
(2003)
22nd
September 1983:
19.30
:
Moondog
by Tom McGrath (1940-2009)
A
tragi-comic account of one man's attempt to opt out of his society
and his society's attempt to ensure that he cannot do so.
Directed
By: Tom Kinninmont
BBC
Scotland
Jack:
Ron Bain
Joe:
Gregor Fisher
Peggy:
Shelley Lee
Repeated
from 19th December 1982
[The
third story of a trilogy, 1: Who are you anyway (R3 18/6/81, 8/8/82)
2: Very important business (not on radio) ] [A copy of the radio
script is held by University of Glasgow]
23rd
September 1983:
21.55
:
Winter
is Coming by Aidan Higgins
An
elegy for Andalucia. As winter gathers over Southern Spain, four
expatriates watch themselves, each other and the world.
Location
recordings by Antonio Jesus Fernandez
Directed
By: Piers Plowright
Dan:
Norman Rodway
Olivia:
Frances Jeater
The
Warholes: James Kerry
The
Warholes: Sylvia Coleridge
Repeated
30th September 1984
25th
September 1983:
20.10
:
Brontosaurus
(1977) by Lanford Wilson (1937-2011)
I'm
uneasy with strangers. Relative strangers. Strangers who are
relatives - we are the nervous dumb brontosaurs who knew only that at
the very least their lives would have a form: a shape, a beginning
and a middle and for those who cared for it a progeny, and finally
and blissfully, or regrettably an end ...'
Directed
By: Ian Cotterell (1930-1995)
Antique
dealer: Margaret Robertson
Her
assistant: Denyse Alexander
Her
nephew: Rolf Saxon
Repeated
22nd July 1984
29th
September 1983:
19.30
:
Actors
or Playing for Real freely adapted by Peter Barnes from Evelyn
Rishburn's translation of Lo Fingido Verdadero (c 1608) by Lope de
Vega (1562-1635)
Music
composed and conducted by Stephen Boxer
Lope
de Vega is said to have written 1,500 plays of which about 400 have
survived. This black comedy chronicles the rise of the Emperor
Diocletian and the unlikely conversion and martyrdom of the Roman
actor Genesius - now the patron saint of all actors.
Directed
by: Ian Cotterell (1930-1995)
Curius:
James Kerry
Maximian:
Seak Arnold
Diocletian:
Timothy West
Camilla:
Ann Beach
Aurelius:
Ronald Baddiley
Numerian:
David Peart
Aper:
Patrick Baril
Carinus:
Alan Rickman
Cello:
Alex Jennings
Rosarda:
Frances Jeater
Genesius:
Denis Quilley
Lelius:
Edward Cast
Lentiulus:
Harold Innocent
Pinabelus:
Peter Woodthorpe
Patricius:
Michael Bilton
Marcella:
Tina Marian
Fabricius:
Timothy Bateson
Octavius:
Stephen Boxer
Soldier:
Stuart Organ
Also
with Madi Hedd, Hilda Schroder, Jean Trend
[The
Spanish title translates as "Real fakery" or "False
truth", also translated to "The Great Pretenders" and
"Acting is Believing"]
2nd
October 1983
19.30
:
Marching
Song by John Whiting,
Following
his country's defeat, General Forster has been imprisoned for seven
years. Now he has been released. Why did he lose the war? Should he
be subjected to a public trial, or should he agree to kill himself?
Directed
By: Martin Jenkins
Harry
Lancaster: Nigel Stock
Dido
Morgen: Frances Jeater
Matthew
Sangosse: Alan Dudley
Fr
Anselm: Manning Wilson
Catherine
de Troyes: Billie Whitelaw
Rupert
Forster: Michael Bryant
John
Cadmus,: Alan Webb
Bruno
Hurst: David Timson
First
broadcast on Radio 4 on 29th July 1974, repeated 4th August 1974, and
29th July 1979
[An
operatic version followed on Radio 3 on 3rd October 1983]
6th
October 1983:
19.30
:
The
Jigsaw Must Fit
A
play with music written and composed by Christopher Whelen
(1927-1993)
Technical
presentation by Peter Harwood and Richard Beadsmore
Directed
By: Ronald Mason
Professor
Durham: Robert Eddison
Marcia
Durham: Sian Phillips
Robin
Baumgarten: William Nighy
Joanna
Templeton: Elizabeth Proud
Seal:
Haydn Jones
Julie
Durham: Jill Lidstone
Journalists:
James Kerry
Journalists:
Stuart Organ
9th
October 1983:
19.15
:
The
Assassin (Les Mains Salles) by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
translated by Frank Hauser
'I
loved Hoederer ... I loved him more than I've ever loved anyone in
the world. I loved looking at him and listening to him ... when I was
with him I felt at peace. It's not my crime which is killing me, it's
his death.'
Directed
By: Martin Jenkins
Olga:
Miriam Margolyes
Hugo:
Christian Rodska
Charles:
Christopher Scott
Franz:
John McAndrew
Louis:
Martyn Read
Ivan:
David Bradshawe
Jessica:
Jane Knowles
Georges:
Anthony Jackson
Slick:
Tony Robinson
Hoederer:
Robert Lang
Karsky:
Brian Haines
Prince
Paul: Geoffrey Matthews
First
broadcast on Radio 4 on 8th December 1980
13th
October 1983
20.15
:
Caught
on the Crossing by Manny Draycott Michael's mother Eleanor feels
caught between two very different cultural backgrounds. Although
English, she spent a happy, European-style childhood in Corsica and
has never really settled in England since her return. Her impending
marriage into the upper middle-classes brings her to a real crisis of
identity as she observes their very different attitudes towards
elitism and violence in Directed By: Cherry Cookson
Bernard's
voice: Michael Jenner
Michael:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Eleanor:
Susan Wooldridge
Anthony:
Alan Rlckman
Michael's
mother: Maxlne Audley
Repeated
10th June 1984
16th
October 1983:
19.40
:
Out
in the Cold by Susan Hill
When
an elderly French woman who is dying leaves hospital in the dead of
winter and summons her daughter Cecile whom she has not seen for 11
years, is Cecile's compulsion to return to her mother inspired by
guilt - or is there some other motive?
Directed
By: Richard Wortley
Edith:
Pauline Letts
Cecile:
Fiona Walker
Alec:
Peter Howell
First
ambulance man: Steve Hodson
Second
ambulance man: Stephen Thorne
Cecile
as a child: Jill Lidstone
Old
woman: Katharine Parr
Repeated
from 16th December 1982
20th
October 1983:
19.30
:
Folkeraadet
(People's Council) by Gunnar Heiberg translated from the Norwegian
by Ian Rodger
Music
specially composed (1897) by Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
The
people are threatened by Invasion from a neighbouring country and.
exasperated by their vacillating, self-seeking leaders, send them to
lead the troops into battle.
The
music echoes the satire and Delius' use of the Norwegian National
Anthem provoked riots in the Christiana Theatre at its first
production in 1897 - leading to a pistol shot being fired.
BBC
Concert Orchestra conducted by Ashley Lawrence
Directed
by David Johnston
Ella:
Maureen O'Brien
the
Poet: Nigel Anthony
Sparrow:
Michael Deeks
Speaker
of the Council: Charles Simon
Brash:
Ronald Baddiley
Pomp:
Hugh Dickson
Gregorius:
Nigel Graham
Stoll:
John Rye
Vestby:
James Kerry
Tailor:
David Peart
Shoemaker:
Henry Stamper
Farmer/Second
stranger: Timothy Bateson
Constable:
Stephen Thorne
Tourist:
Alex Jennings
Curator:
Michael Bilton
First
woman: Madi Hedd
Second
woman: Jean Trend
Boy:
Jill Lidstone
Stranger/Second
boy: Stuart Organ
Repeated
16th December 1984
23rd
October 1983:
19.20-21.00
:
Never
In My Lifetime by Shirley Gee
The
love between a British soldier and a young girl from Belfast
inevitably entangled in the rage of conflicting
ideals.
The repercussions of a violent incident are felt by six people who
are and, in their different ways, closely involved.
Drums
played by Nigel Shipway
Directed
by David Spencer
Contributors
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
on Radio 4 on 27th February 1984 and 23rd July 1984.
27th
October 1983
20.00
:
Five
Hours with Mario by Miguel Delibes (1920-2010)
Repeated
from 1st May 1983- please see above.
30th
October 1983:
20.05
:
A.
N. Other by Ted Moore
Repeated
from 6th March 1983 - please see above.
3rd
November 1983
20.10
:
Ar
Lan y Mor by Nigel Baldwin
A
young, English working-class couple, Sarn and Phil, have just got
married. Their marriage could hardly be described as Ideal neither of
them has much money and Phil has to go straight back home after the
short honeymoon and sign on '. Through the sad but poetic Welsh
proprietress of the guest house where they are staying, they discover
that there are worse things than not having enough money ...
Directed
by Richard Wortley
Einwen:
Meg Wynn Owen
Sarn:
Pauline Siddle
Phil:
Russell Dixon
Selwyn:
Richard Derrington
Man:
John Webb
[The
title Ar lan y môr, translates as "beside the
sea" or "by the seaside" and is a Welsh love song]
Repeated
2nd September 1984
6th
November 1983
18.15
-21.00 (with a ten minute interval):
Luther
by John Osborne
To
coincide with the 500th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther on
10 November 1483, this is the first radio production of John
Osborne's epic play originally staged in the theatre in 1961.
Luther,
outspoken critic of the High Church, attacks the abuse of
indulgences.
Directed
by John Tydeman
Martin
Luther: Clive Merrison
Prior:
James Kerry
Hans,
Martin's father: Geoffrey Matthews
Lucas:
John Hollis
Brother
Weinand: Eric Allan
John
Tetzel: Peter Bull
Johann
von Staupitz: Cyril Luckham
Cajetan:
Timothy Bateson
Pope
Leo X: Scott Cherry
Karl
von Miltitz: John Rye
Johann
von Eck: James Bryce
Knight:
Kerry Francis
Katherine
von Bora: Eileen Tully
Repeated
27th January 1985, 9th January 1994
[
Clive Merrison: 1984 Sony Radio Award for the best performance by an
actor -for this production]
8th
November 1983:
20.05
:
Heyday's
by Chris Miller
1
of 6 visits to the celebrated London wine bar.
1:
Called To The Bar
Will
Heyday's, renowned for both its wine and its wit, be chosen as Wine
Bar of Year? Not if one man has any say in the matter. And he does.
Producer
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Su:
Fiona Walker
Kaye:
Alison Skilbeck
Loader:
Clive Merrison
Boodle:
Richard Pasco
Repeated
12th March 1985
9th
November 1983:
19.10-19.45
:
Passing
Time by Rhys Adrian.
Two
nonagenarians discusss time present and time past from the comfort of
their leather armchairs. The place they sit in seems rather like a
Gentleman's Club - but it isn't quite that.
Directed
by John Tydeman
Edward:
John Gielgud
Roger:
Raymond Huntley
The
Waiter: John Rye
Repeated
on Radio 4 on 19th April 1984.
10th
November 1983
19.30
:
Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer
Repeated
from 23rd January 1983 - please see above.
13th
November 1983
19.40:
Woodbrook
by
David Thomson (1914-1988) Adapted By: Philip Donnella
'
I was 18 when I first saw Woodbrook. The children pulled me towards
the window of the car and I saw its slate roof from the turn of the
road at the top of Hughestown Hill. More than 30 years later it is
still there - but the scene is different ...' .
Set
in Roscommon. David Thomson's account recalls a poignant love affair
with the Irish countryside, the people. and, in particular, the young
tutor's pupil, Phoebe, daughter of the Big House.
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
David:
Maurice Denham
Ivy:
Sian Phillips
Phoebe:
Janina Faye
Charlie:
Kevin Flood
the
young David: Joseph Blatchley
With
Garard Green, Michael Golden, Allan McClelland, Joan Matheson,
Manning Wilson, and Kenneth Shanley, and the voices of some of the
country people of Roscommon.
Repeated
from 11th March 1982
Repeated
21st January 1990
15th
November 1983
20.45-21.05
:
Heyday's
by Chris Miller
2
of 6 visits to the celebrated London wine bar.
2:
One Man's Meat: ' Why do we eat? ' may seem an odd question. Mr
Heyday's customers come up with some odd answers.
Producer
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Peggy/Janey:
Alison Skilbeck
Franny:
Fiona Walker
Anders:
Clive Merrison
Boodle:
Richard Pasco
Motley:
Hugh Walters
Repeated
15th March 1985
22nd
November 1983:
21.00
:
Heyday's
3
of 6 visits to Heyday's by Chris Miller: Idle Hands : Lunchtime. A
union leader, a businessman, a feminist and two information
technologists look at the future of work.
Producer
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Kaye:
Alison Skilbeck
Franny:
Fiona Walker
Motley:
Hugh Walters
Crunt:
Richard Pasco
Quidsin:
Clive Merrison
Repeated
19th March 1985
24th
November 1983
19.30
:
Garland
for a Hoar Head by John Arden (1930-2012)
How
John Skelton, the 16th-century poet, parson. scholar and political
satirist of unparalleled virulence, outwitted the great Cardinal
Wolsey.
Directed
By: Alfred Bradley
John
Skelton : Freddie Jones
Chronicler/Abbot
of: Ronald Baddiley
Narrator:
Heather Sears
Countess
of Surrey: Fiona Walker
First
lady: Sue Jenkins
Second
lady: Valerie Georgeson
Third
lady,: Judith Barker
Mr
Statham/Parrot: Charles Foster
inne:
Meg Johnson
Mary:
Lesley Nicol
Bishop
of Norwich/Printer: Graham Roberts
Cardinal
Wolsey: David Calder
Dean
of York.: Russell Dixon
First
broadcast 25th February 1982
[Meg
Johnson is listed as playing 'inne' for both broadcasts. The play's
text does not seem to be available]
27th
November 1983
20.00
:
On
Trial for Life compiled from the Inquisitional Archives and
presented by Ferdinand Woodward
A
re-enactment of the trial of Fray Luis de Leon,
Director
Piers Plowright
Producer
Judith Bumpus
Fray
Luis: Jeremy Irons
the
Inquisitor: Peter Vaughan
Andres
de Alava/Alonso de Fonseca: Anthony Newlands
Bartolome
de Medina Inquisitor General, GasparLeon de Castro: Godfrey Kenton
Gaspar
de Uceda: James Kerry
Inquisitor
General/Gaspar de Quiroga: Ronald Baddiley
29th
November 1983
20.45-21.05
:
Heyday's
by Chris Miller
4
of 6: Duty Free Speech
Post-election
blues. Are the Tories now to be considered the natural party of
misgovernment? The customers decide.
Producer
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Anders:
Clive Merrison
Boodle:
Richard Pasco
Su:
Fiona Walker
Baclogh:
Hugh Walters
Peggy:
Alison Skilbeck
Repeated
22nd March 1985
Due
to industrial action no Radio Times was published covering programmes
broadcast on 3rd to 9th December 1983.
6th
December 1983
time
nk
Heyday's
by Chris Miller
5
of 6: God's Lot
Producer
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Su:
Fiona Walker
Boodle:
Richard Pasco
Anders:
Clive Merrison
Janey:
Alison Skilbeck
Thrush:
Hugh Walters
Repeated
26th March 1985
11th
December 1983
20.30
:
Hoopoe
Day by Harry Barton
An
ancient bird-watcher dreams of seeing the rarest of vagrants in his
back garden, yet fears he may have wandered in to the third and final
stage of ornithology.
Directed
by Robert Cooper
BBC
Northern Ireland
Nicholas:
Christopher Casson
Maria:
Doreen Hepburn
Will:
Aiden Grennell
George/Mad
Ornithologist: Maurice O'Callaghan
First
broadcast 5th October 1982
[(Giles
Cooper Award Winner 1983)]
13th
December 1983
20.30
:
Heyday's
by Chris Miller
6
of 6: Ladies Last
The
bar is invaded by feminists.
Producer:
Louise Purslow
Mr
Leo Heyday: Cyril Cusack
Kaye/Peggy:
Allson Skilbeck
Loader:
Clive Merrison
Mutley:
Huch Walters
Fanny:
Fiona Walker
Repeated
29th March 1985
18th
December 1983:
19.50
:
Men's
Group by Peter Tegel
'...we're
all men trying to re-establish contact in a fundamental way that is
not anti-women. We're men trying to take a deep look at ourselves...'
Director:
Richard Wortley
Ben:
William Nighy
Kate:
Maggie McCarthy
Mike:
Spencer Banks
Annie:
Margot Boyd
Jim:
Stephen Pinner
George:
Alex Jennings
Jock:
Bill Leadbitter
Chris:
Alaric Cotter
Dan:
George Pensotti
Davy:
Jeremy Flynn
Doctor:
Michael Bilton
Barbara/Carol:
Carole Boyd
Jenny:
Madi Hedd
Don/Ambulance
driver: David Peart
Joan:
Pauline Biddle
Repeated
on Radio 4 on 10th November 1986
22nd
December 1983:
19.30-20.35:
Josef
and Maria by Peter Turrini
Translated
and adapted for radio by David Roger
It
is Christmas Eve and the silence in the department store is shattered
when Muria shouts Christmas greetings over the public address system
Josef is her only audience. For the part-time cleaner and the
nightwatchman it is the start of an evening of memories, music and
romance.
Directed
By: Jeremy Mortimer
Josef:
Maurice Denham
Maria:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Store
announcer: Monica Grey
Personnel
Manager: James Bryce
Doorman:
Michael Jenner
Repeated
9th December 1984
Repeated
on Radio 4 on 11th January 1987
25th
December 1983:
19.00-21.00
:
Sir
Thomas More - Presumed to be by William Shakespeare and others
Radio
version by Penny Gold
Music
composed by: Philip Lane
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Sir
Thomas More: Ian McKellen
Betts/Witt:
Stuart Organ
Lincoln/Butler:
Eric Allan
Doll
Williamson: Carole Boyd
De
Barde/Erasmus: Michael Shannon
Williamson:
Brett Usher
Caveler/William
Roper: Alex Jennings
Sherwin:
Michael Bilton
Lord
Mayor: John Hollis
Suresby:
Bernard Brown
Smart/First
Player: Clive Panto
Lifter:
Haydn Jones
Shrewsbury:
Cyril Lucham
Surrey:
David Gooderson
Palmer:
Geoffrey Collins
Catesby:
John Webb
Clown/Horsekeeper:
James Bryce
John
Munday/Brewer: Timothy Bateson
Downes:
David Peart
Sheriff/Warder:
Peter Tuddenham
Boy
player: Richard Huw
Lady
More: Jean Trend
Lady
Mayoress: Madi Hedd
Bishop
of Rochester: Godfrey Kenton
Mistress
Roper: Fiona Walker
Lieutenant
of the Tower: Michael Spice
Repeated
27th February 1985
[In
a Nottingham stage production in 1964 with Ian McKellen playing More,
director Martin Jenkins played the parts of Lifter and Gough]
The
next apparent Radio 3 drama was 1st January 1984.
Many thanks to Stephen Shaw for compiling the entries.
