BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1973
BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4
IN 1973
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1st January 1973:
11.30-12.00
The Procedure by Roger MacBeth
The new Comprehensive school system.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
John Jenks: George Layton
Office Manager/Headmaster: Philip Garston-Jones
Mrs Whitaker: Jane Freeman
Wilkins: George Woolley
Fuller: David King
Mrs Plimmer: Penelope Shaw
Ramsden: Jack Holloway
Marguerite: Elizabeth Revill
also with Heather Barrett, Susan Fenton, Peter Biddle
1st January 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Cesar (1936) by Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) translated and adapted by Barbara Bray
Producer: Richard Wortley
Cesar: Normal Shelley
Marius: Sean Barrett
Honorine: Katherine Parr
M Brun: Brian Haines
Panisse: Cyril Shaps
Escartefigue: Cameron Miller
Elzear: Charles E Stidwill
Claudine: Olwen Griffiths
Fanny: Kate Binchy
Cesariot: Peter Pacey
Fernand: John Samson
Doctor: Lewis Stringer
Stoker: John Baddeley
Maid: Jane Knowles
Dromard: Sam Dastor
Repeated from 30th December 1972
[Also produced 11/10/56, rptd on Light 18/2/57, by Michael Bakewell with James Hayter as Cesar]
[Also produced by Neil Chaillet 15/9/2001 with Richard Johnson as Cesar]
[Based upon a 1930s film trilogy: Fanny; Marius (b/c 18/11/72); Cesar (b/c 30/12/1972). Cesar was written as a film script- the earlier works were originally novels.]
1st January 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Resolution: written and adapted by John Pennington
Radio episode 55, based upon tv episode 106.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Allen Rossiter: Roy Spencer
Ellen Rossiter: Ellen McIntosh
Mildred Allison: Yvonne Gilan
Dr Felix: Michael Deacon
McKay: Don McKillop
Repeated 3rd January 1973
[based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
1st January 1973
20.00-21.59
Egmont (1788) by Goethe (1749-1832), English version by Michael Hamburger
Music by Beethoven (written for 1810 production)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Loughran. Soprano: Gwyneth Annear
It is 1568.
Producer: John Powell
Count Egmont, Prince of Gavre: Paul Daneman
Richard, his secretary: John Rye
William, Prince of Orange: Gary Watson
Clara, Egmont's mistress: Deborah Stanford
Clara's mother: Kathleen Helme
Brackenburg, a citizen's son: Gary Bond
Soest grocer: Nigel Lambert
Jetter, tailor: Geoffrey Collins
Buyck, a soldier under Egmont: Peter Pratt
Jakob carpenter: Sean Barrett
Groot soapboiler: Brian Haines
Old Ruysum: Malcolm Hayes
Vansen clerk: Michael Deacon
A citizen: Hilda Kriseman
Margaret of Parma: Mary Morris
Machiavelli, her secretary: John Justin
Duke of Alba: Stephen Murray
Ferdinand, his son: Davld Buck
Don da Silva: John Pullen
Captain Gomez: Leonard Fenton
[Previously broadcast on R3 in a 150 minute version 31/5/1970, 13/9/70 - the 1973 listing does not state it was a new edit.]
2nd January 1973
11.30-12.00
A Good Way to Go by Peter Grafton.
Producer: Brian Miller
Lyle: David Gooderson
Doug Saunders: Douglas Leach
Miss Aycock: Angela Brooking
Mrs Best: Gillie Gratham
Vaughn: Rolf Lefebvre
2nd January 1973
15.00
Sinister Street (1914) by Compton MacKenzie (1883-1972) dramatised by Denis Constanduros
Part 1 of 6.
Growing up in the late 1880's.
Producer: anon
Narrator: Manning Wilson
Nurse: Katherine Parr
Michael: Stephen Bone
Mrs Fane: Heather Chasen
Cook: Betty Baskcomb
Prescott: Esmond Rideout
Miss Carthew: Valerie Newman
Stella: Jane Knowles
Capt Ross: William Sleigh
Alan Merivale: Mark Rogers
Dora: Christine Figg
Winnie: Jane Knowles
Lord Saxby: Adrian Cairns
Repeated from 31st December 1972. First broadcast of parts was on Sunday, followed two days later by a repeat]
[The title was split when the novel was published in the USA with the second part taking the plays title. There were three subsequent novels following the family.]
3rd January 1973
11.30-12.00
The Hilary Farewell by Alexander Hussey.
Producer: Lorraine Davies
(Cardiff)
Tom Smith: Dillwyn Owen
Mrs Smith: Rachel Thomas
Roberts: Ivor Roberts
Hilary: Victoria Plucknett
Matthew: Roger Nott
3rd January 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Penstone Commune by K. Allen Saddler (R C W Richards 1923-2011)
Producer Ian Cotterell
Ken Barton: Anthony Jackson
Josh: Dinsdale Landen
Peg: Caroline John
Office manager: Anthony Hall
Girl in office: Gail MacFarlane
Charlie: Ronald Herdman
James: Brian Baines
The Badger: Nigel Graham
Sally: Jane Knowles
Des/Tito the dog: Robin Browne
[The story continued in Penistone Revisited, b/c 19/8/77]
4th January 1973:
11.30
Gerda by Gail Curtis
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Gerda: Elizabeth Bell
Dave: David Gooderson
Kuit: Nigel Anthony
Bobby/Teacher: Gillie Gratham
Mr Miller: Ronald Herdman
Jackie: Sheila Grant
4th January 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Bright Boy by Martin Jarvis
Producer Martin Jenkins
Haddleton: Robin Ellis
Grey: Julian Holloway
Dietl: Sean Arnold
Neutze: Rolf Lefebvre
Waiter: David Gooderson
Receptionist: Olwen Griffiths
4th January 1973:
20.00:
The Pump by James Cameron.
A heart attack in Bengal.
Producer: R D Smith
Sister: Diana Robson
John: Michael Redgrave
Doctor: William Fox
Margaret: Anna Cropper
Indian voices: Saeed Jaffrey
Surgeon: Rolf Lefebvre
Priest: Gerald Cross
Father: Godfrey Kenton
Nurses: Kate Binchy and Cleo Sylvestre
Repeated from 2nd November 1972
Repeated 7th October 1973, 16th February 1985
[Winner of the 1973 Italia Prize for radio drama]
[Based upon the author's heart attack]
5th January 1973
11.30
The Direction of Love by Herbie Brennan (1940-2024)
Producer: Denis Hawthorne
(Northern Ireland)
Kate: Jeananne Crowley
Emily: Sybil Allen
Brian: Michael Poole
Jean Claud: Robert French
5th January 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: An Old Man and Some People by Bill Kirton.
The Nightwatchman is taught a lesson.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Billy: David Howe
George: Jack Woolgar
Dennis: Martin Jarvis
Sandra: Alethea Charlton
A policeman: Nigel Lambert
Roy: Sean Barrett
Joe: David Valla
Repeated from Radio 3, 26th March 1971 and 25th June 1971
6th February 1973
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Exit, Pursued by Rony Robinson
The end-of-term play.
Producer Christopher Venning
Chris Chandler: Michael Johnson
Bonner: John Samson
June: Gail MacFarlane
Mr Phipps: Nigel Graham
Journalist: Manning Wilson
Dave: Nigel Anthony
Geoff: Michael Kitchen
Sandra: Elspeth Charlton
Headmaster: Sidney Johnson
Bill: Andrew Rivers
Child: Mark Rogers
Repeated 2nd August 1973
[Rony Robinson taught at two large schools.]
6th January 1973
16.30-17.00
Jennings at School by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004):
2 of 6. Jennings and the Planned Operation.
Producer: Herbert Smith
Editor: Graham Gauld
Jennings: Mark Hadfield
Darbishire: Steven Jenkins
Mr Wilkins: Anthony Buckeridge
Mr Carter: John Daglish
Headmaster: Geoffrey Banks
Matron: Juliet Cooke
[Also produced by David Davis 14/3/1957 with Peter Asher as Jennings]
[Jennings was created for radio in 1948, the books followed later.]
6th January 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Noah (1931) by Andre Obey (1892-1975) translated by Arthur Wilmurt
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Noah: Ralph Richardson
Mrs Noah: Nora Nicholson
Japheth: Jonathan Scott
Shem: John Graham
Ham: Frank Windsor
Ada: Beryl Calder
Naomi: Judy Bailey
Sella: Solwen Morgan
A Man: Trevor Martin
Animals: Percy Edwards
Narrator: Noel Iliff
Repeated from 15th December 1958, 4th April 1965
Repeated 8th January 1973
7th January 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Not in the Book (1958) by Arthur Watkyn (Arthur Watkins, 1907-1965).
Producer: David Geary
Sylvia Bennett: Eleanor Summerfield
Michael: Michael Deacon
Timothy Gregg: Roger Gale
Insp Malcolm: Peter Williams
Andrew Bennett: Noel Iliff
Pedro Juarez: Leonard Fenton
Colonel Barstow: Peter Pratt
Dr Locke: Nicholas Phipps
Repeated from 17th and 19th May 1969
8th January 1973
11.30
Hello, Goodbye and Never Mind by Malcolm Quantrill
Producer: John Tydeman
Man: Richard Briers
Girl: Julia Foster
8th January 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Life of a Salesman by Allan Prior adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 56, based upon tv episode 115.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Wally Sefton: Harry Fowler
Emma: Kate Binchy
Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
Annie Miller: Eva Stuart
Miller: Henry Stamper
[Cast list on BBC Genome jumbled at this point]
Repeated 10th January 1973
[based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
8th January 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: The Deeps of Summer by Kevin Faller (1920-1983).
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Eddie: Sean Barrett
Carl: Joseph O'Conor
Emer: Eileen Kennally
Jan: Kate Binchy
Jim: Jim Norton
Mona: Pauline Delany
John: Harry Webster
9th January 1973
11.30
Too Many Cooks by Fiona Nicholson.
Producer: John Cardy
Jane Lawson: Prunella Scales
Barry Lawson: Nigel Lambert
Jimmy Clark: Nigel Anthony
Audrey Clark: Fiona Nicholson
Sir Herbert Perkins: Michael Kilgarriff
Escoffier: Brian Haines
Romano: Anthony Hall
Another cook: Sheila Grant
10th January 1973
11.30
Stump's Island by Roy Bolitho
Producer: Ian Cotterell
Sir Clarence Lunn: William Fox
Arnold Stump: Nigel Anthony
Elspeth: Sheila Grant
Travel agent's clerk: Fraser Kerr
Mayor of Fagoon: Ronald Herdman
Captain Poop-Deek: Brian Haines
Lena: Jane Knowles
Lena's father: Nigel Graham
10th January 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Mallory Moor by Ella D. Campbell
Walking alone on the moor.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Louise Vaughan: Sylvia Coleridge
Geoffrey Hunt: Martin Jarvis
Jennifer Vaughan: Jane Knowles
Muriel Hunt: Helen Worth
Edwin Packer: John Rowe
Mrs Robley: Katherine Parr
Mrs Minns: Olwen Griffiths
10th January 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Second Class Risk by R. D. Wingfield
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Anne Beaumont: Penelope Lee
Jordan: John Rye
Crisp: Geoffrey Matthews
Birkett: Peter Pratt
Chief Insp Dunn: Simon Lack
Pam Conley: Kate Binchy
also with Philip Weston, Olwen Griffiths, Fraser Kerr
Repeated 11th January 1973
11th January 1973
11.30
Equal Terms by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Producer: Jane Graham
Mary Jessup: Sylvia Syms
Imogen Drew: Ann Lynn
Repeated 26th and 29th August 1978
12th January 1973:
11.30:
Sitting Pretty by Tim Dartington.
Producer: John Scotney.
Sarah: Amanda Murray
Father: William Fox
Mother: Sheila Grant
12th January 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Life and Soul by Betty Lambda (1921-2011).
Producer: Betty Davies
Harry Slater: Haydn Jones
Lana Slater: Helen Fraser
Ruby Slater: Joyce Latham
Michael Fraser: Michael McClain
Mr Fraser: Antony Viccars
Mrs Fraser: Betty Hardy
Muriel Gibbons: Gudrun Ure
Madame Marcetti: Marjorie Westbury
Susan: Carole Boyd
Ken: James McManus
Repeated from 17th January 1968
13th January 1973
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Mackerel Sky and Apple Green by Brian Lee
A Vegetable-arian.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Kevin Leroy: T P McKenna
Fr Collins: Jim Norton
Sara Leroy: Kate Binchy
Liam Leroy: J Bennett
Miss Dougan: Heather Gibson
Cook: Martin Friend
Bishop: Ronald Herdman
Waiter: Jim Norton
Repeated 4th July 1975 and 8th December 1979
13th January 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Hot Tiara (1962) by Janet Allen
Producer: Christopher Venning
Freda: Isabel Dean
Cassidy: Peter Jeffrey
Mick: Andrew Rivers
Bracken: Manning Wilson
Kim: Elspeth Charlton
Kitty: Olive Lucius
Gregory: John Samson
Detective: Nigel Graham
Repeated 15th January 1973
14th January 1973
14.30
The Potting Shed by Graham Green (1904-1991) adapted by Peggy Wells.
Just what did happen?
Producer: John Powell
Mrs Mary Callifer: Sybil Thorndike
John, her eldest son: John Justin
Anne, John's daughter: Cbrys Salt
James Callifer, brother of John: Robert Harris
Sara, James's former wife: Jill Balcon
Fr William Callifer: Henry Stamper
Dr Frederick Baston: Ronald Herdman
Dr Kreuzer: Harold Kasket
Corner: Brian Hewlett
Mrs Potter: Marjorie Forsyth
Miss Connolly: Anna Burden
Repeated from 20th March 1967
[Also produced by Gerry Jones 23/11/1987 with Mary Kerridge as Mary Callifer]
[Dame Sybil Thorndike created the part of Mary Callifer in New York, at the Bijou Theatre in 1957.]
15th January 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Soon or Late: by Cedric Wallis and Stewart Farrar adapted by Stewart Farrar
Radio episode 57, based upon tv episode 64.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Maggie Rankin: Jean Anderson
John Lennox: Duncan McIntyre
Robert Lennox: Fraser Kerr
Dora Lennox: Daphne Anderson
Mr Galbraith: Simon Lack
Mr Currie: Alaric Cotter
Nurse: Delia Paton
Repeated 17th January 1973
[based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
15th January 1973
20.30:
Miss Julie (1888) by August Strindberg (1849-1912), translated by Michael Meyer.
The survival of the fittest.
Violin: Lionel Bentley
Producer: Betty Davies
Miss Julie: Janet Suzman
Jean: David Buck
Christine: Sheila Grant
[Be warned- fairly brutal and not a happy ending]
[Also produced by James Runcie 31/12/1984 rptd 6/1/85 with Janet Maw as Miss Julie.]
[Also produced by Roger James Elsgood 25/6/2016, rptd/ R4X 2020]
17th January 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Clark by Larry Wyce
Producer: John Scotney
Chris: Geoffrey Beevers
Clark: Caroline John
Lois: Elizabeth Proud
Denis: John Rowe
Michael: Peter Pacey
Policemen: Anthony Hall and Peter Gordon
17th January 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Kind of Innocence by Bill Westall.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Helen: Joan Matheson
George: David Bird
Jane: Penelope Shaw
Horville: George Woolley
Repeated 18th January 1973
19th January 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Hanged on Tuesday by Rosemary Timperley (1920-1988)
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Mary Vincent: Joan Matheson
Flora Carmel: Sheila Grant
Godfrey Carmel: Allan Cuthbertson
Dr Marlow: Peter Tuddenham
George Fording: Trevor Martin
Malcolm Daringer: George Hagan
Boy: Judy Bennett
Police Sergeant: Philip Weston
Repeated from 27th January 1971
20th January 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: An Evening with Esther by Anthony Curtis.
Producer: Martin Esslin
Esther: Maxine Audley
Janie: Kate Binchy
Harry: Cyril Shaps
20th January 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Seventeen Years Back by Martin Jenkins.
Murder.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Insp Flynn: Robert Keegan
Sgt Trafford: Geoffrey Matthews
Supt Richards: John Pullen
Bill Simmons: Alan Downer
Queenie Simmons: Barbara Mitchell
Audrey Gransom: Kate Binchy
Charlie Williams/ Desk Clerk: Henry Stamper
Jenny Hutchins/Sister Carmel: Judy Bennett
Ma Weston: Katherine Parr
Mother Superior: Sheila Grant
Repeated 22nd January 1973
21st January 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Dawes by Ray Butler based on "For the Term of his Natural Life" (1874) by Marcus Clarke (1846-1881).
Convicts transported to Australia.
Producer: David Davis
Lieut Frere: Victor Lucas
Major Vickers: Patrick Barr
Troke: Humphrey Morton
Sylvia Vickers: Ann Totten
Bates: Charles Leno
Mrs Vickers: Jean Anderson
Rex / Judge: Eric Anderson
Rufus Dawes: John Slater
Prosecuting Counsel: Humphrey Morton
Judge: Eric Anderson
Repeated from 16th May 1966
[Marcus Clarke visited a penal settlement in Tasmania as part of his research for the book]
22nd January 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Medical Finance, written and adapted by Donald Bull
Radio episode 58, based upon tv episode 71.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mr Raymond: Duncan McIntyre
Arnie Raymond: Michael Deacon
Mr Oddy: Henry Stamper
Hennie Geddes: Delia Paton
Mr Jameson: Douglas Storm
Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
Repeated 24th January 1973
[based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
22nd January 1973
20.30:
The Monday Play: The Centaur by Jonathan Hales adapted by Guy Vaesen
Producer: Ian Cotterell
Abel Murdoch: Carleton Hobbs
Margaret Murdoch: Mary Wimbuch
Dr Warbler: John Rowe
Henry Conrad: Martin Jarvis
Nurse Jewel: Isabel Dean
24th January 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Strawberry Ice by Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) translated by Henry Reed
Producer: Christopher Venning
Barbara: Rosalind Shanks
Tosca: Marjorie Westbury
Flaminia: Jill Balcon
Letizia: Kathleen Michael
Cesare: John Rowe
Repeated 12th July 1974 and 18th August 1979
[Original title Fragola e panna (1966), later translated as Strawberry and Cream in 1967]
24th January 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Never Miss a Bargain by Ivor Wilson
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Gloria Gale: Barbara Mullaney
Janie Gale: Stephanie Turner
Olaf: Brian Miller
Ada Harper: Elizabeth McKenzie
Kathie West: Sylvia Brayshay
Jerry West: Jack Carr
Slim Atkinson: Colin Edwynn
Police Sgt: Christopher Crocks
Rev Ackroyd: Peter Wheeler
Repeated 25th January 1973
26th January 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Quarter-Million Boys, A Sentimental Journey to a Dead City, by Bloke Modisane. (William Modisane, 1923-1986)
Racism. The place is Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
Davey Martins: Rufus Khoza
Deadwood Dick: Joe Mogotsi
Caiaphas Sedumo: Bloke Modisane
Battleship: Jeillo Edwards
Anthony: Frederick Treves
Rosemary: Jan Edwards
Jakob: John Gabriel
Piet: Hector Ross
Diketedi: Daphne Cline-Thomas
'pontiac Mick: Lionel Ngakane (1928-2003)
A Nice-Time Girl: Patience Gcwabe
A Police Sergeant: Yemi Ajibade
A Prisoner: Cosmo Pieterse
Repeated from Radio 3, 26th September 1969, R3 12th October 1969, R4 30th October 1970
Repeated R4 19th March 1976
27th January 1973
14.00-15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Poor Sale by R E T Lamb.
Brazil: Trapped in a mine.
Producer: Richard Wortley
Ben: Terry Scully
Cass: Nigel Graham
Dawson: Hugh Dickson
McCredy: Geoffrey Matthews
Native girl: Gail MacFarlane
Priest: John Hollis
Repeated from 19th January 1971 (1st of 3x 20 minute broadcasts)
Repeated 9th February 1977
[In the original 1971 presentation this was presented as a trilogy of 20m plays: Poor Sale; Macaw; Laughing Down There in the Dark. Broadcast at 11.40am under the heading "Religion in its Contemporary Context".]
27th January 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Greek Equation by Sheila Hodgson
Producer: Richard Wortley
Diana Galleon: Jane Knowles
Jonathan Sugden: Anthony Jackson
Mrs Van Doren: Ann Murray
Tour Manager: William Eedle
Marcus Galleon: Alan Barry
Desk Clerk: Ronald Herdman
Mrs Armitage: Katherine Parr
Second Secretary: William Fox
Dr Bramwell: Henry Stamper
Repeated 29th January 1973
28th January 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Man from Thermopylae (1959) by Ada F. Kay (1929-2024)
Producer: David Geary
Old woman: Hilary Mason
Girl: Pamela Craig
Geron: John Westbrook
Pantites: Robin Browne
Sentry: Alaric Cotter
Frixos: Alexander John
Melissa: Joan Matheson
Iolaus: Seymour Green
Hippias: Ralph Truman
Helena: Jane Knowles
Penthessilea: Jessica Shaw
Boy: Judy Bennett
Koryander: Alan Dudley
Philander, the showman: Edward Burnham
Repeated from 6th July 1970
[Also produced by Colin Shaw 11/4/57 with Carleton Hobbs as Geron. Possibly from 17/12/56- no detail in RT listing.]
[Ada Kay had visions of death on a battlefield by spears/staves from her early years.]
29th January 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Next Provost but One by Robert Kemp (1908-1967), adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 59, based upon tv episode 63.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Harry MacAlpine: John Graham
Mary MacAlpine: Ellen McIntosh
Town Clerk: Ronald Herdman
Ex-Provost Stodhart: John Rae
Bailie Duncan: Wilfrid Carter
Fisher: John Dunbar
Arthur Hepburn: James Thomason
Sgt Gilbey: Duncan McIntyre
Jack Henderson: Duncan McIntyre
Angus: Fraser Kerr
Betsy Mills: Joyce Carpenter
Mrs White: Eva Stuart
Repeated 31st January 1973
[A Provost in Scotland is a council leader]
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
29th January 1973
20.30
The Monday Play: Bread and Butter by Cecil P Taylor
Glasgow, 1931 to 1965.
Producer: Stewart Conn
(Glasgow)
Morris: Fulton Mackay
Alec: Joseph Brady
Miriam: Miriam Margolyes
Sharon: Doris McLatchie
31st January 1973:
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Comic's Code by Dominic le Poer Power
A special version of the Bible.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Benn Potter: James McManus
Driver: John Hollis
Trevor: David Gooderson
June/Vera: Helen Worth
Billy Pilgrim: Leslie Dwyer
Grace Piggott: Yootha Joyce
Arnold Piggott: Ronald Herdman
Man from 89: Michael Kilgarriff
Man from 87: John Samson
Man from 85: Rolf Lefebvre
31st January 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Death of a Huntsman (1957) by H E Bates (1905-1974) adapted by Peggy Wells.
Producer: Gerry Jones.
Harry Barnfield: Roger Delgado
Edna: Pauline Letts
Valerie: Jane Knowles
Katey: Sheila Grant
Mr Warburton: Rolf Lefebvre
Mr Thompson: William Fox
Mr Jekyll: Lewis Stringer
Repeated 1st February 1973
[Also produced by Peggy Wells 16/11/57 with Joan Sanderson as Edna]
2nd February 1973
15.00
Stranger at the Gate by William Ingram (1913-2013)
Children's choir trained and conducted by Edwena Evans
Organ played by Brian Dee
Producer Betty Davies
Mostyn Roberts: Meredith Edwards
Dr Marsh: Windsor Davies
Iestyn Roberts: William Ingram
Sarah Roberts: Christine Pollon
Cass Roberts: Elizabeth Morgan
Councillor: John Dearth
Station porter: Talfryn Thomas
Repeated from 28th October 1970
[William Ingram was born and died in Wales]
3rd February 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Fire in my Head by Peter Berry.
Producer: John Tydeman
Cpt Fenwick: John Rowe
Rev John Fenwick: Rolf Lefebvre
Mrs Fenwick: Katherine Parr
Andrea Fenwick: Sheila Grant
Major Crowther: Haydn Jones
Brigadier Maitiand: William Fox
Major Percival: Brian Haines
Dr Henshawe: Terry Scully
Sgt Bullock: Nigel Graham
Cabbie: Ronald Herdman
Tommo: Fraser Kerr
Mrs Bindle: Kate Binchy
Corporal Pardoe: Anthony Hall
Jenkins: Andrew Rivers
Pam: Gail MacFarlane
3rd February 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Governess (1946) by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Miss Fry: Margaret Wolfit
Mr Drew: Hugh Manning
Ellen: Helen Worth
Kate: Jane Knowles
Bob: David Gooderson
Jock: Ronald Herdman
Nurse: Dorit Welles
Mrs Drew: Joan Matheson
Rough: Alan Dudley
Rush: Martin Friend
Repeated 5th February 1973
[The play was first broadcast on the radio in 1948]
4th February 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Judge by John Mortimer (1923-2009), adapted by Keri Lewis.
Producer: Joe Burroughs
The Judge: Michael Hordern
Serena: Joan Miller
The Judge's clerk: Charles Leno
Smart, caretaker: Hector Ross
Major Heather, Chief Const: Duncan McIntyre
Mr Trapp, Judge's Marshal: Martin Jarvis
Dr Waggon, Medical Officer: Maurice Denham
Henry Dickon, editor: William Fox
Pat Dean: Jan Edwards
also with Maureen Beck, Gretta Gouriet, John Bryning, John Pullen
Repeated from 24th February 1969
[John Mortimer was a Barrister.]
5th February 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Immortal Memory by Jan Read adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 60, based upon tv episode 77.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mr Young: Michael Spice
Mrs Young: Beth Boyd
Mrs Duff: Betty Cardno
Ailsa Young: Gail MacFarlane
Mr Galbraith: Simon Lack
Mr Inglis: Anthony Higginson
Repeated 7th February 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
5th February 1973
20.30
When we Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) translated by Michael Meyer.
Music by John Baker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced By: John Tydeman
Professor Arnold Rubek: Ralph Richardson
Maja, his wife: Barbara Jefford
The Inspector: James Thomason
Ulfhejm, a country squire: Gordon Jackson
A Lady Traveller (Irene): Irene Worth
A Nun: Grizelda Hervey
Narrator: Charles Simon
Repeated from 8th August 1969 and 28th September 1969
[Also produced by Ned Chaillett 28/4/1991 for R3 with Paul Scofield as Rubek]
[Also produced by Gaynor Macfarlane 31/3/2024 for R3 with Ian McDiarmid as Rubek.]
7th February 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Life is Beautiful, Oscar Bennet by Janet Howorth
Producer: John Cardy
Oscar Bennet: Noel Johnson
Anna Bennet: Madi Hedd
Gay Bennet: Jane Knowles
Tim Bennet: Sam Dastor
Colin Patterson: Brian Baines
Roger Patterson: Robin Browne
Spike: Bob Sherman
Announcer: David Gooderson
Doctor: Rolf Lefebvre
Nurse: Eve Karpf
7th February 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Experiment by Eva Maria Mudrich (1927-2006), translated by Oliver Coburn
Telepathy.
Producer: Susanna Capon.
Narrator: John Forrest
Lawyer: John Rye
Mrs Miller: Mary Wimbush
Dr Turnbull: Maurice Denham
Frank Craig: Rolf Lefebvre
David Bailey: John Ruddock
Newsreader: Lewis Stringer
Repeated 8th February 1973
[Original title: Das Experiment. This was Eva's first radio play to be produced, for NDR in 1971. Also produced by SRF 1972. Also broadcast on Deutsche Welle in 1972. A recording of the German version exists.]
9th February 1973
15.00-16.00
Land of My Dreams by Clive Exton (1930-2007)
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Alice Walmer: Sylvia Coleridge
Arthur Walmer, her brother: Michael Hordern
Paddy Lynch: J G Devlin
Margaret Walmer, Arthur's wife: Helen Shingler
[A shortened version of the broadcast of 21/4/1967 and 6/5/1967 on R3 (65 mins)]
10th February 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Counter Plot by Elizabeth Batt
Producer: Betty Davies
with Helen Worth, Preston Lockwood, William Eedle, Kate Binchy
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10th February 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Beaker's Field by Philip Barker
Producer: Roger Pine
Peter Wylie: Nigel Lambert
Steve Gorman: Blain Fairman
Margaret Baxter: Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Wylie: Katherine Parr
Harry Linford: David Gooderson
Dr Roberts: John Samson
Police Sgt Farrow: Ronald Herdman
Mr Gill: Haydn Jones
Site Manager: Brian Haines
Stephen: Nigel Anthony
Waitress: Olwen Griffiths
Reporter: John Forrest
Repeated 12th February 1973
11th February 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Thunderbolt (1908) by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) adapted by Peggy Wells.
Producer: David Davis:
Rev George Trist: Bernard Brown
James Mortimore: Peter Clauchton
Mr Vallance: Peter Bartlett
Thaddeus Mortimore: Garard Green
Ann, James's wife: Noel Hood
Col Ponting: Geoffrey Wincott
Rose, his wife: Vivienne Chatterton
Mr Elkin: Arthur Brough
Phyllis Thaddeuss wife: Ella Milne
Helen Thornhill: Jill Carey
[Also produced by David H Godfrey 9 and 14/5/1953 with Cyril Shaps as Mr Vallance.]
[Also produced by David Davis 27/5/1967 with Peter Bartlett as Mr Vallance.]
11th February 1973:
21.00
South Riding by Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) adapted by Olive Shapley.
A school in Yorkshire and local politics.
Part 1 of 5.
With Girls Of The Wirral County Grammar School conducted by Doris Parkinson
Organist at the Methodist Chapel Trevor Holroyd
Child vocalist Helen Charnock
Producer: Trevor Hill
The Narrator: David Mahlowe
Lovell Brown, journalist: Alan Rothwell
Syd Mail, Kingsport Chronicle: Graham Tennant
Alderman Mrs Beddows: Ruth Dunning
Miss Sarah Burton, MA: Anna Cropper
Councillor Robert Carne: Nigel Davenport
Lydia Holly: Susan Moverley
Dolly Castle: Mary Lennon
Mrs Holly: Rosalie Williams
Barney Holly: Tom Harrison
Councillor Joe Astell: Bryden Murdoch
Clr Alfred Ezekiel Huggins: Wilfred Pickles
Alderman Anthony Snaith: Wilfred Harrison
Miss Dolores Jameson: Marah Stohl
also with Jack Carr, John Linstrum, Hope Johnstone.
Each episode repeated two days later except episode 4 which was repeated after 5 days due to the 1973 Budget.
[The book was published posthumously in 1936]
12th February 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Unfit to Marry by Harry Green.
Radio episode 61, based upon tv episode 136.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Henry Clinker: Fraser Kerr
Ella Brownlee: Patricia Leventon
Mr Smale: Duncan McIntyre
Mr Muir: Simon Lack
Sheriff-Sub: John Rae
Repeated 14th February 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
12th February 1973
20.30
The Monday Play: The Beauty of the World by Pat Hooker (1933-2001)
Harp: Frances Kelly
Music by David Cain
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Menelaus: William Fox
Telemachus: David Gooderson
Helen: Coral Browne
Calypso: Rosalind Shanks
Odysseus: George Baker
Hecuba: Margaret Rawlings
Diomedes: Nigel Anthony
Antielos: Terry Scully
Epeius: Ronald Herdman
Deiphobus: John Rowe
Sirens: Hannah Francis, Heather Kay, Kathy Martin
[Helen of Troy was lauded as the most beautiful woman in the world. The tale was most famously told by Homer and Virgil. There are many alternative tales regarding Helen including 5th century BC by Euripides and tales from 7th Century BC.]
14th February 1973
15.00
One of the Lost by Joyce Broughton Griffiths (1908-1974).
The spirit of Christmas.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Tom Wilson: Edward Cast
Frances, his wife: Pauline Letts
Gareth his son: Crispin Gillbard
Greta, his daughter: Virginia Denham
Sandra: Frances Jeater
Dick: John Rowe
Jonathon: Nigel Anthony
Mary: Sheila Grant
Cyril: Ronald Herdman
14th February 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Little Brother Claude by David Emerson, dramatised by Barry Campbell.
Producer: David H Godfrey
Claude Vinson: David Valla
Tommy Dunscombe: Nigel Graham
Maggie Turner: Jane Knowles
Enid Vinson: Katherine Parr
Rachel Price: Sian Davies
Hector Vinson: Wilfrid Carter
Mrs Lowe: Olwen Griffiths
Bailey: Haydn Jones
Warder: Sam Dastor
Barrister: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated 15th February 1973
16th February 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Disaster at Dungeness (1964) by Ronald Johnston adapted by Stephen Mulrine (1937-2020).
A shipping collision.
Producer: Gordon Emslie
Bruce: James Grant
Penman: Paul Young
Herald: Callum Mill
Thomson: Clem Ashby
Albery: Arthur Boland
Emery: Paul Kermack
Grace: Sandra Buchan
Carmichael: Martln Heller
Deering: John Shedden
Repeated from 27th June 1970
[Ronald Johnston wrote several maritime disaster books]
17th February 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Keep in Touch by Peter Ling (1926-2006).
Producer: Christopher Venning.
Richard: Richard Hampton
Celia: Nicolette McKenzie
Graham: Michael McClain
17th February 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Many Brave Hearts by Donald McNutt Douglass adapted by Bloke Modisane (William Modisane 1923-1986)
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Bolivar Manchenil: Bloke Modisane
Chief Steward Jacob Holp: John Rowe
Captain Gustaf Borglum: Michael Kilgarriff
Erik Horgerson: Ronald Herdman
Mimi Sorensen: Sheila Grant
Jackson Phelps: Haydn Jones
Perry Dryad: Nigel Graham
First Officer Hoerder Lind: Andrew Sachs
April Shower: Helen Worth
Mr Jensen: Anthony Hall
Mrs Julia Halliday: Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Helen Bound: Eva Stuart
Karl: Fraser Kerr
Adolph Shultz: William Sleigh
Sparks: John Samson
Repeated 19th February 1973
18th February 1973:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Waiting in the Wings (1960) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
A home for actresses.
Piano: Paul Hamburger
Producer: Archie Campbell
May Davenport: Marie Lohr
Cora Clarke: Una Venning
Bonita Belgrave: Vivienne Chatterton
Maudie Melrose: Norah Blaney
Almina Clare: Nicolette Bernard
Estelle Craven: Harriet Petworth
Deirdre O'Malley: Mary O'Farrell
Perry Lascoe: Gordon Faith
Miss Archie: Margot Boyd
Lotta Bainbridge: Sybil Thorndike
Dora, her former dresser: Molly Rankin
Doreen, a maid: Petronella Barker
Sarita Myrtle: Dorice Fordred
Zelda Fenwick, a journalist: Shirley Cooklin
Dr Jevons: James Thomason
Alan Bennett: Stephen Thorne
Repeated from 26th December 1963:
Different actor/character pairs in 1963 listing:
Bonita Belgrave: Nicolette Bernard
Almina Clare: Vivienne Chatterton
[Also produced by Graham Gauld 14/4/1990 with Mary Ellis as May.]
[Also produced by Martin Jenkins 25/12/2024 with Penelope Keith as Lotta]
19th February 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Comical Lad by Elwyn Jones adapted by Pat Dunlop.
Radio episode 62, based upon tv episode 107.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mrs Laker: Katherine Page
Henry Marshall: Ronald Herman
Kevin Stoll: Gordon Faith
Sgt Gilbey: Duncan McIntyre
Mclnnes: John Samson
Repeated 21st February 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
19th February 1973:
20.30:
Before Dawn (1889) by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) translated by Ludwig Lewisohn
Alcoholism.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Hoffmann: David Buck
Helen, his sister-in-law: Hannah Gordon
Farmer Krause, her father: Geoffrey Matthews
Mrs Krause, her mother: Katherine Parr
Loth: Derek Jacobi
Dr Schimmel: Michael Spice
Kahl, a farmer: David Gooderson
Beipst, a farm worker: Brian Haines
Edward, a manservant: John Forrest
Mrs Spiller: Shella Grant
Miele, a maid: Jane Knowles
First maid: Gail MacFarlane
Second maid: Sandra Clark
[The play is also known as Before Sunrise and was the authors first play - after several false starts in various ventures. The author was a founding member of the German Society for Racial Hygiene and this play involves genetic heredity. The author was buried before sunrise.]
21st February 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Free House by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Small breweries.
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Nathan: Jack Carr
Sam: Harry Markham
Ted Risk: Graham Roberts
Hunt: Geoffrey Banks
Sylvia: Jennifer Piercey
Norman: Christopher Godwin
Exciseman: James Duckett
Head Brewer: Roger Gartland
Repeated 4th August 1979
21st February 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Stain on the Snow by Georges Simenon (1903-1989) translated by John Petrie, adapted by Mike Stott.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Guard: Nigel Graham
Interrogator: Alan Rowe
Friedmaier: Steven Dawson
Timo: Haydn Jones
Kromer: Anthony Hall
Lotte: Olive Lucius
Frau Vilmos: Margot Boyd
Sissy: Jean Rogers
Fat Sergeant: Nigel Graham
Officer: Nigel Graham
Holst: Haydn Jones
[Also known as "The Snow was Dirty", "The Snow was Black", and "Dirty Snow" (original title 'La neige etait sale')(1948)]
Repeated 22nd February 1973.
23rd February 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Conscience Doth Make Cowards by Val Gielgud (1900-1981)
Producer: John Tydeman
Garry Savage: Sean Barrett
Jane Savage: Jane Knowles
John Savage: William Fox
Agnes Savage: Joan Matheson
Walter Sanderson: Martin Friend
Mariette: Elizabeth Proud
The Mayor: John Ruddock
George Graham: Patrick Tull
Repeated from 10th July 1971
24th February 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Surcharged, Samoa by Michael Kittermaster.
Stamp collecting.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Baumann: Haydn Jones
George Stuart: Cyril Shaps
Seeley: David Gooderson
Mr Crawford: William Eedle
Gladys Stuart: Katherine Parr
Child: Helen Worth
Mr Holden: John Rowe
Mr King: Anthony Hall
Mr France: Nigel Graham
Duclos: Terry Scully
Jansen: Michael Kilgarriff
Zender: John Rowe
Sir Charles Barnes: Noel Johnson
Duty Officer: John Samson
Mr Lawson: Nigel Anthony
Mr Greene: Brian Haines
24th February 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Wind of Heaven (1945) by Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) adapted by Barbara Couper
Producer: Gerry Jones
Dilys Parry: Eva Haddon
Ambrose: John Rowe
Pitter: Malcolm Hayes
Bet: Elizabeth Morgan
Mrs Lake: Miriam Margolyes
Evan: Anthony Hall
Repeated 26th February 1973
[Also produced by Dafydd Gruffydd on 8 and 13/11/1952 with Mervyn Johns as Ambrose]
[Also produced by Herbert Davies 1/8/1964 with Rhoda Lewis as Dilys.]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams 22/11/1980 rptd 18/11/1985 and 30/11/1987 with Sian Phillips as Dilys.]
25th February 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Requiem for a Wild Rose by Peter Russell.
Producer: Ronald Mason
Susan Heathcote: June Tobin
Bill Heathcote: Joss Ackland
The Rev Ralph Berkley: Charles Hodgson
Gilbert Crozier: Duncan McIntyre
Maj-Gen Sir Archibald Eyre: Norman Claridge
Julia Eyre: Sheila Allen
Repeated from 4th and 6th February 1967
26th February 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Dove in the Nest by Donald Bull
Radio episode 63, based upon tv episode 156
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Sister Bing: Christina Gray
Callum Ogilvy: Alexander John
Moira and Neil Ogilvy: Delia Paton
Mr Gibson: James Thomason
Mrs Ballantyne: Margot Boyd
Mrs Rae: Marigold Sharman
Mrs McKay: Sheila Grant
Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
Repeated 28th February 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
26th February 1973
20.30
The Monday Play: The Office by Derek Raby.
Producer: Betty Davies
Narrator: Richard Hurndall
Mrs Thing: Katherine Parr
Wilkins: Rolf Lefebvre
Miss Pring: Barbara Mitchell
Typists: Helen Worth, Jane Knowles, Gail MacFarlane
Mr Shape: William Eedle
Miss Dampenshaw: Margot Boyd
Rogers: Lewis Stringer
Daphne: Sandra Clark
Jacques: David March
Browne: Fraser Kerr
Blott: Brian Haines
Foss: Haydn Jones
Robert: John Forrest
Carol: Kate Binchy
Herbert: David Gooderson
Producer: John Rye
Monica: Diana Bishop
Ice Man: Michael Kilgarriff
Bruton: John Samson
Davies: Anthony Hall
Child: Judy Bennett
Miss Meadows: Olwen Griffiths
David: Nigel Graham
28th February 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Boats on a Summer Afternoon by Patricia Hobbs.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Woman: Kate Binchy
Man: Nigel Anthony
Anne: Gilli Gratham
Dorrie: Jill Lidstone
Stephen: J Bennett
Merle: Helen Worth
Richard: Stephen Bone
28th February 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Probationary Year by Peter Silcock
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Headmaster: Geoffrey Banks
David: Jack Carr
Mr Joy: Michael Dinkin
Mr West: Graham Roberts
Melanie: Elizabeth Bell
Miss Cockle: Elizabeth MacKenzie
Mr Stanley: Jim Whelan
Mr Stokes: John Linstrum
Max: Peter Ivatts
Boys: John Wheatley, John Farndale, Michael Lockwood
Repeated 1st March 1973
2nd March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Bolt Hole by Langton Smith.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Mrs Pargiter: Kathleen Helme
Joanna Hamshaw: Margot Boyd
Tessa Hamshaw: Dorothy Lane
May Hamshaw: Nora Nicholson
Constable: Brian Hewlett
Prettyboy Willis: John Hollis
Cox: Michael Brennan
Harrison: Brian Hewlett
Tammy Hamshaw: Frances Jeater
Michael Scott: Peter Baldwin
Repeated from 24th December 1970
3rd March 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Riverdale Dam by Derek Bond
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Bert: John Forrest
Blackie: John Ruddock
Mavis: Norma Griffin
Richard: Nigel Lambert
Freddie: Nigel Graham
Cilia: Rosalind Shanks
Roger: John Bentley
Hermione: Eva Stuart
Philip: Allan Cuthbertson
Brigadier: Brian Haines
Danny: Terry Scully
Nellie: Sheila Grant
Sgt Cotton: Anthony Hall
3rd March 1973:
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey (1936-2025) dramatised by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Det-Sgt Cribb: Frank Windsor
Constable Thackeray: John Hollis
Music-hall barker: Alan Dudley
Lola Pinkus: Jane Knowles
Bella Pinkus: Helen Worth
Jason: William Eedle
Education Officer: Douglas Blackwell
Woolston: Rolf Lefebvre
Woman pie-seller: Olwen Griffiths
Mum: Margot Boyd
Albert: Nigel Anthony
Major Chick: Peter Bathurst
Repeated 5th March 1973
[This was the first of six Cribb novels dramatised for Saturday Night Theatre- there were 8 books in all.]
4th March 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Ah, Wilderness! (1933) by Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
Connecticut, USA, 1906.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Essie Miller, Nat's wife: Miriam Karlin
Lily Miller, Nat's sister: Hilda Kriseman
Sid Davis, Essie's brother: John Gabriel
Arthur, Nat's son: Leroy Lingwood
Nat Miller: Robert Beatty
Mildred, Nat's daughter: Carol Mason
Richard, Nat's son: Brian Hewlett
David McComber: Haydn Jones
Wint Selby: Christopher Bidmead
Belle: Barbara Mitchell
A bartender: Peter Baldwin
A salesman: Leonard Fenton
Muriel McComber: Patricia Leventon
Repeated from 22nd and 24th June 1968
5th March 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Blood and State by Harry Green.
Radio episode 64, based upon tv episode 170
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Dr Burroughs: Barbara Mitchell
Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
Sgt Renfrew: Kerry Francis
Mrs Simmonds: Patricia Leventon
Mr Simmonds: William Sleigh
Procurator Fiscal: James Thomason
Sheriff Substitute: John Rae
Mr Geddes: Hector Ross
Repeated 7th March 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
5th March 1973
20.30
The Monday Play: The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
USA, 1945. Her brother is getting married.
Produced By: Richard Wortley
Berenice: Cleo Laine
Frankie: Liza Ross
John Henry: Judy Bennett
Jarvis: Blain Fairman
Janice: Sandra Clark
Mr Addams: John Rowe
Mrs West: Hilda Kriseman
Helen Fletcher: Helen Worth
Honey: Anthony Hall
T T Williams: Frank Singuineau
[Also produced by Michael Bakewell for R3 3/3, 8/3 and 20/4/1957 with Miriam Karlin as Berenice.]
[Also produced by Chris Wallace 11/11/1996 with Peter Marinker as Royal Addams - also broadcast on R4X 2017-2022]
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7th March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Afternoon of Roses by Margaret Harris.
Producer: Kay Patrick
Helen Jordan: Jane Hylton
Mortimer Buchanan Charleston: Henry Wolfe
Miriam: Patricia Moore
Edgar Jordan: Alan Rowe
Jack: Nigel Anthony
Mrs Cooper: Kate Binchy
Mrs Hill: Olwen Griffiths
Repeated 3rd June 1976
7th March 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Barry by David Fitzsimmons
Producer: Richard Wortley
Barry: Brian Hewlett
Mum: Barbara Mitchell
Nan: Kathleen Helme
Repeated 8th March 1973 and 22nd January 1976
9th March 1973: The afternoon drama slot was used for the postponed part 4 repeat of South Riding.(see 11th February 1973)
10th March 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Thunder on Sunday (1972) by Karen Campbell adapted by Betty Davies
Thunder on Sunday composed and played on the guitar by Steve Gauna
A plane lands on the isle of Ardnabegh.
Producer: Betty Davies
Lampeter: Noel Johnson
Claire: Rosalind Shanks
Bill Barrett: Nigel Graham
Peter Spence: John Forrest
Dawn Playfair: Gail MacFarlane
Jerry Ainsworth: John Samson
Mrs Ewart: Sandra Clark
Hagedorn: Michael Kilgarriff
Philby: Anthony Hall
Crowther: Haydn Jones
Mrs Crowther: Joyce Latham
Duncan: Duncan McIntyre
Menzies: Tom Watson
Maiyrat: Sheila Grant
Dundas: Simon Lack
Todd: John Graham
Jamie: William Sleigh
Repeated 12th March 1973
11th March 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: It's All in the Mind by John Hale.
Producer: Brandon Acton-Bond
June Elliot: Jennie Linden
Jack Elliot: Patrick Mower
Dennis Sage: Eric Thompson
Somers: John Harvey
Landlady: Mollie Petrie
Passer-by: Eileen Parker
Repeated from 3rd November 1969
12th March 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Dorrity by Owen Holder adapted by Pat Dunlop.
Radio episode 65, based upon tv episode 170
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Dorrity: Bridget McConnel
Iain: David Gooderson
Mrs Yuill: Audrey Muir
Mrs Rae: Marigold Sharman
James McCall: John Samson
Mrs McCall: Katherine Parr
Mr Leask: Arthur Lawrence
Hamish: John Rowe
Repeated 14th March 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
12th March 1973
20.30
The Monday Play: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark (1918-2006), dramatised by Jay Allen (1922-2006).
1930s Edinburgh.
Producer: Stewart Conn
Jean Brodie: Gudrun Ure
Mr Perry: Nigel Graham
Sister Helena: Sandra Clark
Jenny: Rose McBain
Miss Mackay: Madeleine Christie
Sandy: Christine McKenna
Mary: Judith Carey
Mr Lloyd: Anthony Hall
Monica: Lee Collier
Mr Lowther: Andrew Robertson
Repeated 11th August 1974
[Jay Presson Allen wrote the screenplay for the film]
14th March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Listen Pablo - We're Rich! by Kon Fraser
Producer: John Cardy
Ann Floyd: Zena Walker
Sally: Rosalind Adams
Miss Burley: Janet Burnell
Tom Mallard: Bryan Pringle
Bill Simkin: John Samson
Pratt: Nigel Graham
Janey: Helen Worth
Janey's mother: Delia Paton
Bobby's mother: Shirley Dixon
Another mother/Mary Porter: Gail MacFarlane
Joan Wall: Jean England
14th March 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: M6 - Northbound by John Tarrant.
Producer: Trevor Hill
Derek Kneen: Barrie Ingham
Tessa Cowell: Carol Turner
Paula: June Barry
Chief Insp Sayle: John Blain
Det-Sgt Maddrell: Graham Roberts
Roy Faragher: Joseph Holmes
John Teare, a gamekeeper: Joe Gladwin
Gelling: John Baldwin
Repeated 15th March 1973
16th March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: How I Remember Names by Barbara Bray (1924-2010)
Producer: Christopher Holme
Man: Denys Hawthorne
Woman 1: Beth Boyd
Woman 2: Patricia Leventon
Repeated from R3 29th November and 19th December 1967
17th March 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Thick as Old Timber by Douglas Livingstone (1934-2021).
Accordionist Gerald Crossman
Producer: Jane Graham
George 'Timber' Wood: Frederick Jaeger
Pamela Wood: Rhoda Lewis
Henry Carstairs: Frederick Hall
Leonard Dunbar: Hugh Dickson
Cyril Ferguson: William Eedle
Mike Reed: Nigel Anthony
with William Sleigh and Sandra Clark
17th March 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Folly by Malcolm Stewart
London, 1900.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Hon Edward Stirling MP: Richard Kay
James Manners, MP: John Pullen
The Prime Minister: William Fox
Lady Cynthia Douglas: Katherine Parr
Sir Cyril Douglas: Michael Kilgarriff
Fiona Douglas: Fiona Walker
Sheila: Jan Edwards
Madame X: Sheila Grant
Louise: Sandra Clark
Mr Stevens: David Gooderson
Home Secretary: Rolf Lefebvre
also with Diana Bishop, Nigel Graham, Anthony Hall, Gail Macfarlane, John Samson. William Sleigh
Repeated 19th March 1973
18th March 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Back into the Light by James Carey adapted by Peter Cotes.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
William Gilbert: Michael Turner
Carl Gilbert: Nigel Lambert
Norah Gilbert: Hilda Kriseman
Avis Gilbert: Eva Haddon
Sam: Sean Barrett
Joseph: Lionel Ngakane
George: Bloke Modisane
Roberts: Brian Haines
Doctor: Hector Ross
Repeated from 28th Feb and 2nd Mar 1970.]
18th March 1973
15.00
My Son, My Son (1937) by Howard Spring (1889-1965), adapted by Truman Reeves.
1 of 4.
Producer: R. D. Smith
William Essex: Wilfred Pickles
Mr O'Riorden: Harry Webster
Rev Eustace Oliver: Norman Wynne
as a boy William Essex: Nigel Anthony
Dermot O'Riorden: Kevin McHugh
Moscrop: Bryan Pringle
Nellie Moscrop: Mary Wimbush
Sheila O'Riorden: Elizabeth Morgan
Michael Flynn: Patrick Magee
[Each part repeated after 2 days]
Repeated from 4th September 1966.
[Also produced in 5 parts by Kay Patrick, dramatised by Stan Barstow, commencing 16th May 1993, rptd after 5 days - with Ronald Pickup as William]
19th March 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The General by N. J Crisp adapted by Donald Bull
Radio episode 66, based upon tv episode 89
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
General Hannon: Nigel Stock
Mrs Hannon: Gudrun Ure
Bobby Muir: Michael Deacon
John Muir: Roy Hanlon
Bently: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated 21st March 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
21st March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Nowt so Queer by Pam Tickell.
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Janet: June Barry
Norman: Graham Roberts
Sid: Sam Kelly
George: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Tom: Geoffrey Banks
Mrs Mundy: Elizabeth McKenzie
Arthur: Harry Markham
Helen Hewitt: Jean Boht
Walter: Geoffrey Banks
21st March 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Day of the Tortoise (1961) by H E Bates (1905-1974) adapted by Margaret McKenna,
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Fred: George Woolley
Kitty: Charlotte Howard
Aggie: Margot Boyd
Ella: Penelope Shaw
Flossie: Jane Freeman
Mrs Freemantle: Gillian Andrews
Repeated 22nd March 1973
23rd March 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Killing at Kirk O'Field
Compiled by the producer.
Scotland 1566 and 1567.
Producer: Alison Plowden (1931-2007).
Sir William Drury: John Bryning
Thomas Randolph: Peter Pratt
Mary Queen of Scots: Kathleen Helme
Darnley: Nigel Lambert
Philibert du Croc: David March
Guzman de Silva: Roger Delgado
Maitland of Lethington: John Graham
Thomas Crawford: Malcolm Hayes
Queen Elizabeth: Pauline Letts
Archbishop Beaton: Peter Pratt
Kirkaldy of Grange: Duncan McIntyre
Narrator: Richard Hurndall
[Alison Plowden wrote "none fiction" about the people of the Tudor period.]
24th March 1973:
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: When You Come Home by Peter Hankin.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Ken: Keith Varnier
First Soldier: Frank Moorey
Second Soldier/Arthur: Gareth Armstrong
Porter/Preacher: George Woolley
Mother: Patricia Greene
Irene: Heather Barrett
Mrs Cooke: Gillian Andrews
Officer: David King
Mrs Grainger: Joyce Latham
Doris: Jill Meers
Sam: Frank Moorey
24th March 1973:
16.30
Kick Off by Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986).
1 of 6
Producer: Trevor Hill
Editor: Graham Gauld
Mrs Bean: Hope Johnstone
Mr Bean: Graham Roberts
Billy: Simon Lennon
Anne: Maggie Peacock
Velma: Helen Worth
Charles: Andrew Harrison
Mr Neil, manager of Canfield United: Graham Tennant
Andy Potts: Harry Dixon
Bouncer: Jack Carr
Georgie: Peter Landon
24th March 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Frogs' Legs and Laver Bread by William Ingram (1913-2013)
The French invasion of Britain in 1797.
Children's choir trained and conducted by Edwena Evans
Mouth Organ Alfie Kahn
Producer: Betty Davies
Blodwyn Probert: Elizabeth Morgan
Gwilym Thomas: Windsor Davies
Rhys Roberts: William Ingram
Nesta Harris/Frances: Jan Edwards
Kitty: Kate Binchy
Col Vaughan: William Sleigh
Cpl Harris: Robin Browne
Will Morgan/Col Ackland: Douglas Blackwell
Davies/Jonah: Sion Probert
Mrs Jones/Brenda: Olwen Griffiths
Dai Morgan: Anthony Hall
Lord Cawdor: John Gabriel
General Tate: Kevin Flood
General Hoche: Nigel Anthony
Col Knox: David Goodison
Repeated 26th March 1973.
[William Ingram was born and died in Wales]
[The title refers to the cuisine of France and Wales: Laverbread is after preparation a soft puree like gelatinous paste and is made from algae (Porphyra umbilicalis).]
25th March 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Little One by William Templeton. (1913-1973)
Producer: Ronald Mason
Lorenzo Ninni: Haydn Jones
Franca Marino: Jo Manning Wilson
Pietro Marino: Richard Pearson
Rosanna Marino: Carol Marsh
Antonella Marino: Margaret Robertson
Mario Speranza: Derek Seaton
Luigi Tonay: Ian Thompson
Anna Marino: Barbara Mitchell
Francesca Lurachi: Mary O'Farrell
Dr D'Abusco: Denis McCarthy
Ricky Lurachi: Paul Grist
Repeated from 2nd and 4th December 1967
26th March 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Snares and Pitfalls by Clifford Hanley adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 67, based upon tv episode 181
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Annie Dougan: Margaret Robertson
Alice Moir: Yvonne Gilan
Sgt Gilbey: Duncan McIntyre
Miss Wright: Audrey Muir
Mrs Manderson: Margot Boyd
Hugh Manderson: Nigel Anthony
Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
Repeated 28th March 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
26th March 1973
20.30:
Spring Awakening (1891) (Fruhlings Encachen) by Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) translated by Tom Osborn.
Germany 1892. Adolescence. Ignorance may not be bliss.
Producer: John Tydeman
Narrator: Francis de Wolff
Wendla: Helen Worth
Mrs Bergmann: Diana Olsson
Georg: Brian Hewlett
Melchior: Christopher Guard
Ernst: Michael Cochrane
Lammermeir: Andrew Rivers
Hans: Christopher Good
Moritz: John Moulder-Brown
Martha: Joanna David
Thea: Judy Bennett
Mrs Gabor: Mary Wimbush
Use: Elizabeth Proud
Professor Corona Radiata: William Eedle
Professor Breakneck: Jonathan Scott
Professor Tonguetwister: Kerry Francis
Schnell: Leonard Fenton
Professor Strychnine,: Sam Dastor
Professor Total Loss: Douglas Storm
Pastor: Leonard Fenton
Mr Stiefel: John Forrest
Judge Gabor: Aubrey Woods
Ruprecht: Andrew Rivers
Diethelm: Michael Cochrane
Reinhold: Brian Hewlett
Helmuth: Christopher Good
Procrustes: John Forrest
Man in the Mask: Francis de Wolff
[aka The Awakening of Spring- A Childrens Tragedy. Frequently censored or banned- it was banned from performance in England until 1963 but the first stage performance was 1974. The BBC was first (although the BBC play was tamed somewhat). The subject material is quite sensitive and covers all the trigger warnings. It was nevertheless turned into a rock musical in 2006.]
28th March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: No Machine Guns after Midnight by Bill Lyons
Producer: Jane Graham
Bore: Ronald Herdman
Edward Revie: Peter Barkworth
Roger: Nigel Anthony
Betty: Frances Jeater
James: John Rowe
Janet: Kate Binchy
Susan: Marian Diamond
28th March 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Letter from a Lady by Berkely Mather
Producer John Cardy.
Ma Tante: Dandy Nichols
Mrs Hogarth: Sandra Clark
Tina: Ursula Mohan
Pentreath: Sean Barrett
Bannerjee: Saeed Jaffrey
Sir Benley Hesketh: Rolf Lefebvre
Lilian, his wife: Madeleine Cannon
Repeated 29th March 1973
[Also produced by John Tydeman 15/6/1963, rptd 24/6/1964 and 19/10/1966 with Margot Boyd as Ma Tante]
30th March 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: A Knot of Secret Might compiled by Alison Plowden (1931-2007).
Producer Richard Wortley.
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Katherine Grey: Nerys Hughes
Hertford: Sean Arnold
Queen Elizabeth I: Madi Hedd
William Cecil: Rolf Lefebvre
Sir Edward Warner: James Thomason
Jane Grey: Elizabeth Proud
De Feria: Walter Hall
Thomas Challoner: Charles E. Stidwill
Quadra: Garard Green
Soranzo: Godfrey Kenton
John Grey: Hector Ross
Repeated from 20th October 1970
[Alison Plowden wrote "none fiction" about the people of the Tudor period.]
31st March 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Winter Elegy by Susan Hill
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Bernard: Lewis Stringer
Molly: Pauline Letts
Repeated 15th December 1979
31st March 1973
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Money Doesn't Matter (1941) by Louis D'Alton (1900-1951) adapted by Denys Hawthorne.
Producer R. D. smith
(Northern Ireland)
Mrs Kinchella: Elizabeth Begley
Mick Kenirons: J G Devlin
Harvey Mannion: John Keenan
Norah Mannion: Denise McKenna
Tom Mannion their father: Harold Goldblatt
John Murtagh: John McBride
Fr Maher: J J Murphy
Michael Harney: Nigel Anthony
Phillip Mannion: Louis Rolston
Veronica Hogan Tom's daughter: Margaret D'Arcy
Repeated 2nd April 1973
1st April 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Road to Rome (1927) by Robert Emmett Sherwood (1896-1955) adapted by Cynthia Pughe.
Rome, 216 BC. How to invade and the value of war.
Producer: Archie Campbell
Fabius Maximus, a senator: John Justin
Fabia, his mother: Joan Matheson
Amytis, his wife: June Tobin
Scipio, an officer: John Dearth
Sertorius, an elderly senator: Noel Howlett
Varius, a slave: Brian Hewlett
Meta another Slave: Eva Haddon
Hannibal: Robert Beatty
Mago, his younger brother: Anthony Hall
Hasdrubal, his 2IC: Russell Napier
Maharbal, a general: Jerry Stovin
Carthalo, another general: Harry Towb
First guardsman: Barry Lowe
Second guardsman: Marvin Kane
Sergeant: Jon Farrell.
Repeated from 16th and 18th April 1966.
[Also produced by Hugh Stewart for Light 16/5/1953 with John Schlesinger as Fabius.]
2nd April 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Emotional Factor by N. J. Crisp adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 68, based upon tv episode 125
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Barbara Davidson: Kate Coleridge
Henry Davidson: Garard Green
Peggy Davidson: Christine Finn
Jenny: Sheila Grant
First lady: Kate Binchy
Repeated 4th April 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
2nd April 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: The Fox in the Attic (1961) by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum.
It is 1923 and a Welsh man visits Germany.
Part 1 of 2. Rachel and the White Crow.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Narrator: Michael Hordern
Reinhold Steuckel: David March
Ulrich Steuckel: David Gooderson
Augustine Penry-Herbert: John Rye
Dai Roberts of Mellton, Dorset: Anthony Hall
Gilbert Wadamy,MP: William Eedle
Mary Wadamy: Elizabeth Weaver
Polly Wadamy: Helen Worth
Jeremy Dibden: Richard Kay
Wantage: Ronald Herdman
Mrs Winter of Lorienburg: Katherine Parr
Baron Walther von Kessen: Michael Kilgarriff
Baroness Adele von Kessen: Sheila Grant
Baron Otto von Kessen: Malcolm Hayes
Mitzi von Kessen: Denise Bryer
Franz von Kessen of Munich: John Samson
Adolf Hitler: Haydn Jones
Gen Ludendorff: Rolf Lefebvre
Lotliar Scheidemann: Nigel Anthony
[This was adapted from the first volume of the novel series The Human Predicament. The second volume was "The Wooden Shepherdess". When volume 2 was reprinted in 1995, the first part of the unfinished third novel was included. ]
[Richard Hughes was Welsh and wrote "the worlds first play for radio" in 1924.]
4th April 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Green Isle of the Great Deep (1944) by Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973) adapted by John Keir Cross (1914-1967).
Totalitarianism and Freedom.
Part 1 of 2.
Producer: Stewart Conn
Presenter: Duncan McIntyre
Young Art: Gwyn Guthrie
Old Hector: Alex MacKenzie
Agnes: Sheila Latimer
Tom: Paul Young
Mavis: Mary Riggans
Willie: Ian Gilmour
Dougal: James Crampsey
Coastwatcher/Mark: Bryden Murdoch
Robert: Henry Stamper
Mary: Effie Morrison
Axle: Alex McAvoy
Repeated from 22nd January 1966 and 7th May 1967
Repeated 4th January 1986
[The play draws on the Celtic Otherworld myths].
4th April 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Fruits of Two Seasons by W. G. Stanton (1917-1999)
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Margret Ransome: Margaret Ward
Charles Ransome: Derek Smith
Cartwright: Simon Carter
Jennifer Ransome: Penelope Nice
Michael Briggs: Colin Higgins
Repeated 5th April 1973
6th April 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Stowaway (1966) by Ronald Johnstone adapted by Stephen Mulrine.
Producer: Eddie Fraser
(Glasgow)
Capt Panton: Teddy Johnson
Cmdr Miller: Callum Mill
Stacey: Clem Ashby
Diterides: E J P Mace
Tumble: Charles Kearney
McBride: Ronald Bain
Jardine: Roy Boutcher
Arturo: Arthur Boland
Mander: Peter Kelly
Repeated from 4th December 1971
7th April 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Rhodes of Dorley by Norman Clare.
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
John Sylvester: Alan Rothwell
Eileen Croxford/Miss Martin: Carole Turner
Ronald Lacy: Geoffrey Banks
Mr Holt: Ronald Harvi
Stephen Rhodes: Graham Roberts
Arnold Sylvester: David Mahlowe
Mr Ford: John Linstrum
Jane Rhodes: Stephanie Turner
Miss Burke: Audrey Barr
7th April 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Depression of Edward Loos by Eric B. Maddish
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Edward Loos: Brian Wilde
Stubbins: Leonard Fenton
Treezer: Bonnie Hurren
Eric Vincent: Rolf Lefebvre
Midwinter: Fraser Kerr
Peter Vincent: Godfrey Kenton
Butler: Sam Castor
Raphael: John Forrest
Nicolson: Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Nicolson: Joan Miller
Houseman: Vernon Joyner
Angela Nicolson: Patricia Gallimore
Taxi driver: Brian Haines
Repeated 9th April 1973
8th April 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Devil Take Ye by Alan Gosling.
The attitude to mental illness in the 1700s.
Producer: John Tydeman.
Goody Timpson: Margot Boyd
Prudence Timpson: Elizabeth Proud
Ed Bishop: Brian Hewlett
Brudbanke: David Spenser
Parson: Rolf Lefebvre
Bezant: Peter Tuddenham
Kemp: Ronald Forfar
Hayward: Ronald Herdman
Burton: James Thomason
Lane: Clifford Norgate
Bickers/Archdeacon: Nigel Lambert
Walnoe/Churchwarden: John Gabriel
Repeated from 2nd November 1970
Repeated 8th December 1975
9th April 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Time Past - Time Future written by N. J. Crisp (1923-2005) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 69, based upon tv episode 127
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Barbara Davidson: Kate Coleridge
Henry Davidson: Garard Green
Peggy Davidson: Christine Finn
Sir Robert McDowell: Hector Ross
Lady McDowell: Madeleine Christie
Toby Wheeler: David Gooderson
Sister: Kate Binchy
Mr Jackson: John Samson
Repeated 11th April 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
11th April 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: With Prejudice by James Fairfax.
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Bill Paterson: Graham Roberts
Harry Kingsley: Geoffrey Banks
Adrian Hull: Malcolm Terris
Fiona Derrington: Valerie Georgeson
John Barlow: Alan Rothwell
Mr Justice Hellyer: Graham Roberts
Dick Poulter: Patrick Desmond
Mr Justice Birrell: Peter Wheeler
Repeated 12th April 1973
13th April 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Pity of it All by Stan Barstow.
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Walter Daymer: William Lucas
Elizabeth Daymer: Pamela Craig
Nancy Harper: Billie Whitelaw
Mrs Frost: Lynne Carol
H J Finch: Edmond Bennett
Mr Frost: Bert Palmer
Arthur Johnson: Kenneth Gilbert
Marjorie: Carole Turner
Jeff: Barrie Smith
Mrs Jones: Pamela Dellar
Repeated from 25th February 1967
14th April 1973
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Cromwell's Major General by William Smethurst (1945-2016)
Producer: Anthony Cornish
Birmingham
Maj Gen Thomas Harrison: William Lucas
Charles I and II: Peter Bartlett
Catherine Harrison: Ursula O'Leary
James Standish: David King
Mary: Eileen Barry
Oliver Cromwell: John Malcolm
Colonel Bowyer/ Nathaniel Tompkins: Graham Rigby
Herbert: Peter Biddle
Christopher Feake: Gordon Griffin
Mr Rogers/2nd Judge: John Baddeley
First Judge: George Woolley
Repeated 16th April 1973
15th April 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Whisky Galore (1947) by Compton MacKenzie (1883-1972), adapted by Moray McLaren.
WW2.
Producer: Stewart Conn
Storyteller: David Steuart
Joseph Macroon: John MacDonald
Roderick MacRurie: Duncan McIntyre
Dr MacLaren: James Ross
Highland Voice: James Gavigan
Biffer murdo: MacDon Ald
Peigi Macroon: Eileen McCallum
Sgt-Major Odd: Murray Melvin
Mrs Campbell: Marjorie Dalziel
George Campbell: John Shedden
Fr MacAlister: James Crampsey
Duncan Macroon: Michael Elder
Capt Waggett: Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Waggett: Sheila Latimer
Colonel Lindsay-Wolseley: Arthur Boland
Catriona Macleod: Gwyneth Guthrie
Capt Stewart: Alec Monteath
Mrs Odd: Clare Richards
Repeated from 26th December 1967
[The story is inspired by a real life event of 1941]
15th April 1973
21.00
Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by Donald McWhinnie and Frank Hauser
Part 1 of 5.
Pianist Winifred Davey
Producer Betty Davies
Isabel Archer: Valerie Colgan
Ralph Touchett: Peter Marinker
Mr Touchett: Anthony Jay
Mrs Touchett: Bessie Love
Lord Warburton: Gary Bond
Henrietta Stackpole: Toby Robins
Eleanor Molyneux: Hilda Schroder
Mildred Molyneux: Diana Olsson
Caspar Goodwood: Stephen Thorne
Narrator: John Rowe
Each part repeated after two days.
16th April 1973
11.30
The Monthly Ticket by Christer Dahl and Claes Lundberg, translated by Claude Stephenson
Producer: John Theocharis
The Ticket Seller: David Gooderson
The Police Sergeant: Haydn Jones
The Engineer: Brian Haines
The Wife: Patricia Leventon
The Psychiatrist: Michael Kilgarriff
The Defence Attorney: Fraser Kerr
The Head Nurse: Pat Keen
[Swedish Italia Prize Entry 1972]
16th April 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Buy Now - Pay Later by N. J. Crisp (1923-2005) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 70, based upon tv episode 128
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Barbara Davidson: Kate Coleridge
Henry Davidson: Garard Green
Peggy Davidson: Christine Finn
Larry Pritchard: Fraser Kerr
Jenny: Sheila Grant
Repeated 18th April 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
16th April 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: Ten Hours by Brian Thompson
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Richard Oastler: Graham Roberts
Mr Rogers: John Linstrum
Owens: Malcolm Terris
Busk/Ashley: Geoffrey Banks
The Overseer/Sergeant: Christopher Crooks
Michael Sadler/Melbourne/Sloane: Peter Wheeler
Michael Farren: Paul Copley
Elizabeth Bentley: Susan Littler
Dark: Malcolm Terris
Palmerston: Graham Roberts
Sir Robert Peel/McKeown: David Mahlowe
Coulson: Harry Markham
17th April 1973:
11.30:
Nasturtiums Don't Need You by Diana Cooper
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Jill: Heather Stoney
Steve: David Valla
Alan: Clifford Rose
First man: Godfrey Kenton
Second man: Terry Scully
18th April 1973
11.30
The Private Secretary by Kenneth Sinclair.
Producer: John Tydeman
Mr Ross: Rolf Lefebvre
Philip Tait: David Spenser
18th April 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Iron Staircase (1953) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989 translated (1963) by Eileen Ellenbogen (1918-1986) adapted by Philip Leaver.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Etienne: Edward Petherbridge
Louise: Ellen McIntosh
Fernande: Maureen Wild
Theo: John Samson
Dr Doer: Anthony Hall
Arthur: Paul Nicholson
Mariette: Hilda Schroder
Roger Cornu: Peter Allmond
Also with Elizabeth Chater, Anna Mountain, Christine Winter
[Original title: L'Escalier de fer ]
18th April 1973:
20.15:
Afternoon Theatre: Gigolo and Gigolette (1935) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), adapted by Val Gielgud
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
Paco Espinel: John Gabriel
Sandy Westcott: Ralph Truman
Eva Barrett: Joan Miller
Countess Camerata: Hilda Kriseman
Prince Repnin/ Carlo Penezzi: David March
Lord Wrexham: Godfrey Kenton
Lady Wrexham: Kathleen Helme
George Barstow: Lawrence James
Mrs Barstow/ Flora Penezzi: Patricia Hayes
Sydney Cotman: Brian Haines
Stella Cotman: Patricia Gallimore
Repeated from 4th June 1969
Repeated 19th April 1973, 16th February 1977
19th April 1973
11.30
Quarter Day by Marian Campbell
Producer: David H. Godfrey
John: Michael Kilgarriff
Helen, his wife: Dorit Welles
Father: Godfrey Kenton
Kay his daughter: Katherine Parr
Lester, he Hhsband: Brian Haines
Hotel receptionist: Sandra Clark
Hall porter: Fraser Kerr
Old resident: Rolf Lefebvre
20th April 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: No Fixed Abode by Clive Exton (Clive Brooks 1930-2007).
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Governor: Wilfrid Carter
Grandpa: Cyril Shaps
Lofty: Paul Dawkins
Corp: Lee Montague
Tich: Jack MacGowran
Repeated from R3 30th January 1966, 22nd February 1966, 1st November 1966, and R4 2nd April 1971
[Originally written as a TV play, transmitted in 1959 by Granada (ITV)]
21st April 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Moriarty by G W Target (1924-2005).
Producer: Jane Graham
Secretary: Sandra Clark
Editor: Sean Arnold
David Richards: Christopher Benjamin
Mary Bensly: Diana Bishop
Stanlev Weston: Terry Scully
Moriarty: Tony Doyle
Magdalena: Patricia Leventon
also with William Eedle, Haydn Jones, Bill Lyons, Diana Olsson, Katherine Parr
21st April 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Toad of Toad Hall (1929) by A. A. Milne (1882-1956) adapted from The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Music: Harold Fraser-Simson (1872-1944) arranged by Peter Hope
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Marigold: Tina Heath
Nurse: Diana Bishop
Mole: Richard Goolden
Rat: Bernard Cribbins
Badger: Cyril Luckham
Toad: Derek Smith
Alfred: Brian Haines
Chief Weasel: William Fox
Chief Stoat: Fraser Kerr
Chief Ferret: William Sleigh
Judge: Hugh Paddick
Usher: Terry Scully
Policeman: Ronald Herdman
Phoebe: Kate Binchy
Washerwoman: Jo Manning Wilson
Frightened Ferret: Sam Dastor
Brave Weasel: Nigel Graham
Duck: John Forrest
Turkey: Andrew Rivers
Repeated 23rd April 1973, 26th December 1990
22nd April 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Bonaventure (1949) by Charlotte Hastings (1909-2003) adapted by Peggy Wells
1947 Norfolk and flooding.
Producer: Graham Gauld
Nurse Brent: Jan Edwards
Nurse Phillips: Maureen Beck
Sister Josephine: Freda Dowie
Willy: Anthony Hall
Sister Mary Bonaventure: Flora Robson
Dr Jeffreys: Michael Spice
Mother Superior: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Melling: Denis McCarthy
Miss Pierce: Diana Olsson
Sarat Cain: Monica Grey
Martha: Gladys Spencer
Repeated from 21st and 23rd September 1968
[Also produced by Ayton Whitaker 10/1/1953 with Thelma Scott as Sister Mary]
[First performed in 1949 under the title Sister Cecilia, then as Mary Bonaventure]
[The last UK execution was in 1964, and capital punishment was effectively abolished in 1969 and finally in 1998. The last gallows was last tested in 1992.]
23rd April 1973
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Late Spring by Donald Bull
Radio episode 71, based upon tv episode 176
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mr Finlay: Wilfred Pickles
Alice Perrins: Madeleine Christie
Mrs Rae: Marigold Sharman
Clem Perrins: Ronald Herdman
Maisie: Christina Gray
Repeated 25th April 1973
[Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) in his 1935 novella "Country Doctor" about "Finlay Hyslop", a newly qualified doctor. Cronin was a GP in the Clyde area and later a Harley Street doctor.]
23rd April 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: The Lady's Not for Burning (1948) by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
The Middle Ages, supposed witches.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Richard, an orphaned clerk: Richard Kay
Thomas Mendip: Christopher Cazenove
Alizon Eliot: Rosalind Shanks
Nicholas Devize: Nigel Lambert
Margaret Devize: Kathleen Michael
Humphrey Devize: Michael Cochrane
Hebble Tyson, the Mayor: Geoffrey Bayldon
Jennet Jourdemayne: Julia Foster
The Chaplain: Clive Swift
Edward Tappercoom a Justice: Nigel Graham
Matthew Skipps: Anthony Hall
[Also produced by R D Smith 11/12/1967 with Alec McCowen as Thomas.]
[Also produced by Christopher Venning 31/3/1986 and 6/4/1986 with Nigel Hawthorne as Thomas and Sarah Badel as Jennet.]
[The title of the play was deliberately misquoted in 1980 in a political speech written by Ronald Millar].
25th April 1973:
11.30
Jennings at School: Jennings and the Scientific Frogman by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004).
Producer: Herbert Smith
(Manchester)
Jennings: Mark Hadfield
Darbishire: Steven Jenkins
Venables: Nigel Makin
Mr Carter: John Daglish
Atkinson: Jeremy Clarkson
Temple: Jonathan Carp
Mr Wilkins: Anthony Buckeridge
Headmaster: David Mahlowe
Dr Hipkin: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 28th September 1974
[Also produced by Graham Gauld 11th March 1961 with Hugh Janes as Jennings.]
25th April 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Freedom of the Vices by Bloke Modisane (William Modisane 1923-1986).
Producer: Christopher Venning
Battleship: Valerie Murray
Nomsa Mapasa: Taiwo Ajai
Deadwood Dick: Bloke Modisane
Pontiac Mick: Alton Kumalo
Kalif: Leslie Rainey
Make Peme: Willie Jonah
25th April 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: A Bit of a Writer by James McManus.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
John: James McManus
Mum: Valerie Lush
Dad: Peter Tuddenham
Soldier: Brian Haines
Best Man: Fraser Kerr
Repeated 26th April 1973
27th April 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Letter of the Law by R D Wingfield.(1928-2007)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
PC Kendrick: John Samson
Det-Sgt Shaw: Clifford Norgate
Det-Insp Nash: Malcolm Hayes
Det-Supt Wiltshire: Victor Lucas
Det-Insp Johnson: Douglas Blackwell
Joan Shaw: Dorit Welles
Sammy Merton: Sean Arnold
Police-dog Handler: Roger Gale
Repeated from 28th April 1971
28th April 1973
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Conference by Keith Miles
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Len Lorimer: Graham Rigby
Arthur Skene: Jon Rollason
Owen Timms: Alan David
Willie Robinson: Leslie Dunn
Vernon Moy: John Corvin
Maisie Ross: Eileen Barry
Frank McCulloch: Andrew Crawford
Edith Farrar: Penelope Shaw
David Jellicoe: Roger Milner
Joan Skene: Rosemary Dorken
Policeman: George Woolley
28th April 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) by Charles Nordhoff (1887-1947) and James Norman Hall (1887-1951) adapted by Robert Cushman.
1789 at sea.
Producer: Roger Pine
Mr Roger Byam: Geoffrey Beevers
Sir Joseph Banks: William Eedle
Lt William Bligh: Geoffrey Matthews
Act Lt Fletcher Christian: Martin Jarvis
Mr Hayward: Sean Arnold
Mr Fryer: Wilfrid Carter
Old Bacchus: Garard Green
Capt Courtney: John Samson
Morrison: Richard Hampton
Mr Samuel: John Bryning
Ellison: Bill Lyons
Mr Stewart: Gareth Johnson
Mr Nelson: Alexander John
Churchill: Sean Arnold
Mr Purcell: Nigel Lambert
Mr Tinkler: Bill Lyons
Hitihiti: Garard Green
Maimiti: Sandra Clark
[Also produced by Adrian Bean in 3 parts commencing 9th July 1995, with Oliver Reed as William Bligh and Roger Daltrey as Thomas Burkitt]
29th April 1973:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Novices by William Glen-Doepel
Producer: Hallam Tennyson
A monastery in East Anglia.
David (novice): Sean Barrett
Alberic (lay): Alan Barry
Victor familiaris/ Geoff (novice): Geoffrey Collins
James, novice: Kerry Francis
Bruce, novice: Clifford Norgate
Tim novice: Sean Arnold
Fr Sebastian, Novice Master: John Bentley
Fr Anselm, Prior: Hector Ross
Fr Michael: James Thomason
Fr Provincial: Charles Simon
Repeated from 9th March 1970.
30th April 1973:
20.00:
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
1894. Who is Ernest.
Producer: Peter Watts
Algernon Moncrieff: Ronald Ward
Lane: John Turnbull
John Worthing, JP: John Gielgud
Lady Bracknell: Edith Evans
Hon Gwendolen Fairfax: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Miss Prism: Betty Hardy
Cecily Cardew: Angela Baddeley
Merriman: Roger Delgado
Rev Canon Chasuble, DD: David Horne
Repeated from 4th and 10th June 1951 and 30th March 1968
1st May 1973
20.30:
Livingstone's Last Journey by Michael Kittermaster.
Producer: Christopher Venning
David Livingstone: Nigel Graham
Sir Roderick Murchison /Rev Dugald Boyd: John Forrest
Sir Bartle Frere: Haydn Jones
Sultan of Zanzibar: Clive Swift
Rev Horace Waller: Alan Rowe
H M Stanley: Garrick Hagon
Chuma/Villager: Willie Jonah
Majwara: Lionel Ngakane
Halima: Taiwo Aja
Chitambo/Susi: Alton Kumalo
2nd May 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Junctions by Mike Cooper.
Railway preservation.
Producer: Martin Jenkins.
Gerry: David Gooderson
Sandra: Virginia Denham
Mrs Bailey: Pauline Letts
Mr Bailey: Clive Swift
Mr Lord: Rolf Lefebvre
Miss Goodchild: Diana Bishop
Mr Reynolds: Fraser Kerr
Mr Ormrod: Wilfrid Carter
Engine driver: Anthony Hall
2nd May 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Sins of Commission by R D Wingfield.(1928-2007)
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Mr Merry: Alan Dudley
Mr Fletcher: Peter Tuddenham
Bradley: William Fox
Jordan: John Baddeley
Hicks: David Gooderson
Mrs Mac: Katherine Parr
Jean: Chrys Salt
George Graham: William Eedle
Bert: Nigel Graham
Harry: John Hollis
Repeated 3rd May 1973 and 13th April 1977
4th May 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The King's Honour by Ragan Butler.
It is 1694.
Producer: Jane Graham
Sir James Ogilvy: Philip Voss
Elizabeth Villiers: Penelope Lee
Mrs Jones: Katherine Parr
John Law: Tom Watson
Mrs Lawrence: Helen Bourne
Edward Wilson: Madhav Sharma
Jeremy Turnell: Geoffrey Beevers
Warder: Douglas Blackwell
Prison Governor: Lewis Stringer
Chief Justice Holt: Martin Friend
Repeated from 12th February 1972
5th May 1973
14.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Conditional People by Malcolm Ross-MacDonald.
Producer: Betty Davies
Pluto Greatorex: Powell Jones
Jessica Daycester: Elizabeth Proud
Lord Daycester: Patrick Barr
Lady Daycester: Sylvia Coleridge
Vicar: Brian Haines
5th May 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Tunnel by John D Vincent
Producer: John Scotney.
Bert Duncan: John Hollis
Harry Prescott: Edward Kelsey
Insp Meadows: Kevin Flood
Sgt Richards: Peter Gordon
Sgt Crane/Mr Jenkins: Michael Deacon
Fred Allen: Peter Pacey
Mr Wiseman/Army Officer/Jack: Terry Scully
George Fellows: Sean Barrett
Charlie/Jim: William Sleigh
Mr Benson: Robin Browne
Mr Simpson: Haydn Jones
Miss Round: Sandra Clark
Repeated 7th May 1973
6th May 1973
14.30-15.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). Adapted by Patrick Tull.
1 of 8.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer: David Cain
Encyclopedic read-out David Valla
Hari Seldon: William Eedle
Gaal Dornick: Geoffrey Beevers
Advocate: Heron Carvic
Salvor Hardin: Lee Montague
Yohan Lee: John Hollis
Lewis Pirenne: Roy Spencer
Anselm Rodric: Rolf Lefebvre
Lord Dorwin: Ronald Herdman
Tomaz Sutt: Brian Haines
Jord Fara: John Rowe
Repeated commencing 13th August 1977.
7th May 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: You Never Can Tell (1897) by Bernard Shaw.(1856-1950)
A comedy of errors and the wisdom of a waiter set in 1896.
Producer: Betty Davies.
Dolly Clandon: Jo Manning Wilson
Valentine: Denys Hawthorne
Philip Clandon: Nigel Anthony
Mrs Clandon: Betty Baskcomb
Gloria Clandon: Prunella Scales
Fergus Crampton: Godfrey Kenton
Finch McComas: Lockwood West
The Waiter: Freddie Jones
Walter Bohun: Michael Kilgarrlff
Parlour Maid: Jane Knowles
Repeated from 31st July 1971
Repeated 6th June 1977, 12th June 1977, 31st December 1979
[Also produced by Esme Percy for R3 3/2/1952, 8/2/1952, 15/3/1952, 2/7/1952]
[Also produced by Hugh Stewart 7 and 9/10/1961]
[Also produced by Frederick Bradnum for Light 7th and 12/11/1956]
9th May 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Square Three by Beryl Whitaker.
An angry man.
Producer: John Cardy
Frank Denton: Glyn Owen
Stella Denton: Katherine Parr
Katie Denton: Julie Hallam
Jake: William Eedle
Inspector: Clive Swift
Wally: David Gooderson
Ricky: Anthony Hall
9th May 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Without Benefit of Clergy (1890) by Rudyard Kipling.(1865-1936)
India, 1890's.
Doomed love.
Producer: John Tydeman
Rudvard Kipling: David Spenser
L Holden: Gary Watson
Ameera: Heather Emmanuel
Ameeras mother: Zohra Segal
Pir Khan: Sam Dastor
Club secretary: William Eedle
First club member: William Fox
Second club member: Terry Scully
Butter: Anthony Hall
Durga Dass: Garard Green
Repeated 10th May 1973, 24th July 1975
[Zohra Seegle played the same character in the 1964 BBC TV production of this play]
[The title refers to a benefit that had been removed in 1841 regarding secular trial. Kipling's use is more of reflection of a couple living together without a church wedding. "Mixed marriages" were socially forbidden when this was written.]
11th May 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Guilt of King Polycrates by Andrew M Wilkinson (Peter Gurney) based on Herodotus.
Music by Humphrey Searle.
with a section Of The Ambrosian Singers, Combined choirs of the Loughton High School for Girls and the Bancroft Boys' Scbool
Sinfonia of London conducted by Humphrey Searle
Samos, 532 BC.
Producer: Raymond Raikes
Argeia, daughter of Polycrates: June Tobin
Polycrates, king of Samos: Michael Hordern
Egyptian ambassador: Heron Carvic
Herodotus, the historian: Charles Simon
Amasis, king of Egypt: Leon Quartermaine
Anacreon, the poet: Kenneth Dight
Lydian ambassador: Hugh Manning
Oroetes governor of Lydia: Malcolm Hayes
The King: Diana Olsson
Citizens of Samos: Philip Cunningham, Hugh Dickson, Gabriel Woolf
Herald: John Hollis
A Captain: John Humphry
Messenger: Jon Rollason
A Fisherman: Douglas Storm
Repeated from R3: 8th and 27th March 1960, 10th September 1960, R4: 24th September 1967
[A 47 page typescript is held by the British Library in the Humphrey Searle Collection, MS71815]
[Herodotus was not considered very dependable as a historian in his own day. The oral tradition favours creative story telling.]
12th May 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Hook, Line and Sinker by Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010).
The end of a fishing trip.
Producer: John Cardy.
Frank Houghton: Malcolm Hayes
Thorpe: Haydn Jones
Williams: Rolf Lefebvre
Porter: Clive Swift
Jennie: Diana Bishop
Sybil Houghton: Monica Grey
Sgt Briggs: John Forrest
Insp Grace: Edward Kelsey
PC Croft: Victor Platt
Gregg: Anthony Hall
Jezzard: Stephen Jack
12th May 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Fall of the Sparrow by Nigel Balchin (1908-1970) adapted by Antony Kearey
Producer: Harry Catlin
Henry Payne: Ian Thompson
Bryce: William Eedle
Judge: William Fox
Prosecuting Counsel/Milkman/Dr Parsons: Nigel Graham
Defending Counsel/Giles: Sam Dastor
Mr Payne/ Fascist: Martin Friend
Mrs Payne: Katherine Parr
Henry (child): Eve Raine
General Petlew/ Commander Lewis: Haydn Jones
Mrs Pellew: Hilda Schroder
Jason (child): Judy Bennett
Farthing/Laidlaw: Terry Scully
Jason Pellew: Brian Hewlett
Simon Grieves: Fraser Kerr
Leah Garland: Maureen Lipman
Kathryn Grayson: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 14th May 1973
13th May 1973
18.15-19.00
Four Days to Kill by Robert Barr (1909-1999).
Part 1 of 6.
A British intelligence office in the "cold war"
Producer: Charles Maxwell
Jim Nicholson: Edward de Souza
Paul O'Donnell: Geoffrey Frederick
The Commander: Gerald Cross
Col Doyle: Frederick Treves
Sara Gale: Kate Binchy
Lt Farrell: Geoffrey Collins
Sgt Kelly: Derek Seaton
Serial repeated commencing 21st February 1974.
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2026 under the title Jim Nicholson: Four Days to Kill]
[No relation to the 1952 episode of Suspense TV show, with this title]
14th May 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: Scenes from Provincial Life (1950) by William Cooper (H S Hoff 1910-2002) adapted by Malcolm and Elizabeth Bradbury
Piano: Harold Rich; Violin: William Hand; Cello: David Fletcher.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Joe Lunn: Barry Foster
Tom: Graham Armitage
Myrtle: Pamela Craig
Frank: Robin Hooper
Trevor: Earl Johnson
Benny: Peter Biddle
Boy Giles: Gordon Smith
Mr Bolshaw: George Woolley
Steve: Sam Sewell
Robert: Douglas Storm
also with Gillian Andrews
[Also produced in four parts of 30 minutes by David Blount 20/8/2003, repeated 7/10/2005 with David Thorpe as Joe.]
[H S Hoff was a science teacher. The character Robert was drawn from the authors colleague C P Snow. The series of novels was closely related to the authors own life.]
[Follow on novels were Scenes from Metropolitan Life, Scenes from Married Life, Scenes from Later Life, Scenes from Death and Life. Scenes from Metropolitan Life had a delayed publication for legal reasons- one of the real characters objected.]
[The title is also known as a trilogy by J M Coetzee from 1997, no connection to this play].
16th May 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Queen Pawn Gambit by Ken Methold.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Jeffrey Hardy: Basil Moss
Edward Bates: Michael Shannon
Marion Simpson: Nicolette McKenzie
Malcolm MacDuncan: Fraser Kerr
Sir William MacDuncan: Nigel Graham
Betty: Chrissy Iddon
Mary: Sandra Clark
Mr Johnson: Tony McEwan
Waiter: Steven Dawson
Operator: Bonnie Hurren
16th May 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Love O' Women (1893) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) adapted by A R Rawlinson.
India in the 1890s.
Producer: John Tydeman
Rudyard Kipling: David Spenser
Pte Ortheris: Anthony Hall
Pte Mulvaney: Kevin Flood
Pte Tighe: Hugh Dickson
Capt Crook: Robin Browne
Subaltern: Sam Dastor
Dr Lowndes: Rolf Lefebvre
Orderly: Nigel Anthony
Dinah: Hilda Schroder
Egypt: Sheila Grant
Repeated 17th May 1973, 31st July 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2022]
[Also produced by Adrian Bean 23/11/1994, rptd 26/6/1995 with John Duttine as Tighe.]
[Not a very feel-good play, remarkably dark.]
18th May 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Accomplices by Alick Rowe (1938-2009).
Producer: Richard Wortley
Rex: Alaric Cotter
Headmaster: John Bentley
Williams: Brian Hewlett
Driscoll: Hugh Dickson
Chamberlayne: Nigel Lambert
Sgt-Major: Douglas Blackwell
Chaplain: James Thomason
P H: Judy Bennett
Matron: Margot Boyd
Repeated from 16th January 1971
19th May 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Praying Mantis by Derek Hoddinott.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Arthur Steele: Joss Ackland
Beryl, his wife: Ruth Dunning
Peter Drummond: Brian Hewlett
Lorry driver: William Eedle
19th May 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope (1863-1933), adapted by Eric Maschwitz and Kay Patrick.
Original music (1939) by Robert Chignell and Leslie Woodgate
The coronation must proceed.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Rudolf Rassendyll/ King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Lady Burlesdon: 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
Col Sapt: Nigel Stock
Josef: Haydn Jones
Princess Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Capt Detchard: Terry Scully
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Bersonin: David Gooderson
Repeated 21st May 1973, 25th December 1978, 28th December 1989
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2021]
[Sequel, Ruper of Hentzau, broadcast 26th May 1973]
20th May 1973:
21.00-21.58
The Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope dramatised by Constance Cox.
Cello: Anthony Pleeth
Part 1 of 20. Book 1: The Warden. 1855.
Producer: Norman Wright
Trollope, the narrator: Godfrey Kenton
Mr Harding: Carleton Hobbs
Eleanor Harding: Rosalind Shanks
Archdeacon Grantly: Robert Harris
Susan Grantly: Marjorie Westbury
Bishop Grantly: George Merritt
Mary Bold: Eva Haddon
John Bold: Michael Harbour
Mr Chadwick: Rolf Lefebvre
Bunce: John Ruddock
Handy: Brian Haines
Moody: Haydn Jones
Skulpit: William Eedle
All parts repeated after two days.
[The Warden was also produced by Charlotte Riches in a 90m play 26/1/2014, rptd R4X, with Andrew Sachs as Bishop Grantly and Claire Price as Eleanor.]
[Series also produced by Cherry Cookson 19/11/1995 rptd R7, 2006-2011 in 20 parts with Janet Maw as Mary and Juliet Aubrey as Eleanor]
[The play series was based on the six novels]
21st May 1973
20.00:
The Monday Play: Saxons and Strangers by John Kirkmorris.
Producer: Jane Graham
Peter Casati: Richard Kay
Rowland Thomas: Clive Swift
Gwilym Pritchard: William Squire
Freddie Haslop: Diana Olsson
Evan Pritchard: Peter Egan
Julia Walters: Julie Hallam
J J Jones: Haydn Jones
Eirlys Jones: Joanna David
also with Anthony Hall, Illona Linthwaite, Terry Scully
Repeated 19th October 1975
23rd May 1973:
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Not Like Home by Christine Furnival.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Tony: David Valla
Jude Parker: Pauline Letts
Mrs Boone: Sylvia Coleridge
Mrs Crayford: Hazel Coppen
Peter: David Timson
Cath: Julie Hallam
Vera: Jo Manning Wilson
The Colonel: William Fox
Patsy: Bonnie Hurren
Jed: David Gooderson
Jack: Haydn Jones
Mave: Diana Bishop
23rd May 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Mrs Bathurst (1904) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) dramatised by A R Rawlinson.
South Africa.
Producer: John Tydeman
Hooper: William Fox
Rudyard Kipling: David Spenser
Pyecroft: John Hollis
Sgt Pritchard: Geoffrey Matthews
Ada: Diana Olsson
Bo'sun: Sam Dastor
Warrant Officer: Fraser Kerr
Dawson: Nigel Anthony
Click: Rolf Lefebvre
Local Inspector: Jonathan Scott
Sentry: Anthony Hall
Repeated 24th May 1973, 7th August 1975
25th May 1973
15.00
The 1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster by Peter Terson (1932-2021).
Singer: Ray Fisher
Harmonium: Mary Nash
Concertina: Jimmy Robertson
The importance of good lifebelt design.
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux
Francis Haydn Williams: Stephen Murray
Mrs Tattersfield: Barbara Lott
Henry Freeman/ John Leadley: David March
Mr Buchana/Dr Hingston: Brian Haines
Mrs Agar/ Mrs Dobson/Mrs Storr: Kathleen Helme
Canon Austen?Edward Tyreman: John Rowe
Mrs Williams: Sheila Grant
Mr Marwood: David Gooderson
Effie Dobson: Jill Lidstone
Mr Horne: John Samson
Capt Martin: Douglas Blackwell
William Dixon: David Gooderson
Lop Naylor: John Samson
Harbourmaster Tose: Ronald Herdman
Sir Charles Strickland: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated from 23rd Septmber 1972
[The real life Henry Freeman went on to assist in a further almost mythical lifeboat rescue in 1881 and many others besides, summing to over 300 lives saved..]
26th May 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: One of Our Patients is Missing by Leslie Darbon.
Producer: Betty Davies
Johnnie Johnson porter: Don McKillop
Geoff Baines, morgue assistant: Robin Browne
Sister Nixon: Diana Bishop
Dr Reed: Terry Scully
Mr James pharmacist: David Gooderson
Ron Thackeray: Malcolm Hayes
Dick Gingoid: Brian Haines
Joe Lyons: Nigel Graham
Paddy Regan: Alan Barry
Insp Ross: William Eedle
Sergeant: David Gooderson
26th May 1973:
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope (1863-1933) adapted by Cynthia Pughe and Kay Patrick
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Rudolf Rassendyll/ King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Fritz von Tarlenheim: David Timson
James: Timothy Bateson
Queen Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Stationmaster: Wilfrid Carter
Rischenheim: Kerry Francis
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Farmer: Peter Williams
Colonel Sapt: Nigel Stock
Bernenstein: Sean Barrett
Simon/Thug: Fraser Kerr
Herbert/Bauer: Nigel Anthony
Hermann/Anton: David Sinclair
Butter: Wilfrid Carter
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rosa: Cherry Gilliam
Thugs: Vernon Joyner
Constable: Vernon Joyner
Fraulein Helsing: Bonnie Hurren
Madame Helsing/ Mother Holf: Diana Bishop
Chancellor Helsing: Peter Williams
Repeated 28th May 1973, 31st December 1978, 27th December 1984
[A follow on from The Prisoner of Zenda, broadcast 19th May 1973]
28th May 1973:
20.00:
Michael and his Lost Angel (1896) by Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929).
Production: John Tydemam
Rev Mark Docwray: Nigel Graham
Andrew Gibbard: Fraser Kerr
Rev Michael Feversham: Denholm Elliott
Rose Gibbard: Kate Binchy
Sir Lyolf Feversham: Ralph Truman
Audrie Lesden: Jill Bennett
Withycombe: Nigel Anthony
Father Hilary: Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Cantelo: Hilda Schroder
[The first theatre production was curtailed to ten days- it was said that the most important part of the play right at the start was missed due to the noise of latecomers(!!). Pay attention at the beginning....]
Repeated 28th December 1974
29th May 1973
11.30-12.00
Miss Manvers by David Masters,
Producer: Jane Graham
Mrs Roberts: Pat Hye
Postman: Garard Green
PC 38: Nigel Lambert
Sgt Hawkins: Clifford Norgate
Inspector Young: Alan Dudley
Miss Manvers: Dorothy Lane
Repeated from 14th January 1970
30th May 1973
11.30-12.00
Dead Man's Shoes by Rosemary Timperley (1920-1988)
Footsteps lead up to the door.
Producer: John Cardy
Melanie Denver: Angela Pleasence
Mr Jackets: John Hollis
Mrs Manning: Betty Baskcomb
Joan Bowles: Julie Hallam
Miss Lincoln: Lynn Farleigh
Landlady: Betty Baskcomb
Myra Lawrence: Jo Manning Wilson
The author was a teacher for a short time.
[The title has been widely used]
30th May 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Thorn Blows Early by Jessie Kesson.(1916-1994)
The last day at school.
Producer: Gordon Emslie
Isabel Emslie: Eileen McCallum
Mother: Effie Morrison
Father: Bryden Murdoch
Elsie: Rose McBain
Davy: John Shedden
Dominic: Victor Carin
Bess Chisholm: Joan Fitzpatrick
Also with Caroline Grant, Leslie Mackie, Colette Martin, Sheila Donald
30th May 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Great Gospel Tickle by Edward Mackin.
Harmonium: Trevor Holroyd
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Charlie: David Jackson
Bob: Neville Smith
Pete: Anthony Kenyon
Holy Joe: John Blythe
Ike: Colin Edwynn
First policeman: Jack Carr
Second policeman: Sam Kelly
Lady: Eileen Derbyshire
Repeated 31st May 1973
1st June 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Breath of Fresh Air (1961) by F C Ball.
Musical direction: John Beckett
Before and during WW 1.
Producer: David Thomson
Narrator: Carleton Hobbs
Grandad: John Sharp
Granny: Hilda Fenemore
Father: Peter Claughton
Mother: Betty Hardy
Old gal: Miriam Margolyes
The boy: Patricia Hayes
The girl: Cecile Chevreau
The boy's sweetheart: Martina Mayne
Her sister: Marise Hepworth
Wishfort: Edward Burnham
Uncle Cyril: Trader Faulkner
Compere: Leigh Crutchley
Mr Fish: Eric Francis
Headmaster: Eric Phillips
Housemaid: Anna Wing
Repeated from R3 7th November 1964
[F C Ball did great service to literature by being responsible in the mid 1950's for the restoration of the full text of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Tressell. The book this play was based upon was published fairly soon after the full Tressell text was published and there are similarities to approach. There are a lot of books with this play's title.]
2nd June 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: Blood Lines by John Kirkmorris.
Producer: Richard Wortley
Arthur: William Eedle
Sara: Joy Harrison
Joe: Anthony Hall
Margaret: Margot Boyd
Kit: Jo Manning Wilson
Claire: Julle Hallam
Repeated 4th August 1976
2nd June 1973
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Tallyman by Bill Knox (1928-1999).
Producer: Cordon Emslie
(Glasgow)
Chief Insp Thane: Paul Kermack
Insp Modd: Phil McCall
Lord Mains: David Steuart
Supt Ilford: Martin Cochrane
PC Beech: Tony Roper
Sgt MacLeod: Willy Joss
Mary Thane: Gwyneth Guthrie
Driver Erickson: Michael Bruce
Hayes: Ian Dewar
Harry Freeman: Arthur Boland
Josh Barbar: Robert Trotter
Helen Milne: Ann Scott-Jones
Jim Manneson: William Armour
Patterson Diall: John Young
Mrs Freeman: Sheila Donald
Doc Williams: Michael Elder
Dr Milne: Bryden Murdoch
Irene Manneson: Rose McBain
Repeated 4th June 1973
4th June 1973
19.30
The Monday Play: The Seagull (1896) by Anton Checkhov (1860-1904), translated by David Magarshack
1896.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Semvon Medvyedenko: Anthony Jackson
Masha Shamrayevs daughter: Barbara Mitchell
Pyotr Sorin, Arkadina's brother: Ronald Herdman
Konstantin, Arkadina's son: Ian McKellen
Nina, a young girl: Zena Walker
Yakov, a workman: Bernard Brown
Polina, Shamrayey's wife: Marjorie Westbury
Yevgeny Dorn, a doctor: Jack May
Shamrayev: Victor Lucas
Madame Irina Arkadina: Irene Worth
Boris Trigorin, a novelist: Hugh Burden
Repeated from R3 13th February 1968, 8th March 1968, and 27th April 1969 and R4 22nd November 1971
5th June 1973:
12.25-13.00:
What Ho Jeeves: The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse adapted by Chris Miller.
Part 1 of 10: Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum
Producer: David Hatch
Jeeves: Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
Bingo Little: Jonathan Cecil
Mabel and Mary: Ann Davies
Mortimer Little: Ronald Fraser
All parts repeated after two days.
[Also broadcast very regularly on R7/R4X 2005-2025]
[This was the only production of The Inimitable Jeeves. It was a collection of older short stories the first was from 1918. The collection was 1923. Jeeves first story was in 1915.]
6th June 1973:
15.00-15.50:
Loaf by David Fitzsimmons.
Producer: Kay Patrick
Ted: David Timson
Bill: Antbony Jackson
Albert: John Moore
Jack: Ken Jones
Pemberton: David Gooderson
6th June 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Wedding Present by David Ellis.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
James Smith: Nigel Graham
Laura, his wife: Margaret Wolfit
Brenda Yardley his secretary: Wendy Williams
Donald Melford: Hector Ross
Elaine Hardy: Monica Grey
Alan Hardy: Nigel Anthony
Crouch: Rolf Lefebvre
Trafford: Haydn Jones
Repeated 7th June 197/3
8th June 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Return to Dursford by Peter Russell
Producer: Tony Cliff
David Webster: Derrick Gilbert
Angela Burton: Rosalind Shanks
Sheila Burton: Penelope Lee
Henry Burton: James Beck
Hylda Burton: Mavis Rogerson
Tom Burton: Colin Edwynn
Joe Burton: Ralph Lawton
Gail Wainwright: Pamela Craig
Alderman Wainwright: John Franklyn-Robbins
Sam Cranston: Graham Rigby
Mrs Wainwright: Jean Lockhart
also with Catherine Naish, Chris Canavan, Roy Barraclough, John Baldwin, Paul Harper
[Also produced 10/12/1966 (by Alan Ayckbourn??) with identical cast- listings error or two productions? Mention on Alan's website is taken from BBC Genome not from Alan's records or memory.]
[Return to Duxford is a classic painting of a WW2 Mustang plane, no apparent connection to this play.]
9th June 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Unassuming Man by Linley Wall.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Veronica: Pauline Jamieson
Lois: Susan Levi
Nicola: Gillian Bailey
Ron: Nicholas I Oukbs (???)
Ida: Enid Burton
Ned: Haydn Jones
Henry: David Hyde
Mr Hodgkinson: Hedley Goodall
Mrs Hodgkinson: Elizabeth Chater
Grace: Peggy Ryalls
Muriel: Ronnie Hurren
9th June 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Ringer(1926) by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
Producer: Raymond Raikes
'Gaunt Stranger': David Davis
Divisional Det Insp Wembury: Alexander John
Central Det Insp Bliss: Geoffrey Collins
Col Walford: Peter Williams
Samuel Hackitt: Bill Fraser
Maurice Meister: Alan Wheatley
Mary Lentey: Kate Binchy
Dr Lomond: Fraser Kerr
Cora Ann Milton: Sandra Clark
John Lentey: John Forrest
Telephone: Operator Julie Hallam
Station Sgt Carter: Vernon Joyner
Det Sgt Brown: Robin Browne
Det Con Field: John Samson
PC Atkins: Nigel Graham
Repeated 11th June 1973
[The stage play was adapted from Edgar Wallace novel "The Gaunt Stranger" (1925) aka "Police Work"]
11th June 1973
19.30
The Monday Play: The Taming of the Shrew (c.1591) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Producer: Ian Cotterell
Prologue: Terry Scully
Lucentio: David Spenser
Tranio: Nigel Lambert
Baptista, father of Katherina: Carleton Hobbs
Gremio: Richard Goolden
Katherina: Fenella Fielding
Hortensio: John Rowe
Bianca: Miriam Margolyes
Biondello: Timothy Bateson
Petruchio: Paul Daneman
Grumio: Ronald Herdman
Curtis: Terry Scully
Petruchio's servants: Nigel Anthony, William Sleigh, Robin Browne
Pedant: John Ruddock
Tailor: Sam Dastor
Vincentio, father of Lucentio: William Fox
Widow: Sheila Grant
Lute player: Julian Byzantine
Repeated 2nd August 1976
[Yes: Shakespeare had characters called Gremio and Grumio. In the above list the usual name Katherina has been used although BBC Database shows Katherine.]
[The play is quite mysogynistic- note when it was written.]
13th June 1973
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Then I'd Kiss You Goodbye by Peter F. Ferguson
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Selena: Jane Hylton
Mr East: Cyril Shaps
Also with Sam Sewell, Gillian Andrews, George Woolley
13th June 1973
20.15: Midweek Theatre: My Marriage by Michael Newling.
Banjo: Richard Bull
Producer: Colin Tucker
Georgie: Martin C Thurley
Annie: Julie Hallam
Wendy: Emily Richard
Georgie's Dad: Haydn Jones
Wendy's Mother: Katherine Parr
Wendy's Father: Brian Haines
Richard: David Gooderson
Jobie: Nigel Anthony
Mottram: Philip McGough
Sylvia: Rosalyn Slater
Repeated 14th June 1973
15th June 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Fall of Edward Barnard (1921) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Val Gielgud
Producer: Norman Wright
the Storyteller: Carleton Hobbs
Edward Barnard: Edward Bishop
Isabel Longstaffe: Sarah Brackett
Edward Barnard: Edward Bishop
Henry Longstaffe: Georce Margo
Bateman Hunter: Peter Marinker
Hotel Manager: Francis de Wolff
Mr Krauss: David Healy
Arnold Jackson: Jon Farrell
Eva: Eva Haddon
La vina: Jumoke Debayo
Repeated from 21st December 1968, 25th December 1971
[Maugham visited the Pacific area in 1916-1917]
16th June 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Narrow Forfeit by Brian Lee.
Fenland flooding.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Mace: Colin Blakely
Granny B: Nora Nicholson
Billy: Clive Swift
PC Arthur Wilkes: John Hollis
Bodger: Geoffrey Matthews
Daniel: Peter Tuddenham
Bert: Nigel Graham
Noreen: Helen Worth
Lucy: Bonnie Hurren
Lady social worker: Hilda Schroder
Grocer: Anthony Hall
16th June 1973:
16.30
Popinjay Stairs by Geoffrey Trease.
Part 1 of 4.
The days of King Charles (II).
Producer: Harry Catlin
Editor: Graham Gauld
Colonel Rackerby: Ralph Truman
Hooker: John Hollis
Serving Man: John Samson
Denzil Swift: Michael Harbour
Samuel Pepys: Derek Smith
Doctor Fane: Geoffrey Bayldon
Deborah Fane: Lisa Harrow
Mr Swift: Godfrey Kenton
Boatman: William Sleigh
Mrs Vanderloo: Hilda Schroder
Bosun Winter: William Eedle
Evans: Anthony Hall
16th June 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Venus of Konpara (1960) by John Masters dramatised by Norman Painting
India in the late 19th Century: what can be uncovered by archeology.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Rukmini: Liane Aukin
Kendrick: Ian Richardson
Smith: Peter Dyneley
Mohan: Sam Dastor
Marigold Sharman: Barbara Kendrick
Foster: Graham Weston
Huttoo Lall: Renu Setna
Repeated 18th June 1973
18th June 1973:
20.00:
The Monday Play: To an Early Grave by Charles Dennis
Producer: Roger Pine
Irene Weyman: Bonnie Hurren
Alan Farrel: Lee Montague
Nora Farrel: Miriam Margolyes
Kevin O'Donnell: Denys Hawthorne
Sally: Liza Ross
Psychiatrist: William Sleigh
Bernie Schiffe: Bob Sherman
Pauline Farrel: Shirley Dixon
Mona: Margaret Robertson
Kenneth: Blain Fairman
Doctor: Terry Scully
Morris W Weyman: Patrick Tull
Carter Lang: Michael McClain
Mendy Rosen: Harry Towb
20th June 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Sam's Wedding by Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003).
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Mother: Eileen Derbyshire
Father: Paul Webster
Narrator: David Mahlowe
Sam: Colin Edwynn
Ruth: Susan Littler
George: John Blythe
Mrs Bessemer: Elizabeth MacKenzie
Aileen: Barbara Mullaney
Norma: Carole Turner
Mr Bootle: Graham Roberts
20th June 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Castleward by John Tarrant.
Producer: John Cardy
Nick Crellin: Denys Hawthorne
Derek Gawne: Anthony Jackson
Anne Kinrade: Rosalind Shanks
John Teare: Stephen Jack
Sheila Teare: Diana Olsson
Repeated 21st June 1973
22nd June 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: Billy's Last Stand by Barry Hines (1939-2016).
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Billy: Arthur Lowe
Darkly: Ronald Baddiley
Repeated from R3 12th and 29th August 1965; R4 12th March 1971
[Also broadcast on R4X 2025]
[This was Hines first published work. He briefly worked as an apprentice mining surveyor,]
23rd June 1973
14.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914) by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Mrs Holroyd: Judy Parfitt
Btackmore: Roy Spencer
Jack: Patricia Leventon
Minnie: Helen Worth
Clara: Jane Knowles
Laura: Christine Welch
Hotroyd: David Brierley
Grandmother: Joan Matheson
Rigley: Ronald Herdman
Manager: George Woolley
First miner: Christopher Crooks
Second miner: Peter Bourke
Repeated 13th October 1979, 4th May 1986
[Also produced by William Hughes R4$:14/9/53 rptd R3:25/9/1954 with Freda Jackson as Mrs Holroyd.]
23rd June 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Mr Whatsisname by Malcolm Hazell, based on "The Lunatic at Large"(1899) by J. Storer Clouston (1870-1944).
Escape from an asylum.
Producer: Brian Miller
Francis Mandell-Essington: Dinsdale Landen
Twiddel: William Sleigh
Emily: Richenda Carey
Welsh: David Timson
Sherlaw: John Samson
Escott: John Moore
Lady Alicia: Caroline Hunt
Baron von Blitzenberg: Richard Griffiths
Aunt Peggy: Ann Wood
Dr Congleton: Esmond Rideout
Nemo: Rex Holdsworth
Manager: Charles Mander
Repeated 25th June 1973
[Clouston was the son of a psychiatrist. There were three sequel novels: The Lunatic at Large Again; The Lunatic still at large; The Lunatic in Charge]
25th June 1973:
20.00
The Monday Play: What Maisie Knew (1897) by Henry James (1843-1916), adapted by Joan O'Connor.
Producer: Jane Graham
Nannie: Peggy Aitchison
Beale Farange: David Buck
Maisie: Helen Worth
Ida Farange: Moira Redmond
Isabel: Diana Bishop
Mabel: Bonnie Hurren
Maudie: Hilda Schroder
Miss Overmore: Caroline John
Susan: Sylvia Brayshay
Mrs Wix: Katherine Parr
Sir Claude: Edward Fox
Mr Perriam: John Samson
Maid: Sandra Clark
The Captain: Vernon Joyner
The Countess: Elaine Ives Cameron
Porter: Robin Browne
Repeated 8th June 1980
27th June 1973:
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Gaffer by David Stewart.
1851 and social mobility.
Producer: John Cardy
Abraham Boulton: Edward Chapman
Ruth Boulton: Hilda Schroder
Oliver Boulton: Nigel Graham
James Boulton: David Spenser
Lord Elkthorne: Geoffrey Wincott
Lady Patricia Elkthorne: Angela Thorne
Eli Bennett/Minister: William Eedle
Sarah Bennett: Diana Olsson
Job Bennett: Robin Browne
Hannah Bennett: Carol Marsh
Coachman: Anthony Hall
27th June 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Muffin Murderer by Philip Rees.
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Felan: Sean Barrett
John Parkerson: Geoffrey Banks
Emily Parkerson: Jenny Austen
Repeated 28th June 1973
29th June 1973
15.00
Afternoon Theatre: A Day Like Sunday by Colin Finbow.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Alison: Cherie Lunghi
Arthur, her father: Robert Hardy
Angela, her mother: Vivien Merchant
The Boy: Gerald Rowland
Deckchair-man: Nigel Clayton
Repeated from R3 1st and 17th July 1965, 2nd June 1966; R4 9th October 1970
[Also broadcast on R4X 2025]
30th June 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Willie Banks and the Technological Revolution by K. Allen Saddler
Producer: Christopher Venning
Sir Nigel: Nigel Graham
Greaves: Nigel Anthony
Willie: Terry Scully
Helen: Helen Fraser
Cyril Watson: Haydn Jones
Joe: Andrew Bradford
Jacko: Michael St John
Carole: Bonnie Hurren
Lorry driver: Tony McEwen
Lady Bull: Diana Olsson
Countryman: Geoffrey Colins
Shapley: Barrie Cookson
Repeated 14th November 1975
30th June 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Heir of Ambition by Lydia Ragosin
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Benjamin Disraeli: Marius Goring
Mary Anne: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Wyndham Lewis: William Eedle
Lord Stanley (later Earl of Derby): David March
Sir Robert Peel: Godfrey Kenton
Sarah Disraeli: Diana Olsson
Mrs Rosina Bulwer: Diana Bishop
Lord George Bentinck: Nigel Graham
Mr Gladstone: William Sleigh
Queen Victoria: Jane Wenham
Prince Albert: Brian Haines
Edward Stanley: John Samson
also with Anthony Hal1, Vernon Joyner, Fraser Kerr, Rolf Lefebvre, Elizabeth Morgan and Terry Scully
Repeated 2nd July 1973
1st July 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) adapted by Michael Kittermaster.
1 of 4.
Producer: Betty Davies
Col James Bray: Glyn Houston
Rebecca Edwards: Sarah Lawson
Roland Dando: Haydn Jones
Neil Bailey: Fraser Kerr
Sir William Clough: Godfrey Kenton
Henry Davis: Peter Williams
Barry Forsyth: Rolf Lefebvre
Carson, a journalist: Brian Haines
Adamson Mweta, the President: Alton Kumalo
Joy, his wife: Taiwo Ajai
Doris Manyema: Heather Emmanuel
[Nadine Gordimer was South African and was an anti-apartheid activist]
2nd July 1973:
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Cards Face Down by Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) translated by Nicholas Round
Produced By: Margaret Etall
Adela: Gwen Watford
Juan: Richard Bebb
Mauro: Clive Swift
Juanito: David Gooderson
Anita: Diana Olsson
3rd July 1973:
20.30-21.15
The Sun King (1966) by Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) adapted by Alan Melville.
1 of 3.
Louis XIV (1638-1715) at Versailles
Producer: John Tydeman
Narrator: Alan Melville
Louis XIV: Aubrey Woods
Comte d'Aubignac: William Eedle
Mme de Montespan: Elizabeth Morgan
Dutch Envoy: Terry Scully
Fouquet: Timothy Bateson
Colbert: Clive Swift
Le Vau: Fraser Kerr
Le Brun: John Forrest
Mme Scarron: Gudrun Ure
Mme Voisin: Sandra Clark
Mme de Bouillon: Bonnie Hurren
Duc du Maine: David Timson
Repeated commencing 25th January 1974
[The French President de Gaulle recommended the book to his cabinet].
4th July 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: We're Strangers Here by Eric Chappell (1933-2022)
Producer: John Tydeman
Anne: Prunella Scales
David: Timothy West
4th July 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bury Him Among Kings (1970) by Elleston Trevor (1920-1995) adapted by John Richmond
Late 1914.
Part 1 of 3.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Aubrey Talbot: John Samson
Pamela Talbot: Sandra Clark
Victor Talbot: Sam Dastor
Sir William Talbot: Rolf Lefebvre
Lady Eleanor Talbot: Betty Baskcomb
Charrington: Antony Higginson
Major Charles Sadler: Godfrey Kenton
Louise Sadler: Diana Bishop
Hugh Sadler/Wiggy: Robin Browne
Freddie Kemp: Leonard Fenton
Tom Follett: Brian Hewlett
Sam Quincey/ Julian Lovell: Neville Jason
Percy Stokes: David Sinclair
Oscar: Anthony Ball
Harry Ross: David Gooderson
Geoff Tulfnel: William Sleigh
Sgt Kilderbee: David Timson
RSM Blossom: John Hollis
Willis/Captain Bailey: William Eedle
Colonel Pickering: Brian Haines
Diana Lovell: Rosalind Shanks
Judith: Julie Ballam
4th July 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: In Confidence by James Fairfax (1933-2017).
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Harry Kingsley, QC: Geoffrey Banks
Adrian Hull: Malcolm Terris
Bill Paterson: Graham Roberts
Gisela Kaye: Joanna Tope
Patrick Norris: Peter Wheeler
George Filton: John Linstrum
Det-Insp Garnett/Mr Justice Roberts: Ronald Harvi
Repeated 5th July 1973
5th July 1973
[LISTED BUT NOT BROADCAST]
20.00:
The Penkovsky Riddle by Charlotte (1916-1991) and Denis (1914-1981) Plimmer
Producer: John Theocharis
Narrator: Rene Cutforth
Oleg Penkovsky (1919-1963): Paul Hardwick
Russian Prosecutor: Michael Kilgarriff
Judges: The Judge: Godfrey Kenton, David Brierley, Sam Dastor, William Eedle, Nicholas Evans, Denis McCarthy, John Samson, Hilda Schroder, William Sleigh
The play was actually transmitted on 30th June 1974
6th July 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Out of the Rain by Gerry Jones (1931-2005).
Sitting in the back row.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Jimmy: David Valla
Susan: Frances Jeater
Cafe proprietor: Michael Kilgarriff
Policeman: William Sleigh
repeated from 16th November 1972
[Also produced in 1963 for Light by Norman Wright with Elizabeth Morgan as Susan]
7th July 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Mortal Gesture by Theodore Wilden translated by G Theiner.
Producer: David H.Godfrey
Tony Hildebrand: William Eedle
Klaus: Fraser Kerr
Foreman Draage: Haydn Jones
Wilhelms: Wilfrid Carter
Dr Kolwitz: Brian Haines
Chaplain: Vernon Joyner
Tony's father: Godfrey Kenton
Father Borchett: Peter Williams
7th July 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene (1904-1991) dramatised by Geoffrey M. Matthews
People keep getting killed around a released murderer.
Producer: Colin Tucker
Rowe: George Baker
Anna: Angela Pleasence
Dr Forester: Sydney Tafler
Prentice: Vernon Joyner
Beavis: John Gabriel
Hilfe: Terry Scully
Johns: David Timson
Fullove/Major Stone: Timothy Bateson
Cost/Rennit: Anthony Hall
Mrs Bellairs: Diana Olsson
Mrs Purvis: Hilda Schroder
Woman at Fete/Maid: Clare Horne
Repeated 9th July 1973 and 5th May 1975
[Also produced in two parts by Gary Brown in 2006 with Michael Feast as Rowe.
9th July 1973
20.00:
The Gay Lord Quex (1899) by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Can a philanderer try monogamy.
Producer: John Tydeman
The Marquess of Quex: Nigel Patrick
Sir Chichester Frayne: Timothy Bateson
Capt Bastling/Morgannda: David Gooderson
Valma: Andrew Sachs
The Duchess of Strood: Rachel Gurney
Julia, Countess of Owbridge: Margaret Inglis
Mrs Jack Eden: Diana Olsson
Muriel Eden: Elizabeth Proud
Sophy Fullgarney: Julia Foster
Miss Moon: Julie Hallam
Miss Claridge: Sandra Clark
Young Gentleman: David Timson
Young Lady: Bonnie Hurren
[Also produced in 1954 by Archie Campbell with Billy Thatcher as Valma and Fanny Carby as Miss Moon.]
[Also produced in 1964 rptd 1968 by Archie Campbell with Fraser Kerr as Valma and Jennifer Tafler as Miss Moon.]
[Note the year this was written, where "Gay" had a differing meaning to the 21st century usage. Quex thought himself a "ladies man".]
11th July 1973
11.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Meeting at Oxford by John O'Hare
Early 1600's. Who was the father?
Producer: Christopher Holme
Mrs Davenant: Rosemary Leach
Shakespeare: David Wood
also with Haydn Jones, William Eedle. David Gooderson, Sam Dastor
[The tale is based upon a brief remark by Samuel Butler and a comment by John Aubrey]
11th July 1973:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Bury Him Among Kings by Elleston Trevor (1920-1995) adapted by John Richmond.
First World War.
Part 1 of 3.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Aubrey Talbot: John Samson
Pamela Talbot: Sandra Clark
Victor Talbot: Sam Dastor
Sir William Talbot: Rolf Lefebvre
Lady Eleanor: Betty Baskcomb
Charringtoni: Antony Higginson
Charles Sadler: Godfrey Kenton
Hugh Sadler: Robin Browne
Diana Lovell: Rosalind Shanks
Julian Lovell/Sam Quincey: Neville Jason
Nigel Coxhead: Terry Scully
Tom Follett: Brian Hewlett
Geoff Tuffnel: William Sleigh
Percy Stokes: David Sinclair
Freddie Kemp: Leonard Fenton
RSM Blossom: John Hollis
Sgt Kilderbee: David Timson
Capt Diplock/Sgt Bruce: Nigel Graham
Kitty: Julie Hallam
Lady Waring: Diana Bishop
11th July 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: One Month Early (Leonie est en avance)(1911) by Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), translated by Peter Meyer.
Around 1910 in Paris.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Leonie, The wife: Jill Bennett
Toudoux, The husband: John Osborne
Their maid: Diana Bishop
Mme de Champrinet: Noel Hood
Mme Virtual: Margot Boyd
De Champrinet: Carleton Hobbs.
Repeated 12th July 1973
[Title aka Le Mal Joli, also translated as "Leonie is ahead of time"]
13th July 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Felonious Marriage by Lydia Ragosin.
Bigamy in 1776.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
Duchess of Devonshire: Betty Baskcomb
Countess of Derby: Margaret Wolfit
Elizabeth Chudleigh: Denise Bryer
Mr Wallace: John Gabriel
Attorney-General: Edward Kelsey
Duke of Hamilton: Brian Hewlett
Mrs Hanmer: Margot Boyd
Augustus Hervey: John Rye
Mrs Chudleigh: Eva Stuart
Lord Chesterfield: Clifford Norgate
Duke of Kingston: Nigel Lambert
Mr Amis: Trevor Martin
Repeated from 26th December 1970
14th July 1973:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Recess by Jill Hyem (1937-2015),
Brighton, Labour Party Conference.
Producer: Jane Graham
Judy: Virginia Stride
Peter: Robin Ellis
Joss: David Collings
Wally: Colin Douglas
Claude: Timothy Bateson
also with Sandra Clark, Robin Browne, John Forrest, Bonnie Hurren, David Sinclair.
Repeated 3rd September 1975
14th July 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Fallow Land (1932) by H. E. Bates (1905-1974)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Fairground attendant: William Eedle
Jess Mortimer: Geoffrey Matthews
Deborah: Denise Bryer
Mrs Arbuthnot: Joan Sanderson
Mr Mortimer: Charles Simon
Mrs Mortimer: Kathleen Helme
Alma Wolstenholm: Jane Knowles
David as child: Olwen Griffiths
Benjamin as child/Ada: Sandra Clark
Dr Starling: Peter Williams
Sophie Sharman: Gretta Gouriet
David as man: John Forrest
Benjamin as man: David Valla
Mr Twelvetree: Brian Haines
Mrs Twelvetree: Hilda Schroder
Anthea Twelvetree: Julie Hallam
Government Official: Anthony Hall
Repeated 16th July 1973.
[Also broadcast R4X 2025]
[Also produced by David H Godfrey in 1961 with Trevor Martin as Jess and Marjorie Westbury as Deborah.]
16th July 1973
20.00:
Monday Play: Oil and Water by Cecil P Taylor (1929-1981)
Producer: Stewart Conn
(Glasgow)
David Kaplan: Christopher Connor
Max, his father: Malcolm Hayes
Fay his mother: Ida Schuster
Joseph, his grandfather: John Barrard
Joyce: Kate Stark
18th July 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Pop Goes the Weasel by Clifford Ives
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
Mrs Middleton: Katherine Parr
Mrs Bright: Betty Huntley-Wright
Val: Diana Bishop
Steve: David Timson
Erie: Sam Dastor
Rhoda: Julie Hallam
Mr Leadbeater: William Eedle
The Doctor: David Gooderson
18th July 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Inspector Ghote Makes a Journey by H. R. F. Keating (1926-2011)
An illegal immigrant from India.
Producer: Jane Graham
Ghote: Kevork Mulikyan
DSP: Samant Saeed Jaffrey
Mrs Agarwala: Diana Olsson
Mr Gadhok: Anthony Hall
Kanji Bhanji: Madhav Sharma
Mr Nathwani: Sam Dastor
The Wheezer: Garard Green
Hippy girl: Bonnie Hurren
Fisherman: David Timson
Memsahib: Sheila Mitchell
Mr Prumfitt: William Eedle
Repeated 19th July 1973
[Keating wrote 26 novels with Inspector Ghote, 1964-2009. Keating first visited India in 1974 as a guest of Air India]
20th July 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Such Quantities of Sand by Bill Lyons
Boarding school.
Producer Roger Pine
Headmaster: Douglas Blackwell
First boy: Robin Browne
Second boy: Brian Hewlett
Proby: Windsor Davies
Montgomery: Sean Barrett
Collins: Nigel Anthony
Beamer: Stanley Bates
Mrs Proby: Eva Stuart
Matron: Margot Boyd
Girl: Clare Shenstone
Repeated from 30th October 1971
21st July 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: At Your Service by Carl Amery, translated by Michael Bullock.
Berlin divided - an escape from East Berlin to West Berlin.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Beuerle: Patrick Troughton
Kroeger: Martin Jarvis
Cohen: Timothy Bateson
Frau Tarnowska/ Irene Dorahn: Diana Olsson
Interrogator/ TV Interviewer:: David Timson
Chief of Police: Brian Haines
[A 155km wall separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. East Berliners trying to cross could be shot- between 136 and 200 died trying to cross. Over 5000 succeeded. East and West Germany unified in 1990.]
21st July 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Minister (1961) by Maurice Edelman MP (1911-1975) adapted by David Geary
Producer: Christopher Venning
Elizabeth Melville: Rosemary Leach
Geoffrey Melville: Nigel Graham
Julia Drayford: Olive Lucius
Francis Waters: Nigel Anthony
Butler: Robin Browne
Mr Barry: David Sinclair
Sylvia: Bonnie Hurren
Andrew CoUard: Haydn Jones
Howard Forbes: Michael Shannon
Raymond Benson: Nigel Lambert
Alfred Yates: Geoffrey Collins
Comm Granger: Martin Mathews
Mr Speaker: John Forrest
Philip Anderson: Fraser Kerr
Repeated 23rd July 1973
[Also produced by David H Godfrey in 1965 with Paul Daneman as Geoffrey, Fraser Kerr as Philip, and Nigel Graham as Francis.]
[Maurice Edelman was an MP from 1945 to his death in 1975]
23rd July 1973:
20.00
The Monday Play: A Yard of Sun by Christopher Fry.
Italy mid 1940's.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Angelino Bruno: Alfred Marks
Roberto: William Gaunt
Luigi: Terry Scully
Edmondo: Eric Lander
Giosetta Scapare: Jessie Evans
Grazia, her daughter: Emily Richard
Alfio, a jockey: Steven Dawson
Ana-Clara, from Portugal: Lynn Farleigh
Cesare Scapare: Haydn Jones
also with William Sleigh, David Timson, David Gooderson
24th July 1973:
20.30:
How Comical My Happiness (1965) by Leonid Malyugin (1909-1968) translated by Olga Franklin, based upon the letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper.
Produced By: Christopher Venning
Narrator: Alan Rowe
Alexander Chekhov: Brian Haines
Maria: Hilda Schroder
Maxim Gorky: Vernon Joyner
[Title also translated as "My Mocking Happiness"]
25th July 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Hot Bath and Lemon by Mike Haywood
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Ronnie: John Roberts
Billy: Darren Winnell
Ma Boler: Nita Valerie
Ma Hogg: Mary Griffiths
Masie: Maria Horlov
Stan: Barry Rutter
Les: Sam Kelly
Vicar: Geoffrey Banks
Con: Gwen Taylor
Babs: Carole Turner
Little Joe: Stephen Smith
25th July 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: There's Love and Love by Alex Barber
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
Anne: Jenny Agutter
Sid: Brian Hewlett
Dad: John Franklyn-Robbins
Mother: Katherine Parr
Rollo: Paul Dawkins
Perce: Jon Glover
25th July 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Paying-out Night by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Producer: Betty Davies
Griff Davies: Meredith Edwards
Dai Roberts: Anthony Hall
Llew: Douglas Blackwell
Simpson: Clive Swift
Thomas: Haydn Jones
Will: William Ingram
Councillor Morgan: John Dearth
Martha Beynon: Elizabeth Morgan
Gwil, the landlord: Sion Probert
Repeated 26th July 1973
27th July 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Open Verdict by Lester Powell (1912-1993).
Producer: Martin Jenkins
James Hamer: Eric Allen
Insp Piper: Charles Simon
Arnold Roland: William Fox
Sgt Shields: David Valla
Graham Earle: Clifford Rose
Rose: Elizabeth Proud
Repeated from 29th September 1971
[Released on BBC Transcription Disk CN1470]
28th July 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Bashful Canary by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Producer: Betty Davies
Brenda: Miriam Margolyes
Helen: Christine Finn
Arthur Fincham: Peter Tuddenham
Dave: Clive Swift
Mr Dunbar: Haydn Jones
Bus conductress: Elizabeth Morgan
also with Julie Hallam, Anthony Hall, Bonnie Hurren
28th July 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Unquiet Hill by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Gerry Jones
Stroud: John Challis
Helen Gatehouse: Caroline John
Cook: Geoffrey Matthews
Weaver: John Samson
Dyson: David Valla
Kavanagh: Brian Haines
Mears: Haydn Jones
Seth Pike: Anthony Hall
Bradley: Nigel Anthony
Police patrolman: Nigel Graham
Frankie: William Eedle
Radio announcer: Martin Muncaster
Repeated 30th July 1973
29th July 1973:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) abridged by Cedric Messina
Vengeance. Law and Justice.
Producer: Graham Gauld
Narrator: Alexander John
Drinkwater: James McManus
Rankin: Denys Hawthorne
Porter: Frank Henderson
Sir Howard Hallam: Cecil Parker
Lady Cicely Waynflete: Sybil Thorndike
Marzo: Robert Rietty
Capt Brassbound: Gabriel Woolf
Redbrook: Bernard Brown
Johnson: Ralph Truman
Osman: Frank Henderson
Sidi El Assif: Alaric Cotter
The Cadi: Antony Viccars
Bluejacket: Nigel Clayton
Capt Kearney: John Justin
Repeated from 25th September 1967 and 6th September 1970.
[Also produced by Cedric Messina for R3 in 1961 rptd 1962 with Kenneth More as Captain Brassbound and Haydn Jones as Johnson.]
30th July 1973
20.00:
Damaged Goods (1903) by Eugene Brieux (1858-1932) translated (1911) by John Pollock (1878-1963).
Sexually transmitted disease.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Doctor: Alan Dobie
George Dupont: Martin Jarvis
Henriette Dupont: Jane Knowles
Mme Dupont: Pauline Letts
Loches: Rolf Lefebvre
A Man: Timothy Bateson
A Woman: Diana Bishop
A Young Girl: Sandra Clark
A Student: Sam Dastor
The Nurse: Diana Olsson
[Original title: Les Avaries (1903) also in German Die Schiffbruchigen. Filmed as Damaged Goods in 1914 (US) and 1919 (UK). Translated title also "The Damaged Ones". There was also a novelisation of the play by Upton Sinclair as "Damaged Goods"]
1st August 1973:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Price of a Tyre by Stewart Farrar (1916-2000)
Producer: David Geary
Dugald MacKenzie: Simon Lack
Paula: Lorna Rosslyn
Bill Thornby: Anthony Brothers
Pierre Lamotte: John Bentley
Loukia: Margaret Wolfit
Cafe proprietor: Hector Ross
Repeated from 8th September 1970
1st August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: End of the Road by Brian Woodcock.
Demolition is on the horizon.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Ben Russell: John Gabriel
Lena his wife: Hazel Coppen
Liz his daughter: Julie Hallam
Malcolm, his son-in-law: David Gooderson
Janet: Sandra Clark
Mr Skeffington: Rolf Lefebvre
Mrs Skeffington: Hilda Schroder
Mike: David Valla
Mike's friend/Bus conductor: John Samson
Tramp/Chairman of meeting: Haydn Jones
1st August 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Sort of Ache by Peter King.
Ballroom dancing.
Producer: John Cardy
Lil: Barbara Mitchell
Jack: William Eedle
Adrian: Vernon Joyner
Felicity: Moira Redmond
Gran: Betty Huntley-Wright
Dancing instructor: Leonard Sachs
Repeated 2nd August 1973
3rd August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Albert's Bridge (1969) by Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Bob: Nigel Anthony
Charlie: Alexander John
Dad: Geoffrey Wincott
Albert: John Hurt
Chairman: Victor Lucas
Dave: Ian Thompson
George: Anthony Jackson
Fitch: Ronald Herdman
Mother: Betty Hardy
Father: Alan Dudley
Kate: Barbara Mitchell
Fraser: Haydn Jones
Repeated from R3 13th and 29th July 1967, 20th February 1968 and R4 12th December 1968, 1st January 1971
Repeated on R4:1st December 1978, 20th April 1986
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[ Also produced by Alison Hindell in 1990, rptd 2007, with Paul Copley as Albert.]
4th August 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: But One Poor Noah by Patricia Griffiths
Is the pregnancy to continue?
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Ruth Lane: Patricia Leventon
Mother: Betty Huntley-Wright
Doctor: Haydn Jones
John Lane: Vernon Joyner
Helen: Anna Barry
Julia Lane: Julie Hallam
4th August 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Murder at the Eisteddfod by Brian Evans
Producer: Lorraine Davies
Angharad Rogers: Petra Davies
Glenys Lane: Victoria Plucknett
Det-Supt John Wright: Douglas Blackwell
Mary Wright: Margaret John
Chief Constable: Dillwyn Owen
Sgt Williams: Huw Thomas
Gerwyn Arfon: Michael Povey
Meirion Matthews: Gareth Lewis
John ap Rhys: Ray Handy
Repeated 6th August 1973
[An Eisteddfod (I-sted-fod) is an annual local, national and international drama/dance/music/poetry contest in Welsh communities, with added 18th century imposed "ancient druidic" rituals for the National.]
5th August 1973:
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Vile Bodies (1930) by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) adapted by Barry Campbell
England, late 1920's bright young things.
Producer: R. D. Smith
Mrs Ape: Margaret Robertson
Faith: Patricia Gallimore
Agatha Runcible: Lynn Redgrave
Fr Rothschild: Gerald Cross
Adam: John Standing
Customs chief/Lord Metroland: Malcolm Hayes
Miles Malpractice: Richard Griffiths
Benfleet, publisher: Leo Maguire
Nina: Anna Cropper
Lottie: Julia Lang
Judge: Malcolm Hayes
Major: Alan Lawrance
Customs Man/Rich young man/ Ginger Littlejohn: Sean Arnold
Lord Balcairn: Ian Lubbock
Mrs Brown: Pauline Wynn
Prime Minister/ Rector: Gerald Cross
Col Blount: Anthony Jacobs
Mrs Florin: Lynn Carson
Margot Metroland: Carol Boyer
Divine Discontent/Matron: Diana Robson
Chastity: Elizabeth Morgan
Social Editress: Grizelda Hervey
Repeated from 31st October 1970
Repeated 8th December 1985
[Also broadcast on R4X 2026]
6th August 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: Pray for the Wanderer (1938) by Kate O'Brien (1897-1974)
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Matt Costello: Sean Barrett
Liam Costello: Judy Bennett
Will Costello: Jim Norton
Una Costello: Colette O'Neil
Nell Mahoney: Kate Binchy
Tom Mahoney: Denys Hawthorne
7th August 1973
20.30:
Katherine Mansfield by Jehane Markham (1949-2024).
Producer: Brian Miller
Katherine Mansfield: Kika Markham
John Middleton Murry: Paul Moriarty
Narrator: Manning Wilson
Chummy: Sam Dastor
Grandmother: Peggy Ann Wood
Young Katherine: Cordelia Mansall
[There was also "A Child of the Son" a monologue by Jehane Markham drawn from the letters of Jane Mansfield, read by Anna Massey, broadcast 5th August 1979 directed by Anthony Vivis.]
8th August 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A. V. Laider (1916) by Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) adapted by Bruce Montague and Benny Green
Producer: John Scotney
Max Beerbohm: Graham Crowden
A V Laider: Nigel Anthony
Colonel Elbourn: William Eedle
Mr Blake/Waitrt: Robin Browne
Mrs Elbourn: Betty Huntley-Wright
Cissie Elbourn: Sandra Clark
8th August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Half-crown Donkeys by Clifford Ives, adapted from "The Young Masters" (1972) by Alan Scholefield (1931-2017).
South Africa in 1939 viewed by a young boy.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Paul: Jo Manning Wilson
Luther: Lionel Ngakane
Reinhardt: Tom Bowman
Pottie: William Eedle
Man: Yemi Ajihade
Woman: Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Hoffman: Gladys Spencer
Mr Prins: Haydn Jones
Lettie: Maria Sudi
Aleker: Sam Dastor
Ellis: Brian Haines
Steenkamp: Rolf Lefebvre
Rev Paul Thorn: Fraser Kerr
Aunt Joan: Margot Boyd
Narrator: Peter Williams
[Uses language and attitudes of the time. Alan Scholefield was born in Cape Town but left South Africa in the 1960s to escape the rigid apartheid of the period.]
8th August 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Mrs Farbman (1925) by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) dramatised by John Ashe.
1920s.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Mrs Farbman: Alethea Charlton
Johnson: Sam Dastor
Chippet: David Timson
Mrs Fleming: Diana Olsson
Lestock Fleming: Gerald Cross
Duhamel: Nigel Graham
Repeated 9th August 1973
10th August 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: A Small Revolution In Bayswater Square by Joan O'Connor
Producer: Jane Graham
Katie: Marian Diamond
Herbert Carson: George Coulouris
Millie Carson: Cecile Chevreau
Nannie: Margot Boyd
Jenkins: Barrie Shore
Police Constable: Ronald Forfar
Enid McClellan: Jo Manning Wilson
Hughie Sterndale: Nigel Lambert
Mr McClellan: Charles Simon
Tom Edgeworth: Martin Jarvis
Mrs Hackshaw: Madi Hedd
Emmie: Anne Woodward
Fred: Edward Kelsey
Repeated from 2nd Setpember 1970
11th August 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Two Ladies from Philadelphia by Harvey Hall (1931-1997)
Teachers go to work in Haiti.
Producer: John Theocharis
King Henri Christophe: Earl Cameron
Baron Dupuy: Frank Cousins
Marjorie Waring: Mikel Lambert
Kirstie McMurtrie: Bonnie Hurren
General Richard: Vernon Joyner
Count Vastey: Nigel Graham
Mamma Ursulie: Pauline Wynn
Princess Anne: Helen Worth
Princess Amethyste: Myrtle Robinson
Captain Enright: Harvey Hall
Belair /Lieutenant: Robin Browne
Haitian General: William Sleigh
Haitian General/Equerry: David Sinclair
[Harvey Hall taught English - in England- in the 1970s.]
11th August 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Forty Years On (1968) by Alan Bennett
Musical settings by Carl Davis
Accompanied songs sung by boys of City of London School directed by Anthony Gould
Treble soloists Simon Preece and Simon Pearmain
Producer: Richard Wortley
Radio Voice: Alvar Lidell
Headmaster: John Gielgud
Matron: Dorothy Reynolds
Tempest: Alan Bennett
Franklin: Paul Eddington
Miss Nisbitt: Nora Nicholson
Headboy: Sam Dastor
Repeated 13th August 1973, 10th August 1975, 28th December 1988
also with Nigel Anthony, Stephen Bone, Adrian Hall, Nigel Rathbone, Clive Swift
[Also produced in 2000 by Gordon House with Eleanor Bron as Matron and Alan Bennett as Headmaster - rptd R7 2006 and 2009, also R4X 2018]
[The title was taken from The Harrow School song which was also sung at Leeds Modern School which Alan Bennett attended.].]
12th August 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Dear Octopus (1938) by Dodie Smith (1896-1990) adapted by Martyn C Webster.
Married for sixty years.
Producer: David Geary
Charles Randolph: Charles Simon
Dora Randolph: Dorothy Lane
Hilda: Barbara Bolton
Margery: Sally Lahee
Cynthia: Pauline Letts
Nicholas: John Pullen
Hugh: Leslie Heritage
Flouncy: Jane Knowles
Bill: J Bennett
Scrap: Jessica Shaw
Belle Schlessinger: Noel Hood
Kenneth Harvey: Cllfford Norgate
Edna Randolph: Lorna Rosslyn
Laurel Randolph: Gilli Gratham
Fenny: Elizabeth Cassie
Gertrude: Hilary Mason
Nanny: Margot Boyd
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster for Home in 1951, with Martin Lewis as Charles and Betty Hardy as Hilda, Stanley Groome as Kenneth, David Peel as Hugh]
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster for Light in 1957 with Martin Lewis as Charles and Betty Hardy as Hilda, Hugh Manning as Kenneth, Simon Lack as Hugh.]
13th August 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: Intimate Relations (1948) by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) translated by Charles Frank
Producer Guy Vaesen
George: Clive Swift
Leonie: Coral Browne
Yvonne: Maureen Pryor
Michael: Christopher Good
Madeleine: Sandra Clark
14th August 1973
12.25-12.55:
What Ho Jeeves: Right Ho Jeeves (1934) by P G Wodehouse (1881-1975) adapted by Chris Miller
Episode 1 of 7
Producer: David Hatch
Jeeves: Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
Gussie Fink-Nottle: Rex Garne
(Episode 7 was 25th September 1973)
All parts repeated after two days
[Also produced by H B Fortuin for Light in 1956 with Derek Guyler as Jeeves]
[Also produced for R4 1988 rptd 1989, 1991 by Peter King with Simon Cadell as Bertie].
15th August 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Three Lodgers by Norman Smithson
Producer: Alan Ayckbourn
(Manchester)
Mr Riley: Wilfred Pickles
Mrs Wright: Mary Quinn
Mrs Harrison: Ann Aris
Mr Lewis: Graham Rigby
Sarah Ann: Helen Cotterill
First heard on the North of England Home Service on 26 September 1965 and the Home Service on 3 April 1967. Repeated 27th March 1979.
[Winner of the Best British Radio Drama Script at the 1967 Writers’ Guild Awards]
[Also produced for VARA (Netherlands) in 1968 by Ad Lobler as "De drie kostgangers"]
15th August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Place Like Home by M P Newman.
A home for the elderly faces closure.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Mary Turner: Angela Brooking
George: Francis Lunt
Grace: Phyllis Smale
Emily: Moyra Babington
Mathew: Harry Carter
Mr Brown: David Timson
also with June Barrie, Peggy Ann Wood, David Hyde and Dave Ponting
15th August 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: St Peter's Umbrella (1895) by Kalman Mikszath (1847-1910) adapted by Georg Kovary (1922-2009) translated by Anthony Vivis (1943-2013).
Slovakia in the late 1800s.
Producer: Piers Plowright
George Vibra: Nigel Anthony
Stolarik, a magistrate: Timothy Bateson
Rosalie Munz: Miriam Margolyes
Maurice Miinz: Vernon Joyner
Fr John Bely: Sam Dastor
Kvapka, the sexton: John Samson
Uncle Matthew: Nigel Graham
Mrs Adametz: Katherine Parr
Mravutshan, the mayor: Godfrey Kenton
Mrs Mravutshan: Diana Bishop
Veronica Bely: Bonnie Hurren
Madame, her governess: Cecile Chevreau
Repeated 16th August 1973
17th August 1973
15.05
Afternoon theatre: And They'll Come Home by Elisabeth Batt
Producer: Betty Davies
Clare: Eva Haddon
William Sherrard: Patrick Barr
Tony Sherrard: Glyn Dearman
Glen: Davilia O'Connor
Minty: Grizelda Hervey
Lavinia Sherrard: Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Repeated from 7th May 1966
18th August 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: A Touch of Henry James by Keith Miles
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Dominic Foley: Frank Moorey
Lord Staynes: David King
Alan Millington: Gareth Armstrong
Glover: George Woolley
Annabelle: Rosemary Dorken
Ellida: Catherine Crutchley
18th August 1973
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Action for Slander (1936) by Mary Borden (1886-1968) adapted by Felix Felton
A country house weekend and a game of poker.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Major George Daviot: Allan Cuthbertson
Capt Bradford: William Fox
Sir Eustace Cunningham: Carleton Hobbs
Sir Quintin Jessops: Denis McCarthy
Mr Justice Trotter: Rolf Lefebvre
Mr Grant: Antony Viccars
Mr William Cowbit: Haydn Jones
Mr Charles Cindertord: John Bryning
Lord Freshwater: Manning Wilson
Sir Bernard Roper: Godfrey Kenton
Lord Pontefract: Brian Haines
Tandy: Timothy Bateson
Josie Bradford: Diana Olsson
Col Standish: Vernon Joyner
Ann Daviot: Diana Bishop
Mr Smithers: Peter Williams
Repeated 20th August 1973
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1961 rptd 1964 with William Eedle as George and Brenda Kaye as Josie.]
[Inspired by an incident in 1890 involving the game of baccarat and a subsequent 1891 slander trial.]
19th August 1973
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck (1902-1968) adapted by Gilbert Thomas.
California in the Depression. A vulnerable farmhand.
Producer: Joe Burroughs
George: Harry Towb
Lennie: Robert Beatty
Candy: Alan Gifford
The Boss: Russell Napier
Curley: Allan McClelland
Slim: Haydn Jones
Crooks: Earl Cameron
Curley's wife: Margaret Robertson
Carlson: Denys Hawthorne
Whit: Anthony Jackson
Repeated from 6th March 1967.
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster for Light in 1956 with Alan Tilvern as George, Robert Beatty as Lennie]
[Includes language and attitudes from the period. It uses Steinbeck's personal experiences farm working in the 1910s.].
20th August 1973
19.30
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), translated (1923) by Brian Hooker (1880-1946), adapted by John Powell.
Music by Steve Race.
17th Century France.
Producer: John Powell
Cyrano: Ralph Richardson
Roxane: Jane Wenham
Christian de Neuvillette: Tim Seely:
Comte de Guiche: Patrick Barr:
Ragueneau: Harold Kasktt
Le Bret: Hector Ross
The Duenna: Anna Burden
Carbon de Castel-Jaloux: Douglas Hankin
Vicomte de Valvert: Michael McClain
Ligniere: Eric Anderson
The Citizen: Humphrey Morton
His Son: Nigel Anthony
Montfleury: Michael Kilgarriff
Jodelet: Peter Marinker
Cuigy/Capuchin monk: Wilfred Babbage
Brissaille: Nigel Graham
The Cadets of Gascoyne: Geoffrey Matthews, Kevin McHugh, Michael McClain, Basil Jones, Peter Marinker, Wilfred Babbage
Mother Marguerite: Valerie Taylor
Sister Marthe: Noel Hood
Sister Claire: Hilda Schroder
Repeated from R4 4th July 1966, R3 8th December 1967
Repeated 1st November 1976, 31st December 1990
[The original play was written in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables- the Hooker translation retained a verse form without the original more formal form (although many lines have ten sylables) and without rhyming.
22nd August 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Gold Medallist by Roy Minton (1933-2024)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Mrs Parker: Marion Dawson
Albert Parker: Victor Henry
Beryl: Juliet Cooke
22nd August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Jess by Elizabeth Morgan
Producer: Roger Pine
Jess: Elizabeth Morgan
Margaret: Jo Manning Wilson
Win: Margaret John
Sarah: Christine Pollon
Peter: John Samson
Lizzie Annie: Olwen Griffiths
Bryn: Haydn Jones
Sir George Barry: Godfrey Kenton
Lady Charlotte Barry: Betty Huntley-Wright
Kwan: Nigel Anthony
The Little Girl: Sandra Clark
22nd August 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre
A Good Day for Stripey Tigers by John Hynam (1915-1974)
Producer: Betty Davies
Mr Grobius: Aubrey Woods
Paul: E Wilson
PC Etheridge: William Eedle
Mr Maggs: John Hollis
Paul's mother: Elizabeth Morgan
Ice-cream man: Robin Browne
Repeated 23rd August 1973
24th August 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Androcles and the Lion (1912) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) abridged by Peggy Wells
Producer: Archie Campbell
Androcles, a tailor: Leslie French
Megaera, his wife: Pauline Letts
Centurion: Anthony Baird
Captain: Michael Harbour
Lavinia, a Christian prisoner: Alexa Romanes
Lentulus: Peter Bartlett
Metellus: John Atterbury
Ferrovious: Robert Cawdron
Spintho: John Baker
Editor of the Gladiators: William Kendrick
Caesar: Heron Carvic
Lion: John Graham
Narrator: Geoffrey Wincott
Repeated from 24th December 1967
Repeated 3rd November 1978
[Based upon a fable by Aulus Gellius 2nd Century AD]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2021]
25th August 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Future for My Boys by Clifford Terence
The rules must be clear and they must be kept.
Producer: John Theocharis
Fingleton: Rolf Lefebvre
Shirley Fingleton: Mary Wimbush
Jenison: Nigel Anthony
Johnson: Vernon Joyner
Dodd: Crispin Gillbard
Saunders: Nicholas Evans
Smith: Robin Browne
Harper: David Sinclair
Oswald: Edward Kelsey
Also with E. Morgan, S. Clark and Hilda Schroder
25th August 1973:
16.30-17.00
The Hawks and the Doves by Pat and Derek Hoddinott.
1 of 6: Operation: Power Struggle
Helping a Pacific island avoid a dictatorship.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Editor: Graham Gauld
Sam: Chris Range
Vic: David Griffin
Brad: Nigel Anthony
Dr Damone: Edward Kelsey
Radio interviewer: Nigel Graham
Barnado: John Gabriel
Airport announcer: Julie Hallam
Men: John Samson, Vernon Joyner
[A sequel serial of 6 parts about these characters, with the same title, was broadcast commencing 22nd March 1975. Ep1 was "Operation waiting game".]
25th August 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Expensive Toys Left Out in the Rain by Christine Eade
Guitarist George Elliott
Set in the Philippines.
Producer: Betty Davies
Harrison: Robert Beatty
Lefty: Bonnie Hurren
Miguel: Trader Faulkner
The General: David March
Ramon, chief of police: Kevin Flood
Waiter: Robin Browne
Party organiser: Kristopher Kum
Interviewer: Julie Hallam
George: David Sinclair
also with Peter Craze, Sam Dastor
Repeated 27th August 1973
[The Radio Times entry found it necessary to highlight that this was a work of fiction.]
26th August 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Quinneys (1914) by Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955).
"Antiques".
Producer: Martyn C. Webster
Posy Quinney: Patricia Gallimore
Susan Quinney, Quinney's wife: Joan Matheson
Mabel Dredge, Quinney's typist: Eva Haddon
Jim Miggott, Quinney's foreman: Lewis Stringer
Cyrus P Hunsaker: Michael McClain
Sam Tomlin: Ronald Herdman
Dupont Jordan, a millionaire: Humphrey Morton
Repeated from 13th and 15th May 1967
[Also produced by Owen Reed in 1951 for Light with Barbara Jefford as Posy]
[The Quinney family appeared in three other of Vachells books- Quinneys Adventures 1925. Joe Quinneys Jodie 1936. Quinneys for Quality 1938.]
27th August 1973:
20.00
The Admirable Crichton (1902) by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
Concertina: Jimmy Robertson
"Class" on a remote island.
Producer: Betty Davies
Crichton: Denholm Elliott
Hon Ernest Woolley: Nigel Anthony
Lady Agatha Lasenby: Bonnie Hurren
Lady Catherine Lasenby: Diana Bishop
Lady Mary Lasenby: Prunella Scales
Rev John Treherne: Peter Tuddenham
Earl of Loam: Ralph Truman
Lord Brocklehurst: Clive Swift
Fisher: Diana Olsson
Tweeny: Elizabeth Morgan
Naval officer: Robin Browne
Countess of Brocklehurst: Gladys Spencer
[Other productions: Year/Network/Producer/Actor playing Crichton:
1957/Light and Home/Trafford Whitelock/Kenneth More
1966 rptd 1969/R4/David A Turner/George Cole
1986 rptd 1987/R4/Caroline Raphael/Kenneth Cranham
2009/R4/Fiona Kelcher/Russell Tovey (rptd R4X) ]
[The original inspiration, (James Crichton) was born 1560 in Scotland- his biography was written by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff]
29th August 1973:
11.30::
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Crisis by Derek Wellman
Producer: Herbert Smith
(Manchester)
Desmond Thorpe: John Linstrum
Ruth Thorpe: Ann Aris
Elsie Smith: Ella Atkinson
Angus Smith: Tom Harrison
Shop assistant/Nurse: Susan Moverley
Chemist: Graham Roberts
Sister: Hope Johnstone
Dr Shinde: Paul Webster
Mrs Foster: Mary Kilduff
29th August 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Stanislaus and the Witch by Lee Torrance
Two royal frogs.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Storyteller: David Davis
Queen: Gudrun Ure
King: Rolf Lefebvre
Goodfellow: Aubrey Woods
Princess: Elizabeth Proud
Stanislaus: Frederick Treves
Witch: Margot Boyd
Chancellor: Brian Haines
Prince Ivan: Timothy Bateson
Peasant: Edward Kelsey
Peasant woman: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated from 1969
29th August 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Present from an Admirer by Keith Miles
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Ben Spiggott: Mark Kingston
Alice: Marcia Warren
Joe Glindon: Linal Haft
Mrs Kitty Granville: Janet Whiteside
Parkes: David Glover
Sir Henry: David King
Lucan Granville: Simon Carter
Mackenzie/Landload: George Woolley
Repeated 30th August 1973
31st August 1973:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Double Strung by Derek Bond
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
Phyllis Seaton: Margot Boyd
Philip Colliston: Austin Trevor
Mary: Hilda Schroder
Rolf de Groot: John Gabriel
Mr Thomas: Peter Tuddenham
Jules Faber: Wilfrid Carter
Cynthia Roscoe: Anne Jameson
Mr Gibb: John Bryning
Repeated from 11th February 1970
1st September 1973:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Lame Duck by Michael Lawrence.
Producer: Harry Catlin
John Bell: John Stride
Maggie: Julie Hallam
Brodie: Nigel Graham
Simon Rice: David Timson
Robert Harper: David Gooderson
Peter Arnold: Derek Seaton
Br Howard: Manning Wilson
Sally: Ysanne Churchman
Jenkins: Edward Kelsey
Sister Annette: Hilda Schroder
1st September 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Rise and Fall of Liberty Wilkes by Balfour Barwise adapted by Kay Patrick
Wilkes- MP from 1757-1790. From a radical fighting for the voters to unpopularity.
Producer: Margaret Etall
Lord Sandwich/Mr Dixon: Garard Green
King George III: William Sleigh
Lord George Sackville: Brian Haines
Polly Wilkes: Sandra Clark
John Wilkes (1725-1797): Nigel Davenport
David Mitchell: Vernon Joyner
Humphrey Cotes/Jeremy/ Samuel Eliot: Francis Thomas
Heaton Wilkes: Edward Kelsey
Serjeant John Glyn: Peter Williams
Mr Whebble: Rolf Lefebvre
Lord George Gordon: Nigel Graham
Repeated 3rd September 1973
2nd September 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1902-1967).
Brooklyn, New York.
Producer Graham Gauld
Abby Brewster: Sybil Thorndike
Teddy Brewster: Desmond Walter Ellis
Dr Harper: Lewis Stringer
Officer Brophy: David Valla
Oflicer Klein: John Rye
Martha Brewster: Athene Seyler
Elaine Harper: Prunella Scales
Mortimer Brewster: Dinsdale Landen
Jonathan Brewster: Heron Carvic
Dr Einstein: Gerald Cross
Officer O'Hara: Alaric Cotter
Lt Rooney: Edward Kelsey
Mr Witherspoon: Lockwood West
Repeated from 29th and 31st May 1971
Repeated 9th and 11th October 1976, 28th May 1989
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1954 with Dorothy Green as Abby]
3rd September 1973
19.30-21.15:
The Monday Play: The Life and Death of King John by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Music composed by Thomas Eastwood
BBC Welsh Orchestra conducted by Lionel Salter
Producer Raymond Raikes
King John: Robert Eddison
Pembroke: Walter Fitzgerald
Salisbury: James Dale
Chatillon: Allan McClelland
Queen Eleanor, mother to King John: Olga Lindo
Philip The Bastard: Alec Clunes
Robert Faulconbridge: Nigel Graham
Philip King of France: John Justin
Limoges, Duke of Austria: Michael Kilgarriff
Arthur, Duke of Brittany: Daniel Rose
Constance, mother to Arthur: Maxine Audley
Hubert de Burgh: Trevor Martin
Louis, the Dauphin: John Westbrook
Blanche of Castile, John's niece: Denise Bryer
Cardinal Pandolf: Ernest Milton
An executioner/Peter of Pomfret: Ronald Herdman
A French lord: Noel Howlett
Prince Henry: Anthony Hall
Repeated from R3, 2nd and 19th March 1967 and R4, 15th September 1969
[The BBC Database lists Louis the Dauphin as "Lewis the Dolphin". Other names above have also been given current accepted spellings.]
[The play was based on an older one "The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England "]
5th September 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: First Day Out by David Curtis
Retirement.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
Albert Dyson: Walter Fitzgerald
Emily Dyson: Joyce Latham
George Bates: George Merritt
Mary Bates: Beth Boyd
Mr Sailer: Peter Baldwin
Max: Antony Viccars
Youth: Leroy Lingwood
Billiard youth: Nicholas Edmett
Repeated from 12th April 1968
5th September 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: At the Going Down by Anthony Couch.
Soldiering- to fight and to win.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Corporal: Alex Tetteh-Lartey
Brigadier: David Sinclair
Messens: Peter Craze
Sanders: Trader Faulkner
Ungo: Lionel Ngakane
Officer: David Timson
Abundl: Frank Cousins
Musaiyid: Leonard Dixon
5th September 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Uncle Charles by Nigel Balchin (1908-1970) adapted by Antony Kearey.
1 of 3: The Forgetful Man
Producer: Kay Patrick
Uncle Charles: Maurice Denham
Robert: David Timson
Andrew: Nigel Lambert
Herbert: Lewis Stringer
Ivy: Jo Manning Wilson
Phillip Season: Geoffrey Beevers
Jim Mellor: Rolf Lefebvre
Susan Mellor: Diana Payan
Barman/Peter: Robin Browne
Henry/Man in pub: David Sinclair
Elsie: Hilda Schroder
Each story was repeated the following day.
[Story 2 12/9/73: Gentle Counsels
Story 3:19/9/73: Patience]
[The series of plays is based upon three short stories by Balchin. Published in "Last Recollections of My Uncle Charles" (1954)- a collection of 17 linked stories. Rediffusion TV broadcast five of the stories in 1967 including these three. The tv version of Gentle Counsels was shown at a tv festival in Stourbridge in 2013.]
7th September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The First Command by Arthur Swinson (1915-1970).
Producer: Archie Campbell
Capt Howell: Frederick Treves
Chief Engineer: John Rae
First Officer: Gordon Faith
Second Officer: Anthony Hall
Mr Foxall: Lockwood West
Capt Stoneman: John Dearth
Mr Pomroy: Eric Anderson
Carol Starkey: Miriam Margolyes
[Also produced by Archie Campbell for Light in 1965 with Cecile Chevreau as Carol, otherwise same cast]
8th September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Visiting Time by Dominic le Poer Power
A kangaroo suit.
Producer: Richard Wortley
Mrs Ivy Pond: Sheila Grant
Norman Pond: Derek Seaton
Barry Benson: Robin Browne
Doctor: William Eedle
Sylvia Brown: Emily Richard
Ronald Brown: Haydn Jones
Alice Farthing: Hilda Schroder
Johnny Nero: Blain Fairman
Steve Derbyshire: Gary Hope
Television reporter: Sam Dastor
8th September 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Semi-detached House by Emily Eden (1797-1869) adapted by Thea Holme.
London suburbs, 1858.
Pianist Mary Nash
Producer Jane Graham
Narrator: Lynn Farleigh
Arthur, Lord Chester: John Forrest
Blanche, Lady Chester: Julie Hallam
Rose: Emily Richard
Janet: Madeleine Cannon
Mrs Hopkinson: Elizabeth Spriggs
Charles Willis: John Rowe
Little Charlie: Penny Dixon
Aileen: Bonnie Hurren
Baroness Sampson: Sheila Brennan
Moses: Vernon Joyner
Rachel Monteneros: Valerie Sarruf
Baron Sampson: Hugh Sullivan
Col Hilton: John Samson
Capt Harcourt: David Timson
Mr Greydon: Hugh Ross
Capt Hopkinson: Michael Shannon
Repeated 10th September 1973
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen in 1956 with Beth Boyd as Rose, Annette Kelly as Janet]
9th September 1973
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Recruiter by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001)
Producer: John Tydeman
Bunny Bingham: Hugh Burden
Lord Newham: Maurice Denham
Sybil Pennington: Mary Wimbush
Malcolm Phillipson: William Fox
Glyn Hacker: John Rye
Dr Brown: Michael Kilgarriff
Paul: Garrick Hagon
Guy Soper: Gerald Cross
Roderick Meredith: John Wyse
Michael Linsky: Andrew Sachs
Veronica Thorne: Fiona Nicholson
Dounia Smerdyakova: Magdalena Busnea
Repeated from 7th June 1971
10th September 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) adapted by Muriel Levy.
Peru, 1714.
Producer: Margaret Etall
Narrator: John Glen
Camila, La Perichole: Rosalie Crutchley
Marquesa Maria: Aimee Delamain
Uncle Pio: John Justin
Brother Juniper: Timothy Bateson
Dona Clara: Bonnie Hurren
Count Vicente: William Sleigh
Abbess: Hilda Schroder
Pepita: Julie Hallam
Manuel: Robin Browne
Esteban: David Gooderson
Capt Alvarado: David Sinclair
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1957 with Manning Wilson as Brother Juniper]
[Also produced by Gaynor MacFarlane in 2002 with Robert Glenister as Brother Juniper, rpt- R4X 2018-2023]
[The novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928]
[There was an historic Brother Juniper: 
Saint Juniper (~1210 AD - 1258 AD) was one of the original followers of Saint Francis of Assisi and was received into the order by St. Francis himself.]
12th September 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: In the Park by Mary Benson
Producer: Christopher Venning
Helen: Isabel Dean
Victor: Geoffrey Bayldon
John: Bernard Finch
Hilda: Diana Olsson
also with Clive Swift, Sam Dastor, Philip Reader, Bonnie Hurren, Christopher Watts, Hilda Schroder, Anthony Hall
12th September 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Quick Thing by Sandra Clark
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Narrator: Peter Wheeler
Charlie: Brian Peck
Carol: Fiona Walker
Groom: Jim Whelan
Fiona: Carole Hayman
John: David Mahlowe
Ian: John Linstrum
Auctioneer: Geoffrey Banks
Maud: Jenny Austen
14th September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Fair Penitent (1703) by Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718).
Music by Stephen Dodgson,
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Alwyn
Organ and harpsichord: William Davies
Genoa, Italy in 1703
Producer: Raymond Raikes
Altamont: Gabriel Woolf
Horatio, his friend: Victor Lucas
Sciolto, father to Calista: Norman Shelley
Lothario: John Justin
Rossano, his friend: Denis McCarthy
Lucilla, maid to Calista: Gudrun Ure
Lavinia, wife to Horatio: Marjorie Westbury
Calista, the fair Penitent: Barbara Mitchell
The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by Marjorie Westbury
Repeated from R3 8th September and 12th October 1967
[This play uses the phrase "Gay Lothario" with the meaning of a "laughing amorous womaniser rogue"]
[This play was an adaption of "The Fatal Dowry" (1632) by Philip Massinger (1583-1640) and Nathan Field(1587-1620). Field had a reputation as a womaniser.]
15th September 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sentence Deferred by Derek Bond (1920-2006).
Problems at a Prisoner of War camp in Germany.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Lt Ti Piata: Nigel Graham
Lt Harry McAllister: Glen Beck
Mrs Cottram: Elizabeth Morgan
Maj Pringle: Allan Cuthbertson
Capt Roger Puckett: John Samson
Lt Glynn Richards: Stewart Bevan
Lt Jock Stott: Henry Stamper
Lt Viscount Abington (Piers): Sean Arnold
Lt Larry Cottram: Nigel Anthony
[Derek Bond spent the last few months of WW2 at Stalag VII-A, an 86 acre prisoner of war camp in Bavaria.]
15th September 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Stringer's Last Stand (1972) by Stan Barstow (1928-2011) and Alfred Bradley
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Bessie: Janet Dale
Gladys: Avis Bunnage
Luther: Ronald Baddiley
Bob: Alan Rothwell
Jack: Graham Roberts
Marjorie: Maggie McCarthy
Carol: Sylvia Brayshay
Ann: Beth Harris
Repeated 17th September 1973 and 29th January 1979
16th September 1973:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Temptation (1955) by Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) translated by Andreas Stavrou and Hallam Tennyson.
Mary and Judas.
Part 1 of 2.
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston, conducted by Peter Marchbank and Elgar Howarth
Producer: Richard Wortley
Narrator: Gabriel Woolf
Rabbi Simeon: John Ruddock
Jesus: John Hurt
Mary: Diana Bishop
Centurion: Vernon Joyner
Judas: David Buck
Peter: Walter Hall
Mary Magdalene: Judi Dench
Women in the crowd: Julie Hallam and Betty Huntley-Wright
Man in the crowd: David Timson
Barabbas: John Rowe
Dustmaster: Timothy Bateson
Abbot: Clive Swift
Monk: William Sleigh
Andrew: Peter Craze
Zebedee: Brian Haines
The Baptist: Haydn Jones
The Tempter: Heron Carvic
Additional singers: Veronica Lucas, Colin Appleton, Richard Bourne, Sandra Clark, Hilda Schroder, William Eedle, Fraser Kerr, David Sinclair
Repeated 8th August 1976
[Better known as " The Last Temptation of Christ", the book was controversial.]
17th September 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: The Smaller Sky by John Wain adapted by C J Stephenson.
Drums: Gary Kettel
Producer: Jane Graham
Philip Robinson: John Forrest
Jennifer Robinson: Elizabeth Morgan
Arthur Geary: Hugh Dickson
Elizabeth Geary: Stephanie Bidmead
Angela: Julie Hallam
David: Simon Thorne
Adrian Swarthmore: Robert Lang
Julian Robinson: Nicky Locise
Old man: Malcolm Hayes
Paddy: Nigel Graham
Sir Ben Warble: Peter Williams
Dr Maurice Blakeney: Godfrey Kenton
Station porter: Anthony Hall
Bob: Nigel Anthony
Stewart: David Timson
also with Diana Bishop, Sandra Clark, Sam Dastor.
19th September 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blind Man Running for his Life by Simon Gough (1942-2018)
The challenges of blindness.
Producer: Margaret Etall
James: Kerry Francis
Nigel: John Bentley
Doctor: Clifford Norgate
Sister: Sonia Fraser
Receptionist: Hilda Kriseman
Waiter: Sean Barrett
Repeated from 26th May 1970
Repeated 7th and 11th August 1976
19th September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Driving Force by A C Thomas.
Big Business and Ambition.
Producer: Gerry Jones
Robert Mitchell: Frederick Treves
Kitty Mitchell: Betty Huntley-Wright
Mr Southwell: Douglas Blackwell
Philip Irvin: John Pullen
Ellen Ford: Shirley Dixon
Edgerley: John Samson
Mrs Hillier: Elizabeth Morgan
Lily: Sandra Clark
Patterson/Alf: Anthony Hall
Clark: Brian Haines
Miss Beaumont: Hilda Schroder
[Also produced by John Gibson in 1962 with Godfrey Kenton as Mr Southwell, Anthony Hall as Patterson]
21st September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Give Me One More Summer by Joan Timothy
Producer: Jane Graham
Stephen: Bernard Hepton
Anne: Katherine Parr
Tess: Caroline Hunt
Jack Wells: Duncan McIntyre
Schoolboy: Sean Barrett
Repeated from 6th October 1971
22nd September 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Full Fathom Five by Ivor Wilson.
A drowned man in Hull docks.
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Baxter: Graham Roberts
Jervis: Christopher Godwin
Morgan: Peter King
Jane: Vivienne Dixon
Sands: Geoffrey Banks
Irene: Rosalind Adams
Melanie: Janet Dale
Prentice: Paul Humpoletz
22nd September 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Three Blows in Anger by David Wade
Music composed by David Cain
Welsh harp Frances Kelly
Producer Norman Wright
Modlen: Susan Richards
Mair: Elizabeth Proud
Gwyn: John Pullen
Rhiwallon: Alan Downer
Rhiwallon (boy): Olwen Griffiths
Lord Rhys Gryg: John Samson
Lady Rhys Gryg: Betty Huntley-Wright
Jenny: Julie Hallam
Morgan: Douglas Blackwell
The Lake King: Douglas Storm
Thomas: David Sinclair
Father Gavin: David Timson
Dafydd: David Gooderson
Repeated 24th September 1973
24th September 1973
20.00
The Monday Play: Suzanna Andler (1968) by Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) translated by Barbara Bray
Choose: Husband or Lover.
Producer: Archie Campbell
Suzanna Andler: Vivien Merchant
Riviere: Godfrey Kenton
Michel Cayre: David Buck
Monique Combes: Nicolette Bernard
Jean: Richard Hurndall
also with Deborah Dallas
Repeated from R3 14th June 1970 and R4 11th September 1972
26th September 1973:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Rough Crossing (1929) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) adapted by C. J. Stephenson
At sea in 1929.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Adrian Smith: Paul Maxwell
Eva Smith: Jane Jordan Rogers
Butterworth: Nigel Lambert
Betsy: Elizabeth Proud
Captain: John Bentley
A sailor: Antony Higginson
Steward Carton: Derek Pollitt
Stewardess: Emily Richard
Waiter: Roger Sansom
Mrs Warden: Kathleen Helme
Repeated from 10th September 1970
26th September 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Crazy Nite by Gaie Houston
Package holiday in Italy.
Producer: Richard Wortley
Rita: Hazel Coppen
Freda: Diana Olsson
Fred: Leonard Fenton
Ned: Nigel Anthony
Arthur: Douglas Blackwell
John: Nigel Graham
Jean: Sandra Clark
Charles: David Brierley
Crystal: Jane Knowles
Carol: Julie Hallam
Cecil: Rolf Lefebvre
Sybil: Betty Huntley-Wright
26th September 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Stranger from Yesterday by Robin Smyth (Ronnie Smith)
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Joe Starkey: John Cabriel
Sammy Sutcliffe: Timothy Bateson
Floss: Diana Olsson
Timmy Sutcliffe: David Timson
Sara Sutcliffe: Frances Jeater
Jeannie Sutcliffe: Sandra Clark
Lennie Dunbar: Brian Haines
Mrs Lampton: Diana Olsson
Sgt Moon: Manning Wilson
Repeated 27th September 1973
28th September 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: On a West Wind Rising by Allan Peacock
Producer: Brian MIller
Alec: Peter Jeffrey
Jane: Meg Wynn Owen
Gran: Marjorie Westbury
Trevor: Heath Walker
Repeated from 9th November 1968 and 30th September 1970
29th September 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The English Never Talk Much on Trains by Ray (1936-2014) and Juel Mansell
Producer: Anthony Cornish
Anne Baker: Marian Diamond
Rogers: John Bott
Porter: Terry Molloy
Ferguson: Mark Kingston
Insp Williams: Peter Pratt
Mr Warwick: Simon Carter
Constable Morris: Alan Devereux
Charles: Mark Rogers
Amanda: Bridget Crews
also with John Howden and George Woolley
29th September 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Darkness at Pemberley (1932) by T. H. White (1906-1964) adapted by Donald McWhinnie
Producer: Raymond Raikes
Insp Buller: Brewster Mason
Landlady: Betty Huntley-Wright
Police Sgt/Chauffeur: David Sinclair
PC Walters/ Garageman: William Sleigh
Dr Wilder: John Sharp
Master of St Bernard's College/Gamekeeper: Vernon Joyner
Mauleverer: Marius Goring
Student/Constable: Neville Jason
At Pembcrley Kingdom, butler: Rolf Lefebvre
Elizabeth Darcy: Susan Edmonstone
Sir Charles Darcy, her brother: Peter Howell
Cook: Diana Olsson
Shopkeeper: Bonnie Hurren
Repeated 1st October 1973
[Also produced by Frank Hauser in 1952 with Howieson Culff as Dr Wilder.]
[Also produced by Michael Bakewell in 1958 with Donald Bisset as Dr Wilder]
30th September 1973:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Catherine and Peter By Adam Watson
Producer: R. D Smith
Singer: A L Lloyd
Alexei Menshikov, The Pie-man: Bryan Pringle
Field-Marshal Sheremyetyev: Godfrey Kenton
Catherine: Barbara Jefford
Peter the Great (1672-1725): John Turner
Nikolai: David Timson
Maid: Lynn Carson
Tsaryevitch Alexei: Nigel Anthony
General Bruce: Peter Williams
Voltaire: Claude Le Sache
1st October 1973:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Close the Coalhouse Door (1968) by Alan Plater (1935-2010) based on stories by Sid Chaplin (1916-1986).
Songs by Alex Glasgow.
Drummer: Jerry Rochfort
Members of Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Musical director Bill Southgate
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Will Jobling: Alan Hockey
Thomas Milburn: Colin Douglas
Expert: John Franklyn Robbins
Vicar: Alex Glasgow
Mary Ann Milburn: Brenda Peters
Geordie: Bryan Pringle
Jackie: John Woodvine
John Milburn: Malcolm Terris
Frank Milburn: Ralph Watson
Ruth: Valerie Georgeson
Pitwoman: Jean Becke
Repeated from 27th March 1972
Repeated 7th October 1973
[Also produced by Gary Brown, 29th September 2012- "Northern Stage and Live Theatre's production " - no cast details given.]
[Sid Chaplin was born into a mining family in Durham, and worked in the coal pits himself. He contributed to the tv series When the Boat Comes In]
[Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for the best radio drama script, 1973.]
3rd October 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Please Don't Give Me Any Reasons by Michael Davies
Producer: Colin Tucker
Suitcase: Wilfrid Carter
Harry: John Barrett
Vicar: Peter Williams
Sergeant: Clifford Norgate
Vicar's wife: Elizabeth Morgan
Constable: William Sleigh
3rd October 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Musical Chairs (1931) by Ronald Mackenzie (1903-1932), adapted by Godfrey Kenton
Poland.
Producer: Raymond Raikes
Wilhelm Schindler: Norman Shelley
Joseph Schindler: Godfrey Kenton
Irene Baumer: Sandra Clark
Mary Preston: Bonnie Hurren
Anna: Elizabeth Morgan
Mrs Schindler: Hilda Schroder
Geoffrey Preston: David Sinclair
Samuel Plagett: Tommy Duggan
[Also produced by Frank Hauser in 1950 for Light and Home, with Stephen Murray as Wilhelm, Tommy Duggan as Samuel.]
3rd October 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Hands by Donald McWhinnie (1920-1987) based upon "Composition for Four Hands" by Hilda Lawrence (1906-1976)
Completely paralysed but conscious.
Producer: John Tydeman
Nora Manson: Mary Wimbush
Nurse Sills: Sheila Grant
Ralph Manson: Simon Lack
Bruce Cory: Rolf Lefebvre
George Perry: David Spenser
Robbie Manson: David Timson
Alice Perry: Hilda Schroder
Emma: Elizabeth Morgan
Miss Byrd: Diana Bishop
Repeated 4th October 1973
5th October 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Anxious Conspirator (1965) by Michael Underwood (1916-1992) adapted by Michael Kilgarriff
Producer: R. D. Smith
Freda: Martina Mayne
George: Malcolm Hayes
Tony: Antony Viccars
Roy: Douglas Blackwell
Manton: John Bryning
Raikes: Leo Maguire
Slater: Tony Robinson
Rita: Amelia Bayntun
Roger: Stephen Thorne
Carol: Deborah Anthony
Ticket-clerk: Nigel Anthony
Kirschner: Cyril Shaps
Frau Fischer: Cecile Chevreau
Tina: Martina Mayne
Magistrate: Reg Lever
Repeated from 27th March 1971
[Michael Underwood worked for the Public Prosecutors department.]
6th October 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: From Small Beginnings by Michael Brett
The house was broken into.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Det-Sgt Cooper: Alan Dudley
Det-Insp Blake: Peter Humphreys
Gordon Marks: Nigel Graham
Christine Marks: Myrtle Reed
Charlie Jennings: John Baker
Bruce Wakefield: Rolf Lefebvre
Olive Simons: Miriam Margolyes
Rosemary Steele: Diana Olsson
Ex-Det-Insp Marleby: Wilfrid Carter
Dr Warwick: Peter Williams
Messenger: Anthony Hall
Alberto Fiori: Nigel Anthony
Det-Supt Middleton: Manning Wilson
John Shaw: Brian Haines
6th October 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Doubting Thomases by Mike Stott (1944-2009)
Producer: Gerry Jones
Det-Sgt Smith: Alan Downer
Sue Rogers: Caroline John
Dr Eva Hartley: Margot Boyd
Det-Con Tony Lambert: Geoffrey Beevers
Mrs Clark/BBC telephonist: Diana Bishop
Eric Benton / Hughie Latchmere: Timothy Bateson.
Graham Rees: Sam Dastor
Graham Appleby: Fraser Kerr
Andrew Donnelly: William Sleigh
David Fielding/Announcer: Neville Jason
PC Ogilvey: David Timson
Dr Willoughby: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated 8th October 1973
7th October 1973:
21.03
No Name (1862) by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) dramatised by Elizabeth Bradbury.
After a death, circumstances affect the will.
Part one of six.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Magdalen Vanstone: Angela Pleasence
Captain Wragge: Frank Thornton
Narrator: John Rowe
Andrew Vanstone: Philip Garston-Jones
Thomas: Jack Holloway
Miss Garth: Kathleen Helme
Mrs Vanstone: Carol Snape
Norah Vanstone: Carole Boyd
Mr Clare: George Woolley
Francis Clare: Gareth Armstrong
Mrs Marrable: Sonia Elliman
Miss Marrable: Jenny Cryst
The Manager/Clerk: Michael Burlington
Mr Pendril: Simon Carter
Physician: Jack Holloway
All parts repeated after two days.
7th October 1973
22.15
The Pump by James Cameron
Repeated from 4th January 1973 (see above).
8th October 1973
20.00:
The Lower Depths (1902) by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) translated by David Magarshack (1899-1977), adapted by Bennett Maxwell.
The poor in Moscow.
Accordion: Henry Krein.
Producer: Richard Wortley.
Mikhail Ivanovieh Kostylyov: Malcolm Hayes
Vassilisa Karpovna, his wife: Elizabeth Morgan
Natasha, her sister: Julie Hallam
Abram Medvede a policeman: Brian Haines
Vassily Pepel: Sean Barrett
Andrey Mitrich Kleshch: Kevin Flood
Anna, his wife: Hilda Schroder
Nastya, a girl: Patricia Gallimore
Bubnov, hatter: Alexander John
The Baron: John Rowe
Satin: Terry Scully
The Actor: David March
Luka, a pilgrim: Timothy Bateson
Alyoshka, a shoemaker: Nigel Anthony
The Tartar: Godfrey Kenton
Kvashnya, meat-dumpling seller: Diana Olsson
Zob/Narrator: David Timson
Repeated 14th October 1973
[Also produced by John Gibson for R3 1967 with Carol Marsh as Natasha.]
[Also produced by Alison Hindell in 1997 with Glyn Houston as Luka.]
10th October 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cold Storage by Philip Levene (1926-1973).
Cold store doors have handles on the outside.
Producer: Margaret Etall
Robert Craig: Nigel Graham
Lucy Craig: Bonnie Hurren
Alan Scott: John Forrest
Jim Palmer: Brian Haines
Mechanic: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 14th February 1976
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2023]
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1960 for Light, rptd R4 1961 with Tom Watson as Robert]
10th October 1973:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Private Grief by Marian Campbell
Producer: Margaret Etall
Hester Conrad: Eva Haddon
Gilbert Conrad: Manning Wilson
Rex Wilding: Robert Trotter
Taiwo: Alton Kumalo
Harrington: Peter Messaline
Pratt: David Sinclair
Vicar: Rolf Lefebvre
10th October 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Better Late (Feu la Mere de Madame (1908) ) by Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) translated by Peter Meyer
Producer: Glyn Dearman
the wife: Jill Bennett
the husband: John Osborne
Joseph: Aubrey Woods
Annette: Miriam Margolyes
[The French title translates as "Madame's Late Mother"]
Repeated 11th October 1973
12th October 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Breakers by Leo Arthurs.
1869- Morfa pit. Striking Welsh miners are replaced with miners from the West Country.
Producer: Lorraine Davies
Philip Jones: Glyn Houston
John Oates: Malcolm Young
William Bray: David Davies
Silas Oates: Norman Tyrrell
Anne Oates: Ruby Luscombe
Tom Quick: Michael Beint
Mam Jones: May Rees
Gwen Jones: Gaynor Morgan Rees
Jack McCoan: David Lyn
Rees Llywellyn: Ryan Davies
Sir Arthur Vivian: Michael David
Dai Benyon: Simon Cuff
Ifan Edwards: Ieuan Rhys Williams
Repeated from 19th August 1967
[The Morfa mine was very gassy and the scene of several explosive disasters (1858, 1863, 1870, 1897, 1890). The site became the Margam steelworks.]
-
13th October 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Fifth Columnist by Peter Grafton.
May 1940.
Producer: Chris Barlas
Edith Perkins: Hilda Schroder
Maj Perkins: Geoffrey Chater
Joan: Penelope Nice
Doug: Alaric Cotter
Vaughn: Brian Hewlett
Horton: William Eedle
Steve: Fraser Kerr
also with Geoffrey Matthews
[A fifth column was an internal enemy who assisted an enemy force by means of sabotage, disinformation, espionage and terrorism.]
13th October 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Henrietta Who? (1968) by Catherine Aird (1930-2024), adapted by Alison Plowden.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Henrietta: Ciaran Madden
Insp Sloan: Alan Rowe
Harry Ford/Landlord: Vernon Joyner
Bill Thorpe: Robert Swales
Constable Crosby: Nigel Anthony
Dr Dabbe/ General Garwell: Nigel Graham
Supt Lees: Robert Trotter
James Hibbs: Brian Haines
PC Hepple: Anthony Hall
Mr Arbican: David Lander
Mr Hirst: Peter Gordon
Bursar: Judith Harte
Secretary: Julie Hallam
Repeated 15th October 1973
15th October 1973
20.00:
The Monday Play: Venus Observed (1950) by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
Producer: Jane Graham (1978-Jane Morgan)
Duke of Altair: Denholm Elliott
Edgar: Richard Kay
Reedbeck: Clive Swift
Dominic: David Timson
Rosabel Fleming: Moira Redmond
Jessie Dill: Elizabeth Spriggs
Capt Fox Reddleman: Alan Barry
Bates: Michael Shannon
Hilda Taylor-Snell: Stephanie Bidmead
Perpetua: Angela Down
Repeated from 20th December 1987
Repeated 21st October 1973, 6th October 1978
17th October 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Always Read the Small Print by D. G. Compton (1930-2023)
Producer: John Powell
Peter Shaw: Brian Cox
Mary Shaw: Deborah Stanford
Michael Paton: Colin Farrell
June Paton: Ann Penkold
Repeated from 12th September 1967
17th October 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: La Rabouilleuse (1842) by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), dramatised by Joan O'Connor.
1 of 3.
Producer: Jane Graham
M de Bruel: Rolf Lefebvre
Agathe Brida: Joan Matheson
Mme Descoings: Sylvia Coleridge
M Desroches: Peter Williams
Capt Giroudeau: Stephen Thorne
Philippe Bridau: Sean Arnold
Joseph Bridau: David Wood
Redskin: Anthony Hall
Finot: Anthony Daniels
Bixiou: Gareth Armstrong
Mariette: Elizabeth Revill
M Magus: Andrew Staines
[No indication of which translation the BBC used. Titles of translations of the book include The Black Sheep (Adamson translation) and The Two Brothers (Wormeley translation). The book was originally published in two parts with part one having the title "Les Deux Freres". The French title Rabouilleuse has been translated as "fisherwoman" referring to stirring water to catch crayfish.(rabouiller= to stir up].
17th October 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Trio: 3 short plays (The Velvet Carpet, The Birthday Present and Needle Match) by Philip Levene (1926-1973).
Producer: Gerry Jones
Basil/Wally/Lorrimer: Frederick Treves
Madge/Gladys: Betty Huntley-Wright
Alan/Announcer/Antique Dealer: Nigel Graham
Hopkins/Freddie/Garagehand: Anthony Hall
Marge: Diana Bishop
Lena: Sandra Clark
Repeated 18th October 1973
[The Velvet Carpet was also produced by Archie Campbell 1964 and Cherry Cookson 1979]
[The Needle Match was also produced by Keith Williams in 1964]
[The Birthday Present was also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1964]
19th October 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Dead Drop by Max Marquis.
Where did it go?
Producer: Christopher Venning.
June Coney: Patricia Gallimore
Harold Robson: Nigel Anthony
Insp McAndrew: Douglas Blackwell
Fetra: Ingrid Bower
Coleman: David Garth
Edward Hart: Eric Lander
Bellamy: Robin Browne
Penkarsky: Edward Kelsey
Ivanov: Martin Matthews
Policeman: Sean Barrett
Stewardess: Jo Manning Wilson
Repeated from 2nd October 1971
20th October 1973:
15.05
The Guest Who Invited Himself by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) adapted by C. J. Stephenson
Producer: John Cardy
Pralinsky: Norman Shelley
Nikiforov: Godfrey Kenton
Shipulenko: Clifford Rose
Pseldonimov: Sam Dastor
Mme Pseldonimov, his molher: Betty Hardy
Cleopatra Semyonovna, his bride: Bonnie Hurren
Mlekopitaev, her father: Manning Wilson
Anya,her mother: Betty Huntley-Wright
Zubikov: Timothy Bateson
Shubin: Haydn Jones
Policeman: David Sinclair
Wedding guest: Diana Bishop
The original story (1862) has been translated many times, each one with a differing title- "A Nasty Story", "A Disgraceful Affair", "A Most Unfortunate Incident", "An unpleasant predicament", "A Bad Business", "A Nasty Anecdote". The BBC declines to indicate which translation they have used.
20th October 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Boston Story by Ronald Cow based upon "Watch and Ward" (1871 revised 1878) by Henry James (1843-1916).
Pianist Martin Goldstein
Producer Betty Davies
Roger Lawrence: Tony Britton
Lucinda: Georgina Anderson
Hubert Lawrence: John Rowe
Isabel Keith: Madi Hedd
Nora Lambert: Bonnie Hurren
George Fenton: Blain Fairman
Repeated 22nd October 1973
22nd October 1973
20.00:
The Monday Play: Stagford by Jiri Hochman (Jiriho Hochmana 1926-2012) translated by and adapted by Vera Blackwell
Producer: Tony Cliff
Leeds
Serjoza: David Hatton
Klika: David Mahlowe
Pribyl: Graham Roberts
Mares: Christopher Godwin
Piskacek: Harry Markham
Benes: Ronald Herdman
Vyndra: Ken Farrington
Bradaty: Anthony Boden
Bruner: James Garbutt
Havelka: Jim Whelan
Domecek: Ronald Herdman
Sustra: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Repeated 28th October 1973 and 11th June 1978
[This may be Hochman's 1970 novel Deer Creek. Stagford has also been referred to as Stag Ford (two words).]
24th October 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Kowalski's Last Chance by Leo Simpson
Producer: Roger Pine
Kowalski: Brian Haines
Sgt Brock: Peter Messaline
Capt Williams: Michael McClain
Seamus: Edward Kelsey
[Also produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, April 1981, as "Kowalskis allerletzte Chance" with a 48 minute runtime- copy on archive.org.]
24th October 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Dayspring is at Hand by Bill Stanton
with the choir and congregation of King's Norton Methodist Church. Birmingham
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
Joe Earnshaw: Wilfred Pickles
Annie Earnshaw: Peggy Hughes
Young Joe: Keith Varnier
Young Annie: Heather Barrett
Elsie Hardwick: Eileen Barry
George Hardwick: Arthur Blake
Dr Suddaby-Clark: Anthony Woodruff
Dr Milner: George Woolley
Mrs Armitage: Nancy Gower
Repeated 25th October 1973
[The title comes from a hymn "The Sands of time are sinking" (1854) by Anne Ross Cousin (1824-1906). It appeared in the 1886 Scottish Hymnal and the 1904 Methodist Hymn Book. Her husband was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland.]
26th October 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Trapped by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017).
Producer: Norman Wright.
Michael Trent: Tim Seely
Harry Croft: David March
Mrs Camden: Betty Hardy
BBC newsreader: Alvar Lidell
Sergeant Baker: Stephen Jack
Bank clerk: John Pullen
Repeated from 19th October 1968.
Repeated 23rd July 1976
27th October 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Perry Barr Story by Lester Powell (1912-1993).
Producer: Harry Catlin
Perry Barr: Stuart Damon
Miss Garden: Liza Ross
Harry Barr: William Sleigh
Betty Barr: Jane Jordan Rogers
Mrs Byrne: Mavis Villiers
Dr Hobbs: Neville Jason
Benjamin Tulk: Harold Kasket
Radio announcer: David Sinclair
27th October 1973:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Elevation of Edward Loos by Eric B. Maddish
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Edward Loos: Brian Wilde
Stubbins: Ronald Herdman
Treezer: Bonnie Hurren
Raphael: John Forrest
Nicolson: Malcolm Hayes
Midwinter: Fraser Kerr
Angela Nicolson: Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Nicolson: Joan Miller
Butler: Sam Dastor
Official: Timothy Bateson
Beavr: Anthony Hall
Repeated 29th October 1973
29th October 1973:
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Gentle Island (1971) by Brian Friel (1929-2015) adapted by Denys Hawthorne
Producer: Ronald Mason
Manus Sweeney: Barry Keegan
Joe: Jim Norton
Philly: Sean Barrett
Sarah: Kate Binchy
Peter Quinn: Allan McClelland
Shane Harrison: Stephen Rea
Bosco/Eamonn: Alan Barry
Tom/Voice: Terry Scully
Con: Kevin Flood
Anna: Frances Jeater
Mary: Elizabeth Morgan
Neil/Big Anthony: Brian Haines
Repeated 4th November 1973
[The title is satirical. Subject matter includes sexuality and gender]
31st October 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Heart's Delight by Alex Marshall and Peter King
Producer: Magaret Etall
Mary: Lala Lloyd
William: Victor Lucas
Jean: Delia Paton
Bernard: Clifford Earl
Vicar: Peter Williams
Mr Hughes: David Sinclair
Passenger: Bonnie Hurren
Repeated 21st February 1976
31st October 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Ring for Death by Bernard Picton
Producer: Lorraine Davies
Mervyn Price: Ray Handy
Betty Price: Christine Pritchard
John Griffiths: Alan Downer
Linda Evans: Margaret John
Det Chief Insp Mansel: Ivor Roberts
Lewis: Frank Lincoln
Fred: Bryn Williams
Repeated 1st November 1973
2nd November 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Shape Like Piccadilly by Jill Hyem (1937-2015).
Illiteracy.
Producer: Jane Graham
Julie: Elizabeth Proud
Eileen Butt: Anne Stallybrass
A waitress: Eva Stuart
Colin Piper: Nigel Anthony
Mr Lake: Will Leighton
Mrs Piper: Cecile Chevreau
Ray Piper: Nigel Lambert
Landlady: Margot Boyd
Repeated from 10th March 1971
3rd November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Bringer of Bad News by Mike Stott (1944-2009).
Producer: David Johnston
Det-Sgt John Smith: Alan Downer
DetCon Phil Breech: Peter Messaline
Gillian Smith: Maggie Walker
Budgie Benyon: Freddie Lees
H H Veitch: Peter Williams
Lorraine Benyon: Rosalind Elliot
Eleanor Machen: Phillada Sewell
George: Stephen Thorne
Mary: Diana Bishop
Auto-quality secretary: Elizabeth Revill
3rd November 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Death of my Aunt (1929) by C H B Kitchin (1895-1967) adapted by Francis King.
Producer: Piers Plowright
Malcolm Warren: David Griffin
Hannibal Cartwright: John Shrapnel
Dace: Michael McClain
Aunt Catherine: Betty Huntley-Wright
Inspector: Stephen Thorne
Anne Carvel: Eva Haddon
Bob Carvel: Geoffrey Beevers
Terence Carvel: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated 5th November 1973
[Three later novels also featured Malcolm Warren]
[Kitchin was a barrister and a stockbroker - a member of the London Stock Exchange.]
5th November 1973
20.00-:
The Lonely Road (1904) by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) translated by Ronald Adam.
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Prof Wengrath/Manservant: Douglas Blackwell
Gabrielle/Servant: Pauline Letts
Felix: Frank Barrie
Johanna: Jennie Linden
Julian Fall: Michael Hordern
Stephan Von Sala: Anthony Pedley
Irene Harman: Coral Browne
Dr Franz Redman: Ronald Adam
Fall's manservant: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated from 25th January 1971
Repeated 11th November 1973
[Original title Der einsame Weg]
6th November 1973
20.30-21.30
Dear and Honoured Lady by Nesta Pain (1905-1995).
Queen Victoria.
Producer: Nesta Pain.
Part 1 of 13.
The Queen: Peggy Ashcroft
Narrator: Gabriel Woolf
Peter Pindar,: Timothy Bateson
Countess Lieven: Margaret Robertson
Thomas Creevey: Charles Hodgson
Prince of Wales: Godfrey Kenton
Soldier: Nigel Graham
Baron Stockmar: Rolf Lefebvre
Duchess of Kent: Ellen Pollock
Queen Adelaide: Irene Prador
Lord Melbourne: Maurice Denham
Lady Portman: Betty Huntley-Wright
All parts repeated after three days.
[Repeated 1976, but episodes shortened to 45 minutes]
[Not all episopdes were written by Nesta: Parts 3 and 8 by Thea Holme. Parts 7 and 13 by Denis Constanduros. Parts 4 and 9 by Jasper Ridley. Part 12 by John Chandos.]
7th November 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Terrible Day by James Hanley
Producer: John Tydeman
Jack Fearon: Bryan Pringle
Mrs Trent: Kathleen Helme
Mrs Fearon: Diana Bishop
Mr Trent: Timothy Bateson
Mr Cones: Stephen Thorne
Mr Lawler: Gareth Armstrong
7th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Carol by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Producer: Betty Davies
Julie Conrad: Frances Jeater
Lance Conrad: Leo Maguire
Mr Harboard: Rolf Lefebvre
Alfred Judson: Manning Wilson
Miss Voysey: Betty Hardy
Mike: Fraser Kerr
Peter Henry: David Sinclair
Dr Grace Muirhead: Betty Huntley-Wright
Garage mechanic: Anthony Hall
The Girl: Bonnie Hurren
8th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Cat and Mouse Game by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Producer: David H Godfrey
Robinson: Hugh Burden
John Crampton: Michael Kilgarriff
Gerry Landers: Jill Shilling
Arnold: Wilfrid Carter
Mr James: Douglas Blackwell
Ada Page: Sheila Grant
Mr Dennett: Leslie Heritage
Jones: Nigel Havers
Repeated from 26th and 27th May 1971
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
10th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Upjohn by Michael Hardwick
Producer: Christopher Venning
Mr Upjohn: Geoffrey Bayldon
Mr Jennings: Alan Rowe
Mr Glidd: David Valla
Sandra: Patricia Gallimore
Vaslav/Leon/Charlie: Michael Harbour
Henri/Lightowler: Tony Leary
Repeated from 20th February 1971
[Also produced for Light in 1962 by Val Gielgud with William Eedle as Mr Upjohn and David Valla as Mr Lightowler]
10th November 1973
16.30
Duke Diamond by Robin Smyth
Radiophonic music and sounds by Dick Mills
The year is 2473.
Part 1 of 6
Producer: Graham Gauld
Duke Diamond: John Pullen
Highlord: Roy Spencer
Zom: Peter Williams
Swish: William Sleigh
Spice: Elizabeth Revill
J D C: Anthony Daniels
Langrozga: Heron Carvic
Colosina: Hilda Schroder
Eternus: Alan Wheatley
10th November 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Rules of Asylum by James Follett (1939-2021)
A patient escapes.
Producer: Margaret Etall
Secretary/Librarian: Betty Huntley-Wright
Guard/Alex: Neville Jason
Governor: Manning Wilson
Suskin: Vernon Joyner
Suskin's Chief: Brian Haines
Jan Valery: James Beattie
Anna: Caroline John
Zoe: Rosalyn Slater
A guard-nurse/Archive clerk: Diana Bishop
Danski: Cyril Shaps
Nero: Francis De Wolff
Interrogator: John Challis
Restaurant manager: Godfrey Kenton
Office girl: Rosalyn Slater
Repeated 10th and 12th November 1973
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2004-2025 using a recording made by James Follett]
12th November 1973
20.00:
The Golden Country (Ogon no kuni) by Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) translated by Francis Mathy
Japan, 1633.
Producer: John Tydeman
Inoue Chikugo-no-kami: Robert Lang
Hirata Shuzen: Nigel Graham
Kano Gennosuke: Anthony Daniels
Father Christopher Ferreira: Hugh Burden
Tomonaga Sakuemon: Timothy Bateson
Yuki, his daughter: Julie Hallam
Kasuke: Fraser Kerr
Mokichi: Stephen Thorne
Hisaichi: William Sleigh
Norosaku: Sam Dastor
Hatsu: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 18th November 1973, 23rd June 1985
[The original novel (1966) of this story was called "Silence" (Chinmoku). Endo was a Catholic. ]
14th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Julie Sumner by John Whitewood
Separation.
Producer: John Cardy
Julie Sumner: Gemma Jones
David Sumner: John Forrest
Victoria, their child: Helen Worth
Mrs Pritchard: Hilda Schroder
Janet: Sandra Clark
Bill Morrisson: John Rowe
Helen Richards: Diana Olsson
Repeated 14th November 1973
14th November 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Missing Witness by James Fairfax
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
Julia Graham: Janet Dale
Alfred Dinsdale: John Blythe
Adrian Hull: Malcolm Terris
Harry Kingsleyc: Geoffrey Banks
Michael Warren: Paul Webster
Patrick Norris: Peter Wheeler
Renata: Carolyn Pickles
Pianist: Joe Maker
Repeated 15th November 1973
17th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Arrangements by T D Webster
An alibi may be inconvenient.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Bob Adams: Vernon Joyner
Clive Scott: John Bentley
David: David Timson
Joyce Adams: Diana Olsson
Det-Con: Michael Harbour
Ethel: Julie Hallam
Ann: Julie Hallam
Ruth: Tara Soppet
Landlord: Clifford Norgate
Peter: John Bryning
Repeated 19th December 1975
[Inspired by a remark by a policeman friend of the author].
17th November 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Riceyman Steps (1923) by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), dramatised by James Duckett.
London, 1919.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
Violet: Beryl Reid
Henry Earlforward: Cyril Luckham
Narrator: Simon Carter
Dr Raste: Oliver Ford-Davies
Elsie Sprickett: Heather Barrett
Joe: Linal Haft
Jerry: Peter Biddle
Miss Raste: Elizabeth Revill
Mrs Belrose: Eileen Barry
also with Giles Gordon Smith, Gareth Armstrong and Raymond Llewellyn
Repeated 19th November 1973
[Inspired by a visit to a Southampton second hand bookshop where Bennett purchased a book on misers].
18th November 1973
21.03
The Sun is My Undoing (1941) by Marguerite Steen (1894-1975) dramatised by Brian Gear.
Bristol, 1760. Shipping and Slavery.
Part 1 of 5.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Matthew Flood: Colin Fisher
Africa/ Abiathar Crown: Clifford Norgate
Hercules Flood: Hedley Goodall
Young Matthew: Nick Brimble
Jason Flood: John Forrest
Ann Flood: Elizabeth Chater
Tom Shergill: Richard Mathews
Fordyce/Clay: Vernon Joyner
Ralph Bermester: John Graham
Pallas Bermester: Elizabeth Bell
Orabella Bermester: Cordelia Mansall
Lydia Bermester: Betty Huntley-Wright
Betty: Christine Winter
Each part repeated after two days.
19th November 1973
19.30:
The Monday Play: Rooms by Tom Mallin.
Producer Guy Vaesen
First voice: Vernon Joyner
Second voice: John Forrest
Lucy Spender: Julie Hallam
Octavius Cage: John Rowe
Emily Titlow: Betty Huntley-Wright
Reg Prentice: Nigel Anthony
Rosy Quinn: Eileen Kennally
Grace Bulstrode-Gripp: Margot Boyd
Major Godfrey Chunn: Peter Williams
Molly Blest: Colette O'Neil
Imogen Trist: Elizabeth Proud
Vernon: Peter Messaline
Shirley: Sandra Clark
Lilybelle Gentle: Joyce Carey
Abigail Gentle: Cicely Hullet
Frank Trumpet: Aubrey Woods
Monica Trumpet: Amanda Reiss
Melony Rourke: Marco Cunningham
Bill Quelch: Bill Owen
Madge Prentice: Elizabeth Proud
Brigadier Bulstrode-Gripp: Nigel Graham
Mrs Bulstrode-Gripp: Olwen Griffiths
Frederick Wipe: Peter MacKriel
Mr Smith: Anthony Hall
Mrs Smith: Diana Olsson
Alice Porter: Helen Worth
21st November 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Time for Mourning by Margaret Harris
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Andrew: Robert Trotter
Kate: Sandra Clark
Annie: Diana Olsson
Dora: Audrey Muir
Mrs Gourlay: Valerie Verdon
Waiter: Fraser Kerr
Repeated 28th February 1976
21st November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Chords and Discords by Suzanne Ebel (1916-2008)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Mrs Margaret Winter: Noel Hood
Mrs Joy Winter: Carol Marsh
Mrs Mack: Diana Bishop
Liz Brooks: Bonnie Hurren
Jesse Anselme: Brian Hewlett
Matthew Winter: Vernon Joyner
21st November 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Locksley Marriage Prize by John Ashe
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
Hospital Sister: Elizabeth Morgan
Muriel: Betty Huntley-Wright
Henry Walshaw: Peter Williams
Gloria: Diana Olsson
Susan: Karen Ford
Mr Cunningham: David Timson
Repeated 22nd November 1973
24th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Woods are Full of Peacocks by Olive Walker adapted by Oliver Coburn
Producer: Hallam Tennyson
Dr Fry: Godfrey Kenton
Mrs Fry: Joan Matheson
Tom Fry: Nigel Graham
Jinny Fry: Julie Hallam
Mrs Carter: Hilda Schroder
Derek Campbell: David Timson
24th November 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Philip Leaver and Kay Patrick
Special sound by David Cain, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer: Betty Davies
Richard Young: Ian Richardson
Magnus: Richard Hurndall
Vita Young: Bonnie Hurren
Mrs Collins: Elizabeth Morgan
Vicar: Brian Haines
Dr Powell: Frank Duncan
Teddy: Judy Bennett
Bill: Vernon Joyner
Diana: Julie Hallam
Man with caravan: David Sinclair
Roger: David March
Isolda: Rosalind Shanks
Joanna: Elizabeth Morgan
Father Prior: Manning Wilson
Brother Jean: Anthony Hall
Repeated 26th November 1973
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
[du Maurier lived near Tywardreath in Cornwall from 1967 - this translates to House on the Strand - where Strand means land bordering water ]
26th November 1973
19.30:
John Bull's Other Island (1904) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
The politics of Ireland in 1904. An Englishman and an Irish village.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Broadbent: Martin Jarvis
Hodson, valet: Manning Wilson
Tim Haffigan: Kevin Flood
Doyle: Sean Barrett
Fr Keegan: Timothy Bateson
Patsy: Gareth Armstrong
Nora Reilly: Maire Ni Ghrainne
Cornelius Doyle: Michael Golden
Fr Dempsey: Harry Webster
Aunt Judy: Pauline Delaney
Matthew Haffigan: Kevin Flood
Barney Doran: Brian Haines
Repeated R3 25th May 1975
[Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin.]
27th November 1973
12.27:
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Advertising Matter by Noel Robinson, adapted by Pat Dunlop, radio episode 72 based upon television episode 121.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
Mrs Muir: Rosamund Greenwood
Mr Cardill: Jonathan Scott
Eab Williams: James McManus
Mrs Williams: Della Paton
Dr Donal: Michael Beint
Sir Giles: Cameron Miller
Mrs Connochie: Aubrey Muir
Repeated 29th November 1973
[The character of Dr Finlay was created by A J Cronin in 1935 in his book "Country Doctor" about Finlay Hysop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor. Cronin was a doctor.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart]
28th November 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Crossed Line by Edward Crowley
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
Don: Geoffrey Banks
David: Graham Roberts
Harry: John Linstrum
Sheila/Mrs Langly: Carol Gillies
Repeated 6th March 1976
28th November 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Changing Wind by Margaret Harris
Producer: Kay Patrick
Ralph Grazeby: John Graham
Emily Grazeby: Colette O'Neil
Deirdre Grazeby: Valerie Verdon
Rachael Grazeby: Betty Hardy
Grace Castleton: Audrey Muir
Muriel Hunter/Matty: Diana Olsson
Catherine Hunter: Sandra Clark
Repeated 24th September 1976
28th November 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Eagle and Spider by Francis Gallagher
Producer: Keith Slade
Fouche: Peter Jeffrey
Napoleon: Cyril Shaps
Louis XVIII: Rolf Lefebvre
De Retz: Neville Jason
Bertrand: Fraser Kerr
Gabrielle de Castellane Majastres: Sandra Clark
Savary: Terry Scully
Courtier: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 29th November 1973
1st December 1973:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Murder is my Subject by Philip Levene.(1926-1973).
Producer: Betty Davies
Mrs Vincent: Margot Boyd
Miss Regan: Diana Olsson
Dr Maddox: Bruce Beeby
Insp Harris: Timothy Bateson
Ch Con White: Manning Wilson
Mary Collins: Julie Hallam
Supt Bates: Alan Dudley
Insp Duffy: Nigel Graham
Sgt Lucas: David Timson
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster for Light in 1965 with Cecile Chevreau as Mrs Vincent]
1st December 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: This Dear Old House by Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986) translated by Olga Franklin
Music by pianist Peter Greenwell
Producer: Susanna Capon
Julia: Ann Beach
Nina: Kate Binchy
Konstantin: Denys Hawthorne
Raisa: Margot Boyd
Erast: Rolf Lefebvre
Makar: Sam Dastor
Frederik: Anthony Daniels
Sashenka: Elizabeth Revill
Mitya: David Timson
Alya: Deborah Paige
Repeated 3rd December 1973
3rd December 1973
20.00
Monday Play: Futility (1922) by William Gerhardie (1895-1977) adapted by Olivia Manning
Russia 1917
Producer: Richard Wortley
Andrei Andreiech: Geoffrey Beevers
Nikolai Vasilievich: William Eedle
Fanny Ivanovna: Diana Olsson
Nina: Emily Richard
Sonia: Bonnie Hurren
Vera: Julie Hallam
Eisenstein: Nigel Graham
Magda Nikolaevna: Hilda Schroder
Zina: Helen Worth
Admiral: Godfrey Kenton
Baron Wunderhausen: David Timson
Uncle Kostia: Wilfrid Carter
General Bologoevski: Peter Williams
US Naval Officer: Terry Scully
Prince Kniaz: Brian Haines
Repeated 9th December 1973
4th December 1973
12.27:
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Honours List by Donald Bull, radio episode 73 based upon television episode 151.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Cathie Calcott: Dorothy Smith
Ben Calcott: Arthur Lawrence
Mrs McEnery: Miriam Margolyes
Sir Alec Jennings: Archie Duncan
Dr Greville: Roy Spencer
Repeated 6th December 1973
[The character of Dr Finlay was created by A J Cronin in 1935 in his book "Country Doctor" about Finlay Hysop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor. Cronin was a doctor.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart]
5th December 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Make Like Slaves by Richard Rive (1931-1989)
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
The Man: Leonard Dixon
The Girl: Mary Miller
Repeated from R3 10th June 1973.
Repeated R3 6th January 1974
[The prize-winning play from the BBC African Service Radio Playwriting Competition.]
[Richard Rive was born and was killed in Cape Town]
5th December 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Dancer's Escape by Bill Nicholson
Producer: Harry Catlin
Dancer: Brian Hewlett
Stein/Bingley: Nigel Anthony
de Brissac: Christopher Guard
Headmaster/Mr Bennet: Timothy Bateson
Miss Wilbur/Lydia: Eva Stuart
Titheridge: Crispin Gillbard
Elizabeth Darcy: Carol Marsh
Jane Bingley: Diana Bishop
MacGibbon: Anthony Hall
Robbins/Wickham: Brian Haines
Mrs Bennet: Hilda Schroder
Doctor: Godfrey Kenton
5th December 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Disagreeable Oyster by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producers Charles Lefeaux 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, William Sleigh
Repeated 6th December 1973, 13th June 1984, 8th September 1989
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]
[Also produced for R3 in 1957 by Donald McWhinnie with Hamilton Dyce and John Graham as Bundy: rptd R3 22/10/1962, 29/1/1967, ]
8th December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Question of Guilt by Philip Levene (1926-1973).
Producer: Betty Davies
Sam Waites (Plates): Anthony Hall
Ted Brophy: Timothy Bateson
Peter Harris: Michael Deacon
Prison Officer Lomax: Godfrey Kenton
Colonel Yates: Manning Wilson
Miss Turner: Diana Olsson
Mousey Doyle: Alan Barry
Dave Elton: Fraser Kerr
Mr Crowly: Brian Haines
[Also broadcast on R4X 2026]
8th December 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Semi-attached Couple (written 1829, published 1860) by Emily Eden (1797-1869) dramatised by Thea Holme.
The rich.
Pianist: Anna Berenska
Producer: Jane Graham
Mrs Douglas: Betty Huntley-Wright
Mr Douglas: Alan Rowe
Amelia: Bonnie Hurren
Nancy Tomkinson: Lynn Farleigh
Helen: Joanna David
Lord Teviot: Robert Powell
Eliza Douglas: Clare Clifford
Lady Portmore: Elizabeth Morgan
Capt Ernest Sholto: David Timson
Mary Forrester: Sara Coward
Lord Beaufort: Geoffrey Collins
Cot Stuart: William Sleigh
Lady Eskdale: Janet Burnell
Dr Grey: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 10th December 1973
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen in 1958 with Thea Holme as Lady Eskdale.]
10th December 1973
20.00:
The Voysey Inheritance (1905) by Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) adapted by Keri Lewis
Fraud.
Producer: R. D. Smith
Peacey: Haydn Jones
Voysey: Norman Shelley
Edward: David Andrews
Booth: Patrick Newell
George Booth: George Merritt
Colpus: Noel Iliff
Alice: Penelope Lee
Honor: Pauline Wynn
Beatrice: Anne Jameson
Mrs Voysey: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mary: Joan Alcorn
Phoebe: Lynn Carson
Emily: Dorit Welles
Trenchard: Brian Haines
Hugh Voysey: Christopher Bidmead
Repeated from 1st December 1969
Repeated 16th December 1973
11th December 1973
12.27:
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Right to Live by Doreen Montgomery adapted by Pat Dunlop radio episode 74 based upon television episode 56.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Ian Hamilton: John Samson
Peggy Hamilton: Ellen McIntosh
Florrie Gow: Betty Cardno
Dr Martin: Antony Higginson
Geddes: Gordon Faith
Repeated 13th December 1973
[The character of Dr Finlay was created by A J Cronin in 1935 in his book "Country Doctor" about Finlay Hysop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor. Cronin was a doctor.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart]
12th December 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Inside. Outside, Christmastide by Trevor Number.
Producer: Piers Plowright
'Spud' Sawyer: Brian Haines
'Horrible' Harper: Peter Gordon
Governor: Paul Dawkins
Chief Officer: John Forrest
Prison Officer: Gary Hope
Coffee bar assistant: Diana Bishop
Landlord: John Forrest
Policeman: Neville Jason
Magistrate: Godfrey Kenton
Guitarist: Mike Magee
12th December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Man from Everywhere (1932) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989) translated (1942) by Stewart Gilbert, adapted by Alicon Plowden.
A French hotel and a mysterious guest.
Producer: Christopher Venning
Bus driver.Drayman: Kenneth McClellan
Serge Morrow: Alan Rowe
Mme Keller: Diana Olsson
Nick Keller: Anthony Smee
Gretal: Janie Booth
Insp Mercier: Terry Scully
Karl Van Der Laer: Neville Jason
Nouchi Van Der Laer: Nicolette McKenzle
Mme Meurice: Pauline Wynn
Elaine: Venetia Maxwell
Fredel: Michael Cochrane
Supt Labbe: Vernon Joyner
M Kampf: John Livesey
12th December 1973
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Graduation Day by James Scotland.
Producer: Gordon Emslie
Margaret: Christine McKenna
Jan: Ron Bain
Mrs Moir: Effie Morrison
Principal: Leon Sinden
Moir: Arthur Boland
Scorgie: P Mace
Miranda: Elena Mitchell
Simmie: Walter Carr
Norman: Robert Docherty
also with students from the Royal College of Dramatic Art, Glasgow
Repeated 13th December 1973
15th December 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Murder Beyond by Philip Levene (1926-1973).
Producer: Michael Heffernan
Stephen Kendall: David Mahlowe
Alice Gardner: Eileen Derbyshire
Dr Fletcher: Geoffrey Banks
Hilary Sands: Joanna Tope
Insp Alchin: Graham Roberts
Sgt Treeves: Sam Dastor
[Also produced for Light and Home by Martyn C Webster in 1964 with Peter Coke as Stephen]
15th December 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: M'sieur from Armenteer by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
Producer: Martin Jenkins
James Lord Ghisbert: Maurice Denham
Nurse/ATS Officer: Sandra Clark
Doctor /Mr Makeby: Manning Wilson
Mrs Olwen: Kathleen Helme
Lord Ghisbert's secretary Susan: Betty Huntley-Wright
Colin Trayson: David Valla
Midge Fallor: Frances Jeater
Marion: Pauline Letts
Mr Makeby senior/Second man in pub: Godfrey Kenton
Mervyn Blenton: Clifford Rose
Rene /Man in pub: Nigel Graham
Frances Fallor: Pauline Letts
Repeated 17th December 1973
17th December 1973
20.00:
Monday Play: The Ballad of Cock Lane by David Buck (1936-1989)
London around 1760.
Producer: John Tydeman
Balladeer: Michael Harbour
Mr Parsons: Haydn Jones
Mrs Parsons: Cecile Chevreau
Libby Parsons: Elizabeth Proud
William Kent: Ronald Herdman
Frances (Fanny) Kent: Elizabeth Morgan
John Moore: John Rowe
Mr Broughton: Neville Jason
Mr Aldrich: Anthony Daniels
Mr Bray: Stephen Thorne
Bray's daughter: Elizabeth Revill
Franzen: Fraser Kerr
Mr Jones: Anthony Hall
Mary Frazer: Elizabeth Morgan
Carrots: Sandra Clark
Lord Mayor: Rolf Lefebvre
Dr Douglas: David Buck
A Lawyer Doctor: William Sleigh
Repeated 23rd December 1973
[The play is based upon reports from 1762 - the events were very well known at that time and reported by Samuel Johnson and referenced in three Dickens books.]
18th December 1973
12.27-12.55:
Dr Finlay's Casebook: To Err is Human by Bob Keston adapted by Pat Dunlop, radio episode 75 based upon television episode 94.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Jeannie Campbell: Yvonne Gllan
Willie Campbell: Joe Dunlop
Repeated 20th December 1973
[The character of Dr Finlay was created by A J Cronin in 1935 in his book "Country Doctor" about Finlay Hysop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor. Cronin was a doctor.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart]
19th December 1973
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Voices Round a Star by Michael Ffinch.
Music by Francis Shaw
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
"with the voices of" poet Michael Ffinch, Rosalind Shanks, Elizabeth Morgan, Julie Hallam, Timothy Bateson, Stephen Thorne and David Timson
[Not drama although headlined as Theatre, mostly poetry.]
[Michael Ffinch was known as a poet]
19th December 1973
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Scented Garden by Pauline Spender
Producer: Richard Wortley
Isabel Burton: Barbara Jefford
Richard Burton (1859-1936): Cyril Shaps
Blanche Arundell: Julie Hallam
Mrs Arundell/Hagar: Diana Olsson
Lisa: Pauline Wynn
Doctor: David Sinclair
Father Pietro: Ronald Forfar
[The title is from one of the books (The Perfumed Garden) translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (not the actor). This program has Burton himself as the subject.]
19th December 1973:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Cleft Stick by R D Wingfield (1928-2007)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Joan Marlow: Diana Olsson
John Marlow: Vernon Joyner
Det-Sgt Jennings: Antony Viccars
Det-Supt Bishop: Douglas Blackwell
David Anakin: Rolf Lefebvre
Police Constable: Anthony Hall
Webber: Sam Dastor
Repeated 20th December 1973, 11st September 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
22nd December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Thirteen Clocks (1950) by James Thurber (1894-1961) adapted by Peter Fieldson.
Music by David Cain.
Music played by The Praetorius Consort
Special effects by BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Time is dead.
Producer: John Theocharis
Xingu, a minstrel: Nigel Lambert
Golux: Heron Carvic
The Duke: Paul Hardwick
Tosspot: Alan Dudley
Hark: Godfrey Kenton
Hagga: Pauline Wynn
Saralinda: Sandra Clark
Captain: David Sinclair
[Also produced by Stanley Williamson in 1956 with Deryck Guyler as Hark and Carleton Hobbs as Golux.]
22nd December 1973
16.05:
Jennings at School: Happy Christmas Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004).
The last day of the Christmas term.
Carols sung by the pupils of Chetham'S School. Manchester
Producer Herbert Smith
Editor Graham Gauld
Mr Wilkins: Anthony Buckeridge
Jennings: Mark Hadfield
Venables: Nigel Makin
Atkinson: Jeremy Clarkson
Darbishire: Stephen Jenkins
Temple: Jonathan Carp
Mr Carter: John Daglish
Headmaster: David Mahlowe
Matron: Juliet Cooke
Mr Macready: Geoffrey Banks
22nd December 1973
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Escape to Lhasa by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
A plane crashes.
Producer: John Tydeman
Martin Gilbert: Terry Scully
Valerie Nichols: Joanne David
Cmdr Straker: Rolf Lefebvre
Robert: Mary Morris
McCloud: Fraser Kerr
Losang: David Spenser
Ningha: Heather Emmanuel
Gulliver: Sam Dastor
Prison Governor: Timothy Bateson
Superintendent: Nigel Graham
Police Sergeant: David Timson
Lady Portland: Elizabeth Morgan
24th December 1973
20.00-21.30:
Monday Play: Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler adapted by Harley Granville-Barker
Vienna, 1890s.
Music composed and conducted by Herbert Chappell
Producer: Jane Graham
Arthur Schnitzler: Rolf Lefebvre
Max: Colin Baker
Anatol: Martin Jarvis
Hilda: Elizabeth Proud
Gabrielle: Valerie Sarruf
Bianca: Penny Dixon
Waiter/Franz: David Timson
Mimi: Julie Hallam
Elsa: Marian Diamond
Lona: Angela Pleasence
Repeated 30th December 1973
[This 1973 listing gives no indication which of the seven tales this play is taken from, possibly all seven.]
[Also produced by Glyn Dearman for R3 with Malcolm Sinclair as Anatol: 3 stories in 1987 (Fate Questioned; Christmas Shopping; Jewels and Memories); six in 1989 (Episode; Farewell Supper. Fate Questioned, Jewels and Memories, Agony, Anatol's Wedding Morning)]
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1955 with Hubert Gregg as Anatol (An Episode and A Farewell Supper)]
25th December 1973
15.00:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Producer: Anthony Cornish
Alice: Catherine Crutchley
White Rabbit/Cheshire Cat: Ian Richardson
The Caterpillar/ Pat/Dormouse: Frank Thornton
The King of Hearts: Cyril Luckham
The Mock Turtle/Lewis Carroll: Charles West
Mouse/Fish Footman/Mad Hatter: John Baddeley
Frog Footman: Simon Carter
Pigeon/Queen of Hearts: Rosemary Martin
Cook: George Woolley
DucheSS: Penelope Shaw
Bill/March Hare: Martin Friend
Alice's Sister: Jill Lidstone
25th December 1973
16.45-17.25:
Robin Hood adapted from the soundtrack of the 1973 Walt Disney film by Lyn Fairhurst.
Producer: John Dyas
Allan a Dale: Roger Miller
Prince John: Peter Ustinov
Sir Hiss: Terry Thomas
Robin Hood: Brian Bedford
Little John: Phil Harris
Friar Tuck: Andy Devine
The Sheriff: Pat Buttarm
Maid Marian: Monica Evans
Lady Kluck: Carole Shelley
[The film screenplay was attributed to seven writers]
25th December 1973
17.25-17.55 (Not the usual time)
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Tell Me True by Harry Green, radio episode 76 based upon television episode 131
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Repeated 22nd December 1973
[The character of Dr Finlay was created by A J Cronin in 1935 in his book "Country Doctor" about Finlay Hysop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor. Cronin was a doctor.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart]
26th December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: On the Second Day of Christmas by Ivor Wilson
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Forbes: Alan Rothwell
SUpt Thompson: Geoffrey Banks
Sgt Gray: Graham Roberts
Galloway: Ronald Baddiley
Brenda Bennett: Carole Hayman
Stan: Ronald Baddiley
Vince: Colin Edwynn
Mick: David Mahlowe
Mrs PottS: Patricia England
Commander: David Mahlowe
26th December 1973
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Treasure (1934) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Liane Aukin
Status.
Producer: Keith Williams
Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
Richard Harenger: Richard Hurndall
Pritchard: Gwen Watford
Superintendent: Ella Milne
Mrs Jeddy: Margot Boyd
Launder: Wilfrid Carter
Samuel Coalville: John Pullen
Dr Goscote: James Thomason
Sir William Chelsworth: Peter Pratt
Repeated from 6th and 7th August 1969
Repeated 27th December 1973
[Also produced by Wilfrid Grantham for Light in 1954 with Joan Matheson as Pritchard]
28th December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Letter from Tangier by Barbara Foxe
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
Richard: Robert Urquhart
Lena: Constance Chapman
George: Norman Tyrrell
The Usherette: Gillian Read
Julie: Deborah Dallas
Dave: Robin Browne
Repeated from 20th November 1971
29th December 1973
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Ratcliffe Highway by Roy Lomax
London 1811.
Producer: Harry Catlin
Jacob Gurney: Frederick Treves
Capt Hawkins: Clifford Norgate
Mr Bates: Brian Haines
Watchman: Alan Dudley
Joseph Starr: John Bull
Maggie: Elizabeth Revill
Mr Samuels: John Gabriel
Mr Cutler: Vernon Joyner
Printer's boy: Judy Bennett
Clerk: Terry Scully
Henry Starr: Sion Probert
Tindall: Peter Gordon
James Welch: John Hollis
Woman: Diana Bishop
[In London's East End, Ratcliffe Highway is now called just "The Highway".]
29th December 1973
20.30:
Saturday-NightTheatre: Hermit's Derby by Jonquil Antony (1911-1980) and Ursula Hanray (1923-1999)
1864
Producer: Betty Davies
Henry Chaplin (1840-1923): Neil Stacey
Lord Anglesey: Godfrey Kenton
Lady Florence (1842-1907): Maria Aitken
Harry Hastings (1842-1868): Gary Bond
Lady Orsett: Janet Burnell
Freddy Granville: Fraser Kerr
John Day, a trainer: David Sinclair
Cecilia Granville: Susan Edmondstone
Edith: Hilda Schroder
Johnstone: Nigel Graham
Fordham, a jockey: Alan Rowe
Captain Machell: Stephen Thorne
Bloss, a trainer: Frank Henderson
Johnny Daley, a jockey: Anthony Daniels
also with Betty Huntley-Wright, Sandra Clark, Sam Dastor
Repeated 31st December 1973
[Hermit (1864-1890) ran in the Epsom Derby (a horse race) in 1867]
[Henry Chaplin was engaged to Lady Florence Paget- and married a different Lady Florence: Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower.]
30th December 1973
19.02:
Lord Peter Wimsey: Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957), adapted by Chris Miller.
Part 1 of 5.
Producer: Simon Brett
Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
Bunter: Peter Jones
Dowager Duchess: Patricia Routledge
Inspector Parker: Gabriel Woolf
Mr Thipps: Norman Bird
Mrs Thipps: Betty Huntley-Wright
Inspector Sugg: Stephen Thorne
Serial repeated from 9th October 1974 (listed for 25th September 1974 but not broadcast) (not broadcast 2/10/74 due to Election) and from 28th June 1990
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019-2025]
[The 1923 book marked the first appearance of Wimsey.]
30th December 1973:
21.03-21.58:
David Copperfield (1849) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
Part one of 13.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
David Copperfield: John Pullen
Betsey Trotwood: Sylvia Coleridge
Clara Copperfield: Bonnie Hurren
Mr Chillip: Rolf Lefebvre
Young David: Judy Bennett
Peggotty: Eva Stuart
Mr Murdstone: Vernon Joyner
Mr Quinion: Manning Wilson
Mr Passnidge: David March
Ham Peggotty: Kerry Francis
Mr Peggotty: Edward Kelsey
Mrs Gummidge: Sheila Grant
Emily: Elizabeth Revill
Jane Murdstone: Kathleen Helme
Mr Barkis: David March
Each part repeated two days later.
31st December 1973
20.00
Monday Play: Holiday in Spala by Royce Ryton
Poland, 1912.
Producer: Norman Wright
Dowager Empress, Tsar's Mother: Margot Boyd
Tsar Nicholas II: Noel Johnson
Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden: Sonia Fraser
Grand Duchess Olga Nico Laevna: Patricia Gallimore
Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna: Rachel Gurney
Grand Duke Alexei Nicolaevich: Jo Manning Wilson
Dr Botkin: George Raistrick
Carol of Rumania: John Rye
Princess Radziwill: Hilda Kriseman
also with Deborah Dallas, Madi Hedd, Clifford Norgate, Elizabeth Proud, Hector Ross, Rita Staines, James Thomason
Repeated from 25th and 27th July 1970
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Compiled 2026 by Stephen Shaw
