BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1974

BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4
IN 1974
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1st January 1974
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Present from Father by Donald Bull (1913-1993).
Radio episode 77, based upon tv episode 28.
Producer: Not stated in BBC Programme Database.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Fanny Senlac: Faith Brook
   James Senlac: Henry Stamper
   Fiona Senlac: Bridget McConnell
   Ethel Ferguson: Katharine Pace
   Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
Repeated 3rd January 1974
[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.]
[Producer listed as Trafford Whitelock at http://www.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk/Radio_Detectives/gregorym101_finlayradio.html]


1st January 1974:
20.30-21.30
Dear and Honoured Lady. By Thea Holme (1904-1980).
Part 8 of 13.
The story of Queen Victoria.
Ballad arranged by Charles Chilton, sung by Charles Young accompanied by Anna Berenska. Producer Nesta Pain
Part 1 broadcast 6th November 1973
(No episode broadcast 25th December 1973- a Terence Rattigan play was broadcast at 20.00-21.30))
Part 13 broadcast 5th February 1974.
All parts repeated after three days.


2nd January 1974:
11.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Respighi Inheritance by D. G. Compton (1930-2023).
Producer: John Cardy
   Mr Salisbury: Jeremy Clyde
   Mrs Ermhr: Avis Bunnage
   Jennifer: Margaret Wedlake
   Mr Wilkins: Timothy Bateson
   
   
2nd January 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: An Old New Year by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Leeds.
   Major Upton: Wilfred Pickles
   Eddy: Ronald Baddiley
   Marion: Jean Boht
   Tom: Alan Rothwell
   Marjorie: Stephanie Turner
   Mrs Cookson: Eileen Derbyshire
   Mr Swinside: Ronald Herdman
   Lucy: Cleone Rive
   Justin: Tony Robinson
   The Pianist: Trevor Holroyd


2nd January 1974:
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Friend by Carl Hughes.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Major Key: Brian Haines
   Insp Richardson: Manning Wilson
   Chief Supt Anstey: Terry Scully
   Sgt Harrison: James Hayes
   Georgia Smith: Valerie Verdon
   Norman/Mr Ormond: Charles Simon
   Terry Baker: David Timson
   Edna Worth: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Jean Baker: Pauline Letts
   Gillian Baker: Jane Knowles
   Dr French: Leslie Pitt
Repeated 3rd January 1974


5th January 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Who Needs Money? by K. Allen Saddler.
Redundant.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Sam: Nigel Stock
   Bill: Norman Tyrrell
   Mabel: Peggy Ann Wood
   Jerry: David Gooderson
   Big Ears: David Ponting
   Michael: Colin Fisher
   Peter: Jullan Barnes
   Atkinson: Ronald Russell
   Benny: John Baddeley


5th January 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971) by Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) adapted by James Duckett.
   Mrs Palfrey: Jean Anderson
   Mr Osmond: Ralph Truman
   Mrs Post: Peggy Hughes
   Mrs Arbuthnot: Noel Hood
   Mrs Burton: Margot Boyd
   Lady Swayne: Penelope Shaw
   Mrs de Salis: Josephine Scott-Matthews
   Ludo: Tony Robinson
   Rosie: Jacqueline Morgan
   Desmond: Darryl Kavann
   Mr Wilkins: David King
   Antonio: George Woolley
   Sister: Penelope Shaw
   Elizabeth: Janet Whiteside
Repeated 7th January 1974
   
   
6th January 1974:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: He Had a Date (1943) by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
An elegy for a friend killed at sea in the early days of the war.
Producer: R. D. Smith
   Tom: Denys Hawthorne
   Mother: Mary Wimbush
   Father: John Dearth
   Mrs Arrow: Nicolette Bernard
   Annie: Lynn Carson
   Flaherty: Allan McLelland
   Harringer: Nigel Anthony
   Terry: Tim Seely
   Striker: Norman Wynne
   Tutor: Geoffrey Wincott
   Jane: Chrys Salt
   Elsie: Cecile Chevreau
   Mary: Margaret Gordon
   Officer of the Watch: Basil Jones
   Duncan: Duncan McIntyre
   Company Commander: Anthony Jacobs
Also with Raf De La Torre, Noel Howlett, Wilfred Babbage, Joe Sterne, Geoffrey Matthews
Repeated from 17th October 1966, 9th April 1972


6th January 1974:
19.02-19.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-14957) , adapted by Chris Miller
Episode 2 of 5.
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Bunter: Peter Jones
   Inspector Parker: Gabriel Woolf
   Freddy Arbuthnot: Nigel Lambert
   John P Milligan: Blain Fairman
   Graves/Waiter/Scoot: Peter Williams
   Mabel Price: Betty Huntley-Wright
Part 1 was broadcast 30th December 1973
Part 5 was broadcast 27th January 1974
The series of five episodes was repeated from 9th October 1974.
Also repeated commencing 28th June 1990
[Also broadcast on R4X 2019-2025]
[Whose Body? was the first of the Wimsey novels]


6th January 1974:
21.03-21.58:
David Copperfield (1849) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
Part 2 of 13.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
   David Copperfield: John Pullen
   Young David: Judy Bennett
   William: Anthony Hall
   Mr Mell: Fraser Kerr
   Tungay: David Sinclair
   Mr Creakle/Mr Barkis: David March
   James Steerforth: Nigel Anthony
   Mr Peggotty: Edward Kelsey
   Ham Peggotty: Kerry Francis
   Clara Copperfield: Bonnie Hurren
   Peggotty: Eva Stuart
   Mr Murdstone: Vernon Joyner
   Jane Murdstone: Kathleen Helme
   Mrs Creakle: Sandra Clark
   Mr Omer: Nigel Graham
   Minnie Omer: Elizabeth Morgan
Part 1 broadcast 30th December 1973
Part 13 broadcast 24th March 1973
Each part was repeated after two days except part 13, repeated after five days (due to The Budget taking its place on day 2). The usual repeats were in the afternoon- the last part was repeated in the morning.


7th January 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Room for Argument (La Ragione degli Altri (1915)) by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed
Producer Glyn Dearman
   Guglielmo Groa: Carleton Hobbs
   Leonardo Arciani: Ian Richardson
   Livia Arciani: Eileen Atkins
   Elena Ortigera: Jill Balcon
   Cesare D'Albis: Jack May
   Dina: Helen Worth
   Ducci: Anthony Daniels
   Printer: Brian Haines
Repeated 13th January 1974
[This was the English premier of Pirandello's first full-length play]


8th January 1974
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Safety in Numbers by Harry Green.
Radio episode 78, based upon tv episode 123.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Lady Kitty Knox: Madeleine Christie
   Matron Vera Johnson: Elizabeth Morgan
   Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
   Provost: James Thomason
   Molly: Kate Coleridge
   Olwen: Jo Manning Wilson
   Mr Grieve: David Sinclair
   Dulcie/Maid: Sara Coward
Repeated 10th January 1974
[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.]


9th January 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Developer by Peter F. Ferguson
Producer Anthony Cornish
   Wilf: John Malcolm
   Benny: Ralph Lawton
   John: George Woolley
   James: John Forrest
   Williams: Simon Carter
   Harry: Lee Johns


9th January 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Portrait of Jennie (1940) by Robert Nathan (1894-1985) adapted by Michael Voysey
Slipping through time.
Producer Margaret Etall
   Eben Adams: Kerry Francis
   Jennie: Julie Hallam
   Mathews: Brian Haines
   Miss Spinney: Joan Miller
   Mrs Jukes: Diana Olsson
   Fred: Neville Jason
   Gus: Alfred Hoffman
   Moore: Vernon Joyner
   Arne: Anthony Daniels


9th January 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Take Your Medicine Like a Man (On purge Bebe(1910)) by Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) translated and adapted by Peter Meyer
Paris, about 1910.
Producer Glyn Dearman
   the wife/ Jurie: Jill Bennett
   the husband/ Follavoine: John Osborne
   Toto, their son: Jean England
   Adele, their maid: Sandra Clark
   Chouilloux: Maurice Denham
   Madame Chouilloux: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Truchet: Timothy Bateson
Repeated 10th January 1974


12th January 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Return Ticket by Geoffrey Hays
England seems a hostile place
Producer John Cardy
   Railway clerk: Sion Probert
   Porter: Nigel Graham
   David Shafique: Renu Setna
   Major Whitelaw: Lockwood West
   Helen: Adrienne Corri
   Cyril: Rolf Lefebvre
   Police Sgt: Stephen Thorne
Also with Julie Hallam


12th January 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Draw Batons (1973) by Bill Knox (1928-1999)
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
   Insp Moss: Gerard Slevin
   Chief Insp Thane: Paul Kermack
   Supt Ilford: Martin Cochrane
   Dan Laurence: Willy Joss
   Sgt Lang: Robert Docherty
   Sgt Macleod: Charles Kearney
   PC Beech: Michael Bruce
   Davidson: Alex Norton
   Frank Walsh: John Shedden
   Jarrold Walsh: Bryden Murdoch
   Tracy Walsh: Virginia Stark
   Ruth Blantyre: Mary Riggans
   Don Blantyre: Tan Dewar
   Rose: Jennifer Angus
   John Randolph: Arthur Boland
Repeated 14th January 1974
[Bill Knox wrote many books featuring Inspector Thane, several were dramatised and broadcast]


14th January 1974
19.30-21.29
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Music composed by David Cain with special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Produced By: John Powell
   Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon: Ronald Allen
   Claudio, the Prince's favourite: Martin Jarvis
   Benedick, likewise favoured: Paul Daneman
   Don Balthasar: Nigel Lambert
   Don John: Heron Carvic
   Borachio: John Pullen
   Conrade: David Valla
   Leonato: Cecil Parker
   Antonio, his elder brother: Malcolm Hayes
   Hero, his daughter: Perlita Neilson
   Beatrice, his niece: Fenella Fielding
   Margaret: Margaret Wolfit
   Ursula: Madi Hedd
   Dogberry: Ralph Richardson
   Verges: Richard Goolden
   Hugh Oatcake: John Bryning
   George Seacole: Garard Green
   The Sexton: Brian Haines
   Friar Francis: Charles Simon
[A shortened version of 19th September 1969 rptd 2nd November 1969 production- 150 minutes on R3]
[Also produced by Jane Dauncey in 1993 with Michael Maloney as Benedick]
[Also produced by Sally Avens in 2001, rptd 2005, for R3 with David Tennant as Benedick (135 minutes) ]


15th January 1974
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Cry Wolf by Jan Read, adapted by Pat Dunlop.
Radio episode 79, based upon tv episode 25.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Dr Sneddic: Eric Woodburn
   Gourlay: Hector Ross
   Mrs Gourlay: Phyllida Law
   Chisholm: Robert Trotter
   Mr Laird/Connor: Duncan McIntyre
Repeated 17th January 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


16th January 1974:
11.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cerdic and the Outside World by J. C. W. Brook.
Circus.
Producer: Chris Barlas
   Cerdic: Peter Cleall
   Frank/Head waiter/Judge: Timothy Bateson
   Bob/ Jailer/Basement: Anthony Daniels
   Erasmus P Opplehymer/Clerk/ News reader: John Grillo
   Police Sgt/Doctor/Jarvis: Ronald Herdman
   Sally/Janet Legh: Miriam Margolyes
   Landlady / Interviewer / Girl: Antonia Pemberton
   Cerdic's father/Foreman/Inspector: Bryan Pringle
   Ad-man / Tim Battersley/ Jury foreman: Terry Scully


16th January 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Trip to My Sister Ruth by Brian Lee
Wounded in Korea, in a hospital in Japan.
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Graham Simpson: David Timson
   Orderly: Nigel Graham
   Dr Rowlands: Stuart Damon
   Major Gort: Phil Brown
   Capt Remick: Paul Maxwell
   Sally Green: Pamela Roland
   Male nurse: William Sleigh
   Gail Camelot/Graham as a boy: Julie Hallam
   Ruth: Bonnie Hurren
   Mr Simpson: Manning Wilson


16th January 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Long Time Age by Charles Dennis
Madeline Anne disappeared ten years ago.
Producer Roger Pine
   Abigail Norton: Katherine Parr
   Geoffrey Lovell: Martin Friend
   Det-Con Tim: Woolcott Johnbull
   Doctor: David Timson
   Madeline Anne: Rosaslind Adams
   Sgt Bert Kingston: Wilfrid Carter
   Cregar: John Bryning
Repeated 17th January 1974.


19th January 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Glorious '79 by P. Tranter
Producer John Scotney
   Acton/'B'/Williams: Fraser Kerr
   Admiral Sir Charles Hardy: Douglas Blackwell
   Sir John Ross: Peter Humphreys
   Lord Mulgrave: John Rye
   Earl of Sandwich: Gerald Cross
   Lieut Wood: Peter Yapp
   Judy: Pamela Binns
   Capt Kempenfell: James Beattie
   Narrator: Alan Barry
   Gen Monckton/Sailor: John Bull
   Seaman/Fisherman/Foster: Robert Gladwell
   A/Masthead/Montagu: Anthony Daniels


19th January 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Suckling (1969) by Geraldine Symons (1909-1996) dramatised by John Richmond
Childhood imagination and death.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Sebastian Suckling: Kevin Flood
   Rose, his wife: Eva Haddon
   Hattie,their daughter: Helen Worth
   Madame: Cecile Chevreau
   M le Docteur/Man in cafe: Gareth Armstrong
   Francoise: Elizabeth Proud
   Hospital Sister/Nana: Shirley Dixon
   John St Aubrey: Alan Rowe
   'Baby' his daughter: Elizabeth Proud
   Picard/Constable: Sam Castor
   Jacques/Man in cafe: Anthony Daniels
Repeated 21st January 1974
   
   
20th January 1974
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Jonathan by Alan Melville (1910-1983)
Jerusalem around 1000 BC.
Producer: Norman Wright
   Ahitophel: Noel Howlett
   Nathan: Raf De La Torre
   Jonadab: John Rye
   Joab: Humphrey Morton
   Michal: Betty Huntley-Wright
   David: John Justin
   Bathsheba: Elizabeth Sellars
   Uriah: Victor Lucas
Repeated from 1st August 1966
   
   
21st January 1974:
19.30:
The Monday Play: The Great Gun-Running Episode by Bill Morrison (1940-2011)
Shipping guns to Northern Ireland.
Producer: Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   Major Crawford: Ray McAnally
   Captain Falck: Harold Goldblatt
   Captain Agnew: Barry Keegan
   Schneider: Allan McClelland
   Fanny: Elizabeth Proud
   Ruth: Frances Tomelty
   Mary: Heather Gibson
   Roger: Sean Barrett
   Sir Edward Carson: Kevin Flood
   Craig: Godfrey Quigley
   Benny Spiro: Kevin McHugh
   Spender: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated 21st June 1976


22nd January 1974
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Made For Each Other by Barry Thomas, adapted by Pat Dunlop.
Radio episode 80, based upon tv episode 185.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Ian Webster: David Gooderson
   Alice Webster: Gudrun Ure
   Charles Fordyce: Antony Higginson
   Ellen Fordyce: Audrey Muir
   Jess Fordyce: Sandra Clark
Repeated 24th January 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


23rd January 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Corner by Alistair Walker
Macbeth on stage and real life equivalents.
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
   Peter: Gwyneth Guthrie
   Father: Robert Trotter
   Mother: Caroline Grant
   Mr Boon: John Young
   Mr Rutherford: E J P Mace
   Macbeth: Lawrence Douglas
   Macduff: Tony Roper
   Malcolm: Gerard Slevin Jr
   Lady Macduff: June Andrews


23rd January 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Short-Sighted Optimist by Hugh Steadman Williams (1935-2016)
An old grammar school teacher.
Producer: Betty Davies
   George Morris: Wilfred Pickles
   Maude, his wife: Betty Baskcomb
   Sir Stanley Picton: Godfrey Kenton
   Cliff, his son: Peter Pacey
   Bert: David Sinclair
   Madge, Sir Stanley's secretary: Diana Bishop
   Schoolboys:
   Martin Brooks: Anthony Daniels
   Greg Holden: Sion Probert
   Bickerstaff: Sam Dastor


23rd January 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Affection Unlimited by Julian Symons.(1912-1994)
Producer: Norman Wright
   Mary Andrews,: Cecile Chevreau
   Evelyn Payton: Marjorie Westbury
   Mr Spruce: John Porter-Davison
   Harry Graham: Francis de Wolff
   Major Owen: Peter Williams
   Mrs Owen: Eva Stuart
   Mr Ramsay: Michael Harbour
   Mrs Page: Eva Stuart
Repeated from 3rd April 1968
Repeated 24th January 1974


25th January 1974:
11.05-11.50
The Sun King (1966) by Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) adapted by Alan Melville.
Part 1 of 3.
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: Cllve Swift
   le Vau: Fraser Kerr
   le Brun: John Forrest
   Mme Scarron: Gudrun Ure
   Mme Voisin: Sandra Clark
   Mme de Bouillon: Bonnie Burren
   Due du Maine: David Timson
Repeated from 3rd July 1973


26th January 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Tree by David Spenser (1934-2013)
A large tree in the way of progress.
Producer: John Tydeman
   George Bratton: Rolf Lefebvre
   Lucy, his wife: Joan Matheson.
   Harvey, their son: Anthony Daniels
   Diana Winslade: Sarah Craze
   Reg Fowler: Fraser Kerr
   Evelyn Wasslow: Diana Olsson
   Stan Wasslow: Lewis Stringer
   The Vicar: William Sleigh
   Miss Simpson: Sandra Clark
   Jim: John Bull
   Bill: Sion Probert
Repeated 16th April 1976


26th January 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Goodbye Forever by Malcolm Stewart
Producer Harry Catlin
   Reggie: John Stride
   Hazel: Julie Hallam
   Avril: Elizabeth Morgan
   Bert: Timothy Bateson
   Cynthia: Christine Finn
   Richard: Michael Spice
   Maisie: Barbara Mitchell
   Brenda: Diana Olsson
Repeated 28th January 1974


27th January 1974:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Holly and the Ivy (1950) by Wynyard Browne (1911-1964), adapted by Peggy Wells and Raymond Raikes
A country vicarage. 1950.
Producer Martin Jenkins
   David: John Samson
   Jenny: Jane Knowles
   Martin: Stephen Murray
   MiCk: Geoffrey Beevers
   Bridget: Shelagh Fraser
   Lydia: Nora Nicholson
   Richard: William Fox
   Margaret: Isobel Black
Repeated from 11th December 1971
Repeated 24th December 1983
[Also produced in 1951 by Hugh Stewart and in 1954 by Raymond Raikes]
[Also produced by Polly Thomas in 2005 with Eve Best as Jenny]


28th January 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Dark is Light Enough by Christopher Fry
Producer: Jane Graham
   Jakob: Sam Dastor
   Kassel: Alan Rowe
   Belmann: John Gabriel
   Stefan: John Moulder-Brown
   Bella: Diana Bishop
   Willi: Careth Armstrong
   Gelda: Jane Lapotaire
   Richard Gettner: Ian Holm
   Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg: Pamela Brown
   Colonel Janik: Hugh Dickson
   Count Peter Zichy: Peter Jeffrey
   Soldier: Kerry Francis
   First guard: Terry Scully
   Second guard: Anthony Hall
Repeated 3rd February 1974, 13th October 1975
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1968 with John Hollis as Jakob.]


29th January 1974
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Will to Live by N. J. Crisp (1923-2005) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 81, based upon tv episode 172
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Bruce Sanders: Simon Lack
   Mrs Gale: Molly Weir
   Mr Gale: Geoffrey Matthews
   Robbie: Jon Croft
   Dr Frazer: John Samson
   Jess Fordyce: Sandra Clark
Repeated 31st January 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


30th January 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: See the Pretty Lights by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
Producer Alfred Bradley
   Norman: David Jarrett
   Enid: Pamela Craig
Repeated from 1966 (Home North) and 8th April 1968.


30th January 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Infant by Paul Ableman (1927-2006)
Artificial intelligence.
Producer Roger Pine
   Edmund Gallagher: Michael Spice
   Wendy: Diana Bishop
   John Daz: Madhav Sharma
   Beatle Watson: Geoffrey Collins
   Virginia Crane: Frances Jeater
   Matthew Kale: Brian Haines
   Computer: Michael Harbour


30th January 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Night of the Cobra by Peter F. Ferguson
Producer: Anthony Cornish
   Harry: John Malcolm
   Dora: Jane Freeman
   Judy: Heather Barrett
   Alan: Alan Devereux
   Referee: George Woolley
   Lou: Linal Haft
   Woman: Nancy Gower
   Commentator: David Fleeshman
   Barty: Graham Weston
Repeated 31st January 1974


2nd February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Deadly Wit by William Smethurst.
Set in the early 18th century.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
   Jonathan Swift: David King
   John Partridge: Ronald Herdman
   Mr Yalden: George Woolley
   Mr Willis: Richard Carrington
   Patrick: Gareth Armstrong
   Hugo: Bernard Finch
   Mrs Partridge: Patricia Greene
   Mr Aylmer: Frank Moorey
   Polly: Elizabeth Revill
   Mr Dodd: David Fleeshman
also with Anthony Howden


2nd February 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Letter from Paris (1952) by Dodie Smith (1896-1990), based on The Reverbrator (1888) by Henry James (1843-1916).
Producer: Betty Davies
   Gaston Probert: John Standing
   Charles Waterlow: John Rowe
   George Flack: Ed Bishop
   Delia Dosson: Toby Robbins
   Mr Dosson: Ramsay Williams
   Francie Dosson: Bonnie Hurren
   Suzanne de Brecourt: Madi Hedd
   Marguerite de Cliche: Cecile Chevreau
   Maxime de Cliche: David Timson
   Mr Probert: Godfrey Kenton
   Alphonse de Brecourt: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 4th February 1974
[Also produced in 1956 by Mary Hope Allen with David Peel as Gaston.]


3rd February 1974:
19.02-19.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-14957) , adapted by Peter Jones and Tania Lieven
Episode 1 of 8.
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Bunter: Peter Jones
   Duke of Denver: James Villiers
   Insp Parker: Gabriel Woolf
   Coroner: James Thomason
   Lady Mary Wimsey: Maria Aitken
   Freddy Arbuthnot: Nigel Lambert
   Miss Cathcart: Betty Cardno
   Pettigrew-Robinson: Bill Wallis
   Hardraw/Cooper/Waiter: Sean Arnold
Part 8 was broadcast 24th March 1974
The series was rebroadcast commencing 13th November 1974.
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2005-2024]



4th February 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Red Cockerel Crows by Henry Livings (1929-1998) (freely adapted from Der rote Hahn (1901) by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) )
Producer: Alfred Bradley
Leeds
   Feeley: Wilfred Pickles
   Mrs Feeley: Kathleen Relme
   Wilshaw: David Mahlowe
   Rackstraw: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Leontine: Susan Littler
   Lutman: Geoffrey Hinsliff
   Ede: Henry Livings
   Burman: Bernard Gallagher
   Mrs Scholes: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Goston/Gus: Tony Robinson
   Simmonds/Scholes: Brian Miller
Repeated 10th February 1974
(The English version of the original play is known as The Conflagration)


5th February 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: No Subsidy for Sin by Harry Green
Radio episode 82, based upon tv episode 97
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
   Mrs Annie Laurie: Dorothy Smith
   Willie Gillespie: Malcolm Hayes
   Brewster: Archie Duncan
   Mistress Bell: Audrey Muir
   Blandie: David Sinclair
Repeated 7th February 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


6th February 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Lavished with Care by Jean Miller
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Lucy: Carole Boyer
   Mrs Tate: Margot Boyd
   Nurse: June Barrie
   Gilbert: Paul Nicholson
   George: Esmund Rideout
   
   
6th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sorcery by Laurence Grafftey-Smith (1892-1989)
1960:A honeymoon cruise.
Producer David H. Godfrey
   Richard Lorimer: Manning Wilson
   Mary Lorimer: Margaret Robertson
   Mrs Moffat: Madi Hedd
   Tony Cairns: Stephen Thorne
   Sitt Zeinab: Miriam Margolyes
   Mansour: Elizabeth Morgan
   Shaikha: Betty Huntley-Wright


6th February 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Alibi by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Sammy Beckett: David Horovitch
   Brian Haines: Murray Brown
   Det-Insp Roberts: Manning Wilson
   Det-Con Thorpe: John Bull
   Sandra: Elizabeth Morgan
   Memory: Godfrey Kenton
   Tiny Wells: Timothy Bateson
   PC Carver: Alan Rowe
   Ginger: William Sleigh
   Police voice: Nigel Graham
   Platt: Fraser Kerr
   Davy: Brian Hall
   Brent: Nigel Graham
   Bob: Gordon Griffin
Repeated 7th February 1974


9th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Shoot by Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010)
Deer poaching.
Producer Keith Slade
   Lee Montague: Christopher Porter
   Jennie: Julie Hallam
   Bruce Morgan: Peter Pacey
   David Dalton: John Hollis
   Fiona Dalton: Eva Haddon
   Grant: Gareth Armstrong
   Menzies: Leo Maguire
   Turner: David Collings
   Ian Walker: Edward Cast
   Annie: Hilda Schroder
   Ticket Collector/Guard: Sam Dastor


9th February 1974
16.30:
Smoke over Shap by Margaret Potter (1926-1998).
Part 1 of 6: Into Hazard.
Producer: Trevor Hillfile
   Gerard Gifford, a young surveyor: Struan Rodger
   Rev Josiah Linwood: Tom Harrison
   Bella, his daughter: Merle Kessler
   Ralph Rawlings, squire: Bruce Bould
   Joady, a Westmorland farmer: Hugh Wright
   Sairey, his wife: Julia Lang
   Maggie, Housekeeper: Joan Anstey
   Mr Nathan Raphael: Geoffrey Banks
   Thomas Brassey: David Mahlowe
   Chairman at the Kendal meeting: Graham Roberts
Part 6 broadcast 16th March 1974


9th February 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Find Tony by John Kirkmorris
Producer Jane Graham
   Walsh: Clive: Swift
   Mrs Beck: Peggy Aitchison
   Polly Parker: Gillian McCutcheon
   Colonel Herbert: Stephen Thorne
   Barman: John Bull
   Meeker: Kerry Francis
   Sgt McNair: William Eedle
   Porter: Alan Rowe
   Karen Herbert: Stagey Tendeter (1949-2008)
   Insp Crane: Brian Haines
Repeated 11th February 1974.


11th February 1974:
The Playboy of the Western World (1907) by J. M. Synge (1871-1909) adapted by W. R. Rodgers.
Set in Ireland.
Producer: Brian Miller
   Narrator: P G Stephens
   Pegeen Mike: Sorcha Cusack
   Shawn Keogh: Alaric Cotter
   Michael James: P G Stephens
   Jimmy Farrell: Harry Webster
   Philly Cullen: Alan Hockey
   Christy Mahon: Declan Harvey
   Widow Quin: Olive McFarland
   Susan: Moira Hamilton
   Honor: Josephine Crawford
   Sara: June Barrie
   Mahon: Godfrey Quigley
Also with Rex Holdsworth, Mollie Petrie, Hubert Tucker
Repeated 17th Februaru 1974
[Other productions: Year/Producer/Actor playing Shawn/Sean:
1959/Noel Iliff/Denis Carey
1966 rptd 1971, 1977/Ronald Mason/Milo O'Shea
1997/Peter Kavanagh/Lloyd Hutchinson.]
[The opening night of this dark play led to rioting; opening in New York produced vegetables and stink bombs....in Philadelphia the cast was arrested for staging an immoral play... the inspiration of the play was said to be a sadistic brutal criminal who was protected by his community and finally found sanctuary in the USA where it was ruled that torturing and severely disfiguring a woman was a political act.]
[First broadcast in 1928, when described as a "comedy".]


12th February 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Taste of Dust by John Cross adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 83, based upon tv episode 2
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
   Rab Hendry: Jack Lambert
   [BBC Database cast list corrupted]
   Mrs Scott: Dorothy Smith
   David Kerr: Fraser Kerr
   John Logan: Gordon Faith
Repeated 14th February 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


13th February 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tiger by Derek Raby
Producer Betty Davies
   The Tiger: Norman Shelley
   The Child: Judy Bennett
Also with Nigel Graham, Anthony Hall, Diana Bishop
Repeated 1st May 1976


13th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Epic By Allan Surtees (1924-2000)
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Shirley: Jane Collins
   David: David Lincoln
   American Narrator: David Mahlowe
   English Narrator: John Linstrum
   Manager: David Jackson
   Bessie: Gillian Hanna
   Attendant: Sylvia Brayshay
   Harry: Richard Ireson
   Mr Brimble: Graham Roberts
   Mrs Brimble: Audrey Barr


13th February 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: No Frontiers for the Captain by Alick Rowe
Producer Richard Wortley
   Bellowes: Henry Stamper
   Whitney: William Sleigh
   Liz: Frances Jeater
   Chris: Nigel Anthony
   Nancy: Bonnie Hurren
   Frieda: Elizabeth Morgan
   Terry: Peter Pacey
   LeS: Fraser Kerr
   Tim: Alaric Cotter
   Geoff: Terry Scully
   Paul: Stephen Kemble
   Robin: Anthony Daniels
Repeated 14th February 1974


15th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Alien Corn (1931) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Eric Ewens
Judaism.
Pianist Paul Hamburger
Producer Archie Campbell
   the storyteller: Alan Wheatley
   Ferdy Rabenstein: John Wyse
   Sir Adolphus Bland: Cyril Luckham
   Muriel his wife: Grizelda Hervey
   George, their son: Martin Jarvis
also with Hilda Kriseman, Frederick Treves
Repeated from 29th March 1969, 23rd October 1971


16th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Three-Cornered Hat (1874) by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon (1833-1891) translated and dramatised by Ragan Butler
She doesn't understand me.
Producer Margaret Etall
   Lucas, the miller: John Hollis
   Frasquita, his wife: Christina Gray
   Don Eugenio, the Governor: David March
   Dona Mercedes,his wife: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Bastian,the Bailiff: Sion Probert
   Tofiuelo: David Timson
   Juan Lopez, the Mayor of Rinconcillo: Peter Cochran
   Conchita: Diana Bishop
[Original title="El sombrero de tres picos". Reworked as a ballet 1919.]


16th February 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Secretary Bird (1968) by William Douglas Home (1912-1992) Adapted by John G. Pitman
Producer Roger Pine
   Frederick Treves: Hugh Walford
   Liz Watford: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mrs Grav: Katherine Para
   Molly Forsyth: Caroline John
   John Brownlow: John Rowe
Repeated 18th February 1974
[Also produced by Ian Cotterall in 1985 rptd 1986 with Sheila Gish as Liz.]


18th February 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Old Man (1915*) by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) translated by Michael Glenny
Provincial Russia at the turn of the century.
Producer John Tydeman
   Ivan Mastakov: Freddie Jones
   Pavel, his stepson: Terry Scully
   Tanya, his stepdaughter: Julie Hallam
   Zakharovna, a cook: Margot Boyd
   Stepanych, a watchman: Anthony Hall
   Sofia Markovna, a widow: Maxine Audley
   Yakim Kharitonov: Timothy Bateson
   Yakov, his nephew: Anthony Daniels
   Nikita Semyonov: Gareth Armstrong
   The Old Man: Alan Webb
   Marina: Elizabeth Revill
Repeated 24th February 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017]
]The first production in English of this play]
[*The play was written in 1915, revised 1922 and 1924. Also known as The Judge.]


19th February 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The True Lochiel by Robin Baker and Rachel Grieve, adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 84, based upon tv episode 47.
Haemophilia
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Bruce Buchanan: Fraser Kerr
   Morag: Christina Gray
   Angus Macleod: Malcolm Hayes
   Sgt Gilbey; Mr Abernethy: Duncan McIntyre
Repeated 21st February 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


20th February 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: From the North by Cicely Rowland
Producer John G. Pitman
   Tom: Judy Bennett
   Miss Fry: Sheila Grant
   Fred: Julie Hallam
   Kelly: Miriam Margolyes
   Gran: Kathleen Helme
   Neighbour: Diana Bishop
   Miss Carter: Mary Wimbush
   Mrs Price: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Constable: Manning Wilson
   
   
20th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Two's a Crowd by Tony Holland (1940-2007)
Mr Bannister is lonely.
Producer Colin Tucker
   Mr Bannister: Deryck Guyler
   Ewing: Malcolm Hayes
   Dr Singleton: Timothy Bateson
   Mr Cox: Fraser Kerr
   Hepworth/Sergent: Manning Wilson
   Florrie: Pat Keen
   Betty/Miss Baxter: Elizabeth Morgan
   Tom/Chivers: Gareth Armstrong
   
   
20th February 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Night Run to the West (1957) by H. E. Bates (1905-1974) adapted by Antony Kearey
Producer John Theocharis
   Lisa: Freda Dowie
   Charlie: Dennis Waterman
   Broderick: Malcolm Hayes
   Cafe woman: Hazel Coppen
   Mechanic: William Sleigh
Repeated from 18th and 19th October 1972


21st February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Four Days to Kill by Robert Barr (1849-1912)
Part 1 of 6. The Fortress
Producer Charles Maxwell
   Jim Nicholson: Edward De Souza
   Paul O'Donnell: Geoffrey Frederick
   The Commander: Gerald Cross
   Colonel Doyle: Frederick Treves
   Sara Gale: Kate Binchy
   Lt Farrell: Geoffrey Collins
   Sgt Kelly: Derek Seaton
Series first broadcast commencing 13th May 1973.
[The character Jim Nicholson also appeared in: "The Dark Island", "Return to the Islands", ]



22nd February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Pool (1921) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), adapted by Eric Ewens
Producer Ronald Mason
   Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
   Lawson: Henry Stamper
   Ethel: Jumoke Debayo
   Chaplin: John Bentley
   Miller: Francis De Wolff
   Nelson: Arthur Cox
   Minister: Ian Dewar
   Elder: Duncan McIntyre
   Mrs McFie: Betty Hardy
Repeated from 8th January 1969


23rd February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bread upon the Waters by Ivor Wilson
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   J K Kingsley: David Mahlowe
   Harriet Kingsley: Barbara Mullaney
   Malcolm Kingsley: Alan Rothwell
   Christine Carter: Elaine Donnelly
   Andrew Carter: John Instrum
   Sam Connors: George Malpas
   Sir Herbert Long: Geoffrey Banks
   Pat Brown: Carole Turner
   Pianist: Trevor Holroyd


23rd February 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Pursuit of Love (1945) by Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) adapted by Alan Melville
Affairs of the Heart.
Producer Norman Wright
   Lord Radlett: Rolf Lefebvre
   Lady Radlett: Joan Matheson
   Fanny: Susan Maudslay
   Linda: Jane Knowies
   Matt: Brian Hewlett
   Captain Davey Warbeck: Godfrey Kenton
   Emily: Joan Hart
   Tony Kroesig: Michael Spice
   Lord Merlin: John Rye
   Bessie: Olwen Griffiths
   Mrs Fletcher: Barbara Mitchell
   The Bolter: Cecile Chevreau
Also with: Sion Probert, George Raistrick, Alan Rowe and William Sleigh
Repeated 25th February 1974
[Sequels to the novel were: "Love in a Cold Climate" and "Don't tell Alfred". There is a cross link of characters with the novel "The Blessing".]


25th February 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: This Sporting Life (1960) by David Storey (1933-2017) adapted by Malcolm And Elizabeth Bradbury
Professional rugby league.
Producer Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Arthur Machin: Brian Cox
   Dai: Raymond Llewellyn
   George Wade: George Woolley
   Maurice Braithewaite: Bernard Holley
   Johnson: Graham Rigby
   Weaver: John Sharp
   Dentist/Referee: Anthony Benson
   Mrs Hammond: Linda Polan
   Riley: Harry Markham
   Philips: Alan Devereux
   Clinton: Terry Molloy
   Mrs Weaver: Marigold Sharman
   Mr Machin: Harry Markham
   Mrs Machin: Joyce Latham
   Judith: Jill Lidstone
   Slomer: Philip Garston-Jones
   Mag: Heather Barrett
   Mayor: Ralph Lawton
   Doctor: Peter Clark
Repeated 3rd March 1974
[Also produced in 2 parts by Susan Roberts in 2001 with Russell Dixon as Johnson.]
[Also produced by Sally Harrison in 2018 for R4X with James Purefoy as Arthur.]
[David Storey was a rugby player for Leeds]


26th February 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Builders by Martin Worth adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 85, based upon tv episode 179.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Sir Roderick Elliot: Mark Dignam
   Lady Elliot: Avice Landon
   David: Lovell David Gooderson
   Gordon Lovell: Tom Watson
   Mrs Lovell: Dorothy Smith
   Archie: Hugh Ross
Repeated 28th February 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


27th February 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sound of the Planet Dissolving by Anne Leaton (1932-2016)
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
   Madeleine: Molly Veness
   Mr Snow: Carleton Hobbs
   Jasper: Rolf Lefebvre
   Dr Osprey: Vernon Joyner
   Gant: Nigel Graham


27th February 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Halfway Home by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
Producer Martin Jenkins
   Mr Barry: George Pensotti
   Trevor Vines: Len Jones
   Deborah Maxwell: Judy Franklin
   Simon Maxwell: Geoffrey Matthews
   Gillian Bracknell: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Finney: Brian Haines
   Timothy Bracknell: Vernon Joyner
   Beryl: Diana Olsson


27th February 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Balance Brought Forward by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Producer Harry Catlin
   Det Sgt Bettey: Manning Wilson
   Tom Green: David Timson
   Shirley: Karen Archer
   Skinner: Aubrey Woods
   Peter Fussell: Peter Williams
   Perry: Rolf Lefebvre
   Mary Fussell: Gudrun Ure
   Robson: Fraser Kerr
Repeated 13th November 1974


2nd March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Healing Arts by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Denise Byrne: Patricia Denys
   Patrick Wills: Timothy Bateson
   Lavinia Abbot: Elaine Ives-Cameron
   Syrie Foster: Julie Hallam
   Tommy Thompsett: Vernon Joyner
   Edna: Lynette McMorrough
   Elsie: Katherine Parr
   Geoffrey: Nigel Anthony
Also with Nigel Graham


2nd March 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Riding Officer by Philip Barker
Riding officers were mounted excise men who dealt with smugglers- and invaders.
Producer Margaret Etall
   John Blakemore, the Riding Officer: David Timson
   Tich Meadows: Terry Scully
   Ma Meadows: Sheila Raynor
   Serena: Elizabeth Revill
   Buckskin Jack: Blain Fairman
   Longbow: Garrick Hagon
   Madame Zena: Diana Bishop
   Lolly Meadows: Sarah Grazebrook
   The Professor: William Sleigh
   Elizabeth Fraser: Liane Aukin
   Rufus Fraser: Godfrey Kenton
   Capt Etheridge: Vernon Joyner
   Trooper Woodman: Peter Cochran
   Woodman's wife: Diana Bishop
   Innkeeper: Sion Probert
Repeated 4th March 1974


4th March 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Hero who Played the Cornet by Daniel Katz. Translated by Kevin O'Malley from Renaud Rosset's French version of the Finnish original
Piano Anna Berenska; Cornet Michael Laird; Accordion Gerald Crossman.
Galkine's song composed by Peter Greenwell
Producer Betty Davies
   Benno: Leonard Fenton
   Vera: Eleanor Bron
   Lena: Nerys Hughes
   The Ironmonger: David Timson
   Commander Kassoulkine: Vernon Joyner
   Wolf Blonder: Nigel Graham
   Hammu: Judy Bennett
   Golde: Julie Hallam
   Tania: Elizabeth Revill
   Lieutenant: Sion Probert
   Captain: Timothy Bateson
   RakitiS: Anthony Hall
   Galkine: David Sinclair
   Rabbi: David Lawton
   Receptionist: Rolf Lefebvre
   Police-Sergeant Bobrowski: Clifford Norgate
   Major Von Essen: Bruce Beeby
Also with John Bull, Anthony Daniels, Betty Huntley-Wright.
Repeated 10th March 1974
[Daniel Katz wrote in Finnish. The play however was taken from a French version and translated into English so has been subject to double translation. Original title was "Sankarikornetti" (1968). French title was "Le cornette heroique" ]


5th March 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Confrontation by Douglas Rae adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 86, based upon tv episode 50.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
   Nan McEwan: Bridget McConnel
   Forbes Thompson: David Gooderson
   Phoebe Thompson: Betty Cardno
   Eion Thompson,: Henry Stamper
   Mary McEwan: Eva Stuart
Repeated 7th March 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


6th March 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Poor Glover by Eric Chappell
Producer: John Tydeman
   Mr Carstairs: Peter Jones
   Mr Osborne: John Hollis
   Sally: Julie Hallam.
   
   
6th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: It's Warm and There's Company by Elizabeth Morgan.
Producer: Betty Davies
   Helen Hunter: Ellzabeth Morgan
   Jimmy Hunter: Terry Scully
   Rosie Malcolm: Katherine Parr
   Emma Smith: Ann Jameson
   Dotty Blake: Miriam Margolyes
   Glad Fuller: Eva Stuart
   Maisie Biggs/Sister Ainley: Gudrun Ure
   Dr Passmore: Sam Dastor
   Stan: Sion Propert
   Joe: Anthony Daniels


6th March 1974:
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Don't Walk About with Nothing On (Mais n'te promene done pas toule nue) by
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) translated by Peter Meyer.
Paris around 1910.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   the wife and: Jill Bennett
   the husband: John Osborne
   Ventroux, a Deputy: John Osborne
   Clarisse: Jill Bennett
   Victor, their servant: Michael Spice
   Phartillon, the Mayor: Hugh Griffith
   De Jaival, a reporter: Aubrey Woods
[This production was also recorded on BBC Transcription disk CN2189/S under the heading "Thirty Minute Theatre"]


8th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sanatorium (1938) by W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), adapted by Val Gielgud (1900-1981).
Scotland around 1916.
ProducerDavid Davis
   Maugham (Ashenden): Carleton Hobbs
   McLeod: Wilfrid Carter
   Ivy Bishop: Patricia Gallimore
   Guy Templeton: John Bentley
   Nurse: Sonia Fraser
   Dr Lennox: Godfrey Kenton
   Miss Atkin: Sonia Fraser
   Campbell: Malcolm Hayes
   Henry Chester: Cyril Shaps
   Mrs Chester: Betty Hardy
Repeated from 1st April 1970
[Somerset Maugham suffered from TB and became a sanatorium patient in Scotland, in 1917].


9th March 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Fencing Man by Peter Russell.
Pianist: Mary Nash
Producer: Betty Davies
   Jimmy Morgan: Jon Rollason
   Annie: Diana Bishop
   May Morgan: Diana Olsson
   Bert: Kerry Francis
   Dick: Anthony Hall
   Harry Burrows: Nigel Graham
   Keynes: Godfrey Kenton
   Mavis: Joyce Latham
   Hubie Aupers: Cyril Shaps
   Charlie: David Sinclair
   Winthrop: Brian Haines
Repeated 20th August 1975


9th March 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Liars by Henry Arthur Jones.
Summer 1897
Producer: Raymond Raikes.
   Archibald Coke: Kerry Francis
   Freddie Tatton: David Timson
   Mrs Crespin: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Col Sir Christopher Deering: Stephen Murray
   George Nepean: Stephen Thorne
   Lady Rosamund Tatton: Diana Olsson
   Dolly Coke, her cousin: Elizabeth Morgan
   Lady Jessica Nepean: Fenella Fielding
   Edward Falkner: Vernon Joyner
   Gilbert Nepean: William Sleigh
   Beatrice Ebernoe: Sandra Clark
   Waiter: Manning Wilson
   Footman: Anthony Daniels
   Taplin: David Sinclair
Repeated 11th March 1974
[Also produced in 1952 by Mary Hope Allen with William Fox as Freddie.]
[Also produced in 1962 by Raymond Raikes with Derek Blomfield as Freddie.]
[First broadcast 1927]


11th March 1974:
20.00 The Monday Play: The Wooden Shepherdess by Richard Hughes (1900-1976) adapted by Frederick Bradnum.
Around 1920-30.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Narrator: Michael Hordern.
   Mary Wadamy: Elizabeth Weaver
   Gilbert Wadamy, mp: David Sinclair
   Augustine Penry-Herbert: John Rye
   Polly Wadamy: Julie Hallam
   Ludovic Corcos: Timothy Bateson
   Jeremy Dibden: David Timson
   Joan Dibden: Sandra Clark
   Janey: Elizabeth Revill
   Adolf Hitler: Haydn Jones
   Baron Walther von Kessen/ Dr Reinhold Steuckel: David March
   Prioress: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mitzi von Kessen: Denise Bryer
   Col Otto von Kessen/Count Arno Lepowski: Brian Haines
   Franz von Kessen: Stephen Thorne
    Geli: Diana Olsson
   Captain R??: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 17th March 1974.
[The second part of an intended but unfinished trilogy. The first part was "The Fox in the Attic" broadcast in 2 parts on 2nd and 9th April 1973.]


12th March 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Pastures New by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 87, based upon tv episode 153.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Mistress Niven: Effie Morrison
   Mrs McAllister: Diana Olsson
   Sgt Gilbey/Mr Ogilvy: Duncan Montyre
   Mrs Ogilvy: Mary Riggans
   Gilbride: John Dunbar
   Hughie: David Timson
Repeated 14th March 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


13th March 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: To Whom It May Concern by Jack Trevor Story (1917-1991)
Producer Christopher Venning
   Ethel: Margaret Ashcroft
   Gerald: Kevin Brennan
   John: Fraser Kerr
   Amy: Diana Bishop
Repeated 7th January 1978


13th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Interests of the Child by Marian Campbell
Producer Kay Patrick
   Jerry Ogden: Sean Arnold
   Guy Horrocks: Alan Rowe
   Eve Potter: Maureen O'Brien
   Esme: Catherine Davies
   Mrs Beedon: Pauline Letts
   Mr Beedon: Gareth Armstrong
   First youth: Sam Dastor
   Second youth: Anthony Daniels
   Man: John Bull
Repeated 11th February 1976


13th March 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Mediterranean Trip by Charles Mander
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Tiger: Michael Goldie
   Gibson: Clive Woodward
   Evans: Aubrey Richards
   Hardcastle: Victor Lucas
   Ron Bailey: Roger Gartland
   Megan: Olwen Rees
   Morgan: Ray Handy


15th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Vessel of Wrath (1931) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Peter Ling
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
   Mynheer Evert Gruyter: Charles Hodgson
   Native boy: Alaric Cotter
   Rev Owen Jones: Garard Green
   Miss Martha Jones, his sister: Brenda Dunrich
   Head clerk: Kerry Francis
   Ginger Ted: Henry Stamper
[Other productions: year/channel/producer/actor playing Rev.Owen:
1954/Light/David H Godfrey/Hamilton Dyce.
1969/4/Graham Gauld/Garard Green]
[The title comes from the bible, Romans ch9 vv22-24.]


16th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Gluepot by Sean Walsh
Producer Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   Des: Eamonn Draper
   Kay: Fidelma Cullen
   Mother: Doreen Hepburn
   Bobby: Aine McCartney
   Mabel: Trudy Kelly
   George: Laurence Hew


16th March 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Weak Spot by John Lawson
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
   Dan: David McKail
   Pyrus: Leon Sinden
   MacCallum: Willy Joss
   Denis: Lawrence Douglas
   Archie: Charles Kearney
   Elsie: Effie Morrison
   Christine: Virginia Stark
   Michaela/Mike: Eileen McCallum
   Fish: Arthur Boland
   James: George Howell
   PC Briggs: Bruce White
   Sgt Clark: Robert Docherty
   Fiona: Wilma Duncan
Repeated 18th March 1974


18th March 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Aaron Thy Brother. A verse drama by Conor Farrington
Dublin 1803.
Producer Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   John Philpot Curran: Kevin Flood
   Amelia Curran: Roisin Donaghy
   Sarah Curran: Bairbre Dowling
   Robert Emmet: Brian Munn
   Richard Curran: Gerard Murphy
   Charles Burton: Ken Stott
   Alexander Marsden: Denys Hawthorne
   The Visitor: John Foley
   Lord Kilwarden: Louis Rolston
   Major Sirr: Maurice O'Callaghan
   Leonard McNally: Kevin McHugh
   George Dunn: Harold Goldblatt
   Chorus: Harold Goldblatt, Charles Armstrong, Gerard Murphy, Joe McPartland
Repeated 24th March 1974


19th February 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: It's the System by Harry Green
Radio episode 88, based upon tv episode 133
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
   Gillespie: James McManus
   Dr Rudd/Court Officer: Jonathan Scott
   Dr Ross: Richard Hurndall
   Procurator-Fiscal: Andrew Downie
   Sheriff-Substitute: John Rae
Repeated 21st February 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


20th March 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Barber's Story by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), dramatised by Malcolm Hazell.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Barber: Vernon Joyner
   Customer: Paul Nicholson
   Hagberd: Leonard Maguire
   Landlord: Rex Holdsworth
   Bessie: Jiggy Bhore
   Carvil: Hedley Goodall
   Harry: Colin Fisher
Repeated 19th June 1976


20th March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Late Mr King-Thomas by Paul Ferris
Producer Lorraine Davies
   Elizabeth King-Thomas: Margaret John
   David, her son: Clive Belman
   Claire, her daughter: Gillie Chatham
   Astrid: Diana Olsson
   Oliver Owen: Dillwyn Owen
   Mrs Phillips: Jan Edwards
   Det-Insp Bowen: Ray Handy


20th March 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Too Long at the Fair by John Hyatt
Producer David H. Godfrey
   Barfield: Hugh Manning
   Zoe: Sandra Clark
   Jean French: Diana Bishop
   Dr Flower: Godfrey Kenton
   Mac: Sam Dastor
   Rattray: Nigel Anthony
   Attendant: Stephen Thorne
   Passenger: Hugh Ross
Repeated 14th August 1975


22nd March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Gwaine Inheritance by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
1 of 3: Death of an Earl
Producer Guy Vaesen
   Miss Llewellyn: Fabia Drake
   Geoffrey Farthingale: Bruce Beeby
   Willis: John Ruddock
   Miss Pullen: Jo Manning Wilson
   May Blotten: Eva Stuart
   Ted Blotten: Trevor Martin
   Owen Blotten: Barry Justice
   Bunty: Patricia Gallimore
   Constable: Michael Kilgarriff
also with Margot Boyd and Olwen Griffiths
Repeated from 15th May 1971


23rd March 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Curious Case by John D. Vincent
Producer John G. Pitman
   Det-Chief Insp Cartwright: Rupert Davies
   Barnes/PC Thomas: David Timson
   Jim Briggs: Anthony Jackson
   Charlie Woods: Manning Wilson
   Taffy Lewis: Anthony Hall
   Phil Stone: Clifford Norgate
   Dora Cartwright: Betty Huntley-Wright
   PC Wilkes/Harrison: Nigel Anthony
   Sgt Dennis: Brian Haines
   Insp McIntyre: Fulton MacKay


23rd March 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sandpiper
by Martin Ranschoff (1927-2017)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
   Laura Reynolds: Margaret Robertson
   Rev Dr Hewitt: John Carson
   Claire Hewitt: Diana Olsson
   Judge Thompson: Stuart Nichol
   Danny: Judy Bennett
   Ward Hendricks: Kerry Francis
   Cos Erickson: Nigel Anthony
   Walter Robinson: Stephen Thorne
   Postman: Sion Probert
   Ellie McIver: Hilda Schroder
   Larry: Fraser Kerr
   Sutcliff: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 25th March 1974
[Martin Ransohoff produced the film version in 1965]


25th March 1974
20.00
The Silver Box (1906) by John Galsworthy
Produced By: Norman Wright
   John Barthwick, MP: Norman Claridge
   Mrs Barthwick: Marjorie Westbury
   Jack Barthwick: Michael Spice
   Jones: John Hollis
   Mrs Jones: Hilda Fenemore
   Marlow: John Bull
   Wheeler: Hilda Kriseman
   Unknown Lady: Olwen Griffiths
   Roper: Alan Rowe
   A Magistrate: James Thomason
   Snow: Fraser Kerr
   A Clerk: George Raistrick
   Usher: Gareth Armstrong
Repeated 31st March 1974


26th March 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Doctor's Lines by Tony Williamson adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 89, based upon tv episode 73
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Duncan: Douglas Blackwell
   Jamieson: David Sinclair
   Mrs Robertson: Christina Gray
   Bridges: Henry Stamper
   Robertson: John Samson
Repeated 28th March 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


27th March 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Late Flood by Lindsay Barrett
An African village.
Producer Richard Wortley
   Damus: Leonard Dixon
   Sister Rose: Maria Subi
   Mama Blossom: Hilda Kriseman
   Narrator: Nigel Graham
[Lindsay Barrett was born in Jamaica, left Jamaica in the 1960's and lived in several countries before settling in Nigeria in 1966 becoming a citizen there in the mid 1980's]


27th March 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Birds Fall Down (1966) by Rebecca West (1892-1983) adapted by Joan O'Connor
Part 1 of 3: Flight
Producer: Jane Graham
   Tania Rowan: Jill Balcon
   Edward Rowan: Michael Spice
   Laura: Julle Hallam
   Ellen: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Count Diakonov: John Phillips
   Katinka: Diana Olsson
   Aglaia: Elizabeth Revill
   Countess Diakonova: Gr1zelda Hervey
   Kamensky: Lyndon Brook
   Louison: John Bull
   Chubinov: Terry Scully
Repeated 10th April 1974
[Also produced in two parts in 1998 by Cherry Cookson- rptd R4X 2025]


27th March 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Fells of Yew dale by John Tarrant
Producer Trevor Hill
(Manchester)
   Pat Moore: Valerie Georgeson
   Tom Corrin, an army sergeant: Peter Armitage
   Tyson, a Lakeland grocer: Hugh Wright
   Sgt Cretney: Peter Ellis
   Insp Kneale: Brian Trueman
   Roma Taggart,: Tom'S Young (????)
   Cousin: Carole Turner


30th March 1974:
11.30
The Little Photographer by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989).
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   The Marquise: Gwen Watford
   Miss Clay: Patricia Gallimore
   Paul: Brian Hewlett
   Mademoiselle: Jane Thomson
   Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf
[Also produced in 2003 by Geni Hall-Kenny with Pauline Whitaker as Miss Clay, repeated 2005 when Pauline White credited as Miss Clay. Rptd R4X 2016-2018]
[Also produced in 2024 by Tracey Neale with Jessica Turner as Miss Clay.]


30th March 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Ambush by Laurence Grafftey-Smith (1892-1989)
Producer: John G. Pitman
   Sir John: Stephen Murray
   Lady Chenery: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
   Toby: Nigel Graham
   Macrow/No 1: Marvin Kane
   No 5: John Bull
   Sir Henry Knollys: William Fox
   Sir Michael: Gerald Cross
[The author was a British diplomat]


30th March 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Greer Case (1955) by David W. Peck adapted by Mike Stott
1947 New York - claiming an inheritance.
Producer Harry Catlin
   Judge Delehanty: John Glen
   Lester Friedman: Peter Marinker
   Francis D Wells: Stuart Damon
   Joseph Cox: Stephen Thorne
   Annie Jackson: Diana Olsson
   Dr Tierney: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Tierney: Margaret Robertson
   Jennie Sheppard/Mrs Henderson: Janet Brandes
   Erika Segnitz/ Mrs Thompson: Hilda Schroder
   Raymond Armbruster: Paul Maxwell
   Harold A Segur: Murray Kass
   Mrs Weisbecker: Margaret Robertson
   Henry Wise: Peter Carlisle
   Ernest Bailey: Kerry Francis
   Judge Schoonmaker: Ramsay Williams
Repeated 1st April 1974
[David Peck was Presiding Justice in New York 1947-1957.]


31st March 1974:
21.03
Quo Vadis? (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), translated by C J Hogarth (1869-1945). Adapted by Felix Felton.
Part 1 of 10.
Producer: R D. Smith
   St Peter: John Rudock
   Christ: Gabriel Woolf
   Petronius: Felix Felton
   Corbo, a slave: Stephen Thorne
   Teiresias, majordomo: Noel Howlett
   Marcus, a patrician tribune: Peter Howell
   Eunice, a slave girl: Rosalind Shanks
   Chilo, a hunchback informer: Anthony Jacobs
   Sporus, innkeeper: Norman Wynne
   Aulus Plautius: Peter Claughton
   Pomponia, his wife: Nicolette Bernard
   Lygia, a hostage princess: Hilda Schroder
   Caius Hasta, a centurion: Garard Green
   Ursus, a giant bodyguard: Michael Kilgarriff
All parts repeated after two days.
Repeated from 4th July 1965 (rptd 17th July 1966]



1st April 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Mortal Passion: by George Mikes (1912-1987)
Producer: Martin Esslin
   Sam'Mackay: Alfred Marks
   Veronica: Maxine Audley
   Mariska: Miriam Margolyes
   Matvas: Geoffrey Matthews
   Earl Millington: William Sleich
   Borsch: Manning Wilson
   Sir Henry Salami: Nigel Graham
   Elza: Diana Olsson
   Martha: Julie Hallam
   French chef: Rolf Lefebvre
also with Betty Huntley-Wright, Kerry Francis, Brian Haines, Anthony Hall, Sion Probert
Repeated 7th April 1974


2nd April 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Dear Doctor by Doreen Montgomery (1913-1992) and Guy Morgan adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 90, based upon tv episode 51
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Laura Blaikie: Ellen McIntosh
   Mrs Brodie: Molly Weir
   Matron: Kathleen Helme
   Nurse Maddox: Mary Wylie
   Georgina: Helen Worth
   Barbara Grant/Mrs Duneannon: Kay Gallie
   Mr Gibson: John Forrest
   Mrs Gordon/Joy Begg: Sheila Grant
Repeated 4th April 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


3rd April 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Conservatory Tea by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Mrs Gore-Fox: Gladys Spencer
   Joan: Delia Paton
   Pamela: Margaret Wolfit
   Ken: John Rye
Repeated 26th June 1976


3rd April 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: In Sickness and in Health by David Ellis
Frame-up.
Producer David H.Godfrey
   Doreen Buckley: Margaret Wolfit
   Harry Buckley: Kerry Francis
   Det-Sgt Gibbons: Alan Dudley
   Det-Con Emery: David Timson
   Vera Bridges: Hilda Schroder
   Joseph Crossland: Nigel Graham
   Stan Wright: Sion Probert
   Ernest Taylor: Manning Wilson
   Chalky: John Bull
Repeated 4th April 1974


6th April 1974:
11.30:
The Blue Lenses (1959) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Joan O'Connor.
To see clearly.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Marda West: Vivien Merchant
   Mr Greaves: Harold Reese
   Nurse Ansel: Susan Maudslay
   Nurse Brand: Jane Thomson
   Nurse Sweeting: Daphne Rogers
   Matron: Katherine Parr
   Jim West: Stephen Thorne
   Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf


6th April 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sole Witness by Michael Brett
Producer: Betty Davies
   Florence Mason: Hilda Schroder
   Esme Stanhope: Elizabeth Morgan
   Alf Hale: Malcolm Hayes
   Sam Street: John Hollis
   Paddy McMahon: Kevin Flood
   Det-Sgt Cooper: David Timson
   Det-Insp Blake: Stephen Thorne
   Garage hand: Anthony Daniels
   Mike Parker: Vernon Joyner
   Charley: Gareth Armstrong
   Publican: David Sinclair
   Det-Con Swift: John Bull
   Det-Sgt Frackleton: Alan Barry
   
   
6th April 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Day of Destiny by Malcolm Stewart
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Napoleon: Barry Foster
   Bernadotte: Julian Glover.
   Jourdan: Hugh Ross
   Berthier: Kerry Francis
   Gohier: Rolf Lefebvre
   Barras: Vernon Joyner
   Talleyrand: Timothy Bateson
   Sieyes: Brian Haines
   Ducos: Michael Shannon
   Josephine: Penelope Lee
   Martin: David Timson
   Desiree: Rosalind Shanks
   Lucien: Eric Allan
   Julie: Elizabeth Revill
   Fouche: Stephen Thorne
   Murat: William Sleigh
   Mme Lenormand: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated 8th April 1974


7th April 1974
22.15
The Tomb of Hetephras by Leonard Cottrell (1913-1974)
Hetephras, the mother of King Khufu.
Adviser T. G. H. James
Producer Daniel Snowman
   Narrator: Alan Rowe
   Reisner: Anthony Hall
   Gunn: Sion Probert
   Ahmed: Saeed Jaffrey
   Dunham: Anthony Daniels
   Bowe/Greaves/Herodolus/Pliny: Gareth Armstrong
   Amelia Edwards/Hetephras: Elizabeth Morgan
   Greenlies/Photographer: Fraser Kerr
   Petrie/Archaeologist: Sam Dastor
[Many of LC's books were popularisations of the archaeology of ancient Egypt]
[Play source: T. G. H. James "The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt" (London, 1972), Chapter 4.]
[Hetephras is usually referred to as Hetapheres (Hetep-heres) and lived around 2600 BC. The question of the tomb remains unsolved.]


8th April 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Interior by Gwen Cherrell.
Sound sequences by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer: John Theocharis
   Edward: Martin Jarvis
   Doreen: Penelope Lee.
   Bill: David Ryall
   Carol: Diana Olsson
   Fletcher: Stephen Thorne
   Flynn: Kerry Francis
   Sandra: Carole Boyd
Repeated 14th April 1974


9th April 1974:
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Red Herring by Arthur Swinson (1915-1970) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 91, based upon tv episode 49
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
   Sir James Grieg: Hector Ross
   Matron: Kathleen Helme
   Mrs Shand: Betty Cardno
   Mrs Dobie/Mrs Haggerty: Miriam Margolyes
   Mr Hardy: John Forrest
Repeated 11th April 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]
[The next episode was broadcast 12th November 1974]


10th April 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Pembroke's Mother by H. F. Rubinstein (1891-1975)
2 December 1603, a performance.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Mary Herbert,Countess of Pembroke: Pauline Letts
   William Herbert: Sion Probert
   Philip Herbert: David Timson
   Alice: Julie Hallam
   Thomas, the steward: Alan Rowe
   Shakespeare: Michael Spice
   Richard Burbage: William Sleigh
   King James I: Alan Rowe
Repeated 10th July 1976
[Birmingham Central Library hold a written transcript of this play (Shakespeare Collection) ]


10th April 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Give Me London Weather by Ronald (R C Scriven : 1907-1985) and Marc Scriven
A flight to America.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
   Alan Deighton: John Rowe
   Harry Seckinger: Nigel Graham
   Mr Engelhart: Brian Haines
   Vicki Soo: Bonnie Hurren
   Naomi Seckinger: Helen Worth
   Prince Suliman: Manning Wilson
   Sholem Cavis: Nigel Graham
   Captain Lundgren: Michael Kilgarriff
   A??: Garard Green
   A?: Brian Hewlett
   Vladimir Turgeliev: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 11th April 1974
[Marc is R C Scriven's son]


12th April 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), dramatised by Lazare Kobrynski, translated by Brian Jones (1938-2009),
Producer: Jane Graham.
   Gurov: Anthony Bate
   Anna: Jane Lapotaire
   Nurse: Susan Richards
   Hotel Clerk: John Samson
[Repeated from 9th December 1972]
[Also produced by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan in 2010, rptd 2020, with Zoe Waites as Anna.]


13th April 1974:
11.30:
No Motive by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), adapted by Maurice Travers.
It was 11.30 am....
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Duncan Black: Gordon Jackson
   Sir John Farren: William Fox
   Miss Marsh: Hilda Schroder
   The Matron: Katherine Parr
   The Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf
also with Gareth Armstrong, Eric Allen, Hugh Ross, Sion Probert, Jane Thomson


13th April 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) translated by Katherine Woods (1943), adapted by Jon Farrell.
Music specially composed by Wilma Paterson
Producer: Stewart Conn
   Narrator: Nigel Stock
   Little Prince: Gwynne Guthrie
   Rose/Flower: Poppy Hands
   King/Snake: Arthur Boland
   Conceited man/Old man: Patrick Malahide
   tipper/lamplighter: Philip Guard
   Business man/Fox: Derrick Gilbert
[Also produced in 1953 rptd 1954 for Light by Martyn C Webster]
[Also produced by Pam Fraser Solomon in 1999, rptd 2002, with Bernard Cribbins as the King]
[Antoine recalled his own plane crash in the Sahara in 1935. He did not survive a 1944 air crash.]


13th April 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Mistress of Novices by John Kerr
Producer Shaun Macloughlin
   Bernadette: Rita Tushingham
   Mother Marie-Therese Vauzou: Colette O'Neil:
   Mother Josephine Imbert: Katherine Parr
   Bishop of Nevers: Timothy Bateson
   Mother Alexandre Roque: Betty Huntley-Wrigbt
   Sister Marthe Fores: Diana Olsson
   Sister Emilienne Duboe: Julie Hallam
   Sister Vincent Garros: Jill Raymond
   Sister Bernard Dalias: Sandra Clark
   Sister Stanislas Paschal: Valerie Verdon
   Father Douce: David Timson
   Dr St Cyr: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated 17th November 1974


15th April 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Blithe Spirit(1941) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Producer: Norman Wright
   Elvira: Dulcie Gray
   Charles: Michael Denison
   Ruth: Gudrun Ure
   Madame Arcati: Sylvia Coleridge
   Dr Bradman: Peter Pratt
   Mrs Bradman: Joan Matheson
   Edith, the maid: Olwen Griffiths
Repeated from 25th December 1972
The title is taken from a poem by Shelley.
   
   
15th April 1974
20.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Chains (1909) by Elizabeth Baker (1876-1962)
Pianist: Winifred Davey
Produced By: Norman Wright
   Lily Wilson: Susan Maudslay
   Charley Wilson: Nigel Anthony
   Tennarit: John Samson
   Mr Massey: Peter Pratt
   Mrs Massey: Katherine Parr
   Maggie Massey: Frances Jeater
   Percy Massey: David Valla
Repeated 21st April 1974

   
17th April 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Tie Pin by Pamela Hunka
Producer: John G. Pitman
   Claire: Diana Olsson
   Mark: Stephen Thorne
   Paul/Beryl: Julie Hallam
   Mrs Todd: Hilda Schroder
   Lillian: Diana Bishop
   Janice: Rosalind Adams
   Denis: Nigel Graham


17th April 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Everybody's Friend by David Campton (1924-2006)
Producer Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Mrs Roberts: Linda Polan
   Miss Furley: Margot Boyd
   Miss Loxton: Kathleen Helme
   Doctor: George Woolley


17th April 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Strange Companions by Denis Constanduros
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Gerald: John Wentworth
   Eric: Dinsdale Landen
   Win: Barrie Shore
   Madeleine: Nancy Gower
Repeated 18th April 1974


19th April 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Man by Laurence McDermott
Set in 1980.
Mouth Organ: Alfie Kahn.
Producer: Harry Catlin.
   Herbert Heginbottom: Anthony Bate
   Tramp: John Ruddock.
Repeated from 3rd July 1971


20th April 1974:
The Chamois (1959) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Michael Bartlett.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Stephen: Christopher Cazenove
   His wife: Anna Cropper
   Zus: Nikolas Janis
   The Storekeeper: Alexis Gallnos
   The Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2024]


20th April 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: After Dunkirk by T. D. Webster
Producer Roger Pine
   David Oldfield: Elizabeth Morgan
   Rose Oldfield: Anne Jameson
   Dai Griffiths: Anthony Jackson
   Alex Grey: Christopher Godwin
   Hilda: Elizabeth Revill
   Jack Oldfield: Brian Haines
   Tom: Eric Allan
   Officer: William Sleigh
   Charlie: David Hatton
   RSM: John Linstrum


20th April 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Farmer's Wife (1916) by Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960)
Devon.
Producer Brandon Acton Bond
   Araminta Dench: Lois Hawkins
   Churdles Ash: John Long
   Thirza Tapper: Aileen Mills
   Samuel Sweetland: Nigel Stock
   Sibley Sweetland: Jennie Woodford
   George Smerdon: David Hyde
   Petronell Sweetland: Jane Criddle
   Richard Coaker: Geoffrey Collins
   Louisa Windeatt: Pat Nye
   Henry Coaker: Brian Haines
   Mary Hearn: Zulema Dene
Also with Moyra Babington, Esmond Rideout, Charles Mander
Repeated from 25th December 1969
[Also produced by Owen Reed in 1952 rptd 1953 with Charles Leno as Henry]
[Adapted by Eden Phillpotts from his 1913 novel Widecombe Fair]
[In 1928 Alfred Hitchcock made a silent film of the play].
[First radio broadcast of this play was 1924]


22nd April 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Doubting Thomases by Mike Stott
A skull is found.
Producer Gerry Jones
   Det-Sgt John Smith: Alan Downer
   Sue Rogers: Caroline John
   Dr Eva Hartley: Margot Boyd
   Det-Con Tony Lambert: Geoffrey Beevers
   Mrs Clark: Diana Bishop
   Eric Benton/Hughie Latchmer: Timothy Bateson
   Graham Rees: Sam Dastor
   Graham Appleby: Fraser Kerr
   Andrew Donnelly: William Sleigh
   David Fielding: Neville Jason
   PC Ogilvey: David Timson
   Dr Willoughby: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated from 6th October 1973


22nd April 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Strange Meeting (1971) by Susan Hill adapted by Guy Vaesen
World War 1.
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Hilliard: Martin Jarvis
   Barton and: David Timson
   Garrett: Tony Britton
   COUlter: Nigel Graham
   Franklin: Stephen Thorne
   Harris: Hugh Ross
   Parkin: John Bull
   Nurse: Julie Hallam
   Mrs Hilliard: Hilda Schroder
Repeated 28th April 1974
[The title comes from a poem by Wilfred Owen]


24th April 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Girl Upstairs by Michael Davies.
Producer: Betty Davies.
   Mr Cleighton: Peter Sallis
   Osbert: Aubrey Woods
   Mrs Dawson: Molly Rankin
also with Elizabeth Revill.


24th April 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Field Day by Gillian Freeman (1929-2019)
School sports day
Producer Kay Patrick
   Annabel Hunt: Joanna Wake
   Rex Hunt: Hugh Ross
   Councillor Fish: David March
   Miss Spencer: Betty Baskcomb
   Dr Jill Turnbull: Diana Olsson
   Maureen O'Faigh: Maxine O'Reilly
   Peter Turnbull: Jon Rollason
   Hannelore: Cordella Mansall
   Mrs Bunce: Iris Mitchell
   Dawn Platt: Diana Bishop

24th April 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Down from the Mountain by Freda Downton
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Mrs Whittaker: Moyra Babington
   Liz Tempest: Yvonne Antrobus
   Leo Tempest: Brian Wilde
   John Whittaker: Donald Bisset
   Police Officer: David Hyde
Repeated 25th April 1974


26th April 1974
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Master and Man (1895) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) dramatised by Fred Partridge
Producer David H. Godfrey
   Vassili Andreitch Brekhunoff: John Carson
   Nikita: Charles Leno
   Vassilia Mikolovna: Margaret Wolfit
   Isai: Peter Tuddenham
   Tarass: John Boxer
   Petrushka: Andrew Jack
   His father: Martin Friend
   His grandmother: Betty Baskcomb
   His Wife: Sara Coward
   Villagers: Martin Friend and Alan Reid
Shortened version of broadcast of 27th February 1971 (60 minutes)
[Also produced by Anastasia Tolstoy in 2006 with Gerard McDermott as Isai.]
   
27th April 1974
11.30:
The Menace (1959) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Alan Melville.
The Feelies.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   The Menace: Jack Watson
   Pinkie: June Whitfield
   May: Diana Olsson
   Sam: Peter Marinker
   Joe: Nigel Anthony
   Charlie: Blain Fairman
   Andy: David Gooderson
   Operator: Jane Thomson
   Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf
   
   
27th April 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Light Tread of Summer by John Kirkmorris
The village summer dance.
Pianist: Sidney Bright
Saxophonist: Andy McDevitt; Drummer: Geoff Lofts
Producer Jane Graham
   Toby Birkett: David Timson
   Jim Hind: Sam Kelly
   Sybil Birkett: Caroline John
   Petra McMahon: Helen Worth
   Theed: Timothy Bateson
   Wolner: John Bull
   Dodge: Kerry Francis
   Coach driver: Vernon Joyner
   
   
27th April 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Lord Dracula by Brian Hayles
1476: Vlad Dracula.
Special effects: BBC Radio-phonic Workshop
Fanfares composed by Stephen Hancock, played by a section Of the Langley Band
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Vlad Dracula: Kenneth Haigh
   Father Benedek: Nigel Stock
   Istvan: John Rowe
   Jakob: Gareth Armstrong
   Ilonya: Hedli Niklaus
   Captain Ferenez: Don Henderson
   Dr Szentes: George Woolley
   Militsa: Liane Aukin
also with Patricia Greene, Betty Mallett, Graham Rigby and Philip Barber
Repeated 29th April 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2023]


29th April 1974:
19.30:
The Monday Play: The Cherry Orchard (1903) by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), translated by Richard Cottrell.
Producer: John Tydeman
   Madame Ranyevskaya: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
   Anya, her daughter: Sinead Cusack
   Varya, her adopted daughter: Anna Massey
   Gaev her brother: Robert Harris
   Lopachin, a businessman: Kenneth Haigh
   Trofimov, a student: Terry Scully
   Simeonov-Pishchik: Timothy Bateson
   Charlotta, a governess: Patricia Routledge
   Yepixodov, a clerk: Andrew Sachs
   Doonyasha, a maid: Elizabeth Revill
   Firs, an old manservant: Rolf Lefebvre
   Yasha, a young manservant: Hugh Ross
Repeated 22nd December 1989
[The last play by Chekhov]


1st May 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Birds and the Bees by Pam Tickell
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Blodwin: Patricia Clapton
   Sally: Joanna Tope
   Wendy: Maggie McCarthy
   Philip: Derrick Gilbert
   
   
1st May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Don't Forget the Unicorn by Patricia Griffiths
Life begins at...
Producer David Johnston
   Pat: Patricia Routledge
   Grift: David Sinclair
   Jane: Elizabeth Sevill
   Paul: Glynn Sweet
   Sara: Julie Hallam
   Michelle: Sue Thomas
   Granny: Winfride Shelley
   
   
1st May 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Invisible Export by Peter Fieldson
Stronger than a pint of sarsaparilla.
Producer Richard Wortley
   Geoffrey Marlow: Henry Woolf
   Celia: Clare Borne
   Adams: Alan Dudley
   Collins: Vernon Joyner
   Lambert: Rolf Lefebvre
   Joshua: Alton Kumalo
   Nima: Alex Tetteh-Lartey
   Olga: Carole Boyd
Repeated 2nd May 1974


3rd May 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: High Twig on a Low Bough by Kenneth John.
A Norfolk fishing village.
Producer: James Duckett
(Birmingham)
   Carr: Rhys McConnachie
   Christine Monsey: Carol Gray
   Mrs Monsey: Anne Cullen
   Palgrave: Roger Milner
   Jim Bateman: Brian Cant
   Rachael: Alex Johnston
   Bolderow: Arthur Pentelow
Repeated from 13th March 1971


4th May 1974:
11.30
The Alibi (1959) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
An urge to do something quite different.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   James Fenton: Tony Britton
   Anna: Sarah Badel
   Edna: Katherine Parr
   Inspector: Geoffrey Beevers
   Storyteller: Gabriel Woolf
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2024]
[Also produced by Chris Wallis in 2007 rptd 2008, with Lia Williams as Anna]


4th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Brooch You'd Throw Away by Conor Farrington
Producer Michael Heffernan
   Peg Boyle: Elizabeth Begley
   John Sheridan: Joe McPartland
   Liam Boyle: John Murphy
   Nora Boyle: Heather Gibson
   Eileen: Aine McCartney
   Christy: Royston Larmour
   Kevin Ryan: Patrick Brannigan
   Gilbert Masterson: Pitt Wilkinson
   Reporter: Eden Phillips
   
   
4th May 1974:
16.30:
Liz by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004)
Part 1 of 6.
Producers: Graham Gould/Margaret Etall
   Liz Armitage: Helen Worth
   Kate Kitchener: Jill Lidstone
   Mrs Kitchener: Diana Bishop
   Mr Collins: Anthony Buckeridge
   Mrs Hubbard: Diana Olsson
   Miss Thomas: Carole Boyd
   Shopkeeper: Sion Probert
   Porter: David Sinclair
   Waitress: Elizabeth Morgan


4th May 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Face of the Enemy (1961) by Vernon Scannell (1922-2007)
Producer John Scotney
   David Marshall: David March
   Margaret Dravton: Liane Aukin
   Ian Young: Henry Stamper
   Mike Venning: Kevin Flood
   Geoffrey Kirk: John Rye
   Donald Sinclair: Leo Maguire
   Diana Venning: Kathleen Helme
   Percy Frinton: Hugh Ross
   Charlie: Brian Haines
   Dour: Kerry Francis
Repeated 6th May 1974
[Scannell fought in WW2 and deserted when he saw the Gordon Highlanders looting the bodies of soldiers of both sides. He spent periods in confinement and was wounded in action at Caen.]


5th May 1974
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte (1818-1848) dramatised by Constance Cox.
Part 1 of 2.
Harpsichord: Alan Paul.
Producer: Norman Wright.
   Ellen Dean: Hilda Schroder
   Joseph: Walter Fitzgerald
   Catherine Earnshaw: Patricia Gallimore
   Heatheliff: Paul Daneman
   Hindley Earnshaw: Nigel Graham
   Frances Earnshaw: Jo Manning Wilson
   Edgar Linton: Douglas Hankin
   Isabella Linton: Gudrun Ure
   Dr Kenneth: Denys Hawthorne
   Voice: Ian Thompson
Repeated from 21st January 1967


6th May 1974
19.30:
The Monday Play: Brand (1865) by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) translated by Michael Meyer
Norway in the late 19th century.
Producer Martin Jenkins
   A Villager: Trevor Martin
   Brand: Brian Cox
   Agnes: Anna Caldermarshall
   Mayor: Hector Ross
   Provost: Michael Aldridge
   Ejnar: Martin Jarvis
   Gerd: Alethea Charlton
   s Brand's mother: Pauline Letts
   Guide: Martin Friend
   Guide's son: Nigel Anthony
   Villager: Douglas Blackwell
   Woman from the Headland: Kate Binchy
   Woman villager: Jane Knowles
   Doctor: Geoffrey Beevers
   Gypsy woman: Stephanie Turner
   Sexton: John Wyse
   Schoolmaster: Martin Friend
Repeated from R3: 12th December 1971, 9th July 1972
Repeated on R3: 14th December 1978
[Several productions by Val Gielgud: Year/network/actor playing Einar:
1954/3/ Richard Hurndall
1956 rptd 1957/3/Simon Lack
1963/Home/Peter Bartlett]


8th May 1974
11.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Footprints by Robin Smyth.
Producer: David H. Godfrey.
   Miss Grant: Sylvia Coleridge
   Donald Fell: Lewis Stringer
also with Kathleen Helme, Diana Bishop and John Bull


8th May 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Chance in Autumn by John Canon
Producer Margaret Etall
   Tom: Alan Rowe
   Penny: Carole Boyd
   Ben: Michael Shannon
   Mrs Benuti: Diana Bishop
   Garlo: Judy Bennett
   Joan: Julie Hallam
   Mrs Law: Hilda Schroder


8th May 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Blue Cross (1910) by G K Chesterton (1874-1936), adapted by Archie Campbell.
Producer: Christopher Venning.
   Fr Brown: Leslie French
   G K Chesterton: William Rushton
   1: The Blue Cross Flambeau: Francis de Wolff
   Insp Valentin: Neville Jason
   Asst Commissioner: Brian Haines
   Shop assistant: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Italian waiter: William Sleigh
   Restaurant proprietor: Stephen Thorne
   Police Constable: Hugh Ross
   Police Inspector,: Leslie ,heritage
   Cockney waiter: Eric Allan
Repeated 9th May 1974
[Also produced by Alec Reid in 1984 with Andrew Sachs as Fr Brown, rptd R7 2006, R4X 2011-2025.]


10th May 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: How I Came To Help People by Geoffrey Parkinson
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Geoffrey: Martin Jarvis
   Mother: Miriam Margolyes
   Father/Inspector: John Samson
   Sub editor/Bramptom: David Gooderson
   Second Aircraftman/Tramp: John Rowe
   Missionary/Ticket Collector: Terry Scully
   Grandfather/Rev Thomas White: William Fox
   Judge/Mark: Gerald Cross
   Peter/Warden: Ronald Herdman
   First Old Lady: Katherine Parr
   First Aircraftman: Michael Mundell
Repeated from 29th November 1972
[Miriam Margolyes also played Mother in The Nonconforming Nonconformist, 1977. Geoffrey Parkinson worked for the Probation Service for over 30 years.]


11th May 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Gilded Cage by William Smethurst (1945-2016).
Song by pupils of West House School, Birmingham
Producer Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Lord Perth: George Woolley
   King James II: Frank Woodfield
   Lord Middleton: Frank Lefebvre
   Morrell: Michael Burlington
   Cooper: Alan Devereux
   Sedley: Peter Clark
   Mary of Modena: Patricia Lawrence
   Mr Baker: Fraser Kerr
   Prince James: Giles Gordon Smith
   Booth: Robin Browne
   Count de Gracon: Simon Carter
   
   
11th May 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Don't Dilly Dally by Daniel Farson (1927-1997) and Harry Moore.
Musical director Robert Docker
Technical presentation Gordon Bowen
Producer: John G. Pitman
   Marie Lloyd: Georgia Brown
   Bella Burge: Katherine Parr
   Alec Hurley: David Sinclair
   Bernard Dillon: Sean Barrett
   Freddie Barnes: Terry Scully
also with John Bull, Alan Dudley, Rolf Lefebvre, Michael Kilgarriff, Timothy Bateson, Julie Hallam, Betty Huntley-Wright, Nigel Graham, Hilda Schroder
Repeated 13th May 1974
[Daniel Farson wrote a book in 1972 "Marie Lloyd and the Music Hall"]


13th May 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Semmelweis by Peter Russell
19th Century Austro-Hungary and obstetrics.
Producer: Archie Campbell
   Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865): Sandor Eles
   Aunt: Olwen Griffiths
   Sergeant/Von Epp: Patrick Tull
   Major von Markusouszky/Hebra: Clifford Norgate
   Ludwig von Markusouszky: John Rye
   Carl Braun: David Valla
   Von Kleperman: Leslie Heritage
   Hirsch: David Brierley
   Professor Kolletschka: Lewis Stringer
   Katrin: Jo Mannning Wilson
   Professor Skoda,: Edward Kelsey
   Professor Klein: Peter Tuddenham
   Chiari: Sean Barrett
   Joseph Semmelweis: Godfrey Kenton
   Julia, his daughter: Elaine Banham
   Priest/ Cornelius: Michael Kilgarriff
   Kussmaul: John Paul
   Von Arneth: Peter Russell
   Marie Weidenhofer: Jane Knowles
   Dr von Balassa: Gerald Cross
   Midwife: Betty Baskcomb
Repeated from 9th August 1971
Repeated 19th May 1974


15th May 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Partners by David Wheeler
Producer Margaret Etall
   Angela: Kate Binchy
   Lionel: John Rowe
   Maureen: Beth Boyd
   Henry: Ian Anderson


15th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Road by K. Allen Saddler
Words and music tell of a motorway to come.
Music by Staverton Bridge
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Jenks/First Workman: Howard Goorney
   Tom: Tim Fearon
   Grace: Diana Olsson
   Second workman: Tim Munro
   Brian: Tony Robinson
   First passenger/Mrs Green: Moyra Babington
   Second passenger: Peggy Ryalls
   George: Francis Lunt
   Fred/American voice: Chris Harris
[Staverton Bridge lineup was vocals, whistle,"field organ", percussion, guitar, lute, banjo- the style was "folk". An album was released in 2007.]


15th May 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Extra Terrestrial Objects by Ian Dougall
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Betty Davies
   Wilfred: Kenneth Griffith
   Mildred, his wife: Eva Stuart
   Jenny: Nerys Hughes
   Fletcher: Timothy Bateson
   Inspector Welling: David Timson
   Sgt Robbins: Stephen Thorne
   Ron: Fraser Kerr
   Cyril: Nigel Graham
also with Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated 16th May 1974


17th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Like Mrs Lockwood's Boy by Marian Campbell
After the birth.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Pete: John Rowe
   Liz: Petra Markham
   Sal: Kate Williams
   Joe: Norman Mitchell
   Mother: Olga Dickie
   Health visitor: Peggy Ryalls
   Mrs Baker: Moyra Babington
   Man's voice: Norman Mitchell
   Mrs Lockwood: Eileen Parker
   Butterfield: Peter Tuddenham
   Laura: Kate Williams
Repeated 1st July 1970


18th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Judgment of Dr Johnson (1927) by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Frederick Bradnum and Shaun MacLoughlin
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Dr Johnson: Freddie Jones
   Mary Swift: Julie Hallam
   John Swallow Swift: Blain Fairman
   John Wilkes: Timothy Bateson
   Marquise de Montmaret: Cecile Chevreau
   James Boswell: Nigel Graham
   John Burke: Kevin Flood
   Capt Draper: Vernon Joyner
   Ian MacLean: Robert Trotter
   Moira MacLean: Sandra Clark
   Grant of Inverballoch: Fraser Kerr
   
   
18th May 1974
20.30: :
Saturday-Night Theatre: Abelard and Heloise (1970) by Ronald Millar (1919-1998)
Produced By: Martin Jenkins
   Peter Abelard (1079-1142): Richard Briers
   Heloise: Hannah Gordon
   Alain: Sion Probert
   Philippe: Nigel Graham
   Gerard: William Sleigh
   Robert: David Timson
   Guibert, Abelard's servant: Kerry Francis
   Canon Gilles de Vannes: Clive Morton
   Canon Fulbert: Manning Wilson
   Alys, a prostitute: Susan Brown
   The Abbess of Argenteuil: Mary Morris
   Laura: Hilda Schroder
   Mariella: Susan Brown
   Constance: Diana Olsson
   Gisella: Sandra Clark
   Godric: Kathleen Helme
   Jehan: William Sleigh
   Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux: Nigel Graham
   Denise,Abelard's sister: Diana Olsson
Repeated 20th May 1974
[Inspired by "Peter Abelard" (1933) by Helen Wadell].


20th May 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Damsel and Also a Rough Bird by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Producer: Tony Cliff
   Father: George A Cooper
   Smithson: Harry Markham
   Mrs Peacock: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Sam: Derrick Gilbert
   Queenie: Stephanie Turner
   Haythorn: Ronald Herdman
   Joe Peacock: Tony Robinson
   Crematorium director: James Warrior
   Sales girl: Gillian Hanna
   Doctor: Geoffrey Banks
   Cecil: Graham Roberts
Repeated 26th May 1974
[A typescript is held by University College Dublin under ref RTE Box 233/2, RTE document 3851]


22nd May 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mr Ponge by James Hanley (1897-1985)
Producer John Tydeman
   Mr Ponge: Rolf Lefebvre
   Mr Lackmass: Fraser Kerr
   Mr Rounds: Anthony Hall
   Mr Shater: Alan Dudley
   Miss Welcome: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Miss Colduck: Gladys Spencer
   Mrs Rounds: Diana Bishop
   Miss Evans: Carole Boyd
[The play was previously broadcast on BBC TV 9th December 1965]
[Typescript held at University College Dublin with RTE cast list, RTE box 244/2, RTE Doc 4003.]


22nd May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: I Like a Bit of Love by Chris Allen
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   David Tierney: Paul Webster
   Daphne Brown: Barbara Mullaney
   Ted Brown: Graham Roberts
   Sylvia Terry: Claire Kinsale
   Andrew Brown: Tony Robinson
   Gordon Terry: Peter Wheeler
   Joan Terry: Lorraine Peters
Repeated 5th November 1976


22nd May 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Radical Dandy by Keith Miles.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
   Ben Spiggott: Mark Kingston
   Alice Spiggott: Marcia Warren
   Sir Timothy Hatton: Gareth Armstrong
   Joe Glindon: Linal Haft
   Lucy Hatton: Hedli Niklaus
   Mother Gudgeon: Jane Freeman
   Nat Pusey: Terry Molloy
   Ascot Mary: Buster Skeggs
   Augustus Northcott: George Woolley
   Lord Egerton Wykes: Simon Carter
   Capt Buckhouse: Jack Holloway
   Keen: George Woolley
Repeated 23rd May 1974


23rd May 1974:
20.00:
Adrift in the Pacific. A dramatised documentary by Brian Gear.
Producer: Michael Croucher.
   Maralyn Bailey: Moira Hamilton
   Maurice Bailey: John Bennett
   Narrator: Brian Gear
Repeated 18th October 1974

   
24th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Hold my Hand, Soldier by Clive Exton.(1930-2007)
A battlefield.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Private: John Hollis
   Officer: Peter Egan
   Corporal: Haydn Jones
Repeated from R3, 7th and 24th March 1968
[First broadcast on BBC2 TV in 1965]


25th May 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Flat Near the Station by Michael Brett
Producer Harry Catlin
   Guy: John Rye
   Porter: Anthony Hall
   Uncle Henry: Victor Lucas
   Parsons: Brian Haines
   Susan: Diana Olsson
   Freddie: William Sleigh
   Jennifer: Carole Bollard
[Also produced by Archie Campbell (for Light and Home) in 1963 with Leslie Phillips as Guy]
   
   
25th May 1974:
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Wildfire at Midnight (1956) by Mary Stewart (1916-2014) adapted by Stewart Hunter
The island of Skye in 1953. Coronation year.
Producer: Stewart Conn
   Gianetta Brooke: Ursula Smith
   Roderick Grant: Stephen MacDonald
   Marcia: Clare Richards
   Alastair: Derrick Gilbert
   Nicholas Drury: Roy Boutcher
   Mrs Corrigan: Gertrude Bryce
   Corrigan/Hubert: Brian Carey
   Beagle/Col Cowdray-Simpson: Arthur Roland
   Marion/Mrs Cowdray-Simpson: Thelma Barlow
   Roberta: Sally Farrell
   Persimmon: Clement Ashby
   Dougal: Murdo MacDonald
   Inspector: John Shedden
   Sergeant: Charles Baptiste
Repeated 27th May 1974


27th May 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Producer: Ronald Mason
   Lady Windermere: Rosalind Shanks
   Lord Windermere: Peter Baldwin
   Lord Darlington: Timothy West
   Duchess of Berwick: Fabia Drake
   Lady Agatha: Maureen Beck
   Lady Plymdale: Grizelda Hervey
   Mrs Erlynne: Maxine Audley
   Lord Augustus: Godfrey Kenton
   Mr Dumby: John Pullen
   Mr Cecil Graham: John Forrest
   Mr Hopper: Ian Thompson
   Parker: John Wyse
Repeated from 20th and 28th December 1968, 2nd January 1972
Repeated 2nd June 1974, 23rd and 29th January 1978, 25th December 1982
[Also produced in 1989 by David Johnston with Penelope Keith as Mrs Erlynne.]
[Also produced for R3 in 2018, rptd 2020, by Martin Jarvis with Rosalind Ayres as Duchess of Berwick, and Peter Woodward as Mr Dumby.]
[This play was first broadcast in 1926.]


29th May 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Bent Triangle by Tony Allen and Vernon Magee
Producer Peter Novis
   Kevin Lonegan: Paddy Joyce
   Reggie Whicker: Christopher Godwin


29th May 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Theatre in the Family by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
1 of 3: Curtain Up
A family firm of solicitors run a theatre.
Piano music composed and played by Terence Albright
Producer Ian Cotterell
   Simon Vallon: John Rye
   Emily Balsom: Katherine Parr
   Meredith Balsom: Godfrey Kenton
   North: Timothy Bateson
   Edith Batsom: Patricia Leventon
   Isobel Balsom: Jane Knowles
   Julian Balsom: Sam Castor
   Juliet Balsom: Miriam Margolyes
   Hubert Balsom: Brian Haines
   Markham: Alan Rowe
   George Rowson: David Sinclair
   Desmond du Vallon: John Rye
   Stage manager: Hugh Ross
   Young actress: Elizabeth Morgan
   Critics: Timothy Bateson, Vernon Joyner
   
   
29th May 1974:
20.15: Midweek Theatre: The Japanese Girl (1971) by Winston Graham (1908-2003) adapted by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Producer: John Theocharis
   Jack: Brian Cox
   Yodi: Elizabeth Proud
   Hetty: Margaret Wolfit
   Head: Rolf Lefebvre
   Cassell: Nigel Graham
   Lawrence: Fraser Kerr
   Judge: Godfrey Kenton
   Warder: Kerry Francis
Repeated 30th May 1974


31st May 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Nosebag (1944) by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle
Producer: Francis Dillon
   The Soldier: Patrick Wymark
   First Beggar: John Hollis
   Second Beggar: Geoffrey Wincott
   Third Beggar: Trader Faulkner
   Landlord: John Dearth
   Devil Captain: Henry Stamper
   First Devil: Michael McClain
   Chamberlain: Nigel Anthony
   Tsar: Peter Marinker
   Death: Jill Balcon
   Soldier's Wife: Patricia Gallimore
   Little Devil: Josefina Ray
   Gatesman: Eric Anderson
Repeated from 17th May 1966


1st June 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Assassin by Eric Saward
Producer Roger Pine
   Insp Maitland: William Eedle
   Sgt Bound: John Hollis
   Richard Mace: Geoffrey Matthews
   Roundtree: Leonard Fenton
   Asst Commissioner: John Bryning
   Albert Hugget: Alan Dudley
   Rosie: Diana Bishop
   Rosie's friend: Carole Boyd
   Perkins: Julian Fox
   Jeremiah Scrim,: Fraser Kerr
   Landlady: Betty Huntley-Wright


1st June 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Way We Die Now by Michael Z. Lewin
Producer: Roger Pine
   Albert Samson: Ed Bishop
   Mrs Jerome: Joan Miller
   Rosetta Tomanek: Gracie Luck
   Det-Sgt Miller: Blain Fairman
   Robinson Holroyd: Phil Brown
   Edward Ephray: Don Fellows
   Ralph Tomanek: Roger Gartland
   Wallace Ridgelea: Bob Sherman
   Bob: Ramsay Williams
   Danny: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Ephray: Hilda Schroder
   Dr Grue: Stephen Thorne
   Waitress: Diana Olsson
   George: Nigel Graham
   Marie: Sandra Clark
   Mona: Carole Boyd
   Sims: William Sleigh
Repeated 3rd June 1974


3rd June 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Old Ones (1970) by Arnold Wesker (1932-2016)
Twenty-four glimpses Into the lives of a Jewish family.
Producer Christopher Venning
   Sarah: Yvonne Mitchell
   Jack: Vernon Joyner
   Emmanuel: Sydney Tafler
   Gerda: Kathleen Michael
   Boomy: George Pravda
   Rosa: Eva Haddon
   Martin/Youth: Andrew Sachs
   Teressa: Wanda Rotha
   Rudi: Martin Friend
   Millie: Irene Prador
   Youth: David Timson
Repeated 9th June 1974
[Wesker attended a Jewish Infants school.]


5th June 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sad Fortunes of Amos Barton (1857) by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans- 1819-1880) adapted by David Davis
Shepperton, 1830s - a poor curate.
Producer: Hallam Tennyson
   Narrator (George Eliot) Jill Balcon
   Rev Amos Barton: Leslie French
   Milly Barton: Diana Bishop
   Mrs: Hackittcarole Boyd
   Mr Hackitt: Sion Probert
   Countess Czerlasky: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Edmund Bridmain: Stephen Thorne
   Dr Pilgrim: Manning Wilson
   Mrs Patten: Diana Olsson
   Nanny: Elizabeth Morgan
   
   
5th June 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Queer Feet (1910) by G K Chesterton (1874-1936), adapted by Archie Campbell.
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Fr Brown: Leslie French
   Chesterton: William Rushton
   Lever: Harry Hankin
   William: Alan Rowe
   Mr Audley: Manning Wilson
   Duke of Chester: Nigel Lambert
   Colonel Proud: Timothy Bateson
   Flambeau: Francis De Wolff
   Maitre d'hotel: Leslie Heritage
Also with David Timson, Hugh Ross.
Repeated 6th June 1974
[Also produced by Alec Reid in 1984 with Andrew Sachs as Fr Brown.]


7th June 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Memory of Some Willows by David Hopkins.
Producer: Kay Patrick
   David Clayton: Sean Barrett
   Anna Clayton: Rosalind Shanks
   Claire: Jane Hilary
   Ben: Duncan McIntyre
   Geoffrey Clayton: William Fox
   First boy/Janet: Cordelia Mansall
   Second boy: Jill Riddick
   McFee/McClean: Ronald Herdman
   Alex Johnson/Policeman: John Samson
   Madge Johnson: Elspeth Charlton
   Mrs McClean: Ellen Montosh
   Duncan/Cameron: John Graham
   Abbot: Lewis Stringer
Repeated from 15th January 1972


8th June 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Death Watch by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Arvid: Trader Faulkner
   Pia: Margaret Robertson
   Mr Land: Peter Carlisle
   Hofer: Kerry Francis
   Fr Valera: Fraser Kerr
   Le Voisin: Brian Haines
Repeated 23rd July 1975


8th June 1974
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: All in Good Time by Bill Naughton (1910-1992)
Pianist: Trevor Holroyd
Cornet player: J.F.R. Tinker
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Lucy Fitton: Paula Tilbrook
   Ezra Fitton: Geoffrey Banks
   Arthur Fitton: Alan Rothwell
   Geoffrey Fitton: Keith Ladd
   Violet Piper: Anna Keaveney
   Leslie Piper: Ray Mort
   Liz Piper: Jane Lowe
   Joe Thompson: Kenneth Farrington
   Molly Thompson: Juliet Cooke
   Uncle Fred: Graham Roberts
   Eddie: Colin Edwynn
Repeated 10th June 1974, 30th August 1976, 5th September 1976


9th June 1974
21.03:
Denry - The Adventures of a Card, based upon two novels by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), adapted by Olivia Manning.
Part 1 of 8.
Producer Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Denry Machin: Graham Armitage
   Mrs Machin: Kathleen Helme
   Countess of Chell: Ursula O'Leary
   Nellie: Heather Barrett
   Mrs Codleyn: Joyce Latham
   Etches/Calvert: John Baddeley
   Widow Hullins: Betty Mallett
   Mrs Emery: Joan Anstey
   Duncalf/Club secretary: George Woolley
   Shillitoe/Fearns: Simon Carter
Also with Alan Devereux, Geoffrey Leesley, Eric Ball and Ralph Lawton.
Repeated 11th June 1974
[The two novels were The Card (1911), aka Denry the Audacious and "The Regent"(1913) aka The Old Adam.]


10th June 1974:
20.00
Jane Clegg (1913) by St. John Ervine (1883-1971).
Producer: Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   Jane Clegg.: Margaret Robertson
   Henry: Johnny Briggs
   Mrs Clegg: Grace Bircher
   Jenny Clegg: Cindy O'Callaghan
   Johnnie: Carollne Hunt
   Mr Munce: Haydn Jones
   Mr Morrison: Ian Dewar
Repeated 16th June 1974
[Other productions: Year/Producer/Actor as Munce:
1953/John Gibson/J G Devlin
1956/Ronald Mason/James Ellis
1967/Graham Gauld/Anthony Hall
1984/Peter Kavanagh/Brian de Salvo]


12th June 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: I Didn't Take My Mother by Angela Huth
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Arnold Fibre: Ronald Herdman
   Nora Huntley: Katherine Parr
   Hilary: Julie Hallam
   Roger: Fraser Kerr
   Lynn: Diana Bishop
   Gary: Sion Probert


12th June 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Inspector Ghote and the River Man by H. R. F. Keating (1926-2011)
Bombay (Mumbai) CID, India.
Producer: John Scotney
   Inspector Ghote: Kevork Malikyan
   Superintendent: Saeed Jaffrey
   River Man: Aubrey Woods
   Dr Abrahams: Sheila Mitchell
   Dr Doctor: Heather Emmanuel
   Parson: Godfrey Kenton
Repeated 13th June 1974
[Keating wrote 26 novels and many short stories, featuring Inspector Ghote. This play was adapted into a short story in "Inspector Ghote, His Life And Crimes" (1992), book 19.]


14th June 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Christmas Trifle by Ludvik Askenazy (1921-1986) translated by Vera Blackwell.
Music composed by Stepan Lucky
Tenor: Edward Darling, Soprano: Ellen Dales
Czechoslovakia, WW2. Singing trout.
Producer: Josef Cervinka
   Roskot: Patrick Troughton
   Albert: Hector Ross
   Klima: Haydn Jones
   Commandant's wife: Dorothy Tutin
Repeated from R3 2nd January 1967, 21st January 1967.
Repeated from R4 25th September 1970
[Original title: Piskot]


15th June 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Himself by Anthony Grey
The bureaucracy of the human body.
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Betty Davies
   Himself: David Timson
   Herself: Diana Bishop,
   Commuter: Stephen Thorne
   Living Cell 10047, Parathyroid: Nigel Anthony
   His Superior: James Thomason
   Living Cell 10013: David Valla
   Living Cell 100654: Sion Probert
   Brain Cell One: Rolf Lefebvre
   Brain Cell Two: John Rye
   Chief Engineer, Fuel Refinery: Fraser Kerr
   His assistant: Antony Viccars
   Ego: John Rye


15th June 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Bertie by Lydia Ragosin
Producer: Margaret Etall
   Bertie: Freddie Jones
   Princess Alexandra (Alix): Diana Olsson
   Prince Albert: Stephen Thorne
   Queen Victoria: Hilda Schroder
   Lord Beresford: Vernon Joyner
   Sir Francis Knollys/ John Brown: David Timson
   Charlotte Knollys: Dorit Welles
   Lillie Langtry: Caroline Hunt
   Leon Gambetta: Brian Haines
   Lord Salisbury: Denis McCarthy
   Princess Helena/ Princess Victoria (Vicky): Liane Aukin
   Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (Willie): Nigel Anthony
   Lady Brooke (Daisy): Rosalind Shanks
   Doctor: William Sleigh
Repeated 17th June 1974


17th June 1974:
20.00
The Monday Play: Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) dramatised by Liane Aukin from the translation by Rosemary Edmonds.
Special effects Mary Barrett, Carol McShane and BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Technical presentation: Gordon Bowen
Part 1 of 2.
Producer: Kay Patrick.
   Anna: Sarah Badel
   Karenin: Anthony Newlands
   Vronsky: John Rowe
   Levin: Sean Arnold
   Oblonsky: Neville Jason
   Dolly: Sheila Grant
   Kitty: Joanna Wake
   Matvey: Martin Friend
   Yashvin: David Sinclair
   Princess Shcherbatsky: Iris Mitchell
   Serpuhovskoy: John Bull
   Countess Nordston: Elizabeth Morgan
   Countess Vronsky: Eva Stuart
   Korsunsky: Rolf Lefebvre
   Princess Betsy: Norma Ronald
   Guest: Carole Boyd
   Princess Myagky: Virginia Balfour
   General: Stephen Thorne
   Petritsky: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 23rd June 1974
[Large number of radio productions]


19th June 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Great Gorilla Scandal by Stewart Love (1934-2021)
Producer: John Scotney
   Tom: John Hollis
   Peterson: Aubrey Woods
   Bill: Nigel Graham
   Chemist/ Sam: John Bull
   Clerk/ Inspector: David Sinclair
   Gerry/ Lawyer: Brian Haines
   Taxman: John Rye
   Hunter: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 18th July 1978


19th June 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: They Don't Cry for Arms by Brian Lee
Summer, 1939
Producer: David Spenser
   Narrator: Eric Allan
   Mr Ashley: Rolf Lefebvre
   Mr Duffy: James Thomason
   Mr Nichols: John Rye
   Miss Turner: Hilda Schroder
   Boatman: Alan Dudley
   Jings: Ian Sharrock
   Saggers: Christopher Watts
   Myers: Spencer Wright
Repeated 10th October 1975


19th June 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Double or Nothing by Michael Brett
Producer: Jane Graham
   Martin Trevor: John Justin
   Geoffrey Trevor: David Quilter
   Prudence: Joan Matheson
   Ruby: Marjorie Westbury
   Jennifer: Pamela Miles
   Hotel clerk: Alan Barry
   Henry Slater: Brian Haines
Repeated from 11th and 12th February 1970
Repeated 20th June 1974


21st June 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Reunion (1960) by Fred Uhlman (1901-1985) adapted by Joan O'Connor
Stuttgart, Germany, 1932.
Producer: John Tbeocharis
   Hans Schwartz: Sean Barrett
   Konradin von Hohenfels: Brian Hewlett
   Dr Schwartz: Cyril Shaps
   Frau Schwartz: Eva Stuart
   Martha Schwartz: Mikel Lambert
   Herr Zimnerman: John Ruddock
   Herr Adalbert: Nigel Lambert
   Herr Rosen: Peter Marinker
   Herr Loehr: Geoffrey Beevers
   Herr Brandt: David Gooderson
Repeated from 10th June 1972


22nd June 1974:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Bingley's Classic Case by Allan Surtees
Producer: Betty Davies
   Insp Lockwood: Timothy Bateson
   Sgt Redding: David Sinclair
   Hetty Bingley: Katherine Parr
   Brenda Bingley: Frances Jeater
   Joe Bingley: John Baddeley
   Billy Marsh: Edward Kelsey
   Mr Gillow: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Gillow: Hilda Schroder
   Marjorie Gillon: Elizabeth Morgan
Repeated 30th January 1976


22nd June 1974
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Enquiry by Charlotte Hastings
A women's prison.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Kate Walmer: Pat Pleasance
   Probyn: Diana Olsson
   Collins: Margot Boyd
   Frances Treadgold: Vanessa Lee
   Marcy: Marjorie Forsyth
   Marian Oates: Carole Boyd
   Laura Fenn: Flora Robson
   Dr Janet Graham: Kathleen Helme
   Gow: Ysanne Churchman
   Rev John Shillitoe: Godfrey Kenton
   Valentine: Elizabeth Proud
   Tom Walmer: Nigel Graham
Repeated 24th June 1974


26th June 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Survival by Judy Allen
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Helen: Betty Fleetwood
   Edward: Manning Wilson
   Robert: Julian Fox
   Greengrocer: Peter Wickham
   Barbara: Betty Huntley-Wright


26th June 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Linesman by David Bartlett.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Lorri Gwyther: Donald Houston
   Dan Gwyther: Haydn Jones
   Ruth Gwyther: Pauline Letts
   David Gwyther: David Timson
   Laura: Julie Hallam
   Miss Sharpies: Jill Simcox
   Engineer: John Bull


26th June 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Perishing of the Pendragons (1914) by G K Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Archie Campbell.
   Fr Brown: Leslie French
   G K Chesterton: William Rushton
   Producer: Christopher Venning
   Flambeau: Francis de Wolff
   Pilot: Timothy Bateson
   Sir Cecil Fanshaw: Hugh Ross
   Admiral Pendragon: Manning Wilson
   Tremayne: Vernon Joyner
   Bennetto: John Baker
   The Girl in the Canoe: Julie Hallam
Repeated 27th June 1974
[Also produced by Alec Reid in 1986 with Andrew Sachs as Fr Brown - rptd on R4X/R7 2007-2024]


27th June 1974:
20.00:
Savage Messiah (1931) by H S Ede (aka Jim Ede) (1895-1990)
Produced By: Maurice Leitch
   Henri Gaudier: Nigel Anthony
   Sophie Brzeska: Annette Crosbie
also with Trader Faulkner, Anthony Jackson, Pamela Binns, Margot Boyd, Daphne Rogers, Cari Hedderwick, John Rye, Ramsay Williams
[Sophie died intestate in 1925, and Ede obtained her documents from the Treasury Solicitor, including documents from Henri. The book followed based upon the letters between the two and other material. Sophie's autobiography was published in 2008.]


28th June 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Murder with Variations by Michael Brett.
Producer: Betty Davies
   Frances Court: Maxine Audley
   Philip Arnold: Noel Johnson
   Molly Wheeler: Madi Hedd
   Jimmy: Nigel Anthony
   Charles: Martin Jarvis
Repeated from 19th October 1966


29th June 1974:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Jellico by J C W Brook.
Producer: David Spenser
   Ian: Derek Seaton
   Alice: Gladys Spencer
   Sally: Julie Hallam
   Clale: Rosalind Adams
   Frid: Richard Hurndall
   Housekeeper: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated 2nd June 1976

   
29th June 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Poacher (1935) by H. E Bates (1905-1974)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
   Buck Bishop: Charles Simon
   Luke Bishop (boy): Jill Shilling
   Luke Bishop (man): Geoffrey Matthews
   Lily: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mrs Bishop: Nan Marriott-Watson
   Hester: Jane Knowles
   Sal: Carole Boyd
   Aunt Hannah: Kathleen Helme
   Poll Saunders: Diana Bishop
   Jack Reeves: David Timson
   Baron: Brian Raines
   A shepherd: David Sinclair
   First constable: William Eedle
   Second constable: Fraser Kerr
   Mrs Strickland: Susan Richards
   Mr Strickland: Manning Wilson
   Rev Elijah Thompson: Vernon Joyner
   Eddie (boy): Judy Bennett
   Eddie (man): Hugh Ross
Repeated 1st July 1974


30th June 1974:
22.15:
The Penkovsky Riddle by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
Producer: John Theobaris
   Russian Prosecutor: Michael Kilgarriff
   The Judge: Godfrey Kenton
also with David Brierley, Sam Dastor, William Eedle, Nicholas Evans, Denis McCarthy, John Samson, Hilda Schroder, William Sleigh.
[Listed for broadcast July 1973 but not transmitted at that time]


1st July 1974
20.00
The Monday Play: Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty.
1899-1939
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Mrs Patrick Campbell: Isabel Dean
    Bernard Shaw: Cyril Cusack
Repeated 7th July 1974, 1st October 1979


3rd July 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Community Swansong by Helen J. Wilson
Pianist: Arnold Loxam
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Ted Baxter: Wilfred Pickles.
   Joan: Janet Dale
   Arthur Mottram: Geoffrey Banks
   Alec/Bert: Christian Rodska
   Mollie: Ella Atkinson
   Nell: Elizabeth McKenzie
[Based in Leeds, Arnold Loxam (1916-2010) was better known as a Theatre Organist]
   
   
3rd July 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Charlie is My Darling by James Scotland (1917-1983)
Producer Gordon Emslie
   Charlie Johnstone: Rikki Fulton
   Jimmy Johnstone: Willy Joss
   Madge Johnstone: Jan Wilson
   Tina Johnstone: Virginia Stark
   Young Jimmy: Sheila Donald
   Willie Redpath: Phil McCall
   Dr Smellie: Una McLean
   Gordon Hunter: Ian Ireland
   Prof Scott: Bryden Murdoch
   Alex McAuslan: John Young


3rd July 1974:
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Dead End by Michael Brett.
Producer: John Cardy
   Peter Evans: Jon Rollason
   Motorist/Eddie: Alan Rowe
   Sally Evans: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mr Loxley: Julian Somers
   Gerry Loxley: John Rye
   Rusty: Kerry Francis
   Alf/Marelli: Alan Barry
   Insp Marks: Jeffrey Segal
   Max: Ronald Herdman
   Lofty: Alan Dudley
Repeated 4th July 1974


5th July 1974:
Episode (1947) by W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), adapted by Robin Smyth.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Storyteller: Carleton Hobbs
   Fred Manson: Nigel Anthony
   Gracie: Jo Manning Wilson
   
   
6th July 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Plum Job by Charles Hatton
Producer Harry Catlin
   Walter Trewin: Vernon Joyner
   Denise Trewin: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Dodd: Manning Wilson
   Archie Raybould: Trevor Martin
   Vicar: Godfrey Kenton
   Maggie Blain: Sandra Clare


6th July 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Light of a Thousand Suns by James Follett
The inevitable malfunction.
Producer: Margaret Etall
   Computer Operator: Carole Love
   Capt Harrison: Manning Wilson
   Floyd: Michael Shannon
   Lieut Sinclair: John Rye
   Leading Technician Stride: Ian Thompson
   Lieut Aitkin: Sion Probert
   Lieut Fisher: John Bill
   Muster at Arms: Nigel Graham
   First rating: Rugh Ross
   Second rating: Roger Gartland
   Prime Minister: Conrad Phillips
   Louise Arnott: Sheila Mitchell
   Theodore Pike: Vernon Joyner
   Wallis: James Hayes
   Computer Operator: Carole Boyd
Repeated 8th July 1974, 26th July 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X/R7 2009-2019]


8th July 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Cry of Morning (1971) by Brian Cleeve (1921-2003) adapted by Peter Hoar
1960's : A new Ireland.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Francis O'Rourke: Kevin Flood
   Maura his wife: Jane Wenham
   Venetia, their daughter: Heather Bell
   Dermot / Felicity O'Connor: Kate Binchy
   Sean O'Conaire/Barman: John Baddeley
   Johnny O'Hara: Kerry Francis
   Paddy Gunn: Harry Webster
   Kate Lennox: Fidelma Murphy
   John, her husband: David Timson
   Lady Honoria: Elizabeth Morgan
   Cecil Gandon/ Matty O Carroll: Sion Probert
   Andrew Fane/Father Trevor: Hugh Ross
   Mother Veronica: Margaret Robertson
   Sister Philomena: Carole Boyd
   The Minister: Manning Wilson
Repeated 14th July 1974


10th July 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Just One More Time by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Peter Novis
   Wally: John Rowe
   Hilda: Joan Matheson
   Scottie: Elizabeth Proud
   Dave: Sion Probert


10th July 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Expediency by T. D. Webster with Hugh Burden and Malcolm Terris
A secondary school.
Producer: Susanna Capon
   Jane: Sandra Clark
   Frank Edwards: Hugh Burden
   Alice: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Stephen: Diana Olsson
   Charles: Wilfrid Carter
   Peter Hammond: Malcolm Terris
   Arthur Smithson: Godfrey Kenton
   Dr Stewart: Gerald Cross
   Martin: David Timson
   Older teacher: Alan Rowe
   Val Pearson: Liane Aukin
   Bernard Rock: Antony Viccars
   Christine Hammond: Jane Knowles


10th July 1974
20.15
The Dagger with Wings (1924) by G K Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Archie Campbell.
Produced by Christopher Venning.
   Fr Brown: Leslie French
   Chesterton: William Rushton
   Dr Boyne: Hugh Ross
   John Strake: Peter Yapp
   Arnold Aylmer: Sam Dastor
   Insp Collins: Stephen Thorne
   PC Robinson: Hugh Ross


12th July 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Strawberry Ice (1966) by Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) translated (1973) by Henry Reed.
Producer: Christopher Venning.
   Barbara: Rosalind Shanks
   Tosea: Marjorie Westbury
   Flaminia: Jill Balcon
   Letizia: Kathleen Michael
   Cesare: John Rowe
Repeated from 24th January 1973
Repeated 18th August 1979
[Original title: Fragola e panna. A 2008 translation by Wendell Ricketts was called Strawberry and Cream.]


13th July 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Whistling Wally by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Norman: Michael Wardle
   Kev: Christian Rodska
   Mary: Kathleen Helme
   Wally: John Hollis
   Kath: Elizabeth Proud
   Joe/Porter: Charles Simon
   Doctor/Priest: Nigel Lambert
   Kitty/Sister: Rosalind Strang
Repeated 10th March 1976
[Whistling Wally's Son was broadcast 23rd May 2011 and 7th October 2013]


13th July 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Apollo's Laurel Bough by Frederick Treves (1925-2012).
1758.
Producer: Martin Jenkins.
   Eugene Aram: Patrick Troughton
   Burney/Clark: David Timson
   Weatherhead/Moor: Sion Probert
   Porter/Tuton/Gaoler: Peter Tuddenham
   Turner/Justice Noel: Alan Rowe
   John Barker: Colin Douglas
   Knox/Dr Locock: Manning Wilson
   Anna Aram: Anna Cropper
   Houseman: Kerry Francis
   Rev Collins: Timothy Bateson
   Polly Powell: Diana Bishop
   Thornton: John Rye
   Usher/Latham: David Gooderson
   Fletcher Norton: Anthony Newlands
   Rev Brotheric: Stephen Thorne
   Coates: David Rowlands
Repeated 15th July 1974


15th July 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Master Sunshine by Peter Russell
Pianist: Winifred Davey
Producer: Betty Davies
   Tom Tytham (boy): Judy Bennett
   Tom Tytham (grown-up): Christopher Good
   Alfred Burton: Hector Ross
   Stokes: Sion Probert
   Mrs D'Arcy: Diana Olsson
   Hedges: Nigel Graham
   Augustus Tytham: Gerald Flood
   Lydia Tytham: Madi Hedd
   Josie Willows: Elizabeth Morgan
   Jeffrey Hawke: William Eedle
   Sybil Willows: Emily Richard
   Dr Mills: Denis McCarthy
   Vanessa: Diana Bishop
   Harry Tytham: Manning Wilson
   Landlord: David Sinclair
   His wife: Hilda Schroder
   Soldier: John Bull
Repeated 21st July 1974
[The story continued post-WW1 in "Tom Tytham" broadcast 23rd and 29th June 1975, and continued further with "Tom's Son" set in 1941 broadcast 17th and 23rd January 1977]


17th July 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Vagrant Heart by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017)
Two Traveller clans.
Producer Archie Campbell
   Johnny Muswell: Clifford Norgate
   Jessie, his sister: Patricia Leventon
   Jim his son: David Howe,
   Carrie, his daughter: Debbie Lee London
   Mr Smith: Charles Lamb
   Mrs Smith: Nan Marriott-Watson
   Tam Smith: Richard Dennis
   Police Sergeant: Alan Haines
   Vicar: Sean Arnold
   Schools Attendance Officer: Brian Hewlett
Repeated from 3rd September 1970
[Previously a 1959 tv movie]


17th July 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fox (1922) by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
   Jill Banford: Sandra Clark
   Ellen March: Margaret Wolfit
   Henry Grenfel: John Rowe


17th July 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Going Up by Ian D. Chessman
A lift operator.
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Fred Flax: Bernard Cribbins
   Professor Albergine: Ronald Herdman
Repeated 18th July 1974
[In days of old before automated lifts, an attendant would operate the lift.]


19th July 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Man at the Wheel by Arthur Swinson (1915-1970)
A collision at sea.
Producer: David Geary
   Capt Johannsen: Edward Kelsey
   Gerda: Jo Manning Wilson
   Caroline: Paddy Stephenson
   John Lakeman: Clifford Norgate
   Earnshaw: Hector Ross
   Capt O'Neill: Terence de Marney
   Mr Bilton: Jeremy Wilkin
   Surveyor: Edward Kelsey
   AB Harper: Peter Hill
   Ashcroft: Richard Steele
   Carter: Anthony Brothers
   Reporter: Roger Sansom
Repeated from 24th October 1970
[AB stands for Able Bodied, a qualified seaman.]


20th July 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: As Long As Ye Both Shall Live by Aubrey Woods (1928-2013).
One does not live that long.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Valerie: Heather Sears
   Paul Blomfield: Basil Moss
   Etienne Delpech: David March
   Garance Delpech: Jane Wenham
   Jean-Louis Delpech: Geoffrey Matthews
   Caroline Anders: Carole Boyd
   Martin Jordan: Kerry Francis
   Felton: Vernon Joyner
   Jarrow: Alan Rowe
also with Hazel Coppen, Betty Huntley-Wright, Hector Ross, Stephen Thorne, Sion Probert, Denis Mccarthy


20th July 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Toll-Gate (1954) by Georgette Heyer (1902-1974). Dramatised by Cyril Wentzel.
It is 1817 in the Peak District.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   John Staple: Colin Fisher
   Nell Stornaway: Elizabeth Bell
   Henry: Bob Hornery
   Coate: Alan Dudley
   Stogumber: Norman Mitchell
   Winkfield: Hugh Smith-Marriott
   Ben: Mark Rogers
   Sir Peter: Ronald Adam
   Chirk: Hal Jeayes
   Joseph: Michael Bishop
   Mrs Staple: Mollie Petrie
Repeat listed for 22nd July 1974 but not broadcast on that date- the repeat was on 9th September 1974.
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1958 with June Tobin as Nell]


22nd July 1974
20.00
The Monday Play: The Servants and the Snow (1972) by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Peter Jack: John Rowe
   Basil: Peter Jeffrey
   Oriane: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Grundig: Alan Rowe
   Hans Joseph: George Hagan
   Frederic: David Gooderson
   Father Ambrose: Hector Ross
   Marina: Carole Boyd
   Mikey: Judy Bennett
   Maxim: David Timson
   Patrick / General Klein: Patrick Magee
Repeated 28th July 1974


24th July 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Communication Cord by Alan Vaughn Williams
Producer Betty Davies
   Ben Wilson: John Fullen
   YWen: Jan Edwards
   Bob, the landlord: Sion Probert
   Mair, his wife: Elizabeth Morgan
   Derwen: Gareth Armstrong
[A communication cord was a wire running along a row of train carriages. In an emergency a passenger could pull the string to ring a bell in the drivers cab or guards van.... later the brakes were applied automatically when the cord was pulled. Now replaced with emergency levers or call buttons.]


24th July 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Jericho Road by Brian Wright.
"Illegal immigrants". Who is my neighbour?
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Coker/Constable: Nigel Anthony
   Palling: Denis McCarthy
   Det-Insp Miller: Vernon Joyner
   Det-Sgt Ross: Michael Deacon
   The Girl: Sandra Clark
   The Man: Sean Arnold
   The Immigrant: Sam Dastor
   Thompson: Godfrey Kenton
   Taxi driver/Dr Rahman: Geoffrey Matthews
   Driver's mate: Peter Pacey
   Old man/Vicar: Leonard Fenton
   Stan: Nigel Lambert
   Dave: Michael Deacon
   Woman: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mrs Clements: Miriam Margolyes
[For source of title see Luke Ch 10 v30]


24th July 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Lady's Man by David Williams.
Producer: Dickon Reed
   Simone: Elizabeth Proud
   Benny: Peter Pacey
   Patch: Sean Arnold
   Mr Whitman: Alan Rowe
   Mike: Nigel Graham
   Barman: Nigel Lambert
   Insp Lomax: Michael Goldie
Repeated 25th July 1974


26th July 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dark Encounter by Vivian Paget.
Producer: Lorraine Davies
Cato Trevelyan: Richard Bebb
   Beth Trevelyan: Petra Davies
   Col Charles Whitaker: Noel Johnson
   Insp Read: Dillwyn Owen
   Susan Drayton: Sian Davies
   Jack Drayton: Ronnie Williams
   Doctor: Frederick Taggart
   Sister: Myfanwy Talog
Repeated from 26th June 1968
[A typed script with written annotations is held by BBC Scripts Archive (GB 0210 BBC) at National Library of Wales, UID TCF/20/CB854, file R3/871/6]


27th July 1974:
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Causes for Alarm by Ivor Wilson.
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Maureen Eckersley: Barbara Young
   Freda Smith: Carole Hayman
   Frank Bright: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Joe Graham: Christian Rodska
   Sgt Reg Mason: Geoffrey Banks
   Insp Davis: Graham Roberts


27th July 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Heroes by William Smethurst (1945-2016)
1813.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
   Cpt Philip Bowes...:William Lucas
   George Watt: John Rowe
   Provo Wallis: Rhys McConnachie
   Charles Falkiner: Geoffrey Leesley
   Mr Stevens (Bosun): Don Henderson
   Joseph Brown: Percy Herbert
   Jacob West: Graham Rigby
   William Perry: Paul Henry
   Capt James Lawrence: Paul Maxwell
   Augustus Ludlow: Peter Whitman
   Sarah Broke: Patricia Greene
   Senator Henry Clay: Kerry Francis
   Liza Clay: Elizabeth Revill
   Capt Slocum: Don Fellows
   Lord Melville: George Woolley
   Nan: Buster Skeggs
also with Linal Haft, Jack Holloway, David Moran, John North and Richard Simpson.
Repeated 29th July 1974


29th July 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Marching Song by John Whiting
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Harry Lancaster: Nigel Stock
   Dido Morgen: Frances Jeater
   Matthew Sangosse: Alan Dudley
   Father Anselm: Manning Wilson
   Catherine de Troyes: Billie Whitelaw
   Rupert Forster: Michael Bryant
   John Cadmus: Alan Webb
   Bruno Hurst: David Timson
Repeated 4th August 1974, 29th July 1979



31st July 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Dreamers by Sean Walsh
Labourers in London.
Producer: Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   Shay: Michael Duffy
   Liam: Stephen Rea
Repeated 3rd January 1978


31st July 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Nonconforming Nonconformist by Geoffrey Parkinson
Harmonium: Anna Berenska
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Geoffrey Parkinson: Geoffrey Beevers
   Young Geoffrey: Judy Bennett
   Mother: Miriam Margolyes
   Mr Armitage: Stephen Thorne
   Minister: William Eedle
   Sybil: Carole Boyd
   Mr Booth: Timothy Bateson
   Young John: Ian Sharrock
   Joanne: Hilda Schroder
   Mrs Armitage: Diana Olsson
   Mr Tilley: David Timson
   Father: Sean Arnold
   Dick: Crispian Thorne
Repeated 25th March 1977, 14th July 1979
[Autobiographical. The author had a Methodist upbringing.]


31st July 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Mirror of the Magistrate (1925) by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Archie Campbell
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Fr Brown: Leslie French
   Chesterton: William Rushton
   Wilfred Underhill: David Sinclair
   Det-Insp Bagshaw: Alan Rowe
   Michael Flood: John Livesey
   Green: Sam Dastor
   Osric Orm: Jonathan Burn
   Buller: Timothy Bateson
   Sir Arthur Travers: Godfrey Kenton
   Sir Michael Blake: Nigel Lambert
Repeated 1st August 1974


2nd August 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Exit Pursued by Rony Robinson
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 from 6th January 1973


3rd August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Husband for Nasima by John Ashe
Producer Dickon Reed
   Dick: Ellis Jones
   Lorna: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Ted: Stephen Thorne
   Roger: Peter Pacey
   Jennie: Emily Richard
   The Crait: Nigel Graham
   Nasima: Maureen Morris
   Airport Official/Waiter: John Rye
   Counsellor: Manning Wilson


3rd August 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Taste of Proof by Bill Knox
Producer Gordon Emslie
   Chief Insp Thane: Paul Kermack
   Insp Moss: Robert Trotter
   Frank Humbie: Arthur Boland
   PC Beech: Michael Bruce
   Sgt MacLeod: Robert Docherty
   Mary Thane: Mary Riggans
   Doc Williams: Michael Elder
   Dan Laurence: Willy Joss
   Joe O'Brien: Ian Ireland
   Barbara McPhail: Rose McBain
   Greenlaw: Ian Dewar
   Kelso: John Shedden
   Greta Rodell: Clare Richards
   Supt Ilford: John Young
   Agnes Humbie: Jenifer Angus
Repeated 5th August 1974


4th August 1974
21.03
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Barry Campbell
Part 1 of 11.
Title music played by the Band of the Royal Corps of Transport: director of music Major William Allen
Producer Jane Graham
   Narrator: Hugh Burden
   Guy Crouchback: Hugh Dickson
   Apthorpe: Norman Rodway
   Brigadier Ritchie-Hook: Patrick Troughton
   Major Tickeridge: Vernon Joyner
   Trimmer: Nigel Anthony
   Leonard: David Timson
   Sarum-Smith: John Bull
   Tommy Blackhouse: Stephen Thorne
   Ian Kilbannock: Philip Bond
   Virginia Troy: Jennifer Hilary
   Mr Crouchback: Carleton Hobbs
   Uncle Peregrine: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Arthur Box-Bender: Jeffrey Segal
   Angela: Diana Olsson
   Tony: Paul Gregory
also with Peter Baldwin, Alan Dudley, Brian Haines, Carole Boyd, Betty Huntley-Wright, Elizabeth Morgan
Final episode 13th October 1974
Each episode repeated after two days.
Series repeated commencing 1st July 1984.
[The title "Sword of Honour" is a collective title for three novels- Men At Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961).]
[The storyline was inspired by Waugh's own experiences in WW2.]
[Waugh amended the storyline so that Guy was childless at the end but the 1974 Penguin print was of the prior ending with Guy having two sons.]


5th August 1974:
19.30
The Burghers of Calais (1913) by Georg Kaiser (1878-1945) translated by J. M. Ritchie and Rex Last
music composed and conducted by David Cain
Producer: John Theocharis
   Eustache de Saint-Pierre: Robert Harris
   Jean de Vienne: Derek Godfrey
   Dugueselins: William Squire
   English Officer: Stephen Thorne
   French Officer: William Eedle
   Jean d'Aire: Godfrey Kenton
   Andrieu d'Andres: Denis McCarthy
   Eustache's father: Carleton Hobbs
   The Mother: Hilda Schroder
   Four Councillors: John Rye, Nigel Graham, Sam Dastor, Nigel Lambert


7th August 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Rabbits Gambit by Danny Greenstone (1953-2015)
Producer Dickon Reed
   Andrew: Peter Pacey
   Ted: Peter Craze
   Jerry: Sion Probert
   Belinda: Vicky Ireland
   Typist: Emily Richard
   Commissionaire: Stephen Thorne
   Mr Tarant/Mr Brunning: Denis McCarthy
   Valerie: Sandra Clark
   Mr Parker/Barman: Hector Ross



7th August 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Saturday Hack by Peter Fieldson
Producer: Peter Novis
   Alf Adler: Edward Kelsey
   Steve Mason: Sean Arnold
   Betty Adler: Sheila Grant
   Newsreader: Stephen Thorne
   Sir Henry Mathers: Aubrey Woods
   Barbara Bryant: Carole Boyd


7th August 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Lemon Tea by Sandra Shippy (Sandi Johnson)
Producer John Theocharis
   Rosie: Betty Hardy
   Paul: Len Jones
   Johnson: Timothy Bateson
   Miss Sweetman: Carole Boyd
   Frank: Peter Pacey
   Reggie: David Sinclair
   Det-Insp Childs: Stephen Thorne
   Sgt Pennyman: Sean Arnold
   Barman: Kerry Francis
Repeated 8th August 1974


9th August 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Samaritan by John Hynam (1915-1974).
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Stan Bates: Wilfred Pickles
   Elsa Bates: Margaret Wolfit
   Joe Marchant: John Samson
   Sue Marchant: Jane Knowles
   Mrs Marchant: Margot Boyd
   Passer-by: Brian Haines
   Milkman: Robin Browne
   Woman: Olwen Griffiths
   Pat Hannigan: Allan McClelland
   George: William Eedle
   Sheila: Kate Binchy
Repeated from 27th December 1972


10th August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Sultan's Dilemma (1960) by Tewfik Al Hakim (1898-1987), translated by Denys Johnson-Davies adapted by John G. Pitman.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Condemned Man: David March
   Executioner: Nigel Lambert
   Wine Merchant: Sion Probert
   Maidservant: Emily Richard
   Beautiful Lady: Elizabeth Morgan
   Muezzin: Alec Bregonzi
   Vizier: Timothy Bateson
   Sultan: John Pullen
   Chief Cadi: Michael Spice
   Citizens: Alan Dudley, Sean Arnold



10th August 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1887) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) adapted by Constance Cox (1912-1998).
Summer 1895.
Music arranged and played by Terence Allbright
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Herr Winkelkopf: Roy Kinnear
   Baines: Alan Rowe
   Lord Arthur Savile: Richard Briers
   Sybil Merton: Diana Olsson
   The Dean of Paddington: Godfrey Kenton
   Lady Windermere: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Lady Clementina Beauchamp: Kathleen Helme
   Lady Julia Merton: Sylvia Coleridge
   Mr Podgers: Timothy Bateson
   Nellie: Emily Richard
Repeated 12th August 1974
[Also produced in two parts by Eoin O'Callaghan in 1992]
[Also produced by Gemma McMullan in two parts in 2006]
[Constance Cox adapted the story for the stage in 1952 and her adaption was further adapted to a tv play in 1960]


11th August 1974
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark dramatised by Jay Allen
1930s Edinburgh
Producer: Stewart Conn
   Jean Brodie: Gudrun Ure
   Mr Perry: Nigel Graham
   Sister Helena: Sandra Clark
   Miss Brodie: Gudrun Ure
   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 from 12th March 1973


12th August 1974
19.30:
The Monday Play: Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen translated by Ann Jellicoe
Norway, 1886.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
   Mrs Helseth: Mary O'Farrell
   Rebecca West: Margaret Leighton
   Mr Kroll: Haydn Jones
   John Rosmer: Michael Gwynn
   Ulric Brendel: Willoughby Goddard
   Peter Mortensgard: John Bryning
Repeated from 1962


14th August 1974
11.30 : Thirty-Minute Theatre: Jack In the Box by Tom Wright
Producer Gordon Emslie
   John Murdoch: Paul KermacK
   Helen Murdoch,: Anne Kristen
   Harkins: Tony Roper
   Martin Forsythe: Michael Elder
   Jack: Lawrence Douglas


14th August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Doppelganger Machine by James Follett (1939-2021)
1933: Heathrow- the West European air terminus of the Third Reich ...
Producer Roger Pini
   Skip: Hector Ross
   Gerry: Nigel Lambert
   Mac: Hugh Ross
   Esther: Eva Haddon
   Travers: Peter Pratt
   tiuller: William Eedle
   Sergeant: John Samson
   Anton Barrett: Manning Wilson
   Post Office official: Denis McCarthy
   Officer: Julian Fox
   Radar operator: John Foley
   PO Cash: John Bull
[Also broadcast on R4X]


14th August 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Test to Destruction by R.D Wingfield.(1928-2007)
Producer: Robert Cushman (1970)
   John Somersham: Robert Lang
   Gwen Somersham: Beth Harris
   Maxwell: Dudley Foster
   Garwood: Malcolm Tierney
   Hamilton: Patrick Newell
   Collins: Patrick Tull
   Price: John Nightingale
   Bishop: Jeffrey Segal
   Archer: Matthew Walters
   Brown: Ian Thompson
   Shirley: Clare Ballantyne
Repeated from 15th July 1970
Repeated 15th August 1974


16th August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Great Steeplechase Race by Matthew Walters
Producer: David Geary
   Julian: Peter Baldwin
   Ludmilla: Diana Payan
   Julian's wife: Rosemary Martin
   Jenny: Sian Davies
   Commentators: Leslie Heritage and Clifford Norgate
   Motorist: Antony Higginson
   Bill: Charles Hodgson
   First Headmaster: Ronald Forfar
   Applethwaite: John Westbrook
   Second Headmaster: Noel Iliff
   Miss Smithers: Margot Boyd
Repeated from 17th March 1971
Repeated 17th October 1979

   
   
17th August 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Landscape with Lies by Michael Robson
Producer Ian Cotterell
   Col Wager: Alan Rowe
   Edward Lomas: Vernon Joyner
   Achilles: Sam Dastor
   Marcus Foster: John Rye
   Lord Harkness: Godfrey Kenton
   Miriam Foster: Anna Carteret
   Ruth Blount: Hilda Schroder
   Eileen Blount: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Godfrey Myers: Sion Probert
   Major Ripley: Peter Pacey


17th August 1974
18.30
Ganymede (1959) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
A man's obsession with a boy.
Produced by Derek Hoddinott
   The Man: John le Mesurier
   The Boy: Anthony Daniels
   The Fat Man: John Sharp
   The Porter/Consul: David Gooderson
[Ganymede was in some tales abducted by Zeus who loved him.]


17th August 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Strode Venturer (1965) by Hammond Innes (1913-1998) adapted by Peter Hoar
Producer Dickon Reed
   Cpt Deacon: Colin Douglas
   Peter Strode: Martin Jarvis
   Bailey: John Shrapnel
   Ida: Heather Bell
   Fields: David Br1erley
   Straker/Cunning: Vernon Joyner
   Henry Strode/Radio operator: Alan Rowe
   Reece: Peter Pacey
   Whinbrill/Alexander: Geoffrey Matthews
   Turner: Timothy Bateson
   Don Mansoor/Seaman: Sam Dastor
   Lennie/RAF officer: John Bull
   Stewardess/Waitress: Emily Richard
Repeated 19th August 1974


18th August 1974
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Public Prosecutor (1948) by Fritz Hochwalder (1911-1986) translated by Kitty Black
Paris 1794. The violence of the French revolution.
Produced By: Archie Campbell
   Fouquier-Tinville: Joss Ackland
   Grebeauval: Malcolm Hayes
   Tallien, a revolutionary leader: John Pullen
   Theresia his Wife: Eva Haddon
   Sanson, Chief Executioner: Peter Pratt
   Montane, judge: Raf de la Torre
   Fabricius: John Breslin
   Heron: John Bryning
also with Kerry Francis, Alan Barry, Jan Edwards and Sonia Fraser
Repeated from 22nd December 1969
[The original title="Der offentliche Anklager"]


19th August 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: According to the Regulations by Elizabeth Morgan
Llanelly in 1911
Violinist Lionel Bentley
Producer Betty Davies
   Dai Morgan: Glyn Houston
   Ellen Morgan: Elizabeth Morgan
   Gwyn Morgan: Douglas Blackwell
   Annie Morgan: Jan Edwards
   Iestyn Morgan/ Owen Spencer: Sion Probert
   Gwilym Morris: Anthony Hall
   Rachel Morris: Christine Pollon
   Mansel Thomas: Gerald James
   Tecwyn Richards: William Ingram
   Hugh Davies: David Sinclair
   Lieut Smythe/ Winston Churchill: David Timson
   Major Denning: Vernon Joyner
   Bugle boy: Peter Pacey
   Lloyd George: Timothy Bateson
   Keir Hardie: Hector Ross
   George Lansbury: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 25th August 1974


21st August 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Hollow Victory by Derek Wellman
A sitting Member of Parliament faces a challenger.
Producer John Cardy
   Col Widdicombe: Richard Hurndall
   Evelyn Widdicombe: Fabia Drake
   Gillian Anstey: Anna Cropper
   Douglas Anstey: Hugh Suliivan
   Fred Faulkner: Timothy Bateson
   Waitress: Emily Richard
   
   
21st August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Wreath for Old Graves by Charles Thomas
1936 - the Spanish Civil War.
Producer Betty Davies
   Alf Draper: Michael Harbour
   Jim Draper: John Bull
   Mrs Draper: Hilda Schroder
   Will Draper: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Thorpe: Katherine Parr
   Elsie: Nerys Hughes
   Iris: Carole Boyd
   Marshall: Bruce Beeby
   Bill Shelley: Andrew Sachs
   
   
21st August 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Worriers by Gwyn Thomas (1913-1981)
Sheep, Shepherd, Dogs.
Producer Lorraine Davies
   Jack Sharp: Ryan Davies
   Wyndham Wilkie: Talfryn Thomas
   Edie Sharp: Myfanwy Talog
   Wally Wallace: Ronnie Williams
   Mungo Wallace: Idillwyn Owen
   Nelson Wagstaff: Brinley Jenkins
Repeated 22nd August 1974


23rd August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Jane (1923) by W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Liane Aukin.
Producer: Ronald Mason.
   Willie Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
   Marion Tower: Nicolette Bernard
   Brine/Dickie: James Thomason
   Jane Fowler: Mary Wimbush
   Gilbert Napier: David Brierley
Repeated from 5th March 1969,
Repeated 6th July 1985


24th August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Late Night Final by Douglas Clark
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Chief Supt Coggan: David Lander
   Det-Insp Hislop: Tony Anholt
   Det-Supt Masters: Christopher Saul
   Barbara Hislop: Emily Richard
   Det-Con Aveling: Velda Draisey
   Chief Con Baird: Basil Clarke
   Det-Sgt Brown: John Nightingale
   Arthur Carr: Jack Carr
   Mrs Compton: Norma Ronald
   Dick Pugsley/Dr Swan: Vernon Joyner
   Grumball: Timothy Bateson
   Collingwood: Alan Rowe


24th August 1974:
18.30:
The Apple Tree by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Mr Carey: Charles Gray
   Willis: Douglas Blackwell
   Midge: Patricia Leventon
   Mrs Lord: Katherine Parr
   Mrs Hall: Daphne Rogers
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2024]


24th August 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Soldier, Poorman, Beggarman, Thief by John Howlett (1940-2019)
Producer: Roger Pine
   Orlando: Stuart Damon
   Hammond: Don Fellows
   Joe: Ramsay Walliams
   Ghizzi: Edward Kelsey
   Carla: Joanna Wake
   Baron: Denis McCarthy
   Maria: Rosalind Adams
   Sandro: John Bull
   Bosario: Nigel Lambert
   Maresciallo: David Sinclair
   Elsa: Bonnie Hurren
   Colonel: Garard Green
also with Betty Huntley-Wright, Pat Starr, Hilda Schroder
Repeated 26th August 1974


26th August 1974:
20.00:
Hindle Wakes (1910) by Stanley Houghton (1881-1913)
An unmarried couple in Llandudno for the weekend.
Producer: Alfred Bradley.
   Nathaniel Jeffcote: Wilfred Pickles
   Fanny: Billie Whitelaw
   Christopher Hawthorn: Bert Palmer
   Mrs Hawthorn: Mary Quinn
   Mrs Jeffcote: Katherine Parr
   Alan Jeffcote: Brian Peck
   Sir Timothy Farrar: Peter Schofield
   Beatrice Farrar: Pamela Craig
   Ada: Veronica Doran
Repeated from 22nd and 24th May 1965, 11th and 13th January 1969,
Repeated 1st September 1974, 29th April 1978
[Also produced by Kate Rowland in 1996 with Sophie Stanton as Fannie - rptd on R4X 2014-2019]
[The story revolves around "the wakes" when all the mills in a town closed down for maintenance and the workers went off for a holiday (unpaid) which they saved for through clubs. Differing towns had different wakes weeks.]


28th August 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Man Who Grew Chrysanthemums by Malcolm Hazell
Producer Michael Bowen
(Bristol)
   Stanning: Raymond Francis
   Mason: Nigel Lambert
   Miletta: Sion Probert
   Woman: Carole Boyer


28th August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Take Your Partners by David Spenser (David De Saram 1934-2013)
Producer: John Tydeman
   Vincent: Robert Powell
   Lawrence: Martin Jarvis
   Peggy: Angela Pleasence
   Shirley: Carole Boyd
   Lily: Eva Haddon.
Repeated 8th December 1978
   

28th August 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: The Camp of the Dog (1908) by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) adapted by Sheila Hodgson.
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Dr John Silence: Malcolm Hayes
   Stephen Hubbard: Timothy Bateson
   Rev Timothy Maloney: David March
   Mrs Maloney: Joan Matheson
   Joan Maloney: Jane Knowles
   Peter Sangree: Peter Whitman
   Porter: David Sinclair
Repeated 29th August 1974, 16th October 1965


30th August 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: At Nunappleton House by Don Taylor
Music composed and conducted by H. R. Chappell and played by The Sidney Sax Quartet
Producer: Richard Wortley
   The Man: Barry Foster
   Andrew Marvell: Gary Watson
   Yorkshire workman/Lambert: Patrick Toll
   General Sir Thomas Fairfax: David March
   Lady Fairfax: Ellen Dryden
   Mary: Jean Rogers
   Robert: John Ruddock
Repeated from R3 28th March 1971 and 27th June 1971


31st August 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Milk and Honey by Malcolm MacDonald from his book "World from Rough Stones".
1 of 3. Milk and Honey. 1839.
   Producer: Richard Wortley
   Lord John: Barry Foster
   Nora: Nerys Hughes
   Walter: Hugh Koss
   Labourer: Sion Probert
   Farmer/Payter: Stephen Thorne
   Sir Sidney: Nigel Graham
   Dr Prendergast: Denis McCarthy
   Meg: Diana Olsson
Parts 2 and 3 on 7th and 14th September 1974.
[The book was the first of a trilogy, book 2 was "The Rich are with you Always"(2010) and book 3 was "Abigail"(2011) ]
   
   
31st August 1974:
18.30:
Frustration by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989).
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Susanne: Judy Cornwell
   Stanley: Jeff Rawle
   Father: Douglas Blackwell
   Mother: Delia Paton
   The Vicar: Harold Reese
   The Landlady: Norma Ronald
   
   
31st August 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Operation Pedestal by Frederick Treves (1925-2012)
August 1942: Operation Pedestal.
Producer: Roger Pine
   Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring: Alan Dudley
   Fourth mate: Sean Arnold
   Stobart: Gareth Johnson
   Hugh Macintyre: Michael Cochrane
   Capt Fordyce: Don McKillop
   Chief Officer Robinson: John Hollis
   Lieutenant Edwards RN: David Rowlands
   Second Officer Hunt: Alan Rowe
   Mansergh: Manning Wilson
   Banks: Bryan Pringle
   Clarke: Jack Carr
   CPO Jones: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 2nd September 1974
[Frederick Treves sailed in the Merchant Navy as a participant in Operation Pedestal. The majority of the crew of the ship Treves sailed on (as a cadet) were killed by a bomb.]


2nd September 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Dead Man On Leave by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001) (With acknowledgement to "Levine the Life of a Revolutionary" (1973) by Rosa Levine-Meyer (1890-1977))
Music by Terence Allbright
Producer: John Tydeman
   Eugen Levine (1883-1919): Cyril Shaps
   Singer: Nicolette Roeg
   Narrator: Sam Dastor
   Ernst Toller: David March
   Karl Liebknecht: John Hollis
   Rosa Levine: Shirley Cooklin
   Rosa Luxemburg: Margaret Robertson
   Emmanuel Dort: John Foley
   The Kaiser: Alan Dudley
   Mama: Betty Huntley-Wright
Also with Timothy Batkson, Carole Boyd, John Bull, Hugh Ross, Stephen Thorne, David Timson, Manning Wilson
Repeated 8th September 1974
[Rosa Broido married Eugen Levine in 1915]


4th September 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Only a Matter of Time by F. L. Mayell
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Schoolboy: Richard Dillane
   Tom Rushton: John Rye
   Mr Crocker: Vernon Joyner
   Mary Rushton: Diana Olsson
   Sam: Nigel Lambert
   Pickering: Nicholas Dillane
   Headmaster: Manning Wilson
   Nurse: Emily Richard
   Doctor: Nigel Graham
Repeated 30th August 1977
[A 30 page typescript of the play is held by University College Dublin, RTE Box 273/2, RTE Doc 4424, ref P261/2358]


4th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: When the Bough Breaks by Ivor Wilson
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Taffy: Christopher Godwin
   Rosalind Greenway: Joanna Tope
   John Stern: John Rowe
   Jim: Peter Bourke
   Roland Bishop: Geoffrey Banks
   Jacky: Moira Hughes
   Mrs Sutton: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Mr Sutton: Graham Roberts
   Charles Ramsay: John Linstrum


4th September 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Murder a la Carte by Ragan Butler
Producer: Stuart Griffiths
   Sir George Major: Norman Shelley
   Miss Harper: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Lehmann: Alan Rowe
   Bass: Leo Maguire
   Merry: Vernon Joyner
   Cesare, a waiter: Sion Probert
   Dr Morton: Gerald Cross
Repeated 5th September 1974


6th September 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Oh Lucy! by Allan Peacock.
Producer: Brian Miller
   Lucy Meadows: June Barrie
   Peter Jennings: David Spenser
   Muriel Whittington: Penny Morrell
   Robert Turley: Michael Beint.
Repeated from 13th October 1965
   
   
7th September 1974
18.30-19.00
Panic (1931) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
A casual love affair.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   David: Dinsdale Landen
   Celia: Maureen O'Brien
   Sheila: Jane Thomson
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2024]


7th September 1974
20.15:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Eden End (1934) by J B Priestley (1894-1984)
Yorkshire as WW1 approaches.
Production By: Roger Pine
   Wilfred Kirby: Paul Gregory
   Sarah: Gabrielle Daye
   Lilian Kirby: Louis Ramsay
   Dr Kirby: Leslie Sands
   Stella Kirby: Joan Plowright
   Geoffrey Farrant: Geoffrey Palmer
   Charles Appleby: Michael Jayston
Repeated 30th December 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014-2019]


9th September 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning (1908-1980), dramatised by Eric Ewens.
Part 1 of 3.
Producer: John Tydeman
   Harriet: Anna Massey
   Guy: Jack Shepherd
   Yakimov: Aubrey Woods
   Clarence: John Rye
   McCann: Denis McCarthy
   Inchcape: Manning Wilson
   Woolley: Godfrey Kenton
   Sophie: Magdalene Buznea
   Galpin: Hector Ross
   Dobson: Stephen Thorne
   Bella: Kate Coleridge
   David Boyd: David Timson
   Klein: Alan Dudley
   Mrs Ramsden: Betty Hardy
   Miss Turner: Gladys Spencer
   Miss Truslove: Betty Huntley-Wright
Each part repeated six days later.
Series repeated commencing 4th October 1981 and 1st October 1990 .
[The adventures of Harriet and Guy are based upon the experiences of Olivia Manning and her husband.]
[The Balkan Trilogy books were "The Great Fortune" (1960), "The Spoilt City" (1962) and "Friends and Heroes" (1965).]
[The two trilogies The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy are known as "Fortunes of War. The Levant Trilogy was broadcast in 1981 with the same actors as Harriet and Guy.]


10th September 1974
20.30
Ruffian Dick by Peter Hunt.
Sir Richard Burton.
Producer: Robert Cradock
   Richard Burton: Francis de Wolff
   Isabel: Elizabeth Morgan
   Journalist: David Sinclair
   Contessa: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Dr Baker: Hector Ross


11th September 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Love in Triplicate by Robert Storey
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Myra Briggs: Stephanie Turner
   Stephen Watson: Bob Grant
   Jill Watson: June Barry
[First broadcast as a tv play in 1965]


11th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Haywire at Humbleford Flag by Ken Whitmore
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Alfred Mitford: Alan Rothwell
   Roy Ransome: Christopher Godwin
   Myrna: Cleone Rive
   Inchbald: Ronald Herdman
   Enoch/Voigt: Brian Miller
   Boanerges: Peter Bourke
   Hickson/Persons: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Penny: Bonnie Hurren
   Miss Bovis: Eileen Derbyshire
[This was Ken's first radio play]


11th September 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Murder Locked Out by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
London, early 1970s.
Producer Harry Catlin
   Det-Sgt Day: Hector Ross
   Det-Con Hodges: John Rye
   Mrs Stacey/Secretary: Emily Richard
   PC Turner: Peter Pacey
   Desk Sgt/Doctor: Nigel Lambert
   Det-Supt Lawrence: Denis McCarthy
   Mr Smith: Godfrey Kenton
   Dr Kendrick/PC Grover: Kerry Francis
Repeated 12th September 1974


13th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Prisoner by Don Haworth.(1924-2007)
Producer: Alan Ayckbourn
   Policeman: Sam Kelly
   Magistrate: Geoffrey Banks
   Stanley Warburton: Colin Edwynn
   Mother: Marjorie Rhodes
   Potter: Bob Grant
   Vera: Heather Stoney
   Mrs Cartwright: Eileen Derbyshire
   Mr Cubbins: Geoffrey Banks
   Alderman Walter Wingle: David Jackson
   Onlooker: Harry Markham
   Inspector: Brian Miller
Repeated from R3, 5th September 1969, 16th December 1969 and R4 13th November 1972


14th September 1974:
18.30-19.00
The Breakthrough by Daphne du Maurier.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott.
   Saunders: Ronald Pickup
   Mac: Richard Leech
   Ken Ryan: David Griffin
   Robbie: Nigel Lambert
   Niki: Diana Olsson
   Mrs Janus: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Voice of Charon: Sion Probert


14th September 1974
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Tom Sawyer Would Have Approved by Tony Bilbow
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   John Grantley: John Rowe
   Phillip Green: Derrick Gilbert
   Tom Cork: Denis Lill
   Mike Downs: Tony Bilbow
   Employer/Benny Haydock: Ronald Herdman
   Marsha: Eileen O'Brien
   Jenny: Janet Dale
   Gordon/Mr Granger: Geoffrey Banks
   Mr Clyde/Flying instructor: Christopher Godwin
   Barney/Security guard: Barrie Rutter
Repeated 16th September 1974


18th September 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Boredom Chorus by David Walker
Producer: Susanna Capon
   Adam: Sean Arnold
   Tes: John Shrapnel
   Joan: Patricia Heneghan
   Eve: Carole Boyd
   Headmaster: Manning Wilson
   Smith: Jamie Forman
   Govan: Dennis Gasper
   Warren: Jeffrey Chapman
Other boys: Andrew Berezowski, Steven Padwick, Roger Monk


18th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Mouthful of Knives by Peter Berry
Producer: Susanna Capon
   Muriel: Emily Richard
   Scuff Twemlow: Jack Woolgar
   Arthur Straker: David Daker
   Secretary: Norma Ronald
   Jason Young: Patrick Magee
   Mary Young: Betty Baskcomb
   George Hetherington: Frederick Treves
   Stella Hetherington.: Liane Aukin
Repeated 27th February 1976


18th September 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Rien ne va plus by Bruce Montague
Gambling: roulette.
Producer: Dickon Reed
   Ron: Michael Harbour
   Arthur: Trevor Martin
   Colin: Manning Wilson
   Benny: Kerry Francis
   Barbara: Diana Olsson
   Downs: Alan Rowe
   Abraham/teller: Leonard Fenton
   Policeman/Guard: Ronald Forfar
Repeated 19th September 1974
[The title is the announcement just before a roulette wheel is spun- no more bets.]


20th September 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Requiem on Strangford by John Tarrant
Producer: David A. Turner
(Northern Ireland)
   John Logan: Maurice O'Callaghan
   Susan Costello: Heather Gibson
   Sergeant Ryan: J J Murphy
   Dr Donnelly: Jack McQuoid
   Michael Brady: John McBride
   Kathleen Costello: Yvonne Adams
   Cmdr Casey: Robert McLernon
   Phil Moran: George Mooney
Repeated from 31st July and 1st August 1968


21st September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats adapted by W R Rodgers.
Music composed and conducted by Havelock Nelson. BBC N. Ireland Orchestra
Producer Ronald Mason
   Ray McAnally: Eamonn Keane
   Narrator: Peter Adair
   Mary: Catherine Gibson
   Teig: Sam McCready
   Shemus: Liam O'Callaghan
   Countess Cathleen: Eithne Dunne
   Oona: Nita Hardie
   Aleel: Eamonn Keane
   First Merchant: Ray McAnally
   Second Merchant: Bryan Robson
   Steward: Maurice O'Callaghan
   The Angel: Robert McLernon
Repeated from R3, 22nd July 1965, 8th August 1965, 7th June 1966, R4 23rd April 1971
[Also produced by Frederick Bradnum in 1960 for R3]

   
21st September 1974
18.30-19.00
Not After Midnight by Daphe du Maurier (1907-1989)
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Tim: Kenneth Haigh
   Jane: Jane Knowles
   Hotel clerk: David Griffin
   Hotel barman: Nigel Lambert
   Mr Stoll: Marvin Kane
   
   
21st September 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Late into the Night by William Keenan
Theme composed by Mat Camison and arranged by David Fleming-Williams
Producer Trevor Hill
(North of England)
   Miss Doris Wickham: Anna Cropper
   Michael Heywood: John Bennett
   Dave Thomas: Peter Ellis
   Mrs Clare O'Connell: Elizabeth Kelly
   Boris Balakeff: David Mahlowe
   Insp Mayer, Essen Police: Ronald Herdman
   Charles Crawley: Graham Tennant
   Robson: John Linstrum
   Helga: Janet Dale
   Frau Langerman: Juliet Cooke
   The Stranger, Jim: Geoffrey Banks
   The Occupant from Room 409: Paul Webster
Repeated 23rd Septmber 1974,7th February 1976
[Sequel "The Night of Caesar's Knives" broadcast 14th February 1976.]


25th September 1974:
09.35-10.00:
Lord Peter Wimsey: Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) adapted by Chris Miller
1 of 5.
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   Bunter: Peter Jones
   Inspector Parker: Gabriel Woolf
   Mr Thipps: Norman Bird
   Mrs Thipps: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Inspector Sugg: Stephen Thorne
Series repeated from 30th December 1973
Series repeated commencing 28th June 1990
[NOTE: Due to election programs episodes were NOT broadcast on 2nd and 9th October 1974. Episode 2 was broadcast on 16th October 1974 and episode 5 on 6th November 1974]
[Also produced by Vanessa Whitburn in 1992 with Gary Bond as Wimsey, rptd R7/R4X 2008-2021]]


25th September 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Goldfish in the Jungle by Richard O'Keeffe
Producer Harry Catlin
   Ed: David Freedman
   Tim: Stephen Jenn
   Peter: Sion Probert
   Sandra: Karen Archer
   Ticket man: Manning Wilson


25th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Just Beyond the Bay by John George
Producer Martin Jenkins
   Chico: Sion Probert
   Lucy: Jane Knowles
   Dai: Haydn Jones
   May: Elizabeth Morgan
   Jack: Douglas Blackwell
   Bill: Carl Porgione


25th September 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Bang, Bang, You're Dead by Muriel Spark (1918-2006) adapted by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Producer Betty Davies
   Desiree: Christine Finn
   Sybil: Jill Bennett
   Ella: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Cynthia: Elizabeth Morgan
   Ted: Alan Dudley
   Ralph: David Timson
   Amelia: Grizelda Hervey
   Sybil's mother: Elizabeth Morgan
   Sybil's father: Hector Ross
   Ariadne: Carole Boyd
   Barry Weston: John Rye
   David Carter: Sean Arnold
Repeated 26th September 1974, 22nd July 1976
[Also broadcast R4X 2026]


27th September 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Borderline by Colin Mares
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Peter Malling: Clifford Rose
   Ruth Mailing: Aline Waites
   Dr Fallon: Cyril Luckham
   Mr Simpson: John Bentley
   Jean Baxter: Caroline Hunt
   Laceby: Leslie Heritage
   Secretary/ Hospital Sister: Sara Coward
Repeated from 2nd January 1971
   
   
28th September 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Photograph of Fogatty by Frank Wilson
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Lunt: John Linstrum
   Isbister: Martin Matthews
   Cath: Suzanne Ellison
   Parry: William Whymper
   Stanford: Bernard Latham
   Nettlestead: Paul Webster
   Kingsley/fogatty: Christian Rodska
   Hayes: Peter Bourke
   Thomson: Peter Ellis


28th September 1974:
16.30-17.00
Jennings at School: Jennings and the Scientific Frogman by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004)
France.
Producer: Herbert Smith
   Editor: Graham Gauld
   Jennings: Mark Hadfield
   Darbishire: Steven Jenkins
   Venables: Nigel Maxin
   Atkinson: Jeremy Clarkson
   Temple: Jonathan Carp
   Mr Carter: John Daglish
   Mr Wilkins: Anthony Buckeridge
   Headmaster: David Mahlowe
   Dr Hipkin: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated from 25th April 1973
[Also produced by David Davis in 1954 with Henry Searle as Darbishire]
[Also produced by Graham Gauld in 1961 with Adrian Walker as Darbishire]
[Jennings was created for radio in 1948, the books followed later.]


28th September 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: One Fair Daughter (1970) by N C Hunter (1908-1971)
Produced By: Norman Wright
   Count Gaston de Listrac: Raymond Huntlit
   Catherine de Listrac: Rosalind Shanks
   Gerard Deffand: Edward de Souza
   Marianne Lesage: Cecile Chevreau
   Philippe Moreau: Sean Arnold
   Solange Moreau: Frances Jeater
   Madeleine Perret: Emily Richard
Repeated 30th September 1974


30th September 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Eugenie Grandet (1834) by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) adapted by Roger Woddis
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Felix Grandet: Godfrey Kenton
   Mme Grandet: Janet Burnell
   Eugenie, their daughter: Sandra Clark
   Nanon, their servant: Margot Boyd
   Charles, Eugenie's cousin: Martin Jarvis
   Maitre Cruchot: James Thomason
   M le President de Bonfons: Peter Baldwin
   Des Grassins: John Rye
   Mme Grassins: Madi Hedd
   Dr Bergerin: Peter Williams
   M le Curee: Alan Reid
   Cornoiller: Kenneth McClellan
   Jean: Peter Williams
Repeated 6th October 1974


2nd October 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Noble Houses. Stately Trees by Gordon Dryland (1926-1965)
Producer Dickon Reed
   Rex: Paul Haley
   Rex (boy): Jean England
   Mother: Barbara Laurenson
   Father: Terence Bayler
   John: Richard Poore
   Celia: Nicolette McKenzie
   Mr Goodenough: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Goodenough: Jasmine Greenfield
   Kenny: Susan Thomas
   Frances: Elizabeth Morgan
   Bartelli: Trader Faulkner
[Gordon Dryland was a New Zealander]


2nd October 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Demons by Jack Gerson (1928-2012)
Producer: Gordon Emslie
   George Seddon: Bryden Murdoch
   Peter Ashley: Ron Bain
   Sydney Douglas: Gerard Slevin
   Professor Ross: Martyn James
   Judith Mackenzie: Virginia Stark
   Charlie Hastings: George Howell
   Benjamin Frazier: Robert Trotter
   Frank: Michael Bruce
also with Isobel Gardner, Mary Riggans, Arthur Boland


2nd October 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: We Could Always Fit a Sidecar by Stan Barstow (1928-2011)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
   Foreman: Kenneth Farrington
   Harry: Christian Rodska
   First mechanic: Richard Williams
   Second mechanic: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Mrs Baynes: Paula Tilbrook
   Thelma Baynes: Sylvia Brayshay
   Jack Baynes: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Mrs Kitson: Lorraine Peters
Repeated 3rd October 1974, 7th April 1977
[A sidecar attached to the side of a motorbike, allowing a seated passenger. There was a third wheel to balance the weight.]


4th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Round Trip by Michael Brett.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Max Brayling: Ronnie Barker
   Jenny Brayling: June Whitfield
   George Hardy: Andrew Sachs
   Insp Denham: Hamlyn Benson
   Driver: Carard Green
   Policemen: Frederick Treves
   Policemen: Malcolm Terris
Repeated from 18th November 1964


5th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye by Teresa Collard
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Supt Jamieson: Eric Lander
   Chief Insp Gannymede: Manning Wilson
   Barbara Gannymede: Norma Ronald
   Jane Gannymede: Jane Knowles
   Sgt Baines: Jack Carr
   Saul Merritt: Godfrey Kenton
   Andrew Shepherd: Sean Arnold
   Robert Lister: Roy Spencer
   Wladek Browski: Andrew Sachs
   Garrett: Paul Trent
   Waiter: John Vine
[The title has been used by many authors]


5th October 1974
16.30:
Flying Doctor in Africa by Michael Noonan.
1 of 6. An Island far from the Sea.
Producer: Peggy Bacon
   Editor: Graham Gauld
   Dr James Lane: Ronald Baddiley
   Karl Wegner: Michael McClain
   Sue Jenning: Norma Ronald
   Mary Donald: Kate Coleridge
   Miller: John Rye
   Frank: Nigel Lambert
   Dutchman: Peter Pacey


5th October 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Gold and Burning Daylight by Herbert Midship Coad
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Dede: Sarah Badel
   Burning Daylight: Nigel Stock
   Joe Hines/Dowsett: Malcolm Hayes
   Olaf/Howison: Trader Faulkner
   Doc Watson/Guggenhammer: Brian Haines
   Hegg: Christopher Bidmead
   Carmack: Stephen Thorne
   Rev Judge/Letton: Peter Carlisle
   Dutton: Vernon Joyner
   Old Man: Ramsay Williams
   Holdsworthy: Peter Marinker
   Barboy/Morrison: Nigel Lambert
   Hagan: David Valla
   Waiter: Timothy Peters
   Secretary: Norma Ronald
Repeated 7th October 1974
[Partly based on the Jack London novel "Burning Daylight"]


7th October 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Henry Enjoying Himself by Jennifer Phillips
A holiday in Scarborough.
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Henry: Freddie Jones
   Mrs Gamble: Noel Hood
   Alice: Stephanie Turner
   Police Constable: Peter Pacey
   Doris: Kate Coleridge
   Audrey: Frances Jeater
   Mr Evans: David Brierley
   Mrs Delaney: Betty Hardy
   Albert: Stephen Thorne
   Police Insp: Vernon Joyner
Repeated 13th October 1974


9th October 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Monica by Pauline MacAulay (1927-2022)
Producer: Christopher Venning
   James: Garrick Hagon
   Leonard: Geoffrey Matthews
   Porter: Trader Faulkner
[Play first broadcast on BBC2 TV with Peter Cushing as Leonard]


9th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Tangled Web by John Graham
Producer: Glyn Dearman (1939-1997)
   Q Webb: With David Valla
   Stella: Kate Coleridge
   Sir Alec Lithgow: Lockwood West
   Mr Thorneycroft: Jack May
   Amanda: Norma Ronald
   Hepple: Alan Downer
   Brian: Nigel Lambert
   Mrs O'Mallie/Mrs Goulder: Katherine Parr
   Nurse/Mrs Jarvis: Madi Hedd
   Amanda: Norma Ronald
   Female voice/Voice: Pauline Letts
Repeated 15th September 1979


9th October 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Saturday Roster by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Producer: Kay Patrick
   Hastier: John Pullen
   Byrne: David Gooderson
   Gordon: Sion Probert
   Sally: Frances Jeater
   Maggie: Jean Trend
   Valery: Emily Richard
   Mrs Wallace: Elizabeth Morgan
   Porter: Peter Pacey
Repeated 10th October 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


12th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Secret Miniature by Douglas Keay (1926-2019)
Producer: Kay Patrick
   Ethel: Betty Hardy
   Madge: Aimee Delamain
   John: Lewis Stringer
   Kenneth: Nigel Graham
   Mary: Ellen McIntosh


12th October 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: That Boy by Ivor Wilson
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Roland Endicott: Martin Jarvis
   Captain: Graham Roberts
   Thomas (man): Alun Bond
   Thomas (boy): Judy Bennett
   Sarah: Helen Worth
   Mrs Gray: Paula Tilbrook
   June Simpson: Fiona Walker
   Mr Draper: Geoffrey Banks
   Mrs Morton: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Mrs Allen: Rosalind Ayres
Repeated 14th October 1974


14th October 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare, translated by Derek Coltman, dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Incidental music composed and directed by Terence Allbright
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Italian General: Maurice Denham
   Italian Priest: Rolf Lefebvre
   Albanian Expert: John Moffatt
   German General: David March
also with Eric Allen, Diana Bishop, Sam Dastor, Fraser Kerr, Sion Probert, Hilda Schroder and William Sleigh
Repeated 20th October 1974


16th October 1974:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Sheltered Place by T. G. Nestor
Producer: Michael Heffernan
   Father Anselm: Harold Goldblatt
   Niall Enright: I J Murphy
   Joe McCarthy: Aine McCartney
   Padden: Bill Hunter
   Murt: Michael Duffy
   
   
16th October 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Fugue by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Louisa: Anna Massey
   Peter: Dinsdale Landen
   Mother: Pauline Letts
   Janet: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Roddy: Sion Probert
   Deirdre: Carole Boyd
   George: Trader Faulkner
   Father: Denis McCarthy


16th October 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Norman A. Clarke Esq by John Hynam (1915-1974)
   Nobby Clarke: Malcolm Hayes
   Stanley Wiggs: Nigel Anthony
   Clara/Woman PC: Madi Hedd
   Joe Harris/Court Judge: Timothy Bateson
   Policeman: Jack Carr
   Friendly Bloke: Nigel Lambert
   Ticker Wiggs: David March
   Det-Sgt Tomlinson: Stephen Thorne
   Nina Harris/Nurse: Kate Coleridge
Repeated 17th October 1974


18th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Seasons of the Blind by R C Scriven. (1907-1985)
1 of 3."All Early in the April"
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Narrator: Stephen Murray
   Gertie Scriven, mother: Elizabeth Proud
   Jack Scriven, father: Kerry Francis
   Charles Scriven, grandfather: Peter Pratt
   Clerk: Frederick Treves
   Ronald Scriven, the author: Sheila Grant
   Grandmother: Kathleen Helme
   Neville Scriven, brother: Jo Manning Wilson
   Tom: Nigel Lambert
   Aunt Ciss: Hilda Kriseman
   Wilfred Kemp: Judy Bennett
   Uncle Harold: Leonard Fenton
[Part two was titled "The Peacock Screamed One Morning". Part 3 was not titled in Radio Times.]
[There were further plays: on 6th August 1972 "Summer with Flowers that Fell" (Play 4); on 30th November 1974 "A Measure of Sliding"; and 12th November 1975 "Nocturne of Provincial Spring" (Play 6).]
[Part 2 was repeated 3rd Nov 1979, incorrectly listed in Radio Times as a repeat from 1970 (eg the 1968 production)]
[Charles Lefeaux also produced the play in 1968, rptd 1970 with Haydn Jones, Lockwood West, Michael Hordern]
[R C Scriven was nearly stone deaf from age 8, and blind for most of his life.]


19th October 1974
15.05: Afternoon Theatre: Awaiting Alison by Philip Barker
Producer John Cardy
   Paul Hedges: Richard Kay
   Ann MacIntyre: Nicolette McKenzie
   Emily Geisham: Aimee Delamain
   Janet Geisham: Sonia Dresdel
also with Kate Coleridge, Alan Dudley, Vernon Joyner, Peter Pacey, Norma Ronald and John Rye


19th October 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Flash Point by Michael Gilbert (1912-2006)
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Tom Buller: Alan Dudley
   Christopher Martineau: John Rye
   Jonas Killey: Brian Haines
   Edward Lambard: James Thomason
   Will Dylan: Alan Rowe
   Patrick Fentiman: Michael Harbour
   Bernard Gracey: Gerald Cross
   Prime Minister: Manning Wilson
   Terence: Peter Pacey
   Benz-Fisher: Charles Hodgson
   Cedric Lyon: Lockwood West
   Mrs Warhurton: Madi Hedd
   Willoughby: Sean Arnold
   Stukely: David Sinclair
   John Charles: Peter Williams
   Det-Sgt McGillivray: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Killey: Elizabeth Morgan
   Deborah: Emily Richard
   Wilfred MacRae, QC: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 21st October 1974


20th October 1974:
21.03-21.58:
Old Mortality (1816) by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Part 1 of 5.
1679 - Scotland.
Producer: Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
   Lady Margaret Bellenden: Lennox Milne
   Gilbertscleugh: John Young
   Edith Bellenden: Gwyneth Guthrie
   Bothwell: Derek Anders
   Halliday: Ian Ireland
   Balfour of Burley: Tom Fleming
   Henry Morton: Michael Harrigan
   Cornet Grahame: Lawrence Douglas
   Old woman: Jean Faulds
   Alison: Helen Norman
   Milnwood: Bryden Murdoch
   Mause Headrigg: Joan Fitzpatrick
   Cuddie Headrigg: Alex McAvoy
All parts repeated after two days.


21st October 1974:
20.00:
The Land of Promise (1913) by W Somerset Maugham. (1874-1965)
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Agnes Pringle: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Kate: Madi Hedd
   Norah Marsh: Anna Massey
   Wickham: Trader Faulkner
   Dorothy Wickham: Norma Ronald
   Mr Wynne: Lockwood West
   Hornby: Christopher Good
   Edward Marsh: Timothy Bateson
   Gertrude Marsh: Valerie Colgan
   Frank Taylor: Edward Judd
   Sidney Sharp: David Sinclair
   Emma Sharp: Elizabeth Morgan
Repeated 27th October 1974
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1953 with Mary Wimbush as Dorothy]


23rd October 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Cat Called Willie by Derek Raby
Producer: Betty Davies
   William Frodbury,MP: Peter Tuddenham
   Charles Benter, MP: Timothy Bateson
   the Mayor: Bryan Pringle
   Harry Malley: Nigel Lambert
   Mrs Godstone: Hazel Coppen
also with John Bull, Elizabeth Morgan and Betty Huntley-Wright


23rd October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: She Was One of My Oldest Friends by Shirley Cooklin
Producer: Betty Davies
   Jane: Shirley Cooklin
   Tom: Martin Jarvis
   Fiona: Emily Richard
   Cynthia: Margaret Robertson
   David: Peter Williams
also with Denis Mccarthy


23rd October 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Letter from a Dead Gellyman by Martin R. Walker
Producer: Peter Novis
   Harry Greenaway: Nigel Graham
   Benny: Sean Arnold
   Lil/Nurse: Madeleine Cemm
   Sandra: Hilda Schroder
   Lorraine: Diana Olsson
   Mr Proctor/Fred: John Browning
   Mr Bartlett: Leslie Heritage
   Richie: John Bull
   Inspector: John Rye
   Maxwell: Sion Probert
   Mr Plank: Jack Carr
Repeated 24th October 1974


26th October 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Barricade by Lester Powell.
Producer: John Scotney
   George: Nigel Anthony
   Mrs Maryon: Mary Wimbush
   Inspector Dell: Inigo Jackson
   Karen: Kate Binchy
   Mr Jellis/Mr Hooper: John Ruddock
Repeated from 21st October 1972


26th October 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Trevuzza's Land by Roy Bolitho (1913-1998)
Cornwall in the 1880s
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Narrator: Trader Faulkner
   Long John Trevuzza: Stephen Sylvester
   Mert Trevuzza: Alan Moore
   Helen Trevuzza: Kate Coleridge
   Richard Blight: John Forrest
   Joe Gryllis: Donald Sumpter
   Tommy Polmennor: David Sinclair
Repeated 28th October 1974
[Roy Bolitho was Cornish: Trevuzza is in Cornwall near to St. Colomb.]


28th October 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Sun and the Devil by Frances McNeil
1612: Ten "witches" are hung.
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Alison Device: Stephanie Turner
   Old Demdike: Kathleen Helme
   Liz Device: Lorraine Peters
   Mistress Nutter: Heather Stoney
   Joan: Wendy Padbury
   Mistress Nowell: Jane Lowe
   Nan Redfearne: Pamela Farbrother
   Magistrate Nowell: Geoffrey Banks
   Nutter,: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Cunning Man/Judge: Ronald Herdman
   Old Chattox: Paula Tilbrook
   Ormerod/John Law: Paul Webster
   Abraham Law: Christian Rodska
Repeated 3rd November 1974


30th October 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Release by Peter Berry
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Wilkinson: John Linstrum
   Fraser: Peter Wheeler
   Fordyce: Geoffrey Banks
   Insp Barrett: David Jackson


30th October 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Truth or Dare? by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Anna Berenska (harmonium)
   Producer: Betty Davies
   Iestyn: William Ingram
   Llew: Meredith Edwards
   Shon: Talfryn Tbom (???)
   Gwil: Basil Jones
   Little Billy: Sion Probert
   Blodwyn: Elizabeth Morgan
   Dai: Douglas Blackwell
   The Reverend: John Rye


30th October 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Veil of Manannan by John Tarrant
A plane has not been reported missing.
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Joe Kewley: Clifford Norgate
   Dick Garrett: Nigel Graham
   June Corrin: Rosalind Adams
   PaSCel]: Harold Kasket
   Claire Lamson: Kate Coleridge
   Lewis: Kerry Francis
Repeated 31st October 1974


2nd November 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Reproaches by Bernard Krichefski
Producer: Dickon Reed
   Rick: Nigel Anthony
   Helena: Kika Markham
   Martin: David Valla
also with Vernon Joyner, Emily Richard, John Rye


2nd November 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Greg in Spring by John Fores
Producer: Margaret Etall
   Greg Marklin: Richard Grant
   Mary Marklin: Madi Hedd
   Julia Austin: Carole Boyd
   John Lyddon: Clifford Earl
   Col Rodney Darvell: Hector Ross
   Jim Denger: Jack Carr
   Ella Harding: Diana Bishop
   Sgt Kerrins: Alan Dudley
Repeated 4th November 1974


4th November 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Paradise Lost by Milton adapted by Gordon Honeycombe.
Sound score by David Cain created by the children of Wyndham School, Egremont.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   John Milton: Stephen Murray
   Satan: Robert Lang
   Beelzebub: Maurice Denham
   Maloch: Kerky Francis
   God: Robert Harris
   Christ: Martin Jarvis
   Eve: Hannah Gordon
   Adam: Ronald Pickup
   Gabriel: David Timson
   Raphael: Stephen Thorne
   Michael: John Rye
Repeated 10th November 1974, 11th July 1977
[There were many other productions]

   

6th November 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cages by Bill Lyons
Producer: Jane Graham
   Stan: Nigel Anthony
   Edward: Philip Bond
   Barbara: Felicity Kendal
   Mrs Freeman: Betty Huntley-Wright
also with Elizabeth Morgan


6th November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sally Marshall by John Whitewood
Her boyfriend is older.
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Martin Fisher: John Rowe
   Sally Marshall: Jo England
   Mary Marshall: Penelope Lee
   Peter Marshall: Haydn Jones
   Hazel Goodrich: Sheila Grant


6th November 1974:
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: You Can Never be Sure by Edward Mackin
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Joe: Bill Dean
   Maisie: Carole Hayman
   John: Neville Smith
   Norman/Fireman: Barrie Rutter.
Repeated 7th November 1974
   
   
8th November 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Between the Two of Us by Rhys Adrian (1928-1990)
Producer: Ronald Mason
   First woman: Betty Hardy
   Second woman: Noel Hood
   Girl: Anna Cropper
   Man: Alec McCowen
   Glossy girl: Ingrid Bower
   First boy: Nigel Anthony
   Second boy: Leroy Lingwood
   Sergeant: Ian Thompson
   Detective: Brian Hewlett
Repeated from R3 15th June and 4th July 1967; R4 17th December 1971



9th November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Take Care of Bridger by Brian Lee
Producer: Roger Pine
   Mrs Harvey: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Paula Harvey: Freda Dowie
   Elizabeth Harvey: Norma Ronald
   Douglas Venner: Jeffrey Segal
   Sydney Carter: Stephen Thorne
   Doreen Avery: Anne Jameson
   Jeff Avery: Hector Ross
   
   
9th November 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Flute and the Sword by John Ashe
1730.
Producer: Christopher Venning
   King Frederick William: Robert Lang
   the Crown Prince: Christopher Cazenove
   Princess Wilhelmina: Ciaran Madden
   Queen Sophia Dorothea: Pauline Letts
   Major-General Grumbkow: Kerry Francis
   Graf Von Seckendorff: Norman Shelley
   General Borck: Lockwood West
   Brig Dubourgay: Malcolm Hayes
   Sir Charles Hotham: Richard Hurndall
   Capt Guy Dickens: Jack Carr
   Lieut Katte: Ian Cullen
   Doris Ritter: Elspeth Charlton
   Page Keith: Michael Deacon
   Rochow: David Sinclair
   Servant: David Ericsson
   Officer: John Bull
Repeated 11th November 1974


11th November 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: Leviathan with an Hook by John D. Stewart (1917-1988)
A sea monster.
With music specially composed by Havelock Nelson, played by the Grosvenorhall Military Band
Producer: Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
   Kantar: J G Devlin
   Belgar: Brian Munn
   Kestan: Barry Campbell
   Esper: Jim Sheridan
   Misery: John McBride
   Fingan: Joe McPartland
   Pastor Fidelk: Harold Goldblatt
   Velvan: Allan McClelland
   Amsay: Kevin Flood
   Bolk: Michael Duffy
   Minister: Louis Rolston
   Captain: Mark Mulholland
   Mrs Esper: Catherine Gibson
[Also produced by John Gibson in 1953 rptd 1955, also with John G Devlin as Kantar, Robin Graham as Esper]
[Also produced by Ronald Mason in 1958 again with J G Devlin as Kantar, and Terence Cromie as Esper.]


12th November 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Accidents Never Happen by Elaine Morgan adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 92, based upon tv episode 129
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Miss Blair: Madeleine Christie
   Mrs Gregg: Audrey Muir
   Willie: Benny Lee
Repeated 14th November 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


13th November 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Little like Orson Who? by Elizabeth Troop
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Michael: Paul Maxwell
   Roz: Pauline Letts
   Penelope: Jo England
   Donald: David Timson


13th November 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Diwali Day by Hugh Steadman Williams (1935-2016)
A couple visit India.
Producer: Susanna Capon
   Bridget Chalmers: Pauline Letts
   Giles Meredith: Charles Hodgson
   Tony Chalmers: Stephen Thorne
   Varsha: Heather Emmanuel
   K P Patel: Saeed Jaffrey
   Captain Singh: Renu Setna
   Sister Ignatius: Madi Hedd
   Sister Anselm: Ursula Mohan
[Diwali is a Hindu festival that lasts 5 or 6 days.The main day is the Day of Lakshmi Puja (Lakshmi is the Goddess of Prosperity).]


14th November 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Fells of Yewdale by John Tarrant
Producer: Trevor Hill
   Pat Moore: Valerie Georgeson
   Tom Corrin, an army sergeant: Peter Armitage
   Tyson, a Lakeland grocer: Hugh Wright
   Sgt Cretney: Peter Ellis
   Insp Kneale: Brian Trueman
   Roma Taggart: Carole Turner


16th November 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: A Place of Execution by Jan Needle (James Needle 1943-2023)
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Sarah Giddings: Stephanie Turner
   Thomas Clark: Peter Bourke
   Grey: John Rowe
   Constable Lawton: John Hollis
   Harvey: Geoffrey Banks
   Sir Charles: David Marlowe
   Timothy Smith: Sean Barrett


16th November 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Finding Maubee (1971) by A. H. Z. Carr (1902-1971), adapted by Bloke Modisane
The Caribbean.
Guitar: Tommy Eytle
Producer: Betty Davies
   Isabel: Nadia Cattouse
   Judge/Ford/Dr Jeffers: Tommy Eytle
   Xavier Brooke: Norman Beaton
   The Governor: Alan Dudley
   Ted Motley: Blain Fairman
   Walter Searle: Don Fellows
   Mrs Dillon: Carole Boyd
   Percy: Paul Carter
   Dr Richardson: Kerry Francis
   Mrs Searle: Madi Hedd
   Mrs Peters: Mona Hammond
   Mrs Keys: Pauline Letts
   Dr Evans: Trader Faulkner
   Pablo/Pedro Melendez: Kenneth Gardnier
   Inez: Elizabeth Morgan
   Capt Morino: Aleksander Browne
   Dave Maubee: Frank Cousins
Repeated 18th November 1974
[The novel won an Edgar award for Best First Novel. The 1989 film of the book was called The Mighty Quinn.]


18th November 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Charge on the State by Lester Powell
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Sandra: Karen Archer
   Mr Bole: Vernon Joyner
   Vic Elm: Sion Probert
   Doctor: Stephen Thorne
   Mrs Shaw: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Dawn Colburn: Penelope Lee
   Macart: Dinsdale Landen
   Cdr Sheldrake: Timothy Bateson
   Evie: Norma Ronald
   Actor: Clifford Norgate
Repeated 24th November 1974, 24th March 1975


19th November 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Old Indomitable by William Woods and Robert Holmes adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 93, based upon tv episode 48
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Thomas Morgan: Alexander John
   Claire Morgan: Sandra Clark
   Lucy Morgan: Elspeth Charlton
   Mary Colhoun: Molly Weir
   Wallace: Kalman Glass
   Jean Morgan: Yvon Negilan
   Mr Johnson: John Samson
Repeated 21st November 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


20th November 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: We'll Never go There Anymore by John Hollis
Producer: Betty Davies
   Frank: Frederick Treves
   Molly: Penelope Lee
   Gateman: David Sinclair
   Insp Baxter: Alan Dudley


20th November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Birds (1952) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) dramatised by John Wilkie.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Narrator: Howard Goorney
   Nat: Chris Harris
   Grace: Elizabeth Boxer
   Harold Trigg: Norman Tyrrell
   Mrs Trigg: Ruby Luscombe
   Jim: Douglas Leach
   Jill: Teresa Rogers
   Johnny: Tracey Ann Miller
[Unrelated to the 1957 novel by Vesaas, but the basis of the 1963 film. The story was inspired by witnessing gulls attacking a farmer.]


20th November 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Don't Sack Santa by Malcolm Hazell
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Mr Michaels: Howard Goorney
   Hilda: Elizabeth Proud
   Benson: Norman Mitchell
   Sidney: Paul Imbusch
   Miss Carlin: Bonnie Hurren
   Mr Nicholas: Donald Bisset
   Mrs Solferini: Audrey Noble
   Dora: Anna Carteret
   Reporter: Paul Nicholson
   Phillips: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 21st November 1974


22nd November 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Sydney Smith Coming Upstairs by Brian Oulton (1908-1992)
Producer: Bridget Marrow
   Rev Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Tony Brition
   Mrs Smith: Peggy Thorpe-Bates
   Saba, their daughter: Jane Knowles
   Robb: Trevor Martin
   Annie: Sheila Grant
   Bunch: Kate Binchy
   Milestones, the curate: Martin Friend
   The Earl: Alexander John
   The Countess: Betty Baskcomb
   The Bishop he would never be: Gerald Cross
Repeated from 29th January 1972


23rd November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Silent Night by Harald Mueller (1934-2021) translated by Ursula Lehrburger (1913-2005) and Oliver Coburn
Christmas Carols specially recorded by the Balham WRVS Old Folks Club
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Mrs Manders: Betty Hardy
   Bernard: Nigel Stock
[Original title: Stille Nacht (1973)]


23rd November 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sesame Card by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Les Skinner: David Brierley
   Jack Rubie/Second Assistant: Michael Deacon
   Tina Harris: Norma Ronald
   Alex MacKinnon: Tom Watson
   Lily Skinner: Carole Boyd
   Tom Skinner: Hector Ross
   Derek Skinner: John Bull
   Michael Skinner/Woman/Receptionist: Olwen Griffiths
   First Asst, Man's Shop/Waiter: Stephen Thorne
   First Man/Asst in First Jewellers: Fraser Kerr
   Second Man/Asst in Second Jewellers: Alan Reid
   Third Man/Asst in Third Jewellers: John Baker
   Moxey: Denis McCarthy
Repeated 25th November 1974


24th November 1974
21.03
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) dramatised by Desmond Hawkins
Part 1 of 4.
Incidental flute music played by Dennis Mann
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Narrator: Manning Wilson
   Mrs Hurst: Daphne Heard
   Billy Smallbury: John Barker
   Poorgrass: Douglas Leach
   Liddy: Kate Coleridge
   Fanny: Jo Maxwell-Muller
   Malster: Hedley Goodall
   Jacob: Nigel Keen
   Mark: Richard Carrington
   Fray: Alaric Cotter
   Jan Coggan: Stephen Sylvester
   Maryanne: Jiggy Bhore
   Temperance: Margaret Barrars
Each part repeated two days later.


25th November 1974:
19.30:
The Monday Play: Man and Superman (1902) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Producer: John Tydeman
   John Tanner: Alec McCowen
   Ann Whitefield: Anna Massey
   Roebuck Ramsden: Michael Denison
   Mrs Whitefield: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
   Octavius Robinson: Gary Bond
   Mr Malone: Norman Rodway
   Henry Straker: Nigel Anthony
   Miss Ramsden: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Violet Robinson: Carole Boyd
   Hector Malone: Peter Whitman
   The Maid: Norma Ronald
   The Narrator: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated 24th May 1980, 24th December 1984
   
   
26th November 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Anxious Man by John Maitland adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 94, based upon tv episode 87
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Alyson Millar: Bridget McConnel
   Jamie Strachan: Jim McManus
   Maggie Strachan: Christina Gray
   Murdoch: John Dunbar
   Robertson/Mr Millar: Alaric Cotter
Repeated 28th November 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


27th November 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: All Down to True Love by Shaun Usher (1937-2025)
Producer: Peter Novis
   Maggie: Frances Jeater
   Ben: David Brierley
   Landlady: Pauline Letts
   Helen: Rosallnd Shanks
   Ben's colleague: David Griffin


27th November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: As Others See Us by Ivor Wilson
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Nurse: Eileen O'Brien
   William Price: Christian Rodska
   Aileen: Bonnie Hurren
   Dr David Smith: Brian Peck
   Sister McGarry: Kathleen Helme
   Susan Wood: Janet Dale


27th November 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: Thank You by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Producer: Jane Graham
   Jan: Colette O'Neil
   Udu (or Gerda): Sylvia Syms
Repeated 28th November 1974
[The character played by Sylvia Syms is given a different name in each listing.]
   
   
29th November 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) adapted by Malcolm Hazell
Producer: Brian Miller
{Bristol)
   Victor Frankenstein: Hugh Dickson
   Captain: Esmond Rideout
   Helmsman / Advocate: John Smith
   Walton/ Judge: Nigel Graham
   Waldman / Felix: Terry Scully
   Father: Douglas Blackwell
   Clerval/ Kirwin: Robin Browne
   Justine: Jane Knowles
   Elizabeth: Katy Kendall
   Old man: Medley Goodall
   Krerape/ Macalister: William Sleigh
   The Daemon: Trevor Martin
Repeated from 23rd December 1972
Repeated 5th January 1985
[Also broadcast on R4X 2025]


30th November 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Measure of Sliding Sand by R. C. Scriven (1907-1985)
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Narrator: Stephen Murray
   Neville Scriven: Denise Bryer
   Ronald Scriven: Judy Bennett
   Great-Aunt Jin/Aunt Flo: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Aunt Winnie: Sheila Grant
   Great-Aunt Suff/Aunt Ciss: Kathleen Helme
   Bill Fox: Brian Hewlett
   Uncle Harold: Nigel Lambert
   Uncle James/Tom: David March
also with Madeleine Cemm, Sion Probert and Emily Richard.
[This standalone play is part of the author's autobiography, More of this was covered in a trio of plays broadcast 18th October to 1st November 1974]
[R C Scriven was nearly stone deaf from age 8, and blind for most of his life.]


30th November 1974
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Murder of Walter Ralegh by Ian Cullen (1939-2019)
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Sir Walter Ralegh: Barnard Archard (1916-2008)
   Sir Robert Cecil: John Rowe
   Sir Edward Coke: Vernon Joyner
   Captain Keymis: Basil Moss
   King James I: Robert Trotter
   Henry, Prince of Wales: Michael Cochrane
   George Harvey: David Horovitch
   Will Cecil: Christopher Good
   Wat Ralegh: Nigel Bradshaw
   a boy- Wat Ralegh,: Jean Rogers
   Chief Justice Popham: Carleton Hobbs
   Bess Ralegh: Kathleen Michael
   Sergeant Heale: Drew Wood
   Barber/Stukely: Kevin Brennan
   Executioner: Christopher Masters
also with Esmond Rideout.
Repeated 2nd December 1974.


1st December 1974:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Savrola (1897) by Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), dramatised by John Tydeman.
Producer: Audrey Cameron
   Admiral de Mello: Eric Anderson
   Louis Moret: Gordon Gardner
   Lieutenant Tiro: Glyn Dearman
   President Antonio Molara: Norman Shelley
   Colonel Sorrento: Patrick Barr
   Lucile Molara: June Tobin
   Mr Secretary Miguel: William Fox
   Savrola: Paul Scofield
   Mayor Godoy: John Ruddock
   Lucile's maid: Jane Wenham
   Kreutze: Peter Marinker
   Bettine: Hilda Kriseman
also with Hamlyn Benson, Gordon Faith, Alan Haines, Stephen Thorne, Wilfrid Carter, Bruce Beeby, Rosalind Shanks
Repeated from 28th November 1964, 7th December 1964, 12th March 1967


2nd December 1974
19.30-21.30:
The Monday Play: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Music specially composed by Derek Oldfield
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Brutus: Anthony Bate
   Young Cato/ Publius: Geoffrey Beevers
   Calphurnia: Kate Binchy
   Popilius Lena/ First Plebeian/ Cobbler/ Dardanius: Douglas Blackwell
   Casca: Dudley Foster
   Flavius/Titinius: William Fox
   Volumnius/ Soothsayer/ Fourth Plebeian: Martin Friend
   Mark Antony: Julian Glover
   Servant to Octavius/ Cinna/ Lucilius: Michael Harbour
   Artemidorus/ Second Plebeian/Carpenter: Ronald Herdman
   Lucius: David Howe
   Octavius Caesar/ Decius Brutus: Martin Jarvis
   Cassius: Peter Jeffrey
   Metellus Cimber/ Strato: Henry Knowles
   Caius Ligarius/ Marullus: Rolf Lefebvre
   Lepidus / Pindarus: John Rowe
   Claudius/Clitus: William Sleigh
   Julius Caesar: Nigel Stock
   Cicero/ Servant to Caesar: Lewis Stringer
   Portia: Jane Wenham
   Trebonius/ Messala: Manning Wilson
   Third Plebeian: Helen Worth
[This was a shortened version of the play broadcast on R3 in 1972 rptd 1973 which was 30 minutes longer.]
[Martin Jenkins also produced the play in 1995 for R3 with Hal Gould as Julius and Stacy Keach as Brutus- a two hour version.]


3rd December 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Polygraph by Jan Read (1917-2012) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 95, based upon tv episode 27
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Keith: Joe Dunlop
   Mrs Anderson: Eva Stuart
   Mr Anderson: John Samson
   Mrs Paton/Hospital Sister: Audrey Muir
Repeated 5th December 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]
[Polygraph is the proper name for a device popularly known as a "lie detector"- much criticised as junk or pseudo science, but since 2007 a part of the English probation and police services (in some circumstances mandatory since 2014) using "American standards".]


4th December 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Going Back by Owen Holder (1921-2016)
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Narrator: Owen Holder
   Charles Haydon, MP: Timothy Batesen
   Ruth: Sheila Shand Gibbs
   Miss Williams: Emily Richard
   Iris Haydon: Carole Boyd
   Hotel Proprietress: Madi Hedd
   Lady: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Gentleman: Alan Dudley
Repeated 12th July 1977


4th December 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Jigsaw by Derek Hoddinott
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Bob: Noel Johnson
   Graham: John Carson
   Val: Norma Ronald
   Jean: Jane Thompson
   Det-Sgt Cooper: John Franklyn-Robbins


4th December 1974
20.15
Midweek Theatre: An Aspidistra called Edward by William Corderoy.
Producer: John Cardy
   Station Sergeant: Wilfrid Carter
   Andrew: Nigel Lambert
   Mrs Jacobs: Miriam Margolyes
   Solicitor: James Taylor
   Ernie: Jack Carr
   George Carter: Michael Deacon
   Dumpsy: David Sinclair
   Angelo: Harold Kasket
   Stripper: Norma Ronald
   Harry: David Ericsson
   Receptionist: Rate Coleridge
   Dr Fisher: Andrew Sachs
   Maynard: Gerald Cross
   Auctioneer: John Bull
Repeated 5th December 1974


6th December 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The End of the Line by Denis Constanduros (1910-1978)
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
   Flora: Fanny Rowe
   Henry: Richard Vernon
   Didi: Petra Markham
   Jeremy: Nick Brimble
Repeated from 31st March 1971


7th December 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Commercial Break by Gillian Freeman
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Pat Warren: Elizabeth Proud
   Ruth: Kate Coleridge
   Mrs Porter: Hazel Coppen
   John Warren: John Samson
   Evelyn Anderson: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Buckleigh: Michael Deacon
   Chris: Peter Marinker
   Miss Armitage: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mrs Purvis: Norma Ronald
   Roger Bellingham: Paul Gaymon
   Simon, aged 14: Ian Sharrock
Repeated 20th August 1976.


7th December 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Place in the Country by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Molly Callaghan: June Barry
   Mrs Drew: Mollie Sugden
   Dan: Judy Bennett
   Mr Drew: David Jackson
   Mrs Denys: Katherine Parr
   Jim: Alan Rothwell
   Colonel Denys: Geoffrey Banks
   magistrate: Paul Webster
   Nin: Doreen Sloane
Repeated 9th December 1974


8th December 1974
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: French without Tears (1936) by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
The South of France.
Producer: Norman Wright
   Diana Lake: Frances Jeater
   Hon Alan Howard: John Rye
   Monsieur Maingot: John Gabriel
   Jacqueline Maingot: Cecile Chevreau
   Kit Neillan: Kenneth Fortescue
   Lieut-Commander Rogers: Frederick Treves
   Kenneth Lake: Brian Hewlett
   Brian Curtis: Sean Barrett
   Marianne: Paulette Preney
Repeated from 25th December 1973, 17th February 1980, and 20th April 1981.
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1957 with Brenda Bruce as Diana.]
[Also produced by Gerry Jones in 1986, rptd 1989 and 1992 with Kathryn Hurlbutt as Diana.]
[Inspired by a visit by the author to a similar establishment in Germany]


9th December 1974
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Last of the Incas bv G. Wilson Knight
Music specially composed by Christos Pittas
The fall of Peru 1532.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Pizarro: Lee Montague
   Mendez: John Hollis
   Valverde a friar: Hugh Dickson
   Hernando, Pizarro's brother: Kerry Francis
   Felipillo, an Indian interpreter: Andrew Sachs
   De Soto: Robert East
   Soldier: David Ericsson
   Pedro, Pizarro's cousin: Sion Probert
   Almagro: Michael Spice
   Chalcuchima, an Inca general: Sean Arnold
   Atahualpa, Emperor of Peru: John Rowe
   Singer: Teoka Ries
   High Priest: Stephen Thorne
   Pedro Moguer: Trader Faulkner
   De Zarate/De Cuellar: John Corvin
   Inca historian: Lewis Stringer
   Riquelme: Geoffrey Hutchings
   De Chaves: Alan Rowe
   Del Barco: Alan Dudley
Repeated 15th December 1974


10th December 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Laughing Gas by Jan Read (1917-2012) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 96, based upon tv episode 60
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Cogger: John Laurie
   Nurse Joan Mackie: Ellen McIntosh
   Flora/Miss Walker: Miriam Margolyes
   Professor Brewster: John Forrest
   Mr Alexander/Railway porter: Antony Higginson
Repeated 12th December 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


11th December 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Tom Tiddler's Pool by Elizabeth Morgan
Producer: Betty Davies
   Ann Martin: Elizabeth Morgan
   George Martin: Vernon Joyner
   David Sheppard: Denys Hawthorne
   Madame: Cecile Chevreau
   Mr Vernon: Denis McCarthy
   Mrs Vernon: Betty Buntley-Wright
   Announcer: John Bull
   Garage man: Nigel Lambert
[The title is a variation of "Tom Tiddler's Ground", a children's game. The meaning was extended to identify a source of easy cash, especially by means of a trick or more recently for something of uncertain status.]


11th December 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: A Chance to Breathe by Peter Berry
Producer: Christopher Venning
   Minister: Hector Ross
   Col Bulmer: Geoffrey Bayldon
   Secretary: Kate Coleridge
   Chief Supt Fuller/ Mr Craven: Trader Faulkner
   Dr Hanshaw: Robert Flemyng
   Gillian Hanshaw: Kathleen Michael
   Receptionist: Elspeth Charlton
   Wilkinson: Michael Beacon
   Doctor: Neville Jason
   PC Thompson: Anthony Smee
Repeated 12th December 1974


12th December 1974
20.00
Country Kate (1971) by Sheila Stewart (1928-2014).
Village life around 1900.
The congregation, choir and bells of Long Compton Parish Church; the children of Long Compton County Junior and Infant School
Producer: Kay Patrick
   Country Kate: Mollie Harris
   Young Kate: Heather Bell
   Will Walker: Peter Gilmore
   John Walker/Wealthy gent: Paul Gaymon
   Kate's mother/Granny Walker: Hilda Schroder
   First countrywoman/Child/ Maid: Carole Boyd
   Secondcountrywoman/Mrs Bury: Betty Baskcomb
   Mr Bury/Parsan: Alan Dudley
   Countryman/Grandpa Walker: Trader Faulkner
Repeated 1st January 1976
[Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for bestc radio feature script in 1974.]
[The book from which this play developed was quite slim, less than a hundred pages]


13th December 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Collier's Friday Night by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Produced By: Guy Vaesen
   Ernest: Roy Spencer
   Nellie: Christine Welch
   Mother: Mary Griffiths
   Gertie Coomber: Jo Manning Wilson
   Father: David Brierley
   Barker: Neville Smith
   Carlin: George Woolley
   Maggie Pearson: Jane Knowles
   Beatrice Wyle: Stephanie Turner.
Repeated from 16th August 1971
Repeated 15th December 1978, 28th July 1979
[D H Lawrence father was a miner and DHL wrote several "mining" plays and stories. This one was written as a play around 1909 but only published in 1934 and first performed 1965]


14th December 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Visitor by Patricia Hobbs
Producer: Michael Rolfe
   The Visitor/Mr Webber: Edward Kelsey
   Allen Mitchell: Alan Rowe
   Sue Mitchell: Kate Coleridge
   David: John Bull
   Harry: Caroline Hunt


14th December 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Breadwinner by W Somerset Maugham adapted by Kay Jamieson.
The Scarborough Theatre in the Round Company directed by Alan Ayckbourn
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
   Patrick Battle: Stephen Mallatratt
   Judy Battle: Christine Welch
   Timothy Granger: Christopher Godwin
   Diana Granger: Eileen O'Brien
   Margery Battle: Heather Stoney
   Dorothy Granger: Janet Dale
   Alfred Granger: Ronald Herdman
   Charles Battle: Stanley Page
Repeated 16th December 1974
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1953 with Mary Wimbush as Dorothy and Simon Lack as Patrick]
[Also procued by Martyn C Webster in 1967 with Mary Wimbush as Mary and Peter Bartlett as Patrick.]


16th December 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Miser (1668) by Moliere (1622-1673) translated by Richard Carter
Music composed and conducted by Christos Pittas
Producer John Theocharis
   Harpagon: Leo McKern
   Valere: Robert Powell
   Cleante: Derek Jacobi
   Elise: Elizabeth Proud
   Marianne: Helen Worth
   Frosine: Miriam Margolyes
   M James: Alan Dudley
   Arrowswift: David Valla
   Attorney: Kerry Francis
   Anselme: Stephen Thorne
Repeated 22nd December 1974, 25th September 1977
[Also produced by Peter Kavanagh in 1986 with Michael Hordern as Harpagon]


17th December 1974:
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: A Time for Discretion by Arthur Swinson adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 97, based upon tv episode 17
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Mr Fenning: Fraser Kerr
   Mrs Fenning: Diana Olsson
   Angus Leekie: Douglas Blackwell
   Maggie Leekie: Delia Paton
   Mr Robertson: John Samson
   Mr Donaldson: John Rae
   Mrs Crombie: Dorothy Smith
   Sgt Dickie: Roy Spencer
Repeated 19th December 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


18th December 1974
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Tradition by Cyril Lampitt
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
   Reilbe: Geoffrey Banks
   Higginshaw: David Jackson
   Charley: Ronald Herdman
   Arthur: John Linsthum
   TV director: Peter Wheeler


18th December 1974
15.05: Afternoon Theatre: Speculator Sport by James Follett (1939-2021).
Producer: Margaret Etall
   Judith Grayson: Joanna Wake
   George Grayson: David Brierley
   Major Birkett: Brian Haines
   Mr Smallpot/Doctor: Leslie Pitt
   Maurice: Paul Gaymon
   Miranda: Carole Boyd
   Fred/DJ: Peter Pacey
   Frank/Builder/Surveyor: Jack Carr
   Judith's mother: Norma Ronald
   Mrs Carlton: Olive Crowe
   Beale: Peter Whitman


18th December 1974
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The Nemesis of Fire (1908) by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), adapted by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001).
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Dr John Silence: Malcolm Hayes
   Stephen Hubbard: Fraser Kerr
   Col Wragge: Hector Ross
   Ellen Wragge: Grizelda Hervey
   Dr Corbin: Denis McCarthy
   Jane: Madeleine Cemm
   Porter: Jack Carr
   Cabby/Waiter: David Ericsson
Repeated 19th December 1974
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021-2023]
[AB wrote six stories featuring John Silence. This was the third published in 1908.]


20th December 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelan.
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux
   Storyteller/Scrooge: Ralph Richardson
   Fred: Bruce Beedy
   Bob Cratchit: Frederick Treves
   Ghost of Jacob Marley: John Ruddock
   Ghost of Christmas Past: Wilfrid Carter
   Ghost of Christmas Present: Ralph Truman
   Mrs Cratehit: Mary Wimbush
   Tiny Tim: Sheila Grant
Also with Eric Anderson and Rosalind Shanks.
Repeated from 25th December 1965.
Repeated 26th December 1993.


21st December 1974
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Guests by Margaret Harris
Producer: David H. Godfrey
   Sadie Armour: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Muriel Traquair, her daughter: Dorit Welles
   Charles Traquair, her son: Peter Baldwin
   Miranda Traquair: Helen Worth
   Alan Merlin: Peter Williams
   Joe Christmas: Stephen Thorne
   Mrs Brigson: Margot Boyd


21st December 1974
16.02:
The Box of Delights (1935) by John Masefield (1878-1967) dramatised by Howard Jones.
Producer: Josephine Plummer
Editor: Graham Gauld
   Kay Harker: Jean England
   Cole Hawlings: Timothy Bateson
   Abner Brown: Robert Eddison
   Foxy-faced man: Frank Duncan
   Chubby man: Wilfred Babbage
   Sylvia Daisy Pouncer: Sheila Grant
   Rat: Norman Shelley
   Maria Jones: Norma Ronald
   Peter Jones: Judy Bennett
   The Bishop: Preston Lockwood
   Arnold Todi: David March
[In the longer 1977 production, dramatised by John Keir Cross, directed by Graham Gauld, the listing gives the actor playing Kay as Jean English]
[Also produced by David Davis in 1966 rptd 1968, 1969 with young Kay played by Patricia Hayes]


21st December 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1945) by R. A. Dick (Josephine Leslie, 1898-1979) dramatised by Barry Campbell.
Producer: Jane Graham
   Lucy Muir: Gemma Jones
   Anna: Emily Richard
   Cyril: Peter Settelen
   Eva: Eva Stuart
   Mr Coombe: Stephen Thorne
   Capt Daniel Gregg: Bryan Pringle
   Martha: Diana Bishop
   Miles Blane: Philip Bond
   Mr Sproule: Sean Arnold
   Celia: Madeleine Cemm
   Bishop: Alan Dudley
Repeated 23rd December 1974


22nd December 1974
19.30-20.00
The Particular Star by Frank Topping (1937-2025).
Music arranged by Peter Bye
Producer: Angsla Tilby
   Narrator: David Sinclair
   Mary: Cass Allen
   Joseph: Gerald Cross
   Fr McCarthy: Denys Hawthorne
   Peter Farrell: John Rowe
   Gerard: Frank Singuineau
   Tom: Brian Hewlett
   Phil: Alan Barry
   John: Nigel Graham
   Old Eugene: Paul Bogdan
[Frank Topping was a Methodist minister]
   
   
22nd December 1974
21.03
The Liar (1888) by Henry James (1843-1916), adapted by Mary Hope Allen.
Producer: R. D. Smith
   Oliver Lyon: John Bentley
   Mrs Ashmore: Gabrielle Blunt
   Ashmore: Peter Williams
   Mrs Vernon: Sonia Fraser
   Mr Vant: Earle Grey
   Col Capadose: William Fox
   Everina Capadose: Gudrun Ure
   Sir David Ashmore: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Herring: Lynn Carson
   Miss Geraldine: Joyce Latham
   First and second gentlemen: Derek Seaton
Repeated from 27th December 1969, 6th October 1972
   
   
23rd December 1974
20.00
The Monday Play: Present Laughter by Noel Coward.
Produced By: Ian Cotterell
   Daphne Stillington: Miriam Margolyes
   Miss Erikson: Diana Olsson
   Fred: Timothy Bateson
   Monica Reed: Patricia Routledge
   Garry Essendine: Paul Scofield
   Liz Essendine: Joy Parker
   Roland Maule: David Timson
   Henry Lyppiatt: Alan Rowe
   Morris Dixon: Vernon Joyner
   Joanna Lyppiatt: Fenella Fielding
   Lady Saltburn: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated 29th December 1974 and 3rd January 1977


24th December 1974:
12.27:
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Eternal Spring by Arthur Swinson adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 98, based upon tv episode 55
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Dorothy Hay: Rona Anderson
   Anthony Hay: Lloyd Lambie
   Flora: Helen Worth
   Duncan Dinwoodie: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 26th December 1974
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


25th December 1974
15.00:
Vice Versa (1881) by F Anstey (T A Guthrie, 1856-1934) adopted by Constance Cox
Victorian school life.
Producer: Raymond Raikes
   The Author: David Davis
   Paul Bultitude, a City Merchant: Norman Shelley
   Dick: Brian Hewlett
   Barbara: Kate Coleridge
   Roly: Elizabeth Morgan
   Boaler, butler: Peter Williams
   Dr Grimstone, headmaster: Denis McCarthy
   His daughter: Madi Hedd
   Old lady: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Men in rail carriage: Hector Ross and Alan Rowe
   Marmaduke Paradine, an adventurer: Trader Faulkner
also with Ian Allis, Anthony Daniels, Robert King, Daniel Rose, Ian Sharrock, Barnaby Williams, Michael Deacon, Paul Gaymon, Peter Pacey


25th December 1974:
20.00
A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Michael Hardwick.
Producer: Roger Pine
   Sherlock Holmes: Robert Powell
   Dr Watson: Dinsdale Landen
   Insp Lestrade: John Hollis
   Jefferson Hope: Don Fellows
   PC Rance: John Samson
   Mme Charpentier: Madi Hedd
   Alice Charpentier: Carole Boyd
   Mrs Sawyer: Nigel Lambert
   Enoch J Drebber: Paul Maxwell
   Stangerson: Peter Whitman
   Commissionaire: Alan Dudley
   Insp Gregson: Frederick Treves
Repeated 21st and 23rd January 1978
[Also broadcast R4X 2014]
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1962 rptd 1964 with Carleton Hobbs as Holmes]
[Also produced by Ian Cotterell in two parts 1989 with Clive Merrison as Holmes- rptd BBC7 2007]


26th December 1974:
15.05:
And on the Seventh Day by Aubrey Woods (1928-2013).
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Rev George Minter: Carleton Hobbs
   Dr Arthur Barrie: Peter Pratt
   Edith Minter: Betty Hardy
   Christopher Pelham: Christopher Good
   Hezekiah Minchip: Peter Tuddenhem
   Major Edward Deighton: William Fox
   Sgt Harold Dickinson: Stephen Thorne
   Morris Smale: John Rye


27th December 1974:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Promise to Kill by Eddie Maguire
Producer: Joe Burroughs
   Sgt Brookes: Haydn Jones
   Insp Webb: Victor Lucas
   Grace Kirby: Pauline Letts
   Stephen Kirby: Lockwood West
   PC Baker: Anthony Jackson
   Nurse Kay: Rosalind Shanks
   Dr Carter: Alexander John
   Det-Sgt Coates: Peter Pratt
   Mary Lomas: Margaret Robertson
   John Lomas: Brian Raines
   Martin Graham: John Pullen
   Landlord: Antony Viccars
   Jimmie Wilson: Christopher Bidmead
Repeated from 3rd July 1968


28th December 1974
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Silver Locket by Charles Thomas.
Producer: David Johnston
   Joe Watson: Nigel Anthony
   Bob Rundell: Nigel Graham
   Charlie Simms: John Hollis
   Cyril Cartwright: Paul Shelley
   Margaret Lair: Madi Hedd
   Sarah: Frances Jeater
   Grace Blair: Hilary Hardiman
   Mrs Watson: Kathleen Helme
   Molly: Emily Richard
   Will Watson/Tim: Peter Williams
   Albert/Sgt: Sean Arnold
   Ben/Beastey: Alan Rowe
   Alice: Madeleine Cemm


28th December 1974
16.30:
Pharaoh of the Nile by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017) and David Spenser (David de Saram 1934-2013)
Part 1 of 6.
Produced by: Graham Gauld
   Ahmose: Sean Barrett
   Nefertarl: Sheila Grant
   Kem: David Valla
   Karu: John Westbrook
   Hamabari: Betty Baskcomb
   Kope: Michael Deacon
   Khonsu: Denis McCarthy
   Ipuwar: Trader Faulkner
   Astrologer: Stephen Thorne
   Herald: Alan Dudley
   Guard: David Ericsson
[Sequel to Shadow of the Pharaoh- six parts commencing 30th September 1972]


28th December 1974:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Michael and his Lost Angel by Henry Arthur Jones
Production by: John Tydeman
   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
Repeated from 28th May 1973


29th December 1974:
21.03:
The Lady of the Camellias (1848) by Alexandre Dumas Fils (1824-1895) adapted by Terence Cooper.
Part 1 of 4.
Pianist: Mary Nash
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Alexandre Dumas: John Rye
   Ernest de Crepy: Nigel Anthony
   Auctioneer: Peter Pacey
   Comte de Varville: Peter Whitman
   Olympe Serusier: Elizabeth Morgan
   Armand Duval: Gary Bond
   Marguerite Gautier: Sarah Badel
   The Gardener: Denis McCarthy
   Prudence Duvernoy: Denise Bryer
   Gaston Courier: Paul Gaymon
   Nanine: Emily Richard
also with Carole Boyd, Madeleine Cemm, Madi Hedd, Betty Huntley-Wright, Norma Ronald, Stephen Thorne, Peter Williams.
Repeated 31st December 1974
Each part repeated after 2 days.
[Original title La Dame aux Camelias. Inspired by Marie Duplessis. Translations sometimes abbreviated to Camille. The work was the basis of the opera La Traviata.]
[Also produced by Ayton Whitaker for BBC Light in 1953, rptd 1954, with Patrick Troughton as Armand.]


30th December 1974:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Aggie by Lester Powell.
Producer: Norman Wright
   David Knockholt: James Villlers
   Mary Knockholt: Penelope Keith
   Aggie Joplin: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Alasdair: Godfrey Kenton
   Harmon Confrey: Hector Ross
   Liz Confrey: Madi Hedd
   Sam Clough: Sean Arnold
   Tommy Meacham: Alan Dudley
   Caption reader: Trader Faulkner
Repeated 5th January 1975


31st December 1974
12.27
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Body and Soul by Allan Prior adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 93, based upon tv episode 48
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Angus Hendry: Henry Stamper
   Meg Hendry: Sheila Grant
   Jamie: Benny Lee
   Archie Ross: Don McKillop
Repeated 2nd January 1975
[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.]
["Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart"]


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