BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1975

BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4
IN 1975
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1st January 1975
09.35-10.00
Clouds of Witness (1926) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), adapted by Peter Jones and Tania Lieven
7 of 8: The Barometer Falls
Producer: Simon Brett
    Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
    Bunter: Peter Jones
    Insp Parker: Gabriel Woolf
    Lady Mary Wimsey: Maria Aitken
    Sir Impey Biggs: Brian Oulton
    Mrs Grimethorpe: Elizabeth Proud
    Freddy Arbuthnot: Nigel Lambert
    Sir Wigmore Wrinching: Garard Green
    Grimethorpe/Fleming: Bill Wallis
    Jake: David Sinclair
    Benson: John Forrest
Additional actors in part 8:
    Duke of Denver: James Vllliers
    Mirbles: Malcolm Hayes
    Simone: Bridget McConnel
    Mme Brigette: Jo Manning Wilson
    Sugg: John Bull
Part 1 was broadcast on 3rd February 1974 and 13th November 1974.
Part 6 was broadcast on 18th December 1974
On 25th December 1974 the timeslot was used for Morning Service.
Part 8 was broadcast on 8th January 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X and R7 2005-2010


1st January 1975:
11.30-12.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Last Exit from Tooting by Jeremy Bishop and Derek Cunningham
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Warder: Sean Arnold
    Squasher: Geoffrey Matthews
    Governor: Alan Dudley
    Lenny: Philip Davis
    Customer: Sean Arnold
    Mick: John Baddeley
    Vic: Nigel Lambert
    Tommy: Malcolm Hayes
    Nurse: Madeleine Cemm
    
    
1st January 1975
15.05-16.00
Afternoon Theatre: Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (1847-1912) adapted by Eric MacDonald.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
    Dracula: David March
    Mina: Frances Jeater
    Lucy: Rosalind Shanks
    Jonathan Harker: Michael Harbour
    Female vampire: Kate Coleridge
    Arthur Seward: Christopher Good
    Captain: Malcolm Hayes
    Olgaren/Warder: Andrew Sachs
    Van Helsing: Aubrey Woods
Also with Pat Keen, Jim McManus, Madeleine Cemm
Repeated 21st May 1976, 12th January 1985


1st January 1975
20.15-21.00
Midweek Theatre: A Man In the House by Henry James (1843-1916), dramatised by Hugh Burden from the short story The Third Person (1900)
Producer: Jane Graham
    Henry James: Hugh Burden
    Miss Amy Frush: Jeanne Watts
    Miss Susan Frush: Noel Hood
    Mr Patten: Denis McCarthy
    Ben: Michael Shannon
Repeated at 15.05 on 2nd January 1975, 23rd November 1977,
[The original text used the word Tauchnitz, in the context of a book which for copyright reasons should not be imported into England. Tauchnitz was a German publisher who published in English for Europe excluding England.]


2nd January 1975
18.15-18.45
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Body and Soul by Allan Prior (1922-2006) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 99 based upon tv episode 83.
Produced by 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 from 31st December 1974
Based on the characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981)
Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart


3rd January 1975
15.05-16.00
Kristina's Winter by Malcolm Ross-Macdonald
Producer: Betty Davies
    Hugo: Geoffrey Beevers
    Kristina: Meg Wynn Owen
    Johann: Robin Browne
    Magnus: Frank Duncan
    Frau von Hatlslein: Janet Burnell,
Also with Sheila Grant, Ronald Herdman and Michael Harbour
Repeated from 1st July 1972
[Malcolm taught English in Sweden 1958-1961]


4th January 1975
16.30-17.00
Pharaoh of the Nile by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017) and David Spenser
Part 2 of 6
Producer: Graham Gauld
    Ahmose: Sean Barrett
    Nefertari: Sheila Grant
    Kem: David Valla
    Karu: John Westbrook
    Hamabari: Betty Baskcomb
    Kope: Michael Deacon
    Khonsu: Denis McCarthy
    Ipuwar: Trader Faulkner
    Simafret: Kerry Francis
    Herald: Jack Carr
    Keeper: Paul Gaymon
    Girl: Emily Richard
Additional cast in parts 3-6:
    Apopi/Horseman: Hector Ross
    Captain: David Ericsson
    Lady Norfret: Lydia Sherwood
    Penthamon: Alan Dudley
    Raneb: Stephen Thorne
Part one was broadcast 28th December 1974
Part 6 was broadcast 1st February 1975
[A sequel to "Shadow of the Pharaoh" 1972, rptd 1974-1975]


4th January 1975
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925), by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) adapted by Antony Kearey
Trumpet: John Wilbraham, Flute:George Crozier; Drum: Anne Collis
Dance composed and arranged by John Wilbraham.
A misanthropic father.
Producer: Betty Davies
    Charles Harkness: Peter Marinker
    Frances Prentice: Norma Ronald
    Peter Prentice: Antony Kearey
    David Dunbar: Martin Jarvis
    Jabez: Geoffrey Matthews
    Hesther: Caroline John
    Herrick: John Rye
    Mabel: Carole Boyd
    Crispin: David March
    Gideon: Basil Jones
    Geoffrey: Sion Probert
    Tamsin: Emily Richard
Repeated 6th January 1975, 27th December 1976


5th January 1975
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Aggie by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
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 from 30th December 1974


5th January 1975
21.03-22.00:
The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger, adapted by Terence Cooper
Part 2 of 4.
Pianist Mary Nash
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Alexandre Dumas: John Rye
    Armand Duval: Gary Bond
    Marguerite Gautier: Sarah Badel
    Prudence Duvernoy: Denise Bryer
    Joseph: Peter Whitman
    Gaston Courier: Paul Gaymon
Additional cast in episodes 2 and 4:
    Ernest de Crepy: Nigel Anthony
    Monsieur Duval: Stephen Murray
    Nanine: Emily Richard
    Olympe Serusier: Elizabeth Morgan
also with Madeleine Cemm, Trader Faulkner, Madi Hedd and Pauline Letts
Episodes were broadcast on Thursday with a repeat on the next Tuesday.
Part 1 first broadcast 29th December 1974
Part 4 first broadcast 19th January 1975
Repeated commencing 3rd and 5th September 1978
[Also produced by Archie Campbell, 22nd February 1969.]
[Also produced in 5 parts by Polly Thomas, commencing 2nd February 2009]


6th January 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Glow in the Embers by Janet Howorth
Catharism. Languedoc in the 13th century.
Producer: Margaret Etall
    Duc: Inigo Jackson
    Michel: John Bull
    King Louis IX: Michael Deacon
    Cardinal: Gerald Cross
    In Languedoc:
    Fr Arnald: Ian Anderson
    Br Stephen: Sion Probert
    Joubert: Peter Tuddenham
    D'Alfaro: James Warwick
    A woman of Bram: Elizabeth Morgan
    Merchant: William Eedli
    Sir Hugues D'Arcis: Nigel Graham
    Archbishop of Narbonne: Alan Rowe
    Br Ferrier: Trader Faulkner
    At Montsegur:
    Raymond de Perella: David Ryall
    Corba de Perella: Norma Ronald
    Esclarmonde: Vicky Ireland
    Philippa: Emily Richard
    Pierre-Roger de Mirepoix: Paul Gaymon
    Bishop Bertrand Marty: John Ruddock
    Sergeant: Kerry Francis
    Armand: Anthony Jackson
Repeated 12th January 1975
[Montsegur is in the Languedoc area of South West France where after a 10 month siege in 1244 over 200 Cathars were burned in a large pyre.]
[Thousands of Cathars were hanged or burned at the stake. On one day in one large town "twenty thousand heretics were put to the sword, regardless of rank, age, or sex"]


7th January 1975
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Face Saver by Elaine Morgan (1922-2006) adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 100 based upon tv episode 22.
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
    Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
    Janet: Barbara Mullen
    Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
    Elsie Bell: Miriam Margolyes
    Colin Bell: Henry Stamper
    Bridie Bell: Kathleen Helme
    Maggie Guthrie: Betty Cardno
Repeated 9th January 1975
[The series was inspired by A J Cronin's "Country Doctor" (1935) about new doctor Finlay Hyslop. Cronin (1896-1981) was a Harley Street doctor.]


8th January 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Relics by David Campton (1924-2006)
Producer: Anthony Cornish
    Aunt Dorothy: Margot Boyd
    Winifred: Eileen Barry
    Una: Betty Mallett
    Olive: Ursula O'Leary
    Mrs Parkinson: Jane Freeman
    
    
8th January 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Change of Scene by Marion Barnett
Producer Glyn Dearman
    Gina: Norma Ronald
    Peter: Terry Scully
    Henry: Peter Pacey
    Mrs Henderson: Noel Hood
    Stephpn: Michael Spice
    Guide: Nigel Anthony
    Medieval waitress: Carole Boyd
    Mrs Parsons: Margot Boyd
    
    
8th January 1975
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: Tidal Race by Peter Berry
Producer: Graham Gauld
    Susan: Jean England
    Reggie: Frederick Treves
    George: Stephen Thorne
    Wilkinson: Peter Pratt
    Mac: Michael Deacon
    Chatty: Alaric Cotter
    Boy: Miriam Margolyes
    Mayor: Peter Williams
    Inspector: Peter Tuddenham
    Doctor: David Jarrett
    Mrs Thompson: Betty Huntley-Wright
    Harry Jamieson: Nigel Lambert
Repeated 9th January 1975
[Unrelated to the 1981 play by Christopher Russell]


10th January 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: And Barley Rigs by Jessie Kesson (1916-1994)
Producer: Stewart Conn
    Narrator: Iain Cuthbertson
    God Knows: Jack Hunter
    Plunger: Arthur Argo
    Hugh Riddle: Douglas Murchie
    Riddle as a boy: Mary Riggans
    Riddle's mother: Irene Galloway
    Riddle's father: James Crampsey
    Riddle's Wife: Eileen McCallum
    Anson: Bill Gavin
    Countrymen: Jim Couper, John McRobb, William Thomson
    Women: Sheila Law and Pat Leckie
    Singers: Roody McMillan and Fiona McKillican
Repeated from Radio 3, 20/7/68 and 13/8/68
[Translation: A RIG here is a ridge, used in "ridge and furrow" agriculture, offering effective drainage. Jessie Kesson farmed in Scotland 1939-1951.]
[Also produced for R3 by James Crampsey, 25/8/59, rpt 13/9/59, 22/1/60]


11th January 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1966) by Maj Sjowall (1935-2020) and Per Wahloo (1926-1975), translated by Joan Tate (1922-2000), adapted by Colin Tucker
A Swedish journalist disappears in Hungary.
Producer: Richard Wortley
    Martin Beck: John Rowe
    Lennart Kollberg: Kevin Flood
    Major Szluka: Malcolm Haves
    Inga Beck: Diana Bishop
    Chief Insp Hammar: Hector Ross
    Foreign Office Official: Douglas Blackwell
    Waitress: Emily Richard
    Sven Molin: Peter Pacey
    Ake Gunnarson: John Rye
    Embassy man: Alan Barry
    Ari Bokk: Joy Harrison
    Tetz Radeberger: John Bull
    Jonsson: Ronald Forfar
Repeated 13th January 1975
[Original title of novel: "Mannen som gick upp i rok". This was the second of ten Martin Beck novels by the authors. All were made into films. TV films made after 1996 were only based upon the characters.]
[In 1980 this story was filmed in Hungarian with Derek Jacobi as Beck].
[The BBC produced all ten stories for radio in 2012-2013 as "The Martin Beck Killings" with Steven Mackintosh as Beck. Dates(R4)- 27/10/12, 3/11/12 (this story), 10/11/12, 17/11/12, 24/11/12, 6/7/13, 13/7/13, 20/7/13, 27/7/13, 3/8/13].


13th January 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Schippel (1913) by Carl Sternreim (1878-1942) translated by Ruth Michaelis-Jena (1905-1989), adapted by Cecil P. Taylor
Germany in 1913
The Traverse Theatre Company, Directed by Mike Ockrent
Musical adviser David Johnson
Producer Stewart Conn
    Tilman Hiketier: Roger Kemp
    Heinrich Krey: David Bedard
    Thekla Hiketier: Janet Amsden
    Andreas Wolke: James Snell
    Jenny Hiketier: Susan Carpenter
    Paul Schippel: Roy Marsden
    Crown Prince Maximilian: Simon Callow
Repeated 19th January 1975
[Simon Callow appeared in the play on the West End stage in October 1975, when the play was known as "The Plumber's Progress". Original title was "Burger Schippel" also known as "Citizen Schippel","Paul Schippel".]
[The play was part of a play cycle "Aus dem burgerlichen Heldenleben"]


14th January 1975
12.27-13.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Charlie is my Darling by Alistair Bell adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 101 based upon tv episode 30.
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
    Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
    Janet: Barbara Mullen
    Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
    Mrs Main: Molly Weir
    Charlie: Fraser Kerr
    Sheila Hogg: Yvonne Gilan
    Maisie McKendrick: Madeleine Christie
    Mr Sangster: Kalman Glass
Repeated 16th January 1975
[The series was inspired by A J Cronin's "Country Doctor" (1935) about new doctor Finlay Hyslop. Cronin (1896-1981) was a Harley Street doctor.]


15th January 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Gilt on the Gingerbread by Maisie Mosco (1924-2011)
Producer Michael Rolfe
    Margo Courtney: Diana Olsson
    John Courtney: Garard Green
    Jill: Illona Linthwaite
    Brian: Sean Arnold
    Diana Dawson: Madi Bedd
    Waiter: Stephen Thorne
    Shop assistant: Anne Jameson


15th January 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Trip by John D. Vincent
Producer Brian Miller
Bristol
    Sandra Phillips: Gillian Bailey
    Lawrence Highfield: Godfrey James
    John Phillips: Howard Goorney
    Nora Phillips: Una Victor
    Maggie Highfield: Moira Hamilton
    June Highfield: Teresa Rogers
    Det-Sgt Reynolds: Sion Probert
    Charlie: Paul Nicholson
    Mrs McDougal: Elizabeth Ashley
    Mrs Jameson: Margot Young


15th January 1975
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: The House That Annie Built by Charles Fairless
Local power politics.
Producer Lorraine Davies
    Mrs Annie Morgan: Rachel Thomas
    Cledwyn Williams: Dillwyn Owen
    Hugh Edwards: Brinley Jenkins
    Trevor Richards: Clive Belman
    Myfanwy Evans: Victoria Plucknett
    Erasmus Jones: Cynddylan Williams
    John Owen: Andrew Rivers
Repeated 16th January 1975


17th January 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: When Winter Comes by Mike Watts
Autumn 1974. Battersea.
Producer: Peggy Bacon
    Charlie Pope: Marius Goring
    Albert Potter: Norman Shelley
    Shop foreman: Jack May
    Mrs Mac: Mary Chester
    Bookmaker: John Levitt
    Mr Wicktow: Peter Pacey
    Waitress: Pauline Letts


18th January 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Heaven Tree (1960) by Edith Pargeter (1913-1995) adapted by William Ingram
Producer: Lorraine Davies
    Madonna Benedetta: Meg Wynn Owen
    Ralf Isambard: William Squire
    Harry Talvace: John Prior
    Sir Eudo Talvace: Ray Randy
    Lady Talvace: Kathleen Michael
    Adam Boeteler: Clive Belman
    Abbot Hugh de Lacy: Dillwyn Owen
    Gilleis Otley: Olwen Rees
    Nicholas Otley: William Ingham
    Owen ap Ifor apMadog: Huw Owen
Repeated 20th January 1975
[Part of a trilogy: "The Heaven Tree", "The Green Branch", and "The Scarlet Seed"[
[Edith Pargeter also wrote as Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael series) and 3 other pen names.]


19th January 1975
19.02-19.45
The Man Born to be King (1941) by Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957).
1 of 12: Kings in Judaea
Music by Roberto Gerhard played by The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rae Jenkins
Produced By: Raymond Raikes
    The Evangelist: Gabriel Woolf
    Ephraim: Denys Blakelock
    A slave-boy: Daniel Rose
    Proolus, a Roman Officer: Trevor Martin
    Caspar: James Dale
    Melchior: Michael Kilgarriff
    Balthazar: Paul Danquah
    Herod the Great: Robert Eddison
    Shepherd's wife: Nan Marriott-Watson
    Zillah, her daughter: Jo Manning Wilson
    Mary Mother of Jesus: June Tobin
    Joseph, her husband: Norman Shelley
    An Angel: Peter Marinker
    A Messenger: James Thomason
Additional cast in parts 2-12:
John Gabriel, Marjorie Westbury, Alan Wheatley, Alec Clunes, Betty Baskcomb, Bruce Beeby, Caroline Monkhouse, Edward Atienza, Elizabeth Morgan, Elizabeth Proud, Francis de Wolff, Gladys Spencer, Hamlyn Benson, Harry Hutchinson, Harvey Hall, Haydn Jones, Henzie Raeburn, Heron Carvic, Hester Paton Brown, Howieson Culff, Hugh Dickson, Ian Frost, Janet Burnell, Janette Richer, John Boxer, John Forrest, John Glen, John Laurie, John Westbrook, John Wyse, Keith Alexander, Malcolm Hayes, Mary Law, Mary Wimbush, Michael Goldie, Miriam Margolyes, Molly Rankin, Nigel Stock, Penelope Lee, Philip Leaver, Raf de la Torre, Ralph Truman, Richard Hurndall, Rodney Diak, Rolf Lefebvre, Russell Napier, Stephen Jack, Trader Faulkner, Vivienne Chatterton, Wilfrid Carter, Wynne Clark (Total cast 65)
[Part 12 broadcast 30 March 1975. Episodes Sunday weekly except part 11, 28th March 1975 (19.30).]
Repeated from BBC World Service 1967, repeated on R7 and R4X 2007, 2008-9, 2011
[This version was a condensed version of the earlier productions. It is available as a download from Audible / Amazon.]
[Other productions:
by Val Gielgud 1941 to 1942 at 4 week intervals
by Val Gielgud in 1944 - only episodes 8 to 12]
By Noel Iliff 1947-1948
By Peter Watts 1951 (held by the British Library).
By William Glen-Doepel in 1965 ]
[Actor Heron Carvic was in every production.]
[The scripts were published 1943 and reprinted until 1957, with copious notes by Sayers. The scripts were repubished in 2011 and 2023.]


20th January 1975
19.30-21.30
The Machine Wreckers (1922) by Ernst Toller (1893-1939) translated and adapted by Peter Tegel
Luddites, Nottingham, 1812-1815.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Lord Chancellor: Denis Mccarthy
    Lord Byron: John Rye
    Lord Castlereagh/George: Stephen Thorne
    Boy/Teddy Wibley: Judy Bennett
    Emily Richard/ Ure's daughter/Third woman: Madi Hedd
    Jim Cobbett: Barry Foster
    Charles: John Bull
    William/Man with barrow/Son of 2nd woman: Kerry Francis
    John Wibley: Anthony Jackson
    Ned Ludd: Geoffrey Matthews
    A Beggar: Brian Haines
    Drunk/Bob: Jack Carr
    Drunk/Albert: Michael Deacon
    An Officer/Engineer: David Ryall
    Henry Cobbett/Police officer: Tim Seely
    His mother/First woman: Pauline Letts
    Mary Wibley, his mother: Brenda Lawrence
    The Old Reaper, his grandfather: Malcolm Hayes
    Arthur: David Timson
    Mr Ure: Peter Jeffrey
    Blind man/Mr Barlow: Alan Rowe
    Second woman/ Margaret Ludd: Pat Keen
[Original title: "Die Maschinensturmer"]
[The BBC credited the author as "Ernst Hughes"]
[Written whilst Toller, president for six days of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, was in prison for resistance to the Berlin government.]


21st January 1975
12.27-12.55
Dr Finlay's Casebook: Mortal Sin by N J Crisp adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 102 based upon tv episode 44
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
    Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
    Janet: Barbara Mullen
    Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
    Tom Cathcart: Alex McAvoy
    Mrs Flynn: Sheelah Wilcocks
    Fr O'Brien: T P McKenna
    Mr Turnbull: Antony Higginson
    Reilly: John Baddeley
    Sheila Reilly: Yvonne Gilan
    Mrs Reilly: Kathleen Helme
    Mr Robert Carmichael/Peters: Patrick Westwood
Repeated 23rd January 1975
[The series was inspired by A J Cronin's "Country Doctor" (1935) about new doctor Finlay Hyslop. Cronin (1896-1981) was a Harley Street doctor.]


22nd January 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Kate by James McCallen
Producer Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
    Kate: Finnuala O'Shannon
    John: Paul Stewart
    Adam: Caroline Hunt
    Joan: Doreen Hepburn
    Stella: Sheila Grant
    Nigel Green,: Mark Mulholland


22nd January 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Kind of Bonus by John Whitewood
Producer Harry Catlin
    Frances: Nerys Hughes
    Tommy: Timothy Dalton
    Mr Maple: Sion Probert
    Doctor: Haydn Jones
    Charles: Victor Lucas
[Previously a tv play on ITV in 1974]


22nd January 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: The Fall of Mr Humpty by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
The last train of the day.
Producer John Tydeman
    Mr Humpty: Timothy West
    Old man: Haydn Jones
    Jimmy: Nicholas Dillane
    Vicar: Sion Probert
    Stranger: David Ericsson
    First woman: Carole Boyd
    Second woman: Eva Haddon
Repeated 23rd January 1975


24th January 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Dam by Peggy Loosemore Jones (1921-1988)
She's too young.
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Cass: Paula Tilbrook
    Edith: Heather Stoney
    Billy: Alun Bond
    Christine: Lesley Dunlop
    Michael: Judy Bennett
    John: Graham Watkins


25th January 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Long Revenge by Malcolm Stewart
Producer John Cardy
    Olga Clay: Norma Ronald
    Michael Druce: Paul Gaymon
    Angela Rennie: Maxine Audley
    Vincent Harlowe: Alan Rowe
    Spencer Bellamy: Gerald Flood
    Vikki Stone: Heather Bell
Also with Carole Boyd, David Ryall, Peter Whitman
Repeated 27th January 1975


26th January 1975
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cone-Gatherers (1955) by Robin Jenkins (1912-2005) adapted by Alexander Reid
An estate on the west coast of Scotland: World War II.
Producer Stewart Conn
    Duror: Robert Urquhart
    Mrs Lochie: Madeleine Christie
    Peggy: Beth Boyd
    Neil: Henry Stamper
    Calum: Gordon Reid
    Dr Matheson: Jack Lambert
    Captain Forgan: Peter Williams
    Sheila: Rosemary Eadie
    Effie: Gudrun Ure
    Lady Runcie-Campbell: Rachel Gurney
    Tulloch: Duncan McIntyre
    Harry: Tom Conti
    Erchie: Charlie Stewart
    Doctor: Robert McBain
    Roderick: Simon Turner
Repeated from 16/9/1968
[In WW2 Robin Jenkins did forestry work in Scotland]


27th January 1975
19.30-21.30
The Monday Play: Saint Joan (1923) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) abridged by Norman Wright
Technical assistants: Gordon Bowen, Mary Barrett, Carol Mcshane, David Greenwood
Producer John Theocharis
    Saint Joan: Judi Dench
    Narrator: Allan McClelland
    Captain Robert de Baudricourt: Kerry Francis
    Steward: Peter Tuddenham
    Bertrand de Poulengey: Nigel Lambert
    Lord Chamberlain: Alan Dudley
    The Archbishop of Rheims: John Richmond
    Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard): Michael Spice
    Captain La Hire: Sean Arnold
    Charles, the Dauphin: John Rye
    Duchesse: Cecile Chevreau
    Dunois: Michael Williams
    Earl of Warwick: Noel Johnson
    John de Stogumber: Douglas Storm
    The Bishop of Beauvais, Mgr Cauchon: Maurice Denham
    Inquisitor: Stephen Murray
    Canon John d'Estivet: Alan Rowe
    Canon de Courcelles: Stephen Thorne
    Brother Martin Ladvenu: Michael Deacon
    Executioner: Clifford Norgate
    Pages: Peter Whitman and David Ericsson
Students of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
[Other productions: 1956, 1965, 1967 (4 scenes only), 2011]


28th January 1975
12.27-12.55
Dr Finlay's Casebook: In Committee by Roger East adapted by Pat Dunlop
Radio episode 103 based upon tv episode 68
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
    Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
    Janet: Barbara Mullen
    Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
    Jamie MacBride: Robert Trotter
    Mary MacBride/Margaret Bell: Christine Gray
    Dr Snoddie: Eric Woodburn
    Donald MacGlivray: Malcolm Hayes
    Rona Campbell: Colette O'Neil
    William Brodie: James Thomason
    Alastair Pullar: John Graham
Repeated 30th January 1975
[The series was inspired by A J Cronin's "Country Doctor" (1935) about new doctor Finlay Hyslop. Cronin (1896-1981) was a Harley Street doctor.]


28th January 1975
15.05-16.00
The Lost World (1912) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell..
1 of 3 The Monster of Enmore Park.
Producer: Betty Davies
    Professor Challenger: Francis de Wolff
    Edward Malone: Kevin McHugh
    Lord John Roxton: Gerald Harper
    Professor Summerlee: Carleton Hobbs
    Gladys: Carole Boyd
    McArdle: Henry Stamper
    Austin: Paul Gaymon
    Mrs Challenger: Norma Ronald
    Policeman: Alan Dudley
    Chairman: Denis McCarthy
Additional actors in laters parts:
    Gomez: Ronald Faulkener
    Zembo: Tommy Eytle
    Doctor Illingworth: Hector Ross
    Gladys: Carole Boyd
    Williams Potts: John Bull
Part 3: 11/2/75
[Serial repeated on R4X 2024]


29th January 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Outstanding Interest by Charles Thomas
Producer Ian Cotterrell
    Rosie Slater: Betty Hardy
    Alec Gillroy: Hector Ross
    Maureen: Norma Ronald
    Walter Smith: Cyril Shaps


29th January 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: End of Term by E. H. Hendry
A private school for boys.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Hastings: Elizabeth Lindsay
    Rosen: Ian Sharrock
    Quillack: Nigel Lambert
    Frank Parker: Richard Briers
    Malcolm Palethorpe the head-master: Peter Sallis
    Virginia his wife: Norma Ronald
    Lionel Bender: Alan Rowe
    Kirsten, a Swedish under-matron: Diana Olsson
    Mr Rosen: Sion Probert
    Mrs Rosen: Kate Coleridge
    Mr Hastings: John Rye
    Mrs Hastings: Eva Haddon


29th January 1975
20.15:
Midweek Theatre: One of Our Commuters Is Missing by Ken Whitmore
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Tom: Christopher Godwin
    Diane/Louisa: Christine Welch
    Jean/Valerie: Janet Dale
    Mother/Margaret: Heather Stoney
    Chris/Joseph: Stephen Malatratt
    Alex/Godfrey: Ronald Herdman
    Harry/Kelly: Stanley Page
    Sgt/Anthony: Howard Benbrook
Repeated 30th January 1975


31st January 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Every Possible Cat by F. G. Comeskey
Producer Kay Patrick
    Rev Sydney Lanning: Malcolm Hayes
    Mr Cairns: Peter Sallis
    Councillor Ronald Mortimer: Jeffrey Segal
    Will Osborne: Hector Ross
    Jean Osborne: Pamela Charles
    Councillor Charlie Watson: Andrew Sachs
    Polly Swinburne: Carole Boyd
    Neville Draycott: Gerald Cross



1st February 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Advice to a Queen by Ian Cullen (1939-2019)
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Lord Melbourne : Trevor Howard
    Lady Flora Hastings: Anne Stallybrass
    Queen Victoria: Prunella Scales
    Rosalie Crutchley: Rosalie Crutchley
    Baroness Lehzen: Irene Prador
    Lady Portman: Kate Coleridge
    Reichenbach: Eva Haddon
    Dowager Lady Hastings: Margot Boyd
    Sir James Clark: Kenneth McClellan
    Sir Charles Mansfield Clark: Hector Ross
    Duke of Wellington: Francis de Wolff
    Sir John Conroy: Michael Shannon
    Lord Hastings: Paul Gregory
    Lord Portman: Malcolm Hayes
    Sir Robert Peel: John Bromley
Also with Trader Faulkner, Peter Pacey, Paul Gaymon
Repeated 3rd February 1975 and 31st January 1977


2nd February 1975
14.30-15.40:
Afternoon Theatre: West of Offa's by Alan Downer (1930-1995)
Producer: Roger Pine
    Narrator: Alan Downer
    Tom Rees: John Rowe
    Mrs Rees: Christine Pollon
    Dewi Rees: Peter King
    Die Williams: Douglas Blackwell
    Eirtys Lewis: Sian Davies
    Dai Spy: Talfryn Thomas
    Prof Dafydd ap Richard: Aubrey Richards
    Prof Schmidt Eisenhardt: Manning Wilson
    Howell: David Valla
    Powell: Robin Browne
    First lady: Olwen Griffiths
    Second lady: Jan Edwards
    Third lady: Dorothea Phillips
    Fourth lady: Kate Binchy
    Mr Dimmock: John Samson


3rd February 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Doting (1952) by Henry Green (1905-1973) adapted by Denis Constanduros
London : 1949.
Producer: Michael Rolfe
    Mr Arthur Middleton: Frederick Treves
    Mrs Diana Middleton: Fenella Fielding
    Master Peter Middleton: Stephen Pacey
    Mr Charles Addinsell: James Villiers
    Miss Annabel Paynton: Illona Linthwaite
    Miss Claire Belaine: Mary-Claire Nash
Repeated 9th February 1975


4th February 1975
12.27-12.55
Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Burgess Ticket by Donald Bull
Radio episode 104 based upon tv episode 191
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
    Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
    Janet: Barbara Mullen
    Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
    Oliphant: James Urquhart
    Provost Maxwell: Archie Duncan
    Jimmy Connors: Jon Glover
    Fiona Boyce: Valerie Verdon
Repeated 6th February 1975
[The series was inspired by A J Cronin's "Country Doctor" (1935) about new doctor Finlay Hyslop. Cronin (1896-1981) was a Harley Street doctor.]
["The Burgess Ticket" was the final television story to transfer to radio. Subsequent radio stories were original to radio.]


5th February 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Brian and the Brain Factory by Haydn Wood
Selling brains is a highly complicated business.
Producer: Gerry Jones
    Brian Wilkins: Sion Probert
    Boss: Peter Jeffrey
    Roger Matthews: David Valla
    Fred: Sean Arnold
    Miss Thomas: Norma Ronald
    Sally Wilkins/Secretary: Sandra Clark
    Prime Minister: Malcolm Hayes
[This is by a different Haydn Wood to the violinist/composer]


5th February 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dreamers Awake by R. E. T. Lamb
Dreams.
Producer Richard Wortley
    Ambrey: William Eedle
    Edgar: Peter Jeffrey
    John: Anthony Hall
    Heddy: Charles Stidwill
    Stella: Sandra Clark
    
    
5th February 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Bon Voyage by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
adapted by John Graham
A cruise ship sailing from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
Producer: Kay Patrick
    Capt Berringer: Trader Faulkner
    Hansen: Paul Gaymon
    Irma Z Kaplan: Libby Morris
    Lola Widmeyer: Honor Blackman
    Mrs Teitelbaum: Hazel Coppen
    Mr Teitelbaum: Malcolm Hayes
    Lisa Wendle: Madeleine Cemm
    Orford Wendle/Steward: Peter Whitman
    Eldrich Trumbull III: John Rowe
    Sir Roderick Bland: William Fox
    Lady Bland: Joan Sanderson
Repeated 6th February 1975 and 6th December 1989


7th February 1965
15.05-16.00
Afternoon Theatre: Breakdown by Tracey Lloyd
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    Ralph Mueller: Dinsdale Landen
    Ginny Mueller: Jill Balcon
    Tim Leighton Jones: David Ericsson
    Meg Leighton Jones: Jane Knowles
    Jo Begley: Alan Dudley


8th February 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Fire, Burn! (1957) by John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) adapted by John Keir Cross
1829 crime.
Producer: Audrey Cameron
    The Presenter: John Westbrook
    Supt John Cheviot: Michael Denison
    Taximan/Sgt Bulmer: Kerry Francis
    Cabbie/Sgt Boyce: John Bull
    Flora Drayton: Rachel Gurney
    Billings: David Ericsson
    Col Charles Rowan: Denis McCarthy
    Mr Richard Mayne: Malcolm Hayes
    Mr Alan Henley: John Graham
    Margaret Renfrew: Gudrun Ure
    Freddie Debbitt: Charles Hodgson
    Capt Hogben: David March
    Lady Cork: Marjorie Westbury
    Lieut Wentworth: John Rye
    Mr Robert Peel: Norman Claridge
    Vulcan: Rector Ross
    Manton: Sean Arnold
Repeated 10th February 1965
[Audrey Cameron also produced the play, broadcast 5 and 7/7/1958 with Richard Hurndall as Cheviot, repeated 27/4/1965, also 7 and 9/10/1967]
[JDC also wrote a radio play entitled "Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble" in the 1940's.]


10th February 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Caste (1867) by T. W. Robertson (1829-1871)
Pianist Anna Berenska
Produced By: Norman Wright
    Narrator: William Sleigh
    Polly Eccles: Frances Jeater
    Captain Hawtree: John Rye
    Esther Eccles: Susan Maudslay
    George D'Alroy: Michael McClain
    Marquise de Saint Maur: Fabia Drake
    Eccles: Geoffrey Wincott
    Sam Gerridge: Robin Browne
Repeated from 18th September 1972.
Repeated 16th February 1975 and 25/12/1979
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1953 with David Peel as George and Anne Culler as Esther]
[Based upon "The Poor Rate Unfolds a Tale" 1866, by Thomas William Robertson]
[In more modern English we would use "Class" rather than "Caste". This is a story of rigid class distinctions. The setting is prior to the Married Women's Property Acts and children were the "property" of the father.]


12th February 1975
11.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: I Remember ... I Remember by Roger Frith (1936-2008)
Producer: Hallam Tennyson
Cast: Anna Cropper, Gabriel Woolf and Ian Sharrock
[The manuscript is held by the University of Reading, ref MS 5367/2/3/67]


12th February 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Gone for Soldiers by John Howlett (1940-2019)
Producer Gerry Jones
    Terry: John Rowe
    Grandad: John Hollis
    NiCk: Jim McManus
    Mary: Jo Manning Wilson
    Jeannie: Norma Ronald
    Lydia: Karen Archer
    Steve: Stephen Thorne
    Mrs Law: Eva Haddon
    Roy: Michael Shannon
    Officer: Sean Arnold
    Sergeant: Kerry Francis
    Corporal: Michael Shannon
    Soldier: Anthony Smee


12th February 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) by Noel Coward (1899-1973) adapted by John Graham
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Mrs Eva Innes-Hook: Kathleen Helme
    Polly Barlow: Emily Richard
    Amazahudin: Sion Probert
    Dr Renshaw: Alan Dudley
    Lorelei Chang: Elizabeth Morgan
    Uncle Bob: Vernon Joyner
    Purser: Alan Rowe
    Rick Barlow: Peter Whitman
    Sailor: Hector Ross
Repeated 13th February 1975, also 26/10/1977 and 13/12/1989


14th February 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Good Old Uncle Jack by Barrie Keeffe (1945-2019)
Producer Piers Plowright
    Jack: John Hollis
    Alan: Keith Washington
    Shirley: Emily Richard
    Jane: Lynette McMorrough
    Grandma: Katherine Parr
    Grandpa: Basil Lord
    Vi: Hazel Coppen
    Nobby: Alan Thompson
    Rose: Olwen Griffiths
    Barman: Sean Arnold
    Deckchair man: Jack Carr
    Policeman: Derek Birch


15th February 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Night of the Fourteenth by Max Marquis
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Alan Gray: Charles Kay
    Rt Hon Douglas Venner: Barry Foster
    Ruth Armstrong: Eva Haddon
    Tommy Block: Paul Gregory
    Hon Pamela Banks: Yvonne Quenet
    Walter Felton, MP: Ronald Baddiley
    Sarah Hudson, MP: Anna Barry
    Eric Gough: Richard Hampton
    Ian Ferguson: Neville Jason
Also with Peter Williams and Graham Roberts
Repeated 17th February 1975


16th February 1975
21.03-21.58
Mary Barton by Elizabtth Gaskell adapted by Bertha Lonsdale
Manchester, 1830's
1 of 5
Music by Roy Steadman-Allen
Special effects by David Fleming-Williams
Producer Trevor Hill
Manchester, 1830's
    Mrs Gaskell/ Sally Leadbitter: Marah Stohl
    John Barton, a Lancashire mill-worker: Geoffrey Banks
    Mrs Barton, his wife: Ann Aris
    Mary, their young daughter: June Barry
    George Wilson, from Cumberland: Ronald Scales
    Jane his Wife: Rosalie Williams
    Jem Wilson, their young son: Alan Rothwell
    Aunt Alice, George's elder sister: Elizabeth MacKenzie
    Miss Simmonds, dressmaker: Ella Atkinson
    Margaret Jennings: Vida Paterson
    Job Legh, Margaret's grand-father: Wilfred Pickles
    Harry Carson: Brian Trueman
    Mr Carson: Graham Tennant
    Neighbour: Norma Wilson
Additional actors in parts 2-5:
    A lawyer: Roger Grainger
    Aunt Esther: Paula Tilbrook
    Boatman Sturgis: Herbert Smith
    Charley, her son: Judy Bennett
    Jane Wilson: Rosalie Williams
    Mr Bridgenorth: Ronald Herdman
    Mr Duncombe/PC Wilkins: Graham Roberts
    Mrs Jones: Elizabeth Flanagan
    Overseer: Tom Harrison
    Policeman/Thomson: Peter Bell
    Slater: Herbert Smith
    Sophy Carson: Karen Petrie
    Spokesman: John Baldwin
    Tom Bourne: Peter Ellis
Each episode was repeated two days later.
Part 5 first broadcast 16th March 1975


17th February 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Jonas by J. C. W. Brook
A ouija board.
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Max Brown: Julian Holloway
    Julie Brown: Anna Cropper
    Hugo Stevens:John Rye
    Pat Steven: Prunella Scales
    Mohammet Asif: David March
also with Carole Boyd
Repeated 23rd February 1975, 24th July 1976, 7th April 1991, 30th December 1992.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2021]


19th February 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: So Goodbye Dear and Amen by Robert Huxter
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Henry: Wilfred Pickles
    Fanny: Kathleen Helme
    Dog owner: Christopher Godwin
    David: Paul Webster
[Title from Cole Porter "Just one of those things"]


19th February 1975
15.05-16.00
Afternoon Theatre: The Exercise of Discretionary Flexibility by Michael Kittermaster
The result of refusing welfare payments.
Producer Michael Rolfe
    Caroline: Elizabeth Morgan
    Arnold Foster: Frederick Treves
    Edith Foster: Cecile Chevreau
    Nurse/Miss MeIina: Eva Haddon
    Doctor/Sergeant: Alan Dudley
    Miss Prentice/Miss Vent: Kate Coleridge
    Davis/Supt: Denis McCarthy
    Mrs Hernandez: Mona Hammond
    Parsons/Knowles: Peter Williams
    Sleeman: Sean Arnold
    Miss Odell: Patricia Trueman
    Shop assistant: Anthony Smee
Repeated 11th May 1979


19th February 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Star Quality by Noel Coward (1899-1973) adapted by John Graham
Producer Christopher Venning
    Lorraine Barrie: Jean Kent
    Ray Malcolm: Michael Billington
    J C Roebuck: Michael Shannon
    Bryan Snow: Lawrence Douglas
    Marion Blake: Patricia Moore
    Tony Orford: Peter Whitman
Repeated 20th February 1975, 10th November 1977, 20th December 1989
[Noel Coward's final play]


21st February 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Marionette by Shirley Cooklin
Producer John Cardy
    Ann: Gwen Watford
    Maggie: Anne Jameson
    Gil: Victor Lucas
    Sam: Peter Jeffrey
    Ena: Madeleine Cemm
    Alec: Stephen Thorne
    Liz: Kate Coleridge
    Dick: John Rye
    Solicitor: Denis McCarthy


22nd February 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The U-boat That Lost Its Nerve by James Follett (1939-2021)
Harmonica Harry Pitch
Producer Margaret Etall
    Lt-Cmdr Hans Rahmlow: David Ryall
    Lt Bernhardt Berndit: Nigel Lambert
    Lt Wolfgang Stein: Michael Deacon
    Chief Engineer: Michael Shannon
    Lt-Cmdr Otto Kruger: Paul Gaymon
    Major Conrad Shulke: Stephen Thorne
    Lt Paul Faulk: Alan Dudley
    Cmdr Willi Leymann: Trader Faulkner
    Home Guard Captain: Jack Carr
    Corporal: Sion Probert
Repeated 24th February 1975, 7th and 9th January 1978


24th February 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Scenes from Married Life (1961) by William Cooper (Harry Summerfield Hoff: 1910-2002) adapted by Malcolm and Elizabeth Bradbury
1949. Marriage.
Producer: Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
    Joe Lunn: Jack Carr
    Harry: John Malcolm
    Barbara: Linda Polan
    Robert: Douglas Storm
    Annette: Marigold Sharman
    Elspeth: Pamela Craig
    Froggatt/Annette's father: George Woolley
    Sir Harold: Philip Garston-Jokes
    Courtenay: Simon Carter
    Solicitor: Roger Milner
    Antique dealer: Alan Devereux
    Personal assistant/Nurse: Eileen Barry
Repeated 2nd March 1975
[Also produced in 4 parts by David Blount in 2004 with Simon Treves as Robert.]
[The series of six books started with "Scenes from Provincial Life."(1950) adapted for radio in the 1970s and in 2003]


26th February 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910) dramatised by Norman H. Kolpas
Producer David Spenser
    Adam: Peter Whitman
    Eve: Bonnie Hurren
[Written as two stories, Adam's Diary 1893, Eve's Diary 1905. Other associated stories were That day in Eden; Eve Speaks; Adam's soliloquy; Autobiography of Eve]


26th February 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: House Divided by Christopher Bidmead (1941-2025)
Flute: Susan Milan
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
    Felicity: Elizabeth Spriggs
    Donald: Stephen Thorne
    Jane: Jane Knowles
    Nigel: Martin Jarvis
    Annie: Mary Clare Nash
    Michael (aged 10): Ian Sharrock
    Michael (aged 18): Peter Pacey
    
    
26th February 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: All in the Family by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Producer Harry Catlin
    Bryan Peake: Geoffrey Matthews
    Judy Cater: Vicky Ireland
    Tony Peake: Derek Seaton
    Insp Roberts: Peter Williams
    Det-Sgt Haynes: Robert Grange
    Joe Barnes: Philip Davis
    Jack Burgess: Alan Dudley
    Annie: Liane Aukin
Repeated 27th February 1975


28th February 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Scars by T. D. Webster
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Alison: Julie Hallam
    Mike: Paul Gaymon
    Doctor: Michael Shannon
    Irene: Joan Matheson
    Meg: Elizabeth Morgan
    Ellis Carter: Clifford Norgate


1st March 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Rain in Spain by Martin Worth (1926-2018)
Producer: Margaret Etall
    Bernard Waterson: Nigel Davenport
    Molly Waterson: Rosemary Leach
    Alvarez: Ronald Baddiley
    Manuel: John Bull
    Adolfo: Geoffrey Matthews
    Phil/Hidalgo: David March
    Sheila/Abuela: Elizabeth Morgan
    Police Officer/Peter: Trader Faulkner
    Felipe: Julian Somers
    Constanza/Mrs Drury: Liane Aukin
    Anne: Emily Richard
    Rosita/Sandra: Madeleine Cemm
    Forrest: Alan Dudley
Repeated 3rd March 1975


3rd March 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Daphne Laureola (1949) by James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor. 1888-1951)
Violin: Lionel Bentley
Produced By: Norman Wright
    Lady Pitts: Margaretta Scott
    Sir Joseph: Robert Harris
    Maisie: Carole Boyd
    Bob: Sean Arnold
    Helen: Madeleine Cemm
    Bill: David Ericsson
    Vincent: Peter Pratt
    George: Trader Faulkner
    Gooch: Alan Dudley
    Watson: Hector Ross
    Bored Woman: Anne Jameson
    Bored Man: Denis McCarthy
Repeated 9th March 1975


5th March 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cloth Caps, Mufflers and Ill Fitting Suits by Tony Allen and Vernon Magee
Producer: Shaun McLoughlin
    Bert Sidebottom: John Hollis
    Labour Exchange official: Stephen Thorne
    Coarsely spoken man: Kerry Francis
    Irishman: Denis McCarthy
    Indian: Nigel Lambert
[Cast not complete due to BBC Programme Database error.]


5th March 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Turnbo Manor by Alma Cullen (1938-2021)
An Adult Education College
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Milly: Carole Hayman
    Kay: Barbara Mullaney
    Laura: June Barry
    Vernon: Derrick Gilbert
    Richard: Ronald Baddiley


5th March 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Laid to Rest by Keith Miles
Ben Spiggott of the Bow Street Runners.
Producer Anthony Cornish
(Birmingham)
    Ben Spiggott: Mark Kingston
    Joe Glindon: Linal Haft
    Alice Spiggott: Marcia Warren
    Sir Henry Longfoot: David King
    Dr Bartholomew Kemp: Graham Armitage
    Ashley Kemp: Alan Rowe
    Fanny Mandrake: Charlotte Howard
    Dorcas di Silva: Heather Barrett
    Tully: Graham Weston
    Cold Rose: Jane Freeman
    Mr Gellander: George Woolley
Repeated 6th March 1975


7th March 1975
15.05-16.00
Afternoon Theatre: A Testing Time by Gareth Armstrong
The pressures of examinations
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Mrs Blake: Anne Jameson
    Len Blake: Sion Probert
    Mr Blake: John Hollis
    Richard Hunt/Second student: Paul Gaymon
    Clive: Gareth Armstrong
    Jenny: Madeleine Cemm
    Helen: Heathen Bell
    Mr Burman/Invigilator: John Rye
    Mrs Jeffries: Margaret Roaertson
    First student: Anthony Smee


8th March 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Hero for Leanda by Andrew Garve dramatised by Eileen Cullen
Late 1950's, stranded in Africa.
Producer Betty Davies
    Michael Conway: T P McKenna
    Leanda: Maria Aitken
    Alessandro Kastella: David March
    Sam: Antony Viccars
    Peruzzi: Malcolm Hayes
    Vittorio Oadorna: Trader Faulkner
    Mazzoli: Harold Kasket
    Fletcher: Alan Rowe
    Sir George Hollis: William Fox
    Grant: Paul Gaymon
    Col Baker: Hector Ross
    Mrs Baker: Madi Hedd
    Tom Franklin: Nigel Lambert
    Wendy Franklin: Carole Boyd
Repeated 10th March 1975


10th March 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Westerman Flat by John Kirkmorris
An unforeseen accident.
Producer's assistant Janet Macklam
Technical assistance by Peter Novis , Ann Hunt and John Whitehall
Producer: Jane Graham
    Strutt: Alan Dobie
    Nora: Frances Jeater
    Foster: Simon Callow
Repeated 16th March 1975, 27th May 1979


12th March 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Port of Call by Alan G. Bower
Mixed marriages.
Producer: Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Gerry Hallot: Michael Harbour
    Elspeth Hallot: Valerie Murray
    Father Loucan: Ramsay Williams
    Mr Bolsover: Earl Cameron
    The Doctor: Philip Garston-Jones
    The Steward: Alan Devereux


12th March 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Society of Fools by Pauline Spender
Who am I?
Producer David Spenser
    Hugo: Peter Jeffrey
    Meg: Sheila Grant
    Jackie: Frances Jeater
    Peter: Sion Probert
    Gabby: Peter Whitman
    Swamiji: Malcolm Hayes
    Gautam: Roshan Seth
Also with Carole Boyd, Kate Coleridge, Norma Ronald and David Ryall


12th March 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Sarah by Michael Kittermaster
Producer: Glyn Dearman
    George Grey: Anthony Hall
    Liz Bartlett: Pamela Lane
    Diana Bartlett: Elizabeth Proud
    Mr Evans: Alan Dudley
Repeated 13th March 1975


14th March 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Shady Business by Joan O'Connor based on "Une Tenebreuse Affaire" (1841) by Honore De Balzac (1799-1850)
1 of 3: Spies are everywhere
Producer Jane Graham
    Marquis d'Hautserre: Dennis McCarthy
    Marquise: Jeanne Watts
    Curee Goujon: John Rye
    Laurence: Gillian McCutcheon
    Grevin: Peter Baldwin
    Malin: Philip Voss
    Corentin: Philip Bond
    Peyrade: Christopher Benjamin
    Michu: Peter Vaughan
    Francois Michu: Peter Whitman
    Marthe Michu: Diana Bishop
    Farraer Viotette: Alan Dudley
    Magistrate Goulard: Peter Woodthorpe
    Catherine: Emily Richard
    Corporal: John Bull
    Gothard: Peter Pacey
Additional cast in parts 2-3:
David Timson, Vernon Joyner, Michael Shannon, William Fox, Trader Faulkner, Martin C. Thurley, Richard Hurndall, Tim Wylton, Simon Callow, David Sinclair, Hugh Sullivan
Part 3 broadcast 28th March 1965
[The original story was based upon an incident known to Honore de Balzac's father, involving Dominique Clement de Ris, who appears in the play as Malin. There was a conspiracy in 1803.]


15th March 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Next Man Through the Door by John Howlett (1940-2019)
An ageing racketeer.
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Rosario Chianna: Sydney Tafter
    Blackjack Jackson: Manning Wilson
    Sally: Maggie McCarthy
    Lilly: Patricia Gallimore
    Det-Sgt Pike: John Samson
    Det-Con Masters: Alan Devereux
    ChriS: John Baddeley
    Ben Chianna: Jon Rollason
    Ron: Roger Gartland
    Joe: Michael Shannon
    Kid Koster: Peter Pacey
    Old Man Koster: George Woolley
    Mr Baker: Philip Garston-Jones
    Amanda: Heather Barrett
Repeated 17th March 1975 and 5th July 1976


17th March 1975
20.00-21.30
Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse
Music by Neville McGrah
Producer: Alfred Bradley
    Horatio Hobson: Wilfred Pickles
    Willie Mossop: Bernard Cribbins
    Maggie: Barbara Young
    Alice: Anna Cropper
    Albert: John Normington
    Tubby: Graham Rigby
    Jim Heeler: Henry Livings
    Dr Macfarlane: Duncan McIntyre
    Vicky: Karal Gardner
    Mrs Hepworth: Marion Dawson
    Ada Figgins: Ellzabeth Bell
    Fred Beenstock: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Repeated from 14/11/1962 (Light), 18/5/1963, 7/11/1965, and 20/10/1968
Repeated 23rd March 1975 and 1st May 1978
[Also produced in 1994 by Michael Fox, with Bernard Cribbins playing Hobson]


19th March 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Bit of the Wilderness by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
Producer Gordon Emslie
    Lachlan: Paul Young
    Bob: Gerard Slevin
    Sandy: Paul Kermack
    Mary Jane: Jennifer Angus
    Mermaid: Gwyneth Guthrie
    Andy: Michael Bruce
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland: 1974)


19th March 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Live Appearance by Liane Aukin (1936-2016)
Producer: Susanna Capon
    Rosie: Rosemary Leach
    Martha: Gillian Martell
    Harry: Peter Jeffrey
    Tom: Peter Whitman
Repeated 10th November 1978


19th March 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) adapted by Sheila Hodgson
Evil has not ceased to exist.
Producer Harry Catlin
    Dr John Silence: Malcolm Hayes
    Stephen Hubbard: Fraser Kerr
    Cabby: Michael Shannon
    Porter: Roger Gartland
    Waiter: Peter Whitman
    Landlord: Michael Wolf
    Man in Post Office: John Bull
    Priest: Sion Probert
    Bruder Pagel: Alan Dudley
    Bruder Kalkman: Denis McCarthy
Repeated 20th March 1975 and 23rd October 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X 2020-2023]
[Also produced in 1990 by Marilyn Imrie in a 30 minute version]


22nd March 1975-
16.30-17.00
The Hawks and the Doves by Derek Hoddinott and Pat Hoddinott
A series of plays about the Dove family.
1 of 6: Operation Waiting Game
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
    Vic: David Griffin
    Brad: Nigel Anthony
    Sam: Elizabeth Proud
    Grant/Man: Peter Whitman
    Lt Kaufmann: Richard Carrington
Additional actors in stories 2-6:
    Aunt Mary: Betty Huntley-Wright
    Trent: Sion Probert
    Man: Peter Pacey
    the Evil: Stephen Thorne
    Spectre: Inspector Spectre
    Brenda: Madeleine Cemm
    Mr Fairfax: Lewis Stringer
    Mr Bellamy: Douglas Blackwell
    Man/Policeman: Nigel Lambert
    Jason: Gareth Armstrong
    Lord Driscoll: Alan Haines
    First man: John Rye
    Second man: Peter Whitman
    Barav: Jack Carr
    King Timar: Denis McCarthy
    Segat: John Bull
    Sir Reginald: Peter Williams
    Leitch: Trevor Martin
    Second Security Guard/Weather Forecaster: David Ryall
Story 6 broadcast 26th April 1975
The series was repeated commencing 25th August 1973.


22nd March 1975:
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Idea for a Rhapsody by Michael Kittermaster
Rhapsody composed by Peter Greenwell
Pianist Winifred Davey
Producer: Betty Davies
    Robin Colley: Tony Britton
    Carol Grant: Kate Binchy
    Grace Barthrop: Mary Wimbush
    Mary Colley: Pa]line Letts
    Frank Millward: John Bentley
    Rikki Carr: Muriel Pavlow
    James Adams: William Eedle
Also with Olwen Griffiths, Geoffrey Beevers and Michael Kilgarriff
Repeated from 26th June 1972


23rd March 1975:
21.03-21.58
Broome Stages by Clemence Dane adapted by Val Gielgud
1715-1920: A family.
1 of 9: Foundations of a family
Producer: David H. Godfrey
    Narrator: Mary Wimbush
    George: Ralph Truman
    Edgar: Carleton Hobbs
    Hivaret: Wendy Lovelock
    Richard Broome: Hector Ross
    Robert Broome: Noel Johnson
    Wilttam Broome: David Timson
    Lady Lettice: Rachel Gurney
    Duke of Bedenham: Vernon Joyner
    Doctor: Trader Faulkner
    Russel Broome: David Brierley
    Lionel Wybird: Gerald Cross
    Robin Broome: John Forrest
    Maud: Norma Ronald
    Harry Broome: John Pullen
Additional cast in parts 2-9
Alan Reid, Allan McClelland, Beth Boyd, Carol Marsh, Carole Boyd, Clifford Norgate, David Ericsson, David Sinclair, David Valla, Diana Bishop, Elizabeth Morgan, Elizabeth Proud, Emily Richard, Eva Haddon, Fraser Kerr, Grizelda Hervey, Henry Davies, Hilda Schroder, Joan Miller, John Justin, John Rowe, John Samson, Kate Coleridge, Katherine Parr, Kenneth McClellan, Lewis Stringer, Liane Aukin, Margaret Robertson, Margaret Wolfit, Margot Boyd, Michael Harbour, Nigel Havers, Nigel Lambert, Peter Marinker, Peter Pacey, Sandra Clark, Simon Callow
Part nine broadcast on 18th May 1975
All episodes repeated after two days


24th March 1975
15.05-16.35:
Afternoon Theatre: A Charge on the State by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
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 from 18th and 24th November 1974.



24th March 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Samson Agonistes (1671) by John Milton (1608-1674)
Special music composed and recorded by Ron Geesin
A dramatic poem
Producer: Richard Wortley
    Officer: David Ryall
    Dalila: Anna Massey
    Harapha: Trevor Martin
    the Messenger: Martin Jarvis
    Chorus: Michael Deacon, Paul Gaymon, Peter Pacey, Peter Whitman, Carole Boyd and Madi Hedd (Chorus as in Greek Chorus)
Repeated 27th April 1975
[Also produced for R3 in 1960, rptd 1961, by R D Smith with Trevor Martin as Harapha and Godfrey Kenton as Messenger.]
[Also produced for R3 in 2008 by John Tydeman with Philip Madoc as Harapha.]


26th March 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sheltering Trees by E. R. Pugh
The sound of bombers was felt as a vibration among the stark tree trunks.
Producer John Theocharis
    Sylvia: Anna Cropper
    Vic: John Rowe
    Jean: Kate Coleridge
    Richard: Kerry Francis
    Jerry: John Bull
    Bill: David Ericsson
    Frank: Michael Burlington


26th March 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: But Fred Freud is Dead by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Fred: Alan David
    Mike: Struan Rodger
    Dora: Eileen Derbyshire
    John Ansell: John Rowe
    Sue: Stephanie Turner


26th March 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Come Home Bonnie Blue by Les Cartwright
Spends hours with the pigeons.
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Mathew Langley: Ronald Herdman
    Rachel Langley: Paula Tilbrook
    Martin: Judy Bennett
    Seth: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 27th March 1975


29th March 1975
20.30-21.58
Saturday-Night Theatre: Richard of Bordeaux by Gordon Daviot
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Maudelyn: David Timson
    Second page/Henry's page: Anthony Suet
    Richard: Martin Jarvis
    Anne of Bohemia: Maureen O'Brien
    Thomas of Woodstock. Duke of Gloucester: Maurice Denham
    John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster: Alan Rowe
    Edmund Duke of York: Manning Wilson
    Michael De la Pole: Alan Dudley
    Earl of Arundel: Allan Cuthbertson
    Robert de Vere: Geoffrey Collins
    Sir Simon Burley/Doctor: Denis McCarthy
    Sir Thomas Mowbray: David Buck
    Sir John Montague: Roger Gartland
    Rutland/Page: Peter Whitman
    Henry Botingbroke: John Rowe
    Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury: Trader Faulkner
    Repeated 31st March 1975 and 26th May 1979
[Also produced in 1952, rptd 1953 by John Richmond with John Gielgud as Richard II]


30th March 1975
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Laburnum Grove (1933) by J B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Produced By: Christopher Venning
    Mrs Baxley: Diana Olsson
    Mr Baxley: Geoffrey Matthews
    Elsie: Jane Knowles
    Mr Radfern: Bernard Archard
    Harold: Michael Harbour
    Flatten: Douglas Blackwell
    Mrs Radfern: Kathleen Michael
    Insp Stack: Michael Byrne
    Sgt Morris: Manning Wilson
Repeated from 8th April 1972


31st March 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Green Pack by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932).
West Africa, 1931.
Producer: Raymond Raikes.
    Tubby Storman: David Timson
    Mark Ellio: Paul Gaymon
    Larry Deans: Peter Egan
    Native servant: Kerry Francis
    Mrs Thurston: Wynne Clark
    Dr John Thurston: Peter Williams
    Louis Creet: Francis de Wolff
    Zena Thurston: Kate Coleridge
Repeated 6th April 1975, 7th November 1977.
[This was the first production of the original play written by Edgar Wallace. The theatrical production of 1932 was much amended.]


2nd April 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Shylock's Beginning by H. P. Rubinstein
The inspiration for The Merchant of Venice.
Producer Martin Jenkins
    Sir Thomas Egerton: Malcolm Hayes
    William Shakespeare: William Sleigh
    Fortunati Massa: Martin Friend
    Abigail: Rosalind Ayres
    Nathaniel Menda: Alan Dudley


2nd April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Small Success by Jane Wilson
Producer Stewart Conn
(Leeds)
    Rodney: Tony Robinson
    Women/Landlady: Paula Tilbrook
    Defence Counsel/Paul: David Batton
    Policemen/Warden: Howard Benbrook
    Magistrate: Derek Rose
    Marlene: Juliet Cooke
    Mark: John Linstrum
    Salvation Army Attendant: Graham Roberts
    Mabel: Elizabeth McKenzie


2nd April 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: The Watchers by Janet Allen
A quiet cottage in the country.
Producer Christopher Venning
    Martin: Christopher Neame
    Lisa: Ann Beach
    Mrs Craig: Kathleen Michael
    Philip: Alan Dudley
Repeated 2nd April 1975


4th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Trial of Thomas Becket by Nesta Pain (1905-1995)
The Castle of Northampton.
Producer: Nesta Pain
    The Earl of Leicester: Michael Spice
    Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury: Lee Montague
    Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London: Michael Hordern
    Herbert of Bosham, Becket's confessor: Michael Deacon
    King Henry: Robert Hardy
    Henry of Winchester: Rolf Lefebvre
    Roger of York: James Thomason
    Hilary of Chichester: Brian Badcoe
    Bartholomew of Exeter: Ralph Truman
    Robert of Hereford: John Bentley
    William: Fitzstephen: Peter Baldwin
Repeated from R3 1969
[based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and the letters of Becket and Gilbert Foliot. ]
[The book "The King and Beckett" written by Nesta Pain was published in 1964]


5th April 1975
20.30-22.00
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Calendar by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932). Dramatised by Barry Campbell
The Racing Calendar- a publication with the horse race conditions, entry details etc.
Producer: Jane Graham
    Lady Wenda Panniford: Sylvia Syms
    Captain Garry Anson: Philip Bond
    Hubert Hillcott: John Hollis
    Peter Hipplewayne: John Rye
    Sir William Panniford: Peter Jeffrey
    Molly Panniford: Joanna Wake
    Henry Lascarne: Nigel Lambert
    Mr Wray: David Ryall
    John Dory: Stephen Thorne
    Andy Lynn: Peter Pacey
    Ascot Steward: Roger Gartland
    Lord Forlingham: Alan Lawrance
    Lord Innsbrook: Peter Williams
    Sir John Garth: Alan Rowe
    Mr Rainby: Trader Faulkner
Repeated 7th April 1975
[Also produced in 1951 for Light by Cleland Finn with Charles Leno as Hillcott and Raf de la Torre as John Dory.]
[Also produced by Archie Campbell in 1961 for Light, repeated R4 1966 with Charles Leno as Hillcott and Philip Morant as John Dory.]


7th April 1975
20.00-21.30
The Mask and the Face (1913) by Luigi Chiarelli (1880-1947) translated by Noel de Vic Beamish (Annie O'Meara de Vic Beamish (1883-1969) ).
Singer: Alan Jones
Mandolin: Steve Gauna
Piano: Mary Nash
Music composed and conducted by Douglas Coombes
Infidelity near to Lake Como, Italy.
Producer: Dickon Reed
    Elisa Zanotti: Margaret Robertson
    Marta Setta: Bonnie Hurren
    Cirillo Zanotti: Gerald Cross
    Giorgio Alameri: Sion Probert
    Wanda Serini: Jan Edwards
    Marco Milotti: Gabriel Woolf
    Piero Pucci: Michael Deacon
    Count Paolo Grazia: David Buck
    Savina Grazia: Anna Cropper
    Luciano Spina: John Rye
    And rea: Trader Faulkner
    Teresa: Pauline Letts
Repeated 13th April 1975
[Original title "La maschera e il volto"]


9th April 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Perfect Working Order by Christopher Bidmead (1941-2025)
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Adam: Christopher Bidmead
    Mary: Carole Boyd
    Manager: Alan Dudley
    Simon: Nigel Lambert


9th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Reflections Before the Plunge by Stanley Steel
Producer: Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Mrs Machin: Ann Aris
    Pete Machin: Sam Kelly
    Sam: David Mahlowe
    Barbara: Gwen Taylor
    Edith: Rosalie Williams
    Susan: Sharon Gower
    Monica: Elizabeth McKenzie
    Taximan: Graham Roberts
    Charlie: Boward Benbhook


9th April 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: One to the Power of Two by Graham Blackett
Twin brothers, identical yet different.
Producer Betty Davies
    Edward Metcalfe: Maurice Denham
    James Metcalfe: Roger Snowdon
    Mary Metcalfe: Madi Hedd
    Mr Ashe: Denis McCarthy
    Mr Ross: Nigel Lambert
    Miss Parkinson: Carole Boyd
Repeated 10th April 1975


11th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Ladybird. Ladybird by John D. Vincent
Arson.
Producer: David Spenser
    Gordon Harris: Geoffrey Matthews
    Dick Fletcher: Michael Burlington
    Solly Goldstein: Trader Faulkner
    Liz Harris: Eva Haddon
    Det-Sgt Parry: Michael Shannon
    Det Insp Mike Lawrence: Hector Ross
    First boy: Ian Sharrock
    Second boy: Richard Dillane
    Dr Norman Youngman: Hugh Dickson
    Paul Harris: Peter Whitman
    Mr Harvey: Roger Gartland
    Jane Harris: Judy Bennett
    Milly Hardcastle: Anne Jameson
    [The title is from the rhyme from before 1744- Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, Your house is on fire...]


12th April 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Sword of Vengeance by Fritz Hochwalder (1911-1986) translated and adapted by Kitty Black
France: 1629 Revenge.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Charles Du Bosc: Michael Spice
    Madame De Donadieu: Kate Coleridge
    Barbe: Madi Hedd
    Cardinal Richelieu: Peter Woodthorpe
    Louis XIII: Paul Gaymon
    Lavalette, an officer: Julian Glover
    Escambarlat, a poet: John Rye
    Berthelien, a Huguenot Pastor: Stephen Thorne
    Isaac De Donadieu: Alan Dobie
    Tiefenbaoh, a German Mercenary: John Gabriel
    Nicolas, a servant: Paul Gaymon
    Judith de Donadieu: Maureen O'Brien
Repeated 14th April 1975
[The original play title was Donadieu]
[Previously a BBC TV Play in 1962]


14th April 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Now She Laughs, Now She Cries by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Female relationships and prejudice.
Producer Jane Graham
    Molly: Jill Brooke
    Carol: Angela Pleasence
    Leah: Penelope Lee
    Don: Paul Chapman
    Sorcha: Patricia Leventon
    Sam: Leueen Willoughby
    Eva: Barrie Shore
    Kate: Liane Aukin
    Mrs Riley: Sheelah Wilcocks
    Waiter: John Bull
    Barbie: Cherry Gilliam
    Club Manager: Stephen Thorne
    Priest: Paul Gaymon
    Marge: Diana Robson
Repeated 20th April 1975
[The astonishing Radio Times discriminatory and misogynist blurb for this show (not quoted here) reflected Hyem's difficulties on Tenko in getting storylines accepted by the male dominated BBC.]


16th April 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Nuts by J. C. W. Brook
It's very undignified, changing into a chimpanzee
Producer David Spenser
    Clare: Emily Richard
    Simon: Nigel Anthony
    Harry: Dinsdale Landen
    Porter: Michael Shannon


16th April 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: A Nice Easy Job by T. D. Webster
A crime in St John's Wood.
Producer: John Cardy
    Sammy: Martin Jarvis
    Adele: Emily Richard
    Mick: Alan Dudley
    Insp Sinclair: Rector Ross
    Joan: Olwen Griffiths
    Smith: Anthony Smee
    Harris: Clifford Norgate
    Marianne: Liane Aukin
    Jones: Francis de Wolff
Repeated 17th April 1975


18th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Long after Summer (1948) by Robert Nathan (1894-1985) adapted by Michael Voysey
Jot and Johanna were 14, but they weren't children any more.
Producer: Margaret Etall
    Robert Jeffries: Glen Beck
    Johanna: Jennifer Meliet
    Fr Duffy: Brian Haines
    Josie Perrera: Anne Jameson
    Manuel Perrera: Michael Shannon
    Alben Deacon: Alfred Hoffman
    Jot Deacon: Peter Whitman
    Tom Goodenoe: Blain Fairman
also with Liane Aukin and Eva Haddon


19th April 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Terrible Connexion by Michael Robson
The identity of the deceased is unknown
Producer: David Spenser
    Inspector Millions: Nigel Stock
    Eleanor Delahunty: Liane Aukin
    Dynasty Surecard: Anthony Hall
    Sir Lisbon Delahunty MP: Denis McCarthy
    Rowland Stanyhurst: Simon Lack
    Caroline Stanyhurst: Diana Berriman
    Education Greenleaf: Trader Faulkner
    Cluny Wilbraham: Michael Burlington
    Hester Tang: Olwen Griffiths
    Emily Tang: Kate Coleridge
    The Ancient Theaker: John Hollis
    Serjeant Clench: Stephen Thorne
    Dead Bob: Peter Pacey
    Mrs Olliphant: Kathleen Helme
    Mr Collinge: Gerald Cross
    Counsel for the Prosecution: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 21st April 1975, 19th September 1977


21st April 1975
19.30-21.30:
The Monday Play: Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Music composed and conducted by Terence Allbright
Musicians: Skaila Kanga (Harp); Alan Tomlinson (Trombone); Michael Laird, Peter Reeve (Trumpets); John Royston Mitchell (Percussion)
Technical Assistance: Peter Novis, Janet Mitchell, Enyd Clowes
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    Caesar: Alan Badel
    Cleopatra: Sarah Badel
    The God Ra: David March
    Ftatateeta: Beatrix Lehmann
    Pothinus: Peter Woodthorpe
    Rufio: Hector Ross
    Britannus: Nigel Lambert
    Apollodorus: Sandor Eles
    Theodotus: Alan Dudley
    Ptolemy: Judy Bennett
    Achillas: Paul Gaymon
    Lucius Septimus: Alan Rowe
    Centurion: Anthony Smee
    lras: Emily Richard
    Charmian: Eva Haddon
    Majordomo: Peter Whitman
Repeated from 30th June 1980.
Repeated on 6th March 1978, 27th August 1990
[Other productions (actor playing Caesar):
1952 Prod: Esme Percy. (Godfrey Tearle)
1963 Prod: Sunday Wilshin (Patrick Troughton)
1966 Prod: Charles Lefeaux (Maurice Denham)]


23rd April 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Green Machine by Frances Willis
It's very human, this machine.
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Bill Barton: Tony Robinson
    Mr Friar: George A Cooper
    Jack Edwards: Ray Mort
    Harry: James Warrior


23rd April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Element of Doubt by Alec Baron (1913-1991)
An identification parade.
Producer: Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Louis Wolf: David Mahlowe
    CID man: Robert Whelan
    Det-Insp Renton: Geoffrey Banks
    Mrs Snaith: Lorraine Peters
    Walter Snaith: Graham Roberts
    Mrs Ross: Linda Gardner
    Counsel for the Defence/Harry Ross: Michael Latimer
    Counsel for the Prosecution: Paul Webster
    Radio announcer/Receptionist: Penny Casdagli
    
    
23rd April 1975
20.15-21.00:
Midweek Theatre: Whirlpool by Lawrence McDermott
Producer Harry Catlin
(Leeds)
    Paul: Andrew Harrison
    Alan: Richard Tolan
    Mrs Clarkson: Ann Aris
    Mrs Barnes: Elizabeth McKenzie
    Mr Clarkson: Paul Webster
    Headmaster/Mr Barnes: Geoffrey Banks
    Policeman: Alan Hockey
    Miss Caldwell: Val Georgeson
Repeated 24th April 1975


25th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Tea at Gunters (1973) by Pamela Haines adapted by Cherry Cookson
Producer Kay Patrick
    Lucy: Angela Down
    Winifred: Isabel Dean
    Gervase: Haydn Jones
    Peter: John Hollis
    Nell: Anne Jameson
    Juliet: Marilyn Taylerson
    Richard: Basil Moss
    Quentin: Terry Scully
    Bob: Roger Gartland
    Mrs Ingleson: Janet Henfrey
Repeated 15th January 1980, 27th July 1985


26th April 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Chiltern Hundreds by William Douglas-Home (1912-1992)
Lister Castle, summer 1945.
Producer: Brian Miller
    Lord Lister: Roland Culver
    Lady Lister: Peggy Ann Wood
    Beecham: Laurence Payne
    Cleghorn: Jack Watson
    Tony Lister: Tim Fearon
    Caroline: Heather Chasen
    June: Pauline Kelly
    Bessie: Sue Withers
Repeated 28th April 1975, 7th April 1980
[William's brother Alec was the last Prime Minister from the House of Lords, he renounced his peerage to sit in the House of Commons.]
["Taking the Chiltern Hundreds" was how an MP could resign, by taking "an office of profit under the Crown."- it was an office of title only.]


28th April 1975
19.30-21.30:
The Monday Play: Valmouth (1919) by Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) adapted in 1958 by Sandy Wilson (1924-2014).
Music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson.
Music arranged and conducted by Richard Holmes
Technical presentation Gordon Bowen. Technical assistants: John Whitehall, Carol Mcshane, Jane Brinsmead, Peter Novis
A resort on the West coast of England.
Produced by Glyn Dearman
    Mrs Hurstpierpoint: Maxine Audley
    Mrs Thoroughfare: Betty Hardy
    Fr Colley-Mahoney: Gordon Whiting
    Capt Dick Thoroughfare: John Rye
    Lieut Jack Whorwood: Michael Deacon
    Ffines, the butler: Michael Darbyshire
    Nit the footman: Ian Charleson
    Fowler, the parlourmaid: Celia Held
    Sister Ecclesia: Marcia Ashton
    Grannie Tooke: Doris Hare
    Thetis Tooke: Patsy Rowlands
    David Tooke: Steven Pacey
    Mrs Yajnavalkya: Elisabeth Welch
    Niri-Esther, her niece: Elaine Delmar
    Carry, her maid: Hilary Paterson
    Lady Parvula de Panzoust: Fenella Fielding
    Sir Victor Vatt: Donald Scott
    Lady Saunter: Celia Helda
    Cardinal Pirelli: Aubrey Woods
    Madame Mimosa: Marcia Owen
Repeatedon R3, 6th May 1984, 25th December 1990


30th April 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Wooden Hill by Margaret Harris
Producer Margaret Etall
    Sarah Branston: Avis Dunnage
    John Branston: Roy Kinnear
    Ada Gower: Anne Jameson
    George Gower: David Ryall


30th April 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Testament by John Cannon
The concertina played by Terry Lynch
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Billy Kershaw: Geoffrey Bayldon
    Mrs Threlfall: Sheelah Wilcocks
    Mr Wardle: Denis McCarthy
    Arthur Marwood: David Ryall
    Marthalice: Olive Lucius
    Lizziemay: Nan Marriott-Watson
    Jeremiah: David Richardson
    Alan Marwood: Roger Gartland
    The Preacher: Trader Faulkner
[Note- "the reading of a last will and testament" is a dramatic fiction.]


30th April 1975- No mid-week theatre, the timeslot 20.30-21.30 was occupied by a documentary on J M W Turner.



1st May 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: To a Green World Far Away by Densil Barr (Douglas Norton Buttrey 1918-1994)
An authoritarian world of 2075.
Producer Michael Rolfe
    Uncle Pinski: Clifford Rose
    Hector: Peter Pacey
    Bella: Sandra Clark
    Kramer: Leo Maguire
    Kilroy: Alan Barry
    Gruber: Anthony Hall
    Judge Babler: Alan Lawrance
    Stanislaus: John Hollis


2nd May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Old Avro by H. C. Courtenay-Wells (1919-1997)
Producer Gerry Jones
    Willy Hen: Robert Trotter
    Meg Henderson: Sandra Clark
    Skipper Hawkins: John Rowe
    David: Sam Dastor
    Stanley: John Bull
    Albert Brown: David Ryall
    Mildred: Madi Hedd
[The Avro firm of the title made planes 1910-1963. Amongst others the Bristol bomber and Beaufighter. For the First World War they made the Avro 500, used for training.]


3rd May 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Governor by Christopher Salkield
A Roman province in the Middle East during the time of Tiberius Caesar.
Produced by David H. Godfrey
    Paulinus: Michael Kilgarriff
    Proculus, a civil servant: Edward Kelsey
    The Governor: Hector Ross
    Claudia, his wife: Elizabeth Sellars
    Persephone, a Greek slave: Jo Manning Wilson
    Joseph: Lewis Stringer
    Zambri: Brian Haines
    Longinus,a centurion: William Eedle
    The Historian: John Ruddock
Repeated from 1972


4th May 1975
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Magnus Merriman (1934) by Eric Linklater (1899-1974)
Unfulfilled promise.
Producer Stewart Conn
(Scotland)
    the storytellers: Duncan McIntyre and David Steuart
    Magnus Merriman: Ian Stirling
    Margaret Innes: Angela Russell
    Francis Meiklejohn: James Anderson
    Mrs Dolphin: Jean Faulds
    Freida Forsyth: Barbara Currie
    A spectator: Henry Donald
    Sgt Denny: Douglas Murchie
    Pte McRuvie: Ken Langdon
    Capt Smellie: Michael O'Halloran
    Rose Isbister: Morag MacInnes
[A fictionalised tale based upon Linklater's experiences standing in a 1933 by-election]


5th May 1975
15.05-16.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene (1904-1991) dramatised by Geoffrey M. Matthews
London during the Blitz. "Somebody tried to kill me last night"
Producer Colin Tucker
    Rowe: George Baker
    Anna: Angela Pleasence
    Dr Forester: Sydney Tafler
    Prentice: Vernon Joyner
    Beavis: John Gabriel
    Hilfe: Terry Scully
    Johns: David Timson
    Fullove/Major Stone: Timothy Bateson
    Cast/Rennit: Anthony Hall
    Mrs Bellairs: Diana Olsson
    Mrs Purvis: Hilda Schroder
    Woman at fete/Maid: Clara Horne
Repeated from 7th and 9th July 1973
[The title refers to the collection of information on individuals by the German regime.]
[Also produced by Gary Brown in two parts in 2006]


5th May 1975
19.30-20.00
Unnatural Death (1927) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) adapted by Chris Miller
1 of 7: No sign of foul play.
Producer: Simon Brett
    Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
    Miss Climpson: Ambrosine Phillpotts
    Inspector Parker: Gabriel Woolf
    Dr Carr: Peter Baldwin
    Nurse Philliter: Corinna Marlowe
    Waiter: Christopher Emmett
Additional cast in parts 2-7:
Alison Seilbeck, Betty Cardno, Bill Wallis, Bridget McConnel, David Gooderson, Denise Bryer, Garard Green, Godfrey Kenton, Gordon Clyde, Gretta Gouriet, James Thomason, John Dunbar, John Forrest, Madi Hedd, Malcolm Hayes, Marianne Sainval, Mark Penfold, Miriam Margolyes, Pauline Letts, Peter Jones, Sheelah Wilcocks, Tommy Eytle
Part 7 broadcast 16th June 1975
[Also produced in 1972 in one part by David H Godfrey with Hugh Burden as Sir Peter.]
[In 1927 the Administration of Estates Act was passed, dealing with intestacy (no will)- the actual act did allow great-nieces to inherit.]
[Also broadcast on BBC7/R4X 2005-2022]


5th May 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Play Mas (1974) by Mustapha Matura (Noel Mathura 1939-2019)
Trinidad at carnival time.
Producer: Betty Davies
    Ramjohn Gookool: Stefan Kalipha
    Samuel: Rudolph Walker
    Miss Gookool: Mercia Mansfield
    Frank: Norman Beaton
    Mr McKay: Michael Deacon
    Little girL: Elizabeth Morgan
    First undertaker: Frank Singuineau
    Doctor/ Second undertaker: Tommy Eytle
    Bishop / Mrs Samuel: Mona Hammond
    [Woman Bishop: Lucita Lijertwood (in credits for repeats)]
    Chuck Reynolds: Peter Whitman
Repeated 11th May 1975 and 14th January 1979
[Stephan Kalipha was in the cast of the first stage play production in 1974]


7th May 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Pact by David Buck (1936-1989)
Suicide.
    Jill: Marian Diamond
    Harry: Hugh Dickson


7th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Russian Roulette by Peter F. Ferguson
The cleaner is in.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
    Miss Haley: Prunella Scales
    Sonya: Eleanor Bron
    Alexandra: Andrew Sachs
    Stanton: Blain Fairman
    Kent: Trader Faulkner
also with Valerie Colgan, Michael Deacon, Malcolm Hayes, Hector Ross, David Ryall and Alan Rowe
Repeated 30th June 1984


8th May 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: Stranger's Department by Robert Garrett
Producer: Betty Davies
    Insp Stranger: Norman Rodway
    Jean: Sarah Lawson
    Commander Hunt: Peter Williams
    Supt Morris: Alan Rowe
    George: John Bull
    Maty: Anne Jameson
    Joe Carter: Peter Pacey
    Harry Ward: Malcolm Hayes
    Dick: Bruce Beeby
    Rose: Eva Haddon
    Barry: Michael Deacon
    Greg: Nigel Lambert
Also with Alan Dudley and Emily Richard
[Alan Rowe played Morris in "Stranger in the Dark" in 1981, when Insp Stranger was played by Tony Osoba. Produced by Christopher Venning]


9th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: If You Want to Find the Major by Michael Hardwick (1924-1991)
Producer Harry Catlin
    Major Lang: Maurice Denham
    Fred: Bill Owen
    Miss Freeman: Isabel Dean
    Sally: Emily Richard
    Miss Sims: Nan Marriott-Watson
    Mrs Gatehouse: Madi Hedd
    Mr Gatehouse: Alan Rowe
    Rigby: Paul Gaymon
    Hollis: Michael Shannon
    Mrs Rigby: Carole Boyd
    
    
10th May 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Flower of May (1953) by Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) dramatised by Cecily Finn
A 1906 love story.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughin
    Fanny Morrow: Ciaran Madden
    Andre de Mellin: Peter Whitman
    Lucille de Mellin: Eva Haddon
    Michael O'Connor: Stephen Rea
    Lilian O'Connor: Carole Boyd
    Eleanor Delahunt: Kathleen Helme
    Mere Generate: Colette O'Neil
    Julia Morrow: Pauline Delaney
    Canon Whelan: Harry Webster
    Sister Eucharia: Winefride Madigan
    Joseph Morrow: James Greene
    Bill Morrow: Sean Barrett
    Sam O'Connor: Michael Shannon
    Lizzie: Margaret Robertson
    Honoria: Colette O'Neil
    Fr Fogarty: Denis McCarthy
Repeated 12th May 1975


12th May 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Deep Blue Sea (1952) by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
Produced By: Christopher Yenning
    Hester Collyer: Isabel Dean
    Philip Welch: Richard Kay
    Mrs Elton: Judith Harte
    Ann Welch: Jane Knowles
    Mr Miller: Manning Wilson
    Sir William Collyer: John Rowe
    Freddie Page: Michael Byrne
    Jackie Jackson: Basil Moss
Repeated 18th May 1975
[The relationship between Hester and Freddie draws upon Rattigan's relationship with Kenny Morgan]
[Other productions: year/prod/actor playing Mrs Elton:
1957 rptd 1958/Val Gielgud/Joan Sanderson
1964 (Light) rptd 1966 (Home)/Norman Wright/Eva Stuart
1972, rptd 1981, 1985/Christopher Venning/Judith Harte
2000/Mary Peate/June Watson
2009 (R3)/David Timson/Auriol Smith]


14th May 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: When did we last have Chocolate Biscuits? by Peter Silcock
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Paul Miller: Tim Fearon
    Linda Miller: Christine Bradwell


14th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fall and Rise of Big Arthur by T D Webster.
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Arthur: Eric Allan
    Phyllis: Diana Bishop
    Mrs Bell: Kathleen Helme
    Mr Bailey: Ronald Baddiley
    Eric: Paul Gaymon
    Foreman/Official: Malcolm Hayes
    Mr Evans/Steward: Sion Probert
    Det-Sgt: Michael Deacon
Repeated 18th February 1977


14th May 1975
20.30-21.30
The Story of Vicky by Elizabeth Holford
Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Princess Victoria.
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Vicky: Doran Godwin
    Queen Victoria: Renee Asherson
    Prince Albert: Laurence Payne
    Frederick William: Alan Moore
also with Eva Haddon, Hector Ross, David Ryall
[This broadcast was not titled Mid-Week Theatre]
Repeated 21st November 1975
    
    
15th May 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cooper Case by James G. Harris
Producer: David Spenser
    O'Brien: Al Mancini
    Lillian: Bonnie Hurren
    Professor Luke Bradford: Don Fellows
    McAllister: Leueen Willoughby
    Andy Cooper: Peter Whitman
    Belanger: Peter Marinker
    Lucie: Margaret Robertson
    Eddy Puccini: Alan Dudley
Repeated 12th January 1978


16th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Monsieur La Souris (1937) by Georges Simenon (1903-1986) adapted by Fred Partridge
Producer Betty Davies
    Monsieur La Souris: Peter Woodthorpe
    Lognon: Cyril Shaps
    Mme Lognon: Cecile Chevreau
    Inspector Lucas: David Ryall
    Sergeant Janvier: Alan Dudley
    Lucile Boisvin: Liane Aukin
    Fred: John Hollis
    Louis: Peter Pacey
    Detective Joly: Nigel Lambert
    Le Comte: John Rye
    First sergeant: Bruce Beeby
    Gatekeeper: Paul Gaymon
Repeated 20th October 1979


17th May 1975
20.30-21.58
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Shetland Wildcat by Antony Kearey
Off-shore oil-drilling in the North Sea.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Bob Paul: Alan Moore
    Jenny: Hilary Patterson
    Basil: Denis McCarthy
    Susan: Paula Wilcox
    Claire: Irene Sutcliffe
    Jean-Jacques: Laurence Payne
    Julie: Jenifer Armitage
    Fracell: Roger Gartland
    Celia: Sarah Carthy
    Harry: David Ponting
    Kenneth: Antony Kearey
    Murdo: John Graham
    Orvald: Tom Watson
    George: Paul Nicholson
    Mrs Grierson: Margot Young
Repeated 19th May 1975 and 17th September 1977


19th May 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: Degas Cellini Ming by Frederick Bradnum
Stolen!
Producer: John Tydeman
    Maj-Gen Palmer: Manning Wilson
    Miriam Murcott: Elizabeth Morgan
    Rawlingson: Molly Rankin
    Sir Horace Gotoben: Norman Shelley
    Clair Dubglaston: Kate Coleridge
    Bridget Palmer: Deborah Paige
    Hilary Palmer: Eva Haddon
    Lady Charmian Gotoben: Zoe Hicks
    Det Chief Insp MacCull: Denys Hawthorne
    Ron Watt: David Ryall
Repeated 25th May 1975


21st May 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Circumstantial Evidence by Eric Saward
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Edward: Terry Molloy
    Mann: Ralph Lawton
    Rob: Laurence Rew
    
    
21st May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Ladders by William Andrew
Producer Gordon Emslie
    David Allison: Robert Trotter
    George Allison: Ron Bain
    Tom Allison: Willy Joss
    Eileen: Isobel Gardner
    Anne Hunter: Rose McBain
    Chris Hunter: George Bowell
    Lorna Dennison: Eileen McCallum


21st May 1975
No mid-week theatre- time slot used for an hour of poetry.


22nd May 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: Hard to be a Hero by Michael Davies
Guitar played by John Bull
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Chief Engineer: Hector Ross
    Jenkins: Alan Dudley
    Dobson/Dutch radio operator: Peter Pacey
    Steward: John Bull
    Ainsworth: Michael Deacon
    Bosun: Paul Gaymon
    Sparks: Nigel Lambert
    Doctor Braun: Michael Shannon
    Second mate/Second engineer: Clifford Norgate


23rd May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Adman's Gothic by James Douglas
Producer: Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Mel Carney: Christopher Bidmead
    Marie Carney: Josephine Crawford
    Joss: Ivor Roberts
    John: Roger Gartland
    Gilbey: Ronald Russell
    Masters: Paul Nicholson
    Warden: Peter Lawrence
    Beggar: Hubert Tucker
    Denise: Jenifer Armitage
    Mrs Gilbey: Audrey Noble
    Fr Allgood: Norman Tyrrell
Repeated 24th November 1978


24th May 1975:
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Alibi for a Judge by Felicity Douglas and Henry Cecil (from the book by Henry Cecil (1943-2013) )
Produced By: John Tydeman
    Mr Justice Carstairs: Andrew Cruickshank
    Lesley Burford: Amanda Grinling
    Thomas Empton, Qc: Aubrey Woods
    Mr Hunt: Jonathan Scott
    William Burford: Trader Faulkner
    Mr Bell: Peter Howell
    Supt Neale: Michael Shannon
    Ernest Mott: Clifford Norgate
    Mr Camphell: Hector Ross
    Mrs Campbell: Carole Boyd
    Joe: Michael Burlington
    Insp Martin: Anthony Smee
Also with Basil Dawson
Repeated 26th May 1975, 1st December 1979, 30th May 1988, 21st November 1992
[Also produced by H B Fortuin in 1960 with June Tobin as Lesley]


25th May 1975
21.03-21.58
The Charterhouse of Parma (1838) by Stendahl (1783-1842), translated and adapted by Barbara Bray (1924-2010).
The French army in Italy. From 1798.
1 of 6. The Tides of War.
Producer: Norman Wright
Narrator: Godfrey Kenton
    Gina: Barbara Leigh-Hunt
    Fabrice: Michael Williams
    Count Mosca: Noel Johnson
    Marchasa del Dongo: Cecile Chevreau
    Clelia Contl: Carole Boyd
    Marcello: Anthony Smee
    Elena: Eva Haddon
    Giulia: Kate Coleridge
    General Conti: Alan Rowe
    Vivandiere: Nan Marriott-Watson
    Jailer's wife: Margaret Robertson
    Sergeant of Gendarmes: Malcolm Hayes
    Soldier: Peter Whitman
    Army Sergeant: Michael Shannon
    Servant: Roger Gartland
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
Roger Gartland, Alan Dudley, Anne Jameson, Carleton Hobbs, Clifford Norgate, Emily Richard, Gladys Spencer, Hector Ross, John Rye, Liane Aukin, Madeleine Cemm, Madi Hedd, Michael Deacon, Nigel, Lambert, Noel Johnson, Peter Pacey, Peter Williams, Peter Woodthorpe
Each episode repeated after two days.
Part 6 broadcast 29th June 1975
[Also produced in six parts, in 1964, by Archie Campbell.]
[Also produced, in two parts, in 2002 by Lawrence Jackson.]
[Original title: "La Chartreuse de Parme"]
[Stendahl survived the 1812 retreat from Moscow and was a diplomat in Northern Italy. This story has no pretense to historical accuracy, it is fiction.]


26th May 1975
20.00-21.30: -
Abraham Lincoln (1918) by John Drinkwater (1882-1937) (adapted by Anthony Cornish and Piers Plowright
Producer: Piers Plowright
    Abraham Lincoln: Paul Maxwell
    Mary Lincoln: Betsy Blair
    Susan: Bonnie Hurren
    Timothy Cuffney/Gideon Welles: Ramsay Williams
    Caleb Jennings/Edwin Stanton: Don Fellows
    William Tucker/General Robert E. Lee: Alan Gifford
    Henry Hind/Samuel Stone: David Healy
    Elias Price/Montgomery Blair: Bob Sherman
    James McIntosh/General Mead: Marvin Kane
    William H Seward: Ed Bishop
    Johnson White/Salmon P Chase: Gordon Sterne
    William Scott: Peter Whitman
    General Ulysses Grant: Blain Fairman
    Mr Blow: Ann G Murray
    Mrs Otherly: Pamela Roland
    Frederick Douglas: Frank Singuineau
    Narrator: Paul Gaymon
Repeated 1st June 1975
[Also produced by Hugh Stewart in 1961 with James McKechnie as Lincoln.]
[Also produced by Anthony Cornish in 1965 with Michael Hordern as Lincoln]


28th May 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Green Elephant by Ian D. Chessman
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Lawrence: Derrick Gilbert
    Freda: Joanna Tope
    Harbottle: Ronald Herdman


28th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Pegasus or How Richard Mace Became Involved in The Case of the Man who Died in Fish Alley by Eric Saward
London of 1890 - someone is blown up.
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Richard Mace: Geoffrey Matthews
    Roundtree: Leonard Fenton
    Insp Maitland: William Eedle
    Sgt Bound: John Baddeley
    Prof Gutman: Ronald Herdman
    Marlin: Ralph Lawton
    Todd: George Woolley
    Asst Comr: Jack Holloway
    Sir Robert Stealwell: Simon Carter
    Steward: Laurence Rew


29th May 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: The Loss Factor by Michael Z. Lewin
Producer: Christopher Venning
    First Agent: Nigel Lambert
    Second Agent: Alan Rowe
    George Makeson: Alan Dudley
    Capt McLaughlin: Malcolm Hayes
    Randall Kinnear: Paul Gaymon
    Marianne: Eva Haddon
    Pam: Valerie Murray
    Grace: Valerie Colon
    Boyers: Ramsay Williams
    Crystal: John Bull


30th May 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Wooing of Mr Drimble by J. C. W. Brook
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Mother: Alison Leggatt
    Jenny: Ann Beach
    Mr Drimble: John Hollis
    Mrs Cattle: Barbara Mitchell
Repeated 17th June 1977


31st May 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Blood Sport by Dick Francis (1920-2010) adapted by Peter Hoar
I thought this was just a day on the river at Henley.
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Lynnie Keeble: Cherie Lunghi
    Gene Hawkins: Nigel Lambert
    Dave Teller: John Carson
    Joan Keeble: Carol March
    Sim Keeble: James Thomason
    Matt Clive: Paul Gaymon
    Yola Clive: Margaret Robertson
    Lock-keeper: Alan Reid
    Walt Prensela: Hayne Ryan
    Eunice Teller: Madi Hedd
    Hagstrom: Roger Gartland
    Wilkinson: Nogel Anthony
    Sam Kitchens: Peter Pacey
    Samantha: Emily Richard
    Harris: Stuart Nichol
    C J Offen: Tommy Duggan
    Kiddo/A man: Peter Whitman
    Sam Hengleman: Haydn Jones
Repeated 2nd June 1975


2nd June 1975
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Doctor's Wife by Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
Producer Richard Wortley
    Dr Philip Bailey: Peter Jeffrey
    Margot his wife: Miriam Margolyes
    Jane: Jane Knowles
    Helen: Elizabeth Cassidy
    Martin: Haydn Jones
    Jack: Nigel Anthony
    Marianne: Madi Hedd
    Laurence: Peter Craze
    Lettice: Jean Rogers
    Hilary: Susan Colgave
    Peter: Hector Ross
    Martha: Carole Boyd
    Mortuary attendants: Malcolm Hayes
    Mortuary attendants: Peter Pacey
Repeated 8th June 1975, 3rd October 1977
[Fay Weldon's father worked as a doctor]


4th June 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blanks by David Marshall
Producer Gerry Jones
    Dawes: Peter Jeffrey
    Suzie: Bridget Armstrong
    Hubbard: John Rye
    Barron: Haydn Jones
    Mary: Emily Rtchard


4th June 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: It's a Forfeit if You Don't by Heather Eyles
Lecturer and Pupil.
Producer Kay Patrick
    Juliet: Kate Coleridge
    Jonathan: David Lincoln
    Peter: John Pullen
[Heather Eyles has an interest in mental health and child abuse]


5th June 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: Joking Apart by Ragan Butler
Producer: Margaret Etall
    Mrs Coombe: Liane Aukin
    Marie: Kate Coleridge
    Insp Grant: David Ryall
    Sgt Carver: Roger Gartland
    Barratt: Carl Forgione
    Shopkeeper: Bernard Holley
also with Michael Shannon and Colin Dunn


5th June 1975
20.00-20.45
The Happy Couple by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Lance Sieveking
A verdict of guilty.
Producer: David Davis
    Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
    Miss Gray: Jean Anderson
    Mr Craig: William Fox
    Mrs Craig: Marjorie Westbury
    Sir Edward Landon: Howieson Culff
    Martha: Vivienne Chatterton
Repeated from 21st and 22nd May 1969


6th June 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Change in Harry by T. D. Webster
Producer: Barry Catlin
    Steve: Clifford Norgate
    Gwen: Liane Aukin
    Peter: Tradder Faulkner
    Harry: Paul Gaywon
    Jill: Carole Boyd
    Reeves: Malcolm Bayes
    Miles Warner: Haydn Jones
    Margaret: Madi Hedd


7th June 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Nocturne (1917) by Frank Swinnerton (1884-1982) dramatised by Bruce Montague
1913 - life is a struggle.
Producer: Kay Patrick
    Jenny: Stephanie Turner
    Emmy: Patricia Denys
    Pa: Malcolm Hayes
    Alf: Rod Beacham
    Chauffeur: John Gray
    Keith: Michael Deacon
Repeated 10th November 1975


9th June 1975
20.00-21.30
The Vortex (1924) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Drug abuse in British society circles after the First World War.
Piano played by William Davies
Producer Glyn Dearman
    Preston: Madi Hedd
    Helen Saville: Sarah Lawson
    Pauncefort Quentin: Gerald Cross
    Clara Hibbert: Gudrun Ure
    Florence Lancaster: Elizabeth Sellars
    Tom Veryan: Timothy Dalton
    Nicky Lancaster: Martin Jarvis
    David Lancaster: Peter Williams
    Bunty Mainwaring: Kate Coleridge
    Bruce Fairlight: Peter Woodthorpe
Repeated 15th June 1975
[Also produced in 1967 by H B Fortuin]
[Also produced for R3 by John Tydeman in 2000 with Frances Jeater as Helen.]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2008-2015]


11th June 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Stanley by Donald Howarth (1931-2020)
Producer: John Tydeman
    First woman: Isabel Dean
    Second woman: Jill Bennett
    Colin: Andrew Berezowski
    Guard: Alan Dudley
    Porter: Michael Shannon
    
    
11th June 1975
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Murder or Two by Michael Brett
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Jeff Lancaster: Frederick Treves
    Lucy Dent: Carole Boyd
    Logan: Michael Shannon
    George: Malcolm Hayes
    Coroner: Denis McCarthy
    Peter Dent: Nigel Lambert
    Insp Bullock: Clifford Norgate
    Insp Blake: Alan Dudley
    Fielding: Trader Faulkner
    Mary Page: Emily Richard
    Joe Storey: David Ryall
    Landlord: Peter Whitman
    Rita Wells: Margaret Robertson
    Jenkins: Paul Gaymon
Repeated 23rd June 1975.


12th June 1975
15.05-15.50:
Afternoon Theatre: A Paper Phoenix by Arthur Kelly
Producer Harry Catlin
    John Brodie: Dinsdale Landen
    Amsterdam/Barman: Geoffrey Matthews
    Rocco: Alan Tilvern
    Andress: Nigel Graham
    Javier: Clive Merrison
    Evita: Eva Karpf
    Federico Valdi: John Justin


12th June 1975
20.00
The Facts of Life (1933) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Malcolm Quantrill
Producer: David Davis
    Somerset Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
    The French Woman: Cecille Chevreau
    Nicholas Garnet: Christopher Timothy
    Henry Garnet, his father: John Bentley
    Mrs Garnet, his mother: Margot Boyd
    Wilson, a Home Office official: Geoffrey Wincott
    Tattersall, a barrister: Howieson Culff
    Sharpe,a surgeon: John Wyse
    Colonel Brabazon: Godfrey Kenton
also with John Bryning and Sean Arnold
Repeated from 26th and 27th Nov 1969
[Also produced by Janet Whitaker in 2009 for R7/R4X with Robert Lang as Henry. Rpt 2009-2022]


13th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Henry Among the Nightingales by Colin Tucker
Producer: Richard Wortley
    Henry: Andrew Sachs
    Moira: Miriam Margolyes
    Maxine: Liane Aukin
    Salesman/Charlie: Geoffrey Matthews
    Roger: David Ryall
    Mr Gilbert: Brian Haines
    Janice/Secretary: Carole Boyd
    Detweiler: Peter Woodthorpe
Repeated 28th January 1977


14th June 1975
16.30-17.00
The Quest for the Severed Head by Modwena Sedgwick.(1916-1995)
Britain before Rome.
1 of 4: The feast of Beltaine.
Producer: Herbert Smith
    Kuwendal: David Mahlowe
    Garlon: Alan Rothwell
    Hufgan: Graham Roberts
    Cormac: John Daglish
    Dunstan: David Casey
    Mother: Olive Pendleton
    Isault: Helen Worth
additional actors in parts 2-4
    Alet: Tom Harrison
    Alet's son: John Daglish
    Cynfarth: John Linstrum
    Dal: John Fielding
    Duan: Ronald Harvi
    Herdsman: Graham Tennant
    Hundel: Paul Webster
    Liconal/Oringle: Geoffrey Banks
    Nim: Marah Stohl
    Shrine keeper: Cynthia Michaelis
Part 4 broadcast 5th July 1975


14th June 1975
20.30-21.58:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Violent Shore by Ian Cullen
Technical advice by Terry Bottomley
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Mike Fenner: Eric Lander
    Betty McKay: Eva Haddon
    Bosun: Michael Shannon
    Deckie: Michael St John
    Skipper Ferraton: Michael Deacon
    George Appleby: Clifford Norgate
    Allan T Benton: Hector Ross
    'Sparks': Roger Gartland
    David Fenner: Albert Welling
    Blackie Masters: Malcolm Hayes
    Icelandic Radio Operator: Trader Faulkner
    Johann: Wolf Kahler
    Newsvendor: Roger Gartland
    Desk Sergeant/Harry: Nigel Lambert
    Supt Miller: Alan Rowe
    Supt Abbott/Clerk: Peter Woodthorpe
    Sgt Johns: Garard Green
    Charlie: Anthony Smee
    Anne Hope: Helen Fraser
    Dr Campbell: Robert Trotter
    Board of Trade Rep: Peter Whitman
Repeated 16th June 1975


16th June 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Emperor of Ice-cream, by Brian Moore dramatised by Bill Morrison
Belfast, 1939.
Producer Michael Heffernan
(Northern Ireland)
    Owen Burke: Brian Munn
    Gavin Burke: Stephen Rea
    Mrs Burke/Maggie: Catherine Cibson
    Aunt Liz: Elizabeth Begley
    Mr Burke: Allan McClelland
    Craig: Michael Duffy
    Soldier McBride: Maurice O'Callaghan
    Frank Price: Mark Mulholland
    Jimmy Lynan: Derek Lord
    Mick Gallagher: Wesley Murphy
    Captain Lambert: Nigel Anthony
    Freddy: Sean Barrett
    Mrs Clapper/Lili: Trudy Kelly
    Sally Shannon: Denise McKenna
    Mr Harkness: Harold Goldblatt
    Matthew Ware: Raymond Campbell
    Dr McLanaghan: John Hewitt
    Willie: Bill Hunter
Repeated 22nd June 1975, 28th May 1978, 13th January 1991


18th June 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Ogden File by David Wade
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    Mr Blumberg: Anthony Jackson
    Mrs Stubbs: Jane Wenham
    Mr Farquharson-Smythe: Peter Woodthorpe
    Mr Swift: Nigel Lambert


18th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Milk in the Coffee by Sam Selvon (1923-1994)
Racism.
Producer Betty Davies
    Ralph: Tommy Eytle
    Melda: Nadia Cattouse
    Andrew, their son: Christopher Gilbert
    Florence, their daughter: Valerie Murray
    Gran, Melda's mother: Mercia Mansfield
    Brenda: Emily Richard
    Charlo: Loftus Burton
    Gloria: Angela Bruce
    Adviser: Gordon Woolford
    Mr Anderson: Clifford Norgate
    Police Officers: Nigel Lambert and Clifford Norgate
[Sam Selvon was born in Trinidad of Indian parents, he moved to England in 1950. He wrote in "creolised English"]


19th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Letters of Intent by James Parkinson
"Practical joke"
Producer Glyn Dearman
    David Lawrence: John Pullen
    Anna Lawrence: Penelope Wilton
    Max Lapton: David March
    Insp Paton: Peter Williams
    Sgt Edwards: Peter Pacey


19th June 1975
20.00:
The Unconquered (1943) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Michael J. Bird
France, two years after the war.
Producer: Graham Gauld
    Maugham: Carleton Hobbs
    Guyard: Hector Ross
    M Perier: Peter Tuddenham
    Mme Perier: Betty Hardy
    Annette: Carol Marsh
    Hans: Anthony Hall
    Willi: Gordon Gardner
    Sergeant: Edward Kelsey
Repeated from 18th and 19th November 1970.
[The original short story was set in Occupied France during the war. ].


20th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Litmus Question by Leonard Barnett
Producer Christopher Venning
    Paul Smith: Steve Hodson
    Ian: John Rye
    Duncan: Michael Deacon
    Police Sergeant: Paul Gaymon
    Police Constable: Philip Reader
    Sue Smith: Emily Richard
    Henry: Peter Whitman
    Gran: Betty Hardy
    Rev Richard Smith: Alan Rowe
    Rev Charles Holt: Richard Hurndall


21st June 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Strictly in Confidence by Malcolm Stewart
Producer John Theocharis
    Roger Hallam: Peter Jeffrey
    Peggy Hallam: Prunella Scales
    Dolly Johnson: Megs Jenkins
    Dexter Cushing Drew: Paul Maxwell
    Insp Bruce: Haydn Jones
    Sgt Collins: Anthony Smee
    Bannan: Garard Green
Repeated 23rd June 1975


23rd June 1975
19.30-20.00
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) adapted by Chris Miller
November 1918: A London club for war veterans
1 of 6: Armistice Night
Producer Simon Brett
    Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
    Bunter: Peter Jones
    George Fentiman: Martin Jarvis
    Mr Murbles: John Gabriel
    Dr Penberthy': Christopher Emmett
    Culyer: Blain Fairman
    Challoner: John Dunbar
    Col Marchbanks: Wilfrid Carter
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
    Culyer/Dr Horner/Fr Whittington: Blain Fairman
    Mairjorde Phelps: Rosalind Adams
    Mr Munns: Clifford Norgate
    Mrs Munns/Mrs Mitcham: Ysanne Churchman
    Mrs Rushworth: Olwen Griffiths
    Nellie: Judy Bridgland
    Pritchard/Hinkins: Antony Higginson
    Woodward/Collins: James Thomason
Part 6 broadcast 28th July 1975
Series repeated commencing 10th December 1979 and 3rd April 1990
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2007-2024]


23rd June 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Tom Tytham by Peter Russell
The 1914 war is over and Tom returns to his village and his family to find that life has changed
Producer: Betty Davies
    Tom Tytham: Christopher Good
    Sybil: Emily Richard
    Vanessa: Diana Bishop
    Augustus Tytham: Gerald Flood
    Lydia Tytham: Madi Hedd
    Hawke: William Eedle
    Jopie: Andrew Sachs
    Stanley Sties: Sion Probert
    Daniel Moon: Nigel Lambert
    Stokes: Geoffrey Matthews
    Gavin Tytham: Andrew Berkzowski
Also with Carole Boyd and Kathleen Helme
Repeated 29th June 1975
[Related plays: "Master Sunshine" (1974). "Tom's Son"(1977)]


25th June 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: What About That There Day? by Pam Tickell
Producer Stuart Griffiths
    Ingham: Dinsdale Landen
    Radcliffe: William Eedle
    Audrey: Carole Boyd


25th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Five Little Flowers by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Jane Graham
    Tommy: Paddy Joyce
    Eddie: John Bull
    Claire: Deborah Norton
    Reg: Malcolm Hayes
    Ramsay: William Eedle
    Cashier: Carole Boyd
    Race Commentator: Peter Baldwin
    Sharon: Kate Coleridge
    Connor: Peter Woodthorpe
Also with Michael Burlington and Michael Deacon


26th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Humboldt Current by Alan Howe
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Archie Humboldt/AC: Edward Wilson
    Dad/RSM: Alan Hockey
    Adjutant: Michael Latimer
    Mum: Lizzie McKenzie
    Jim Friar: Christian Rodska
    Lady Jane Rumbolt: Rosalie Williams
    Vicar: Geoffrey Banks
    Moggsy: Nell Curran


26th June 1975
20.00-20.45
The Lion's Skin (1937) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Lionel Hale
Producer: Glyn Dearman
    Somerset Maugham: Gerald Cross
    Eleanor Forestier: Marjorie Westbury
    Australian: Barrie Creyton
    Robert Forestier: Frederick Treves
    Ward Sister: Judy Bennett
    Lady Hardy: Madi Hedd
    Sir Frederick Hardy: Peter Pratt
    Marie: Stephanie Turner
    Boy: Judy Bennett
    French Officer: Alan Haines
Repeated from 10th November 1971
Repeated 16th March 1977
[Also made into a TV drama in the UK by ITV 1960]


27th June 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Ancestors by Giles Cole
Producer Ian Cotterelll
    Martin Elfrod: Martin Cochrane
    Eric Wilkinson: Geoffrey Bayldon
    Mr Todd: Gararc Green
    Stephanie: Kate Colridge
    Mr Pemberton: Peter Williams
    Frank: Peter Whitman
    Mrs Hibbert: Peggy Aitchison
    Man in cemetery: Haydn Jones
    Geraldine: Eva Haddon


28th June 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Talbot's Wharf by Philip Barker
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Justine: Sandra Clark
    Ben: Martin Jarvis
    Suas: Trader Faulkner
    Skipper: Peter Whitman
    Sam: Garard Green
    Emily: Cecile Chevreau
    Meg: Carole Boyd
    Clement: John Rye
    Tim O'Harran: Roger Gartland
    Marty: Haydn Jones
    Mrs Gaspon: Margaret Robertson
    First Officer: Paul Gaymon
    Yankee Skipper: Malcolm Hayes
    Seaman: Anthony Smee
    Marset: Kate Coleridge
    Erickson: Michael Deacon
    Narrator: Peter Williams
Repeated 30th June 1975


30th June 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Funny Sort of Game by Roger Vailland (1907-1965) dramatised by Joan O'Connor
In the French Resistance a sudden end was always a possibility.
Producer Jane Graham
    Frederic: Peter Pacey
    Rodrigue: Michael Cochrane
    Marat: Hugh Dickson
    Sidoine: Lewis Stringer
    Buret: Michael Shannon
    Mathilde: Shirley Dixon
    First Journalist: Michael Burlington
    Second Journalist: Peter Woodthorpe
    Chloe: Anna Cartaret
    Caracalla: Constantin De Goguel
    Mademoiselle: Katherine Parr
    Fr Antoine: Alan Dudley
    Mme Favrier: Madi Hedd
    Annie: Jennifer Armitage
Repeated 6th July 1975
[Vailland was in the French Resistance]


2nd July 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blodwin and the Crock of Gold by J C W. Brook
She'll only get her inheritance if she fulfils certain conditions.
Producer: Gerry Jones
    Blodwin: Jan Edwards
    Bert: John Rye
    Mr Puff: Alan Dudley
    Biffo: John Rowe
    Paul: Sion Probert
Repeated 27 December 1977


2nd July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Three Loves of Ida Bliss by Charles Thomas
World War I - Zeppelin raids - food shortages - call-up papers.
Harmonica played by Harry Pitch
Producer Christopher Venning
    Ida Bliss: Jean Kent
    Rose Draper: Judy Franklin
    Jim: Simon Richmond
    Alfie: Todd Carty
    Johnny Douglas: John Rye
    Will Draper: Hector Ross
    Fred Cunningham: Jonathan Burn
    Lily Cook: Nicolette McKenzie


2nd July 1975
19.30-20.15
What Ho, Jeeves! by P G Wodehouse (1881-1975), adapted by Chris Miller.
In nine parts.
Banjolele played by Billy Bell.
Producer: Peter Titheradge
    Jeeves: Michael Hordern
    Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
    Lord Chuffnell: Clive Francis
    Pauline Stoker: Connie Booth
    Sir Roderick Glossop: John Graham
    Seabury: Jo Manning Wilson
Additional actors in parts 2-9:
    Antony Higginson, Alaric Cotter, Betty Vardno, Blain Fairman, Clive Francis, Connie Booth, David Valla, Denise Bryer, Elizabeth Morgan, James Villiers, Jo Kendall, John Dunbar, Kate Coleridge, Kenneth Fortescue, Madi Hedd, Margot Boyd, Michael Hordern, Miriam Margolyes, Richard Briers, Bridget Armstrong, John Bull
[Parts 1-4 adapted from "Thank you, Jeeves" (1934);
    Parts 5-9 adapted from "The Mating Season";(1949)]


2nd July 1975
20.15-21.15
I That Am Born A King: The Private Life of George III by Nesta Pain (1905-1995).
1 of 2. The early years.
Producer: John Theocraris
    George III: Robert Stephens
    Queen Charlotte: Carole Boyd
    Fanny Burney: Kate Coleridge
    Walpole: David Ryall
Also with Eva Haddon, Madi Hedd, Haydn Jones, Nigel Lambert, Clifford Norgate, Hector Ross and Anthony Smee
Additional actors in part 2:
Denis Mccarthy, Peter Pacey, Emily Richard, Malcolm Hayes, Michael Deacon
Part 2 broadcast 9th July 1975


3rd July 1975
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Darkened Schoolroom by T. D. Webster
You've never heard any stories about the school being haunted?
Producer Harry Catlin
    Martin Chapman: John Pullen
    Jill Chapman: Jane Wenham
    Bob Kingsley: Garard Green
    Molly Kingsley: Anne Jameson
    Andrew Smith: Michael Deacon
    Mr Green: Peter Woodthorpe
    Mr Watson: Michael Shannon
    Mrs Watson: Madi Hedd
[T D Webster was a teacher / headmaster]
Repeated 11th November 1976
    
    
3rd July 1975
20.00
The Wreck of the Wager by Derek Parker
13th May 1741: HMS Wager was wrecked off Chile.
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Midshipman John Byron: Richard Kay
    Captain Cheap: Malcolm Hayes
    John Bulkeley: Patrick Allen
    Lieutenant: Neville Jason
    John Cummins: John Rye
    Midshipman Campbell: Steve Hodson
    John Young: Haydn Jones
    Boatswain: John Rye
[There were books with this title by different authors- eg David Grann, Christopher Hibbert...]


4th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Mackerel Sky and Apple Green by Brian Lee
You should take your clothes off if you're a proper vegetable-arian.
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
    Kevin Leroy: T P McKenna
    Fr Collins: Jim Norton
    Sara Leroy: Kate Binchy
    Liam Leroy: Judy Bennett
    Miss Dougan: Heather Gibson
    Cook: Martin Friend
    Bishop: Ronald Herdman
    Waiter: Jim Norton
Repeated from 13th January 1973 and 8th December 1979


5th July 1975
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: No Fear or Favour by Henry Cecil
I can't think of any information which could be used to blackmail me.
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Margaret Vane: Sarah Badel
    Clifton Ledbury/George Ledbury: Peter Sallis
    Lord Chancellor/Frank Baines: Timothy Bateson
    Henry Slaughter,: Hector Ross
    Det Supt Brookside: Peter Williams
    Det Insp Drew/ William Morgan: Manning Wilson
    John Hardoastle: Michael Shannon
    Mr Stokes: Peter Howell
    Clerk of Court: Antony Higginson
Also with Michael Burlington and Michael Cochrane
Repeated 7th July 1975, 3rd July 1976, 3rd December 1979


6th July 1975
21.03-21.58
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier dramatised by Brian Gear.
Cornwall, 1810.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
1 of 4
    Narrator: George Raistrick
    Farmer's wife: Richenda Carey
    Old man/Harry the Pedlar: Norman Tyrrell
    Mary Yellan: Kim Hartman
    Mary's mother: Angela Brooking
    Driver: Esmond Rideout
    Joss Merlyn: Jack Watson
    Aunt Patience: Elizabeth Boxer
    Frightened man: Paul Lavers
    Jem Merlyn: Alan Moore
    Squire Bassat: Stephen Sylvester
    Richards: Esmond Hideout
Additional cast in parts 2-4:
Timothy Kightley, Clifford Norgate, Laurence Payne, June Barrie, Rex Holdsworth, Liane Aukin, George Raistrick, Timothy Kightley, George Raistrick
All episodes repeated after 2 days.


7th July 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Shadows in the Deep by Michael Kittermaster
Producer John Theocharis
    John Lester: Robert Lang
    Anne Wilson: Jane Knowles
    Maria: Elizabeth Morgan
    Dr Theo: Garard Green
Repeated 13th July 1975


9th July 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Donkey Business by Karl Johnson
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Finnegan: Ronald Herdman
    Wilmot/Big Joe: Christopher Godwin
    Sandy: Helen Worth
    Tom: Paul Webster
    Dave: Michael Angelis
    Fred: David Hatton


9th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Just a Few Home Truths by Nancy Blackett
Piano played by Mary Nash
Producer John Cardy
    Ruth: Annette Crosbie
    Mrs Rollason: Kathleen Helme
    Tony: Clifford Norgate
    Penry Jones: Haydn Jones
    Neville: Michael Shannon
Repeated 18th May 1977


10th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Too Much Music by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
An eminent professor of Egyptology is found dead.
Producer Martin Jenkins
    Jack: Anthony Smee
    Rodney: Martin Jarvis
    Phillips i: Trader Faulkner
    Mavis: Frances Jeater
    Inspector: Hamish Roughead
    Secretary: Eva Haddon
    Editor: Trader Faulkner
    Marcus: Alan Dudley


11th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: In Mombasa Once ... by Michael Robson
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Harry Wilderspin: Basil Moss
    Indian: Garard Green
    Calow: Clifford Norgate
    Maude Ludlow: Isabel Dean
    Sam: Yemi Ajibade
    Guthrie Serocold: Anthony Ainley
    Elaine Fletcher: Anna Carteret
    Dan Williams: Haydn Jones
    Van Dalsen: Michael Shannon


12th July 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Look on This Picture by Malcolm Stewart
Producer: John Cardy
    Julian Spencer: Michael Deacon
    Interviewer: Martin Muncaster
    The young Alan Fordyce: Roger Gartland
    Naomi Fordyce: Isabel Dean
    Gerald Cranston: Peter Williams
    Hilary: Carole Boyd
    Richard Grace: Peter Wooothorpe
    Tramp: Ramsay Williams
    Stobart: Paul Maxwell
    Air Commodore Franklyn: Denis McCarthy
    Townsend: Marvin Kane
    Helicopter pilot: Peter Whitman
    Inspector: Alan Dudley
    Farley: Gordon Sterne
also with Eva Haddon and Margaret Robertson
Repeated 14th July 1975


14th July 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Confession by Ian Rodger
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Bill Newman: Kenneth Farrington
    Jack Henry: Nigel Anthony
    Leon Aquila: John Justin
    Leonard Hagshaw: Graham Roberts
    Henry Remington: John Linstrum
    Professor Gunge: Geoffrey Banks
    James Broughton: David Mahlowe
    Anna Anna: Stephanie Fayerman
Repeated 20th July 1975


16th July 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Report on Mr Lane by John Stock
Teaching to him is his whole life, the single purpose of his existence.
Producer David H Godfrey
    Mr Lane: Garard Green
    Mr Rayner: Michael Deacon
    Mr Partridge: Nigel Lambert
    Mr Harrison: Clifford Norgate
    Mr Deacon: Hector Ross
    Mr Bowen: Haydn Jones
    Galvin: Simon Callow
    Craggs: Olwen Griffiths
    Third boy: Anthony Smee
    Fourth boy: Carole Boyd


16th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Daisy Miller (1879) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by Mary Hope Allen
The note of some small sweet strain of romance seemed to sound.
Pianist Martin Goldstetn
Producer Betty Davies
    Signor Giovanelli: Michael Deacon
    Frederick Winterbourne: Peter Marinker
    Daisy Miller: Ronnie Hurren
    Randolph Miller: Earl Rhodes
    Mrs Miller: Marion Harris
    Eugenio: Nigel Lambert
    Costello: Margaret Robertson
    Mrs Walker: Madi Hedd
[Also produced by Nicholas Newton in 2004 with Elizabeth McGovem as Daisy.]
[Also produced by Nadia Molinari in 2017 with Juliana Jennings as Daisy.]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


17th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Coo by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
Producer David Spenser
    Sally Young: Judy Bennett
    Colin Young: Steve Hodson
    Joyce Young: Carole Boyd
    Arthur Cleese: John Hollis
    The pigeon: Percy Edwards
    Andrew Mackenzie: Nigel Graham
    Bus conductor: Paul Gaymon
    Miss Hardcastle: Eva Haddon
Repeated 19th January 1978
[BBC Transcription Services disk CN2422]


18th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report by Alisdair Gray (1934-2019)
Stay uninteresting and I'll make it worth your while.
Producer Shaun MacLouglin
    Mungo McGrotty: John Morrison
    Ludmilla: Kate Coleridge
    Sir Arthur Shot: Gerald Cross
    the Minister: Peter Woodthorpe
    Harbinger: Malcolm Hayes
    Charlie Gold: John Rye
    Miss Panther: Anne Jameson
    Mrs Curry: Margaret Robertson
    Aubrey Rose: Nigel Lambert
    Mrs Soames: Beau Daniels
[When staged in 1987 the subtitle was amended with the addition: "or else THE MODERN ALADDIN A Political Pantomime of the Thatcher Era"]


19th July 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Balance of Power by Alan Melville (1910-1983)
A little in the future- during and immediately after a General Election.
Producer John Tydeman
Cast: Jean Anderson, Robert Lang, Edward Hardwicke, Sandra Clark, Nigel Anthony, Christopher Bidmead, Michael Cochrane, Anthony Daniels, Madi Hedd, Gudrun Ure, Anne Jameson, Fraser Kerr, Clifford Norgate, Deborah Paige, Roger Snowdon, Peter Whitman, Peter Williams, Peter Jefferson
Repeated 21st July 1975


21st July 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Milk of Paradise (1913) by Alain-Fournier ( Henri-Alban Fournier 1886-1914) translated and adapted by Barbara Bray
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson
Producer Barbara Bray
    Francois Seurel: Timothy Bateson
    Mme Seurel: Catherine Salkeld
    M Seurel: Frederick Treves
    Augustin Meaulnes: Albert Finney
    Mme Meaulnes: Mary Morell
    Yvonne de Galais: Clare Austin
    Frantz de Calais, her brother: Lyndon Brook
    M de Calais,: Duncan McIntyre
    Jasmin Delouche: John Scott
    Desnoues/ Florentin: Frank Windsor
    Ganache: John Cazabon
    Cousins of Francois: Firmin: David Spenser
    Manie-Lotilse: Patricia Leventon
    Great-aunt Moinel: Dorothy Green
    Peasant woman: Hilda Schroder
    With Tony Adams, Jean England, Peter Wilde, Clive Parritt
Repeated from Home 6th April 1959 and R3 21/9/1969
Repeated 27th July 1975
[Also produced for R3 in 1956 by Donald McWhinnie with Nigel Stock as Augustin.]
[Original title "Le Grand Meaulnes". The work has appeared with at least eight other English titles]
[The character of Yvonne was inspired by a real person called Yvonne with whom Fournier became infatuated but did not meet again after he was 19 as he found she had married.]


23rd July 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sixpenny Trick by Michael Mellinger (1929-2004)
Producer Margaret Etall
    Ann Olden: Diana Bishop
    Ned Lomas: Michael Shannon
    Sam Olden: David Ryall


23rd July 1975
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 Vatera: Fraser Kerr
    Le Voisin: Brian Haines
Repeated from 8th June 1974


24th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: I'm not Flatbush by Edward Crowley
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Julia Johnson: Sandra Clark
    Henry Gannish: Alan Rothwell
    George Vickers: Howard Benbrook
    Flatbush: Christian Rodska
    Harold Williamson: Christopher Godwin
    Director General: Graham Roberts
    Dame Laura ffitch-Garrick: Penelope Lee


24th July 1975
20.00:
Without Benefit of Clergy (1890) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
A city in the Punjab in the 1890s.
Producer: John Tydeman
    Rudyard Kipling: David Spenser
    Holden: Gary Watson
    Ameera: Heather Emmanuel
    Ameera's mother: Zohra Segal
    Pir Khan: Sam Dastor
    Club Secretary: William Eedle
    First Club Member: William Fox
    Second Club Member: Terry Scully
    Butler: Anthony Hall
    Durga Dass: Garard Green
Repeated from 9th and 10th May 1973
[Kipling was born in India and later worked there for over 40 years.]
[The title does not refer to the legal "Benefit of Clergy" which was abolished in 1841 but to the relationship between Holden and Ameera]


25th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Ruffian on the Stair (1964) by Joe Orton (1933-1967)
Producer: John Tydeman
    Joyce: Avis Bunnage
    Mike: Dermot Kelly
    Wilson: Kenneth Cranham
Repeated from R3 31/8/64, 19/9/64, 7/10/65
Repeated R4 21/7/1979, R3 2/7/2017.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014.]
[The title is from a verse by W E Henley - "Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom" (1877)]
[The play is based on "The Boy Hairdresser" by Orton and Halliwell]
[The radio play was rewritten for the 1964 stage production]


26th July 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Light of a Thousand Suns by James Follett (1939-2021)
A British nuclear submarine of the 1990s
Producer Margaret Etall
    Capt Harrison: Manning Wilson
    Floyd: Michael Shannon
    Lieut Sinclair: John Rye
    Leading Technician Stride: Ian Thompson
    Lieut Aitkin: Sion Probert
    Lieut Fisher: John Bull
    Master-at-Arms: Nigel Graham
    First Rating: Hugh 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 from 6th and 8th July 1974
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2009-2019]


28th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Black Chiffon (1949) by Lesley Storm (Mabel Cowie, 1898-1975) adapted by Mollie Hardwick.
A well-to-do woman steals a luxury article.
Producer: Joe Burroughs
    Alicia Christie: Flora Robson
    Robert Christie: Stephen Murray
    Bennett Hawkins: John Glen
    Thea: Gabrielle Blunt
    Roy: Alexander John
    Louise: Rosalind Shanks
    Nannie: Marjorie Westbury
Repeated from 17th and 19th Feb 1968, 1st Nov 1970
[Also produced by Audrey Cameron for Light in 1955 with Rachel Gurney as Thea]


28th July 1975
20.00
The Monday Play: Events at the Salamander Hotel by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Producer: Richard Wortley
    Narrator: Stephen Thorne
    Judge: Brian Haines
    Frank: John Baddeley
    Harry/Inspector: Peter Baldwin
    Otto: Freddie Jones
    George: Peter Woodthorpe
    Captain Creek: David Ryall
    Alvin: Blain Fairman
    Bishop: Haydn Jones
    Abraham: Charles E Stidwill
    Barmaid: Carole Boyd
    Irene: Diana Bishop
    Michael: Michael Deacon
    Sam: Brian Hewlett
    Bob: Michael Shannon
Repeated 3rd August 1975, 30th January 1978, 5th February 1978


30th July 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sweet Smell of Success by Peter Crowter
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Ben Burditch: Ivor Salter
    Violet: Dorothy Hawkins
    Rose: Alison Hancock
    Henry: Anthony Smee
    Vicar: Ronald Russell
    Bob: Malcolm Young
    Dora: Penelope Nice
    Mrs Pugh: Peggy Ann Wood
Repeated 17th August 1976
[Not related to the play of this name by Caroline Raphael]


30th July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Legend of the Holy Drunkard (1939) by Joseph Roth (1894-1939) translated and adapted for radio by Anthony Vivis (1943-2013)
Producer: Michael Bartlett
    Andreas: John Rowe
    Gentleman/Butler: Peter Williams
    Wealthy man/Hotel receptionist: Trader Faulkner
    Hortense/Girl in hotel: Madi Hedd
    Caroline: Eva Haddon
    Patron/Grusba/Second waiter: Martin Read
    Kanjak/Third waiter: David Rowlands
    Woitech/First waiter: Michael Deacon
    Teresa/Salesgirl: Deborah Paige
[Joseph Roth was a chronic alcoholic and his death was hastened by abrupt withdrawal of alcohol. He may have converted to Catholicism in his final years.]
[Original title Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker]


31st July 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Interchangeable Man by Jack Gerson (1928-2012)
A large shipment of arms.
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Glasgow)
    Det-Sgt Macklin: Bob Docherty
    Braxton: Phillp Guard
    Controller: Leon Sinden
    Henry Breslin: Paul Kermack
    Mrs Gloag: Mary Riggans
    Supt Menzies: John Young
    Sir Hugh Barnett: John Shedden
    Lady Mary Barnett: Hilary Paterson
    Ludy: June Andrews
    Reilly: Michael Bruce
    Vice-Admiral Casper: Ian Stewart


31st July 1975
20.00L
Love o' Women (1893) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) dramatised by A R Rawlinson.
The effect of too many women...
Producer: John Tydeman
    Rudyard Kipling: David Spenser
    Private Ortheris: Anthony Hall
    Private Mulvaney: Kevin Flood
    Private Tighe: Hugh Dickson
    Captain Crook: Robin Browne
    Subaltern: Sam Dastor
    Dr Lowndes: Rolf Lefebvre
    Orderly: Nigel Anthony
    Dinah: Hilda Schroder
    Egypt: Sheila Grant
[Also produced by Adrian Bean in 1994 rptd 1995, rptd R4X, with John Duttine as Tighe.]


1st August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Part of the View by Giles Cooper (1918-1966)
Pay thousands to look at a lot of trees and that.
Producer Betty Davies
    Clarissa: Jumoke Debayo
    Jeremy: Earl Rhodes
    Gregory: Geoffrey Matthews
    Pauline: Kate Colerlidge
    Skid: John Rys
Repeated 7th July 1979
[Also produced by Robin Midgley in 1959 with Michael Crawford as Jeremy]


2nd August 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night-Theatre: The Baghdad Baggage by William Fox
The Middle East, 1943.
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
    Major James Brady: James Villiers
    Lt Charles Willoughby: Christopher Good
    Aram Bagramian: Peter Woodthorpe
    Egon Warchinsky: Sandor Eles
    Nurse Mildred Boustead: Ciaran Madden
    Sgt S I B /Mahomed: William Fox
    Havildar/Camp Commandant: Garard Green
    Driver/Sikh Jemadar: Saeed Jaftrey
    Col Bhaduri/Town Major Hamadan: Malcolm Hayes
    Lt-Col Pym: Gerald Cross
    MO: Michael Shannon
    Fawzta: Eva Haddon
    George Danefield: Anthony Smee
Repeated 4th August 1975 and 11th April 1977


3rd August 1975:
21.03-21.58
Rape of the Fair Country(1959) by Alexander Cordell (1914-1997) dramatised by Elaine Morgan.
Rural Wales and the Industrial Revolution and Trade Unions.
1 of 4: 1826 - First Day. The Mortymers.
Producer: Lorraine Davies
Wales.
    Dad: Ray Smith
    Mam: Margaret John
    Morfydd: Christine Pritchard
    Edwina: Carole Hopkin
    Iestyn: Sion Probert
    Iestyn as a boy: Rhys Powys Evans
    Tomos Traherne: Dillwyn Owen
    Idris Foreman: Frank Lincoln
    Dafydd Phillips: John Ogwen
    Mrs Phillips: Dilys Price
    Polly Morgan: Gillian Elisa Thomas
    Richard Bennett: Malcolm Seymour
    Moesen: Richard Wort
    Sara: Anna Lindsay
Additional actors in parts 2-4:
    Big Rhys: Ray Handy
    Jethro: Huw Owen
    Mari Dirion : Marged Esli
    Moesen: John Prior
    Owen Howells: Bryn Williams
Part 4 broadcast 24th August 1975.
All episodes repeated after two days
[Subsequent books in the series were "The Hosts of Rebecca" and "Song of the Earth".]


4th August 1975
19.30:
The Monday Play: Ivanov (1889) by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) adapted by John Gielgud based on a translation by Ariadne Nicolaeff.
A district in central Russia in the late 19th century.
Produced By: Ronald Mason
    Borkin: Denys Hawthorne
    Ivanov: Alec McCowen
    Count Shabelsky: David March
    Anna Petrovna: Maxine Audley
    Lvov: John Castle
    First guest: Ian Thompson
    Second guest: Nigel Clayton
    Zinaida Savishna: Jean Anderson
    Babakina: Barbara Mitchell
    Kossyth: Haydn Jones
    Third guest: John Justin
    Avdotya Nazarovna: Noel Hood
    Lebedev: Maurice Denham
    Sasha: Judi Dench
Repeated from R3 4th and 20th August 1967
Repeated on R3 4th November 1986
[Other productions: Year/Network/Producer/Actor playing Ivanov:
1952/R3/Hugh Stewart/Michael Redgrave
1954 rpt 1958/R3/Mary Hope Allen/John Gielgud
1968/R4/Ronald Mason/Alec McCowen
2001 rpt 2002/R3/David Hare/Ralph Fienne]


6th August 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Heathcliff Data by Anne Leaton (1932-2016)
Jessie Bane feels deeply that American society has 'buried its soul in the grave.'
Producer Kay Patrick
    Jessie: Penelope Lee
    Psychiatrist: Don Fellows
    Heathcliff: Geoffrey Collins
    Nelly: Anne Jameson
    The Mother: Mary Griffiths
    Howard Flax: Paul Gaymon


6th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: End of the Over by Maureen Donegan
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Marian: Madi Hedd
    Jim: Trader Faulkner
    Joe: Garard Green
    Ruth: Norma Ronald
    Alan: Michael Deacon
    Ken: Clifford Norgate


7th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Chubb by John Miles-Brown
The ancient rites of Kala.
Pianist: Michael Kilgarriff
Producer Gerry Jones
    Chubb: John Rowe
    Mrs Wills: Madi Hedd
    Mr Pond/Foreign guide: Garard Green
    Male teacher / Doctor / Travel agent: Roger Snowdon
    Hat shop man: Peter Williams
    Female teacher: Elizabeth Proud
    Rasputin: Elizabeth Lindsay
    Freud/Air hostess: Jean England
    Cleopatra/Old lady: Elizabeth Morgan
    Commentator/Priest: Michael Kilgarriff
    Chemist/Betting shop man: Christopher Bidmead
    Waiter/Betting clerk: Denis McCarthy


7th August 1975
20.00
Mrs Bathurst (1904) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) dramatised by A R Rawlinson.
Producer: John Tydeman
    Hooper: William Fox
    Rudyard Kipling: David Spenser
    Pyecroft: John Hollis
    Sgt Pritchard: Geoffrey Matthews
    Ada: Diana Olsson
    Bo'sun: Sam Dastor
    Warrant Officer: Fraser Kerr
    Dawson: Nigel Anthony
    Click: Rolf Lefebvre
    Local Inspector: Jonathan Scott
    Sentry: Anthony Hall
Repeated from 23rd May 1973.
[The character of Petty Officer Pyecroft appeared in five other tales published 1903-1910]


8th August 1975:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Moving On by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
Producer Margaret Etall
    WPC Judy Carter: Carole Boyd
    Caroline Scott-Leighton: Elspeth Charlton
    Doris Carter: Peggy Aitchison
    Will Carter: Haydn Jones
    John Scott-Leighton: Paul Gaymon
    Sheila Scott-Leighton: Madi Hedd
    Sgt Watford: Sion Probert
    Sgt Ridley: Alan Dudley
    PC Donald Brooke: Roger Gartland
    WPC Pat Gunning: Angela Collins


9th August 1975:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Night of the Wolf by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Cambridge and the Fen Country around 1890.
It's the work of the Devil himself!
Producer John Tydeman
    Judge Mathew Deacon: Vincent Price
    Robert Deacon, his son: Peter Whitman
    Mrs Northcott: Coral Browne
    Sybil, her daughter: Sheila Grant
    Dorothy Sybil's daughter: Elizabeth Proud
    Nicholas, Sybil's son: John Rye
    Griffin, an undergraduate: Michael Cochrane
    Professor Forre&ter: Hugh Manning
    Sir Richard Burnett: Haydn Jones
    Morris,: Paul Gaymon
    Jessie: Norma Ronald
Repeated 11th August 1975, 18th June 1977, 26th December 1978, 27th May 1991
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2018]

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10th August 1975
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Forty Years On (1968) by Alan Bennett
A nostalgic pageant.
Musical settings by Carl Davis
Accompanied songs sung by boys of City Of London School
Producer Richard Wortley
    Headmaster: John Gielgud
    Matron: Dorothy Reynolds
    Tempest: Alan Bennett
    Franklin: Paul Eddington
    Miss Nisbitt: Nora Nicholson
    Headboy: Sam Dastor
Also with Nigel Anthony, Stephen Bone, Adrian Hall, Nigel Rathbone, Clive Swift
[The cast in the first stage production in 1968 included John Gielgud, Paul Eddington, Alan Bennett, Dorothy Reynolds, Nora Nicholson, Carl Davis]
[The title comes from the Harrow School Song]
Repeated from 11th and 13th August 1973.
Repeated 28th December 1988.
[Also produced by Gordon House in 2000 with Alan Bennett as Headmaster and Adam Godley as Tempest, rptd R7 2009]


11th August 1975:
19.30:
The Monday Play: In Real Life (Realidad) (1889) by Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) translated by Nicholas Round
Set in Madrid. The hypocrisy of the accepted social attitudes of the time, and the inner struggles of those forced to live by them.
Producer Margaret Etall
    Augusta Orozco: Sara Kestelman
    Tomas Orozco: John Phillips
    Federico Viera: Christopher Bidmead
    Manolo Infante: Martin Jarvis
    Leonor: Miriam Margolyes
    Jacinto Villalonga: Clifford Norgate
    Aguado: Peter Williams
    Cornelio Malibran: Peter Woodthorpe
    Joaquin Viera: John Justin
    Lina: Gillie Gratham
    Barbara: Eva Stuart
    Servant: Anthony Smee


13th August 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Long Run by Maurice Hilliard
Making sense of what has occurred.
Producer Piers Plowright
    Edward: Carleton Hobbs
    Liz: Janet Burnell
    Susan: Eva Haddon
    Barbara: Joy Harrison
    Henry: John Rye
    Katherine-: Lynette McMorrough
    Kenneth: Charles Pemberton
    Lorry driver: William Ashley


13th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Shapes in Another Day by Bill Kirton
Producer Martin Jenkins
    Richard: Kerry Francis
    Jerry: Stephen Thorne
    Hewitt: Paul Gaymon
    Grace: Margaret Robertson
    Isobel: Anna Calder-Marshall


14th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Hands, adapted by Donald McWhinnie from the story "Composition for Four Hands" (1949) by Hilda Lawrence (1906-1976)
Producer John Tydeman
    Nora Manson: Mary Wimbush
    Nurse Sills: Sheila Grant
    Ralph Manson: Simon Lack
    Bruce Cory: Rolf Lefebvre
    George Perry: David Spenser
    Robbie Manson: David Timson
    Alice Perry: Hilda Schroder
    Emma: Elizabeth Morgan
    Miss Byrd: Diana Bishop
Repeated from 3rd and 4th October 1973


14th August 1975
20.00:
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 from 20th March 1974
    
    
15th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Kewpie Doll by Edward Mackin
The only evidence to link the crimes is provided by a cheap fairground doll
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Benson: Sam Kelly
    Cohen: Reg Farrier
    Supt Breen: Geoffrey Banks
    Sgt Ted Gould: Graham Roberts
    Pickard: David Beames
    Cartwright: Ronald Baddiley
    McCullen: David Jackson
    Mrs McCullen: Kathleen Helme
    Mrs Breen: Elizabeth Kelly
    WPC Hattersley: Norma Cohen


15th August 1975
20.30-21.15
Galbraith and the King of Diamonds by Robert Barr. (1849-1912)
Producer: John Browell
1 of 6: Enter a frightened lady.
    Galbraith: Bernard Hepton
    Cater: Tom Watson
    Gelder: Peter Dyneley
    Tom Evans/Paul: Richard Davies
    Anne-Marie: Eva Haddon
    Cornell: Hector Ross
    Mary Galbraith: Katharine Page
    Milne: Bruce Alexander
Additional cast in parts 2 to 6:
    Betty van Druten: Frances Jeater
    Brent: Peter Williams
    Dykers: Trader Faulkner
    Gunman: Robert Gillespie
    Jacobus: Stephen Greif
    Lander: Peter Hawkins
    Lindemanns: Cyril Shaps
Part 6 broadcast: 19th September 1975
[Serial repeated on R4X 2014-2023]


16th August 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Fool on the Hill by Michael Robson
The Durham Miners Strike and The First World War
Producer: Kay Patrick
    Ralph Lamplough: Sean Barrett
    Alexandra Henderson: Carole Boyd
    Edward Mercer: Michael Deacon
    Tallentire: Peter Woodthorpe
    Ainsley Hettderson: Alan Dudley
    Vickie Borrowdale: Rosalind Strang
    Sir Vivian Milroy: Garard Green
    Frank Aspinall: Stephen Jack
    Insp Waggott: Richard Steele
Repeated 18th August 1975


17th August 1975
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fallen Idol (1948) by Graham Greene (1904-1991), adapted by Charles Hatton
An Embassy in London in the 1930's
Producer Ronald Mason
    Felipe: Jean England
    Secretary: Rolf Lefebvre
    Baines: Richard Pasco
    Ambassador: Geoffrey Wincott
    Mrs Baines: Rachel Gurney
    Mrs Barrow: Gudrun Ure
    Mrs Patterson: Beth Boyd
    Harry: Nicholas Edmett
    Julie: Judi Dench
    Policeman: David Brierley
    Sergeant: Victor Lucas
    Rose: Barbara Mitchell
    Dr Fenton: Lockwood West
    Ames: Peter Baldwin
    Det-Insp Hart: Michael Deacon
    Chief Det-Insp Crowe: John Wyse
Repeated from 16th and 18th March 1968
[Based on the 1935 Greene story "The Basement Room"]
[Also produced by Archie Campbell in 1953 with Mervyn Johns as Baines]


17th August 1975
22.15
The Islands of Fiji by Christopher Venning.
The impact of colonisation.
Producer Gerry Jones
    Narrator: Christopher Venning
    Blingh/Bellingshausen: Geoffrey Matthews
    Tobin/James: Nigel Lambert
    Derrick: Trader Faulkner
    Seeman: John Hollis
    Voioe/Pritchard: Alan Rowe
    Calvert: Paul Gaymon
    Alfred St Johnston: Michael Deacon
    Victorian lady: Eva Haddon
    Fijian: Isoa Gavidi
Repeated 17th February 1979
[Christopher Venning lived on Fiji for a while].


18th August 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Viviette by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001), based on "Two on a Tower" (1882) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
Producer Jane Graham
    Viviette, Lady Constantine: Sarah Badel
    Louis Glanville: Christopher Bidmead
    Dobbs/Verger: Peter Whitman
    Swithin St Cleeves: Michael Kitchen
    Granny Martin: Susan Richards
    Tabitha Lark: Emily Richard
    Hannah Underwood: Gladys Spencer
    Rev Talkingham: Denis McCarthy
    Bishop of Melchester: Haydn Jones
    Capt Humfrey: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 24th August 1975, 17th July 1977, 18th February 1979


20th August 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Birdman by Jennifer Phillips
Unmechanised flight.
Producer Richard Wortley
    Joan: Madi Hedd
    Colin: Clive Merrison
    Sandra: Julie Hallam
    Dennis: Alan Dudley
    Gerald: Nigel Lambert


20th August 1975
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 9th March 1974


21st August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Hitch Hiker by Stuart Allison
Producer David Spenser
With Peter Pacey, Carole Boyd, Michael Cochrane, Alan Dudley, Sheila Grant, Nigel Lambert, Deborah Paige, Norma Ronald, Paul Rosebury and David Sinclair


22nd August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs Penrose's Housekeeper by Peter Fieldson
Producer Margaret Etall
    Mrs Penrose: Marjorie Westbury
    Ambrose: Ian Thompson
    Mr Price: Roger Snowdon
    Nurse: Betty Baskcomb
    Margery: Carole Boyd
    Frank: Clifford Norgate


23rd August 1975:
16.30-17.00
Jennings at School by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004).
Life at Linbury Court School.
Producer Herbert Smith
Editor Graham Gauld
1. Jennings Takes the Stage.
    Mr Carter: John Daglish
    Mr Wilkins: Anthony Buckeridge
    Jennings: Glenn Campbell
    Darbishire: Timothy Bleecker
    Temple: Nicholas Cooke
    Venables: Timothy Meehan
    Matron: Juliet Cooke
    Atkinson: Christopher Ball
    Irving Borromore: David Mahlowe
Additional actors in stories 2-6:
    Headmaster: Geoffrey Banks
    Krakov: Garard Green
    Miss Thorpe: Mary Kilduff
    Passionflower: Jo Manning Wilson
    Captain Radio: Nigel Lambert
Story 6 broadcast 27th September 1975
[There were other series with this title.]
[Jennings made his appearance in a radio play in 1948, and the first of many books followed from 1950]


23rd August 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Witch Wood. A radio impression by John Keir Cross from the novel (1927) by John Buchan (1875-1940)
A tale of old superstition and the conflict of good and evil.
Music by Panufnik and Szymanowski
Technica1 presentation by Jock Farreli .
Technical assistants Peter Novis And William Addis
Producer Glyn Dearman
    Rev Mungo Muirhead: Jack Watson
    Rev David Sempill: Michael Deacon
    Rev Ebenezer Proud foot: David Sinclair
    Rev James Fordyce: Simon Lack
    Katrine Yester: Rosalind Shanks
    Isobet Veitch: Audrey Cameron
    Ephraim Caird: Henry Stamper
    Mark Kerr: Fraser Kerr
    James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: Paul Gaymon
    Will Rollo: David Sinclair
    Nicholas Hawkshaw: Alan Dudley
    Narrator: Nigel Lambert
Repeated 25th August 1975
[Also produced by Finlay J. Macdonald in 1953 with Ian Stewart as Mungo.]


25th August 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Spring and Port Wine (1959) by Bill Naughton (1910-1992)
Producer Tony Cliff
(Leeds)
    Daisy Crompton: Judith Barker
    Florence Crompton: Anna Keaveney
    Betsy Jane: Paula Tilbrook
    Wilfred Crompton: Alun Bond
    Harold Crompton: Bob Mason
    Hilda Crompton: Claire Kinsale
    Rafe Crompton: Geoffrey Banks
    Arthur: Alan Rothwell
    Pianist: Brian Layton
Repeated 31st August 1975, 1st July 1979, 11th July 1982.
[Based on a BBC Radio Play of 1957: "My Flesh, My Blood"]


26th August 1975
20.15:
The Old Man (1952) by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989)
Producer Derek Hoddinott
(A BBC World Service production)
    The Woman: Virginia McKenna
    The Old Man: Leslie Sands
    Mother: Margery Withers
    Boy: Edward Seckerson
    
    
27th August 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: When the Singing Has to Stop by Ann Williams
Producer Lorraine Davies
    Alun: Frank Lincoln
    His father: Ryan Davies
    His mother: Margaret John
    Headmaster: Dillwyn Owen
    Glyn: David Lyn
    Kath: Christine Pritchard
    Boy: Andrew Linstead


27th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Very Lonely Woman by Pat Revill
Producer: Martin Jenkins
    Mason: Irene Sutcliffe
    Rena: Norma Ronald
    Janice: Deborah Paige
    Bobby: Jean England
    Don: Geoffrey Matthews
    David: Henry Knowles
    Director: John Rye
    Assistant: Paul Gaymon
    Policeman: Michael Deacon


27th August 1975
20.30
All the Queen's Men (1972) by Neville Williams adapted by Denis Constanduros.
Queen Elizabeth I.
Part 1 of Ten parts.
Producer John Theocharis
    With Judy Parfitt, Robert Lang, Madi Hedd, Malcolm Hayes, Michael Deacon, Garard Green, Anthony Smee.
Part 10 broadcast 29/10/1975


28th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Away from It All by Ivor Wilson
Four days ago I was enjoying a holiday.
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Leeds)
    Harriet Martin: June Barry
    Bill Kent: Alan Rothwell
    Robert McEwan: David Marlowe
    Jackson Tyler: Paul Maxwell
    Herbert Anderson: Paul Webster
    Elizabeth Anderson: Jane Lowe
    Jenny McEwan: Christine McKenna
[Also produced by Val Gielgud in 1962]


29th August 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Foot in the Door by Joan Sadler
Lack of fulfilment . . .
Producer John Tydeman
    Brian Wood: David Burke
    Muriel Hollingsworth: Carole Boyd
    Derek Hollingsworth: Michael Shannon
    Cynthia Trimmer: Anne Jameson
    Howard Trimmer: Michael Deacon
    Madame: Cecile Chevreau
    Mrs Baker: Norma Ronald
    Children: Katherine Hughes and Adam Tandy


30th August 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Wild Flowers and Grains of Sand by Robin Smyth (aka Ronnie Smith, John Naismith)
A Fulham family saga 1910-1914
Musicians: Max Lewin (Percussion), Billy Bell (Banjo), Denis Bowden (Double-Bass), Dennis Gomm (Piano), Manny Winters (Flute)
Producer Michael Bartlett
    Fred Spencer: John Bull
    Sugar Thomas: Michael Cochrane
    Hannah O'Neill: Bonnie Hurren
    Bert O'Neill: Valerie Newbold
    Marge O'Neill: John Hollis
    Mooch Chivers: William Eedle
    Polly Chivers: Peggy Paige
    Fishy: Graham Watkins
    Lucy Reeves: Miranda Bell
    Mr Grossman: David Graham
    Arthur La Garde: Jeremy Nicholas
Repeated 1st September 1975


31st August 1975
21.03
The Island of Sheep (1936) by John Buchanan (1875-1940) adapted by Antony Kearey.
Adventure on a Norland Isle.
Technical assistants Marshil McCuish, Anne Hunt, David Hitchinson
Producer: Norman Wright
1 of 3: The Tablet of Jade.
    Richard Hannay: Noel Johnson
    Mary Hannay: Anne Jameson
    Peter John Hannay: Gareth Johnson
    Sandy Clanroyden: Michael Deacon
    Valdemar Haraldsen: David March
    Lombard: Geoffrey Matthews
    Pierre d'Ingraville: John Gabriel
    Frankie Varrinder: Michael Spice
    Claire Varrinder: Deborah Paige
    Lydia Ludlow: Eva Haddon
    Aylmer Troth: Trader Faulkner
    Jack Godstow: Garard Green
    Peter Pienaar: Roger Gartland
Additional cast in parts 2-3:
Paul Gaymon, Clifford Norgate, Peter Whitman, Gudrun Ure, Elizabeth Proud, Fraser Kerr, Sheila Grant, Michael Shannon, Christopher Bidmead.
Part 3 broadcast 14th September 1975.
Each episode repeated two days later
[The setting is 12 years after "The Three Hostages" which was written in 1924]
[Also produced, in 6 parts, by David Davis in 1955 with Alec Clunes as Richard Hannay]
[Also produced, in 8 parts, by Stewart Conn in 1966 with Malcolm Hayes as Richard Hannay.]
[Also produced in 3 parts by Patrick Rayner in 1983 with Nigel Anthony as Richard Hannay]


1st September 1975:
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Insect Play (1921) by Karel (1890-1938) and Josef (1887-1945) Capek, translated by Paul Selver. Stage adaption by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax (1923).
Music by David Cain. Musicians: Christopher Hogwood, John Royston Mitchell
Dick Mills (BBC Radio-phonic Workshop)
Technical presentation by Peter Novis, assisted by Anthea Davies and Allyson Reed
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    The Tramp: Anthony Jackson
    Lepidopterist/Parasite: Malcolm Hayes
    Felix: John Rye
    Iris/Mrs Cricket: Carole Boyd
    Clytie: Margarkt Robertson
    Otto/Journalist: Nigel Lambert
    Mr Beetle/Inventor: Cyril Shaps
    Mrs Beetle/ Woman: Betty Hardy
    Strange Beetle/Blind Ant: Paul Gaymon
    Ichneumon Fly/Chief Engineer: Peter Woodthorpe
    Its Larva: Kate Coleridge
    Mr Cricket: Michael Deacon
    Second Engineer/Woodcutter: Hector Ross
    Messenger: Michael Cochrane
    Yellow Leader: Peter Whitman
    Chrysalis: Judy Bennett
    Moths: Margaret Robertson and Kate Coleridge
Repeated 27th February 1977
[Original title "Ze zivota hmyzu" - at least five English names for this play. Paul Selver was the first translator into English: the full title of his translation is "The Insect Play or And So Ad Infinitium"- however the Selver version is only partial. A full translation was published in 1999.]


3rd September 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Trial Run by John Cannon
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Paul: Michael Billington
    Bill: Paul Gaymon
    Wendy: Miranda Forbes
    Sheila: Jan Carey


3rd September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Recess by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
    Brighton and the Labour Party Conference have happy memories.
Producer Jane Graham
    Judy Lambert: Virginia Stride
    Peter Lambert: Robin Ellis
    Joss: David Collings
    Wally Beevers: Colin Douglas
    Claude: Timothy Bateson
    Receptionist: Sandra Clark
    Journalist: David Sinclair
    Photographer: Robin Browne
    Woman journalist: Bonnie Hurren
    Newscaster: John Forrest
Repeated from 14th July 1973


4th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Night in October by Maurice Callard
Mabel borrows her sister's car.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Ann: Sandra Clark
    Mabel: Yvonne Antrobus
    Robert: Manning Wilson
    Peter: Howard Goorney
    Ruth: Daphne Rogers


4th September 1975
20.00
Operation Aspidistra by James Follett (1939-2021) based on Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (1904-1979)
Producer Maurice Leitch
With Bruce Alexander, Nigel Graham, Hector Ross, David Sinclair, Denis Mccarthy, Nigel Lambert, Roy Stephens, Roger Snowdon, Garard Green, Cari Hedderwick
[Aspidestra was a 500kW RCA radio transmitter]


5th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Slightly Displaced Persons by Charles Thomas
London, 1946.
Producer Glyn Dearman
    Ken Sanders: Anthony Hall
    Katie Sanders: Jean Trend
    Adrian Sanders: Jean England
    Lily Spiers: Frances Jeater
    Williams: Malcolm Hayes
    Eddie Marsh: Garard Green
    Johnny Galbraith: Haydn Jones
    Marge Galbraith: Madi Hedd
    Steve Morgan: Jonathan Scott
    Judge: Hector Ross


6th September 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Dark Windows of a Room by William Keenan
Manchester, 1975.
Stereo effects by David Fleming-Williams
Theme music and song composed by Simon Park
Producer Trevor Hill
    John Rouke: Brian Trueman
    CI Norris: Geoffrey Banks
    Anna: Jane Knowles
Also with Violet Carson, Judith Chalmers, Sandra Chalmers, Nigel Davenport, Bryan Forbes, Philip Jenkinson, Bryan Martin, Peter Massey, Wilfred Pickles, Alan Rothwell, Herbert Smith, Madeleine Vacher, Paul Webster, Geoffrey Wheeler, Peter Wheeler and Billie Whitelaw
Repeated 8th September 1975
[The first production from the Drama Suite at New Broadcasting House. Manchester - since demolished.]


8th September 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Our Roman Cousins by Bruce Stewart
1766 Charles Stuart was no longer the Bonnie Prince.
Mandolin: Steve Gauna
Piper: Pipe Major James Caution
Producer Betty Davies
    Sir Horace Mann, a British spy: Timothy West
    Henry Stuart: Aubrey Woods
    Charles Stuart: Duncan Lamont
    Charlotte Stuart, Charles's daughter: Emily Richard
    Cardinal Albani: David March
    Louise Maximillienne: Kate Coleridge
    Signor Alfieri: Michael Deacon
    Pope Clement XIII: Malcolm Hayes
    Pope Clement XIV: Garard Green
    Pope Pius VI: Gerald Cross
    Messenger: Nigel Lambert
Repeated 14th September 1975, 5th November 1977.
[Also produced by David Johnston in 1988 with David March as Horace and Jack May as Henry]


10th September 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Meanwhile Back at the Office by Derek Hoddinott
A young secretary comes along.
Producer David Johnston
    Mr Wilson: Gerald Cross
    Sheila Smith: Maureen O'Brien
    Storeman: Christopher Bidmead
    Lilian Lovell: Sheila Grant
    Geoff Lovell: Cyril Shaps


10th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Galleons of Spain by James Scotland (1917-1983)
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
    Murdo Macleod: Tom Watson
    Mary Macleod: Jan Wilson
    Ina Macleod: Lesley MacKie
    Alex Matheson: Walter Carr
    Rory Matheson: Alan Watters
    Callum Slingsby: Willy Joss
    Duncan Macleod: Bryden Murdoch
    Michael Berry: Brown Derby
    Edith Berry: Sheila Latimer
    John Goole: Martyn James
    Diana Humphries: Ann Scott-Jones
    Alan Brown: George Howell
    C Fleming Haliburton: Bryden Murdoch


11th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Cleft Stick by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
He jumped at me from the bushes. He tried to strangle me.
Producer David H.Godfrey
    Joan Marlow: Diana Olsson
    John Marlow: Vernon Joyner
    Det-Sgt Jennings: Antony Viccars
    Det Supt Bishop: Douglas Blackwell
    David Anakin: Rolf Lefebvre
    Police Constable: Anthony Hall
    Webber: Sam Dastor
Repeated from 19th and 20th December 1973


12th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Family Firm by Piers Paul Read
Why don' you change your wife?
Producer Susanna Capon
    Judy Handscombe: Caroline Mortimer
    Richard Darcy: Dinsdale Landen
    Horatio Templeton: Richard Hurndall
    Colin Templeton: Nigel Lambert
    Marion Darcy: Shirley Dixon
    Maria: Jo Manning Wilson
    Sylvia: Mary Hignett
    Nanny: Christine Pollen
    Clergyman: Peter Russell
    Butler: Edward Kelsey


13th September 1975:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Search for Satan by Val Gielgud (1900-1981)
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Antony Havilland: John Rowe
    Ingrid Borenius: Carole Boyd
    Samuel Sydney: Douglas Blackwell
    Felix Lenartowycz: Denis McCarthy
    Benedict Peters: Michael Segal
    Gabriel Waters/Stranger: Garard Green
    Sergeant Carruthers: Roger Snowdon
    Inspector Murray: Simon Lack
    Ladislas Sale/Waiter/Russian guard: Malcolm Hayes
    Franz Schelde/Foreign man: Haydn Jones
    Newsboy/First child: Jill Shilling
    First Jewish traveller/Corporal: Christopher Bidmead
    The Rabbi/Second Jewish traveller/Hotel receptionist: Nigel Lambert
    Young woman/ Second child: Rosalind Adams
    Leopold Schwarzenberg: David March
    Captain Bourke: Anthony Smee
    General Boughton/Taxi driver: Alan Dudley
    Janet Colville: Madi Hedd
Repeated 15th September 1975
[Based upon the novel "Fall of a Sparrow" (1949) by Val Gielgud]


15th September 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: An Enemy of the People (1882) by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) translated by Michael Meyer
A coastal town in southern Norway towards the end of the 19th century. Challenging established systems. (Whistle blowing).
Produced by John Tydeman
    Dr Thomas Stockmann, medical officer: Freddie Jones
    Mrs Stockmann, his wife: Pauline Letts
    Petra, their daughter: Elizabeth Proud
    Eilif: David Howe
    Morten: Jo Manning Wilson
    Peter Stockmann: Maurice Denham
    Morten Kiil: John Gabriel
    Hovstad, Editor: Sean Barrett
    Billing: Leslie Heritage
    Horster, a sea captain: John Rye
    Aslaksen, a printer: Lewis Stringer
    Citizens: Sean Arnold, Ronald Porpar, Richard Griffiths, Nigel Lambert, Kerry Francis, Sara Coward, Jane Knowles
    [Original title: Ein folkefiende]
Repeated from 22nd March 1971
Other productions: year/dir/actor playing Dr Stockman:
1950/James Crampsey/Moultrie R Kelsall
1950(R3) rptd 1951, 1956/Mary Hope Allen/Frank Pettingell
1955(Light)/Mary Hope Allen/Stephen Murray
1960(R3)/R D Smith/George Coulouris
1964/Alfred Bradley/John Neville (play title "A Public Menace")
1986 rptd 1987/Gordon House/Michael Williams
2010/World Service/(story relocated to the Punjab)
2018/Martin Jarvis/Alfred Molina (Rptd R4X)


17th September 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Progress Chasers by David Walker
Producer Harry Catlin
    Billy: Clive Merrison
    Jem: Sion Probert
    Mr Downley/Cunningham: Alan Dudley
    Pongo: Paul Gaymon
    Igor/Davies: Roger Snowdon
    Tom: Denis McCarthy and Michael Shannon


17th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Gooseberry by John Kirkmorris
1945
Producer Tony Cliff
(Manchester)
    Ben Lampson: David Mahlowe
    Rita: Carole Hayman
    Eric Trusler: Alan Rothwell
    Pakardis: Geoffrey Banks
    Mrs Havelock: Lizzie McKenzie
    Barmaid: Rosalie Williams
    Saleman/Postman: Ronald Herdman
    Audrey: Anna Keaveney
Repeated 20th October 1978


18th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The West Door by Leo Simpson
A home for senior citizens in North America.
Producer Glyn Dearman
    M Nightingale: Jill Simcox
    P Nightingale: John Rye
    Mrs Cummings: Madi Hedd
    Mrs Delgardo: Bessie Love
    Nurse Pugg: Norma Ronald
    Mr Smith: Tommy Guddan
    Dr Niler: Michael Deacon
    Mr Dolly: Stuart Nicholl
    Mr Wainwright: Peter Dyneley
    TV Compere: Denis McCarthy
    Anthony Lasinio: Anthony Daniels
    Mrs Nightingale: Gladys Spencer


19th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Old Mali and the Boy (1964) by D. R. Sherman dramatised by John Ashe
Northern India.
Producer David Spenser
    Mali: Saeed Jaffrey
    Jeffrey: Crispian Thorne
    Mother: Carole Boyd
    Headmaster: Alan Dubley
Repeated 9th November 1985
[Mali is Sanskrit for gardener]


20th September 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Marnie (1961) by Winston Graham (1908-2003) adapted by John Kirkmorris
Producer: Richard Wortley
    Marnie: Julie Hallam
    Strutt: Jonathan Scott
    Mrs Denby: Anne Jameson
    Receptionist: Norma Ronald
    Collett: Trader Faulkner
    Lucy: Betty Hardy
    Edith: Kathleen Helme
    Ward: Malcolm Hayes
    Terry: Christopher Bidmead
    Mark: Michael Spice
    Dawn: Rosalind Adams
    Gloria: Kate Coleridge
    Mrs Leonard: Katherine Parr
    Roman: Garard Green
    Mrs Rutland: Madi Hedd
[The play is listed by the BBC Database as Mamie]
[Also produced by Marion Nancarrow in 2011. Rptd R4X]
    
    
21st September 1975
21.03-21.58:
Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) adapted by Charles Lefeaux
1 of 8: On the Marshes
Producer Ian Cottrell
    Pip: Martin Jarvis
    Abel Magwitch: John Hollis
    Young Pip: Barnaby Williams
    Joe Gargery: Geoffrey Matthews
    Mrs Joe: Sheila Grant
    Uncle Pumblechook: Hector Ross
    Mr Wopsle: David March
    Mr Hubble: Michael Shannon
    Sergeant: Haydn Jones
    Convict: Alan Dudley
    Estella: Elizabeth Proud
Part 8 broadcast 9th November 1975
Each part repeated after two days.
    
    
22nd September 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Face in a Glass by Barbara Foxe
Producer John Theocharis
    Katherine: Zena Walker
    Mrs Browning: Betty Hardy
    David: John Rye
    Gerda Hamilton: Megs Jenkins
    William Hamilton: Alan Dudley
    Deborah: Ginette Clarke
also with Rosalind Adams, Michael Burlington,
    Denis Mccarthy, Clifford Norgate and Peter Williams
Repeated 28th September 1975


24th September 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Escape Me Not by Donald McCarthy
Producer David B. Godfrey
    Henry Sayer: John Bryning
    Nancy, his wife: Madi Hedd
    Bert Raynor: Douglas Blackwell
    Pam: Anne Jameson


24th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bananas by Roy Bainbridge
Producer Brian Miller
    Bent: Ian Thompson
    Betty: Penelope Nice
    Clarice: Yvonne Antrobus
    Mother: Miriam Margolyes


25th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sophie by Stewart Farrar
Christopher is an astronaut on a long-term space-flight. Sophie accompanies him.
Music and special sounds by Paddy Kingsland Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Sophie: Honor Blackman
    Christopher: Tony Anholt
    

26th September 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Steeple-Chasers by Richard O'Keeffe
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Gerard: David Buck
    Robert: Sam Kelly
    Keep-Fit instructor Madi Hedd
    Phillida: Penelope Lee
    Deirdre: Joan Matheson
    Marlene: Emma Jean Richards
    Letter voice/Landlord: Alan Dudley
    Bunny: Michael Shannon
    Derek: Christopher Bidmead
[A radio version of the Winner of 1974 RADIO TIMES Television Drama Award.]


27th September 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Salt is Leaving (1961) by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) dramatised by Elizabeth Bradbury
Producer Roger Pine
    Dr Salt: Frederick Treves
    Maggie Culworth: Patricia Gallimore
    Alan Culworth: Alan Devereux
    Buzzy: Ralph Lawton
    Supt Hurst: Jack Holloway
    Jill Frinton: Maggie McCarthy
    Sir Arnold Donnington: William Fox
    Erica Donnington: Elizabeth Revill
    Mrs Pearson: Eileen Barry
    Donald Dews: Howard Benbrook
    Aricson: Paul Maxwell
    Russ: Paul Henry
    Peggy Pearson: Liz Daniels
    Mrs Duffy: Joyce Latham
    Sgt Broadbent: Graham Weston
    Sgt Driver: George Woolley
    Corrigan: Lawrence Rew
    Winston: Harvey Edwards
Repeated 29th September 1975


29th September 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Scenes from an Album by William Trevor (1928-2016)
Ireland: 1610.1975
Producer: John Tydeman
    Eustace Malcolmson (3 generations): John Rowe
    Annie Malcolmson: Elizabeth Proud
    Honoria Malcolmson: Sheila Grant
    Dotty Malcolmson: Gudrun Ure
    Mrs Malcolmson: Betty Huntley-Wright
    Mr Mulcahy, a genealogist: Harry Webster
    Mr Tyson, a clergyman: Michael Deacon
    Rafferty, a gardener: Sean Barrett
    Barbara, a maid: Valerie Lilley
    Mr Bryce, a lawyer: Malcolm Hayes
    Soldiers: Michael Cochrane
    Soldiers: Anthony Smee
Repeated 5th October 1975 and 6th February 1975


1st October 1975
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Camels in the Rain by Graham Blackett
Producer Michael Bartlett
    Arthur Thompson: Godfrey Kenton
    Greta Thompson: Madi Hedd
    Ernie Stoddart: Alan Dudley
    Lionel: John Rye
    Sally: Sandra Freeman
    Peter Chance: Anthony Smee
    Councillor Barrington/Milkman: Garard Green
Also with Deborah Paige


1st October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Summer of the Giant Sunflowers by Susan Hill
Producer: Bernard Krichefski
    Unknown: Susan Hill
    Norris Eckersly: Peter Woodthorpe
    Muriel Eckersly: Dandy Nichols
    Amy Boakes: Joan Hickson
    George Boakes: Malcolm Hayes
    Paula Cressy: Emily Richard
    David Cressy: Anthony Smee
    Adjudicator: Madi Hedd
    Interviewer: Michael Burlington
Repeated 6th May 1977


2nd October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Empty Sleeve by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) adapted by Sheila Hodgson
Producer Harry Catlin
    Dr John Silence: Malcolm Hayes
    Stephen Hubbard: Fraser Kerr
    Isadore Hyman: Peter Woodthorpe
    Cabby/Theatre Manager: Hector Ross
    Porter: Garard Green
    Arthur Gilmer: Hayden Jones
    William Gilmer: Alan Dudley
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021-2024]

-
3rd October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The View from the Mountain by John Henry Fletcher
Producer Michael Bartlett
    Strutt: Manning Wilson
    Margaret/Peggy: Madi Hedd
    Judith: Patricia Leventon
    Lander/Perkins: David Sinclair
    Arrowsmith: Martin Read
    Rankin: Douglas Blackwell
    Harris: Nigel Lambert
    Harris: Roger Snowdon


4th October 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Talking of Michelangelo by Michael Kittermaster
Producer Gerry Jones
    Clive: Manning Wilson
    Norma: Jo Manning Wilson
Repeated 21st January 1978


4th October 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Paradise (1972) by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
Song composed by Ron Geesin
Producer Richard Wortley
    Abbott: Barry Foster
    Angel; Carole Hayman
    Snow: Rudolph Walker
    Happy: Nadia Cattouse
    Waters: Michael Shannon
    David O'Hara: Alan Dudley
    Smith: Trader Faulkner
    Rowley: Peter Marinker
    Harry: Ram John Holder
    Helen: Carole Boyd
Repeated 6th October 1975


6th October 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Outward Bound (1923) by Sutton Vane (1888-1963) adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
    Ann: Joanna Tope
    Henry: Robert Trotter
    Scrubby: George Cormack
    Tom Prior: Cavan Kendall
    Mrs Cliveden-Banks: Sylvia Coleridge
    Rev William Duke: Arthur Boland
    Mrs Midget: Betty Hardy
    Mr Lingley: Clem Ashby
Repeated 12th October 1975
[The first radio production was for 5WA (Cardiff) in 1929]
[The play was broadcast on BBC TV in 1947]


8th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Pigeon Skyline by Barry Keefe (Barry Keeffe 1945-2019)
After a lifetime in the London docks, Tom Lee and his family face the destruction of their way of life.
Producer Piers Plowright
    Tom Lee: John Hollis
    Eadie Lee: Katherine Parr
    Jimmy Lee: Nigel Lambert
    Pam, his wife: Carole Boyd
    Terry Lee: Adrian Shergold
    Nobby: Roger Snowdon
    Dot: Olwen Griffiths


9th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: And You, Arnold by David Fitzsimmons
Water polo isn't what It used to be.
Producer Kay Patrick
    Joe: Reginald Marsh
    Arnold: John Baddeley
    Betty: Eva Stuart
    Tina: Helen Worth
Repeated from 12th October 1972


10th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: They Don't Cry for Arms by Brian Lee
In the summer of 1939. the school went to Littlehampton for its annual outing.
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


11th October 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: No Second Spring by Maria Charles
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Paul: Stephen Thorne
    Jenny: Sheila Allen
    Station announcer: Peter Lawrence
Repeated 15th October 1975


11th October 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Gabriel Hounds (1967) by Mary Stewart (1916-2014) dramatised by Barry Campbell.
A crumbling palace somewhere near Beirut.
Producer David Johnston
    Mr Lovell: David March
    Christabel Mansell: Emily Richard
    Charles Mansell: Ian Liston
    John Lethman: Julian Barnes
    Hamid: Dino Shafeek
    Halide: Kate Coleridge
    Charles Mansell Sr/ his twin/ Hotel Manager/Doorkeeper: David Graham
    Hotel clerk/Frontier Officer: Anthony Smee
Repeated 13th October 1975, 21st October 1978, 22nd April 1991
[Quite different to the play of that name by Kenneth Leslie Wall]


13th October 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Dark is Light Enough (1954) by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
Producer: Jane Graham
    Jakob: Sam Dastor
    Kassel: Alan Rowe
    Belmann: John Gabriel
    Stefan: John Moulder-Brown
    Bella: Diana Bishop
    Willi: Gareth Armstrong
    Gelda: Jane Lapotaire
    Richard Gettner: Ian Holm
    Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg: Pamela Brown
    Count Peter Zichy: Peter Jeffrey
    Soldier: Kerry Francis
    First guard: Terry Scully
    Second guard: Anthony Hall
Repeated from 28/1/74 and 3/2/74
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1968]
[Prequel novel "The Lady's not for Burning" (broadcast 17/4/50, 22/7/51, 11/12/67, 23/4/73, 31/3/86, 6/4/86); sequel novel "Venus Observed" (broadcast 1950 (3rd), 15/10/73, 21/10/73, 8/10/78, 20/12/87) ; Final novel 23/4/73, "A Yard of Sun" (broadcast 23/7/73)]


15th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Hopcraft into Europe by Michael Sadler
Britain enters the Common Market : A Toy Fair in Northern France
Producer John Tydeman
    Stanley Hopcraft, a toy sales man: Charles Kay
    Mason, another toy salesman: Norman Rodway
    Madeleine Desmarest: Cecile Chevreau
    Guillaume, her son: Gilles Dattas
    Marie-Louise, his girlfriend: Lorna Philippe
    Heidi, Hopcraft's girlfriend: Elizabeth Proud
    H M Butter, an official: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated from 28th November 1972 and 31st December 1972.
Repeated 11th May 1986


16th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Narrow Door by Richard Austin
Producer: Harry Catlin
    David Carter: Vernon Joyner
    Steve: Peter Woodthorpe
    Janet Carter: Eva Haddon
    Sue: Maggie Grant
    Inspector: Trader Faulkner
Also with Norma Ronald, Peter Williams and Steve Hodson


16th October 1975
20.00:
The Camp of the Dog by Algernon Blackwood adapted by Sheila Hodgson
Producer Harry Catlin
    Dr John Silence: Malcolm Hayes
    Hubbard: Timothy Bateson
    Rev Maloney: David March
    Mrs Maloney: Joan Matheson
    Joan Maloney: Jane Knowles
    Peter Sangree: Peter Whitman
    Porter: David Sinclair
Repeated from 28th August 1974
Repeated 28th December 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2022]


17th October 1975:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Lies by Bernard Krichefski
Producer Piers Plowright
    Tina: Jennifer Piercey
    Ros: Patricia Galllmore
    Ben: Nigel Anthony
    Lydia: Rosalind Adams
    Angus: Leslie Heritage
    Roger: Roger Hammond
Repeated 8th June 1977


18th October 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Quick Visit Home by Gilly Fraser (Gillian Emmett)
Producer Alfred Bradley
(Manchester)
    Pat: Barbara Young
    Lynne: Fiona Walker
    Mother: Lorraine Peters
    Ada: Rosalie Williams
    Jim: Graham Haberfield
Repeated 22nd October 1975 and 3rd and 7th April 1976


18th October 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Omegapoint by Bruce Stewart
Tor Sands Atomic Power Unit
Effects specially created by Roger Limb of BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
    Harry Claudius: Dinsdale Landen
    Czerny: Sydney Tafler
    Julie Ross: Rosalind Adams
    Rashleigh: Haydn Jones
    Mary Bone: Anne Jameson
    Archie Chisholm: Henry Stamper
    The Computer: Anthony Smee
Repeated 20th October 1975, 20th June 1977
    
    
19th October 1975
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Saxons and Strangers by John Kirkmorris
Producer Jane Graham
    Peter Casati: Richard Kay
    Rowland Thomas: Clive Swift
    Gwilym Pritchard: William Squire
    Freddie Haslop: Diana Olsson
    Evan Pritchard: Peter Egan
    Julia Walters: Julie Hallam
    J J Jones: Haydn Jones
    Eirlys Jones: Joanna David
also with Anthony Hall, Illona Linthwaite, Terry Scully
Repeated from 21st May 1973


20th October 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Antique Baby by Jennifer Phillips
A small hotel for retired people of private means, situated on the Sussex Downs.
Producer Richard Wortley
    Mrs Marshall: Sylvia Coleridge
    Mr Sobers: Carleton Hobbs
    Mrs Herbert: Elizabeth Morgan
    Miss Dart: Betty Hardy
    Rose: Madi Hedd
    Mr Morpeth-Smythe: John Rye
    Polly: Stephanie Turner
    Nick: Nigel Anthony
Repeated 26th October 1975


22nd October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Harvey's Festival by Christopher Russell
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
    Bertha: Miriam Margolyes
    Harvey: Geoffrey Matthews
    AngelO: Peter Woodthorpe
    Robert: Malcolm Hayes
    Geoffrey: Haydn Jones
    Mr Shadwell: Nigel Lambert
    Dave: Michael Deacon
    GWen: Rosalind Adams
    Woman: Anne Jameson
    Frank: Peter Pacey
    Jan: Julie Hallam
    Hodge: John Rye
Repeated 3rd August 1977


23rd October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Men or Sparrows by V. S. Leskov, adapted by Joan O'Connor
Producer Gerry Jones
    Micha: John Rye
    Olga: Pauline Letts
    Yakov: John Ruddock
    Mr Dane: Jeffrey Segal
    Nikolai: Brian Haines
    Gavril: Antony Higginson
    Police Captain: Steve Hodson
    Kolya: Garard Green
    Doctor/Old Peasant: Alan Dudley
    Natalya: Deborah Paige
    Countess: Anne Jameson
    Governor/Lukan: Roger Snowdon
    Estate Superintendent: Anthony Smee


24th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Trial at Tremerryn by John Fores.
1939 Cornish smuggling.
Producer: John Theocharis
    Mr Moss: Malcolm Hayes
    Roy Bradlaw: Anthony Smee
    Stiles: Alan Dudley
    Mrs Stiles: Madi Hedd
    Capt Winsford: Hector Ross
    Jane Winsford: Deborah Paige
    Harbourmaster: Peter Williams
    Mr Lamb: Clifford Norgate
    Steward: Christopher Bidmead
    Mate: Michael Burlington
    Joe: Roger Snowdon
Repeated 6th July 1977


25th October 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Do by Sean Walsh
Producer Bill Morrison
(Northern Ireland)
    Tom: Michael Duffy
    Pat: Trudy Kelly
Repeated 29th October 1975


25th October 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Meeting at Night (1954) by James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor. 1888-1951)
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
    Connie: Virginia Stark
    Hector: Bob Docherty
    George Triple: Bryden Murdoch
    Mrs Maclachlan: Gudrun Ure
    Sandy: Willy Joss
    Insp Flatt: Martin Heller
Repeated 27th October 1975
[Also produced by James Crampsey in 1963 with Roy Spencer as Hector.]
[Also made into a tv play in 1959]


27th October 1975
19.30:
The Monday Play: Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
Technical assistants: Patience Pratt, Marsail Mccuish and David Hitchinson
Songs "Night brings me you" and "Dark-haired Marie" composed by Alma Rattenbury (Lozanne)
Pianist Martin Goldstein
Producer Norman Wright
    Alma Rattenbury: Diana Dors
    Mr Rattenbury: Haydn Jones
    Christopher Rattenbury: Peter Whitman
    George Alfred Wood: Robin Browne
    Mr Davenport: Peter Williams
    Mrs Davenport: Gwen Watford
    Davenport Jr: Gareth Johnson
    The Judge: Carleton Hobbs
    Mr J D Casswell: Robert Harris
    Mr T J O'Connor, KC: Noel Johnson
    Mr R P Croom-Johnson, KC: Peter Pratt
    Montagu: Michael Deacon
    Harvey : Garard Green
    Irene Riggs: Katherine Parr
    Joan, the Wardress: Betty Baskcomb
    Miss Wilkinson: Polly Murch
    Miss Johnson: Cecile: Chevreau
    Street girl: Frances Jeater
also with Rosalind Adams, Madi Hedd, Deborah Paige, Michael Burlington, Alan Dudley, Trader Faulkner, Denis McCarthy, Clifford Norcate, Hector Ross and Anthony Smee
Repeated 2nd January 1978, 2nd May 1981
[Also produced in 2011 by Thea Sharrock with Niamh Cusack.]
[Based on the 1935 Rattenbury murder case]
[Rattigan's first play written for radio, and also his last play]


29th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Witch of Park by John Lawson
Scotland, 1662. Witchcraft
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
    Isobel Gowdie: Eileen McCallum
    Alexander Dunbar: Paul Young
    David Savage: David Steuart
    The Rev Forbes: Bryden Murdoch
    Hugh Hay: Paul Kermack
    John Weir: Victor Carin
    Chisholm: Willy Joss
    John Gilbert: Martin Cochrane
    Mary Hay: Sheila Donald
    Man: Alex McCrindle
    Woman: Gwyneth Guthrie
Repeated from 11th November 1972
    
    
30th October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Question of Routine by Dennis Woodford
Producer John Cardy
    Andrew Tremayne: Frederick Treves
    Carol, his wife: Eleanor Summerfield
    Pilcher: Fraser Kerr
    Joanne: Marcia Warren
    Roger: Nigel Lambert
    
    
31st October 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Rebels by Graham Easton
A car with one person in it? That hasn't been seen since private motoring became illegal.
Producer: Harry Catlin
    Bob Smith: Michael Cochrane
    Alan Simmonds: Clive Merrisen
    Fraser McCready: David Graham
    Mr Simmonds: Garard Green
    Mrs Simmonds: Kathleen Helme
    Sylvia: Deborah Paige
    Mr Randell: Haydn Jones
    Susan: Kate Coleridge
Also with Malcolm Hayes and Leslie Heritage


1st November 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Are You Lying Comfortably? by Michael Bartlett
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Arnold: Nigel Anthony
    Dora: Norma Ronald
    Ralph: Alexander John
Repeated 5th November 1975


1st November 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Road to Gretna Green by Peter Hunt
A Gretna Green marriage.
Producer Tony Cliff
(Manchester)
    Narrator: Peter Wheeler
    Mr Starkie: Howard Benbrook
    Miss Daulby: Daphne Oxenford
    Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Martin Jarvis
    Thevenot: Sean Barrett
    Ellen Turner: Rosalind Ayres
    Jane: Marah Stohl
    Mr Turner: Paul Webster
    Mrs Turner: Rosalie Williams
    Grimsditch: Geoffrey Banks
    Laing: David Mahlowe
Repeated 3rd November 1975


2nd November 1975
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Arms and the Man(1894) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
1885: The Serbo-Bulgarian War. Refuge in a young lady's bedroom.
Producer: Cedric Messina
    Catherine Petkoff: Grizelda Hervey
    Raina Petkoff: Vanessa Redgrave
    Louka: Judi Dench
    Bluntschli: Ralph Richardson
    Officer: Anthony Hall
    Nicola: John Bryning
    Major Petkoff: Arthur Gomez
    Sergius Saranoff: John Gielgud
    Narrator: Hugh Dickson
[Also produced in 1961 rptd 1965, 1967, 1975 by Cedric Messina with Ralph Richardson as Bluntschli]
[Also produced in 1984, rptd 1991 (also rptd R7/R4X) with Andrew Sachs as Bluntschli]
[Also produced in 2010 rptd 2015 for R3 with Rory Kinnear as Bluntschli]
[The title is taken from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid]


3rd November 1975
19.30:
The Monday Play: The Wings of the Dove (1902) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by Denis Constanduros
Producer Ian Cotterell
    Merton Densher: Peter Egan
    Kate Croy: Anna Massey
    Maud Lowder: Gwen Frangcon Davies
    Susan Stringham: Bessie Love
    Milly Theale: Anna Carteret
    Lord Mark: John Rye
    Sir Luke Strett: Garard Green
    Manservant: David Graham
    Maid: Ginette Clarke
    Eugenio: Michael Cochrane
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1965, rptd 1972 with Ursula Jeans as Susan.]
[Also produced by Nadia Molinari in 2018, rptd R4X, with Jodie Comer as Milly.]
[The title MAY be inspired by Psalm 68:13]


5th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Looking Back by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Autumn, Guy Fawkes Day, Armistice Day. A reassessment of time present.
Mouth organ played by Alfie Kahn
Producer John Tydeman
    Arthur Hobbs: Arthur English
    Winnie, his wife: Katherine Parr
    Chris:Nigel Anthony
    Mick: John Rye
    Rita, Mick's wife: Rosalind Adams
    Jonathan: David Corti
    Lizzie: Julie Anderson
    Charlie Knuckles: Malcolm Hayes
    Tom: Anthony Smee
    Mrs Potter: Norma Ronald
    Young Arthur: Nigel Anthony
Repeated 4th November 1977, 24th March 1979
[Note: The 1977 and 1979 rebroadcast listings credited the mouth organ player as Harry Pitch- both Harry and Alfie were known to play the harmonica. The players name was not in the broadcast.]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


6th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Link by Lee Torrance
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Police Official: Clifford Norgate
    Woman: Carole Boyd
    Friend: Norma Ronald
    Librarian: Denis McCarthy
    Taxi driver: Nigel Lambert
    Man: Garard Green
    Student: Michael Cochrane
    Agent: Roger Snowdon


7th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Inter-City Incident by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Commuting together from Brighton to London for years.
Producer Brian Miller
(Bristol)
    Jacko: John Bennett
    Susan: Joanna Van Gyseghem
    Roy: Michael Shannon
    Geoffrey: Garard Green
    Douglas: Howard Goorney
    Maryse: Eva Haddon
    Peter: Elizabeth Lindsay
    Mrs Kerr: Audrey Noble
    Matron: Nancy Gower
    Hotel porter: David Ponting
Also with Penelope Brownjohn, Brian Gear, Jo Scott Matthews and Paul Nicholson
Repeated 15th July 1977


8th November 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Pigeon Race by Menzies McKillop
Gambling.
Producer Gordon Emslie
(Scotland)
    Father: Willy Joss
    Son: Ron Bain
    Girl: Jennifer Angus
    Bookie: Peter Kelly
    Woman: Eileen McCallum
    Sheriff: John Young
    Sergeant: Charles Kearney
Repeated 12th November 1975


8th November 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Abelard and Heloise (1970) by Ronald Millar (1919-1998) , inspired by "Peter Abelard" (1933) by Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
Produced by Martin Jenkins
    Peter Abelard: 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: Willlam Sleigh
    Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Nigel Graham
    Denise, Abelard's sister: Diana Olsson


9th November 1975
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Law/Justice, Revenge/Forgiveness.
Producer: Graham Gauld
    Captain Brassbound: Gabriel Woolf
    Narrator: Alexander John
    Drinkwater: James McManus
    Rankin: Denys Hawthorne
    Osman: Frank Henderson
    Marzo: Robert Rietty
    Redbrook: Bernard Brown
    Johnson: Ralph Truman
    Sidi el Assif: Alaric Cotter
    The Cadi: Antony Viccars
    Bluejacket: Nigel Clayton
    Captain Kearney: John Justin
with Sybil Thorndike, Cecil Parker
Repeated from 25th September 1967 and 16th September 1970.
Repeated 4th May 1980.
[Also produced for R3 by Cedric Messina in 1961 rptd 1962, with Michael Bryant as Drinkwater]


10th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Nocturne (1917) by Frank Swinnerton (1884-1982) dramatised by Bruce Montague
For a poor family, life in England just before the First World War is a struggle.
Producer Kay Patrick
    Jenny: Stephanie Turner
    Emmy: Patricia Denys
    Pa: Malcolm Hayes
    Alf: Rod Beacham
    Chauffeur: John Gray
    Keith: Michael Deacon


10th November 1975:
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Sabbatical by John Kirkmorris
A vicar can't take time off from God.
Producer Jane Graham
    Young woman: Rosalind Adams
    Bill Cole: David Graham
    Geoffrey Keeping: Hugh Dickson
    Freida Herman: Eva Haddon
    Ellen Keeping: Alethea Charlton
    Edward Havelock: John Rye
    Mark: Steven Pacey
    
    
12th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Nocturne of Provincial Spring by R. C. Scriven (1907-1985)
Producer Charles Lefeaux
    Narrator: Stephen Murray
    Ronald Scriven: Brian Hewlett
    Aunt Flo: Sheila Grant
    Uncle James: David March
    Flo Boardman: Kathleen Helme
    Denis Borterill: John Rye
also with Judy Bennett, Michael Deacon, Steve Hodson, Haydn Jones, Nigel Lam Bert, Hector Ross, Michael Shannon and Helen Worth


13th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Victim of Circumstances by Hadrian Rogers
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    John: Jack Holloway
    Madge: Ysanne Churchman
    Judy: Elizabeth Revill
    Faircroft: Graham Weston
    Montague: Ralph Lawton


14th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Willie Banks and the Technological Revolution by K. Allen Saddler
Producer Christopher Venning
    Sir Nigel: Nigel Graham
    Greaves: Nigel Anthony
    Willie: Terry Scully
    Helen: Helen Fraser
    Cyril Watson: Haydn Jones
    Joe: Andrew Bradford
    Jacko: Michael St John
    Carole: Bonnie Hurren
    Lorry driver: Tony McEwan
    Lady Bull: Diana Olsson
    Countryman: Geoffrey Collins
    Shapley: Barrie Cookson
Repeated from 30th June 1973


15th November 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blop by J. C. W. Brook
Producer Gerry Jones
    George: Peter Jeffrey
    Sylvia: Betty Huntley-Wright
    Blop: Michael Cochrane
    Silas Oates: Antony Higginson
Repeated 19th November 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X 2020-2024]


15th November 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Cop-Out by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Jack Carver: John Hollis
    Scarlatto: Cyril Shaps
    Imogen: Hedli Niklaus
    Dr Brock: Don McKillop
    Creed: Blain Fairman
    Rizzo: Ralph Lawton
    Swede: Graham Weston
    Angela: John Bull
    BBC reporter: Liz Daniels
    Boatman: Terry Molloy
Repeated 17th November 1975


16th November 1975
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930) by Rudolf Besier (1878-1942)
Producer: Archie Campbell
    Edward Moulton-Barrett: Paul Rogers
    Alfred: William Eedle
    George: John Rowe
    Chartes: John Samson
    Henry: Robin Browne
    Septimus: David Valla
    Octavius: Christopher Good
    Arabel: Kate Binchy
    Henrietta: Jane Knowles
    Elizabeth (1806-1861) : Dorothy Tutin
    Robert Browning (1812-1889): Jeremy Brett
    Captain Surtees Cook: Michael Kilgarriff
    Henry Bevan: Kenneth Fortescue
    Dr Chambers: Rolf Lefebvre
    Dr Ford-Waterlow: John Ruddock
    Bella Hedley: Helen Worth
    Wilson: Sheila Grant
Repeated from 28th October 1972
Repeated 3rd June 1991
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux for Light in 1950 with Richard Hurndall as Henry]
[Also produced for Light by Martyn C Webster in 1952 with Michael Holt as Henry]


16th November 1975
21.03-21.58
Pride and Prejudice (1796) by Jane Austen (1775-1817) dramatised by Denis Constanduros
Part 1 of 6.
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Sager
Producer: Brian MIller
Bristol
    Elizabeth Bennet: Elizabeth Counsell
    Darcy: Frank Barrie
    Mrs Bennet: Eleanor Summerfield
    Mr Bennet: Robert Sansom
    Narrator: Madi Hedd
    Lydia: Sheridan Fitzgerald
    Kitty: Sue Withers
    Jane: Gabrielle Drake
    Bingley: Alan Moore
    Charlotte Lucas: June Barrie
    Sir William Lucas: Timothy Kightley
    Miss Bingley: Charlotte Cornwell
    Mr Collins: Michael Rothwell
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
    Colonel Fitzwilliam: Roger Davidson
    Colonel Forster: Adrian Cairns
    Housekeeper: Moyra Babington
    Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Anne Jameson
    Miss Darcy: Kim Hartman
    Mr Bingley: Alan Moore
    Mr Gardiner: Rex Holdsworth
    Mr Wickham: George Raistrick
    Mrs Gardiner: Nancy Cower
Part 6 broadcast 1st December 1975
All parts repeated after two days.
This production was repeated commencing 24th December 1984.
[There have been a large number of productions of this title]


17th November 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) adapted by Ronald Barton
Replacing the man Thursday.
Producer Harry Catlin
    Secretary (Monday): Brian Haines
    Gogol (Tuesday): Nigel Graham
    Marquis (Wednesday): Malcolm Hayes
    Syme (Thursday): John Samson
    Professor de Worms (Friday): Haydn Jones
    Dr Bull (Saturday): Nigel Lambert
    Sunday: Trevor Martin
    Lucian Gregory: Michael Deacon
    Mr Buttons/Colonel Ducroix: Hector Ross
    Policeman: Anthony Smee
also with Eva Haddon, Roger Snowdon, Garard Green, Steve Hodson
Repeated 23rd November 1975
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


19th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: 'Twas Like a Bird without a Tail by Alan G. Bower
Producer Roger Pine
(Birmingham)
    Davy: Paul Copley
    Betty: Lorraine Peters
    Jack: John Rowe
    Sheila: Lesley Dunlop
    Alf: Michael Shannon
    Annie: Maggie McCarthy
    Brian: Alun Bond
    Alec: Alan Devereux
[The title comes from a poem "The Man of Double Deed" (Anon) ]


20th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Two Fingers Finnegan Comes Again by Tony Allen (1945-2023) and Vernon Magee
Producer Harry Catlin
    Finnegan: Wilfrid Brambell
    Maurice: David Graham
    Ernie: Roger Snowdon
    Stan: Nigel Lambert
    Rose: Rosalind Adams
    Randolph: Frank Singuineau
    Arthur: William Eedle
    Lilly: Valerie Murray
    Taffy: Michael Cochrane
    Eric: Clifford Norgate
    Mrs O'Shaughnessy: Norma Ronald


21st November 1975
11.05-12.00:
A Mission Unfulfilled The Story of Vicky by Elizabeth Holford - see 14th May 1975, above.

    
21st November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Jacob's Ladder
1 of 3: The Black Cloud by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
An old Elizabethan manor house, is threatened with demolition.
Producer Martin Jenkins
    Reporter: Michael Cochrane
    Photographer: Clifford Norgate
    Bernie Rusper: Peter Jeffrey
    Mrs Merrion: Margot Boyd
    Sir Ellis Prydd: Gerald James
    Lady Prydd: Pauline Letts
    Morgan Prydd: Steve Hodson
    Daffyd Prydd: Sion Probert
    Dr Clinton: Jeffrey Segal
    Godson: Malcolm Hayes
    Mrs Jorkins/Enid: Anne Jameson
    Alice/Maid: Alison Gollings
    Evie Clinton: Deborah Paige
    Rachel Prydd: Rosalind Adams
    Ancress/Fire Officer: Rector Ross
Part 3 broadcast 5th December 1975


22nd November 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mr Chitty's Clutches by Tracey Lloyd
Producer: Jean Bower
    Hugh: Dinsdale Landen
    wife Sally: Denise Bryer
    Jo: John Shrapnel
    the Agent: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 26th November 1975


22nd November 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Package from Berlin by Simon Masters
Producer David H. Godfrey
    Carter: Douglas Blackwell
    Toby Lisemore: John Forrest
    Alec Fowler: Denis McCarthy
    Graham Collier: Alan Dudley
    Werner Zenkel: Nigel Lambert
    Berriman: Clifford Norgate
    Landlady: Madi Hedd
    Krisia: Rosalind Adams
    Announcer/Clerk: Anthony Smee
    Immigration Officer/Newsreader/Man: Michael Cochrane
Repeated 24th November 1975 and 29th August 1977


24th November 1975
20.00: :
The Monday Play: Badger by Owl-light by Edward Boyd (1916-1989)
A commune in Scotland and plenty of violence.
Technical presentation by Michael Edwards and Tom Anderson
Producer Stewart Conn
(BBC Scotland)
    Peter Talion: Edward Judd
    Simon: Tony Robinson
    Sarah: Anne Kristen
    David: Andrew McRobb
    Esther: Diana Olsson
    Ginny: Nicola Ferguson-Smith
    Hardekker: James Cairncross
    Barman: Crawford Logan
    Ivor: Michael MacKenzie
    Jenny: Sarah Collier
    Jason: Ian Stewart
Repeated 30th November 1975 and 12th May 1990


26th November 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The House on Highbury Hill by Piers Paul Read
Music composed by Julian Slade
Pianist Philip Challis
Producer John Tydeman
    Narrator: John Rye
    Casimir, a young man: Richard O'Callaghan
    Mrs Anderson: Betty Huntley-Wright
    Ethel, her eldest daughter: Maria Aitken
    Marigold, her 2nd daughter: Pauline Collins
    Mrs Hendrikson, a Widow: Gladys Spenser
    George, a priest: David Valla
    Another priest, an Irishman: Sean Barrett
Repeated from R3 16th September and 31st December 1971.
Repeated 12th October 1986.


27th November 1975
15.05: :
Afternoon Theatre: The Nannies by Brian Killick adapted by Archie Campbell
Kensington Garden Nannies.
1 of 4: Sunday in the Garden
Producer Glyn Dearman
    Nanny Montmorency: Jane Wenham
    Nanny Allaway: Noel Hood
    Nanny Beauchamp: Audrey Cameron
    Nanny Grimsdale: Gladys Spencer
    Nanny Crumpet: Joyce Carey
    Lady Grimsdale/ Mrs Lynch-Ryan: Madi Hedd
    Sir Roger Grimsdale: Anthony Smee
    Nanny Taylor/ Mrs Carruthers: Elizabeth Proud
    Nanny Lynch-Ryan: Helen Worth
    Major Lynch-Ryan: Haydn Jones
    Lady Montmorency: Norma Ronald
    Lord Montmorency: Peter Woodthorpe
    Nanny Crispin: Ella Milne
    Nanny Carruthers: Rosalind Adams
    Mr Carruthers: Michael Burlington
    Nanny Hadj: Anne Jameson
Additional actors in part 2-4
Clifford Norgate, Denis Mccarthy, Garard Green, Ginette Clarke, Grizelda Hervey, Hilda Braid, Jack May, Malcolm Hayes, Roger Snowdon, Tate Coleridge, Trader Faulkner,
Part 4 broadcast: 18th December 1975


27th November 1975:
20.00:
Lord Sky by Carole Boyer
Now, Somewhere in the Third World
Producer Brian Miller
(BBC Bristol)
    Tamar: Kim Hartman
    Sohini: Eva Haddon
    Krala: Frankie Jordan
    Amina: Daphne Heard
    Kregil: Nicholas Loukes
    Lachman: Haydn Jones
    Bramjava: Monica Lavers
    Water keeper: Andrew Smith
    Bishan: Nigel Lambert
    Krulo: Laurence Payne
    Marl: Rex Holdsworth
Also with Penelope Brownjohn, Martin Curtis and Peter Lawrence


29th November 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: On the Battlements by Antonia Fraser
A house-party in Tuscany.
Producer Betty Davies
    Ralph: Clifford Norgate
    Melanie: Kate Coleridge
    Letty: Norma Ronald
    Victor: John Pullen
    Alistair: Michael Cochrane
Also with Malcolm Hayes
Repeated 3rd December 1975


29th November 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Hideous Silence by Michael Robson
Northern India: 1885
Producer David Spenser
    Allan Reece: John Pullen
    Alice Laker: Jane Wenham
    Gus Laker: Lockwood West
    Captain Fairfax: Michael Cochrane
    Letty Fairfax: Judy Bennett
    Flora Bellew: Julie Hallam
    Dr Kitson: Hugh Dickson
    Prince Louis Napoleon: Steve Hodson
    Colonel Harrison: Peter Williams
    Colonel Glyn: Malcolm Hayes
    Corporal Grubb: Anthony Smee
    Le Tocq: Leslie Heritage
Repeated 1st December 1975 and 12th December 1976


1st December 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Home Again by Michael Abbensette
Georgetown, Guyana in the 1960's.
Pianist Martin Goldstein
Producer Betty Davies
    Jessica Van den Bergh: Mary Morris
    Claude, her son: Gordon Woolford
    Elizabeth, her daughter: Mona Hammond
    Gregory, her grandson: Anton Phillips
    Lloyd Elizabeth's husband: Rudolph Walker
    Mary the maid: Isabelle Lucas
Repeated 7th December 1975


3rd December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Everybody's Got a Quid by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
Producer Alfred Bradley
(BBC Leeds)
    Guv: Graham Roberts
    Fred/Mr Hall: Howard Benbrook
    Bret: Sam Kelly
    Kev's mother/Ethel/Mrs Hall: Eileen Derbyshire
    Nigel: John Linstrum
    David: Alan Rothwell
    Kev: Phil Mulhaire
    Norm: Charles Linstrum
    Little Eddie: Paul Draper
    Charlie: Mark Milne
    Madelaine: Frances Darby
    Vanessa: Alison Andrews
    Elaine: Jackie Alcock
    Marilyn: Angela Knowles
Repeated 31st August 1977


6th December 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Summer Exhibition by Trevor Humber
Exhibition of paintings.
Producer Ian Cotterell
    The Old Man: Richard Goolden
    The Old Man: Steve Hodson
    The Young Woman: Rosalind Adams
Repeated 10th December 1975


6th December 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Wobble to Death (1970) by Peter Lovesey (1936-2025) dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews
Producer Harry Catlin
    Solomon Herriott: Sydney Taller
    Det-Sgt Cribb: Timothy Bateson
    Constable Thackeray: William Eedle
    First reporter: Denis McCarthy
    Second reporter: Leslie Heritage
    Dr Mostyn-Smith: Jonathan Scott
    Darrell : Eric Allan
    O'Flaherty: Rio Fanning
    Harvey: Steve Hodson
    Chadwick: Charles Hodgson
    Chalk: Trader Faulkner
    Jacobson: Jeffrey Segal
    Cora Darrell: Carole Boyd
    Sam Monk: Hector Ross
    Williams: Steve Hodson
    Mary Foster: Alison Gollings
Repeated 8th December 1975
[Lovesey wrote eight Cribb novels, six appeared on Saturday Night Theatre]


8th December 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Devil Take Ye by Alan Gosling
Insanity in a small rural community in a Suffolk village at the beginning of the 1700s.
Producer John Tydeman
    Goody Timpson: Margot Boyd
    Prudence Timpson: Elizabeth Proud
    Ed Bishop: Brian Hewlett
    Brudbanke: David Spenser
    Parson: Rolf Lefebvre
    Bezant: Peter Tuddenham
    Kemp: Ronald Forfar
    Hayward: Ronald Berdman
    Burten: James Thomason
    Lane: Clifford Norgate
    Bickers/Archdeacon: Nigel Lambert
    Churchwarden/ Walnoe: John Gabriel
Repeated from 2nd November 1970 and 8th April 1973


10th December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Carnival in Trinidad by Terence Kelly
Producer Betty Davies
    George Dennison: Patrick Barr
    Margaret Dennison: Madi Hedd
    Chris Fairfax: Nigel Lambert
    Harry Anderson: Tommy Eytle
    Dorothy Anderson: Valerie Murray
    Eli Ashenheim: Norman Beaton
    Clinton: Roger Snowdon
    Brenda Clinton: Anne Jameson
    Henriquez: Gordon Woolford
    Inspector Bailey: Frank Singuineau


12th December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Out of an Autumn Past by Allan Peacock
The Wood People ride broom-sticks again over the Quantocks
Producer Brian Miller
(BBC Bristol)
    Alexander Hogarthy: Peter Jeffrey
    Jane: Kim Hartman
    Gran: Marjorie Westbury
    Trevor: Blain Fairman
    Ben: Haydn Jones
    Robbie: David Jackson


13th December 1975
15.05-15.35
Thirty-Minute Theatre:
A Touch of Bird Lime by Arthur Deramore adapted by John Graham
followed by:
A Mistake of Twenty-Hungry by Rose Umelo adapted by Peter Redgrove
Producer Roger Pine
(BBC Birmingham)
Cast for both plays:
    Sheila: Ros Drinkwater
    Charles: Douglas Blackwell
    Peter: Gareth Armstrong
    Geoffrey: George Woolley
    Sheila: Christine Pollon
    Geoffrey: Lionel Ngakane
    Charles: Jack Holloway
    Sergeant: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated 17th December 1975


13th December 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Deadweight by John Kirkmorris
Rain stopped play.
Producer Jane Graham
    Walsh: Clive Swift
    Paula Levate: Ginnette Clarke
    Rees: David Sinclair
    Supt Burge: Malcolm Hayes
    Edith Hooker: Liz Smith
    Stanley Hooker: Bryan Pringle
    Betty Levate: Diana Olsson
    Doreen: Rosalind Adams
    Benny: Steve Hodson
    Gaines: Michael Goldie
Repeated 15th December 1975


14th December 1975
14.30
Pride and Sensibility by Thea Holme (1904-1980)
Producer: Christopher Venning
    Narrator: David Strong
    Jane: Annette Crosbie
    Edward Austen-Leigh: David Graham
    Caroline Austen: Rosalind Shanks
    William Austen-Leigh: Nigel Lambert
    Eliza de Feuillide: Eva Haddon
    Rev George Austen: Kevin Brennan
    John White: Hector Ross
    Marianne Austen: Deborah Paige
    Rev James Clarke: Leslie Heritage
    Cassandra: Sheila Mitchell
    Mrs Knight: Janet Henfrey
    Princess Charlotte: Rosalind Adams
    Mary Russell Mitford: Ann G. Murray
    Mrs Austen: Norma Ronald
Repeated 19th December 1975
[Thea Holme wrote a biography of Princess Charlotte in 1976]


15th December 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: Lion's Roar by Peter Russell
Producer Betty Davies
    'Goat: Peter Woodthorpe
    Aries, an elderly ram: Norman Shelley
    Henry Boar: Roger Hammond
    Joanna Hen: Madi Hedd
    Old Careless, a horse: Carleton Hobbs
    Buster, a puppy: Judy Bennett
    Superb, a pedigree bitch: Eva Haddon
    Fido, a dog of uncertain origin: John Hollis
    Clementine, a cat of great beauty: Christine Finn
    Gillian, a sensible young goose: Rosalind Adams
    Emma, her gosling: Deborah Paige
    George, her husband: Clifford Norgate
    Desmond Fox: John Rye
    The humans:
    Terry: Anthony Smee
    Mr Green: Garard Green
    Mr Brown: Haydn Jones
Repeated 21st December 1975


17th December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sandra by John Whitewood
Producer: John Cardy
    Laurence: David Wood
    Rosalind: Suzanne Peveril
    Sandra: Amanda Murray
    Richard: Clifford Norgate
    Paul: Christopher Bidmead
    Heather: Rosalind Adams
    Veronica: Eva Haddon
    Timber: Nigel Anthony
    Colin: Michael Shannon
[On the 1977 repeat listing, the actors playing Timber and Colin were reversed]
also with Ginnette Clarke, Michael Cochrane, Norma Ronald and Anthony Smee
Repeated 9th September 1977



19th December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Arrangements by T. D. Webster
Producer Harry Catlin
    Bob Adams: Vernon Joyner
    Clive Scott: John Bentley
    David: David Timson
    Joyce Adams: Diana Olsson
    Det-Con: Michael Harbour
    Ethel/Ann: Julie Hallam
    Ruth: Tara Soppet
    Landlord: Clifford Norgate
    Peter: John Bryning
Repeated from 17th November 1973


20th December 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Friend or Foe? by Lala Lloyd (1911-2003)
Producer: Jean Bower
    Isobel Elliot.: Nicolette Bernard
    Veronica Hassall: Anne Jameson
    Mrs Hartley, Isobel's mother: Betty Hardy
    Malcolm Elliot, her husband: Clifford Norgate
    Jean-Pierre Fournier: Michael Deacon
    Schoolgirls: Rosalind Adams, Ginnette Clarke, Alison Gollings
Repeated 24th December 1975
[A photocopy of the typescript is held by University College Dublin, refs RTE document number: 4303, RTE box number 265/2.]


20th December 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Private Lives (1930) by Noel Coward (1899-1973) adapted by Cynthia Pughe.
Music played and improvised by William Davies
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    Elyot Chase: Paul Scofield
    Amanda Prynne: Patricia Routledge
    Sibyl Chase: Miriam Margolyes
    Victor Prynne: John Rye
    Louise: Carole Boyd
Repeated 22nd December 1975 and 7th January 1979
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
[Also produced for Light by Ayton Whitaker in 1951 with Denise Bryer as Sibyl]
[Also produced by Peter Watts in 1958]
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1969 with Gudrun Ure as Sibyl.]


22nd December 1975
20.00:
The Monday Play: The American (1877) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by D. G. Bridson
Producer Martin Jenkins
    Mrs Tristram: Jane Jordan Rogers
    Christopher Newman: Alec McCowen
    Comtesse Claire de Cintre: Anna Massey
    Comte Valentin de Bellegarde, her brother: Martin Jarvis
    Louise, Marquise de Bellegarde: Julie Hallam
    Dowager Marquise de Bellegarde: Mary Morris
    Urbain, Marquis de Bellegarde, her son: Derek Jacobi
    Lord Deepmere: Michael Deacon
    Duchesse de Lusignan: Norma Ronald
Repeated 28th December 1975 and 28th January 1978


25th December 1975
15.00
Relatively Speaking (1965) by Alan Ayckbourn
Producer: Kay Patrick
    Greg: Nigel Lambert
    Ginny: Joanna Wake
    Philip: Michael Aldridge
    Sheila: Rosemary Leach
Repeated 3rd May 1976 and 28th August 1982
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014-2017]


25th December 1975
20.30
Crown Matrimonial (1972) by Royce Ryton (1924-2009)
1936 and abdication.
Produced By: Ian Cotterell
Queen Mary: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
    Mabell, Countess of Airlie: Rachel Kempson
    The Hon Margaret Wyndham: Hilda Schroder
    King Edward VIII (David): Peter Barkworth
    The Princess Royal (Mary): Rosalind Shanks
    The Duchess of Gloucester (Alice): Deborah Paige
    Walter Monckton, KC: Peter Bowell
    The Duchess of York (Elizabeth): Jane Wenham
    The Duke of York (Bertie): Martin Jarvis
    Queen's page: Anthony Smee
    Narrator: Alvar Lidell
Repeated 30th October 1976 and 7th December 1996
[Peter Barkworth performed as Edward VIII in the West End production]


26th December 1975
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) adapted by David Wade
Producer: Graham Gauld
    The Emperor: John Pullen
    The Nightingale: Elizabeth Proud
    Royal Gardener: Carleton Hobbs
    Imperial Orator: Peter Woodthorpe
    High Minister: Garard Green
    Dowager Empress: Margot Boyd
    Mei Hua: Helen Worth
    Death: Jack May
    Physician: Michael Deacon
    Watchmaker: David Graham
    Song of the Nightingale: Percy Edwards


26th December 1975
22.15
Gaslight (1938) by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
The setting is 1880's London.
Produced By: Raymond Raikes
    Mrs Manningham: Barbara Jefford
    Mr Manningham: Michael Kilgarriff
    Rough: Raymond Huntley
    Nancy: Patricia Leventon
Repeated from 1965
[Also produced by Annie Castledine in 1997 with Roger Allam as Mr Manningham]
[The play title is properly given as two words Gas Light. The concept of "gaslighting" somebody came from this play.]
[Filmed as Gaslight in 1940 and 1944.]


27th December 1975
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Taxman Cometh by Sheila Stewart
Music played by: Haydn Jackson (drums); Henry Krein (accordion); Duncan Campbell (trumpet); Jock Cummings (bones)
    Producer John Theocharis
    the Taxman: Denis McCarthy
    Joshua: Alan Dudley
    Phoebe: Kathleen Helme
    Dory: Peter Whitman
    Mr Bones: Haydn Jones
Repeated 31st December 1975


27th December 1975
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) adapted by John Richmond
Theme music composed by Alan Parker
Producer Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
    Mary Lennox: Helen Worth
    Mrs Medlock: Violet Carson
    Mrs Lennox, Mary's mother: Merle Kessler
    Lieut Charlesworth: Mark Sheridan
    Mrs Crawford: Rosalie Williams
    Mrs Pelly: Marah Stohl
    Martha: Susan Moverley
    Ben Weatherstaff: Tom Harrison
    The Robin: Percy Edwards
    Dickon: Richard Tolan
    Mr Archibald Craven: Ronald Herdman
    Colin, his son: Timothy Woolgar
    Nurse: Mary Kilduff
    Doctor: Ronald Harvi
    Indian servant/ Sitar player: Suraj Mian
Repeated 29th December 1975 and 25th December 1979


28th December 1975
21.03
Gwendolen Harleth by Hallam Tennyson (1920-2005) based on George Eliot (1819-1880)'s novel Daniel Deronda (1876).
Part 1 of 2. Choice.
Producer: Graham Gauld
    Gwendolen Harleth: Jane Wenham
    Henleigh Grandcourt: John Standing
    Mrs Davilow: Diana Bishop
    Her children: Isabel: Ginnette Clarke
    Her children: Alice: Anne Wensak
    Herr Klesmer: Andrew Sachs
    Rev Henry Gascoigne: Peter Williams
    Archdeacon Clintock: Denis McCarthy
    Young Clintock: Michael Burlington
    Hammond: Leslie Heritage
    Daniel Deronda: Geoffrey Beevers
    Lord Brackenshaw: Jack May
    Mr Lush: Cyril Shaps
    Antique dealer: Trader Faulkner
    Mrs Startin: Norma Ronald
Additional actors in part 2:
    Sir Hugo Mallinger: Hector Ross
    Mordecai Cohen: Sam Dastor
    Hotelier: Haydn Jones
    Bugle: Eva Haddon
Part 2 broadcast 4th January 1976
Both parts were repeated after two days.
[Also produced by John Tydeman in 1965, rptd 1967, with Virginia Maskell as Gwendolen.]


29th December 1975
20.00-21.30
Don't Dilly Dally by Daniel Farson (1927-1997) and Harry Moore
The songs and the story of Marie Lloyd
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
also with Terry Scully, John Bull, Alan Dudley, Rolf Lefebvre, Michael Kilgarriff, Timothy Bateson, Julie Hallau, Betty Huntley-Wright, Nigel Graham, Hilda Schroder
Repeated from 11th May 1974]
[In 1972 Daniel Farson wrote a biography "Marie Lloyd and the Music Hall.]


31st December 1975
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Riot by James Follett (1929-2021)
The last public reading of the Riot Act. which took place on 5 November 1929
Producer Margaret Etall.
    Police Sergeant Hugo Vice: Bryan Pringle
    Colonel Sprigg: Hector Ross
    Alf Sprange: John Hollis
    Joe Gingam: Anthony Hall
    Mrs Sprange: Deborah Paige
    Mrs Gingam/ Mrs Lumley: Norma Ronald
    Mary Vice: Anne Jameson
    Kelly: Michael Shannon
    Ramsnest/ Jacko: Malcolm Hayes
    Shreeve: Clifford Earl
    Rev Mr Haywood: Roger Snowdon
    Court Clerk/ RSM Walker: Clifford Norgate


31st December 1975
20.00:
A Place of One's Own (1940) by Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) adapted by Frederick Bradnum
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
    Mr Tideroft: Paul Webster
    Arthur Smedhurst: John Franklyn Robbins
    Annie Smedhurst: Katherine Parr
    Ellen: Stephanie Turner
    Mrs Thatcher: Ann Aris
    Hilary Thatcher: Helen Worth
    Miss Bezyre: Cecile Chevreau
    Mr Pont: Geoffrey Banks
    Mrs Pont: Rosalie Williams
    Commander Thatcher: Thatcher Mahlowe (as listed- probably David Mahlowe)



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