BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1978
BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4 IN 1978
Note: During 1978 radio and television broadcasts were subject to last minute cancellations due to industrial action, especially in December. It is known two radio drama programs at least were affected and these are noted below.
Also note that for a short period, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon programmes were sometimes not listed on the BBC Programme Database due to MW and LW programme differences, and this period was often used for afternoon drama. Drama omitted from the program database will not appear below except...
Titles below preceded by !!! are absent from the BBC Programme Database and have been taken from the Diversity website.
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1st January 1978
14.30
Locusts by Dick Sharples (1927-2015)
Musical direction by Ian Gourlay
Flute and Tenor Sax: Alan Fawkes; Guitar: Les Beavers; String bass: Dave Lynane
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Machin: Michael Deacon
Nixon: John Hollis
Harris: Raymond Llewellyn
Kitty: Heather Bell
Mrs Nesbitt: Stella Tanner
Len: Kenneth Shanley
Tom: Christian Rodska
Marlene: Polly James
Ernie: John Franklyn-Robbins
Mrs Andrews: Daphne Oxenford
Mrs Whitworth: Judith Barker
Morrie: David Mahlowe
Repeated from 26th December 1977
Repeated 12th November 1978
1st January 1978
21.03
The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), dramatized by Barry Campbell and Constance Cox.
Part 7 of 12: Trials and Tribulations.
Sam's song composed by Michael Graham Cox
Technical presentation by Peter Novis. assisted by Penny Leicester, David Hitchinson and Jane Brinsmead
Directed by Jane Morgan
Mr Pickwick: Freddie Jones
Winkle: Philip Bond
Tupman: Michael Graham Cox
Sam Weller: Douglas Livingstone
Serjeant Buzfuz: Peter Vaughan
Mrs Bardell: Elizabeth Spriggs
Charles Dickens: Simon Cadell
Bob Sawyer: Nigel Anthony
Ben Allen: Tim Piggott-Smith
Mrs Raddle: Pauline Letts
Tony Weller: John Hollis
Mr Stiggins: Christopher Benjamin
Mr Perker: Timothy Bateson
Dodson: John Gabriel
Fogg: Michael Tudor Barnes
Sjt Snubbin: Michael Goldie
Mr Justice Stareleigh: Gerald Cross
Mrs Cluppins: Cecile Chevreau
Also with Diana Bishop, Karen Archer, Brenda Kaye, Peter Baldwin, Eric Allen, Gavin Campbell and Kenneth Shanley
Additional actors in parts 8-12:
Alan Dudley, Alison Frazer, Anthony Newlands, David Savile, Heather Bell, Hugh Dickson, Jack May, Judy Bennett, Malcolm Gerard, Margot Boyd, Michael Troughton, Neville Jason, Nicolette Mckenzie, Paddy Ward, Paul Chapman, Peter Howell, Peter Wickham, Peter Woodthorpe, Richard Hurndall, Rosalind Ayres, Stella Tanner, Stephen Thorne, Sylvia Coleridge, Thelma Whiteley, Tim Wylton, William Eedle
Pt8:8/1/78 Pt9:15/1/78 Pt10:22/1/78 Pt11:29/1/78 Pt12:5/2/78
All 1977/8 parts repeated two days later.
[Part One was first broadcast on 20th November 1977]
2nd January 1978
15.05
Letter from Paris (1952) by Dodie Smith (1896-1990) adapted from Henry James (1843-1916) novel The Reverberator (1888).
Director: Betty Davies
Gaston Probert: John Standing
Charles Waterlow: John Rowe
George Flack: Ed Bishop
Delia Dosson: Toby Robbins
Mr Dosson: Ramsay Williams
Francie Dosson: Bonnie Hurren
Suzanne de Brecourt: Madi Hedd
Marguerite, de Cliche: Cecile Chevreau
Maxime de Cliche: David Timson
Mr Probert: Godfrey Kenton
Alphonse de Brecourt: Stephen Thorne
Repeated from 2nd and 4th February 1974
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen in 1956 with David Peel as Gaston]
2nd January 1978
19.20
The Monday Play: Cause Celebre (1975) 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) Piano: Martin Goldstein
Director: Norman Wright
Newsreader: Alvar Lidell
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
Repeated from 27th October 1975
Repeated 2nd May 1981
[Based upon the 1935 Rattenbury murder case]
3rd January 1978
11.05
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Dreamers by Sean Walsh
Directed by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
Shay: Michael Duffy
Liam: Stephen Rea
4th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fall of Mr Humpty by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Directed by 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 from 22nd and 23rd January 1975
4th January 1978
20.00-20.30
Lord Peter Wimsey: The Five Red Herrings (1931) by Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957), adapted by Chris Miller.
1 of 8. The body in the burn.
Producer: Simon Brett
Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
Bunter: Peter Jones
Sgt Dalziel: John Graham
Murdoch: Bruce Bennett
Waters: Bill Wallis
Campbell/Dr Cameron: Trevor Martin
McAdam: Alaric Cotter
Mrs Strachan: Hazel McBride
Strachan: Gordon Clyde
Additional actors in later parts:
Audrey Muir, Christopher Scoular, David Strong, Don Dunbar, Don McKillop, Frances Jeater, Garard Green, Gordon Faith, Gordon Gardner, Gordon Kane, Heather Bell, Henry Knowles, Iain Blair, Jonathan Scott, Miriam Margolyes, Nell Brennan, Nicolette McKenzie, Peter Wickham, Sheila Mitchell, Stephen Thorne, Yvonne Gilan
Pt2:11/1/78 Pt3:18/1/78 Pt4:25/1/78 Pt5:1/2/78 Pt6:8/2/78 Pt7:15/2/78 Pt8:22/2/78
Series repeated commencing 27/9/82
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2010-2023]
5th January 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Say Goodnight Bridget by Sarah Maxwell.
New York, mid '30s.
Directed by Glyn Dearman.
Arty: Harry Towb
Bridget: Norma Ronald
Joey: Peter Whitman
Hattie: Elaine Stritch
Belle: Liza Ross
Repeated 2nd March 1979
6th January 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Lame Duck by Lynne Reid Banks
Director: David B Godfrey
Cliff: Christopher Guard
Anne: Anne Rosenfeld
Lionel: Manning Wilson
Jamie: Judy Bennett
Terry: Delia Morgan
Dan: Elizabeth Lindsay
Jacky: Karen Archer
Mr Brent, a publican: Bruce Beeby
Mrs Brent: Jane Knowles
7th January 1978
14.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: To Whom It May Concern by Jack Trevor Storey (1917-1991).
Directed by Christopher Venning
Ethel: Margaret Ashcroft
Gerald: Kevin Brennan
John: Fraser Kerr
Amy: Diana Bishop
7th January 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The U Boat that Lost Its Nerve by James Follett (1939-2021)
Harmonica: Harry Pitch
Directed by Margaret Etall
Lieut Bernhart Berndt: Nigel Lambert
Lt Commander Hans Rahmlow: David Ryall
Lt Richard Stein: Michael Deacon
Chief Engineer: Michael Shannon
Lt Commander Otto Kruger: Paul Gaymon
Major Conrad Shulke: Stephen Thorne
Lt Paul Faulk: Alan Dudley
Commander Willi Leymann: Trader Faulkner
Home Guard Captain: Jack Carr
Corporal: Sion Probert
Repeated from 22nd and 24th February 1975
Repeated 9th January 1978
[The play was novelised as "U-700"]
8th January 1978
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
Rhodesia
Directed by Jane Morgan
Charlie Slatter: Bruce Purchase
Tony Marston: David Savile
Dick Turner: Ronald Lewis
Mary Turner: Janet Suzman
Samson: Louis Mahoney
Gondwe: Ilarrio Pedro
Phiri: Willie Jonah
Moses: Alton Kumalo
Also with Irene Sutcliffe and John Rowe
9th January 1978
18.30-19.00
What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning by P G Wodehouse adapted by Chris Miller.
1 of 7: Florence Cray
Producer: Simon Brett
Jeeves: Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
Florence Craye: Bronwen Williams
Stilton Cheesewright: Michael Kilgarriff
also with Bruce Bennett
Additional actors in later parts:
Denise Bryer, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Woodthorpe, Rosalind Adams
Pt2:16/1/78 Pt3:23/1/78 Pt4:30/1/78 Pt5:6/2/78 Pt6:13/2/78 Pt7:20/2/78
Each 1978 episode repeated after two days.
Series also repeated commencing 14th July 1983.
[Also repeated on R7 and R4X 2005-2021]
9th January 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Birthday Party (1957) by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
A seaside boarding house.
Directed by Charles Lefeaux
Narrator: John Gabriel
Meg: Sylvia Coleridge
Petey: Cyril Shaps
Stanley: John Hollis
Lulu: Barbara Mitchell
Goldberg: Lee Montague
McCann: Norman Rodway
Repeated from 2nd February 1970
Repeated 15th January 1978, 23rd May 1982, 2nd November 2002,
[Also produced by Gary Brown in 2016, rptd 2018, for R3 with Maggie Steed as Meg.]
10th January 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen by Jennifer Phillips
From opera star to night club singer.
Pianist: Martin Goldstein
Directed by Richard Wortley
Sonya: Penelope Lee
Alex: David Sinclair
Tricia: Rosalind Adams
Karmovski: Jeffrey Segal
Comic: Steve Hodson
Repeated from 13th and 17th March 1976
[The tale of Sonya and Alex continued in "Venus at the Seaside" broadcast 6th and 9th August 1977]
11th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Death in the Family, by John Parker
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Jean: Elizabeth Morgan
Derek: Vernon Joyner
Paul: Brian Haines
12th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cooper Case by James C. Harris
Directed by David Spencer
O'Brien: Al Mancini
Lillian: Bonnie Murren
Professor Luke Bradford: Don Fellows
McAllister: Leueen Willoughby
Andy Cooper: Peter Whitman
Belanger: Peter Marinker
Lucie: Margaret Robertson
Eddy Puccini: Alan Dudley
Repeated from 15th May 1975
13th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Delivery by Valerie Windsor
Directed by Liane Aukin
Tom: John Rowe
Nurse: Norma Ronald
Nurse Kershaw: Rosalind Adams
Ambulancemen: Michael Shannon and Steve Bodson
Repeated from 26th March 1976
14th January 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Little Arrangement by Derrick Buttress (1932-2016)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Lenny: Geoffrey Banks
Jacky: Paul Webster
Mildred: Judith Barker
Repeated 17th January 1978
14th January 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Best Baby by William Andrew
Directed by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
Pauline Browning: Sheila Donald
Sylvia Dunn: Diana Olsson
Barrie as a child: Mary Riggans
Barrie Browning: Robert Trotter
Emma Forrest: Gwyneth Guthrie
Peter Forrest: Finlay Welsh
Colin Teviot: Tom Cotcher
Dorothy: Isobel Gardner
Repeated 16th January 1978
15th January 1978
22.30-23.00
The Dead House (1959) by Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) translated by Nikos Stangos (1936-2004)
Radiophonic music by Malcolm Clarke
Producer: Liane Aukin
The Woman: Annette Crosbie
The Poet: Paul Chapman
16th January 1978
19.45
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), dramatised by Bill Morrison.
Musical research Adrian Edwards
Directed by John Tydeman
Philip Marlowe: Ed Bishop
Eileen Wade: Toby Robins
Roger Wade: David March
Terry Lennox: Peter Marinker
Howard Spencer: Don Fellows
Mendy Menendez: Blain Fairman
Linda Loring: Margaret Robertson
Dr Loring: Paul Maxwell
Parian Potter: Bob Sherman
Bernie Ohls: Harry Towb
Sgt Green: William Roberts
Det Dayton: Neville Jason
Capt Gregorious: Ramsay Williams
Grenz: Rod Beacham
Lonnie Morgan: Henry Knowles
Chick Agostino: Malcolm Gerard
Big Willie Magoon: Bill Morrison
Candy: Anthony Daniels
Capt Hernandez: Gordon Sterne
Barman: Brian Hewlett
Repeated 22nd January 1978, then in three parts on 7th, 14th and 21st December 1989.
[Also broadcast on BBC7 2007, 2009]
[Also produced by Claire Grove in 2011 with Toby Stephens as Marlowe- repeated on R4X]
18th January 1978
15.05
Wolf Harvest by Michael David Anthony.
Sweden 1917.
Directed by Robert Cooper
Anders Neilson: Ronald Herdman
Julia Neilson: Sandra Clark
Johan Steiner: Ian Hogg
Doctor Lindroos: Ronald Baddiley
Erik Jacobson: Kevin Hart
Arthur Jacobson: Anthony Newlands
Anna: Mary Elliott Nelson
[This is the only entry on the BBC Programme Database for Michael David Anthony. Title taken from Diversity: the programme name is corrupted on the BBC Database.]
19th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Coo by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
Directed by 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 from 17th July 1975
20th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Happy Families by Peter Whalley (1921-2007)
He left home and lost his faith.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Mark: Christian Rodska
Mirabelle: Jane Wymark
Mr Baldwin: David Mahlowe
Mrs Baldwin: Kathleen Helme
Lynne: Margot Leicester
Father Drabble: John Rowe
21st January 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Talking of Michelangelo by Michael Kittermaster
Directed by Gerry Jones
Clive: Manning Wilson (1918-1997)
Norma: Jo Manning Wilson (1922-2005
Repeated from 4th and 8th October 1975
21st January 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Mr Sherlock Holmes has recently taken up residence at Baker Street.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Sherlock Holmes: Robert Powell
Dr Watson: Dinsdale Landen
Insp Gregson: Frederick Treves
Insp Lestrade: John Hollis
Jefferson Hope: Don Fellows
PC Ranee: John Samson
Mme Charpentier: Madi Hedd
Alice Charpentier: Carole Boyd
Mrs Sawyer: Nigel Lambert
Stangerson: Peter Whitman
Commissionaire: Alan Dudley
Enoch J Drebber: Paul Maxwell
Repeated from 25th December 1974
Repeated 23rd January 1978
[Repeated on R4X 2014]
[Also produced by Norman Wright in 1962, rptd 1964 with Carleton Hobbs as Holmes]
[Also produced in two parts by Bert Coules in 1989 with Clive Merrison as Holmes- repeated on R7 and R4X]
23rd January 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Optimism.
Directed by Ronald Mason
Lady Windermere: Rosalind Shanks
Lord Windermere: Peter Baldwin
Lord Darlington: Timothy West
The Duchess of Berwick: Fabia Drake
Lady Agatha: Maureen Beck
Lady Plymdale: Grizelda Hervey
Mrs Erlynne: Maxine Audley
Lord Augustus: Godfrey Kenton
Mr Dumby: John Pullen
Mr Cecil Graham: John Forrest
Mr Hopper: Ian Thompson
Parker: John Wyse
Repeated from 28th and 30th December 1968, 2nd January 1972, 27th May 1974, 2nd June 1974
Repeated 29th January 1978, 25th December 1982
[First BBC broadcast of this play was 1926]
[Also produced by David Johnston in 1989 with Penelope Keith as Mrs Erlynne]
[Also produced by Martin Jarvis in 2018 for R3. Rptd 2020. With Mira Sorvino.]
24th January 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Two Men from Derby by Barry Hinks
There's not many men get killed playing at football.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Freda: Sharon Duce
Joe: Colin Edwynn
George: Bernard Gallagher
Winnie: Juliet Cooke
Stanley: Charles Booth
Repeated from 23rd and 27th October 1976
[The play was made for tv in February 1976]
25th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Rainy Day by Stephen Wakelam
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Carol: Janet Dale
Arthur: Andrew Jarvis
Shirley: Sally Gibson
Jack: Jack Watson
Nurse Beswick: Lorraine Peters
Margery: Diana Flacks
Ernest: Paul Webster
26th January 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Dumpling (Boule de Suif (1880)) by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), translated by H N P Sloman, adapted by Elizabeth Morgan.
Directed By: Margaret Etall
The Dumpling: Miriam Margolyes
M Carre Lamadon: John Westbrook
Mme Carre Lamadon: Elizabeth Morgan
M Loiseau: Harold Kasket
Mme Loiseau: Elizabeth Bell
Comte de Breville: Anthony Newlands
Comtesse de Breville: Brenda Kaye
Cornudet: Michael Harbour
Patron: Brian Jackson
Patron's wife: Anne Rosenfeld
Prussian officer: Neville Jason
27th January 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Portrait of Isa Mulvenny by Tom Gallacher (1932-2001)
Directed by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
Isa: Mary Riggans
Bill Thompson: Patrick Malahide
Train attendant: Willy Joss
Andy Mulvenny: Tony Roper
Andrew Mulvenny: Tom Watson
Joe Harper: Martin Cochrane
Ella Harper: Margot Gillies
28th January 1978
14.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Ancient Grudges by Leila Blake
Directed by Christopher Venning
Arthur: Maurice Denham
Rose: Kathleen Helme
Repeated 31st January 1978
28th January 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The American (1877) by Henry James (1843-1916) adapted by D. G. Bridson
An American on the Grand European Tour.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Mrs Tristram: Jane Jordan Rogers
Christopher Newman: Alec Mccowen
Comtesse Claire de Cintre: Anna Massey
Comte Valentin de Bellegarde: Martin Jarvis
Louise, Marquise de Bellegarde: Julie Hallam
Dowager Marquise de Bellegarde: Mary Morris
Urbain, Marquis de Bellegarde: Derek Jacobi
Lord Deepmere: Michael Deacon
Duchesse de Lusignan: Norma Ronald
Repeated from 28th December 1975
Repeated 30th January 1978
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen in 1957 for R3 with Rachel Gurney as Claire]
[Also produced by Archie Campbell in 1965 in 3 parts, with Maxine Audley as Claire.]
[Also produced by Pauline Harris in 2 parts, in 2018 rptd R4X, with Olivia Hallinan as Claire.]
30th January 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Events at the Salamander Hotel by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Directed by Richard Wortley
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Judge: Brian Haines
Frank: John Baddeley
Harry: 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
Inspector: Peter Baldwin
Repeated from 28th July and 3rd August 1975
Repeated 5th January 1978
1st February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dark Interval by Gwen Cherrell (1951-2019)
Directed by Christopher Venning
Stella: Margaret Ashcroft
Dennis: Bernard Holley
Wendy: Deborah Paige
Geoffrey: David McAlister
Harry: Michael Cochrane
Repeated from 1st January 1976
2nd February 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: "When the Director-General of the Prison Service Served Six Months for a Tax Fiddle" by Bjorn Runeborg (1937-2021) translated by Ann Henning
Sweden's prison service.
Music by Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Fiddle: Bjorn Runeborg
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
Martin Torstensson, Director General: Anthony Newlands
Brita Stenmalm, prison: Mary Wimbush
Ansgar Lindstrom, prison architect: Alaric Cotter
2138 Olsson: Michael Harbour
Police Supt/TV presenter: Michael Tudor Barnes
Karl Smedberg: William Fox
Minister of Justice: Gerald Cross
Prison Governor: John Gabriel
Prison warden: Rod Beacham
[Longest play title contender...]
3rd February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Living Private by Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill
Directed by Richard Wortley
Sheila: Eva Stuart
Alan: Eric Allan
Joanie: Jane Knowles
Peg/Nurse/Householder's wife: Heather Bell
The householder: Jonathan Scott
Maisie: Karen Archer
Glen: Alaric Cotter
Karen: Sarah Golding
Martin: Simon Howe
Pop: Timothy Bateson
Doreen/Matron: Elizabeth Bell
James: Michael Harbour
Mrs Wentworth/Laura/Woman: Jo Manning Wilson
4th February 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Commercial Break by Tony Bilbow
Advertising.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Hawkins: Richard Beckinsale
Harvey Gold: Nigel Anthony
Graham Fitch: Michael Tudor Barnes
Penny Ray: Heather Bell
Sir Reginald Groat: Timothy Bateson
Melvyn Hyde: Manning Wilson
Oojah: Tony Bilbow
Mrs Gold: Joan Matheson
Gordon Dodd: Jonathan Scott
Repeated 7th February 1978
4th February 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Saul Among the Prophets by Richard Brayshaw
Crossword compiler vs The Secret Service.
Directed by John Cardy
BBC Bristol
Ronald Cruikshank: Jack Watling
Mark Bushell: Ian Sharrock
Harry Roebuck: Simon Allen
Alan Handover: Simon Turner
Headmaster's secretary: Daphne Neville
Bruno: John Pullen
Inspector Noad: Michael Robbins
Radio newsreader: Elizabeth Havelock
Diana Cruikshank: Nancy Gower
Minister: Harold Innocent
Minister's secretary: Angela Phillips
Boris: Kenneth Shanley
Leo: David Ponting
Lindsay: Noel Iliff
Tucker: Brian Gear
Repeated 6th February 1978
[In real life, in 1944 a UK crossword compiler assisted MI5 with their enquiries regarding a crossword that had been published. Many years later it was indicated that his crossword words were suggested by his students - who lived near to a US military barracks. Pure coincidence of course.]
6th February 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Scenes from an Album by William Trevor (1928-2016)
Ireland: 1610-1975.
Directed by John Tydeman
Eustace: 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 and Anthony Smee
Repeated from 29th September and 5th October 1975
7th February 1978
22.30-23.00
My Sainted Aunt by Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer: Martin Fisher
With Trevor Bannister, Eleanor Summerfield, Madeline Smith. John Kane and Dennis Ramsden
First broadcast on Radio 2 commencing on 3rd September 1977.
Futher series on R2 in 1978/1979.
[An almost unknown sitcom]
This episode seems to have been the first of a very short run on R4, and on first broadcast on R2 (17/9/77) was the 3rd episode. Only two more episodes seem to have been broadcast on R4 in 1978, on 14th and 21st February. (Not listed below)
8th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: An Island Soldier by James Mateer
Ireland, 6th Century.
Directed by Liane Aukin
Faustus: Benjamin Whitrow
Abbot: Faustus Denys Hawthorne
Agobard: Michael Harbour
Bran: Sean Barrett
9th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Jack In Office by David Marshall
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Narrated by Joan Bakewell
Welsher: John Barron
Jack: Alexander John
Lyn: Illona Linthwaite
Adrian: Peter Craze
[Other plays by David Marshall with the character Jack:
"Jack" broadcast 17th March 1977
"Jack the Tripper" broadcast 30th May 1978
"Jack in the Box" broadcast 9th February 1993.]
["jack in office" is a 19thC phrase meaning a self important petty official]
10th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Delia by Diana Morgan (1908-1996)
North Wales, 1906- a girl's school.
Harpist: Sidonie Goossens
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
Delia: Rosalind Shanks
Mrs Vyvyan: Sylvia Coleridge
Captain Owen Rhys: John Rye
George Vyvyan : Michael Cochrane
Miss Margot Kingston: Norma Ronald
Miss Susie: Kate Binchy
Lady Mary Tudor: Joanna Wake
Agnes Markham: Zelah Clarke
Dr Lloyd: Haydn Jones
Miss Matthews: Margaret Robertson
Miss Parker: Ginnette Clarke
Thomas the Fish: Clive Merrison
Sir Naunton Lewis: Malcolm Hayes
11th February 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dial a Poem by Aileen La Tourette
Directed by Jane Morgan
Michael: Denys Hawthorne
Paul: Alan Dobie
Veronica: Elizabeth Bell
Cecilia: Marian Diamond
Bookshop assistant: David Ashford
Repeated 14th February 1978
11th February 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sun Stood Still by Angela Penrose
Directed by Christopher Venning
Peter Bayley: Henry Knowles
Judith Hayes: Sarah Atkinson
Jack Skidmore: Neville Jason
Yohannes/Radio operator: Renu Setna
Mikael: Louis Mahoney
Ida: Jammila Massey
Hannah: Jeillo Edwards
Ahmed: Abi Gouiiad
Abraham: Alaric Cotter
Cookie: Harold Kasket
Bahru: Willie Jonah
Joseph: Steve Hodson
Mohammed: John Sorbah-Creen
Hussain: Olu Jacobs
Philip Downes: David Ashford
Ambassador: Roy Spencer
His secretary: Brenda Kaye
Police Officer: Alex Tetteh-Lartey
Driver: Derek Pollitt
Repeated 13th February 1978
[This is the only entry in the BBC Database for several of the actors. The play's setting, Africa, is also the location for Penrose's only other broadcast play, The Art Student, in 1982.]
12th February 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Footnote to the Conspiracy by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
1944 Germany
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Sentry/First prisoner: Anthony Smee
Captain Weber: Patrick Troughton
Taurus: Peter Sallis
Bloch: John Hollis
Second sentry/Second prisoner: Paul Meier
Magda: Shirley Dixon
Bonhoeffer: Ronald Lewis
Dohnanyi: Michael Shannon
Bishop Bell: Cyril Luckham
Paula Bonhoeffer: Katherine Parr
[Bruce Stewart started his working life with three years studying to be a priest]
12th February 1978
21.03
The Woodlanders (1886) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) dramatized by Desmond Hawkins.
1 of 6.
Dance and incidental music composed by Sidney Sager
Directed By: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Giles Winterborne: Martin Jarvis
Grace: Lesley Dunlop
Melbury: Robert Brown
Percomb/Upjohn: Rex Holdsworth
Mrs Dollery/Mrs Melbury: Joan Matheson
Grammer Oliver: Daphne Heard
Marty South: Selina Cadell
Old South: Donald Eccles
Cawtree: Stephen Sylvester
Creedle: Douglas Leach
Mrs Charmond: Marika Mann
Fitzpiers: John Linstrum
Additional actors in later parts:
Beaucock: Paul Nicholson
Bessie: Heather Kyd
Grammer Oliver: Daphne Heard
Mrs Judd: Margot Young
Nell: Margaret Barrass
Old Tangs: Hubert Tucker
Suke: Deborah Jane Sharps
Tangs/Woodman: Geoffrey Hutchings
pt2:19/2/78 pt3:26/2/78 pt4:5/3/78 pt5:12/3/78 pt6:19/3/78
Each part repeated after two days.
13th February 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: The Duck and The Kangaroo by Allan Berrie
Directed by Richard Wortley
Ruth Hennessay: Elizabeth Lindsay
Hazel Hennessay: Kate Binchy
Francis Graham: Kevin Flood
Geoff: Jean England
Paddy Callaghan: Alan Barry
Kay Sullivan: Heather Bell
Waiter: Henry Knowles
[If the title is familiar it is from Edward Lear]
15th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Stella's Dream by Peter Russell
Directed by Gerry Jones
Theo: Bernard Hepton
Stella: Judy Franklin
Kenny: Christopher Good
Ludo: Michael Deacon
Florrie: Joan Matheson
Emily: Elizabeth Bell
Ben: Manning Wilson
Dom: Peter Wickham
16th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Alesta's Hill by Cherry Cookson
Directed by Gerry Jones
David: Sean Arnold
Anna: Karen Archer
Mrs Black: Norma Ronald
John: David Neal
Garage attendant: John Rowe
Taxi driver: Jeffrey Segal
Repeated from 25th March 1976
17th February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Thimble Kiss for a Cornish Hug by Gwen Cherrell (1926-2019)
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Pen: Anna Calder-Marshall
Michael: Michael Spice
Alan: Malcolm Gerard
Audrey: Diane Mercer
Mr Harris: Jonathan Scott
Rhoda: Joan Matheson
Dorotyh/Operator: Heather Bell
Caroline Corner: Jan Carey
Frances/Poppet: Jane Knowles
Fawley/Police Sgt: Henry Knowles
WPC Farnworth: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 12th October 1979
18th February 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Being Right by Margaret Lesser
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Freda: Miriam Margolyes
Daniels: Howard Goorney
Becky: Helen Worth
Repeated 21st February 1978
18th February 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Stag at Bay by Charles MacArthur (1895-1956) and Nunnally Johnson (1897-1977) adapted by Stuart Griffiths
New York and Baltimore in the early 50s.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Bart Starling: Edward Judd
The Major: Norman Rodway
Albert: Rod Beacham
Dwight Stanford: Ronald Herdman
Miss Casey: Brenda Kaye
Rodney: Kenneth Shanley
Mulrooney: John Bay
Gainesborough: Don Fellows
Miss Welch: Valerie Colgan
Miss Grant: Madi Hedd
Jennifer: Susannah Fellows
Helga Norstadt: Lisa Langdon
also with Karen Archer, Bonnie Hurren, and Amanda Murray
Repeated 20th February 1978
[Based upon John Barrymore's life. Draft play held at Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (listed as unproduced).]
20th February 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Bethune (1974) by Rod Langley
A Chinese postage stamp has the image of a Canadian: Dr Norman Bethune. This is his story.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Bethune (1890-1939): Keith Alexander
Frances: Joanna Van Gyseghem
Scarlet: Liza Ross
Director: Bruce Beeby
McKenna: Paul Meier
Mrs Penney: Patricia Gibson
Archibald: Rod Beacham
Dr Gimbal: John Gabriel
Kon: Neville Jason
Coleman: Nicholas Simons
Tung / Spanish Colonel: Geoffrey Matthews
Sorenson: Bruce Beeby
Ma Hall: Kathleen Helme
General Nieh/ Greely: Anthony Newlands
Repeated 26th February 1978
22nd February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Stand of Sergeant-Major Featherstone by Derek Lomas
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Jumbo: Andrew Jarvis
Spicer: Christian Rodska
Sergeant-Major Featherstone: Geoffrey Banks
Golightly: Paul Webster
Billy: John Wheatley
Mother: Marlene Sidaway
Barmaid: Sally Gibson
Newsagent: Cliff Howells
Prestwich: David Fleeshman
23rd February 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Railway Bridge by E. R.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Charles Henderson: Patrick Troughton
Jean: Eileen Page
Sarah: Emily Richard
Philip: Rod Beacham
Also with Henry Knowles, Alaric Cotter, Jonathan Scott and Jane Knowles
[Just one broadcast and the BBC programme database listing fails to disclose the author. Diversity lists the author as "E R Pugh".
24th February 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Home is the Sailor by John Whitewood.
Director: Glyn Dearman
Valerie: Madi Hedd
Margaret: Jill Bennett
Customs officer: Leslie Heritage
Adrian: Denis Quilley
Kevin: Peter Pacey
Richard: Christopher Scoular
Margaret's mother: Aimee Delamain
Phyllis: Katherine Parr
Heather: Deborah Paige
Nancy: Rosalind Adams
Tom: Jack May
Repeated from 9th April 1976
25th February 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tunnel by Elizabeth Lindsay
Director: Cherry Cookson
Sarah: Joanna David
John: Nigel Anthony
Diana: Irene Sutcliffe
Doctor: Eric Allan
Nurse: Brenda Kaye
Simon: Susan Sheridan
Policeman: Henry Knowles
Repeated 28th February 1978
25th February 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Late and Last Bequest by T. D. Webster
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Judith Talbot: Rosalind Shanks
Mark Richardson: Tom Adams
Margaret Armstrong: Ann Firbank
Philip Armstrong: Roger Hume
Stan: Terry Molloy
John Brice: Ian Liston
Jack Greaves: Ralph Lawton
Harry Benson: Jack Holloway
Repeated 27th February 1978
27th February 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: Dark by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Director: John Tydeman.
Virginia Preston: Honor Blackman
her mother: Bessie Love
Simon Elliott: Nigel Anthony
Repeated 5th March 1978
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016]
1st March 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Ghosts of Love by E R Pugh.
Directed By: John Theocharis
Pat: Maureen O'Brien
Mike: John Rowe
The Old Man: Malcolm Hayes
Eric: Christopher Bidmead
Mrs Ellingham: Diana Olsson
Mrs Rankin: Hilda Schroder
Repeated from 15th April 1976
[On BBC Transcription Record CN2635 2]
2nd March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: C'est la Shoestrings by Christopher Russell
A non-league football club have reached the third round of the FA Cup.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Commentator: Alan Parry
Ted Winzar: Eric Allan
Dickie Sefton: Peter Wickham
Steve Devereaux: Henry Knowles
Joan Winzar: Elizabeth Bell
Mr Carter: Manning Wilson
Jim Kennedy: Alaric Cotter
Geoff Sweetman: Edward Seckerson
Paul Winzar: Elizabeth Lindsay
Ray Edrich: John Hollis
3rd March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Giving it a Whirl by Hilary Burford
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Cath: Sandra Clark
Bryn: Denis Lill
Keith: Nigel Lambert
Mag: Maggie McCarthy
Angela: Elizabeth Revill
Bob: Terry Molloy
Vending machine man: Ralph Lawton
Bailiff: David Strong
4th March 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Old Man of the Sea by Jeffrey Segal (1920-2015)
Directed By: Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
The Fat Man: Michael Wiliiams
Frank: Christopher Strauli
Jean: Patricia Gallimore
Routledge: Edward Kelsey
Voice One: Leslie Dunn
Voice Two: David Strong
Repeated on 7th March 1978
[Different story to the famous one by W W Jacobs or the other one by C S Boam]
4th March 1978
20.30:
Saturday.Night Theatre: Fit to Plead by James Fairfax
Organ: Keith Elcombe
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Roger Stanton: Paul Chapman
Sally Clough: Judy Bennett
Det Chief Insp Elvington: David Mahlowe
Dr Karl Fiebig: Paul Webster
Martin Hensley: John Franklyn-Robbins
The Rev Richard Granger/Councillor Sugden: Ronald Baddiley
The Rev Henry Tolley: Eric Allan
Mary Boardall: Joan Matheson
Sean Crowley: Dermot Crowley
High Court Judge: Graham Roberts
Mrs Briggs: Judith Barker
Mrs Helliwell: Marie Dixon
Repeated 6th March 1978
6th March 1978
19.20-21.15:
The Monday Play: Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Technical Assistance: Peter Novis, Janet Mitchell, Enyd Clowes
Music composed and conducted by Terence Allbright
Harp: Skaila Kanga; Trombone: Alan Tomlinson; Trumpets: Michael Laird, Peter Reevi; Percussion: John Royston Mitchell
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Caesar: Alan Badel
Cleopatra: Sarah Badel
Ftatateeta: Beatrix Lehmann
The God Ra: David March
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
Iras: Emily Richard
Charmian: Eva Haddon
Majordomo: Peter Whitman
Repeated from 21st April 1975
Also repeated 30th June 1980, 27th August 1990
[The play had a Prologue (given by Ra), there was an Alternative Prologue. This production used the Prologue given by Ra.]
[Alan and Sarah Badel were father and daughter]
8th March 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Redford Glass by Norman Clare.
Director: David H Godfrey
Andrew Lambourne Managing Director: Hector Ross
Geoffrey Leonard, Sales Director: Peter Barkworth
Peggy Beveridge: Jennifer Piercy
Sheila Leonard, Geoffrey's wife: Elizabeth Morgan
Ronald Crankshaft, Chairman: Gerald Cross
Harry Morgan: David March
Janet Morgan, Harry's wife: Anne Rosenfeld
Switchboard operator/American receptionist: Eva Haddon
8th March 1978
22.30-23.00:
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fit the First-Earth is destroyed. And so the tale begins.
The first of many episodes, many series, 1978-2018.
Repeated many times. Series one (amended- abridged and music removed) was released on an LP record, and then rewritten as a book. Later radio series, a computer game, tv series, film...followed.
The theme is a 1975 recording by The Eagles.
Series 1, 2 and 3 were of six episodes, series 4 and 5 of 4 episodes, and series 6 of 6 episodes.
Radio series 3 to 6 were written by Dirk Maggs who used the already written novels.
Radio episode titles were subject to revision and change and "season 2 fit the first" became "fit the 8th" on rebroadcast...
9th March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dormer and Granddaughter by P. K. J Thompson.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Joshua Dormer: Timothy Bateson
Barbara: Frances Jeater
Henry: Andrew Branch
Miss Hepplewhite: Gladys Spencer
Mrs Hawkins: Hilda Kriseman
Slidevman: Michael Goldie
Sennacherib Bibb: Jonathan Scott
[The story is subsequent to "A Matter of Form" broadcast 6th October 1977.]
10th March 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: You Wouldn't Remember by John Wain (1925-1994)
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Mrs Beeston: Liz Smith
Mrs Webb: Brenda Kaye
Brian: Malcolm Gerard
Philip: Anthony Biggins
Tess: Angela Pleasence
Jack: Eric Allan
Sally: Diana Bishop
Repeated 24th November 1979
11th March 1978
14.00-15.00
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Adapted by Val Gielgud, Constance Cox, Michael Bakewell.
Programme Operations team: Harry Catlin, Leslie Pitt, Peter Novis, Mary Wyse, David Greenwood, Janet Mitchell, Lloyd Silverthorne, David Wilson
Special effects in collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Part one of 20 parts.
Principal producer: Ronald Mason. Assisted by John Powell and Nesta Pain.
Leo Tolstoy played by Denys Hawthorne.
Due to the number of episodes and actors no attempt is being made to list them here. In 1978 part 20 was broadcast 22nd July 1978.
Repeated from 1969/70.
11th March 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Destruction Factor by James Follett (1939-2021)
1 of 2:
Directed By: David Spenser
Max Flinders: T.P. McKenna
Denise Exon: Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers: Paul Copley
Ted Downes: Bruce Beeby
Kathy Downes: Joan Matheson
Voice in Climatorium: Brenda Kaye
Balfour: Peter Wickham
Garrard/Commander/Dymond/Technician: Rod Beacham
Ralph Exon: Clifford Rose
Anne: Christine Absalom
Milly: Karen Archer
Harriet: Debby Cumming
Blowers: Michael Shannon
Additional actors in part 2:
The Prime Minister: Noel Johnson
Shand/Corporal: Gregory De Polnay
Wayne/Farmer: Roy Spencer
Television PA: Mary Elliott Nelson
Presenter: Henry Knowles
Helicopter Pilot: Peter Wickham
Sachs: Denis Goacher
Miss Andersson: Diana Olsson
Scott: Gerald Cross
Pt2:18/3/78
All 1978 episodes repeated after two days.
[Also broadcast in 6 parts on BBC7, 2005-2009 and R4X -2023.]
12th March 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Montrose Ghost by Harold Balfour, Lord Balfour Of Inchrye (1897-1988). adapted by Martin Jenkins
1915.
Directed By Gerry Jones
Capt Little: John Pullen
Lt Adam: Christopher Neame
Fit Sgt Wood: Douglas Blackwell
Sylvia: Rosalind Shanks
Major Holt: Patrick Barr
Flt Officer Anne Douglas: Jane Knowles
Capt Roberts: David Graham
Wing Commander Buckle: David Neal
Rupert: Christopher Bidmead
Lt Wainwright/Signals Officer: Sion Probert
Repeated from 12th and 14th June 1976
Repeated 23rd November 1987
[Balfour served with the Flying Corps and received the Military Cross with Bar.]
13th March 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: Occupational Hazard by Bernard Krichefski
Directed By: Piers Plowright
Maggie: Glynis Brooks
Mr Patel: Zia Moyheddin
Jane: Anna Bentinck
David: Christopher Guard
Colin: Roger Heathcott
Eric: Michael Harbour
Maternity Ward Sister: Jennifer Piercey
Social Worker: Charlotte Mitchell
Nurse: Heather Emmanuel
Garage Manager: Alan Dudley
Housing Officer: Keith Smith
Prison Officer: Gregory De Polnay
Boy: Lee MacDonald
Matron: Brenda Kaye
Repeated 19th March 1978
14th March 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Happy Returns by Irene Handl (1901-1987) and Cass Allen
Directed By: Liane Aukin
Joan: Cass Allen
Freda: Kathleen Helme
Cyril: Rod Beacham
Tricia: Anne Rosenfeld
Arthur: Charles Morgan
Blodwyn: Elizabeth Bell
Jack: Manning Wilson
Repeated 10th October 1978
[The characters of Joan, Arthur and Freda returned on 17th October 1978 in "Your Move"]
15th March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Square on the Hypotenuse by David Pinner
"How I Would Run the Country"
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Grandad: Tom Watson
Andrew: Nigel Lambert
Jonathan: Stephen Thorne
Judy: Catherine Griller
Tom: Graham Weston
Bronwen: Shirley Dixon
Taylor: Jerome Willis
Mrs Taylor: Madi Hedd
16th March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Kendrick's Last Stand by Giles Cole
Music composed and played by Terence Allbright
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Mr Kendrick: Timothy Bateson
Mrs Kendrick: Sheila Shand Gibbs.
Hutchinson: Kenneth Shanley
Miss Lang: Elizabeth Bell
Mrs Amsley: Brenda Kaye
Dorothy: Heather Bell
Mrs Wilmot: Mary Elliott Nelson
Mrs Stothard: Joan Matheson
17th March 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Here for the Duration by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005):
1 of 2: A Wicked Pack of Cards
Beware the Ides of March.
Directed By: David Spenser
Brock: Geoffrey Palmer
Elizabeth Brock: Joan Matheson
Bernard Stanton: Neville Jason
Newsvendor: Malcolm Hayes
Sheik Kemal: Nigel Lambert
Penelope Brock: Susan Tebbs
Mr Faraday: Anthony Newlands
Vicar: Robert Trotter
Laura Stanton: Norma Ronald
Night telephonist: Karen Archer
Det-Sgt Askew: Cyril Appleton
Hotel clerk: Kenneth Shanley
Additional cast in Part 2:
Jane Partridge: Miriam Margolyes
Wilfred Brock: James Hall
Dr Stretcher: Edward Kelsey
Ruby: Isabelle Lucas
Shop steward: David Strong
Part 2: 24/3/78
20th March 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: The Unexpected by Barbara Foxe
Directed By: Piers Plowright
Rayner Harrison: Michael Spice
Elizabeth Shore: Joan Matheson
Henry: Michael Goldie
John Shore: Malcolm Gerard
Mrs Bristow: Brenda Kaye
Seftora Sanchez: Josephine Bacon
Waitress: Jennifer Piercey
Philip: Kenneth Shanley
21st March 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Something's Burning by Joan O'Connor
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Hermione: Jill Balcon
the cat: John Rye
Lucy: Betty Hardy
Willie: Manning Wilson
Michael: Harold Kasket
22nd March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Ahead of the Game by Allen Saddler (Ronald Richards, 1923-2011)
Directed by John Cardy
BBC Bristol
Joyce: Miriam Karlin
George: Bob Grant
Gary: Steven Facey
Tracey: Penelope Reynolds
Jenkins: Ray Handy
Disc jockey: Christopher Bidmead
Henry: Douglas Leach
23rd March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Freebooter by Gregory Lyons
An alien race is dying.
Directed by Graham Gauld
Luke: Peter Marinker
Alison: Mary Elliott Nelson
Sven: Steve Hodson
Ike: Roy Spencer
Weevel: Henry Davies
Alpha Delta: Kenneth Shanley
Lothan: Carleton Hobbs
Ria: Brenda Kaye
Keital: David Alder
Narrator: Harold Kasket
[Also broadcast on R4X 2022]
25th March 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Ivy Tree (1961). by Mary Stewart (1916-2014), adapted by Barry Campbell
Directed by David Johnston
Mary Gray: Alexandra Bastedo
Con Winslow: Sean Barrett
Adam Forrest: John Rye
Lisa Dermott: Kate Binchy
Julie Winslow: Heather Bell
Donald Seton: Robert Trotter
Old Mr Winslow: Michael Bilton
Mr Bates: Gordon Faith
Mrs Bates: Kathleen Helme
Nora/Mrs Fenwick: Diana Eden
Mr Fenwick: Henry Knowles
Mavis: Glynis Brooks
26th March 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Holy Experiment by William Fox (1911-2008)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
John Locke (1632-1704): Peter Howell
Bulldog: Clifford Norgate
Dr Fell: Peter Woodthorpe
Mary Pennington: Irene Sutcliffe
Gulielma Springett: Caroline John
Isaac Pennington: James Thomason
Admiral Sir William Penn: William Fox
Lady Penn: Margaret Robertson
Thomas Loe: William Eedle
Sir John Robinson: John Rowe
James, Duke of York: John Westbrook
George Fox: Haydn Jones
Critical Friend: Marcus Campbell
William Meade: Steve Hodson
Clerk of the Court/Equerry: David Neal
Recorder: David Graham
Lord Mayor: Jeffrey Segal
Foreman: Douglas Blackwell
Colonel Aston: Walter Hall
John Albrey: Nigel Lambert
Charles II: Brian Sanders
Colonel Markham: Michael Tudor Barnes
Taminent: Clifford Norgate
Repeated from 16th and 18th October 1976
26th March 1978
21.03
Hermsprong (1796) by Robert Bage (1730-1801) dramatised by D. G. Bridson
England at the close of the 18th century
1 of 5: Lord Grondale is Annoyed
Directed by Roger Fine
BBC Birmingham
Charles Hermsprong: Blain Fairman
Maria Fluart: Patricia Gallimore
Caroline Campinet: Elizabeth Cassidy
Lord Grondale: Noel Johnson
Gregory Glen: Michael Harbour
Dr Blick: Geoffrey Matthews
Mr Sumelin: Alexander John
Mrs Sumelin: Jane Hylton
Harriet Sumelin: Sandra Clark
Mr Fillygrove: Terry Molloy
Miss Wavel: Hedli Niklaus
Mr Woodcock: Alan Devereux
Mr Corrow: John Breslin
Tom Tunny.: Ralph Lawton
Additional cast in part 2 and 3:
Betty Hardy, Caroline Campinet, Eileen Barry, Nigel Anthony, Penelope Shaw
(Cast in parts 4 and 5 not listed on BBC Genome database)
Pt2:2/4/78 Pt3:9/4/78 Pt4:16/4/78 Pt5:23/4/78
Each part repeated after 2 days (VHF only)
27th March 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Supper with Satan by Michael Payne
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Paul Winchester: Francis Matthews
Higgins: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Sir Hereward/Lantern: Geoffrey Banks
Nurse Bollard: Patricia Authbert
Aspatria: Rosalind Knight
Caroline: Susan Tracy
Sir Grimsby: Peter Woodthorpe
Bert: Neil Boorman
Bishop Bideford: David Mahlowe
Sapele: Elisabeth Paget
Repeated 2nd April 1978
28th March 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: "A Day in the Life Of" by Vicky Ireland
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Cass Swift: Vicky Ireland
Nurse 1/Nurse 4: Paula Tilbrook
Madge/Nurse 3: Marlene Sidaway
Sister/Nurse 5: Kate Kendall
Almoner/Nurse 6: Fanny Carter
Marilyn/Hospital Worker: Margot Leicester
Caroline/Nurse 2: Jackie Rohan
Doctor/Nick/Waterford: Joe Cook
29th March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Only When I Laugh by Pam Tickell
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Kitty: Judith Barker
Agnes: Marlene Sidaway
Helen: Jane Hylton
Chippie: Linda Jean-Barry
Arthur: Ronald Herdman
Ted: Geoffrey Banks
Ferd: John Baddeley
Young woman: Carolyn Pickles
[Not connected with the 1979 TV series of this name]
30th March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Our Young Mr Wignall by David Nobbs (1935-2015)
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Alistair Wignall: Mick Ford
Charles Pilbeam: Ronald Baddiley
Jenny/Thelma: Valerie Georgeson
Helen/Vera: Lynda Marchal
Jean/Josie: Kate Lee
Rodney/Dave: Brian Miller
Madge/Cleaner: Susan Tracy
Margaret/Rita: Sharon Duce
Jane/Lyn: Jane Lowe
George/Lennie/Director: Alan Rothwell
Mr Bristle: James Warrior
[Adapted from a 1976 tv play]
31st March 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Baa Baa by Chris Barlas
Can a meat eater kill?
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Clare: June Barry
Tom: David Beames
Brian: Tony Haygarth
Tricia: Lynda Marchal
Bill: Ronald Herdman
1st April 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Stars in My Hair by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
The song ' Stars in My Hair was composed by Bruce Stewart
Piano: Geoffrey Brawn
Directed by Graham Gauld
Amy Johnson: Elizabeth Bell
Smithy: Bruce Stewart
Captain Baker: Peter Pratt
Will Johnson: Malcolm Hayes
Alf: Peter Wickham
Vera: Paddy Turner
Claude: John Gray
Chisholm: Jonathan Scott
Patel: Alaric Cotter
Mary Jo: Karen Archer
Commentator: Hilda Kriseman
British: Charles Hodgson
Indian: Manning Wilson
Australian: Bruce Beeby
Singer: Josephine Gordon
Repeated 3rd April 1978 and 10th November 1979
3rd April 1978
19.20-21.20:
The Monday Play: Conditions of Agreement by John Whiting
Directed by Kay Patrick
Peter Bembo: Peter Vaughan
A G: Richard Pearson
Emily: Jill Balcon
Patience: Maureen O'Brien
Nicholas: Henry Knowles
[This broadcast was a shortened version. The full version of this production was broadcast on Radio 3 on 30th November 1978. 135 mins]
4th April 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Prospect of Easy Street by Nigel Bellairs (1934-2003)
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Lemming: George Cole
Miss Cheeseman: Eva Stuart
Mr Brass: Don Troedson
Mr Polly: Jonathan Scott
Perkins/Alf: Kenneth Shanley
Miss Probert/Woman: Jane Knowles
Miss Roberts/Anita/Ann: Heather Bell
Repeated 3rd April 1979
5th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Half-way to Heaven by Edwin Pearce
Life in a tower block.
Directed by Peter Novis
BBC Birminoham
George: Anthony Jackson
Marigold: Elizabeth Revill
Tristan: Kenneth Hadley
Lilian: Diana Bishop
Aunt Winnie: Joyce Latham
Gabe/Stranger: Ralph Lawton
6th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Knight of the Long Trousers by Donald Bull
Directed By: John Tydeman
Dan Hepton: Peter Woodthorpe
Alison, his wife: Irene Sutcliffe
George, their son: Steve Hodson
Sarah, their daughter: Joanna Wake
Mark Damon: William Eedle
Elsie, his ex-wife: Shirley Dixon
Mr Ryden: Leslie Heritage
Waiter: Malcolm Reid
Repeated from 11th August 1976
Repeated 7th July 1984
7th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Staffordshire Knot by James Corbett
The three-looped knot is the emblem of Staffordshire.
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Gran Timmins: Joyce Latham
Edith: Diana Bishop
Frank: John Baddeley
Barry: Jean Rogers
Jock Webster: Tom Watson
Mr Glbbs: Brian Hewlett
Policeman: Alan Devereux
8th April 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Tale of the Knight, the Witch and the Dragon by J.C.W. Brook
A story of imagination, where all things are possible.
Scrull the Dragon created by Peter Howell of the Radiophonic Workshop, who also composed the sound score.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
the Knight, Sir Hugh of Monreth: Patrick Stewart
Kaven, the Witch: Peggy Paige
Scrimp, the storyteller: Timothy Bateson
Ian, his page: Marcus Campbell
Herald: Henry Knowles
Sir Edmund: Gavin Campbell
The Princess Edith: Elizabeth Proud
Jane the Princess's gentle-woman .: Sheila Grant
The King: Anthony Newlands
Marianne, Kaven's daughter: Kate Binchy
The King's subjects: Jonathan Scott and Kenneth Shanley
Repeated 10th April 1978
[A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix HJ]
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014]
9th April 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Moonshine by Shirley Gee (1932-2016)
Special music by Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic
Directed by David Spenser
Ada Molesbridge: Rosemary Leach
Harriet Carmichael: Carole Boyd
Flora: Katherine Hughes
David Carmichael: John Rowe
Jessie: Anne Rosenfeld
Cook: Kathleen Helme
Mrs Molesbridge: Betty Hardy
Repeated from 28th February and 6th March 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2015-2020]
(For her performance as Ada Molesbridge, Rosemary Leach won a 1977 Award for the Best Actress)
10th April 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: You Come Too by Olwen Wymark (1932-2013),
Directed by Liane Aukin
Amelia: Georgina Anderson
Candida: Mary Wimbush
Sir Timothy: David William
Mrs Fisher: Joan Matheson
Radio Interviewer: Diane Mercer
Vicar: Jonathan Scott
Mr Goodheart: Bruce Beeby
Also with Hilary Sesta, David Ashpord, Malcolm Gerard and Michael Goldie
Repeated 16th April 1978
11th April 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Housewives' Choice by Antony King Deacon (1941-2005)
Directed by John Cardy
BBC Bristol
Doris: Brenda Bruce
Janet: Caroline Blakiston
Also with Geoffrey Serle, David Sharp
[The sole entry for Antony King Deacon in the BBC Programme Database]
12th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Oh Canada by Rachel Wyatt
Emigration to Canada.
Directed bv Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Margot: Jennifer Hilary
Charles: John Cater
Peter: Simon Allen
Emma: Kate Lock
Tony: David Baxt
Exalted Fisherman: Gordon Sterne
Supreme Pike: William Ashley
Customer: Arrtl?? Johnson
Policeman: Angus MacInnes
With Hubert Tucker and Barbara Crunbell??
[Rachel Wyatt emigrated to Canada in 1957]
[The Canadian National Library hold a photocopy of the play script and an outline.]
13th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Fathers and Sons by James Douglas
Directed by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
Billie Crosby: Allan McClelland
Joan Crosby,: Margaret D'Arcy
Rob Crosby: Patrick Dawson
Charlie Everett: Maurice Taylor
Jock Spillane: Wolsey Gracey
Joe Sawyer: Louis Rolston
Terry Conlon: Michael Duffy
Peter Hunt: Peter Adair
[Not the more famous novel by Turgenev]
14th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Glitter (1934) by Philip Macdonald (1900-1980) adapted by Gabriel Woolf
Directed by Margaret Etall
E Manory King: Nigel Lambert
Susan Mainwaring: Vicky Ireland
Garth: Jon Glover
Harrington: Kenneth Shanley
Narrators: Aubrey Woods and Frances Jeater
Miss Moreland: Jennifer Piercey
Flewin: Crawford Logan
Mrs Mather: Brenda Kaye
Lady Margery: Polly March
PC: Anthony Newlands
Consultant: Gavin Campbell
Also with Gregory De Polnay, Michael Goldie and David Ashford
15th April 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Boss's Son by Dave Simpson
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Brian Shackleton: Christian Rodska
Hilary: Sandra Clark
Mrs Shackleton: Kathleen Helme
Mr Shackleton: Ronald Baddiley
Grandad: Herbert Smith
Aunt Maude: Rosalie Williams
Fred: Graham Roberts
Mavis: Diana Flacks
Martha: Dinah Handley
April: Janet Dale
Gordon: Edward Peel
June: Jane Collins
Repeated 17th April 1979
17th April 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Dandolo by Anton Gill
The fall of Constantinople in 1204
Directed by Richard Wortley
Dandolo: Carlelon Hobbs
Baldwin: Michael Goldie
Boniface: Stephen Thorne
Narrator/John: Henry Knowles
Geoffrey de Villehardouin: John Gabriel
Richard: Alaric Cotter
Robert: Gavin Campbell
Leporo: Anthony Newlands
Sergio: Eric Allan
Omer: Ian Frost
Ahmet: Richard Morss
Alexius IV: Andrew Branch
Nurtzuphius: Roy Spencer
Nicetas Choniates: Gregory de Polnay
Repeated 23rd April 1978
18th April 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Oily Rag by Peter Tong
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Bin: Colin Egwynn
Mr Stokes: Graham Roberts
Christine: Stephanie Turner
19th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mushrooms and Serpents by John Kirkmorris
Directed hy Liane Aukin
AM: Geoffrey Matthews
Thelma: Ann Morrish
Spohr: Peter Marinker
Chick: Gavin Campbell
Repeated 9th May 1979
20th April 1978
!!! The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare by Anton Gill
(Title taken from Diversity)
details from 1981 listing:
Directed By: Jan Cotterell
Inspector: Peter Wickham
Sergeant: Eric Allan
Eugene Cole: Roy Kinnear
Modtz: Peter Woodthorpe
Philip Henslowe: Jonathan Scott
Landlord: Rod Beacham
Ostler: Alaric Cotter
William Shakespeare: Henry Knowles
Ben Jonson: Gregory de Polnay
Repeated 23rd April 1981
21st April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Maze. by Stewart Farrar (1916-2000)
Directed by Christopher Venning
Douglas Harvey: Christopher Cazenove
Elizabeth: Frances Jeater
Frank Underwood: Bernard Holley
Shirley: Elspeth Charlton
Gina: Lysandre de la Haye
Repeated from 28th May 1976
22nd April 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The 3.30 Human Race by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
Clive Green: Gareth Thomas
Caroline: Rosemary McHale
Pat Thomas: James Ellis
Bater: Michael Goldie
Gina: Heather Bell
Heavy: Harold Kasket
Mug: Rod Beacham
Ronald: David Ashford
Mick: Henry Knowles
Stew: Malcolm Gerard
Nurse: Jennifer Piercey
Stephen Peake: Peter Wickham
Boxing commentator: Eric Allan
Repeated 24th April 1978
24th April 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Willoughby's Phoney War (Downhill from Munich) by William Fox
Directed by John Tydeman
Charles Willoughby: Jeremy Irons
Charity Rainham: Anna Massey
Clarissa Grey: Madeline Smith
Commanding Officer: William Fox
Mona: Mary Wimbush
Peregrine: Charles Hodgson
Christopher: Jeffry Wickham
Adjutant: John Rye
Sergeant: Manning Wilson
Newsreader: Alvar Lidell
Also with Rod Beacham, Kenneth Shanley, Peter Wickham, Jonathan Scott, Malcolm Gerard and Robert Trotter
Repeated 30th April 1978, 29th July 1984, 2nd September 1989,
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]
25th April 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cats in Aragon by Graham Blackett
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Corporal: Michael Burrell
Billon: Daniel Hill
Spaniard: Geoffrey Matthews
26th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Man who Liked Women by Stewart Love (1934-2021)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Charlie: Mark Mulholland
Mother: Sheila McGibbon
Eddie: Patrick Brannigan
Vicar: Bill Hunter
Alice: Maureen Thornton
Woman: Aingael Greenan
Constable: Liam Neeson
27th April 1978
!!! Softly Sing Cucu
John Kirkmorris. Rod Beacham/Heather Bell
28th April 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Long Time Growing by T. D. Webster
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Marilyn: Kika Markham
Eric Thorpe: Geoffrey Matthews
Johnnie: Steve Hodson
Alex Gibson: Eric Allan
Philip Brooke: Raymond Mason
Steve Wright: Peter Brookes
Fiona: Roberta Thayne
29th April 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Hindle Wakes (1910) by Stanley Houghton (1881-1913)
Lancashire, 1912: Llandudno for the weekend.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Nathaniel Jeffcote: Wilfred Pickles
Fanny Hawthorn: Billie Whitelaw
Christopher Hawthorn: Bert Palmer
Mrs Hawthorn: Mary Quinn
Mrs Jeffcote: Katherine Parr
Alan Jeffcote: Brian Peck
Sir Timothy Farrar: Peter Schofield
Beatrice Farrar: Pamela Craig
Ada: Veronica Doran
Repeated from 22nd and 24th May 1965, 11th and 13th January 1969, 26th August and 1st September 1974
[Also produced in 1945 for Light by Howard Rose, with Herbert Lomas as Nathaniel]
[Also produced 1948 for Light by James R Gregson with Louise Hutton as Beatrice.]
[Also produced in 1996 for R4 by Kate Rowland with Trilby James as Beatrice - rptd R4X 2014-2019]
[The wakes were a period when factories in localities in Northern England closed for one or two weeks and the workers took their holidays at the same time, usually heading for Blackpool, Southport, Llandudno etc. Factory machine maintenance took place in this period.]
30th April 1978
21.03
The Heart of Midlothian (1818) by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), dramatised by Betty Davies
1 of 7: The Old Tolbooth
Directed by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
[The BBC Programme database lists only the casts for parts 2, 4 and 5. This list of actors may be considered incomplete:]
Alec Heggie, Arthur Boland, Brown Derby, Bryden Murdoch, Doreen Andrew, Doreen Cameron, Eileen McCallum, Gwyneth Guthrie, Henry Stamper, Jean Faulds, John Grieve, John Shedden, John Shedden, John Young, Lennox Milne, Martin Heller, Mary Riggans, Paul Young, Sharon Erskine, Sheila Latimer, Tammy Ustinov,Tom Fleming
Ep2:7/5/78 Ep3:14/5/78 Ep4:21/5/78 Ep5:28/5/78 Ep6:4/6/78 Ep7:11/6/78
All 1978 episodes repeated after two days, VHF only.
[Also produced in three parts in 1953 by Hugh Stewart with Gudrun Ure as Effie.]
[Also produced in two parts in 2007 by Bruce Young with Irene Allan as Effie (rptd R7) .]
[First published as "Tales of my Landlord 2nd Series" by "Jedediah Cleishbotham"]
1st May 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Hobson's Choice (1916) by Harold Brighouse (1882-1958)
Music by Neville McGrah
Salford, 1880.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
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
Vickey: Karal Gardner
Mrs Hepworth: Marion Dawson
Ada Figgins: Elizabeth Bell
Fred Beenstock: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Repeated from 14/11/62 (Light), 7/11/65, 17/3/75
1st May 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Daughters of Men by Jennifer Phillips
Marital breakdown
Directed by Richard Wortley
Kate Lister: Judi Dench
Mrs Kershaw social worker: Diana Bishop
Sally Lister: Jean Rogers
Eddie Marchant: Peter Pacey
Bahama Kelly: Liza Ross
Anne Troubridge: Jane Knowles
Boy Kruschefski: Harold Kasket
David Lister: Malcolm Gerard
Repeated 7th May 1978, 18th November 1979
[1978 Giles Cooper award winner]
[Different play to the one by Charles Klein]
2nd May 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: State Your Action by Joan Lock
Directed by David H. Godfrey
PC Wendall: Andrew Branch
First Man/Sergeant: Henry Knowles
Second Man/Chemist: Peter Wickham
Inspector Renfrew: Douglas Blackwell
PC Riddle: Gavln Campbell
PC Jones: Fraser Kerr
PC Edwards/Drunk: Anthony Newlands
WPC Wren/Young woman: Karen Archer
[Joan Lock was a WPC in London's West End in the 1950's.]
3rd May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Going Up In the World by Paul Bond
He decides to become a pole-vaulter.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Young Jim: Gary Carp
Jim: Christian Rodska
Mum: Eileen Derbyshire
Gran: Kathleen Belme
Fireman/Toasmaster: John Jardine
Bob/Mayor: Brian Southwood
Cyril/PE Teacher: Cliff Howells
Sue: Lesley Nightingale
Mrs Bullock: Alice Stirrup
4th May 1978
!!!Credit Risk
R.D. Wingfield. John Rowe/William Eedle
5th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Vicki by John Kirkmorris
Directed by Richard Wortley
Victoria M Endicott: Elizabeth Proud
Stella: Elizabeth Bell
Anne: Eva Stuart
Pye: Robert Trotter
Haynes: Peter Craze
Repeated 10th November 1979
6th May 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Rough Justice by Ian Cullen (1939-2019)
Directed by Piers Flowright
Brian Rough: Michael Harbour
George Pelham: John Hollis
Barker: Peter Gordon
'Whitey' Solomons: Keith Smith
Foster: Fred Bryant
Voysey: Michael Goldie
Sarah Darling: Penelope Reynolds
Dr Whittaker: Joy Harrison
Nobby: Rod Beacham
Squirrel: Cyril Appleton
Mathews: Arthur English
Greenham: Kenneth Shanley
Cornish: Ian Cullen
Driver: Reuben Elvy
Repeated 8th May 1978
8th May 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: A Little Bit of Heaven by Maurice Leitch (1933-2023)
Directed By: Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Linda: Jane Knowles
Gerry Mahood: Ian Hendry
Charley: J G Devlin
Wilbur: Mark Mulholland
Georgie: Trudy Kelly
Mrs Mahood/Brenda: Doreen Hepburn
Receptionist/Girl: Stella McCusker
Barman/Bob: Maurice O'Callaghan
Tom/Radio Announcer: Desmond McAleer
Pub Woman: Catherine Gibson
Sid: Patrick Brannigan
Repeated 14th May 1978 and 4th February 1980
9th May 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Is It Something I Said? by Richard Harris
A hotel room in Paddington.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Mr Wallace: Peter Jeffrey
Arthur: John Hollis
Stella: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 25th March 1980
[1978 Giles Cooper award winner]
[Adapted from a tv program from 1974]
10th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Visitors by Pauline MacCaulay
Directed by Gerry Jones
Joe Collins: Rod Beacham
Alice Collins: Norma Ronald
Ron Collins: Elizabeth Lindsay
Mr A: John Rye
Mr B: Ronald Herdman
11th May 1978
!!! Man Versus Ink Blot
Edward Crowley. Billy Boyle/Nigel Goodwin/Manning Wilson/Hilda Kriseman
12th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Minor Surgery by Ann Sheldon Williams
A busy doctors' surgery.
Directed By: Margaret Etall
Christine: Nona Shepphard
Dr Wedderburn: Edwin Brown
Dr Corey: Jonathan Scott
Paul: Gavin Campbell
Police Sgt: Gregory de Polnay
Tramp: Fred Bryant
Pam: Anne Clements
Also with Pauline Moran, Margot Boyd, Hilda Kriseman, Brenda Kaye.
[This is the only mention of Ann Sheldon Williams in the BBC Program Database]
13th May 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Shadows by Jack Gerson (1928-2012)
Pursuing the enemy after the war.
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
Directed By: Stewart Conn
Bishop: James Cairncross
Josef: Patrick Hannaway
Inspector Hohne: Patrick Malahide
Mendel: David Steuart
Sara: Alison Gollings
Benny: Gregor Fisher
Siggy: John Shedden
Minister: Clement Ashby
Frau Bernstein: Katy Gardiner
Repeated 15th May 1978
15th May 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Naylor Affair by Elisabeth Bond
Music by Stephen Boxer
James Naylor (1618-1660). Quaker.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Singer/Skippon: Stephen Boxer
George Fox: John Franklyn-Robbins
James Naylor: David Calder
Martha: Gillian Hanna
Edward/Desborough: Will Tacey
Francis/Speaker: Russell Dixon
Dorcas: Harriet Walter
Ruth: Sally Gibson
Followers of James Naylor: Polly Warren, Bob Eaton, Robert McIntosh
Downing: John McGregor
Pickering: Keith Clifford
Anne Naylor: Marlene Sidaway
Repeated 21st May 1978 and 27th January 1980
16th May 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: What Else Did Daddy Say? by Ben Steed
The end of a marriage.
Directed by Liane Aukin
Patrick: Matthew Ryan
Mum: Elizabeth Bell
Dad: Peter Wickham
Emma: Sarah Steed
Repeated 2nd January 1979
17th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs Bleasdale's Lodger by Rachel Billington
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Amy: Kathleen Helme
The Lodger: Geoffrey Banks
Hestor Francis: Susan Sydney
Tom Francis: Mark Sheridan
Sandy Bleasdale: Paul Webster
18th May 1978
!!! A Room in the Wendy House
Shirley Cooklin. Rosalind Adams/Shirley Cooklin/Michael Goldie
19th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Virago Rib by Anita Bronson
A married relationship changes.
Directed by Susanna Capon
Maudie Jones: Rosemary Leach
Murdoch: Anton Rodgers
Louise: Ann Beach
Barney: Denys Hawthorne
Brother Roger: Christopher Bidmeas
Arnold Beake: Peter Woodthorpe
PC: Steve Hodson
Sergeant: David Neal
Woman: Shirley Dixon
Repeated from 16th June 1976
20th May 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre Remember Me by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
A remote guest house in the Peak District
Directed by Kay Patrick
Thelma Weadon: Jill Balcon
Paul Sutton: Julian Glover
Margot Sutton: Sarah Badel
Edgar Parsons: Peter Tuddenham
Hester Drew: Paullne Letts
Enid Gosler: Margot Boyd
Nancy: Rowena Roberts
Repeated 22nd May 1978
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]
23rd May 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Passing Through by Derek Raby
Directed by Margaret Etall
Matthew: Fred Bryant
Officials: Eric Allan and Charles Gray
24th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Programme Note by Iain Montague
From the 1930's, life as a professional musician became difficult.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Mr Pendle: Geoffrey Banks
Mr Potts: John Jardine
George: Ronald Herdman
Chudleigh: Peter Wheeler
Sarah: Jane Knowles
Elizabeth: Daphne Oxenford
Hilda: Meg Johnson
Archie: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Gloria: Kate Kendall
25th May 1978
!!! When The Gatling Jammed.
Ian Cullen. Christian Roberts/Margot Boyd
26th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Hen's Trek by Christine Furnival.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Henrietta: Heather Bell
Mrs Morris: Margot Boyd
Hen's Father/Alun: Malcolm Gerard
Hen's Mother: Brenda Kaye
Jeannette: Jennifer Piercey
Ann Rees: Rachel Thomas
Gareth Rees: Gerald James
Rhian Roberts: Petra Davies
Lars Martinson: Christopher Bismead
Cerl: Peter Wickham
Guard/Mr Bidmead: Henry Knowles
[Although an abbreviation of Henrietta, Hen is also a Welsh word meaning "old"]
27th May 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: I Want It Now (1968) by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) adapted by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
The host of a "tv chat show".
Directed by Betty Davies
Ronnie: Nigel Anthony
Bill Hamer: David March
Antonia Reichenberger: Irene Sutcliffe
George Parrot: Bruce Beeby
Simona: Anna Calder-Marshall
Juliette Baldock: Margaret Robertson
Chummy Baldock: William Fox
Burke-Smith: Alaric Cotter
Lord Upshot: Jonathan Scott
Lady Upshot: Penelope Reynolds
Sir Cecil Saxton: William Eedle
Lady Saxton: Heather Bell
Student Mansfield: Harry Towb
Kyril Vassilikos: Harold Kasket
also with Rod Beacham, Michael Harbour
Repeated from 27th August 1977
28th May 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Emperor of Ice-cream (1965) by Brian Moore (1921-1999), dramatised by Bill Morrison
Belfast, 1939
Directed by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
Owen Burke: Brian Munn
Gavin Burke: Stephen Rea
Mrs Burke/Maggie: Catherine Gibson
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 from 16th and 22nd June 1975
Repeated 13th January 1991
[Moore was an air raid warden and served during the Belfast Blitz.]
[The title is taken from an earlier (1923) morbid poem by Wallace Stevens and has been much used even for a bar of soap.]
29th May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Crocodile by Graham England
Directed by Betty Davies
Sir Gerald: Peter Howell
Yvette: Carolle Rousseau
John: John Carson
Gaia Galliulina: Jane Wenham
Igor: Paul Meier
Eddie: John Rowe
Betty: Nicolette McKenzie
The Soviet Ambassador: Jeffrey Segal
Margolis: John Hollis
Australian: Bruce Beeby
Under Secretary: Michael Tudor Barnes
Arthur Molloy: Richard Hurndall
Fr O'Halloran: Alan McClelland
Jack Hennessey: Leslie Heritage
Repeated from 27th and 29th November 1976
29th May 1978
18.30-19.00
The Spamfritter Man by Andrew Lynch
Producer: Bob Oliver Rogers
BBC Manchester
1 of 8
Wilfred Hargreaves: Bryan Pringle
Molly Hargreaves: Betty Alberge
Doreen Hargreaves: Kay Adshead
The Merry Widow: Meg Johnson
Albert Bates: Peter Wheeler
Pam: Diane Moran
Additional cast in later episodes:
Byron: David Casey
Harry Sephton: Brian Wilde
Ling Loo: Geoffrey Banks
Maurice Kershaw: Ray Dunbobbin
Mavis: Christine Prentice
MC: Joe Cook
Mr Tomlinson: Joe Gladwin
Mrs Ling Loo: Cynthia Michaelis
The Selector: David Miller
Vicar: John Franklyn-Robbins
Vile Harris: John Jardine
[Other parts by cast members]
Pt2:5/6/78 Pt3:12/6/78 Pt4:19/6/78 Pt5:26/6/78 Pt6:3/7/78 Pt7:10/7/78 Pt8:17/7/78
All parts repeated after 2 days.
29th May 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Cursed Be Canaan by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Special music composed by Richard Yeoman Clark of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by David Spenser
Father Ortiz: James Laurenson
Suna: Merdell Jordine
Father Carlos: Alaric Cotter
King Philip II of Spain: John Westbrook
De Campos: Ronald Herdman
Carmona: John Gabriel
Delia Corario: Anthony Newlands
Dona Teresa: Brenda Kaye
Father Confessor: Gerald Cross
Father Suarez: Eric Allan
Dr de Sepulveda: Gabriel Woolf
Overseer: Gregory de Polnay
Old man: Jonathan Scott
Repeated 4th June 1978
30th May 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Jack the Tripper by David Marshall
Directed by Gerry Jones
Narrator: Eve Karpf
Jack: Peter Jeffrey
Jill: Joanna Wake
Doctor: Hilda Kriseman
Molly: Norma Ronald
Edgar: Manning Wilson
Miles: Derek Pollitt
31st May 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Old Man March is Dead by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
North Auckland, New Zealand.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Jack March: Bruce Stewart
Bert March: Peter Wickham
Ellen March: Nicolette McKenzie
Steve March: Terry Lynch
Dr Chisholm: Robert Trotter
Tane: Chris Preston
Sister Briggs: Paddy Frost
Major Woods: Paul Halst
Adapted from a 1976 tv play.
1st June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cotswold Connubials by Caroline Graham
Confusion at Radio Fosdyke
Musical links by Roger Limb of the BBC Radophonic Workshop
Directed by Piers Plowright
Gilly: Karen Archer
Alan Pharoah: Roy North
Joanna Finch: Jennlfer Piercey
Clive Oliver: Douglas Blackwell
Agnes Remnant: Margot Boyd
Mr Posting: Alan Dudley
Mr Harding: Harold Kasket
Sailor: Carol Hopkin
2nd June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Can't You See I'm Trying to Entertain all These Ladies and Gentlemen? by Tony Bilbow
Directed By: Glyn Dearman
Jacky Meadows: Jimmy Jewell
Toby Roach: Michael Bangerter
Liz Baines: Rosalind Shanks
Desmond Jones: Eric Allan
Marion Roach: Sheila Reid
James Fenner-Baxter: Kenneth Shanley
Mitch: Alaric Cotter
Jeremy Blake: Tony Bilbow
The Bishop of Trafalgar: Manning Wilson
Radio announcer: Judy Bennett
3rd June 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Kind of Loving (1960) by Stan Barstow (1928-2011)
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Victor Brown: Brian Peck
Mr Brown: Harry Markham
Mrs Brown: Alison Bayley
Jim Brown: Michael Stirrup
Christine: Beth Harris
Percy: John Moore
Jack: Philip Weston
Conroy: James Beck
Mr Rothwell: George A Cooper
Mrs Rothwell: Nan Marriott-Watson
Ingrid Rothwell: June Barry
Mr Van Huyten: Robert Wallace
Dorothy: Kate Allitt
Mrs Oliphant: Alice Stirrup
Dr Parker: Muriel Brown
Repeated from 9th March 1964, 5th March 1967, 11th September 1971,
Repeated 5th June 1978
[Sequel: The Watchers on the Shore, broadcast 18/9/71, 10/6/78, :-: Final story in trilogy The Right True End, broadcast 17/6/78]
4th June 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Directed By: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr. Watson: David Buck
Clay: Michael Harbour
Wilson: Geoffrey Matthews
Duncan Ross: Michael Deacon
Insp Jones: Jack Holloway
Mr Merryweather: Stephen Hancock
[Binaural- for listening to on earphones]
5th June 1978
19.20
She Stoops to Conquer (1771) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) (Prologue by David Garrick (1717-1779))
Music by Michael Steer
Fiddles: John Trusler, Stuart Deeks. Bassoon: Mark Gooding; Guitar: Kevin Peek; Harpsichord: Michael Steer
Director: Ian Cotterell
Prologue/Sir Charles Marlow: Anthony Newlands
Mr Hardcastle: Leslie Sands
Mrs Hardcastle: Elizabeth Spriggs
Tony Lumpkin: Wayne Sleep
Kate Hardcastle: Judi Dench
Constance Neville: Sarah Badel
Jack Slang: Bill Monks
Dick Muggins: Eric Allan
Aminadab Tickle: Alaric Cotter
Stingo, the landlord: Fred Bryant
Young Marlow: Michael Williams
Charles Hastings: Peter Wickham
Diggory: Henry Knowles
Pimple, a maid: Karen Archer
Jeremy: Andrew Branch
6th June 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mister and the Waggers' Line by Chris Hawes
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Marion: Stephanie Turner
Headmaster: Nick Darke
Sandra: Helen Worth
Woman: Elizabeth McKenzie
Mum: Marlene Sidaway
Jeff: Christian Rodska
Malcolm: John Wheatley
Carol: Brigit Forsyth
7th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Chair by Roger Longrigg (1929-2000)
Directed by John Cardy
Gregory: Carleton Hobbs
Charles: Norman Shelley
Major Martyn: Alfred Marks
Venables: Peter Woodthorpe
Archibald: John Ruddock
Wine Waiter: James Thomason
First Club Hearty: Jeffrey Segal
Second Club Hearty: Douglas Blackwell
Shopgirl: Nicolette McKenzie
Garage Proprietor: Haydn Jones
Pump Attendant: Leslie Heritage
Repeated from 2nd September 1976
[Roger Longrigg used many pseudoyms].
8th June 1978
!!!
Korsakoff's Psychosis by Geoffrey Parkinson
Details from 1978 listing:
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Virginia Fowler: June Barrie
Miles Whipple: Cornelius Garrett
Elizabeth Whipple/Matron: Hilda Schroder
Mrs Moot: Audrey Noble
Doctor: Nicholas Grace
First medical student: Andrew Hilton
Second medical student: Julia Swift
Student nurse: Jo Anderson
Repeated 14th February 1980
[Korsakoff's Syndrome is caused by a lack of vit B1, associated with high alcohol intake].
9th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Somebody Else's Smile by Elizabeth Kay
Pianist Stuart Hutchinson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Mary Bradley: Sylvia Coleridge
Sarah Jane: Patricia Hayes
Betty: Susan Richards
Agatha: Joan Matheson
Amy/penelope: Anita Sharp-Bolster
June: Aimee Delamain
Nurse O'Hara: Jennifer Piercey
Therapist: Heather Bell
Miss Stanley/Ann: Hilda Kriseman
Daphne/Meg: Margot Boyd
First Lady: Petra Davies
Second Lady: Brenda Kaye
Repeated 16th June 1979
[A sequel "A day at the sea" was broadcast 21st June 1979]
10th June 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Watchers on the Shore by Stan Barstow
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Victor Brown: Brian Peck
Ingrid Brown: June Barry
Mr Van Huyten: Robert Wallace
Mrs Brown: Elizabeth McKenzie
Mr Brown: Harry Markham
Albert Conroy: James Beck
Donna Pennyman: Fiona Walker
Fleur Dunham: Vivienne Dixon
Leonard Reeve: Colln Edwynn
Bill Chisholm/Clive Carter: Andrew Dallmeyer
Wally Chisholm: Malcolm Keith
Paul Merrick: Anthony Kenyon
Repeated from 18th and 20th September1971
Repeated 12th June 1978
[The second part of a trilogy. 1="A Kind of Loving" broadcast 3rd June 1978; 3="Right True End" broadcast 17/6/78]
11th June 1978
Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Directed By: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Reginald Musgrave: Martin Jarvis
Brunton: Graham Weston
Rachel Howells: Hedli Niklaus
[Binaural- to be heard on headphones]
[Several other productions over the years.]
11th June 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Stagford by Jiri Hochman adapted by Vera Blackwell
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Serjoza: David Hatton
Klika: David Mahlowe
Pribyl: Graham Roberts
Mares: Christopher Godwin
Piskacek: Harry Markham
Benes: Ronald Herdman
Vyndra: Kenneth Farrington
Bradaty: Anthony Boden
Bruner: James Garbutt
Havelka: Jim Whelan
Domecek: Ronald Herdman
Sustra: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Repeated from 22nd and 28th October 1973.
12th June 1978
19.45:
Thp Monday Play: Oh Glorious Jubilee or The Merited Triumph of Zebediah Grimpot Esq by Clifford Hanley (1922-1999)
Music / Musical director: Ian Gourlay
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Tomkins/Irish Cocklemonger: Meg Johnson
Grimnot: David Marlowe
Henrietta: Linda Gardner
Sylvia: Carole Hayman
Amelia/Black Bertha: Kathleen Helme
Alex: June Barry
Torauil/Sohertike: Peter John
Scrump: John Franklyn-Robbins
Tom: Russell Dixon
Shorthouse/Solario: John Jardine
Verger/Scheider: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Repeated from R3 5th June 1977
Repeated 18th June 1978
[Clifford Hanley was also a lyricist and wrote the c1950 words of "Scotland the Brave"]
13th June 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Offer by Eric Saward
Directed by Michael Heffernan
Martin: Stephen Rea
Sarah: Heather Bell
Charlie: Sean Barrett
14th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Company She Keeps by Sheila Hodgson
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Mrs Leventhorpe: Gladys Spencer
June: Penelope Reynolds
Mary: Carole Boyd
James: Harold Kasket
Paul: Alaric Cotter
Cllr Reid: Anthony Newlands
Female visitor: Brenda Kaye
Male visitor,: Kenneth Shanley
15.6.1978
!!! The Priest & The President
Michael Kittermaster. Alton Kumalo/Willie Jonah/Carleton Hobbs
No production information published in the BBC Programme Database. Information above from Diversity website.
16th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Polaris by Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
The Polaris Missile Submarine. Christmas Eve.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
Meg: Anna Calder-Marshall
Zelda: June Barrie
Tim the Navigator: Geoffrey Beevers
the Captain: Frederick Treves
No 1: Mark Wing-Davey
Tony: Simon Callow
Nurse: Jennifer Piercey
Milkman: Robert Trotter
Postman: Andrew McCulloch
Farmer: Ken Drury
Repeated 7th June 1979, 3rd August 1985
17th June 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Right True End by Stan Barstow
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Victor: Brian Peck
Ingrid: June Barry
Conroy: Kenneth Farrington
Donna: Fiona Walker
Mr Brown: Harry Markham
Mrs Brown: Elizabeth McKenzie
Christine: Beth Harris
Jim: Michael Stirrup
Fleur: Vivienne Dixon
Miriam/Millie: Jane Lowe
Tom/ Janice: Judy Bennett
Carter/Michael: Peter Wheeler
Graham: Paul Webster
Ben: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 19th June 1978
[This is the final part of a trilogy. The first part "A Kind of Loving" broadcast 3rd June 1978; The second part ="The Watchers on the
Shore" broadcast 10th June 1978].
18th June 1978
11.00
Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Insp Gregory: Geoffrey Matthews
Col Ross: Alexander John
Mrs Straker: Patricia Gibson
Edith: Patricia Gallimore
Ned Hunter: Peter Brookes
Simpson: Adrian Bracken
[Binaural broadcast- to be heard on headphones]
18th June 1978
21.03
Cousin Pons (1847) by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), dramatised by Joan O'Connor.
1 of 2: A Terible Comedy
Director: Jane Morgan
Madame Cibot: Joyce Redman
Schmucke: Lewis Stringer
Pons: Stephen Murray
Madeleine: Hilda Kriseman
Cecile Camusot: Karen Archer
Madame Camusot: Jill Balcon
Jean: Gregory De Polnay
President Camusot: Anthony Newlands
Wilhelm Schwab: David Ashford
Count Popinot: Jack May
Lawyer Berthier: John Gabriel
Fritz Brunner: Michael Goldie
Rimonenque: Gordon Gostelow
Additional actors in part 2:
Dr Poulain: Philip Voss
Madame Cibot: Joyce Redman
Cibot: Manning Wilson
Madame Fontaine: Gladys Spencer
Elias Magus: Gerald Cross
Lawyer Fraizier: Malcolm Hayes
Gaudissart: Harold Kasket
Heloise Brisetout: Valerie Sarruf
Part 2:25th June 1978
Both parts repeated after 2 days.
19th June 1978
19.45: :
The Monday Play: Sister, Sister by Rachel Billington
Three beautiful sisters.
Directed by Kay Patrick
Jessie: Maria Aitken
Amy: Maureen O'Brien
Liz: Anna Calder-Marshall
Storyteller/Stuart: Christopher Guard
Repeated 25th June 1978
20th June 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: M One, M Two. M Three by Geoffrey Hubbard (1923-1996)
Some time in the future, with the British Government under severe pressure to solve its economic problems.
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
Desmond Brawn: Tony Britton
the Prime Minister: Richard Hurndall
Alex Mulligatawny: David McAlister
Chancellor: Manning Wilson
Fortesque: Peter Wickham
Daphne: Frances Jeater
Mrs Galentine: Margot Boyd
Cornish lady: Petra Davies
Also with Bill Monks, Henry Knowles and Gavin Campbell
21st June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Lioness by John B. Vincent
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Sparky Ray: Nigel Anthony
Gavin Hunt: Alaric Cotter
Doris Chapman: Sandra Clark
Det-Insp Baird: Simon Lack
Ted Chapman: Peter Wickham
Det-Sgt Lomax: Wilfrid Carter
Radio Announcer: Peter Jefferson
Doctor Lindsey: John Richmond
Simon Chapman: Heather Bell
Matthew Chapman: Judy Bennett
22nd June 1978
!!! The Crew From Sorrow Hill by Wilson Harris.
[No production data on the BBC Programme Database]
[This play seems to have been produced in 1971 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - a tape of the Canadian broadcast is held by the University of the West Indies.]
[Sorrow Hill is the confluence of three rivers in Guyana. It appeared in other written works by Wilson Harris including Palace of the Peacock (1960) and Resurrection at Sorrow Hill (1993). It is unknown how this play relates to those.]
23rd June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Phone-In by Keith Waterhouse (1929-2009)
Music by Trevor Holroyd
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Mike Farrow: John Shrapnel
Margaret: Janet Dale
Joe: Peter Wheeler
Steve: Christian Rodska
Yvette: Margot Leicester
Repeated from 16th July 1976
[This production of the play was broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio also in 1978]
24th June 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Invitation to the Waltz (1932) by Rosamund Lehmann (1901-1990) dramatised by Michael Voyset
Her first dance. Partnerless.
Music arranged and directed by Mike Steer
Directed by Jane Morgan
Kate: Marian Diamond
Olivia: Angela Pleasence
James: Rusty Livingstone
Mrs Curtis: Monica Grey
Mr Curtis: Robert Trotter
Uncle Oswald: Patrick Troughton
Lace Girl: Karen Archer
Reginald: David Timson
Marigold: Valerie Sarruf
Lady Spencer: Maxine Audley
Rollo: Simon Cadell
Archie: Michael Cochrane
Etty: Joanna Dunham
Tony Herriot: Martin Jarvis
Dolly: Suzan Farmer
Peter Jenkin: Tom Wilkinson
George: Peter Wickham
Timothy Masters: Eric Allan
Sir John Spencer: Peter Williams
Repeated 26th June 1978
25th June 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Naval Treaty (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Bill Morrison.
Director: Peter Novis
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Percy Phelps: Richard Kay
Lord Holdhurst: Richard Hurndall
Annie Harrison: Roslind Shanks
Joseph Harrison: John Rye
Tangey: Stepben Hancock
Mrs Tangey: Jean Lambert
Forbes: Terry Molloy
[Binaural- to be heard on headphones]
[Other BBC productions: year/adaptor/Holmes:
1952/Felix Felton/Carleton Hobbs
1957/ditto, different supporting cast.
1960/Michael Hardwick/Carleton Hobbs (rptd R4X)
1992/David Ashton/Clive Merrison] (rptd 1993)(also rptd R7 and R4X)
[The Official Secrets Act was not law until 1889, prompted by a case which broke no law at the time.]
[By the time of the first BBC Radio production in 1952 (as part of Children's Hour), American radio had produced the story at least four times.]
26th June 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Whose Little Boy Are You, Then? by William Ingram (1930-2013)
Directed by Betty Davies
Harry Price: Sion Probert
Gwilym Price: Clive Roberts
Mrs Price: Margot Boyd
Uncle Dilwyn: William Ingram
Muriel: Jan Edwards
Repeated 2nd July 1978
27th June 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Ghosts of the British Museum by J. C. Wilsher
The Reading Room of the British Museum.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Terry: Nigel Anthony
Geoff: Eric Allan
Hilda: Elizabeth Proud
TV narrator: Robert Trotter
Mike: Andrew Branch
Bill: Blain Fairman
Julia: Heather Bell
28th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Half-Known Roads by Leonard Hill
Summer 1942
Directed by Liane Aukin
John: Christopher Guard
Sgt Boddy: Terence Frisby
Johna man: Michael Spice
Smithson: Alaric Cotter
Mary: Jennifer Piercey
Officer: Manning Wilson
[The title is from a poem ("The Send-Off") by Wilfrid Owen which ends: A few, a few, too few for drums and yells, May creep back, silent, to still village wells Up half-known roads]
29th June 1978
!!! Forty Is A Dangerous Age Arnold, by T D Webster.
Producer: Harry Catlin.
Arnold: Norman Rossington
Eileen/Linda: Diana Bishop
Miss Preston: Joan Matheson
Clive: Clifford Norgate
June/Sally: Jane Knowles
Mrs Barnes/Liz: Shirley Dixon
First Guard: Malcolm Reid
Second Guard: David Graham
Repeated from 3rd November 1976
30th June 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Landmark in My Life by John Speer
A writer of children's stories finds inspiration.
Directed by David Spenser
Lynne Baker: Carole Boyd
Sandy: Karen Archer
Paul: Andrew Branch
Jerry: Stephen Thorne
Hilda: Petra Davies
Carol: Hilda Kriseman
1st July 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Before the Screaming Begins by Wally K. Daly
The visit of a flying saucer.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Tom Harris: James Laurenson
his wife, Sally:: Jennifer Piercey
the Prime Minister: Patrick Troughton
A P Smith: Donald Hewlett
Alien Controller: Manning Wilson
Alien Voice: Malcolm Gerard
Det-Sgt Forbes: Robert Trotter
Prime Minister's wife/Sally's mother: Katherine Parr
Silkin: Peter Wickham
Brosteaux: Nigel Graham
Cpl Wilkes: Geoffrey Leesley
Cpl Johnson/Newsreader: Eric Allan
Nurse/Cabinet Mi\nister: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Desk Sgt/Opposition MP: Peter Williams
Repeated 3rd July 1978
[Also broadcast in 3 parts on R7 and R4X 2004-2021]
2nd July 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Priory School (1904) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Director: Peter Novis
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Duke of Holdernesse: William Fox
Dr Huxtable: Alan Dudley
James Wilder: Peter O'Dwyer
Reuben Hayes: Ralph Lawton
[Binaural recording to be listened to with headphones]
[First BBC production in 1962 with Carleton Hobbs as Holmes, later produced in 1993 by Michael Bakewell but with Clive Merrison as Holmes.]
[The story was made into a silent film in 1921 and first appeared on radio in the USA in 1931]
3rd July 1978
19.20:
The Monday Play: Pearl. by John Arden (1930-2012)
Music composed by Stephen Boxer
Musicians: John Turner, Ephraim Segerman, Bill Nickson, Stephen Boxer, Julian Drake
A play about a play - the setting is England in the 1640's.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Pearl - Elizabeth Bell
Mother Bumroll: Paula Tilbrook
Barnabas: David Mahlowe
Stage-Manager: John Jardine
Gideon Grip: Geoffrey Banks
Dr Sowse: Ronald Herdman
Grimscar: Peter Jeffrey
Backhouse: David Calder
Belladonna: Lynda Marchal
Duchess: Kathleen Helme
Catso: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Katerina: Jane Knowles
Ahasuerus: Robert Morton
Also with Elizabeth Bell, Peter Jeffrey, David Calder.
Repeated 12th October 1978
Also broadcast on R3 on 4th March 1979, 9th June 1991,
[The play was one of the first Giles Cooper award winners. It concerns Ireland. The author settled in Ireland in 1971, and was for a while a member of Sein Fein]
4th July 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Grand Finale by Frederick Aicken (1920-2018)
Ulster politics and an old cinema.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Sam: J G Devlin
Billy: Harry Tows
[The author had a particular interest in films, his father was a cinema manager. He lived in Larne until the 1960's]
5th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Blaggin' Job by Joan Lock
Two prisoners wait for their cases to come up in court
Directed by Betty Davies
Wallace: Edward Kelsey
Rowan: Bruce Beeby
Douggie: Christopher Bidmead
Bill: Garard Green
Taylor, a solicitor: David Graham
Selwood: David Sinclair
also with Clifford Norgate and Anne Rosenfel
Repeated from 26th August 1976
[The author spent six years as a police woman in London]
6th July 1978
!!! Who Killed Jenny Dance? by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
There is a road accident.
Director: David H. Godfrey
Camilla Musgrove: Sandra Clark
Clive Dobson: Malcolm Hayes
Todd: Manning Wilson
Fairweather: Brian Haines
Des Turner: Clifford Norgate
Beryl Turner: Joanna Wake
Miss Radford/Telephone operator: Bridget Wood
Edward Dance: Jeffrey Segal
Dr Brian Eastwood: Nigel Lambert
Stella Eastwood: Carole Boyd
Clerk/Court Attendant: Peter Craze
Judge: Garard Green
Judge: Leslie Heritage
Repeated from 14th May 1976
7th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Murphy Unchained by Ron Hutchinson
Murphy is the butt of every Irish joke.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Greville: William Gaunt
Charles: Nigel Anthony
Wendy: Sharon Duce
Sean: Anthony Jackson
Murphy: Terry Molloy
Colin: Stephen Thorne
Zelda: Maggie McCarthy
[The author was born in Lisburn but brought up in Coventry and lives in California]
8th July 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Trains Don't Stop Here Any More by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Time: 1916-1930
Pianist Mary Nash
Directed by John Tydeman
Letty Edginton: Nerys Hughes
Beatrice, her mother: Sheila Grant
William, her father: Malcolm Hayes
Nicky, her younger brother: Adam Godley
Tom her elder brother: Derek Seaton
Oliver Hobbs: Nigel Anthony
Violet, his sister: Wendy Richard
Bill Brooks: Kenneth Shanley
Mr Cotton: Eric Allan
Frank O'Malley: Bill Monks
Amy Lyall: Eve Karpf
Mr Pearson: Robert Trotter
Repeated 10th July 1978, 7th January 1989, 11th February 1991
9th July 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: Charles Augustus Milverton (1904) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Bill Morrison
Director: Peter Novis
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Milverton: David March
Agatha: Janis Winters
Lestrade: John Hollis
The Lady: Patricia Gallimore
[Binaural recording to be listened to with headphones]
[Other BBC productions: year/holmes
1954-John Gielgud (title:"Dr Watson Meets Mr Sherlock Holmes")
1961 (rptd R4X)-Carleton Hobbs
1965-Douglas Wilmer
1993 rptd 1995 (rptd R7 and R4X)-Clive Merrison]
[Inspired by the death of Charles Augustus Howell]
9th July 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Blow Your House In by Jennifer Phillips
A chain of house sellers and buyers.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Benjamin Hassell: Alfred Marks
Jessica Duval: Toby Robins
Peter Phipps: Christopher Good
Romayne Phipps: Patricia Gallimore
Annie Parsons: Patsy Byrne
Hugh Parsons: Malcolm Hayes
Mike: Peter Craze
Wendy: Petra Markham
9th July 1978
21.03
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) adapted by Barbara Couper
Part 1 of 5.
Director: Betty Davies
Jane Eyre: Meg Wynn Owen
Mr Rochester: Patrick Allen
John Reed: J Bennett
Eliza Reed: Sheila Grant
Georgiana Reed: Olwen Griffiths
Bessie: Eva Stuart
Miss Abbot: Kathleen Helme
Mrs Reed: Betty Baskcomb
Mr Lloyd: Lewis Stringer
Mr Brocklehurst: Clifford Norgate
Barbara: Jane Knowles
Miss Temple: Caroline John
Miss Miller: Deddie Davies
Mrs Fairfax: Betty Hardy
Adele: Jo Manning Wilson
Grace Poole: Nancy Nevinson
Pianist: Winifred Davey
Additional actors in parts 2-5:
Madi Hedd, Nigel Anthony, Martin Friend, Jenny McCracken, Michael Harbour, David Gooderson, Peter Marinker, William Eedle, Patricia Leventon, Ella Milne, Ronald Herdman, Kate Binchy, Katherine Parr, Martin Friend, John Rye
Pt2:16/7/79 Pt3:23/7/78 Pt4:30/7/78 Pt5:6/8/78
Each episode repeated two days later.
[Series repeated from 4th April 1972]
10th July 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Idiot (1868) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) translated by Constance Garnett adapted by William Ash
1 of 2:
Directed by Kay Patrick
Prince Myshkin: David Timson
Nastasya: Sarah Badel
Aglaia: Karen Archer
Rogozhin: Anthony Jackson
Lebedyev: David March
Ganya: David Ashford
General Epanchin: Fred Bryant
Mme Epanchin: Kathleen Helme
Keller: Brian Glover
Totsky: Stephen Thorne
Adelaida/Katya: Eve Karpf
Colonel Ivolgin: Stephen Murray
Kolya: Crispin Gillbard
Varvara: Jennifer Piercey
Darya: Sheila Butler
Servant: Roy Spencer
Additional cast in part 2:
Ippolit: Andrew Branch
Yevgeny: Robert Trotter
Yevgenv's Fellow Officer/relation: Malcolm Gerard
Princess Byelokonsky: Hilda Kriseman
Part 2: 17th July 1978
Both parts were repeated 6 days later.
[Also produced in 4 parts for R4 by Cherry Cookson, rptd R4X/R7 2010-2021]
11th July 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Just a Social Visit by Dave Simpson
Directed By: Christopher Venning
The man: Alan Rowe
The girl: Heather Bell
12th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Promising Young Man by Charles Marowitz (1934-2014)
Promises are supposed to be kept.
Directed by Liane Aukin
Simon: Simon Rouse
Tom: Peter Jeffrey
Lynne: Margaret Robertson
Greg: Geoffrey Matthews
Mrs Crouch: Hilba Kriseman
Au pair: Gillian Jason
13th July 1978
!!! In The Shadow Of The Sun
Alan Williams. Gerald James/Annabel Leventon/Anthony Hall/Ronald Baddiley
14th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Uncle Venables by E. H. Hendry
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Guy Hammersley: Richard Briers
Uncle Venables: Maurice Denham
Frank Collins: John Tordoff
Elsie Collins: Jennifer Piercey
Mrs Gracie: Jo Manning Wilson
Miss Panting: Norma Ronald
15th July 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Night of Caesar's Knives by William Keenan
Mainly in Italy.
Theme music composed by Mat Camison and arranged by David Fleming-Williams .
Directed by Trevor Hill.
BBC Manchester
Doris: Anna Cropper
Michael: John Bennett
Mrs Clare O'Connell: Elizabeth Kelly
Renshawe: Geoffrey Matthews
Gerald Picton: Ronald Herdman
Captain Averno of the Rome Police: Peter Bell
Colonel Boris Balakeff of the KGB: David Mahlowe
Robson of British Intelligence: Geoffrey Banks
Count Galateo/Sven Baste: Geoffrey Wheeler
Jean Tyler: Marah Stohl
Harry Carson: Graham Tennant
Repeated from 14th February 1976
[A sequel to "Late into the Night, broadcast 21st and 23rd September 1974, 7th February 1976]
[The next story in the series was "The Vienna Connection" broadcast 29th July 1978]
16th July 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Director: Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Miss Stoper: Irene Sutcliffe
Mrs Rucastle: Stella Tanner
Toller: William Eedle
[Other BBC Radio productions: year/Holmes:
1955 rptd 1959: Carleton Hobbs (rptd R7)
1991: Clive Merrison (also rptd R7)]
17th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The White Lady by R. E. T. Lamb
It is 1919.
Directed by Richard Wortley
John: Nigel Anthony
Geoffrey: Alaric Cotter
Mary: Glynis Brooks
Grinterly: Jeffrey Segal
Simon: Leslie Heritage
Jack: Haydn Jones
Dick: Malcolm Reid
Cook: Margot Boyd
Tom: Tim Fearon
Lucy: Mary Clare Nash
Leadbeter: Deborah Paige
Repeated from 19th June 1976
18th July 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Great Gorilla Scandal by Stewart Love
Directed by John Scotney
Tom: John Hollis
Peterson: Aubrey Woods
Bill: Nigel Graham
Chemist/Sam: John Bull
Clerk/Inspector: David Sinclair
Taxman: John Rye
Hunter: Stephen Thorne
Gerry: Brian Haines
Repeated from 19th June 1974
19th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Making Way by Peter Gibbs
Redundancy after 38 vears of loyal service to the firm.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Albert: Brian Blessed
Doris Buxton: Ysanne Churchman
Derek: Paul Copley
Terry: Colin Skipp
Mag: Diana Davies
Boh Birley: Robert Brown
J W: Allan Cuthbertson
Ted: Stephen Hancock
Alistair: Nick Dunning
Wally Henshaw: Roger Hume
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2017]
20th July 1978
!!! Death Of A Pig by John Kirkmorris
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Fay: Elizabeth Spriggs
Kitty: Avril Elgar
Alan: Peter Craze
Lenny Rolfe: Malcolm Reid
Lumsden: Douglas Blackwell
Mr Tweed: David Graham
Repeated from 19th May 1976
21st July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Wake! by Zena Walker (1934-2003)
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Sally: Frances Jeater
Joan: Anna Cropper
Pam: Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs Baker: Gwen Nelson
Station announcer/Porter Blake: Douglas Blackwell
Man at station: Godfrey Kenton
Tom: Malcolm Reid
Aunty Bea: Gladys Spencer
Nellie: Peggy Paige
Mr Briers: James Thomason
Repeated from 4th June 1976
22nd July 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Nearly Dead by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Directed by Tony Cliff.
BBC Manchester.
Sister Asquith/Lilly: Paula Tilbrook
Nurse Jones/Vesta: Sally Gibson
Martin Stokes: Russell Dixon
Sister Stokes: Carole Hayman
Nurse Conway: Judith Barker
Nurse Thrall: Valerie Georgeson
Nurse Ring: Jane Collins
Inspector Halliwell: Paul Webster
Inspector Pound: Derrick Gilbert
Doctor Gadallah: Nigel Anthony
Roy Phillips: Geoffrey Banks
Miss Clark: Kathleen Helme
Joseph: John Jardine
Repeated 24th July 1978
23rd July 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Bill Morrison
Director: Peter Novis
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Henry Baker: Peter Symonds
First Rough/Breckinridge: Jack Holloway
Second Rough/Porter: David Strong
Peterson: Martin Friend
windigate/maudsley: Ralph Lawton
James Ryder: Jonathan Scott
Catherine Cusack: Elizabeth Revill
Mrs Oakshott: Hilda Schroder
[Binaural recording- to be heard on headphones]
[Other BBC productions: year/Holmes:
1952 Carleton Hobbs (Windigate: Richard Goolden)
1954 rptd 1996 John Gielgud
1957 Carleton Hobbs (Windigate: Hamilton Dyce)
1961 rpt 1962 Carleton Hobbs (Windigate: Derek Birch) (Rptd R4X)
1991 rptd 1992 Clive Merrison (also rptd R7 and R4X)]
[The Carbuncle is a gemstone]
24th July 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Cost of Living Like This (1969 posthumous) by James Kennaway (1928-1968), dramatised by A. P. Lee
Directed by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland.
Julian: Martin Jarvis
Christabel: Diana Olsson
Narrator: James Cairncross
Sally: Jill Fenner
Mozart: Ronnie Letham
Barman/Doctor: Tom Cotcher
Nurse: Barbara Bryan
Repeated 30th July 1978
25th July 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Beach Games by Derek Coltman
She lives in a fantasy world.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Dewey: Vivian Pickles
Estelle: Sheila Reid
The Man: Michael Graham Cox
Repeated 14th November 1978
26th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Death of a Member, by Philip Honeywell
Directed by Cherry Cookson
George Bodley: John Hollis
Septimus Bird: William Eedle
Landdale/ speaker: Douglas Blackwell
Alan Cutler/Clerk: Alaric Cotter
Dora Cutler/Ivy: Carole Boyd
Pillman: Anton Rodgers
Helen: Caroline Blakiston
Orvill: Neville Jason
Yvonne: Diana Olsson
Joanna: Jane Knowles
Perkins/Harry Turner: Michael Goldie
Bradbury: Stephen Thorne
Repeated from 30th June 1977
[Sequel "Passport to Power" broadcast 2nd August 1978]
27th July 1978
!!! The Road From Dunkirk by Lester Powell
Director: Harry Catlin
James Fleet: Nigel Anthony
Bo Stainton: John Rye
Adriana Mark: Eve Karpf
Betty Field: Sian Thomas
Joan Bainbridge: Nicolette McKenzie
Edwina: Shirley Dixon
Interviewer: Jonathan Scott
Repeated from 12th January 1977
28th July 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Pope Joan Lives by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
What if Pope Joan (c. 900 AD), the one and only female Pope, was not mere legend, but really existed.
Historical research by Joan Morris.
Directed by David Spenser
Sister Andrea: Anna Calder-Marshall
Mother Lucy: Meg Jenkins
Geoffrey Quintal: Eric Allan
Monsignor O'Riordan: Kevin Flood
Father Casimir: John Rye
Solange/Woman: Eve Karpf
Helene Van Eyck: Hilda Kriseman
Sacristan: Leonardo Pierroni
Repeated 7th March 1980
29th July 1978
14.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blood Line by Tim Rose Price
A retired Master of Foxhounds
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Bart Fawcett: Frederick Treves
Rosie: Mary Allen
Susie Court: Caroline Hunt
Adam Fawcett: Anthony Smee
Repeated 1st August 1978
29th July 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Vienna Connection, by William Keenan
Theme music composed by Mat Camison and arranged by David Fleming-Williams .
Directed by Trevor Hill.
Doris: Anna Cropper
Michael Heywood: John Bennett
Streffard: Ronald Herdman
Mrs Clare O'Connell: Elizabeth Kelly
Robson: Graham Roberts
Slingsby: Alan Meadows
Hotel Charlemagne receptionist: Peter Bell
Captain Werner Frickner, Austrian police: Enn Reitel
Roberts CIA: Blain Fairman
Colonel Boris Balakeff, KGB: David Mahlowe
Repeated 31st July 1978
[A sequel to "Late into the Night", broadcast 21st and 23rd September 1974, 7th February 1976 and story 2: "The Night of Caesar's Knives" (broadcast 15th July 1978)]
30th July 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Reigate Squires(1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), dramatised by Bill Morrison
Director: Peter Novis
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Colonel Hayter: Peter Howell
Insp Forrester: Malcolm Reis
Squire Cunningham: Malcolm Hayes
Alec Cunningham: Hugh Ross
Repeated:
[Other BBC Radio productions: year / Holmes
1961 rptd 1962 - Carleton Hobbs (rptd R4X)
1992 - Clive Merrison (rptd R7 and R4X) ]
31st July 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
A World Service Drama production.
Directed By: Dickon Reed
Mistress Ford: Sheila Hancock
Sir John Falstaff: Brewster Mason
Mistress Page: Maxine Audley
Mistress Quickly: Patricia Hayes
Ford: Charles Kay
Page: Bill Fraser
Pistol: Peter Jeffrey
Justice Shallow: Carleton Hobbs
Slender: Geoffrey Beevers
Evans: Richard Bebb
Nym: Kevin Flood
Bardolf: John Hollis
Anne Page: Susan Sheridan
Caius: David Horovitch
Fenton: Richard Derrington
Host/Simple: Edward Kelsey
Repeated 6th August 1978 and 23rd April 1990
2nd August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Passport to Power by Philip Honeywell
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Wilfred Pillman: Anton Rodgers
Helen Bosworth: Caroline Blakiston
Simon Orvill: Neville Jason
Linda Orvill: Jennifer Piercey
Roy Banting: Peter Williams
Clyde Hepworth: Norman Beaton
Alan Dobon: Stefan Kalipha
Mark Grigson: Philip Voss
Alistair Wedderburn: Robert Trotter
Waiter/Newscaster/Steward: Joe Dunlop
Secretary/Pilot: Harold Kasket
Repeated 6th June 1979
[Sequel to Death of a Member, by Philip Honeywell broadcast 30th June 1977 and 26th July 1978 ]
3rd August 1978
!!! A Private Kind Of Lady
Janet Howorth. Karen Archer/Robert Cawdron
4th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Miracle at Tubbernanog by Frederic Mullally dramatised by Edward Marsh.
White satin briefs spangled with diamante shamrocks made by French Nuns.
Musical Director John Anderson
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Paudeen: Sean Barrett
The Fixer O'Toole Begorra: T. P. McKenna
Lynch: Michael Golden
Keegan: Allan McClelland
Murphy: Kevin McHugh
Garda: McNamara Emilio
Bertorelli: Joe McPartland
McLaughlin The Terror: Mark Mulholland
Maeve Mulcahy: Marcella O'Riordan
Post Boy/Colleen: Kate McClat
Colleens and Floozies: Maureen Dow and Aingeal Crehan
5th August 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Ardagh Experiment by T. G. Nestor (1937-2023)
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Morgan: Kevin McHugh
Hynes: Louis Rolston
Lowe: Michael McKnight
Prison governor: Bill Hunter
Andrews: Harold Goldblatt
Sergeant: Aiden Grennell
Constable: Toby Byrne
Waters: Jack McQuoid
Repeated 8th August 1978
5th August 1978:
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Dartmoor Court Martial by Peter King
Dartmoor 1815.
Directed by: Gerry Jones
Captain Shortland: Frederick Jaeger
Commander King: Alan MacNaughtan
Maj-Gen Jackson: Anthony Newlands
Lt Averlyne: Christopher Good
Maj Jolliffe: Allan Cuthbertson
Hubbard: John Bay
Hayes: Peter Marinker
Hanlet: Geoffrey Collins
Repeated 7th August 1978
6th August 1978
11.00-11.30
Sherlock Holmes: The Solitary Cyclist (1903) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Director: Michael Bakewell
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Violet Smith: Miriam Margolyes
Carruthers: Manning Wilson
Williamson: Douglas Blackwell
Woodley: Sean Barrett
Landlord: Ralph Lawton
[Binaural recording to be heard on headphones]
[Other BBC Radio Broadcasts: Year/Holmes:
1954: John Gielgud
1964 rpt 1967 - Carleton Hobbs (rptd R4X)
1993 rpt 1994 - Clive Merrison (rptd R7 and R4X)]
7th August 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Playmates by Gilly Fraser
A world where exploitation thrives
Directed by Kay Patrick
Lena: Carole Hayman
Barry: David Calder
Ricky: Angus Lennie
Interviewer: Hilda Kriseman
Boy: Paul Rosebury
Jacko: Max Hafler
Model Nurse: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Landlady: Eva Stuart
Personnel Officer: Jennifer Piercey
Louie: Shirley Allan
Mario: Michael Tudor Barnes
Nick: Bill Monks
Nick's friend: Richard Piper
Customers in Club: Henry Knowles, Michael Tudor Barnes, Bill Monks, Barry Woolgar
Repeated on R3 on 10th June 1979
9th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Leaning on Alice by Dorothy Gharbaoui
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Alice Bennett: Kate Binchy
Paul Bennett: Allan McClelland
Ian Reid: Stephen Rea
Valerie Bennett: Aingeal Grehen
Ginny: Kate McClay
Rhona: Maureen Dow
Dr Ferguson/Dr Harrison: Maurice O'Callaghan
Dr O'Rourke: Michael Duffy
10th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: It's a Very Small Place by Graham England
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Hibberd: Timothy Bateson
Mary Wright: Eve Karpf
Lindy Speroni: Elizabeth Proud
Clerk: Alaric Cotter
Sidney: Cornelius Garrett
Valerie/Nurse: Jo Anderson
District Auditor: Phillip Manikum
Landlady: Daphne Heard
Josie Speroni: Michael Harbour
The Chairman: William Eedle
11th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Out for the Count by Ken Whitmore
Tight-fisted and randy at the same time.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Molly Martingale: June Barry
A Customer: Herbert Smith
Oscar: Christopher Godwin
Cleo/The Princess: Carole Hayman
Crystal Swinkly: Penelope Davis
Victor: Laurence Kenny
Mr Spice: Ronald Herdman
The Count: Geoffrey Wheeler
Repeated from 29th December 1976
12th August 1978
14.30
Grundy by Haydn Wood
Technical realisation by David Greenwood
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
Bob Philips: Michael Harbour
His wife/Janet: Penelope Reynolds
First Policeman: Rod Beacham
Second Policeman: Kenneth Shanley
Grundy: Elizabeth Bell
Mr Rogers: Jonathan Scott
Tim: Malcolm Gerard
Repeated 15th August 1978
[Binaural recording to be heard on headphones]
12th August 1978
20.30
Saturday Night Theatre: A Flight of Steps (1966) by Robert Nicolson, adapted by Joan O'Connor
Director: Stewart Conn
Mrs Ross: Effie Morrison
First whisperer/Fr Murphy: John Shedden
Second whisperer/Det-Sgt: Ian Dewar
Mrs Dooley/Mrs Wallace: Betty Gillin
Miss Nolan/Willie: Isobel Gardner
Manageress/Peggy: Rose McBain
Mrs Fallon: Jean Faulds
Police Sgt: Jameson Clark
Constable: Paul Young
Mr Conrad: Bryden Murdoch
Lawrie: John Young
Charlie: Charles Kearney
Mrs Sloan: Jessie Morton
Sonny: Andrew Byatt
Jeannie: Valaric Fyfer
Jack: Alan Waiters
Repeated 14th August 1978
[(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1974) ]
[Two broadcasts, two author's names: Either Nicolson OR Nicholson]
13th August 1978:
11.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons (1904) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Dramatised by Bill Morrison
Director: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Inspector Lestrade: John Hollis
Morse Hudson/Beppo: Terry Molloy
Harker: Stephen Hancock
German Manager: Roger Hume
Harding: Michael Harbour
Sandeford: Stanley Page
[Binaural recording to be heard on earphones]
[Other BBC radio productions: year / holmes:
1954 John Gielgud
1966 rptd 1983 Carleton Hobbs (rptd R7 and R4X)
1995 Clive Merrison]
13th August 1978
14.30:
AfternoonTheatre: The Firstborn (1946) by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
The year 1200 BC
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Seti the Second, the Pharaoh: Maurice Denham
Anath Bithiah, his sister: Mary Morris
Ramases his son: David Spenser
Teusret, his daughter: Nicola Jenkins
Moses: Keith Michell
Aaron, his brother: Peter Baldwin
Miriam, his sister: Pauline Letts
Shendi, Miriam's son: Nicholas Edmett
Kef/Overseer: David Brierley
Overseer/Guard: Alaric Cotter
Repeated from 7th April 1969
[Previously produced in 1947 by Robert Gittings with Flora Robson as Anath]
13th August 1978
21.03
The History of Mr Polly (1910) by H G Wells (1866-1946), dramatised by Antony Kearey.
1 of 3.
Director: Graham Gauld
Alfred Polly: Christopher Guinee
Morley: Roger Snowdon
Parsons: Nigel Lambert
Platt: Alaric Cotter
Morrison: Graham Chinn
Garvace: Godfrey Kenton
West: Bill Monks
Harold: Henry Knowles
Grace: Carol Marsh
Mrs Larkins: Betty Baskcomb
Miriam: Elizabeth Proud
Minnie: Heather Bell
Penstemon: Peter Woodthorpe
Additional actors in parts 2 and 3:
Voules: Bruce Beeby
Christabel: Jane Knowles
Rusper: Kenneth Shanley
Rumbold: Michael Deacon
Hinks: Fred Bryant
Florence: Megs Jenkins
Old Lady: Aimee Delamain
Gambell: Paul Meier
Boomer: Gregory de Polnay
Telephonist: Eve Karpf
Uncle Jim: Geoffrey Matthews
Warspite: Lewis Stringer
Blake: Michael Claughton
Pt2: 20/8/78 Pt3:27/8/78
Each part repeated after two days.
Series repeated commencing: 1/9/89
14th August 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: Lear Jones by William Ingram (1930-2013)
It's his 70th birthday.
Director: Gerry Jones
Meredith 'Lear' Jones: Nigel Stock
Gwyneth Jones: Elizabeth Morgan
Rowena Jones: Petra Davies
Caenwyn Jones: Jan Edwards
Twm: Douglas Blackwell
Degwydd: S16n Probert
Prosser: Derek Pollitt
Repeated 20th August 1978
16th August 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Last Chance Frances by Bill Corrigan
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Frances: Anne Jameson
Jack: Geoffrey Matthews
Margaret: Mary Wimbush
David: Peter Craze
Eduardo/George: Leo Maguire
Repeated from 10th February 1977
17th August 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Gilda by Owen Holder (1921-2016)
Director: Margaret Etall
John Hammond: Owen Holder
Ronald Collins: Robert Trotter
Gilda: Eve Karpf
Wally: Eric Allan
Also with: Andrew Branch, Kenneth Soahley, Roy Spencer
18th August 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Sleepings Dogs Lie by Grazyna Monvid
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Teacher: Grazyna Monvid
Peter: David Bland
Bill: Geoffrey Banks
Gary: Michael Walden
Brenda: Brigit Forsyth
Geoff: David Calder
Workman: Russell Dixon
Ellen: Kim Yates
19th August 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Stuffings by James Prideaux (1927-2015)
Would you marry a taxidermist?
Directed by Dan Freudenbercer for Earplay. the Radio Drama Production Centre for American Public Radio
Edgar: Len Cariou
Gladys: Meryl Streep
George: Russell Horton
19th August 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Watch the Forest Grow by Ken Whitmore
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Horace: Geoffrey Banks
Aster: Kathleen Helme
Ernie: Peter John
Edgar: Ronald Baddiley
Doreen: Annette Robertson
David: John McGregor
Nita: Paula Tilbrook
Waitress/Trace: Eileen O'Brien
Gray: Christopher Martin
Repeated 21st August 1978
20th August 1978
11.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Abbey Grange (1904) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Director: Michael Bakewell
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
Lady Brackenstall: Nicolette McKenzie
Captain Croker: Michael McClain
Theresa: Madi Hedd
Insp Hopkins: George Little
[Binaural recording to be heard on earphones]
[Other BBC radio productions: year / holmes:
1962 rptd 1964 Carleton Hobbs (rptd R4X)
1993 rptd 1996 Clive Merrison (rptd R7 and R4X)]
21st August 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Rowland by Tom Mallin (1927-1977)
Doctor Rowland Taylor, martyr.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Rowland: Stephen Murray
Sir Thomas: Maurice Denham
Cage: Michael Deacon
Lord Chancellor Gardiner: Manning Wilson
Quince: Peter Craze
Male parishioner/Jailer: John Hollis
Female parishioner: Hilda Kriseman
The Rev Brimstone/Tod: Jonathan Scott
Stammers/Wart: Stephen Thorne
Captain: Kenneth Shanley
Sergeant/Dignitary: Gavin Campbell
Repeated 27th August 1978
23rd August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mr Petrie 's Last Request by Chris Webb
Can his last request be met?
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Mrs King: Elizabeth McKenzie
Sir Lewes: David Mahlowe
Mr Petrie: Clive Swift
General Boothstown: John Franklyn-Robbins
Jepson: Roy Barraclough
Lord Churtsey: Russell Dixon
Mr Purles: Peter Wheeler
Sir John: John Jardine
Sir Arthur: Herbert Smith
24th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Coating of Rum by Valerie Murray adapted by Frank Singuineau and Stuart A. Black
Jamaica: Clarence Duncan would rather be in the local bar than on the Sunday School bus.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Clarence Duncan: Anton Philips
Enid Duncan: Isabel Lucas
Miss P: Jennifer Piercey
The Rev Edgar Johnson: Nigel Lambert
The Rev Gerald Skinner: Henry Knowles
Waitress: Valerie Murray
Also with Solita Byron, Nicola-Anne Blackman. Frank Singuineau, Bryony Nolan, Stacey Nolan
[Valerie Murray was Jamaica born]
25th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Big Broadcast of 1922 by Keith Waterhouse (1929-2009)
How the mythical rival station. 3LO reached listeners.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
P V Plover: Geoffrey Banks
Alister McAlister: Russell Dixon
Charity Wemyss-Lightly: Penelope Lee
Sir Mordecai Brass: Ronald Baddiley
Julian Spooner: Nigel Anthony
Albert Bateson: Cliff Howells
Lady Brass: Marlene Sidaway
Mr Pearson: John Jardine
Mrs Pearson: Sally Gibson
Repeated 29th September 1922
[The British Broadcasting Company radio station 2LO started broadcasting 14th November 1922. The Australian radio station 3LO (nothing to do with this play!) commenced 13th October 1924 on 174KHz and continues on 774Khz.]
26th August 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Equal Terms by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Directed by Jane Morgan
Mary Jessup: Sylvia Syms
Imogen Drew: Ann Lynn
Repeated 29th August 1978
26th August 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1936) by Barry Lyndon (Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs 1896-1972) adapted by Kenric Hickson and Cynthia Pughe
The pathology of crime
Directed by: Ian Cotterell
Dr Clitterhouse: Michael Aldridge
Nurse Ann: Peggy Paige
Det-Insp Charles: Richard Burnett
Benny Kellerman: David March
Pal Green: John Hollis
Daisy: Rosalind Adams
Sgt Bates: Peter Craze
Oakie: Malcolm Reid
Badger Lee: John Rowe
Sir William Grant KC: Godfrey Kenton
Repeated from: 10th April 1976
[The title was a deliberate pun (unrelated to the play) designed to not be known to the stage censor of the day - and it was indeed missed.]
[Other radio productions:
1946 by Noel Iliff with David Kossoff as Pal.
1959 by Noel Iliff with John Boddington as Pal.]
27th August 1978
11.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) dramatized by Michael Bakewell
Directed By: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham.
Sherlock Holmes: Barry Foster
Dr Watson: David Buck
German Hotelier Harold Kasket
The Hon Philip Green: Brian Blessed
Holy Peters: Bruce Beeby
Mrs Peters: Joy Stewart
Mr Timmins: George Woolley
Vibart: Roger Hume
Wilkins: Jean Rogers
Marie: Hedli Niklaus
[Binaural recording to be heard on headphones]
[Other BBC radio productions- year/Holmes:
1960 Carleton Hobbs (rptd R4X)
1994 rptd 1996 Clive Merrison (rptd R7 and R4X)]
28th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Enemies Within (1974) by Michael Z. Lewin
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Albert Samson: Ed Bishop
Martin Wilson: Blain Fairman
Melanie Kee: Liza Ross
Bartholomew: Paul Maxwell
Robert Goger: Peter Dyneley
Edmund Kee: Peter Marinker
Lt Miller: Peter Whitman
Insp Dowdell: Ramsay Williams
Rose Trull: Patricia Gallimore
Cop: Terry Molloy
Mrs Seale: Joyse Latham
Maureen: Denise Cartier
Jack: Roger Gartland
Repeated from 5th June 1976
[The character Albert Samson featured in eight novels- see other radio plays: "The Way We Die Now" 1/6/74; "Ask the Right Question" 19/10/89; and "Missing Woman" 12/12/91 and 27/4/92; ]
28th August 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Flaw (1965) by Antonis Samarakis (1919-2003) translated by Peter Mansfield and Richard Burns,
A story of the psychological struggle between two secret police agents and their suspect.
Directed by John Theocharis
the Interrogator: Ian Hogg
the Suspect: Nigel Anthony
technical skill: Graham Greene
Manager: David March
Secret Police Chief: Paul Hardwick
Barber: Anthony Newlands
Agent: Kenneth Shanley
Chambermaid: Heather Bell
Girl: Eve Karpf
Also with Robert Trotter and Peter Wickham
Repeated 3rd September 1978
30th August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Brothers of the Sword by Michael Abbensetts (1938-2016)
Larry is a night club "stand-up comic".
Directed by Liane Aukin
Larry: Derek Griffiths
Clifton: Norman Beaton
Cecilia: Carmen Munroe
Milton: Joe Marceil
Robin: Fiona Walker
Magistrate/MC: Bill Monks
Repeated 23rd January 1980
[Michael Abbensetts was born in Guyana.]
31st August 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sweets on Sunday by Christopher Russell
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Pat: Paula Wilcox
Bob: Stephen Thorne
Louise French: Gail Lidstone
Rose French: Margot Boyd
Sheila Brown: Sheila Grant
Terry Brown: Malcolm Gerard
Geoff Gardner: Henry Knowles
1st September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Love Knot by Michael J. Butler
1910. Family life and fortune.
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Marmy: Barbara Leigh Hunt
Tom: David Buck
Hetty: Rosemary McHale
Arthur: Julian Curry
Alex: Frances White
Francis: Simon Chandler
Beth: Janis Winters
2nd September 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Skin Sisters by Gill Linscott.
A new job.
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
Anne: Eve Karpf
Ken: Sean Arnold
Jack: Graham Seed
Sally: Diana Bishop
Karen: Heather Bell
Ted: Douglas Blackwell
Workman: Bill Monks
Repeated 5th September 1978
2nd September 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Dr Johnson Investigates by Richard Brayshaw
London 1776- Death in Macbeth.
Director: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Dr Samuel Johnson: Leo McKern
James Boswell: Edward de Souza
David Garrick: Laurence Payne
Call-boy: Simon Allen
Forbes: Paul Nicholson
Sarah Siddons: Linda Janiec
Binnie: Brenda Kaye
Warburton: Gavin Campbell
Barry: Allan McClelland
Meg Blount: Vanessa Millard
Tom Blount: Roy Spencer
Paine: Andrew Branch
Hester Thrale: Daphne Neville
Henry Thrale/Officer: Phillip Manikum
Repeated 4th September 1978
[This production was also broadcast in Canada on CBC, in three parts, 1997 repeated 2004 - no credit given to the BBC]
3rd September 1978
21.03:
The Lady of the Camellias (1848) by Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895) adapted by Terence Cooper.
Pianist: Mary Nash
1 of 4:
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
Alexandre Dumas: John Rye
Ernest de Crepy: Nigel Anthony
Auctioneer: Peter Pacey
Comte de Varville: Peter Whitman
Olympe Serusier: Elizabeth Morgan
Armand Duval: Gary Bond
Marguerite Gautier: Sarah Badel
The Gardener: Denis McCarthy
Prudence Duvernoy: Denise Bryer
Gaston Courier: Paul Gaymon
Nanine: Emily Richard
Also with: Carole Boyd, Madeleine Cemm, Madi Hedd, Betty Huntley-Wright, Norma Ronald, Stephen Thorne and Peter Williams
Additional cast in parts 2-4:
Monsieur Duval: Stephen Murray
Also with Trader Faulkner, Pauline Letts
Pt2:10/9/78 Pt3:17/9/78 Pt4:24/9/78
Each part repeated two days later.
Series repeated from 29th and 31st December 1974.
[Mm Gautier was based upon Mm Duplessis (1824-1847) one of whose lovers (1844/5) was Dumas fils]
4th September 1978
19.20:
The Monday Play: Flight Into a Wilderness by Don Taylor (1936-2003)
1660: What happened to Cromwell's Army at the Restoration of the Stuarts.
Music composed by Derek Bourgeois
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Narrator: Conrad Phillips
William Goffe: Alan Moore
Edward Whalley: John Ablneri
Frances: Petra Davies
Mary: Jennifer Piercey
Capt Williams/Jones: Phillip Manikum
Gookin/Sperry: John Gabriel
Anne Bradstreet: Amanda Murray
Patience/Mistress Gookin: Eve Karpf
John Child/Scranton: Brian Jackson
Capt Pierce/Kirk: Barkley Johnson
Edwards/Isaiah/Davenport: Tim Bentinck
Endecott/Gilbert/Landlord: Peter Wickham
Crowne/Messenger/Lobdell: David Sinclair
Bellingham: Conrad Phillips
Danforth/Treat: Eric Allan
Norton/Leete: Philip Voss
Bradstreet/Bishop/Shoshoonas: Roy Spencer
Kellond/Manahassett: Robert Trotter
6th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Power of Dawn. by Emlyn Williams (1905-1987)
The winter of 1910 at the small railway junction of Astapovo.
Guitar: Eric Hill
Directed by John Tydeman
Tolstoy: Michael Redgrave
Katya: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Katya aged 82: Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Repeated 27th April 1985
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X]
7th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Put Down to Experience by Geoffrey Parkinson
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
Geoffrey Parkinson: Geoffrey Beevers
Celia Glover: Norma Ronald
Benedict Burden: Gerald Cross
Miss Edith Pewter: Hilda Schroder
Tobias O'Hare: John Rowe
Jessie O'Hare: Kathleen Helme
North Country Candidate: Peter Woodthorpe
Sensitive Candidate: Steve Hodson
Miss Hooper: Karen Ford
Miss Golly: Margaret Robertson
The Rev Cornelius Dunscombe: John Rowe
Herr Frink (once of Leipzig): Jeffrey Segal
Rufus Glover: Steve Hodson
8th September 1978:
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Chance of a Lifetime by Lawrence Dobie
Directed by Richard Wortley
Annie: Hilda Kriseman
Bill: Geoffrey Matthews
Maxton: Henry Knowles
Edmonds: John Gabriel
Gillian: Fleur Chandler
Phyllis: Jennifer Piercey
Policeman: Nick Brimble
Tramp: Bill Monks
News Desk Voice: Eric Allan
Telephone Voice: Roy Spencer
Youth: Andrew Branch
9th September 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Last Respects by Michael Toft
Directed By: Tony Cliff
Jane: Elizabeth McKenzie
Robert: Keith Clifford
Joe: Derrick Gilbert
Pam: Susan Littler
Majsie: Dinah Handley
Alice: Judith Barker
Cissy: Lorraine Peters
May: Rosalie Williams
Godfrey: David Mahlowe
Repeated from 30th June 1976
Repeated 12th September 1978
9th September 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Pawn In the Game by David Martin
Directed By: David H. Godfrey
Philip Drake: Michael Cochrane
Frank Burrill: Noel Johnson
Heidi Bauer: Barbara Stea
John Field: Anthony Newlands
Richard Stirling: Henry Stamper
Miss Lambton: Margot Boyd
Jan Kapek: Michael Segal
Bernie Philips: Gregory de Polnay
Inspector Goss: Robert Trotter
Tessa Matthews: Lorna Rosslyn
Charles Auber: John Gabriel
Husband: Rex Graham
Wife/Secretary: Eileen Waugh
Court Chairman/F.O. Official: Henry Knowles
Airport Voice/Woman PC: Jennifer Piercey
Man/Voice: Roy Spencer
Repeated 11th September 1978
10th September 1978:
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Animals in the Zoo by Gaie Houston
Directed By: Liane Aukin
Narrator: Margaret Tyzack
Tom: Peter Woodthorpe
Nelson: Rudolph Walker
John: Hugh Dickson
Jock: Sean Barrett
Brian: Anthony Jackson
Derek: Paul Chapman
Peter: Paul Meier
Dilly: John Hollis
Bonnie: Miriam Margolyes
Paul: Steve Hodson
Taffy: Haydn Jones
JP: Garard Green
Safari Man: Timothy Bateson
Mrs Amberley: Ruth Goring
Buckshee Major: Peter Jeffrey
Sue: Anne Rosenfeld
Jenny: Caroline Hutchison
Judge: Hector Ross
Also with Valerie Murray, Neville Jason, Nicolette McKenzie, Terri Lang and Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated from 29th November and 5th December 1976
[Gaie Houston is a teacher and consultant in Gestalt Therapy].
11th September 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: Play Donkey (1977) by Stewart Conn
Directed By: Gordon Emslie
Ryden: Alec Heggie
Mr Ryden: Leonard Maguire
Mrs Ryden: Eileen McCallum
Zoe: Doreen Cameron
Beryl: Carol Holmes
Gibb: David McKail
Colley: Tom Criddle
Reporter: Ronnie Letham
Repeated 17th September 1978
13th September 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Fruit of a Barren Land by Cari Taylor
Directed by: Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Gillian: Annette Robertson
Glyn: Russell Dixon
Louise: Dorothy Vernon
Miss Manning: Linda Gardner
Ron Jones: Alan Rothwell
Brendan: David Jackson
Jimmy: Christian Rodska
Dave: Stephen Mallatratt
14th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: It's Not What You Say by William Smethurst (1945-2016)
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Tom Pickering: Michael Harbour
Janet Pickering: Maggie MacCarthy
Vikki Pickering: Jean Rogers
Mr Jarman: Jack Holloway
Mrs Wrigley: Joy Stewart
Helen: Pauline Letts
Sadie: Sandra Clark
Wayne: Jane Calloway
Stephen Longmore: Noel Johnson
Richard Page: Geoffrey Collins
Jill Longmore: Patricia Gallimore
Maggie Longmore: Penelope Shaw
[William Smethurst and Roger Pine worked together on The Archers in 1976 and 1978]
15th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Knocker, by Alan Melville (1910-1983)
Permission for a new door knocker...
Directed by John Tydeman
Mrs Broadbent: Marget Boyd
Mr Rooke: Robe Trotter
Mrs Hazeltine: Brenda Kaye
Mr Fletcher: Philip Voss
Miss Henley: Jennifer Piercey
Mr Pettigrew: Manning Wilson
Mr Fields: Kenneth Shanley
Cllr Jenkins: Peter Williams
Cllr Blenkinsop: Malcolm Gerard
Chairwoman: Petra Davies
A Reporter: Andrew Branch
Mrs Prevett: Heather Bell
Berni: John Gabriel
Mr Bulmer: Anthony Newlands
Ludovic Quayle: Henry Knowles
Ernest Humphries: Peter Wickham
16th September 1978
14.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Infamous Mister Georgie by Gordon McKerrow
Director: Peter King
Trevor: Jimmy Jewel
Madge: Dandy Nichols
Smudge/Park Keeper: Leonard Fenton
Gerald: Manning Wilson
Repeated 19th September 1978
16th September 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be... by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Not every honour is appreciated.
Technical presentation by Jock Farrell, assisted by David Hitchinson
Directed by: Jane Morgan
Pamela Turner: Joanna David
Timothy Turner: Simon Cadell
Harold Thorpe: Christopher Benjamin
Maggie Bell: Angela Pleasence
Sam Knott: Eric Allan
Mrs Knott: Gladys Spencer
Orford: Henry Knowles
Mrs Fry: Margot Boyd
Mrs Nightingale: Susan Richards
Mrs Kick: Pauline Letts
Bishop: Philip Voss
Bob Masters: Manning Wilson
Anderson-Hay: John Gabriel
Mrs Anderson-Hay: Janet Burnell
Mrs Willis: Brenda Kaye
Ponsonby: Kenneth Shanley
Lord Hawkhurst: Richard Hurndall
Dobbs: Peter Wickham
PC Black: Bill Monk
Repeated 18th September 1978, 26th January 1980
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2021]
[Several churches still retain the old "virgin crowns" aka crants, referred to in this play, the writer of this summary has seen them. The last known usage was 1973.]
18th September 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Children of the Red Nun by John Cardy
A weekly children's comic in early 1945.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Cyril Van Dell: Barry Foster
Lydia Metcalfe: Mary Wimbush
Reuben Paternoster: Harold Kasket
Sidney Love: Alan Dudley
Aubrey Hacker: Peter Woodthorpe
Dennis Jellinek: David Graham
Chrissie Love: Christine Absolom
Peter Pilgrim: Andrew Branch
Lord Caramel: Robert Trotter
Repeated 24th September 1978
20th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Foolish Painted Things by John Wagstaff
Directed by Martin Jenkins
The Rev Michael Tilley: Cyril Luckham
Pandora: Maureen O'Brien
Mrs Good: Hilda Kriseman
[Probably unrelated but the title occurs in the opening line of a poem by Michael Drayton (1583-1631) which concludes: So shalt thou fly above the vulgar throng, Still to survive in my immortal song. ]
21st September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Nightingale's Defence by Peter Whalley (1946-2017)
Not everyone who is made a fool of by the opposite sex immediately goes and commits treason.
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Lawrence Nightingale: John Rowe
Mother: Pauline Letts
Father: Jack Holloway
Gloria: Hearmer Barrett
Games master/First boy at party/Russian operator/Pat: Terry Molloy
The Girlfriend/Little girl: Hedli Niklaus
Interviewer/Second boy at party /Policeman/Dancing teacher: Michael Harbour
Foster/Man in loo/Religious fanatic.: Stanley Page
Gillian/ Anita: Patricia Gullmore
22nd September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Daddy's Little Treasure by Valerie Georgeson
Dad is not entirely honest.
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
David Coates: David Beames
Marilyn Laycock: Adrienne Frank
Mr Laycock: Ronald Herdman
Mrs Laycock: Kathleen Helme
Barry: David Casey
Lizzie: Angela Bruce
Mr Coates: Harry Beety
Mrs Coates: Eileen Derbyshire
Anthea: Kate Lee
Jim: Stephen Mallatratt
Repeated 14th September 1979
23rd September 1978
14.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Crime on the Knock by John Hamblett
Directed By: Peter King
Norma: Alex Marshall
Geoff: Bill Gaunt
Royston Gooseberry: Robert Gillespie
Repeated 26th September 1978
23rd September 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Janus by John Kirkmorris
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
Bill Gethin. Anthony Newlands
Sam Walker: Michael Jayston
Tanya Adams: Elizabeth Bell
Victor Prem: Cyril Shaps
Robin Loxley: Simon Cadell
Edward Adams: Manning Wiison
Repeated 25th September 1978
25th September 1978
18.30-19.00
Dr Finlay's Casebook by A J Cronin (1896-1981)
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr. Cameron.
The first of the last radio series.
The series started in 1970 and ran on the radio for nine series ending with this 1978 set. The 1978 series was of 13 episodes with the last aired 18th December 1978. The last three years were produced by Edward Taylor.
The 1978 episodes were repeated after two days.
25th September 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: China by Frederick Harrison
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Barman: Colin Edwynn
Robert: Christian Rodska
George: Paul Webster
Drinkwater: Edward Peel
Jimmy: David Threlfall
Charlie: John Wheatley
Ernie: Russell Denton
Father: Brian Peck
Madge: Gwen Taylor
Doris: Sylvia Brayshay
Mrs Sullivan: Elizabeth McKenzie
Mother: Meg Johnson
Repeated 19th March 1979
27th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Don't Press Your Luck by Edwin Pearce
Directed by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
Helen Crompton: Maggie McCarthy
Brian Crompton: Peter Brookes
Ralph Longmore: Gareth Johnson
Stephen Longmore: Noel Johnson
Jill Longmore: Patricia Gallimore
Mr Hipkiss: John Baddeley
Audrey: Jane Galloway
Ted Price: Ralph Lawton
28th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: No Ice on the Wall by David H. Godfrey
Directed by Gerry Jones
John: Ronald Herdman
Tony: Nigel Anthony
Roger: Michael Deacon
Agnes: Jennifer Piercey
Peter: Henry Knowles
Phillipa: Sushila Anand
Geoff: John Hollis
Tom: Robert Trotter
Gran: Gladys Spencer
Rathbone: John Gabriel
Repeated 8th February 1986, 3rd August 1989
29th September 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Old World (1975) by Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986) translated (1976) by Ariadne Nicolaeff, adapted by Walter Hall
A doctor and patient fall in love.
Directed by Dickon Reed
A World Service Drama production.
She: Pauline Letts
He: Richard Hurndall
[Also produced by Anastasia Tolstoy in 2004, rptd 2005, with Geoffrey Whitehead as Rodion]
[Original title: Starmodnaya Komediya = “Old Fashioned Comedy”)]
30th September 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Fond Memories by Carolyn Sally Jones
Directed by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
Lewis Vaughan: Ray Smith
Greta Vaughan: Christine Pollon
Jenny Graham: Jan Edwards
Robert Graham: Michael Harbour
Miss Huggins: Avril Angers
30th September 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Incendiarist by Jan Needle (1943-2023) and Lawrence McDermott
In 1776 the Rope House at Portsmouth dockyard was burnt down
Directed by Christopher Venning
Captain Dalby: John Carson
James Aitken: Michael Deacon
Mr Mitchell: Malcolm Gerard
Susan Durgan: Diana Rayworth
Cohn Durgan: Robert Trotter
Jardine: Kenneth Shanley
Mrs Cotterill: Sheelah Wilcocks
Judith Cotterill: Heather Bell
Judge: John Gabriel
Landlord: Brian Jackson
Sergeant: Henry Knowles
Lord Sandwich: Christopher Scoular
Also with Peter Wickham, Margot Boyd
Repeated 2nd October 1978
1st October 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Number Discontinued, adapted by Barry Campbell from the novel "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1973) by Margaret Simpson
This country in the not too distant future, problems when you have lost your personal identity number.
Special sound Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
Dr Johnny Lawler: Julian Curry
Michael Rulman: Neville Jason
Yvette: Valerie Murray
Derek Withrington: Benjamin Whitrow
Barbara Luscombe: Tamara Ustinov
Annette Withrington: Joan Matheson
Slocombe/Minister: William Eedle
Guy Luscombe: Henry Knowles
Joy/Mrs Boone: Brenda Kaye
Mr Fitch/Gimlet: Jonathan Scott
Evans/Terry: Alaric Cotter
Simon/Second official: Timothy Bateson
Miss Davies: Mary Elliott Nelson
Cresswell: Malcolm Gerard
Trevor/Nemeson/First official: Michael Tudor Barnes
Leila: Jane Knowles
Repeated from 3rd and 5th December 1977
1st October 1978
21.03-22.00:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray adapted by Michael Kittermaster
Signature tune composed by Michael Steer
1 of 10: Introducing the Puppet Show
Whole series cast:
Adam Godley, Alec McCowen, Alison Draper, Amanda Murray, Andrew Branch, Anthony Newlands, Brenda Kaye, David King, David Strong, Eric Allan, Eve Karpf, Fred Bryant, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Harold Kasket, Heather Bell, Heather Emmanuel, Henry Knowles, Hilda Kriseman, Hilda Schroder, Iain Armstrong, Ian Masters, Irene Sutcliffe, James Hall, Jennifer Piercey, Joan Matheson, John Gabriel, John Pullen, John Westbrook, Jonathan Scott, Kenneth Shanley, Malcolm Gerard, Manning Wilson, Margot Boyd, Nigel Stock, Peggy Marshall, Peter Wickham, Peter Williams, Petra Davies, Petra Markham, Philip Sully, Philip Voss, Richard Hurndall, Roberta Symes, Rod Beacham, Roger Hammond, Roy Spencer, Samuel West, Sandra Clark, Sarah Badel, Sean Barrett, Sheila Grant, Simon Richmond, Stephen Murray, Susan Colgrave, Tim Bentinck, Timothy West (Cast of 56!).
Weekly for ten weeks, all parts repeated after two days. Part 10 on 3rd December 1978.
2nd October 1978
19.20:
The Monday Play: A Life by Joan O'Connor based on the novel Une Vie (1883) by Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893)
Music composed and conducted by Mike Steer
Directed by Bernard Krichefski
Jeanne de Lamares: Angela Pleasence
Viscount de Lamares: David Buck
Baroness de Perthuis: Elizabeth Spriggs
Baron Jacques de Perthuis: Harold Kasket
Rosalie: Valerie Lilley
Abbe Picot: David March
Countess de Fourvitle: Carole Hayman
Count de Fourville: Philip Voss
Abbe Tolbiac: Kenneth Shanley
Aunt Lison: Margot Boyd
Simon: Gregory E Polnay
M Fernel: John Gabriel
Due Dupuis: Brenda Kaye
Marcel/Dr Couillard: Bill Monks
Paul: Heffie Moraes
Repeated 7th April 1980
["Une Vie" was also known as "L'Humble Verite" and was first translated as "A Woman's Life"
2nd October 1978
22.30
Call for the Dead (1961) by John Le Carre adapted by Rene Basilico
1 of 5:
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
BBC World Service production
George Smiley: George Cole
Mendel: Alfred Burke
Peter Guillan: Douglas Blackwell
Maston: Richard Hurndall
Samuel Fennan: Anthony Newlands
Elsa Fennan: Hilda Kriseman
Assistant Supervisor: Kenneth Shanley
Josie: Jane Williams
Additional actors in parts 2-5:
Frances Jeater, George Innes, James Thomason, Jane Knowles, Malcolm Gerard, Paul Meier, Rod Beacham, Shirley Dixon, Stephen Greif
Pt2:9/10/78 Pt3:16/10/78 Pt4:23/10/78 Pt5:30/10/78
The series was repeated commencing 12th August 1979
[Also produced in 2009 by Patrick Rayner with Simon Russell Beale as Smiley (also rptd R4X) ]
[The character of George Smiley appears in a number of le Carre's books. This was the first. The next was "A Murder of Quality" (version with George Cole broadcast in 5 parts commencing 30th March 1981) ]
3rd October 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Jack's Wedding by David Buckley
Directed by Michael Bartlett
Jack: Eric Allan
Jack's Dad/Uncle Daniel: Malcolm Gerard
Jack's Mum: Hilda Kriseman
Pauline/child Jack: Elizabeth Proud
Charlie: Kenneth Shanley
Frank (as child): Sarah Bennett
Hank/Frank (adult): Tim Bentinck
Milly: Elissa Derwent
Louise: Gail Lidstone
Pauline's Father: John Gabriel
4th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: More Cherry Cake by Jehane Markham
Directed by Kay Patrick
Peter: David Markham
Dot: Rosalie Crutchley
Sybil: Aimee Delamain
Andrea: Petra Markham
[David Markham was the father of sisters Jehane and Petra Markham].
5th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Slip of the Disc by John Graham
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Sally Hills: Nerys Hughes
Peter Raven: George Baker
Leonard Hills: Denys Hawthorne
Mr Williams: Alan Downer
Dr McKenzie: John Graham
Mrs Raven: Margot Boyd
Jocelyn Knight: Andrew Branch
Porter: Manning Wilson
Secretary: Eve Karff
Repeated 8th January 1980 and 21st July 1984
6th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Henry VIII (c.1613) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) adapted by Martin Jenkins
Part 1 of 2: Divorce
Music by Christopher Whelen
Directed by Martin Jenkins
the Storyteller: Richard Burton
Henry VIII: Robert Lang
Queen Katherine: Sian Phillips
Cardinal Wolsey: Stephen Murray
the Old Lady: Flora Robsen
Crier: Douglas Blackwell
Norfolk: Kevin Flood
Gardiner: Jonathan Scott
Secretary to Buckingham: Kenneth Shanley
Sands: Peter Howell
Lovell: Timothy Bateson
Lord Chamberlain: Jack May
First Gentleman: James Thomason
Second Gentleman: Gavin Campbell
Suffolk: Henry Knowles
Cardinal Campeius: Peter Bull
Scribe: Malcolm Gerard
Additional cast in part 2:
Archbishop Cranmer: John Gielgud
Surrey: Keith Drinkel
Cromwell: Lyndon Brook
Griffith: Richard Pearson
Patience: Joan Matheson
Capuchius: Neville Jason
An Old Lady: Pauline Letts
Thomas More: Neville Jason
Keeper: Peter Craze
Part 2: 13th October 1978
Originally broadcast as episodes 25 and 26 of the series "Vivat Rex" broadcast July/August 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2012]
[Probably written with the assistance of John Fletcher (1579-1625)]
7th October 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: My Own Front Door by Paula McKay
Spoons played by June Miller
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Harry: John Hollis
John: Manning Wilson
Nurse Marina: Valerie Murray
Nurse Reilly: Petra Davies
Ben: Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Brien: Brenda Kaye
Dr Hill: Gregory: De Polnay
Dr Marks: Philip Voss
Social worker/Mrs Burrows: Yvonne Bonnamy
Golding: Cyril Shaps
Sister Hanson: Heather Bell
7th October 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Soft September Air by Charlotte Hastings (1909-2003)
Title song composed by: Michael Blanchard
Guitar[ist]: Eric Hill
University students need somewhere to stay.
Director: Graham Gauld
Lindsey Ashe: Flora Robson
Dickon: Andrew Branch
Mrs Bevil: Betty Hardy
Horace Bellamy: Hector Ross
Chris: Sean Barrett
Blitz: Kenneth Shanley
Millicent: Margot Boyd
Dr Porteus: Kenneth Barrow
Di: Susan Sloman
Doctor: Henry Knowles
Sister: Brenda Kaye
Philip: Gavin Campbell
TV newsreader: Malcolm Gerard
The student: Max Haeler
Repeated 9th October 1978 and 30th December 1979
8th October 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Venus Observed (1950) by Christopher Fry (Arthur Hammond Harris 1907-2005)
Directed by Jane Morgan (Jane Graham)
The Duke of Altair: Denholm Elliott
Edgar: Richard Kay
Reedbeck: Clive Swift
Dominic: David Timson
Rosabel Fleming: Moira Redmond
Jessie Dill: Elizabeth Spriggs
Captain Fox Reddleman: Alan Barrt
Bates: Michael Shannon
Hilda Taylor-Snell: Stephanie Bidmead
Perpetua: Angela Down
Repeated from 15th and 21st October 1973
Repeated 20th December 1987
[Also produced in 1950 by Mary Hope Allen with Valentine Dyall as The Duke.]
[Written in "blank verse".]
9th October 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Choice by Peter Tegel
Czechoslovakia between March 1938 and March 1939.
Directed by Richard Wortley
Irma Barz: Jennifer Piercey
Frau Schneiderhahss: Mary Wimbush
Martin Blau: Geoffrey Beevers
Marianka: Petra Davies
Ulrike: Eve Karpf
Hilgrit/Dorothea: Jean Rogers
Frau Blau: Katherine Parr
Hermann Barz: Michael Harbour
Frau Bayer: Brenda Kaye
Rolf: Philip Sully
Officer: Fred Bryant
Agent: John Gabriel
Gretl: Clio Tegel
Repeated 15th October 1978 and 11th January 1981.
[The story continues in "The Liberation" broadcast 12th January 1981]
[Peter Tegel fled from Sudetanland (Czechoslovakia) age 6.]
11th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Levanthal's Blues by Derrick Buttress (1932-2016)
Saxophonist: Roger Fleetwood
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Nat Levanthal : Cyril Shaps
Ruth: Carole Hayman
Rita: Diana Flacks
Harry: Howard Goorney
Benny: Paul Webster
Morry: George Woolley
Repeated 5th December 1979
12th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Hush Hush by Jacky Gillott (1939-1980)
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Harold: Deryck Guyler
Hilda: Barbara Mullen
Rose: Allison Hancock
Dilys: Kathleen Michael
George: Philip Manikum
Eric: David March
James: Nicholas Orchard
Anna: Carole Mowlam
Repeated 21st March 1980
14th October 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Boy with a Flute by Geoffrey and Rosemary Bellman
Directed by Peter King
Cliff Hollis: David Burke
Chris Farrell: Laurence Hardiman
Justin Stride: Ian Hoare
Headmaster: Terrence Hardiman
Mary Humphries: Anna Calder-Marshall
Nora Lambert: Alex Marshall
Mrs Clark: Eve Karpf
Mrs Stride: Amanda Murray
Mr Skipton: Eric Allan
14th October 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: All in a Flap by Brian Miller
An English houseparty in the 1920s.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Amanda Colborne: Helen Fraser
Robin Randell: Martin Jarvis
Lady Chiselhurst: Mary Wimbush
Sybil: Sandra Clark
Byron Medleigh: Andrew Branch
Cousin Arthur: Christopher Scoular
Graf von Striecht: Anthony Newlands
Countess Droshka: Gladys Spencer
Christopher Bartlett: John Gabriel
Mrs Moulton: Margot Boyd
Repeated 16th October 1978
16th October 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart dramatised by Barry Campbell
Adventure in Lebanon.
Directed By: David Johnston
Mr Lovell: David March
Chris Mansell: Emily Richard
Charles Mansell: Ian Liston
John Lethman: Julian Barnes
Hamid: Dino Shafeek
Halide: Kate Coleridge
Doorkeeper/Charles Mansell Sr/His twin brother Christopher: David Graham
Hotel desk clerk/Frontier officer: Anthony Smee
Repeated from 11th October 1975
Repeated 21st October 1978, 22nd April 1991
[A quite different play to that of 1935 by K L Wall ]
16th October 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: Talleyrand Prince Of Traitors by David Pinner
19th Century.
Director: Michael Rolf
BBC Birmingham
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord: Jerome Willis
Dorothea: Virginia Stride
Count Artois/Ouvrard: Michael Deacon
Bishop of Bordeaux/Caulain-Court: Hugh Dickson
Mirabeau/Abbe Dupanioup: Manning Wilson
Madame Germaine de Stael: Elizabeth Spriggs
Cuszac/Count Edmond: Terry Molloy
Danton/Barras : Geoffrey Matthew
La Ville/AdmiraI Bruix: Jack Holloway
Napoleon Bonaparte: Ian Hogg
Catherine Grand: Catherine Kessler
Hortense: Patricia Gallimore
Repeated 22nd October 1978
[Talleyrand was seen by some as a skilled and pragmatic diplomat, by others as a traitor].
17th October 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Your Move by Irene Handl (1901-1987) and Cass Allen
Directed By: Liane Aukin
Mum: Irene Handl
Joan: Cass Allen
Arthur: Eric Allan
Freda: Kathleen Helme
Jack: Manning Wilson
Marcus: Henry Knowles
[We first met the charactrers Joan, Arthur and Freda in "Happy Returns" broadcast on 14th March 1978]
18th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Correspondence by Michelene Wandor
A student lodger moves in.
Richard: Peter Pacey
Tessa: Susan Sheridan
Jean: Jennifer Piercey
Bertie: Eric Allan
Repeated 16th January 1980
19th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fruit of the Vine by J. C. Wilsher
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Ted: Manning Wilson
Kick: John Salthouse
Ted Wallace: Manning Wilson
Mick Wallace: John Salthouse
Stevie: Alan Reid
Mr Attwood: Gregory de Polnay
Yvonne: Amanda Murray
Dustman: Bruce Beeby
Claire: Jennifer Piercy
Rakoff: Hector Ross
Mr Standish: Lewis Stringer
Mr John Standish: Roy Spencer
Repeated 1st January 1980
20th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Gooseberry by John Kirkmorris
The world of 1945
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Ben Lampson: David Marlowe
Rita: Carole Hayman
Eric Trusler: Alan Rothwell
Pakardis: Geoffrey Banks
Mrs Havelock: Lizzie McKenzie
Barmaid: Rosalie Williams
Salesman/Postman: Ronald Herdman
Audrey: Anna Keaveney
Repeated from 17th September 1975
21st October 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Before the Bird has Flown by Grant C. Eustace
To celebrate Trafalgar Day, a play set on an isolated Royal Naval air station in Cornwall.
Directed by Christopher Venning
Anthony Scott Mortimer: Martin Jarvis
Cdr Timothy Beaumont: Roy Spencer
Lt-Cdr Warren Kendall: Anthony Chambers
Lt-Cdr Peter Wilkinson: Adrian Egan
2nd Officer Nicola Taylor: Sue Best
Captain: Laurence Harrington
Steward: David Cann
Insp Nancholas: Harold Kasket
Mrs Goddard: Elspeth Charlton
PC Martin: Nick Brimble
Maureen Kendall: Amanda Murray
Sub-Lt Jack Curtis: David Griffin
Jumbo Hazlitt: Fred Bryant
Repeated 19th April 1980
23rd October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: That Boy by Ivor Wilson
Before an attack on the Western Front a sergeant meets a private he taught as a boy.
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Roland Endicott: Martin Jarvis
Captain: Graham Roberts
Thomas (as a man): Alun Bond
Thomas (as a boy): Judy Bennett
Sarah: Helen Worth
Mrs Gray: Paula Tilbrook
June Simpson: Fiona Walker
Mr Draper: Geoffrey Banks
Mrs Morton: Elizabeth McKenzie
Mrs Allen: Rosalind Ayres
[A play with this name was broadcast on Afternoon Theatre in October 1974, no actor or producer details are available]
23rd October 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Sorrows of Love (1888) (Tristi Amort) by Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906) translated by Henry Reed
Italy, 1888.
Directed by John Tydeman
Emma Scarli: Eileen Atkins
Giulio Scarli: Charles Kay
Fabrizio Arcierl: Geoffrey Collins
Ranetti: David March
Count Ettore: Gerald Cress
Marta: Hilda Kriseman
Gemma: Natasha Imison
Repeated 29th October 1978
[The play's first professional British performance.]
24th October 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mungo's Drunken Helot by Mary Murry
Mungo is the perfect manservant
Directed by Margaret Etall
Major: Manning Wilson
Mungo: Robert Trotter
Brigadier-General: Peter Williams
Colonel: Philip Voss
Psychiatrist : Harold Kasket
Inspector: Bill Monks
[A helot, loosely, was a slave or serf. Plutarch recorded occaisions when they were forced to appear in public in a drunken state]
[This is the sole credit to "Mary Murry" in the BBC Programme Database]
25th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Over the Moon by Paul Allen
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Barbara: Carole Hayman
Bill: Bob Hoskins
Lance Preston: Peter Wheller
Phil Williams: Laurence Kenny
Stephen: Nigel Rowden
Chairman: Geoffrey Banks
Players: Cliff Howells and Jon Wheatley
26th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Over the Hills by Trisha Rini
Directed By: Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
Christine/Nur: Doreen Cameron
Suzanne/Djemlla: Eileen McCallum
Nur's Father: Victor Carin
Mr King: Paul Kerhack
Nick: Ron Bain
Selim: Nick Coppin
Attendant: Charles Baptiste
[This is the sole credit in the BBC Programme Database for Trisha Rini]
27th October 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Gimlet by James Saunders (1925-2004)
The canteen of a bus depot.
Directed by John Gibson
Nellie: Barbara Mitchell
Grunge: Peter Pratt
Nimrod: Roger Snowdon
Fran: Avril Elgar
The Inspector: Hamilton Dyce
Pumfrit: Derek Blomfield
Gimlet: Anthony Hall
Lillian: Elizabeth Morgan
Iris: Joy Osborne
Bert Dogg: Donald McKillop
Repeated from 1st and 20th January 1963, 30th June 1963,
[A radio version of the stage play "Double Double" (1962)]
28th October 1978
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Drink to Me Only by David Pinner
Causing death by reckless driving
Directed by Roger Fine
BBC Birmingham
Veronica Mortlake: Penelope Lee
Richard Page: Geoffrey Collins
Stephen Longmore: Noel Johnson
Ralph Longmore: Gareth Johnson
Maggie Longmore: Penelope Shaw
Jill Longmore: Patricia Gallimore
Megan Page: Ros Drinkwater
Frank Page: Jane Galloway
Florian Schwecke: Terry Molloy
28th October 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: God the Father by Valerie Winsdor
1910 and the Suffragette movement
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Bea (Teenager): Amanda Murray
Bea (80s): Gladys Spencer
Rev Hardy: Anthony Newlands
Flo: Joanna Wake
Ivo: Adam Godley
Edward: Stephen Mallatratt
Sir Henry Carrdale: Geoffrey Banks
Lady Carrdale: Rosalind Knight
Basil: Gareth Forwood
Sylvia: Linda Gardner
Annie: Judith Barker
Mrs Preston: Paula Tilbrook
Mr Preston/Doctor: Russell Dixon
Repeated 30th October 1978
30th October 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: When I Became a Man by William Marlowe (1930-2003)
A pit closes, a mining town dies.
Directed by Kay Patrick
BBC Manchester
Eli: Christian Rodska
Toby: Hector Boss
Hilda: Sally Gibson
Harriet: Nona Shepphard
George: Russell Dixon
Susan: Anne Rosenfeld
Sylvia: Judith Barker
Les: Philip Sully
Brian: Kenneth Shanley
Doctor: Brian Southwood
Milkman: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Repeated 5th November 1978
31st October 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Cry ... Almost a Scream by Jane Beeson
Directed By: Cherry Cookson
The Man: Maurice Denham
The Woman: Rosemary Leach
Launderette attendant: Hilda Kriseman
Customers: Eve Karpf
[Also tranmitted in Canada 2nd December 2004]
1st November 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Good Neighbour by Sue Rodwell
At what point does concern become interference?
Directed by Michael Bartlett
Lucy Stevenson: Glynis Brooks
Andrew Stevenson: Tony McEwan
Jack Lewis: Leonard Fenton
Betty Lewis/Social Worker: Heather Bell
Mrs Bailey: Grizelda Hervey
Tony/Policeman/Doctor: Peter Wickham
Sandra/Nurse: Jennifer Lee
2nd November 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Children by Graeme Campbell
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Father: Ian Wallace
Mother: Eva Stuart
Son: John Graham
3rd November 1978:
15.05 :
Afternoon Theatre: Androcles and the Lion (1912) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). Abridged and adapted by Peggy Wells
Directed By: Archie Campbell
Androcles: Leslie French
Megaera his wife: Pauline Letts
Centurion: Anthony Baird
Captain: Michael Harbour
Lavinia, a Christian prisoner: Alexa Romanes
Lentulus: Lentulus Peter Bartlett
Metellus: John Atterbury
Ferrovius: Robert Cawdron
Spintho: John Baker
Editor of the Gladiators: William Kendrick
Caesar: Heron Carvic
Lion: John Graham
Narrator: Geoffrey Wincott
Also with Antony Viccars, Peter Baldwin, Carol Marsh and Sian Davies
Repeated from 24th December 1967 and 10th July 1970.
[Also broadcast on R4X]
4th November 1978
14.30 :
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Assault on a Citadel by Sean Walsh
Producer Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Ned: Niall Buggy
Xavier: Aiden Grennell
Senan: Dermott Kelly
Jenny: Kate Flynn
Shepherd/Man in Restaurant: Michael Duffy
Kate : Elizabeth Begley
Hugo: Bill Hunter
Cormac: John Molloy
4th November 1978
20.30 :
Saturday-Night Theatre: Alice of Kilkenny by Ian Rodger
1324: The court will decree the only punishment it can.
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Alice Kyteler: Patricia Leventen
William Outlawe: Bryan Murray
Bazilia: Aingeal Grehan
Petronilla: Valerie Lilly
Father Glyn: Louis Rolston
Richard Ledrede Bishop of Ossory: Jonathan Scott
Hugh Le Despenser: Denys Hawthorne
John Le Poer: Harry Webster
Lord D'Arcy: Kevin Flood
Jailer: Joe McPartland
Repeated 6th November 1978
6th November 1978
19.45 :
The Monday Play: A Touch of Daniel by Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003)
Directed by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Carter Brandon: Christian Rodska
Pat: Stephanie Turner
Mrs Brandon: Liz Smith
Mr Brandon: Graham Roberts
Uncle Mort: George A Cooper
Auntie Lil: Eileen Derbyshire
Mrs Partington: Daphne Oxenford
Uncle Stavely: Geoffrey Banks
Jessie Lewis: Fiona Walker
Linda Preston: Sharon Duce
Daniel: Judy Bennett
Sid Skelhorn: Peter Wheeler
Repeated from 27th November 1977 (Radio 3)
Repeated 18th July 1987
[Also broadcast on R4X]
[The character of Uncle Mort appeared many times on radio: Call It a Canary (15/7/89);
Also "sit-coms": Uncle Mort's North Country-10 eps (Radio 1987-); South Country- 10 episodes (1990-); Celtic Fringe- 10 episodes(1996-) ]
7th November 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Little Lamb (1974) by Liane Aukin (1936-2016)
Two people meet on a park bench.
Directed by Kay Patrick
Mona: Annette Crosbie
Gerald: Peter Vaughan
The Child: Nicholas Midgley
8th November 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cat and the Fiddle by John Ashe
Fiddle By: John Ashe
What exactly is Bene-Glad?
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Melanie Dent: Sara Clee
Sam Spode: Christopher Guard
Gregory: Peter Woodthorpe
Jarrett: Andrew Branch
Dowling: Edward Kelsey
Marcia: Olwen Griffiths
Jenny: Bonnie Hurren
Mike: Gregory de Polnay
9th November 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Elephant and the Panda by Aileen La Tourette
Directed by Jane Morgan
Kim: Heather Bell
Allie: Maureen O'Brien
Ben: Michael McStay
Sam: Nicholas Cohen
Peter: David Savile
Panda: Liza Ross
Repeated 10th January 1980
10th November 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Live Appearance by Liane Aukin (1936-2016)
Producer: Susanna Capon
Rosie: Rosemary Leach
Martha: Gillian Martel
Tom: Peter Whitman
Repeated from 19th March 1975
11th November 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Man at the Bus Stop by Kate Ingells
Two widowed sisters living together have to cope with a possible change in their circumstances.
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Eleanor: Faith Brook
Binnie: Jane Wenham
Barney Mullen: Geoffrey Matthews
Clytie: Frances Jeater
Ian: Peter Wickham
Inspector Erickson: Manning Wilson
Steve: Andrew Branch
11th November 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Pretty Little Gift Horse by T. D. Webster
Directed by Roger Pink
BBC Birmingham
Frank Powell: Michael Kilcarripp
Walter Cairns: Haydn Jones
Inspector Mitchell: Stephen Thorne
Jenny: Hedli Niklaus
Betty: Maggie McCarthy
Prison Governor: Ralph Lawton
Sergeant Fox: Terry Molloy
Mr Reynolds: Andrew Staines
Billy: Adrian Bracken
Elaine: Elizabeth Marlow
Det-Con Thompson: Peter Brookes
Repeated 13th November 1978
13th November 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Investiture by John Kirkmorris
A wounded soldier returns on leave during World War 1.
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Richard Wortley
Major Reed: Philip Sully
Shanklin: Adrian Egan
Edith: Kate Binchy
Mrs Reed: Eva Stuart
Kate Begbie: Diana Olsson
McCann: Bill Monks
Adjutant: Peter Baldwin
Wemyss: Anthony Newlands
Funnell / General: Garard Green
Equerry/Cubbins: Wilfrid Carter
Military Policeman: Tim Bentinck
Mrs Oxley: Petra Davies
Repeated 19th November 1978
15th November 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Giving Up. by J. C. W. Brook
The inside story as it were.
Directed by Gerry Jones
The man's brain: Eric Allan
Other parts: Eric Allan, Tim Bentinck, Andrew Branch, Fred Bryant, John Cabitlel, Brian Haines, Henry Knowles, Anthony Newlands, Nigel Lambert, Danny Schiller, Michael Spice, Philip Sully, Philip Voss, Peter Wickham and Manning Wilson
16th November 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: A Life Here Between Us by Jane Beeson
The problems of poverty.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Eve: Allison Hancock
Joe: Tim Bentinck
Angy: Heather Bell
Tom: Banny Schiller
Hepjohn: Peter Wickham
Repeated 22nd March 1980
17th November 1978
15.05-17.00
Under Milk Wood (1954) by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
"Songs set by" Daniel Jones; Accordion: Bobby Campbel; Piano and musical director: Neil Rhoden. Bells by Paddy Kingsland BBC Radiophonic Workshop,
Recording by Adrian Revili
Produced and directed by Gerry Jones and Ian Cotterell
First Voice: Glyn Houston
Second Voice: Petra Davies
Reverend Eli Jenkins: Aubrey Richards
Captain Cat: Gerald James
Polly Garter: Nerys Hughes
Rosie Probert/Mrs Beynon: Elizabeth Morgan
Mog Ednards/Ocky Milk-man: Henry Knowles
Myfanwy Price/Mrs Willy Nilly: Jennifer Piercey
Mr Waldo/Organ Morgan/ Lord Cut-Glass: John Griffiths
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard/Mrs Organ Morgan.: Mary Jones
Mr Ogmore/Willy Nilly: Sion Probert
Mr Pritchard/Butcher Beynon: Anthony Hall
Gossamer Beynon: Shirley King
Utah Watkins/Mr Push: Talfryn Thomas
Mrs Utah Watkins. Mrs Cherry Owen: Jennifer Hill
Atilla Rees/Cherry Owen: Derek Pollitt
Lily Smalls: Jan Edwards
Mae Rose-Cottage: Elizabeth Revill
Mary Ann Sailors: Christine Pollon
Dai Bread/Sinbad Sailors: David Barry
Nogood Boyo: John Francis
Mrs Pugh: Heather Bell
Mrs Dai Bread One/Bessie Bighead: Patricia Mort
Mrs Dai Bread Two: Jo Manning Wilson
Gwennie: Sharon Morgan
With Michael Black and Prudence Menmuir
Repeated 19th and 23rd November 1978, also 12th November 1981 on R3.
[Also produced for R3 and Home in 1954 (75 mins), rptd 1955, 1956 and 1972, by Douglas Cleverdon with children of Laugharne School. Eli: Philip Burton. Polly:Diana Maddox. An edited (60 mins) version of the 1954 production was broadcast in 1994.]
[Produced again by Douglas Cleverden in 1963 rptd 1984, 1988, (90 mins) with children of Penarth School, Polly:Margo Jenkins; Eli: T H Evans.]
18th November 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Don't be Cruel by Rose Tremain
Directed by Richard Wortley
Humble: James Villiers
Joan: Amanda Murray
Humble as a boy: Laurence Hardiman
Tracy: Sarah Golding
Curtis: Peter Baldwin
Blunden: Charles Hodgson
Marissa: Heather Bell
Laura: Margot Boyd
Repeated 17th April 1980
18th November 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Blacker Meridian by John Ashe
Age - remorseless.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Sir Edward Blacker: Joseph O'Conor
Margaret: Christine Pollen
Mike: Norman Bowler
Lough: Roger Snowdon
June: Deborah Paige
JeSS: Rosalind Adams
Bill Crowe: Cornelius Garrett
Interviewer: Pavel Douglas
Announcer: Phillip Manikum
Repeated 20th November 1978
18th November 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: In Transit by Simon Raven (1927-2001)
Hong Kong Airport.
Just Before Midnight theme by David Cain
Script editor Michael Bartlett
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Gerald Barton: Barry Foster
Nicholas Mercer: Julian Glover
Sonia: Jennifer Piercey
Tania: Heather Emmanuel
Loudspeaker voice: Pik-Sen Lim
[In 1966 Simon Raven wrote a detailed article in the Spectator on Brigid Brophy. In 1969 Brigid Brophy wrote "In Transit". The two stories are set in an airport but otherwise differ.]
19th November 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Play Soft Then Attack by Peter Terson (1932-2021)
Directed by Michael Bartlett
Alf: Harry H Corbett
Polly: Petra Davies
Denny: Peter Craze
also with Zena Walker
21st November 1978
11.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: One Third of the Wise Men by Bill Lyons
Directed by Jane Morgan
Bill: Nigel Anthony
also with Ian Holm, Eric Allan, Peter Baldwin, Margot Boyd , John Bull, Henry Knowles, Pik-Sen Lim, Bill Monks, Amanda Murray,Stephen Thorne and Philip Voss
Repeated 3rd July 1979
22nd November 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) dramatised by David Campton
Guitar: John Turner
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Roderick Usher: Edward Petherbridgc
the Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Doctor: Roger Hume
Madeline: Sara Pugsley
23rd November 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Some Cold Night Air by Gilly Fraser
Directed By: Bernard Krichefski
Janet: Majella Dennahy
Pearl: Sharon Rosita
Steve: Christopher Guard
Brenda: Carole Hayman
Derek: Gavin Campbell
Mrs Bassett: Valerie Murray
Lorry driver: Steve Hodson
Station sergeant: Michael Goldie
Also with Peter Craze, David Graham, Nicolette Mckenzie, Joan Matheson.
24th November 1978
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Adman's Gothic by James Douglas
Director: Brian Miller
BBC 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 from 23rd May 1975
25th November 1978
14.30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Annarees by Margaret Harris
Director: Kay Patrick
Shopkeeper: Danny Schiller
Janie: Gail Lidstone
Annarees (aged 11): Gina Bellman
Annarees (as a young woman): Alison Draper
Aunt Martha: Jennifer Piercey
Giles: Peter Wickham
Mrs Gilvray: Eva Stuart
Mr Gilvray: Fred Bryant
Paul: Adam Godley
25th November 1978
20.30
Saturday-Night Theatre: Against All Natural Instincts by Joan Lock
Directed By: Margaret Etall
Nina Boyle: Prunella Scales
Margaret Darner Dawson: Anna Massey
Interviewer: Tim Bentinck
Mary Allon: Sarah Atkinson
Ellen: Brenda Kaye
Edith: Anna Dentinck
Charlotte: Alison Draper
Police Official: Danny Schiller
Official at Grantham: Anthony Newlands
Mead: Donald Bisset
Doctor/Woman Patrol: Heather Bell
Drill Sergeant: Gregory De Polnay
Commissioner/Munitions Official: William Russell
Bishop of London/Licensee: Rex Graham
Repeated 27th November 1978
[Joan Lock used to be a "Woman Police Constable"]
25th November 1978
23.45
Just Before Midnight: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot (1964) by Tom Stoppard
Director: Glyn Dearman
Dominic: Derek Fowlds
Vivian: Maria Aitken
Taxi driver: John Junkin
Girl clerk: Amanda Murray
Shepton: Jon Glover
Man: Peter Wickham
Miss Bligh: Eva Stuart
Cartwright: Anthony Newlands
Mother: Noel Hood
Father: William Fox
Repeated 7th November 1979 and 31st July 1990.
[Also produced by Michael Bakewell for Light in 1964 with John Baddeley]
26th November 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: A Most Wonderful Thing by Henry Livings (1929-1998)
Piano: Brian Layton
Directed by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
Eric: Bryan Pringle
Benny: Peter Woodthorpe
Amy: Paula Tilbrook
Coop/walter: John Franklyn-Robbins
Miss Higgins/Ruth: Rachel Davies
BillV: George Malpas
Clifford: Ray Mort
John: Henry Livings
Maurice/Charlie: Peter John
Arnold: Malcolm Storry
Ken: Sam Kelly
Kelvin/Artiste: David Beames
Repeated from 4th and 10th October 1976
26th November 1978
23.45
Just Before Midnight: Research Project by Paul Ferris
Directed By: Christopner Venning
Clare: Judy Parfitt
Walter: Keith Buckley
Mrs Morgan: Katherine Parr
27th November 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Man of Feeling by Carolyn Sally Jones
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Hardinge: Paul Rogers
John Went: Haydn Jones
Owen, his son: Nicholas Jones
1010 Delfryn: Malcolm Gerard
Gruff Protheroe: Fred Bryant
Julia Hadley: Petra Davies
Harriet, her sister: Eve Karpf
Zektel Stephens: Alaric Cotter
Bradley/William Wilber force: Henry Knowles
William Pitt: Philip Voss
Nicholas Hardinge: Kenneth Shanley
Perking, a boy: Jean Rogers
Serving girl: Heather Bell
Repeated 3rd December 1978
28th November 1978
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Barrable's Caper by Peter Russell
Directed by David Spenser
Dave: Barry Evans
Barrable: Peter Baldwin
Fiona: Sandra Clark
Ginny: June Tobin
Craven: Eric Allan
Det-Sgt Gillespie: Tim Bentinck
29th November 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Chains by Conor Parrington
Musical director John Anderson
Directed by Robert Cooper
BBC Northern Ireland
Governor: Bill Hunter
Chief Warder: Harry Beety
Warder/Shuckert: John Hewitt
Basafo: Lionel Ngakane
Guring/Driver: Wolsey Gracey
McEntagart: Maurice O'Callaghan
Kuolomainen/Conzalez: Mark Mulholland
Stepanovitch/Gizzard: Joe McPartland
Archhimandrite: Allan McClelland
Minister: Harold Goldblatt
[The only mention of Conor Parrington in the BBC Program Database]
30th November 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Night of the Badger by Graham Blackett
Directed by Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Susan Colson: Nicolette McKenzie
John Colson: Richard Easton
Sergeant Benbow: Morgan Sheppard
Constable Swift: Terry Molloy
Nigel Stoddart: Malcolm Gerard
Mrs Allingham: Gillian Andrews
WPC West: Jane Galloway
Rupert Dalton: Stephen Hancock
Jenny Allingham: Juliet Stevenson
Repeated 16th February 1980
1st December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Albert's Bridge by Tom Stoppard
Painting a long bridge.
Directed by Charles Lefeaux
Bob: Nigel Anthony
Charlie: Alexander John
Dad: Geoffrey Wincott
Albert: John Hurt
Chairman: Victor Lucas
Dave: Ian Thompson
George: Anthony Jackson
Fitch: Ronald Herdman
Mother: Betty Hardy
Father: Alan Dudley
Kate: Barbara Mitchell
Fraser: Haydn Jones
Repeated from R3: 13/7/67, 29/7/67, 20/2/68, R4:12/12/68, 1/1/71, 3/8/73
Repeated 20/4/86
[Also broadcast on R4X 2017-2021]
[Italia Prize for Radio Drama in 1968]
[Also produced by David Hitchinson in 1990 rptd 2007 for R4]
1st December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: A Ghastly Performance by Michael Hardwick (1924-1991)
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Shakeshaft: Peter Wickham
Lord Jebbing: James Thomason
Pontefract: Roy Spencer
2nd December 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Monogamist by Graham England
Marriage games.
Piano: Mary Nash
Directed by Richard Wortley '
Edmund: Michael Spice
Julia: Frances Jeater
Brien: Philip Sully
Nicholas: Philip Voss
Gwen: Matyelock Gibbs
Marie-Claire: Rosalind Adams
2nd December 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Sound of Murder by Eric Corner.
Directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Martin: Conrad Phillips
Jane: Rosalind Adams
Vera: Ingrid Haffner
Landlord: Jerold Weils
Brendon: Ray Handy
Mrs Hamlyn: June Marloy
Sir Lionel: Hedley Goodall
Insp Worth: Gregory de Polnay
Sally: Allison Hancock
Henry: Peter Wickham
Repeated 4th December 1978
2nd December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Scapegoat by Peter Whalley
Late at night.
Directed by Ian Cotterell
Lewis: Henry Knowles
Eileen: Heather Bell
Brookes/Operator: Eric Allan
Policewoman: Alison Draper
3rd December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: It's Not The Game It Was by James Saunders
Tennis and Life.
Directed By: Glyn Dearman
Cast: John Welsh and Richard Vernon
[Also produced in 1964 for Light by John Gibson]
4th December 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: The Scenario (1976) by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) translated by Lucienne Hill and Mike Stott.
France: August 1939.
Directed By: Michael Heffernan
d'Anyiac: Stephen Murray
Paluche: Barry Foster
Marie-Helene: Judy Parfitt
Jeanette: Eve Karpf
Bernard: Fred Bryant
Leon: Adrian Egan
Ludmilla: Elizabeth Proud
Loubenstein: John Phillips
Von Spitz: Graham Seed
Lisa Paluche: Anna Massey
Radio Announcer: Manning Wilson
5th December 1978
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Pundit Pond by Peter Russell
Director: David Spenser
Dave: Barry Evans
Edna: Susan Colgrave
Pond: Nigel Anthony
Nancy: Jo Manning Wilson
Jenkins: Philip Voss
6th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: You Don't Feel a Thing by David Marshall
Directed by Richard Wortley
Mr Pike: John Hollis
Roger: John Bull
Sue: Sandra Clark
Todd: Andrew Branch
Nurse: Karen Archer
Repeated 2nd March 1983
7th December 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Proof of the Pudding by William Stephens
An industrial town in Lancashire in 1966.
Directed by Margaret Etall
Harry Brierley: Bill Monks
Jimmy Holder: John Salthouse
Jack Holder: Henry Knowles
Mrs Brierley: Margot Boyd
Betsey Joan: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Mr Laycock: Gregory de Polnay
Mrs Laycock: Jennifer Piercey
Introducer: Eric Allan
with: David Warwick and Gordon Reid
Repeated 31st January 1980
8th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Take Your Partners by David Spenser (1934-2013)
Directed by John Tydeman
Vincent: Robert Powell
Lawrence: Martin Jarvis
Peggy: Angela Pleasence
Shirley: Carole Boyd
Lily: Eva Haddon
Repeated from 28th August 1974
8th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Follower by Kon Fraser
Directed by Ian Cotterell
The Follower: Eric Allan
The Governor: Roger Hammond
Mother: Hilda Kriseman
Dart Player: Manning Wilson
[Also produced for Light in 1964 by John Tydeman]
[Also produced in 1969 rptd 1972 by Margaret Etall]
9th December 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: I Know An Old Lady ... by Betty Davies
Directed By: John Tydeman
Marilyn: Alison Draper
Joanna: Jennifer Piercey
Mrs White: Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Brett: Margot Boyd
Jean: Heather Bell
Ian: Peter Baldwin
Derek: Eric Allan
Other parts played by Tim Bentinck, Roger Hammond, Amanda Murray
9th December 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Laura and the Angel by Bruce Stewart (1925-2005)
Ambrosian Singers director John Mccarthy
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Laura: Miriam Margolyes
Sailor/Cpt Thistlethwayte: Eric Allan
Azrafel: George Cole
Belcher: Bruce Stewart
Skittles: Elisabeth Sladen
Maria: Alison Draper
Agnes: Norma Ronald
Cora: Eva Stuart
Crittenden: Philip Manikum
Hotel Manager/Man: Pavel Douglas
Prince Madranja/Second Lieut: Madhav Sharma
Cabbie/First Lieut: Barclay Johnson
Spurgeon: Anthony Newlands
Major/Gladstone: Philip Voss
Repeated 11th December 1978
9th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Wedding Breakfast by Brian Lee
Directed by Cherry Cookson
the Husband: Martin Jarvis
The Wife: Rosalind Ayres
10th December 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: What's Stigmata? by Wally K. Daly (1940-2020)
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Retreat Organiser/Vicar: James Thomason
Marcia: Norma Ronald
Masseuse: Valerie Murray
George: Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Thompson: Anne Jameson
Mr Thompson: George A. Cooper
Doctor: Moray Watson
Policeman: Jeffrey Segal
Priest: Sean Barrett
Charles: Cliffoiid Norgate
TV announcer: Piers Burton-Page
A woman: Joanna Wake
Repeated from 5th September 1977
Repeated 9th October 1982
[Also broadcast on R4X]
10th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Antlanta By Bernard Kops (1926-2024)
Time: The future. The place: A colony in space.
Directed by John Tydeman
Attini: Hywel Bennett
Atta: Nerys Hughes
the Voice: Eve Karpf
Repeated 19th December 1979
11th December 1978
19.45
The Monday Play: The Killing of Sister George (1964) by Frank Marcus, adapted by Barry Campbell.
Director: Gordon House
June Buckridge: Sheila Hancock
Alice 'Childie' McNaught: Anna Calder Marshall
Mrs Croft: Eleanor Bron
Mme Xenia: Cécile Chevreau
First lorry driver: Michael Tudor Barnes
Second lorry driver: David Ashford
Farmer: Michael Goldie
Repeated 25th April 2009
[Also broadcast on R4X]
[The 1968 film version made a few changes and additions to the original play and was much darker in tone than the stage version.]
12th December 1978
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Saturday Late September by Louise Page (1955-2020)
A violent demonstration
Directed by: Vanessa Whitburn
BBC Birmingham
Adrian: Nick Dunning
Also with Douglas Blackwell, John Breslin, Peter Brookes, Trevor Butler, Gavin Campbell, Malcolm Gerard, John Hollis, Roger Burns, Joyce Latham, Ralph Lawton, Geoffrey Matthews, Terry Molloy, Valerie Murray, Elizabeth Revill, Peter Wickham
12th December 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Caring Incorporated by John Kirkmorris
Location sound by Leo Feoro, Cedric Johnson, John White and David Greenwood
Directed by Jane Morgan
Judith: Jane Lapotaire
Harry: Philip Bond
Repeated from 2nd February 1977
13th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: This Line Is Now Closed by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Local radio phone in program.
Directed by David Johnston
Mary Schofield: Grizelda Hervey
Jonathan Geddes: Peter Wickham
Dr Grace Dearing: Jennifer Watts
Nicola Schofield: Eve Karpf
Derek Skinner: Gregory De Polnay
Sue Casson: Fleur Chandler
Receptionist: Alison Draper
Ethel: Brenda Kaye
Doris: Jennifer Piercey
Repeated 4th February 1981
14th December 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Dartist by Andrew Lynch
Directed by Tony Cliff
LISTED BUT NOT BROADCAST ON THIS DATE - see 10th March 1979
15th December 1978
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: A Collier's Friday Night by D. B. Lawrence
Directed by Guy Vaesen
Nellie: Christine Welch
Mother: Mary Griffiths
Gertie Coomber: Jo Manning Wilson
Father: David Brierley
Barker: Neville Smith
Carlin: George Woolley
Maggie Pearson: Jane Knowles
Beatrice Wyle: Stephanie Turner
(Shortened repeat of 60 minute 16/8/1971 broadcast)
[Other broadcasts in a 55 minute slot were: 13th December 1974, 28th July 1979]
15th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Reception by Frederick Bradnum (1920-2001)
Directed by Liane Aukin
Heather Heath: Joan Matheson
Yolande Ford: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Alfred: Danny Schiller
16th December 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: In Dulci Jubilo by Sarah Maxwell
It's crisis point on Christmas Eve.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Bill: Margot Boyd
Horace: Manning Wilson
The Duke of Finis: Norman Shelley
Lady Frensham: Marjorie Westbury
Lady Dolly Plumtree: Elizabeth Morgan
Lady Dorah Plumtree: Sheila Grant
The Hon. Freddy Frensham: Charles Hodgson
Tony MacArthur: Michael Deacon
The gasman: Eric Allan
16th December 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: When the Snow Lay Round About by James Forsyth (1913-2005)
Spring of 928, Bohemia.
Music composed by David Cain
Directed by David Spenser
King Wencelas: David Buck
Drahomira: Mary Wimbush
Prince Boleslav: Philip Sully
Samo: Rosalind Adams
Uncle Yani: Fred Bryant
Teta: Christine Absalom
Matji: Peter Baldwin
Beatrix: Diana Olsson
Henry/Felix: Stephen Thorne
Voronov: Roy Spencer
Krok: John Westbrook
Igor: Anthony Daniels
Grigor: Roy Spencer
Repeated 18th December 1978, 23rd December 1984
16th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Help. Johnnie by Jon Rollason (1931-2016) and Keith Williams
Directed By: Michael Bartlett
Terry: John Vine
Johnnie: Philip Sully
Fairley: Frank Windsor
Irishman: Joe Dunlop
[Also produced in 1964 by Ronald Mason]
17th December 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: A Fine Country (1969) by Elizabeth Troop
Directed By: Richard Wortley
Sylvia Cass: Anna Massey
George Cass: Peter Jeffrey
Ambulanceman: Paul Meier
Dr Desai: Madhav Sharma
Nurse Robinson: Joan Matheson
Sylvia (as a child): Annabelle Lanyon
Stewardess: Nicolette McKenzie
Buchanan: Douglas Blackwell
Berit: Emily Richard
Gregory Cass: Susan Thomas
Second Nurse: Terri Lang
Huber: Jeffrey Segal
Jo: Sarah Golding
Mr Ingham: James Thomason
Nathan: Blain Fairman
Maggie: Diana Olsson
Stan: Clifford Norgate
Repeated from 11th and 17th October 1976
17th December 1978
21.03:
No.37 to Greenland by Paul Bond
Directed By: Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
Brenda: Meg Johnson
Eileen: Janet Dale
Lester: Geoffrey Banks
Keith: Colin Edwynn
Sidney: George A Cooper
Raquel: Sylvia Brayshay
Drunk: John Jardine
Reindeer: Cliff Howells
Woman on bus: Judith Barker
Repeated 19th December 1978
17th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Night of the Talking Drum by Michael Kittermaster
Director: Christopher Venning
Vi: Una Stubbs
Eddie: John Duttine
Mba?: Louis Mahoney
18th December 1978
19.45:
The Monday Play: Stevie by Hugh Whitemore (1907-1987)
Sound Balance: Stewart Taylor
Director: Dickon Reed
(A World Service drama production)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971): Glenda Jackson
The 'Dragon Aunt': Mona Washbourne
The Boyfriend: Peter Egan
The Friend: David March
Storyteller: Hugh Dickson
[Stevie Smith aka Florence Margaret Smith]
19th December 1978
11.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Battle of the Booze by Patrick Ryan
Directed by Christopher Venning
Cast: Jonathan Newth, Jack Mckenzie, Peter Wickham, David Graham, Graham Faulkner, Gregory De Polnay, Philip Voss, Andrew Sachs, Henry Knowles, Fred Bryant, Martin Matthews, Lawrence Harrington, Anthony Newlands, Roy Montague.
20th December 1978
09.35:
A Word in Time by Angela Sewell
Directed by Peter Firth
BBC Bristol
Narrator: John Castle
Innkeeper's wife: Pat Heywood
Innkeeper: Jack Harding
Midwife: Christine Pollon
Also with Julian Firth
20th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Wonderful O (1957) by James Thurber (1894-1961) adapted by Brian Sibley
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Directed by Gerry Jones
Littlejack: Frederick Jaeger
Black: Eric Allan
Elderly man: Manning Wilson
Hyde: Leslie Heritage
Andreus: Peter Wickham
Andrea: Alison Draper
Goldsmith/Gardener: Henry Knowles
Blacksmith: Fred Bryant
Baker: Gregory de Polnay
Boy/First woman/Parrot: Olwen Griffiths
Girl/Second woman: Brenda Kaye
Repeated 29th July 1981
21st December 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: The Browning Version (1948) by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Directed by Norman Wright
Schoolboy: Warren Hearnden
Taplow: Tony Adams
Frank Hunter: Brewster Mason
Millie Crocker-Harris: Angela Baddeley
Andrew Crocker-Harris: John Gielgud
Dr Frobisher: Clive Morton
Peter Gilbert: Denis Goacher
Mrs Gilbert: Anne Cullen
Repeated from 30th September 1957, 30th January 1958, 21st June 1964, 25th April 1970, 3rd November 1972,
[This version also broadcast on R4X 2017-2020]
[Other versions: Year/Director/Actor playing Andrew:
1949 rpt 1950/Mary Hope Allen/Eric Portman
1956/Archie Campbell/Robert Harris
1981 rpt 1982, 1986, 1990/Ian Cotterell/Nigel Stock
2011 rpt 2012/Martin Jarvis/Michael York]
22nd December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Il Domestico by Joyce Merrick
Produced by Christopher Venning.
LISTED BUT NOT BROADCAST ON THIS DATE.
On 22nd December 1978 the BBC broadcast one radio program from 4pm on all channels (1+2+3+4) due to strike action.
See 2nd February 1979
23rd December 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: Convergence on Bethlehem by Clive Sansom (1910-1981)
Music specially composed and directed by Sidney Sager, musicians: Meinir Heulyn, Elmer Cole, Angela Malsbury, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Paul Chalkin
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
BBC Bristol
Kayphos: Nigel Stock
Astroleth: Geoffrey Beevers
Mary of Nazareth: Rosalind Shanks
Joseph: Stephen Thorne
Herod: Harold Innocent
Melchior: Saeed Jaffrey
Minister/Ox: Bill Monks
Boethus/Simon: Roger Hammond
Caspar/Ass: Sam Dastor
Balthazar/Ezra: Philipvoss
Warden of the Caravanserai: Phillip Manikum
Amos: Cornelius Garrett
23rd December 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Dear Octopus (1938) by Dodie Smith (1896-1990), adapted by Cynthia Pughe
A Golden Wedding anniversary.
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Charles Randolph: Robert Harris
Dora Randolph: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Hilda: Monica Grey
Margery: Eva Haddon
Cynthia: Jo Manning Wilson
Nicholas: Martin Jarvis
Hugh: Tim Bentinck
Flouncy: Susan Sheridan
Bill: Elizabeth Lindsay
Scrap: Bernadette Windsor
Belle, Charles's sister-in-law: Barbara Coupe
Kenneth Harvey, Margery's husband: Garard Green
Edna Randolph Hugh's mother: Irene Sutcliffe
Laurel Randolph, Hugh's Wife: Gretta Gouriet
Fenny Dora's companion: Lisa Harrow
Gertrude: Janet Burnell
Nanny: Margot Boyd
Repeated 3rd and 4th May 1986, 4th September 1989
[Other productions: Year/Producer/Actor playing Dora:
1951/Martyn C Webster/Gladys Young (Laurel: Denise Bryer)
1957/Martyn C Webster/Gladys Young (Laurel: Annette Kelly)
1971 rptd 1973/David Geary/Dorothy Lane (rptd R4X 2024)
1995 rptd 1996/Glyn Dearman/Dulcie Gray (rptd R4X 2015-2022) ]
23rd December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Cobweb Kiss by Peter J. Hammond.
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Lydia: Gemma Craven
Jonathan: Richard O'Callaghan
James: Manning Wilson
Mary: Eva Stuart
25th December 1978
15.30-17.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope (1863-1933) adapted by Eric Maschwitz and Kay Patrick.
Original music (1939) by Robert Chignell and Leslie Woodgate
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Rudolf Rassendyll/King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Lady Rose Burlesdon/Inn-keeper: Diana Bishop
Lord Burlesdon: Clive Swift
Antoinette de Mauban: Anne Kidd
Duke Michael: Michael Spice
Train Guard: William Sleigh
Customs officer: Brian Haines
Rosa: Cherry Gilliam
Johann: Sam Dastor
Count Fritz von Tarlenheim: David Timson
Colonel Sapt: Nigel Stock
Josef: Haydn Jones
Princess Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Captain Detchard: Terry Scully
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Bersonin: David Gooderson
Repeated from 19th and 21st May 1973
Repeated 28th December 1989
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2021]
[Also produced in 1951 by Frederick Bradnum]
[See 31st December for the sequel: Rupert of Hentzau]
25th December 1978
20.00-22.00:
The Magistrate (1885) by Arthur W. Pinero (1855-1934)
Pianist: Mary Nash
Directed by John Tydeman
Aeneas Posket: Nigel Stock
Agatha Posket: Jill Bennett
Mr Bullamy: Anthony Newlands
Col Lukyn: Charles Gray
Capt Vale: Jonathan Cecil
Cis Farringdon: Anthony Daniels
Achille Blond: Philip Sully
Isidore: Adrian Egan
Mr Wormington: Manning Wilson
Inspector Messiter: John Gabriel
Sgt Lugg: Roger Hammond
Constable Harris: Bill Monks
Wyke: Tim Bentinck
Charlotte: Maria Aitken
Beatie Tomlinson: Amanda Murray
Popham: Eva Stuart
Repeated 4th August 1983
[Also broadcast on R3 10th May 1979]
[Also produced by William Glen-Doepel in 1963]
26th December 1978
15.05-16.35:
Afternoon Theatre: Night of the Wolf by Victor Pemberton (1931-2017)
Cambridge and the Fen Country.
Technical assistants Jock Parrell, Marsail MacCuish, David Bitchinson and Alister Wilson.
Directed by John Tydeman
Judge Matthew Deacon: Vincent Price
Robert Deacon: 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 Forrester: Hugh Manning
Sir Richard Burnett: Haydn Jones
Morris: Paul Gaymon
Jessie: Norma Ronald
Repeated from 9th and 11th August 1975, 18th June 1977
Repeated 27th May 1991
[Also broadcast on R4X 2016-2018]
27th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Warsaw Melody by Leonid Zorin (1924-2020) translated by Mia Nadasi
The politicians are not important.
Music arranged and played by Dr Czeslaw Halski
Directed By: Jane Morgan
Victor: John Castle
Hela: Victor Mia Nadasi
Also with Czeslaw Halski, Joe Dunlop, Harold Kasket, Brenda Kaye, Danny Schiller, Roy Spencer
28th December 1978
15.35:
Afternoon Theatre: All Those Women by David Wheeler
Memory is so unreliable ...
Directed by Margaret Etall
Stephen Ryan: Richard Hurndall
Nurse Madeley: Jennifer Piercey
Dante: Tim Bentinck
Isobel: Ann Wrigg
Margot: Margot Boyd
Lucille: Judith Morse
Jane: Monica Grey
Elizabeth: Petra Davies
Helen: Heather Bell
29th December 1978
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Funny Man by John Graham
Directed By: Roger Pine
Askell: Cyril Shaps
Dot: Anne Jameson
Froggy: John Ruddock
Major: Clifford Norgate
Dr Shearwater: John Samson
David: Robin Browne
Matron: Eva Stuart
Vicar: William Fox
Doctor: Gerald Cross
Corporal Davies: Douglas Blackwell
Old prisoner: Edward Kelsey
Captain: Nigel Lambert
29th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: Interval by J. C. Wilsher
Directed by Glyn Dearman
With Eileen Atkins and Edward Woodward
Repeated 5th December 1979
30th December 1978
14.30:
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: King Size Bed by Betty Paul
Directed bv Kay Patrick
Margaret: Julia McKenzie
Charles: Jack May
Kenneth: Eric Allan
Manuella: Janet Dale
Reporter/Rod: Danny Schiller
Studio manager: Lolly Cockerell
Jill/Jessie: Alison Draper
Reporter: Ray Jones
Lord Smallpiece: Roger Hammond
Colin: Peter Purves
Repeated 7th December 1982
30th December 1978
18.50-19.30:
Post Mortem by Stuart Jackman
Directed by Frank Topping
Azrael: Kenneth Williams
Angela, his secretary: Heather Bell
Herod of Judaea: Peter Wickham
Mrs Morris, landlady of the Lamb Hotel: Joan Matheson
Corporal Adamson: Peter Gabriel
John Golding, a shepherd: Henry Knowles
Repeated from 29th December 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2023]
30th December 1978
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911) by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), adapted by Val Gielgud
Directed by David H. Godfrey
Narrator: Marius Goring
Mr Perrin: Hugh Burden
Mr Traill: Jeremy Clyde
Isabel Desart: Sandra Clark
Mrs Comber: Joan Matheson
Mr Comber: Lewis Stringer
Mr Birkland: Brian Haines
Mr Dormer/M Pons: Henry Knowles
Mrs Dormer: Eva Stuart
Mr Clinton: Charles Hodgson
The Rev Moy-Thompson: Preston Lockwood
Mrs Moy-Thompson: Hilda Kriseman
Mr White: Jonathan Scott
Mrs Perrin/The elder Miss Madder: Janet Burnell
The younger Miss Madder: Carol Marsh
The School Sergeant: Harold Kasket
Pomfret Walpole: Howard Taylor
Garden: Ian Hoare
Rackets: Nicholas Camara
Sexton: Andrew Jobins
Larkin: Marek Kleiber
Repeated 27th August 1979
[Also produced by Cedric Messina in 1960 with David Spenser as Mr Traill]
30th December 1978
23.45:
Just Before Midnight: The Other Side of the Door. by John Wilkie
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin
Hinton: Dinsdale Landen
Rolfe: John Gabriel
Marian: Amanda Murray
31st December 1978
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Rupert of Hentzau (1895) by Anthony Hope (1863-1933) adapted by Cynthia Pughe and Kay Patrick
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Rumania
Directed By: Martin Jenkins
Rudolf Rassendyll/King Rudolf: Julian Glover
Fritz von Tarlenheim: David Timson
James: Timothy Bateson
Queen Flavia: Hannah Gordon
Stationmaster/Butler: Wilfrid Carter
Rischenheim: Kerry Francis
Rupert of Hentzau: Martin Jarvis
Farmer/Chancellor Hel Sing: Peter Williams
Colonel Sapt: Nigel Stock
Bernenstein: Sean Barrett
Simon/Thug: Fraser Kerr
Herbert/Bauer: Nigel Anthony
Hermann/Anton von Strofzing: David Sinclair
Countess Helga: Hilda Schroder
Rosa: Cherry Gilliam
Constable/Thug: Vernon Joyner
Fraulein Helsing: Bonnie Hurren
Madame Helsing/Mother Holf: Diana Bishop
Repeated from 26th May 1973
Repeated 27th December 1984
[Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) broadcast on 25th December 1978.]
31st December 1978
21.03:
The Apple Tree(1916) by John Galsworthy (1867-1933) dramatised by Jane Beeson
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Frank: Jeremy Clyde
Megan: Rosalind Ayres
Stella: Emily Richard
Robert: Geoffrey Beevers
Mrs Narracombe: Jane Wenham
Phil: Graham Seed
Joe/Waiter: Andrew Branch
Jim: Danny Schiller
Nick: Susan Sheridan
Shop assistant/Child: Alison Draper
Repeated 15th March 1979 and 10th January 1981
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Titles above preceded by !!! are absent from the BBC Programme Database and have been taken from the Diversity website with additional details taken from prior/later broadcasts. Industrial action, especially in December, meant that some listed plays were not broadcast.
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Compiled July 2024 by Stephen Shaw
