Peter Gill Radio Plays
Peter Gill, OBE, was born in Cardiff in 1939 and educated at St. Illtyd's College, Cardiff. He started work as an actor, on stage and film. He was an army private in ZULU (1964) and a lieutenant in HMS DEFIANT (1962).
Much of Peter Gill's work has been for the theatre. He became an Assistant Director of the Royal Court Theatre in 1964 and an Associate Director in 1970. He was the founder Director of Riverside Studios in 1976, became Associate Director of the National theatre in 1980 and the founding Director of the Royal National Theatre Studio in 1984. He has produced many plays for the Royal Court and Royal National theatres, and details can be found on his website:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/index.shtml
He has written or adapted a small number of plays for radio. The ones I have traced are as follows:
1965 Home Service(?) Berlin Resurrection
1970 R3 A Provinicial Life (Checkhov), adapt.
2001 R4 The look across the eyes / Lovely evening*
NOTES
THE LOOK ACROSS THE EYES / LOVELY EVENING....2001
This was a portrait of an insignificant family struggling to
survive in the shadow of the decaying Cardiff docks. A mother struggles
to hold her family together; father and uncle grow old in uncomplaining
poverty and an adolescent experiences courtship for the first time.
Gill's interest is in the buoyancy with which the human spirit carries on with the daily round in the face of catastrophe. The play starred Malanie Hill, Phillip Joseph and Richard Coyle, and the director was Mary Peate.
A PROVINCIAL LIFE....1970
Written by Peter Gill, based on the story "My Life" by Anton
Checkhov. With Eleanor Bron, John Bryning, Hugh Dickson, Shirley Dixon,
Sheila Grant, Denys Hawthorne, Kathleen Helme, Leslie Heritage, John
Hollis, Geoffrey Matthews, Ian McKellen, Joseph O'Conor, Peter Pacey,
Gladys Spencer. Peter Tuddenham; produced by John Tydeman. R3,
24 Aug 1970. The play is in the BBC archive.
BERLIN RESURRECTION....1965
Directed by John Theocharis. A copy of this play exists in the
National Sound Archive.
Asterisked items known to exist in VRPCC collections.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity Website
