BBC Radio Plays on
BBC Radio 4 in 1976

BBC RADIO DRAMA ON RADIO 4
IN 1976
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1st January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dark Interval by Gwen Cherrell
Proceeding to the nearest disaster.
Producer Christopher Venning
   Stella: Margaret Ashcroft
   Dennis: Bernard Holley
   Wendy: Deborah Paige
   Geoffrey: David McAlister
   Harry: Michael Cochrane
Repeated 1st February 1978


1st January 1976
20.00
Country Kate (1971) by Sheila Stewart (1928-2014)
Producer Kay Patrick
   Country Kate: Mollie Harris
   Young Kate: Heather Bell
   Will Walker: Peter Gilmore
   John Walker/Wealthy Gent: Paul Gaymon
   Kate's mother/Granny Walker: Hilda Schroder
   First Countrywoman/Child/ Maid: Carole Boyd
   Second Countrywoman/Mrs Bury: Betty Baskcomb
   Mr Bury/Parson: Alan Dudley
   Countryman/Grandpa Walker: Trader Faulkner
with the congregation, choir and bells of Long Compton Parish Church and the children of Long Compton County Junior and Infant School
Repeated from 12th December 1974


2nd January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Lady from Tunis by Sarah Maxwell
Gin.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Ernest Price: Derek Nimmo
   Sally Gold: Elaine Stritch
   Nell Carter: Margot Boyd
   Gregory Burns: John Bay
   Dr Mason: Peter Woodthorpe
   Sam Baldwin: Aubrey Woods
Also with by Malcolm Hayes, Michael Burlington, Madi Hedd and Rosalind Adams


3rd January 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Severe Chill by Jack Gerson (1928-2012)
Kauffman came across some computer tapes.
Producer Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Mark: Martin Cochrane
   Louise: Clark Richards
   Peter: Bryden Murdoch
Repeated 7th January 1976


3rd January 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Lucas Testament by Michael Robson
Producer John Cardy
   Robert Cardiff: Robert Lang
   Edgar Lucas: Denis McCarthy
   Solicitor: Michael Deacon
   Chief Insp Thorne: Jeffrey Segal
   Sergeant Ropner: Steve Hodson
   Diana Hayward: Eva Haddon
   Patricia Bryant: Dulcie Gray
   Alec Bryant: John Rye
   Mike Foiliort: Sean Arnold
   Sonny Barbeton: Basil Moss
   Maggie Clement: Madi Hedd
Also with Rosalind Adams, Christopher Bidmead, Alison Gollings, Gilli Grathau and Haydn Jones
Repeated 5th January 1976


4th January 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Wind versus Polygamy by Obi Egbuna (1938-2014)
The Wind of Change
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Narrator: Frank Cousins
   Elina: Juliana John
   Father Joseph: Hector Ross
   Mazi Ofodile, Elina's uncle: Horace James
   Councillor Ogidi: Lionel Ngakane
   Mr Ojukwu, a hunter: Dennis Alaba Peters
   Jerome, the Chief's son: Willie Jonah
   Chief Ozuomba: Earl Cameron
   Clerk of the Court: David Longdon
   The Judge: Sam Iyamu
   Dr Bassey, Counsel for Defence: Louis Mahony
   Mr Azado, Counsel for Prosecution: Paul Danquah
Repeated from 11th July 1966,
[Also made into a TV play with Earl Cameron, Willie Jonah and Lionel Ngakane, first broadcast 15th July 1968]
[Egbuna was a political activist who was sentenced in the UK for a document inciting the killing of the police. This play is rather gentler.]


4th January 1976
21.03:
Gwendolen Harleth by Hallam Tennyson (1920-2005) based upon George Eliot (1819-1880)'s Daniel Deronda (1876)
Mirah Cohen 's song sung by Ginnette Clarke
Bugle: Eva Haddon
Piano: Mary Nash
Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 broadcast on 28/12/75)
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Gwendolen Harleth: Jane Wenham
   Henleigh Grandcourt: John Standing
   Daniel Deronda: Geoffrey Beevers
   Mrs Davilow: Diana Bishop
   Rev Henry Gascoigne: Peter Williams
   Mr Lush: Cyril Shaps
   Sir Hugo Mallinger: Hector Ross
   Mordecai Cohen: Sam Dastor
   Hotelier: Haydn Jones
   Part 2 repeated 6th January 1976.
[Also produced in 1965 rptd 1967 by John Tydeman with Virginia Maskell as Gwendolen]


5th January 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: In The Cage (1898) by Henry James (1843-1916) dramatised by D. G. Bridson (1910-1980)
Producer Piers Plowright
   The Girl: Julie Hallam
   Capt Everard: Martin Jarvis
   Mrs Jordan: Madi Hedd
   Lady Bradeen: Karin Fernald
   Mr Mudge: Alan Thompson
   The Countess: Pamela Lane
   Puss: Sue Harwich
   Mr Buckton: Roger Snowdon
   Woman customer: Peggy Aitchison
   Capt Everard's friend/Counter clerk: Steve Hodson
   Narrator Henry James: David Graham
Repeated 11th January 1976
[Also produced by Cherry Cookson in 1999 with Emily Bruni as the Girl]


7th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Clay Pigeon by Eric B. Maddish
Piano: Mary Nash
Producer Graham Gauld
   Harry McGrath: Edward Judd
   Craze: John Gabriel
   Ann: Rosalind Shanks
   Wagner: Roy Spencer
   Foster: Michael Spice
   Barmaid: Sandra Freeman
   Receptionist: Anne Wensak
   Waiter: John Gray


8th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Softly In the Shadows by Graham Blackett
Producer: Gerry Jones
   Young policeman: Nigel Lambert
   David Watson: Geoffrey Beevers
   Jenny Watson: Caroline John
   Insp Anderson: Ronald Herdman
   Gerald Chambers: John Rye
   Maria: Eva Haddon
   Manuel: Trader Faulkner
   Schroder: Christopher Bidmead


8th January 1976
20.00:
Midweek Theatre: The What on the Landing by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
He is in the house alone.
Producer Alfred Bradley
BBC Leeds
   Narrator: Geoffrey Banks
   Edna Chipchase: Catherine Naish
   Albert Chipchase: Bernard Cribbins
   Hodges: Harold Innocent
   Mrs Sprake: Juliet Cooke
   Svenson/Rev Jack Vincent: Geoffrey Wheeler
   Spilsby: James Beck
   Secretary: Stephanie Turner
Repeated from 9th August 1967, 12th and 13th April 1972
[Also broadcast on R4X 2022]
[Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives) have three scripts including an annotated first draft - ref is U DPR/1/19]


9th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The War Crime by John B. Keane (1928-2002)
The crime of silence.
Producer Michael Heffernan
   MacLear: Allan McClelland
   Flode: Pitt Wilkinson
   Miss Mosworth: Eithne Dunne
   Girl: Ruth Hegarty
   Boy: Brian Munn
   Jonathan Milner: Liam O'Callagban
   Josephine Milner: Doreen Hepburn
   Noletta Berry: Elizabeth Begley
   Policeman: Bill Hunter
   Porter/Clerk: Charles Witherspoon


10th January 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Who Killed Peter's Beetle? by F. J. Bowley
He appeared to be in perfect health, apart from a slight limp.
Producer Walter Acosta
   Mr Roper: Edward Cast
   Mrs Roper: Madi Hedd
   Susan: Rosalind Adams
   Peter: Judy Bennett
   Roger: Steven Pacey
Repeated 14th January 1976


10th January 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: A Swim Off the Island by William Fox (1911-2008)
Producer Ian Cotterell
   Carrington-Blake: William Fox
   Colonel Robinson: Jack May
   Fiona: Rosalind Adams
   Taki: Saeed Jaffrey
   Willo Chater: Christopher Bidmead
   Maud: Rosalind Shanks
   Hotel manager: Trader Faulkner
   Dark Glasses /Apoltolo: Sandor Eles
   Alastair: Anthony Smee
   Captain: Malcolm Hayes
   Interrogator: Clifford Norgate
   James French: Geoffrey Beevers
   Sevastopoulos: Garard Green
   Abbot: Steve Plytas
Repeated 12th January 1976 and 12th November 1979


11th January 1976
21.03:
Evan Harrington (1861) by George Meredith (1828-1909) dramatised by D G Bridson
1 of 5: Death of a Tailor
Producer: Jane Morgan
   George Meredith: Philip Bond
   Drummond Forth: Philip Voss
   Harry Jocelyn: David Troughton
   Grossby: Haydn Jones
   Barnes: Leslie Heritage
   Kilne: Peter Woodthorpe
   Lady Roseley: Margaret Ward
   Mrs Harrington: Pauline Letts
   Rose Jocelyn: Rosalind Ayres
   Evan Harrington: Simon Cadell
   Louisa, Countess de Saldar: Anna Massey
   Melville Jocelyn: Michael Deacon
   Mrs Melville Jocelyn: Diana Robson
   Caroline Strike: Jane Wenham
   Harriet Cogglesby: Diana Bishop
   Andrew Cogglesby: Christopher Benjamin
   Old Tom Cogglesby: Timothy Bateson
   Susan: Alison Frazer
   Waiter: Anthony Smee
   Jack Raikes: Nigel Anthony
   Ferdinand Laxley: Tim Pigott-Smith
Additional actors in parts 2-5:
Alison Frazer, Alison Gollings, Angela Pleasence, Eva Haddon, Garard Green, Jill Balcon, Michael Cochrane, Rosalind Adams, Stephen Thorne
Weekly, episode 5 broadcast 8th February 1976
Each 1976 episode was repeated two days later.


12th January 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Lonely Conscience by Lydia Ragosin
A sympathetic portrait of the last of the Stuart kings.
Producer Margaret Etall
   James Duke of York: John Moffat
   Charles II: Tony Britton
   Duke of Monmouth: John Rye
   Earl of Shaftesbury: Brian Haines
   Maria Beatrice: Jane Knowles
   Duchess of Modena: Norma Ronald
   Princess Mary: Deborah Paige
   William of Orange: Michael Deacon
   William Russell: Steve Hodson
   Archbishop of Canterbury: Peter Williams
   Titus Oates: Michael Shannon
   Lord Dartmouth: Leslie Heritage
   Earl Halifax: Jeffrey Segal
   Colonel Rumsey: James Warwick
   Sir Edward Hales: Norman Claridge
   Comte de Lauzun: Michael Burlington
   Ship's Master: Michael Shannon
   Louis XIV: Nigel Graham
Repeated 18th January 1976
[The sequel was "Crown of Dreams" broadcast 27th June and 3rd July 1977]


14th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Julie Sumner by John Whitewood
Separation and the children.
Producer: John Cardy
   Julie Sumner: Gemma Jones
   David Sumner: John Forrest
   Victoria Sumner: Helen Worth
   Mrs Pritchard: Hilda Schroder
   Janet: Sandra Clark
   Bill Morrisson: John Rowe
   Helen Richards: Diana Olsson
Repeated from 14th November 1973


15th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Question of Identity by H. A. Wrenn
Producer: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Nicola Norton: Patricia Gibson
   Inspector Webb: Ralph Lawton
   Lyn: Ros Drinkwater
   Ray: Sean Arnold
   Eric Norton: Michael Shannon
   Ruth: Judith Boyd
   Sergeant: Graham Rigby
   Constable: Paul Henry
[Also produced by NRK (Norway) in 1981 as "Avdode uttaler seg til politiet"]


15th January 1976
20.00:
Midweek Theatre: Philately will get you Nowhere by Andrew Sachs (1930-2016)
Producer Betty Davies
   Sid Vane: Edward Kelsey
   Wally Potter: Bunny May
   Sheena: Patricia Gallimore
   Mrs Lorrimer: Barbara Mitchell
   George Henderson: Peter Tuddenham
   Froelich: Manning Wilson
   Gayton Faucit: Gerald Cross
   Veronica: Jo Manning Wilson
Repeated from 10th and 11th February 1971,
Repeated 14th July 1984


16th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Period Piece by E. H. Hendry
Time: 1924. Place: London
Violin played by Lionel Bentley
Producer: Martin Jenkins
   Aubrey: George Cole
   Charles: Michael Aldridge
   Mary: Penelope Keith
   Cissie: Norma Ronald
   Head Waiter: Leslie Heritage


17th January 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Doors Closing by Peter Russell
Producer Bernard Krichefski
   Mitchell: Nicholas Dillane
   Gloria: Alison Gollings
   Stamp: Steven Pacey
   Scrambler: Peter Duncan
   Mother: Norma Ronald
   Umpire: Hector Ross
Repeated 21st January 1976


17th January 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Obsession dramatised by Michael Voysey (1921-1987) from the novel D'entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau (1906-1989) and Thomas Narcejac (Pierre Ayraud 1908-1998)
Terror and obsession.
Producer Martin Jenkins
   Actors: Peter Jeffrey, Sarah Badel and Nigel Stock
Repeated 19th January 1976
(The Hitchcock film Vertigo was an adaptation of the same story as this play - (The Living and the Dead). These two authors wrote 43 novels, 100 stories and 4 plays]


19th January 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Mrs Mountford's Final Attempt by David Fitzsimmons
Producer: Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Alice Mountford: Barbara Mullaney
   Maurice Mountford: Geoffrey Banks
   Peter: Ronald Herdman
   Marion: Sandra Voe
   Colin: Christian Rodska
   Laura: Stephanie Turner
Repeated 25th January 1976


21st January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Special Guardian by Roy Lomax
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Jack Davies: Bill Owen
   Govinda: Manning Wilson
   Laljee: Garard Green
   Brian Shepherd: Clifford Norgate
   Sue Shepherd: Deborah Paige
   Inspector Patel: Malcolm Hayes
   Dr Seeker: Michael Shannon


22nd January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Flight 231 by Peter Berry
A flight from New York Kennedy to London Heathrow.
Producer: Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Captain Forrest: David Mahlowe
   Trent: Peter Wheeler
   Anthea Priestly: Lynda Marchal
   Pope: David Mallinson
   Mooney: David Ross
   Jane Jessop: Alexandra Sebastian
   Dr Wilkinson: Geoffrey Banks


22nd January 1976
20.00:
Midweek Theatre: Barry by David Fitzsimmons
Producer Richard Wortley
   Barry: Brian Hewlett
   Mum: Barbara Mitchell
   Nan: Kathleen Helme
(First broadcast live 7th March 1973, repeated 8th March 1973)


23rd January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Other Dear Charmer (1951) by Robert Kemp (1908-1967)
Producer: Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Mirren: Sheila Donald
   Lord Craig: Bryden Murdoch
   Nancie Maclehose: Gwyneth Guthrie
   Miss Nimmo: Rose McBain
   Mary Peacock: Sally Kinghorn
   Robert Burns: Paul Young
   Robert Ainslie: Bob Docherty
   Mr Kemp: Arthur Boland
   Jenny: Fiona Knowles
Repeated 9th December 1977.
[First produced for BBC Scottish Home Service 22nd January 1951, repeated on 26th January 1952 (producer not known)]
[Also produced for television in 1953 and again in 1959]


24th January 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: When the Music Stops by David Marshall
Producer: Richard Wortley
   John: Philip Bond
   Ann: Lynn Farleigh
   J B: Garard Green
   King: David Graham
   Taxi driver: Malcolm Hayes
   Sylvie: Diana Olsson
Repeated 28th January 1976


24th January 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Heroine by Antonia Fraser
1644: the English Civil War
Producer: Betty Davies
   Charlotte, Countess of Derby: Maxine Audley
   Lady Katherine Stanley: Patricia Quinn
   Mary, Countess of Strafford: Rosalind Shanks
   Alice, Lady Girlington: Jane Wenham
   Mistress Judith Parker: Gladys Spencer
   Susan Jefferies: Carole Boyd
Also with Michael Shannon, Michael Deacon and Anthony Smee


26th January 1976
20.00
The Monday Play: Juno and the Paycock (1924) by Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
1922 Dublin.
Producer: Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Capt Jack Boyle: Donal McCann
   Juno Boyle: Pauline Delany
   Johnny Boyle: Niall, Buggy
   Mary Boyle: Sorcha Cusack
   Joxer Daly: John Kavanagh
   Mrs Madigan: Marie Keane
   Jerry: Devine Barry McGovern
   Charlie Bentham: Chris O'Neill
   Mrs Tancred: Maureen Toal
   Needle Nugent: Michael Duffy
   The Mobiliser: Kevin McHugh
   Removal man: Foin White
Repeated 1st February 1976
[Other productions: year/network/producer/actor playing Juno:
1951/Light/Fred O'Donavan/Maire O'Neill
1957/3/John Gibson/Peggy Marshall
1997/3/Pam Brighton/Pauline McLynn
2014 rptd 2018/3/Peter Kavanagh/Sorcha Cusack]
[The word "paycock" is the Irish pronunciation of "peacock",]


28th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dog In a Manger by Jill Hyem (1937-2015)
Producer Kay Patrick
   George: Basil Moss
   Roly: Richard Coleman
   June: Judy Cornwell
   Fenella: Norma Ronald
   Basil the dog: Percy Edwards


29th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Seaton's Aunt (1923) by Walter De La Mare (1873-1956) adapted by David Davis
Piano: David Davis
Producer Glyn Dearman
   Seaton's Aunt: Gwen Ffrangeon-Davies
   Seaton: Anthony Smee
   Withers: Kenneth Fortescue
   Seaton (as a boy): Richard Beamont
   Withers (as a boy): Michael Kemp
   Alice: Rosalind Adams
[Also adapted by Jonathan Holloway, produced for R4 by David Hunter in 1995 rptd 1996]


30th January 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bingley's Classic Case by Allan Surtees (1924-2000)
Producer Betty Davies
   Insp Lockwood: Timothy Bateson
   Sergeant Redding: David Sinclair
   Hetty Bingley: Katherine Parr
   Brenda Bingley: Frances Jeater
   Joe Bingley: John Baddeley
   Billy Marsh: Edward Kelsey
   Mr Gillow: Godfrey Kenton
   Mrs Gillow: Hilda Schroder
   Marjorie Calloway: Elizabeth Morgan
Repeated from 22nd June 1974


31st January 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dwelling Unit, Sweet Dwelling Unit (1973) by Tony Allen (1945-2023) and John Myles (Miles)
Producer John Scotney
   Doris: Kathleen Helme
   George: John Myles
   Alf/Employment Officer: David Brierley
   Constable: Nigel Anthony
   Mr Yates/Mr Shark: Garard Green
Repeated 4th February 1976
[Tony Allen and John (Miles) founded Rough Theatre in 1973, a street theatre group performing in streets, pubs and "squats". In 2023 John Miles wrote a remembrance of Tony Allen - "https://roughtheatre.co.uk/" ]


31st January 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Rose Garden by Nick McCarty
Producer Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Tony Parker: Nigel Anthony
   Jill: Heather Barrett
   George: Jack Holloway
   Bert: Alan Devereux
   Bouchard: William Eedle
   Lebrun: Brian Haines
   Father Joseph: Geoffrey Matthews
   Alan Bryant: Arnold Peters
   Mary Bryant: Eileen Barry
   Ella Bryant: Emily Richard
Repeated 2nd February 1976


2nd February 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Ripples by Maisie Mosco (1924-2011)
Producer David H. Godfrey
   Father: Hugh Manning
   Mother: Thora Hird
   Jack: Christopher Bidmead
   Jill: Norma Ronald
   Pete: Alexander John
   Polly the Parrot: Gladys Spencer
   Guitarist: Steve Gauna
Repeated 8th February 1976


4th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Benefit by Helen J. Wilson
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Paul Ram: John Holder
   Johnno: Tommy Eytle
   Barman: Frank Singuineau
   Laura: Carole Hayman
   Garvey: Russell Dixon
   Social Security Manager: Kenneth Alan Taylor
   Rachael Phillips: Sally Gibson
   Chairman: Paul Webster
   Stevens: Alan Rothwell
   Presenting Officer: James Tomlinson


5th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Sword Dance by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
Producer: Harry Catlin
   Alison: Ginnette Clarke
   Farrow: Andrew Sachs
   Arthur George: Ronald Baddiley
   Shirley George: Jane Wenham
   Insp Dudley: Alan Dudley
   Sgt Pope: Trader Faulkner
   Petheridge: Roger Snowdon
   Clare: Anne Jameson
   Rudkin: Garard Green


6th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Tu-whit Tu-whoo by Peter Rankin.
Producer: Susanna Capon
   Susan: Irene Handl
   Billy: Arnold Ridley
   Mariana: Gladys Spencer
   Rachel: Denise Coffey
   Marvin: Joey Clark
   Interviewer: Anthony Smee
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


7th February 1976
15.05: :
Thirty-Minute Theatre: In Reply to Your Query by James G. Harris
Producer: Betty Davies
   Fred: Timothy Bateson
   Madge: Hilda Braid
   Bunny: Wendy Richard
Repeated 11th February 1976


7th February 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Late into the Night by William Keenan
Theme music by Mat Camison, arranged by David Fleming-Williams
Producer Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
   Doris Wickham: Anna Cropper
   Michael Heywood: John Bennett
   Dave Thomas: Peter Ellis
   Mrs Clare O'Connell: Elizabeth Kelly
   Boris Balakeff: David Mahlowe
   Inspector Meyer: Ronald Herdman
   Charles Crawley: Graham Tennant
   Robson: John Linstrum
   Helga: Janet Dale
   Frau Langermann: Juliet Cooke
   The Stranger, Jim: Geoffrey Banks
   The Occupant of Room 409: Paul Webster
Repeated from 21st and 23rd September 1974
Repeated 9th February 1976
[Sequel: The Night of Caesar's Knives broadcast 14th February 1976 and 15th July 1978]


9th February 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The True Lance by Ian Rodger
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Elvira: Fiona Walker
   Raymond: John Rowe
   Bohemond: Nigel Anthony
   Matilde: Judith Barker
   Bart: John Hollis
   Tancred: Howard Benbrook
   Baldwin: Russell Dixon
   Adhemar: Hugh Dickson
   Peter the Hermit: Geoffrey Banks
Also with Paul Webster, David Mallinson and David Ross
Repeated 15th February 1976
[The "True Lance" is linked to the crucifixion as told in John Ch 19 v34.]


11th February 1976
15.05-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Interests of the Child by Marian Campbell
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Jerry Ogden: Sean Arnold
   Guy Horrocks: Alan Rowe
   Eve Potter: Maureen O'Brien
   Esme: Catherine Davies
   Mrs Beedon: Pauline Letts
   Mr Beedon: Gareth Armstrong
   First youth: Sam Dastor
   Second youth: Anthony Daniels
   Man: John Bull
Repeated from 13th March 1974
[The play title was also used for a differing play of 90 minutes by M Z Lewin in 1988]


12th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Body In the Park by Robert Lord
Producer: Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Percy Lennox, QC: Leon Sinden
   Mrs Lennox: Barbara Clark
   Fred: David George
   Irene Hodge: Tamara Ustinov
   Mrs Hodge: Diana Olsson
   Detective Inspector Morrisey: Patrick Hannaway
   Constable Pinfield: Paul Young
   Chief Inspector Mayhew: Michael O'Halloran
   Mr Windley: David Steuart
   Mrs Windley: Thelma Barlow
   Dr Pottinger: Arthur Boland


13th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Friday Night Man by T. D. Webster
Producer Harry Catlin
   Geoffrey Slater: Barry Foster
   Anne Weston: Rosalind Shanks
   Professor Collins/Sergeant: Clifford Norgate
   Helen Slater: Eva Haddon
   Harvey Croft: Peter Williams
   Charles King: Haydn Jones
   Miss Whiting: Madi Hedd
   Inspector: Jeffrey Segal
[T D Webster used to be a teacher]


14th February 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cold Storage by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Producer Margaret Etall
   Robert Craig: Nigel Graham
   Lucy Craig: Bonnie Hurren
   Alan Scott: John Forrest
   Jim Palmer: Brian Haines
   Mechanic: Vernon Joyner
Repeated from 10th October 1973
[Also broadcast on R4X 2013-2023]
[Also produced by Martyn C Webster in 1960, rptd 1961 with Tom Watson as Robert]


14th February 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Night of Caesar's Knives by William Keenan
Italy
Theme music by Mat Camison, arranged by David Fleming-Williams
Producer Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Clare O'Connell: Elizabeth Kelly
   Renshawe: Geoffrey Matthews
   Gerald Picton: Ronald Herdman
   Doris: Anna Cropper
   Michael: John Bennett
   Captain Averno: Peter Bell
   Colonel Boris Balakeff: David Mahlowe
   Robson: Geoffrey Banks
   Count Galateo/Sven Baste: Geoffrey Wheeler
   Jean Tyler: Marah Stohl
   Harry Carson: Graham Tennant
Repeated from 21st July 1960
Repeated 16th February 1976 and 15th July 1978
[A sequel to Late into the Night, broadcast 7th and 9th February 1976, from 1974.]


15th February 1976
21.03-21.58
The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), dramatised by Desmond Hawkins
1 of 6: The Night of the Bonfires
Producer: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Eustacia Vye: Susan Penhaligon
   Diggory Venn: Patrick Mower
   Wildeve: Alan Moore
   Thomasin: Susan Bovell
   Doctor/Christian/Priest: Douglas Leach
   Mrs Yeobright: Peggy Ann Wood
   Captain Vye: Donald Bisset
   Sam: John Barker
   Fairway: Robert Brown
   Christian: Douglas Leach
   Oily Dowden: Pauline Letts
   Granfer Cantle: Hedley Goodall
   Humphrey: Kit Thacker
   Susan Nunsuch: Margot Young
   Johnny: Wakely Cox
Additional actors in parts 2-6:
   Charley: John Curry
   Clym Yeobright: Richard Warwick
   Joan/Rachel: Jacqueline Morgan
   Pedlar/William: Rex Holdsworth
   Retty: Margaret Barrars
   Mrs Judd: Peggy Tether
Also with Hubert Tucker, Jack Harding, John Barker, Victor Fawkes
Weekly, each episode repeated after two days, part 6 broadcast 21st March 1976
[Also produced by Brandon Acton-Bond in 1960 in 12 episodes of 30 minutes with Edward Woodward as Diggory.]
[Also produced by Rosemary Watts in 2005 in 3 episodes of one hour, with Ben Crowe as Diggory, repeated on R4X 2013-2018]


16th February 1976
19.30:
The Monday Play: Becket (1959) by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987), translated by Lucienne Hill, adapted by Roger Pine
Producer: Ronald Mason
   Becket: Ian Holm
   Henry II: David Buck
   Bishop of London: Peter Jeffrey
   Gwendolen: Patricia Gallimore
   Archbishop of Canterbury: Geoffrey Wincott
   Bishop of York: Garard Green
   Bishop of Oxford: Antony Viccars
   Baron: Ralph Truman
   Little Monk: Roger Gale
   Queen Mother: Marjorie Westbury
   Young Queen: Kathleen Helme
   Page: David Brierley
   Louis of France: David March
   The Pope: Peter Pratt
Repeated from 17th March 1969, repeated 28th December 1970
[Also produced in 2009 for R3 by Nicolas Soames with Toby Stephens as Henry II]
[Original title: "Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu"]


17th February 1976
20.15
To the Shores of the Polar Sea by David Wheeler
1819 Canada
Radiophonic music and sound effects by Paddy Kingsland of the Radiophonic Workshop
Producer Christopher Venning
   Narrator: Astley Jones
   Capt John Franklin RN: Clifford Norgate
   Adam: Philip Reader
   Robert Hood: Steve Hodson
   John Hepburn: Chris Hallam
   George Back: Peter Craze
   John Richardson: Crawford Logan
   Perrault: Christopher Bidmead
   Michel: Powell Jones


18th February 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Running Sore by Frances McEnaney
Producer Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Woman: Anita Reeves
   Tam: Barry McGovern
   Mrs Black: Doreen Hepburn
   Miss O'Connor: Catherine Gibson
   Minnie Wilson: Elizabeth Begley
   Delia: Trudy Kelly
   Rose Anne: Maire Ni Ghrainne
   Jamesy: Desmond Maurer


18th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Innocent Libertine (1904,1905) by Colette (1873-1954) dramatised by Michael Voysey
Producer John Theocharis
   Minne: Elizabeth Proud
   Mamma: Anne Jameson
   Celine: Norma Ronald
   Mile Souhait: Deborah Paige
   Henrietta: Ginnette Clarke
   Uncle Paul: Garard Green
   Antoine: Christopher Guard
   Old Corne: Peter Williams
Also with Jeffrey Segal, Roger Snowdon, Joanna Wake
[No indication of the translator. "L'ingenue libertine" 1909 (The Gentle Libertine, later Innocent Libertine), was a combination of the books Minne and Les Égarements de Minne (of 1904 and 1905).]


19th February 1976
15.05-15.50
Counsel of Perfection by James Fairfax (James Pickles, 1925-2010)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Harry Kingsley, QC: Geoffrey Banks
   Adrian Hull: Peter John
   Mr Justice Hellyer: Graham Roberts
   Mr Justice Bollington: Paul Webster
   Alison Warner: Linda Gardner
   Police Constable: John Linstrum
   Chief Inspector Blackaby: Wilfred Harrison


20th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Truest Wisdom by A. A. Beeching
Producer: Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Don Simpson: Barry Foster
   Nicola Simpson: Penelope Lee
   Richard Simpson: Steven Pacey
   Headmaster: Stephen Thorne
   Secretary/Junior boy: Elizabeth Revill
   Mr Beresford: Roger Milner
   Ian/Radio commentator: Anthony Smee
   Arthur Preece: Ralph Lawton
   Fred Micklethwaite: Michael Deacon
   Reporter/Reginald Proctor: Michael Shannon
[This is the sole credit to A A Beeching in the BBC Program Database]


21st February 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Heart's Delight by Alex Marshall and Peter King
Producer Margaret Etall
   Mary: Lala Lloyd
   William: Victor Lucas
   Jean: Delia Paton
   Bernard: Clifford Earl
   Vicar: Peter Williams
   Mr Hughes: David Sinclair
   Passenger: Bonnie Hurren
Repeated from 31st October 1973


21st February 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Angel of The Deep by Ian Cullen
1838: A stormy night at sea.
Producer Christopher Venning
   Peter Fry: Michael Cochrane
   Grace Darling (1815-1842): Norma Ronald
   William Darling: Peter Woodthorpe
   Mr Smeddle: Michael Goodllffe
   Mr Dovedale/Lookout: Alan Rowe
   Actor/Sailor: Michael Shannon
   Mr Killerton/Humble: David Graham
   Miss Dudley/Mrs Dawson: Ginnette Clarke
   Mrs Darling: Kathleene Helme
   Brookes Darling: Crawford Logan
   Mr Batty/Ritchie: John Rowe
   Andy McDonald/James Duncan: Steve Hodson
   The Duchess: Jane Wenham
   Captain: Malcolm Haves
   Engineer: Clifford Norgate
Repeated 23rd February 1976
[Grace's boat is preserved in Bamburgh]


22nd February 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The City of the Horizon by David Spenser
Pharaoh Akhnaten. 1: The Dream
Producer John Tydeman
   Akhnaten (Amenhotep IV): Gary Bond
   Nefertiti, his wife: Kate Binchy
   Queen Tiy, his mother: Mary Morris
   Smenkhare: David Valla
   Tutankhamen: Geoffrey Beevers
   Meritaten, his daughter: Stephanie Turner
   Ay, the Chief Counsellor: Lockwood West
   Horemheb, the Commander in Chief: William Fox
   Ptahmose (later Ramose): Rolf Lefebvre
   Bek, the architect: David Spenser
   Tutmose, the sculptor: Robin Browne
   Rib-Addi, Ruler of Byblos: Leslie Heritage
Repeated from 29th January 1972
The sequel "The Reality" broadcast 29th February 1976, repeated from 5th February 1972.


23rd February 1976
19.30:
The Monday Play: Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) adapted by Eric Ewens
1911 revolution.
Producer Gerry Jones
   Narrator: Manning Wilson
   Razumov: Nigel Anthony
   Natalia: Jane Knowles
   Tekla: Heather Kyd
   Haldin: Steve Hodson
   De Pleven: James Thomason
   Kostia: Anthony Smee
   General: Leslie Heritage
   Mikulin: Haydn Jones
   Peter Ivanovitch: John Rowe
   Nikita Necator: Peter Woodthorpe
   Mrs Haldin: Jane Wenham
   Sophia Antonovna: Shirley Dixon
   Madame de Stern: Madi Hedd
[Also produced by Alison Hindell in two parts for R4 in 1992, with some different characters, dramatised by Brian Miller]
[Written between the Russian revolutions of 1905 (failed) and 1917.]


25th February 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Love from the Prodigal by Roger Swaine
Producer Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Rhys: Gareth Armstrong
   Diana: Jane Wymark
   Evan: Douglas Blackwell
   Gwyn: Christine Pollon
   Ambulance men: George Woolley and Lionel Ngakane
[Script states this was recorded at Studio 3, Pebble Mill on 27/11/75]


25th February 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor by Ivor Wilson
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Arthur Eden: Geoffrey Banks
   Beatrice: Barbara Mullaney
   Kathy: Eileen Murphy
   Richard: Alan Rothwell
   Frank Bassett: Peter Wheeler
   Valerie: Sandra Clark
   Mrs Lowther: Judith Barker
   Sam: Paul Webster
   Reg: Bert Palmer
   Ron: David Mahlowe


26th February 1976
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: No Room for Sentiment by James Fairfax (James Pickles, 1925-2010)
Producer Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Harry Kingsley, QC: Geoffrey Banks
   Adrian Hull: Peter John
   Alfred Dinsdale: John Blythe
   John Bould/Herr Stiefel: Ronald Herdman
   Bob Goodall: Russell Dixon
   Karl Newman: Paul Webster
   Anna Holzer: Carolyn Pickles
   Dr Zittldu: Daphne Oxenford
[Carolyn Pickles is the daughter of James Fairfax. James Fairfax was better known as Judge Pickles, a newsworthy barrister and Circuit Judge]


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


28th February 1976
15.05
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Time for Mourning by Margaret Harris
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Andrew: Robert Trotter
   Kate: Sandra Clark
   Annie: Diana Olsson
   Dora: Audrey Muir
   Mrs Gourlay: Valerie Verdon
   Waiter: Fraser Kerr


28th February 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Bonecrack (1971) by Dick Francis (1920-2010) dramatised by John Ashe
Newmarket: Horse racing.
Producer Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
Producer: Brian Miller
   Tommy Hoylake: Rex Houldsworth
   Neil Griffon: Francis Matthews
   Maggie: Caroline Blakiston
   Alessandro: Mark Colleano
   Carlo: Ray Handy
   Enso Rivera: Roger Snowdon
   Cal: Roy Stephens
   Etty Craig: Edwina Wray
   Griffon: Dennis Bowen
   Vet: David Sharp
Repeated 1st March 1976
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X, 2007-2020]


29th February 1976
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The City of the Horizon by David Spenser
Akhnaten, Pharaoh of Egypt
2: The Reality
Producer John Tydeman
   Akhnaten: Gary Bond
   Nefertiti, his wife: Kate Binchy
   Queen Tiy, his mother: Mary Morris
   Smenkhare: David Valla
   Tutankhamen: Geoffrey Beevers
   Meritaten, his daughter: Stephanie Turner
   Ay, the Chief Counsellor: Lockwood West
   Horemheb, the Commander in Chief: William Fox
   Ramose, the High Priest: Rolf Lefebvre
   Bek, the architect: David Spenser
   Tutmose, the sculptor: Robin Browns
   Rib-Addi, Ruler of Byblos: Leslie Heritage
   Aziru, Prince of the Amorites: Lewis Stringer
Repeated from 5th February 1972
[Part 1, "The Dream" was broadcast on 22nd February 1976]
[Akhenaten's (several spellings) monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs. The City of the Horizon was found in the late 19thC.]


1st March 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The End of the Summer (1956) by Denis Constanduros (1910-1978)
France, 1860's.
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Didie: Wendy Padbury
   Paulinette: Emily Richard
   Mrs Innis: Daphne Oxenford
   M Viardot: James Tomlinson
   Gaston: Russell Dixon
   Herr Muller: Christian Rodska
   Pauline Viardot: Penelope Lee
   Katrine: Alexandra Sebastian
   Turgenev (1818-1883): David Mahlowe
Repeated 7th March 1976
[Previously presented as a tv play in 1957 after a stage production in 1956]


3rd March 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Token of Esteem by David Bartlett and Michael Davies
Producer Cherry Cookson
   Sands: Gerald Cross
   Joe: Christopher Timothy
   Billy: Peter Pacet
   Waitress: Jane Knowles


3rd March 1976
15.05
Can You Stay the Night? by Michael Robson
Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin
   Sarah: Felicity Kendal
   Philip: Christopher Bidmead
   Barry: David Sinclair
   John: Stephen Thorne
   Nicole: Eva Haddon


4th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: No Holds Barred by James Fairfax (James Pickles, 1925-2010)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
   BBC Manchester
   Harry Kingsley,QC: Geoffrey Banks
   Adrian Hull: Peter John
   Mr Justice Maxwell: David Mahlowe
   Olwen Roberts: Sharon Duce
   Det Insp Galloway: John Franklyn Robbins
   Bill Taylor: Edward Wilson
[James Fairfax was better known as Judge Pickles, he was a barrister]


5th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Time to be Still by Peter Brent
Producer David Spenser
   George Collyer: Nigel Stock
   Rachel Collyer: Sheila Grant
   Swami, Sattvananda: Ronald Herdman
   Sunderam: Garard Green
   Raju: David Graham
   Anderson: Malcolm Hayes
   Ranjit: Peter Craze
   Devaraj: Saeed Jaffrey
Repeated 14th October 1977


6th March 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Crossed Line by Edward Crowley
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Don: Geoffrey Banks
   David: Graham Roberts
   Harry: John Linstrum
   Sheila/Mrs Langly: Carol Gilles


6th March 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The World Turned Upside Down by Peter Ling (1926-2006)
The story of St Francis of Assisi
Producer David Spenser
   Francesco Bernadone: Sean Barrett
   Pope Gregory (Cardinal Ugolini): John Westbrook
   Thomas of Celano: John Rye
   Bishop Guido of Assisi: Lockwood West
   Bernardo: Basil Moss
   Angelo: Leslie Heritage
   Lady Bona: Jane Wenham
   Clare Offreduci: Elizabeth Proud
   Piero Bernadone/Pope Honorius III: Trader Faulkner
   Pica Bernadone: Ginnette Clarke
   Pope Innocent III: Malcolm Hayes
   Leo: William Eedle
   Elias: David Timson
   Juniper: Jonathan Scott
   Sultan Malek-el-Khamil: Roger Snowdon
   Lady Giacoma dei Settisoli: Diana Olsson
Repeated 8th March 1976


10th March 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Samson Enterprises by J. P. Bean
Producer Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Bert: Colin Edwynn
   Belinda: Sharon Duce


10th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Whistling Wally by Wally K. Daly
Producer Martin Jenkins
   Norman: Michael Wardle
   Kev: Christian Rodska
   Mary: Kathleen Belme
   Wally: John Hollis
   Kath: Elizabeth Proud
   Joe/Porter: Charles Simon
   Doctor/Priest: Nigel Lambert
   Kitty/Sister: Rosalind Strang
Repeated from 13th JUly 1974
[Sequel: Whistling Wally's Son, 23/5/2011 rptd 7/10/2013]


11th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Let's Play Politics by James Fairfax (James Pickles, 1925-2010)
Producer: Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Harry Kingsley, QC: Geoffrey Banks
   Adrian Hull: Peter John
   Mary Hull: Carole Turner
   Fred Hull: Herbert Smith
   Tony Errington: David Mahlowe
   Alan Hargreaves: Colin Edwynn
   Jack Barker: John Franklyn-Robbins
[James Fairfax was better known as Judge Pickles, he was a barrister]


12th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Honest Tom by Terence Kelly
Producer Betty Davies
   Margaret Curtin: Dulcie Gray
   Leslie Curtin: Haydn Jones
   Jenny Curtin: Ginnette Clarke
   Tom Phillips: Michael Denison
   Alf Walsh: Jeffrey Segal
   Dr Macpherson: Michael Deacon


13th March 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen by Jennifer Phillips
Pianist Martin Goldstein
Former opera stars.
Producer: Richard Wortley
   Sonya: Penelope Lee
   Alex: David Sinclair
   Tricia: Rosalind Adams
   Karmovski: Jeffrey Segal
   Comic: Steve Hodson
Repeated 17th March 1976 and 10th January 1978
[The title is from the Puccini opera La Boheme]
[The characters Sonya and Alex continue in "Venus at the Seaside" broadcast 9th August 1977]


13th March 1976
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Jumbo by James Follett
Technical air adviser: Leonard W. Cutler
Producer Graham Gauld
   Capt Everett: Nigel Lambert
   Elaine: Eva Haddon
   Harman: Leslie Heritage
   Charlie: Haydn Jones
   Davies: Paul Meier
   Stewardess: Deborah Paige
   Ted: Alan Tilvern
   Mary: Jean England
   Trevor: John Levitt
   Joanna: Rosalind Adams
   Kamarov: Trader Faulkner
   Operations Manager: Clifford Nobgate
Repeated 15th March 1976
[Also broadcast on R7 2005]


15th March 1976
19.30-21.30
The Misanthrope (1666) by Moliere (1622-1673), reset in 1966 by Tony Harrison and John Dexter.
Music: Marc Wilkinson
Musicians: Billy Bell, Roger Potter, Terry Walsh, Marc Wilkinson, Dougie Wright
The setting has been moved from 1666 to 1966.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Philinte: Alan MacNaughtan
   Alceste: Alec McCowen
   Oronte: Gawn Grainger
   Celimene: Diana Rigg
   Basque: James Hayes
   Eliante: Louie Ramsay
   Clitandre: Jeremy Clyde
   Acaste: Nicholas Clay
   Official of the French Academy: Stephen Williams
   Arsinoe: Gillian Barge
   Dubois: James Hayes
Repeated 1st August 1977
[Also produced in 1998, by Nandita Ghose for R3 with Brigit Forsyth as Arsinoe]
[A more classical setting was used in 1956 (rptd 1957) in a production by Norman Wright for R3, with Jack May as Acaste, and in 1957 by Brandon Acton-Bond with Hugh Burden as Alceste]
[Also broadcast in French in 1957 on R3, producer J Weltman]
[Some parts of the play have been borrowed from Plautus]
[Original title "Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux"]


17th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Cost of a Conscience by Alfred Shaughnessy (1916-2005)
Producer Christopher Venning
   Stephen: Basil Moss
   Elizabeth: Ann Morrish
   Maria: Jamila Massey
   Jenny: Lysandre de la Haye
   Michael: Simon Richmond
   Arthur Brooks: David Graham
   Vicar: Leslie Heritage
   Mr Saunders: John Rowe
   Mrs Saunders: Barbara Lott
   Linda: Stephanie Fayerman
   Miss Croft: Alison Gollings
   Gardener: Clifford Norgate
   Doris: Joanna Wake
Also with Anthony Smee and David Neal
[The play was very personal- Shaughnessy resigned from Sandhurst in 1935 on grounds of conscience, but was then in the D Day Landings].


18th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Leave Well Alone by Bloke Modisane (William Modisane, 1923-1986)
Sometimes offering help can create problems.
Producer Christopher Venning
   Pontiac Mick: Alton Kumalo
   Salome: Jumoke Debayo
   Mrs London: Joanna Wake
   Housemaid: Elizabeth Adare
   Andries Wynberg: Mel Oxley
   Manasseh: Stefan Kalipha
   Prinslo: Sean Barrett
   Battleship: Valerie Murray
   Martins: Louis Mahoney
   Deadwood: Fred Brobby
   Caiaphas: Lionel Ngkane
   Nice-time girl: Jeillo Edwards
   Sergeant: Hector Ross
   Jimmy: Frank Cousins


19th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Quarter-Million Boys, A Sentimental Journey to a Dead City by Bloke Modisane (William Modisane, 1923-1986)
The place is Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
Producer Charles Lefeaux
   Davey Martins: Rufus Khoza
   Deadwood Dick: Joe Mogotsi
   Caiaphas Sedumo: Bloke Modisane
   Battleship: Jeillo Edwards
   Anthony: Frederick Treves
   Rosemary: Jan Edwards
   Jakob: John Gabriel
   Piet: Hector Ross
   Diketedi: Daphne Cline-Thomas
   Pontiac Mick: Lionel Ngakane
   Nice-time girl: Patience Gcwabe
   Police sergeant: Yemi Ajibade
   Prisoner: Cosmo Pieterse
Repeated from 26th September 1969, 12th October 1969, 30th October 1970 and 26th January 1973


20th March 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Phantom Four by Bill Corrigan
The time, 1961. The place, Lancashire. Pop Music.
Producer Michael Rolfe
   Caretaker: Peter Woodthorpe
   Stan: Christopher Bidmead
   Jim: Edward McCarthy
   The Vicar: Edward Kelsey
   Ray: John Bull
   Kevin: Peter Craze
   Jean: Susan Thomas
   Sandra: Jill Shilling
   Trevor: Nigel Anthony
   Marion: Anne Jameson
Repeated 24th March 1976


20th March 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The One-eyed Monster by Allan Prior (1922-2006)
1956 and TV "arrives"
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Rick: Dinsdale Landen
   Moana: Joanna Wake
   Lois: Jill Balcon
   Fred Miffin: Leslie Sands
   Sir Godbroke Dalrymple: Garard Green
   Dominick: Steve Hodson
   Hamish Hendry: Michael Shannon
   Mrs Drake: Norma Ronald
Also with Rosalind Adams, Eva Haddon, Malcolm Hayes, Madi Hedd, David Graham and James Thomason
Repeated 22nd March 1976 and 9th October 1977


21st March 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Long Sunset (1955) by R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)
The occupation of Britain is at an end.
Producer Martin Jenkins
   Marcus, a Roman Tribune: John Rye
   Julian, a Roman landowner: Stephen Murray
   Serena, his wife: Pauline Letts
   Paula, their daughter: Jane Knowles
   Otho, their son: David Spenser
   Lucian: Lockwood West
   Portius: John Gabriel
   Arthur: Julian Glover
   Gawaine, his nephew: David Valla
   Lugar, a servant: Edward Kelsey
Repeated from 10th April 1971
Repeated 26th August 1984, 5th November 1990
[Also produced by Ayton Whitaker in 1955, rptd 1956, with Brewster Mason as Julian]


22nd March 1976
19.30
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C. Potter by Basil Boothroyd (1910-1988)
Season 1, story 1. The Birthday Present
Producer: Bobby Jaye
   Gerald C Potter: Ian Carmichael
   his wife: Charlotte Mitchell
Story 6 in this run was broadcast 26th April 1976.
[Four series each of six episodes, from 1976-1981, also much repeated.]


22nd March 1976
20.00
The Monday Play: The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth (1894-1939), translated by Geoffrey Dunlop and Eva Tucker
Producer John Theocharis
   Carl Joseph Trotta: Nigel Anthony
   District Commissioner Trotta: Peter Williams
   Count Chojnicki: John Rye
   Kaunitz: Roger Snowdon
   Herr Slama: Clifford Norgate
   Frau Slama: Eva Haddon
   Taittinger: Anthony Smee
   Frau Hirschwitz: Jane Wenham
   Kovacs: Garard Green
   Kapturak: Michael Shannon
   Jacques: Malcolm Hayes
   Dr Skowronnek: Haydn Jones
   Nechwal: James Thomason
   Frau von Taussig: Anne Jameson
   Dr Demant: David Graham
   Eva Demant: Emily Richard
   Captain Wagner: Christopher Bidmead
   Emperor Franz Joseph: Godfrey Kenton
Repeated 28th March 1976
[Also produced for R3 in 2005 rptd 2007, by Tim Dee with Clive Swift as Jacques]


24th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Delivery by Valerie Windsor
Producer Liane Aukin
   Sarah: Maureen Lipman
   Tom: John Rows
   Nurse: Norma Ronald
   Nurse Kershaw: Rosalind Adams
   Ambulancemen: Michael Shannon and Steve Hodson
Repeated 13th January 1978


25th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Alesta's Hill by Cherry Cookson
Producer: Gerry Jones
   David: Sean Arnold
   Mrs Black: Norma Ronald
   John: David Neal
   Garage attendant: John Rowe
   Taxi driver: Jeffrey Segal
Repeated 16th February 1978


26th March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Delta by Diana Morgan
A school in North Wales.
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin
   Delia: Rosalind Shanks
   Mrs Vyvyan: Sylvia Coleridge
   Capt Owen Rhys: John Rowe
   George Vyvyan: Michael Cochrane
   Miss Margot Kingston: Norma Ronald
   Miss Susie: Rate Binchy
   Lady Mary Tudor: Joanna Wake
   Agnus 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


27th March 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Just his Manner by Joan Lock
Producer David Johnston
   George: Nigel Anthony
   George 2: John Rye
   Christine: Elizabeth Revill
   Mrs Denky: Norma Ronald
   Mrs Kennedy: Jane Wenham
   Hector: Peter Woodthorpe
Repeated 31st March 1976


27th March 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: On the Spot (1930) by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) adapted for stereo by Raymond Raikes
Chicago during Prohibition
Producer Jean Bower
   Shaun O'Donnell: Leslie Heritage
   Doctor: Haydn Jones
   Priest: David Neal
   Det-Comm John Kelly: Trevor Martin
   Tony Perelli: Peter Woodthorpe
   Minn Lee: Denise Bryer
   Angelo Verona: Robert Rietty
   Con O'Hara: Michael Kilgarriff
   Mike Feeney: Malcolm Hayes
   Maria Pouliski: Sandra Clark
   Jimmy McGarth: John Forrest
Repeated 29th March 1976
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
[Note- Prohibition (of alcohol) which features in this play was in force in 1930- prohibition ended in 1933. ]



28th March 1976
21.03-21.58:
The Inquisitor (1935) by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941). Adapted by Antony Kearey
1 of 5: Boanerges
Pianist:Mary Nash
Producer: Margaret Etall
   Michael Furze: Clive Swift
   Stephen Furze: Roger Snowdon
   Elizabeth Furze: Amanda Murray
   Sarah Furze/Biddy: Norma Ronald
   Canon Marlowe: James Thomason
   Penny Marlowe: Elspeth Charlton
   James Bird: Nigel Lambert
   John Lampiron: Nigel Davenport
   Herbert Klitch: Clifford Norgate
   Mrs Carris: Eva Stuart
   Aldridge: Jeffrey Segal
   Broad: Steve Hodson
   Bellamy: Michael Shannon
   Mordaunt: John Ruddock
   Moon: David Graham
   Miss Harvey: Deborah Paige
Additional cast in parts 2 to 5:
Anne Jameson, Anne Rosenfeld, Antony Kearey, David Neal, Eva Haddon, Garard Green, Godfrey Kenton, Hilary Newcombe, Joanna Wake, John Rowe,
Malcolm Hayes, Margot Boyd, Miriam Margolyes, Pauline Wynn, Simon Jones
Parts 1, 3, 4 and 5 were repeated after 2 days, part 2 was repeated after 3 days as the prior day was the Budget Special programme.
[Prior linked novels about Polchester were (in story sequence) "The Cathedral" (broadcast in 3 parts in 1969), "Harmer John" (no radio production) and "The Old Ladies" (two productions: 1968 and 1984).]


29th March 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Golden Windows by Michael Kittermaster
Piano: Mary Nash
Producer Graham Gauld
   Sally: Sarah Badel
   David: John Rye
   Roberts: Clifford Norgate
   Fiona: Ginnette Clarke
   Tim: Christopher Bidmead
   Monica: Jane Wenham
   Doctor: Jonathan Scott
   Price: Michael Deacon
   Mrs Lawson: Anne Leon
   Mrs Carritt: Mary Kenton
   Taxi driver: Garard Green
Repeated 24th October 1976


31st March 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Delayed Reaction. by Charles Thomas
Producer Jean Bower
   Telephone Operator: Peter Craze
   Colonel Rivers: Godfrey Kenton
   Matron: Anne Jameson
   Pte 'Smiler' Sims: Michael Bates
   Corporal Hopkins: Haydn Jones
   Bdr Ted Gillett: Malcolm Reid
   Nurse Beryl Jones: Margaret Robertson
   Nurse Gwen Warren: Maureen O'Brien
   Sergeant Craig: Garard Green
   Pte Frank Norris: David Buck


1st April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: What Do We Do Now, Henry? by Pauline MacAulay
Producer David R. Godfrey
   Alec Pottinger: Hugh Burden
   Henry Mitchell: Peter Woodthorpe
   Harriet: Mitchell Carole-Boyd
   Removal man/Waiter: Jeffrey Segal


1st April 1976
20.00
Freedom Lies Westwards by Alan Burgess.
LISTED BUT NOT BROADCAST
(see 22nd April 1976)


2nd April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The King Who Made a Magic Carpet by David Wade, based on an old legend.
Producer Graham Gauld
   King Hasan: John Pullen
   Zora: Elizabeth Proud
   Ahmed: Douglas Blackwell
   Goldsmith: Lewis Stringer
   His Wife: Anne Jameson
   Iqbal: Peter Pratt
   Abdul: Fraser Kerr
   Merchant: John Gabriel


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


3rd April 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Let It Come Down by Michael Robson
Produced by John Cardy
   Alan Scott: William Lucas
   Sue Crichton: Ros Drinkwater
   QC: Peter Woodthorpe
   Moira Scott: Margaret Robertson
   Daniel Hope: Roger Snowdon
   Frank Lawler: Haydn Jones
   Mrs Clayton: Jeanne Mockford
   Christine Lang: Deborah Paige
   David Bennett: Christopher Bidmead
   Restaurant manager: Leslie Heritage
   Det-Sgt Franklin: William Sleigh
   Ward sister: Eva Haddon
   Headmaster: Godfrey Kenton
   Tony Parrish: Anthony Smee
   Clennett: David Graham
   Det Chief Insp Durrant: Kevin Brennan
   Christine's father: Douglas .L Blackwei
   Colonel Bradley: Garard Green
   Dr Adlard: Michael Shannon
   Announcer: Peter Craze
Repeated 5th April 1976 and 26th December 1977


4th April 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
Based on the Rattenbury murder case in 1935.
Technical assistants Patience Pratt, Marsail McCuish and David Hitchinson
Songs Night Brings me You, and Dark-Haired Marie composed by Alma Rattenbury (Lozanne)
Pianist: Martin Goldstein
Producer Norman Wright
   Alma Rattenbury: Diana Dors
   Mr Rattenbury: Haydn Jones
   Christopher Rattenbury: Peter Whitman
   George Alfred Wood: Robin Browne
   Mr Davenport,: Peter Williams
   Mrs Davenport: Gwen Watford
   Davenport Junior: Gareth Johnson
   The Judge: Carleton Hobbs
   Mr J D Cassell: 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
   Newsreader: Alvar Lidell
Repeated from 27th October 1975
Repeated 2nd January 1978, 2nd May 1981
[Also produced in 2011 by Thea Sharrock with Niamh Cussack]
[Rattigan's last play].


5th April 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Wisest Fool by Rose Tremain
1623.
Produced by Kay Patrick
   James I: Nigel Stock
   the Duke of Buckingham: Michael Deacon
   Lady Katherine: Rosalind Shanks
   Digby: Peter Woodthorpe
   Naunton: Leslie Heritage
   Cottington: David Gooderson
   Taylor: Derrick Gilbert
   Player: Raymond Sawyer
Repeated 11th April 1976


8th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Sleeping Gene by Mark P. Hill
Producer Liane Aukin
   George: Derek Seaton
   Mary: Paul Wilcox
   Jane: Carole Boyd
   Joe: Stephen Thorne
   BOSwell: Gerald Cross
   Doctor: Leonard Fenton
   Bob: Leslie Heritage
   Harry: Roger Snowdon


9th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Home Is The Sailor by John Whitewood
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Valerie: Madi Hedd
   Margaret: Jill Bennett
   Customs officer: Lesliey 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 24th February 1978


10th April 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Lucky Day by Derek Smith
Gambling problems.
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Harry: Haydn Jones
   Jack: Malcolm Hayes
   Millie: Jane Wenham
Repeated 14th April 1976


10th April 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1936) by Barre 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 12th April 1976 and 26th August 1978
[The title was deliberate, 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.]


12th April 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Easter (1901) by August Strindberg (1849-1912) translated by Peter Watts,
Sweden, 1900.
Produced by Martin Jenkins
   Elis: Peter Craze
   Kristina: Joanna Wake
   Mrs Heyst: Pauline Letts
   Benjamin: Ian Sharrock
   Eleonora: Maureen O'Brien
   Lindkvist: Maurice Denham
Repeated 18th April 1976
[Other radio productions: year/producer/network/actor playing Eleonora:
1938/Peter Creswell/National/Lila Maravan
1948/Peter Watts/Home/Cherry Cottrell
1954/Wilfrid Grantham/Elizabeth Henson
1960/Peter Watts/R3/Beryl Calder]
   
   
14th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Roses Round the Door by Ivor Wilson
Produced by Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester.
   Joanna: Anne Cunningham
   Peter: Alan Rothwell
   Ray: Russell Dixon
   Graham: Geoffrey Hinsliff
   Dick: Christian Rodska
   Sandy: Ray Mort
   Sergeant: Henry Livings
[Typescript script held at Hull History Centre, ref U DIW/2/18. Note: The script states produced at BBC Leeds- Alfred Bradley seems to have moved to Manchester between recording and airing of this play]


15th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Ghosts of Love by E. R. Pugh
Produced 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 1st March 1978
[On BBC Transcription record CN2635 2]


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


17th April 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Dark Cornelian by David H. Godfrey
Produced by Harry Catlin
   John: Judy Bennett
   Gerald Burns: John Rowe
   Lisa Burns: Carole Boyd
   Rosalind: Elizabeth Proud
   Dr Copeland: James Thomason
   Sir Radley Bathurst: Jeffrey Segal
   Captain Royston: Douglas Blackwell
   Captain Royston: Deborah Paige
Repeated 21st April 1976
[Two different actors listed as Cpt Royston]


17th Appril 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Frenchman's Creek (1941) by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Brian Gear
Cornwall, 17th Century.
Music researched and arranged by Sidney Sager
Cornett played by: Michael Laird
Produced by Mary Price
BBC Bristol
   Dona: Sheila Ruskin
   Aubery: David Buck
   William: Geoffrey Matthews
   Harry: Paul Lavers
   Rockingham: Nicholas Loukes
   Godolphin: Denis Raymond
   Rashteigh: Paul Nicholson
   Eustick: Christopher Ashley
   Prue/Tom: Edwina Wray
   Pierre Blanc: David Sharp
   Crew 1: Brian Gear
   Crew 2/Singer: Tony Robinson
   Coachman / Physician /Watch-man: Esmond Rideout
   Jailer: Hubert Tucker


19th April 1976
14.30
Afternoon Theatre: Tunes of Glory (1956) by James Kennaway (1928-1968), adapted by B C Cummins.
Producer: Gerry Jones.
   Jock Sinclair: Gordon Jackson
   Col Barrow: John Stride
   Pipe-Major MacClean: Fulton MacKay
   RSM Riddick: David Lodge
   Jimmy Cairns: John Rowe
   Dusty Miller: Henry Stamper
   Piper Adam: Fraser Kerr
   Cpl Fraser: John Samson
   Charlie Scott: John Rye
   Mackinnon: Christopher Bidmead
   Mary Titterington: Norma Ronald
   Morag Sinclair: Alison Gollings
   Sir Alistair: Hector Ross
   Landlord/Driver: Nigel Lambert
   Guard Sergeant/Donald: Michael Shannon
   Lt-Cpl: Michael Deacon
   Pipe-Majors: Bob Murphy and Willie Cochrane
Repeated 25th April 1976, 25th May 1981 and 24th February 1990.
[Also produced by Patrick Rayner in 1995 rptd 1997 with Bill Paterson as Jock]
[Written drawing upon Kennaway's WW2 experiences with the Cameron Highlanders and Gordon Highlanders]


21st April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dog and his Day by Mike Arblaster
An unusual rescue.
Produced by Jean Bower
   Janet: Denise Bryer
   Josie: Elizabeth Morgan
   Derek Smart: Malcolm Reid
   Mr Skelhorne: Roger Snowdon
   Lisa Cranwell: Eva Haddon
   William Basset: David Timson
   Landlord: Clifford Norgate
   Angel: Norman Shelley
   Head waiter: James Thomason
   Police Inspector: Jeffrey Segal
   Sergeant Mitchell: Blackwell Douglas
   Foster: Walter Hall


22nd April 1976
20.00:
Freedom Lies Westwards by Alan Burgess.
Sweden 1946.
Producer: Alan Burgess
   Harry: Roger Snowdon
   Val: David Graham
   Maia: Anthony Smee
   Paul: David Neal
   Fisherman: James Thomason
   Mac: Michael Shannon
   Grandma: Betty Baskcomb
   Aunt Juliana: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Arvid: Peter Williams
   Paddy Shortall: Denis McCarthy
   Ellen: Joanna Wake
   Yuta: Alison Gollings
Postponed from 1st April 1976


23rd April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Been a Funny Sort of Day by Tony Bilbow
A coach outing to Margate.
Produced by Graham Gauld
   Vi Armitage: Patricia Hayes
   Madge Broadbent: Betty Hardy
   Alice Grant: Vera Lennox
   Mildred Perkins: Marjorie Forsyth
   Bill Smedley: Roger Snowdon
   Mr Greenley: Tony Bilbow
   Charlie: Haydn Jones
   George Winters: Malcolm Hayes
   Janet Simkins: Joanna Wake
   Mr Martin: Leslie Heritage
   Eileen Taylor: June Spencer
   Vic Taylor: Peter Woodthorpe
   Ben Taylor: Anthony Smee


24th April 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Just the Job by Liane Aukin (1936-2016)
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Madge Long: Geraldine McEwan
   Mrs Burns: Rosalie Crutchley
   Rodney: Leslie Heritage
   Taxi driver/Mick: David Neal
Repeated 28th April 1976 and 31st December 1977


24th April 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Death Kiss Kate by Max Marquis
Produced by Cherry Cookson
   Flt Lt Peter Draycott: Martin Jarvis
   Sally West: Kate Coleridge
   Mrs West: Sheila Grant
   Sqdn Leader Ben Locker: William Eedle
   Flt Lt George Railton: Stephen Thorne
   Ron Chiswell: David Neal
   Gwen Chiswell: Diana Bishop
   Pop: Peter Pacey
   Frank: Neville Jason
   Alec: David Gooderson
   Timber: Peter Craze
   Paddy: Steve Hodson
   Mrs Lester/Betty: Anne Jameson
   Joe/Master Bomber: Michael Shannon
Repeated 26th April 1976


26th April 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Dark Labyrinth (1947) by Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) adapted by Guy Vaesen
A Mediterranean cruise.
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Lord Graecen: David Bird
   Captain Baird: John Rowe
   Olaf Fearmax: Malcolm Hayes
   Miss Dombey: Norma Ronald
   Jack Truman: David Ryall
   Elsie Truman: Rosemary Leach
   Campion: Michael Shannon
   Virginia Dale: Rosalind Adams
   Ruth Adams: Helen Horton
   Sir Juan Axelos: Valentine Dyall
   Hogarth/Guide: David Graham
   British Consul: Godfrey Kenton
   Ship's Captain: Garard Green
Repeated 2nd May 1976
[Originally published in 1947 under the title "Cefalu"- Cefalu is part of Palermo, Sicily]


28th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Phoenix Too Frequent (1946) by Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Doto: Patsy Rowlands
   Tegeus: Gawn Grainger
   Dynamene: Sarah Badel
Repeated 8th April 1977.
[Based upon Petronius (c 27-66 AD) story of the Ephesian widow- chapter 110 of Satyricon]
[The title comes from an old translation of "Cui comparatus indecens erit pavo/Inamabilis sciurus, et frequens Phoenix" (Martial c.40-103 AD) ]


29th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Service Flat by Bill Knox (1928-1999)
Produced by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Marion: Virginia Stark
   Vi Taylor: Rose McBain
   Mrs Johns: Irene Sunter
   Danny Johns: Tony Roper
   Jean Rowan: Mary Riggans
   Charles Rowan: Robert Trotter
   Miss Congreave: Sheila Donald
   Anna: Helen Milne


30th April 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: So You'd Like to Join Us by John Casson
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Dorothy Gardiner: Margot Boyd
   Albert Gardiner: Peter Williams.
   Fat Billy: Michael Cochrane
   Maxie Marshall: Douglas Blackwell
   Allardyce: David Graham
   Headmaster: Hector Ross
   Simpson: Leslie Heritage
   Vicar: James Thomason
   Man/Commissionary: Christopher Bidmead
   Hilda: Deborah Paige
   Lorraine/Woman: Kate Gielgud
   Rawlings: Anthony Smee
   Halloran: Kevin Flood
   Labour Exchange Official: Paul Meier
   Barraclough: Malcolm Reid


1st May 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tiger by Derek Raby
The meaning of freedom.
Produced by Betty Davies
   Tiger: Norman Shelley
   Child: Judy Bennett
Also with: Nigel Graham Anthony Hall, Diana Bishop
Repeated from 13th February 1974


1st May 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) adapted by Philip Leaver and Kay Patrick
Special sound by David Cain of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
14th Century Cornwall.
Produced by Betty Davies
   Richard Young: Ian Richardson
   Magnus: Richard Hurndall
   Vita Young: Bonnie Hurren
   Mrs Collins: Elizabeth Morgan
   Vicar: Brian Haines
   Dr Powell: Frank Duncan
   Teddy: Judy Bennett
   Bill: Vernon Joyner
   Diana: Julie Hallam
   Man with caravan: David Sinclair
   Roger: David March
   Isolda: Rosalind Shanks
   Joanna: Elizabeth Morgan
   Fr Prior: Manning Wilson
   Brother Jean: Anthony Hall
   Sir Otto Bodrugan: Vernon Joyner
   Robbie: David Timson
Repeated from 24th and 26th November 1973
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


2nd May 1976
21.03-21.58
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo adapted by Barry Campbell, Constance Cox and Val Gielgud.
1 of 16. This episode adapted by Constance Cox.
Producer: Betty Davies
   Victor Hugo: Robert Hardy
   Jean Valjean: Trevor Martin.
Serial edited by Barry Campbell.
Broadcast weekly for 16 weeks, each episode repeated after two days. Part 16 broadcast 15th August 1976
Adaptors: Constance Cox 1,2,3,4,16
    Val Gielgud 5,13,14
    Barry Campbe 11 6,12,15
Producers: Betty Davies 1,2,6,14,15
    Christopher Venning 3,4,5,12,13,16
[Missing data for episodes 7,8,9,10,11]
[Also produced in 25 episodes of 45 minutes in 2002, rptd R4 and R4X 2008-2017]


3rd May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Relatively Speaking (1967) by Alan Ayckbourn
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Greg: Nigel Lambert
   Ginny: Joanna Wake
   Philip: Michael Aldridge
   Sheila: Rosemary Leach
Repeated from 25th December 1975
Repeated 31st December 1977, 28th August 1982, 25th December 1988
[Also broadcast on R4X 2014-2017]
[Originally "Meet My Father", 1965]


3rd May 1976
19.30-21.30:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Music by John Buckland. conducted by Eric Wetherell
Produced by John Tydeman
   Macbeth: Paul Scofield
   Lady Macbeth: Peggy Ashcroft
   Three Weird Sisters: Grizelda Hervey, Mary O'Parrell, Sylvia Coleridge
   Duncan: Walter Fitzgerald
   Malcolm: David Weston
   Captain: John Dearth
   Lennox: John Humphry
   Ross: John Justin
   Banquo: John Westbrook
   Angus: Fraser Kerr
   Fleance: Glyn Dearman
   Porter: Timothy West
   Macduff: Alec McCowen
   Donalbain: Brian Hewlett
   Old Man: Henry Stamper
   Lady Macdulf: Ane Wenham
   Son to Macduff: Nicholas Charles
   Doctor of Physic: Noel Howlett
   Gentlewoman: Cecile Chevreau
   Menteith/Murderer: Stephen Thorne
   Caithness: Preston Lockwood
   Seyton: Henry Stamper
   Old Siward/Murderer: John Hollis
   Young Siward: Glyn Dearman
Repeated from R3 29th April 1966, R3 22nd May 1966, R3 27th January 1967
Edited version broadcast R4 2nd October 1967
[Also broadcast on R7 2007-2008]


5th May 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Adolphe and Eve and Cowardly Corporal Yellow by David Marshall
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Adolphe: Clive Swift
   Eve: Sandra Clark
   Corporal: Malcolm Hayes
   Effectsman: Peter Pacey


5th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Train (1961) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989) adapted by Bruce Beeby
Piano accordion: Gerald Crossman
Produced by Betty Davies
   Marcel Feron: Peter Sallis
   Jeanne Feron: Eva Stuart
   Francois: Judy Bennett
   Sophie: Jane Knowles
   Jules: John Ruddock
   Julie: Sheila Grant
   Anna: Madi Hedd
   M Mathay: Bruce Beeby
   Fernand: Douglas Blackwell
   Antoine: William Fox
Also with Michael Harbour, Ronald Herdman, Edward Kelsey, William Eedle, Michael Kilgarrift, Robin Browne, Betty Baskcomb, Susan Edmonstone, Olwen Griffiths
Repeated from 4th September 1972


6th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Smiling and Beautiful Death by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
An early morning funeral.
Produced by Jean Bower
   Sally Gordon: Joanna Wake
   Richard Gordon: Noel Johnson
   Clergyman: Clifford Norgate
   Doctor Norton: Godfrey Kenton
   Sam Stringer: Douglas Blackwell
   Major Kendrick: Garard Green
   Jack Wilkes: Raymond Huntley
   Charlie Farrell: David Neal
   Albert the Sexton: Alan Dudley


6th May 1976
20.00:
Midweek Theatre: Salad on Saturdays by Richard Hallett
Produced by John Scotney
   Henry Ling: Freddie Jones
   Janet Ling: Mary Wimbush
   Teresa Ling: Emily Richard
   Shirley Ling: Mary Clare Nash
   Bill Pringle: Haydn Jones
   Roger Green: Peter Pacey
Also with Michael Deacon and Denis Mccarthy


7th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Anthony and Francis are Alive by Benjamin Kuras
22 August 1968, Czechoslovakia
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Smrdlanek: Malcolm Hayes
   Inspector Poitier: John Rowe
   Eva: Rosalind Adams
   Jelinek: Steve Hodson
   Professor Rogel: Peter Williams
   Peter Rogel: Kevin Lyons
   Sedlak: Stephen Thorne
   Robert Smrdlanek: Stephen Jenn
   Valenta: Haydn Jones
   Langer: David Graham
With Michelle Bray, Madi Hedd
[Kuras moved from Czechoslovakia to London in 1968]


8th May 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Swan who was a Duck by Hadrian Rogers
Did somebody just leave?
Produced by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Bert Judd: Terry Molloy
   Moll: Diana Bishop
   Fred: Ray Llewellyn
   Marge: Ysanne Churchman
   Mick: Graham Weston and Frederick Treves and Richard Carrington
Repeated 12th May 1976


8th May 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Relative Values (1951) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Produced by John Cardy
   Felicity: Joyce Redman
   Crestwell: Bill Fraser
   Moxie: Gwen Cherrell
   The Earl (Nigel): John Rye
   Miranda Frayle: Joanna Wake
   Don Lucas: John Rowe
   Alice: Deborah Paige
   Hon Peter Ingleton: Charles Hodgson
   Admiral Sir John Hayling: Garard Green
   Lady Hayling: Gladys Spencer
Repeated 10th May 1976


9th May 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: Anna Karenina (1878) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) dramatised by Liane Aukin, based on the translation by Rosemary Edmonds
Russia in the 1870s,
Special effects by Mary Barrett, Carol Mcshane and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Technical presentation Gordon Bowen
1 of 2.
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Anna: Sarah Badel
   Karenin: Anthony Newlands
   Vronsky: John Rowe
   Levin: Sean Arnold
   Oblonsky: Neville Jason
   Dolly: Sheila Grant
   Kitty: Joanna Wake
   Matvey/Kondraty: Martin Friend
   Yashvin: David Sinclair
   Princess Shcherbatsky: Iris Mitchell
   Serpuhovskoy: John Bull
   Countess Nordston: Elizabeth Morgan
   Countess Vronsky: Eva Stuart
   Korsunsky: Rolf Lefebvre
   Princess Betsy: Norma Ronald
   Guest: Carole Boyd
   Princess Myagky: Virginia Balfour
   General: Stephen Thorne
   Petritsky: Vernon Joyner
Additional cast in part 2:
   Lydia Ivanovna: Betty Baskcomb
   Koznyshev: Manning Wilson
   Lawyer: Timothy Bateson
   Seriozha: Cordelia Mansall
   Tushkevich: Fraser Kerr
   Lizaveta: Sandra Clark
Part 2: 16th May 1976
Repeated from 23 and 30 June 1974.


10th May 1976
19.30:
The Monday Play: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) by John Arden (1930-2012), adapted by H. B. Fortuin
Music composed and conducted by Dudley Moore
The year is 1879.
Produced by John Gibson
   Serjeant Musgrave: Gordon Jackson
   Sparky: P G Stephens
   Hurst: John Dearth
   Atlercliffe: Wilfred Barbage
   Mrs Hitchcock: Vivienne Chatterton
   The Mayor: John Sharp
   The Parson: Douglas Storm
   The Constable: George Hagan
   Joe Bludgeon ('Bargee'): James Bree
   Walsh: William Marlowe
   Pugnacious Collier: Thomas Bowman
   Slow Collier: Derek Blomfield
   Earnest Collier: Tom Watson
   Officer of the Dragoons: Joun Bryning
   Trooper of the Dragoons: Jerome Brehony
Repeated from R3 9th March 1962, 25th March 1962, and 2nd December 1962.
[Also produced for R3 in 1982, rptd 1983, by Martin Jenkins]
[Also produced for R3 in 2003 by Toby Swift]


12th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dad's Choice by Dudley Warman
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Terry: Peter Pacey
   Sheila/Matthew: Susan Thomas
   Mum: Hilda Fenemore
   Dad: Manning Wilson
   Canvasser: Paul Seed


13th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Love Match by Keith Miles
The Bow Street Runners.
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Ben Spiggott: Geoffrey Matthews
   Alice Spiggott: Jo Manning Wilson
   Sam Parkinson: John Hollis
   Win Parkinson/Nancy: Shirley Dixon
   Jo Glindon: Peter Pacey
   George Bullard: Peter Craze
   Olive Bullard: Frances Jeater
   Edward Bullard: David Pinner
   Horrey Cochrane/Amos Gamgee: Sean Arnold
   Sir Henry: Henry Stamper


14th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Who Killed Jenny Dance? by Betty Paul (1921-2011)
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Camilla Musgrove: Sandra Clark
   Clive Dobson: Malcolm Hayes
   Todd: Manning Wilson
   Fairweather: Brian Haines
   Des Turner: Clifford Norcate
   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 6th July 1978 but not listed on BBC Genome]


15th May 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Come Away. Come Away by Mavor Moore (1919-2006)
Guitarist: Steve Gauna
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   An old man: Robert Harris
   A little girl: Annabel Lanyon
Repeated 19th May 1976


15th May 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Other Paths to Glory (1974) by Anthony Price (1928-2019) adapted by Alison Plowden
The Somme, 1916: Bouillet Wood
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Dr Audley: Tony Britton
   Paul Mitchell: Martin Jarvis
   Col Butler: Ronald Baddiley
   Mrs Mitchell: Lorna Rosslyn
   Constable: Bell Davidgraham
   Mr Hutchinson: Douglas Blackwell
   Gen Leigh-Woodhouse: Jeffrey Segal
   Nicole MacMahon: Silvie Dattas
   Gatekeeper/Sorel: Steve Hodson
   Edouard Ollivier: Andre Maranne
   Capt Faversham: Douglas Blackwell
   Marcel Jarras: David Graham
Repeated 17th May 1976 and 27th January 1979


17th May 1976
19.30-20.00
Lord Peter Wimsey: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers adapted by Chris Miller
1 of 6
Producer: Simon Brett
   Lord Peter: Ian Carmichael
   the Judge: Carleton Hobbs
   the Dowager Duchess: Charlotte Mitchell
   Harriet Van: Ann Bell
   Attorney-General: Stephen Thorne
   Sir Impey Biggs: Robert Gillespie
   Sir James Lubbock: Garard Green
   Freddy Arbuthnot: Christopher Scoular
   Hannah Westlock: Christine Ozanne
   Foreman of the Jury: Clifford Norgate
Additional cast in part 2 to 6:
Ambrosine Phillpotts, Anne Jameson, Betty Huntley-Wright, Christopher Bidmead, Frances Jeater, Gabriel Woolf, Joan Hickson, John Pullen, Margaret Guess, Margaret Robertson, Maria Aitken, Peter Jones, Peter Woodthorpe, Rosalind Adams.
Episode 6 broadcast 21st June 1976
Series repeated from 13th December 1979
[Also broadcast on R7/R4X 2008-2023]
[Also adapted by Felix Felton and produced by Audrey Cameron in 1963]
[Also produced by Fiona McLean in 1999. rptd 2001 with Russell Beale as Wimsey]


17th May 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Philanthropist: A Bourgeois Comedy (1970) by Christopher Hampton
Produced by Walter Acosta
   John: David Graham
   Philip: George Cole
   Donald: John Rye
   Celia: Frances Jeater
   Braham: Charles Gray
   Araminta: Anna Carteret
Repeated 9th January 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


19th May 1976
15.05: :
Afternoon Theatre: Death of a Pig by John Kirkmorris
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Fay: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Kitty: Avril Elgar
   Alan: Peter Craze
   Lenny Rolfe: Malcolm Reid
   Lumsden: Douglas Blackwell
   Mr Tweed: David Graham
[Also broadcast on USA NPR 1978]


20th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Me and the Girls (1964) by Noel Coward (1899-1973) adapted by Michael Leech
Memories of vaudeville.
Piano: Martin Goldstein
Produced by Kay Patrick
   George Banks: Peter Woodthorpe
   Sister Dominique: Tita Dane
   Mavis: Shirley Dixon
   Dr Pierre/Guido: Haydn Jones
   Professor: David Neal
   Hercule: Ronald Herdman
   Babs: Maureen Morris
   Maureen: Patricia Denys
   Mme Corelli/Jill: Cordelia Mansall
   Sally: Joanna Wake
   Avice/Chorus Girl: Tara Soppet
   Ronnie: Gordon Reid


21st May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), adapted by Eric MacDonald
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Mina: Frances Jeater
   Dracula: David March
   Lucy: Rosalind Shanks
   Jonathan Harker: Michael Harbour
   Female vampire: Kate Coleridge
   Arthur Seward: Christopher Good
   Captain: Malcolm Hayes
   Olgaren/Warder: Andrew Sachs
   Van Helsing: Aubrey Woods
Also with Pat Keen, Jim Mcmanus, Madeleine Cemm
Repeated from 1st January 1975
Repeated 22nd September 1979 and 12th January 1985
[Glyn Dearman also directed David March in:
Vampirella, 1976; and "Sherlock Holmes v Dracula, 1981;]


22nd May 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Slow Fuze by R. D. Wingfield
A bank vault and an unexploded bomb.
Produced by Christopher Venning
   Major Derry: Richard Caldicot
   Bradford: Robin Browne
   Robson: Godfrey Kenton
   Police Inspector: Tony Leary
   Sgt Stringer: Conrad Phillips
   Capt Moore: Geoffrey Beevers
   Frazer: Michael Deacon
   Inspector Parsonson: Alan Rowe
Repeated 26th May 1976
[Also produced by Christopher Venning in 1971 with Edward Judd as Stringer, Leslie Heritage as Moore and Clifford Norgate as Bradford]


22nd May 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Footnote to the Conspiracy by Bruce Stewart
1944: Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Produced by Martin Jenkins
   Sentry/First prisoner: Anthony Smee
   Capt 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
Repeated 24th May 1976 and 12th February 1978


24th May 1976
20.00
The Monday Play: Like the Leaves by Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906), translated by Henry Reed
Producer: David Spenser
   Nennele: Anna Calder-Marshall
   Lucia: Marjorie Westbury
   Tommy: Paul Seed
   Andrea: Malcolm Reid
   Gaspare: Peter Craze
   Madame Lablanche: Eva Haddon
   Giovanni: John Phillips
   Massimo: John Rowe
   Signora Lauri: Hilda Schroeder
   Signora Irene: Janet Burnell
   A painter: Malcolm Hayes
   Groom: Anthony Smee
   Helmer Strile: Christopher Bidmead
Repeated 30th May 1976


26th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Third Conjunction by Gillian Reeve
Produced by Cherry Cookson
   Juda: Penelope Lee
   Auriol Grant: Ann Morrish
   Harry Grant: Hugh Dickson
   Will Ferguson: Douglas Blackwell
   Betty Ferguson: Anne Jameson
   Andonis: Peter Craze


27th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Little Companion by Angus Wilson (1913-1991) adapted by John Graham
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Mrs Grantham: Christine Ozanne
   Col Grantham: Stephen Thorne
   Miss Arkwright: Megs Jenkins
   Myra: Eva Haddon
   Lady Vernon: Janet Burnell
   The child: Julie Hallam
   The bishop: John Nettleton
   Head waiter: David Graham
   Madge: Barbara Bolton
   Doctor: James Thomason
   Medium: Margaret Robertson
   Spiritualist lady: Shirley Dixon
   High priest: Haydn Jones
   Dr Stein: Malcolm Hayes


28th May 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Maze by Stewart Farrar (1916-2000)
Mice in mazes.
Produced Christopher Venning
   Douglas Harvey: Christopher Cazenove
   Elizabeth: Frances Jeater
   Frank Underwood: Bernard Holley
   Shirley: Elspeth Charlton
   Gina: Lysandre de la Haye
Repeated 21st April 1978


29th May 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Liquid Assets by Hadrian Rogers
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Aunt Henrietta: Mary Wimbush
   Tristram: Nigel Lambert
   Anne: Patricia Gallimore
   Mrs McBride: Diana Olsson
Repeated 2nd June 1976


29th May 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) dramatised by Lance Sieveking (1896-1972)
"opposition splashing frontward speedliest stop aden reported prepared warwise stop". Reporters make news.
Produced by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   William Boot: John Rowe
   Julia Stitch: Rosalind Knight
   Lord Copper: Ronald Herdman
   Salter: Geoffrey Banks
   Managing Editor: David Marlowe
   Theodore Boot: James Tomlinson
   Priscilla Boot: Sally Gibson
   The Millionaire: Peter John
   Corker: Nigel Anthony
   Schumble: Paul Webster
   Whelper: Russell Dixon
   Olafsen: Peter Wheeler
   Bannister: Christopher Godwin
   Katchen: Katharine Barker
Repeated 31st May 1976
[Also produced in 1963 by Martyn C Webster with Denis Goacher as William Boot].
[Also produced in 4 parts in 2000 by David Batchelor with Matthew Whittle as William]
[Also produced in two parts in 2009 by Sally Avens with Rory Kinnear as William- rptd R4X]


31st May 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Fences by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Douglas: Christian Rodska
   Slim: Neil Boorman
   Dr Rainford: Peter John
   Julia: Valerie Georgeson
   Stan: Geoffrey Banks
   Mrs Groom: Judith Barker
   Dad: Paul Webster
   Mum: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Peterson: David Mahlowe
Repeated 6th June 1976


2nd June 1976
15.05
The Jellico by J C W Brook
Produced by David Spenser
   Ian: Derek Seaton
   Alice: Gladys Spencer
   Sally: Julle Hallam
   Clare: Rosalind Adams
   Fred: Richard Hurndall
   Housekeeper: Betty Huntley-Wright
Repeated from 29th June 1974.


2nd June 1976
20.30-21.30
No Time on Our Side (1975) by Roger Chapman adapted by James Follett
Producer: Maurice Leitch
   Roger: Sean Barrett
   Mat: Alun Bond
Also with John Rowe, Peter Craze, James Thomason, Patrick Barr, Paul Meier, Walter Hall, Michael Fawkes, Joanna Wake
[Revised and repeated 4th June 1976]


3rd June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Heart of Elm by Angus Wilson (1913-1991), adapted by John Graham
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Constance: Sarah Lawson
   Ellen: Nan Marriott-Watson
   Thomas: Paul Meier
   Katherine: Joanna Wake
   Jack: Malcolm Hayes
   Kitty: Kathleen Helme
   Len: Peter Craze
   Lottie: Patsy Smart
   Undertaker: Douglas Blackwell


3rd June 1976
20.00:
Midweek Theatre: Afternoon of Roses by Margaret Harris
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Helen Jordan: Jane Hylton
   Mortimer Buchanan Charleston: Henry Wolfe
   Miriam: Patricia Moore
   Edgar Jordan: Alan Rowe
   Jack: Nigel Anthony
   Mrs Cooper: Kate Binchy
   Mrs Hill: Olwen Griffiths
Repeated from 7th March 1973


4th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Wake! by Zena Walker (1934-2003)
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   Sally: Frances Jeater
   Joan: Anna Cropper
   Pam: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Mrs Baker: Gwen Nelson
   Man at station: Godfrey Kenton
   Tom: Malcolm Reid
   Aunty Bea: Gladys Spencer
   Nellie: Peggy Paige
   Mr Briers: James Thomason
   Blake: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated 21st July 1978


5th June 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Last of the Big Spenders by Stewart Love
Produced by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Frank: Bill Hunter
   Vera: Elizabeth Begley
   Agnes: Margaret D'Arcy
   Sandra: Trudy Kelly
   Harry: Harold Goldblatt
   Fred: Mark Mulholland
   Tom: Joe McPartland
   Minister: Roy Heayberd
Repeated 9th June 1976


5th June 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Enemies Within (1974) by Michael. Z. Lewin
A private detective in the USA.
Produced by Roger Pine.
BBC Birmingham
   Albert Samson: Ed Bishop
   Martin Willson: 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: Joyce Latham
   Maureen: Denise Cartier
   Jack: Roger Gartland
Repeated 7th June 1976, 28th August 1978
[Ed Bishop also played Samson in "The Way we die Now" 1st June 1974]
[Bob Sherman played Albert Samson in "Ask the Right Question" 19th October 1989]
[Colin Stinton played Albert Samson in "Missing Woman" 12th December 1991]


7th June 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Missing Piece by J. C. W. Brook
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   Linda Johnson: Eleanor Bron
   Ross Johnson: Jack May
   Amos Garrett: John Ruddock
   David: Elizabeth Lindsay
   Clare Kline: Anna Cropper
   Dick Kline: Malcolm Reid
   John Kline: Paul Meier
   Anne: Zelah Clarke
Repeated 13th June 1976


9th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Arts and Crafts by Lester Powell
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Hugh Burbank: Hugh Manning
   Stella: Anna Cropper
   James Swithin: Peter Barkworth
   Customers: Michael Shannon


10th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Et Dona Ferentes by Angus Wilson (1913-1991), adapted by John Graham
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Monica Newman: Jane Hylton
   Edwin Newman: David March
   Sven: Steve Hodson
   Mrs Rackham: Aimee Delamaln
   Richard: Simon Chandler
   Elizabeth: Judy Bennett
[The title is Latin "Even bearing gifts"]


11th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Caribbean Honeymoon by David Stewart
Voodoo and Haiti.
Produced by John Cardy
   Nazaire: Brian Haines
   Tony: Peter Craze
   Norma: Maureen O'Brien
   Carlos: David Neal
   Rosita: Kathleen Michael
   Hungan: Tommy Eytle
   Julian: Christopher Brdmead
   Dauberval: Jeffrey Segal
   Alveriz: Garard Green
Also with Walter Hall, Valerie Murray


12th June 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Open Day by Simon Hankin
Produced by David Spenser
   Headmaster: Peter Howell
   Mrs Burns: Anne Jameson
   Mr Burns: David Neal
   Mr Scott: John Rowe
   John Burns: Nicholas Lyndhurst
   Clark: Ian Sharrock-
   Man on loudspeaker: Peter Woodthorpe
   Mr Blenkington-Smyth: William Eedle
Repeated 16th June 1976


12th June 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Montrose Ghost by Harold Balfour, Lord Balfour of Inchrye (1897-1988) adapted by Martin Jenkins
Spring 1915 and a ghost has come to haunt the Royal Flying Corps Station in Montrose, Scotland.
Produced by Gerry Jones
   Capt Little: John Pullen
   Lt Adam: Christopher Neame
   Flt 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 14th June 1976, 12th March 1978, 23rd November 1987
[Harold Balfour flew in WW1 and in 1944 was Under-Secretary of State for Air ]
[In 1913 Montrose became the first operational military aerodrome to be established in the United Kingdom]


14th June 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Road to Oxford by Jean Morris
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556): Patrick Barr
   James Alexander: David March
   Ralph Morice: John Pullen
   Queen Mary: Mary Wimbush
   Reginald, Cardinal Pole: Peter Woodthorpe
   Fray Juan de Villa Garcia: David Graham
   Nicholas Hawkins Archdeacon Of Ely: Stephen Thorne
   Ned Cressy: Peter Wickham
   Jack Fenton: Christopher Bidmead
   Peter, a page: Patricia Trueman
   Hugh Latimer: Stephen Bateman
   Marquis of Northampton: Nigel Graham
   Lord Darcy: Noel Iliff
   King Edward VI: Peter Craze
   Nicholas Woodson: Clifford Norgate
   Henry Sidall: Noel Howlett
   Henry Cole: Alexander John
   Pedro de Soto: Neville Jason
   Anne Roberts, born Cranmer: Margaret Robertson
   Captain of Escort: Walter Hall
   Soldier: Paul Meier
Repeated 20th June 1976


16th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Virago Rib by Anita Bronson (1940-1988)
Produced by Susanna Capon
   Maudie Jones: Rosemary Leach
   Murdoch: Anton Rodgers
   Brother Roger: Christopher Bidmead
   Arnold Beake: Peter Woodthorpe
   Police Constable: Steve Hodson
   Sergeant: David Neal
   Woman: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 19th May 1978


17th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Crazy Crowd by Angus Wilson (1913-1991) adapted by John Graham
Produced by Graham Gauld
   Peter: Sean Barrett
   Jennie: Julie Hallam
   Mr Cockshott: Alan Wheatley
   Nan: Margaret Robertson
   Flopsy: Betty Hardy
   Hamish: Andrew Branch
   Old gentleman: James Thomason
[Also produced by Nesta Pain for R3 in 1967 with Betty Hardy as Flopsy and Joan Miller as Nan]


18th June 1976
15.05
Five Days in Fifty-five (The Gilberdyke Diaries) by Alan Plater (1935-2010)
Producer: Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester
   Narrator: James Cameron
   Mrs X: Barbara Mullaney
   Dvorak: Geoffrey Wheeler
   George (the postman): Henry Livings
   Harvey: Bernard Cribbins
   Miss Garton: Eileen Derbyshire
[A revised version was broadcast 8th February 1980]


19th June 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Barber's Story by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), dramatised by Malcolm Hazell
Produced Brian Miller.
BBC Bristol
   Barber: Vernon Joyner
   Customer: Paul Nicholson
   Hagberd: Leonard Maguire
   Landlord: Rex Holdsworth
   Bessle: Jiggy Bhore
   Carvil: Hedley Goodall
   Harry: Colin Fisher
Repeated from 20th March 1974


19th June 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The White Lady by R. E. T. Lamb
1923.
Produced 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 21st June 1976


21st June 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Great Gun-Running Episode by Bill Morrison
1914: German guns to Northern Ireland.
Produced by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Major Crawford (1861-1952): Ray MacAnally
   Captain Falck: Harold Goldblatt
   Captain Agnew: Barry Keegan
   Schneider: Allan McClelland
   Fanny: Elizabeth Proud
   Ruth: Frances Tomelty
   Mary: Heather Gibson
   Roger: Sean Barrett
   Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935): Kevin Flood
   Craig (1871-1940): Godfrey Quigley
   Benny Spiro: Kevin McHuge
   Spender (1876-1960): Denys Hawthorne
Repeated from 21st January 1974.


23rd June 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Old Love by Robert Huxter
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
   Mrs Croft: Daphne Oxenford
   Bill: Graham Roberts
   Reg: Ronald Herdman
   Sarah: Kathleen Helme


23rd June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Flypitcher by Brian Lee
Eric's tune composed by Magee MacNamara
Produced by Piers Plowright
   Colin: Anthony Since
   Shirley: Glynis Brooks
   Lily Flanders: Irene Sutcliffe
   Eric: Michael Shannon
   Regina: Shirley Dixon
   Zodie: John Hollis
   Dusty: Davis Graham
   Stalky: Paul Meier
   Tessa: Joy Harrison
   Fat girl: Deborah Paige
   Policemen: David Neal and William Ashley
   Mrs Flanders: Grizelda Hervey
   Violinist: Jack Bell
   Musician: Magee MacNamara
[A fly pitcher is an unlicenced street trader, often with his goods in a suitcase ready for a quick exit.].


23rd June 1976
20.30:
Midweek Theatre: A Murder or Two by Michael Brett
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Jeff Lancaster: Frederick Treves
   Lucy Dent: Carole Boyd
   Logan: Michael Shannon
   George: Malcolm Hayes
   Coroner: Denis McCarthy
   Peter Dent: Nigel Lambert
   Insp Bullock: Clifford Norgate
   Insp Blake: Alan Dudley
   Fielding: Trader Faulkner
   Mary Page: Emily Richard
   Joe Storey: David Ryall
   Landlord: Peter Whitman
   Rita Wells: Margaret Robertson
   Jenkins: Paul Gaymon
Repeated from 11th June 1975


24th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Haunted Instant by Margaret Harris
Piano: Mary Nash
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Anna Spencer: Heather Bell
   Martin Spencer: John Rowe
   Joan Carnford: Deborah Paige
   Peter Carnford: Leslie Heritage
   Roger Starke: Michael Tudor-Barnes
   Joanna Elston/Cathy: Anne Rosenfeld


25th June 1976
15.05
The Story of a Penny Suit by Ken Whitmore
Producer: Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Muriel: Sheila Hancock
   Edward: Graham Roberts
   Beverley: Carole Turner
   Mr Massenbird: Arthur Lowe
   Pamela: Heather Stoney
Repeated 30th December 1979


26th June 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Conservatory Tea by John Kirkmorris
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Mrs Gore Fox a wealthy widow: Gladys Spencer
   Joan: Delia Paton
   Pamela: Margaret Wolfit
   Ken: John Rye
Repeated from 3rd April 1974


26th June 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Riverside Villas Murder (1973) by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), dramatised by Frederick Bradnum
Bert Soper's Rhythm Boys: Piano: Bill McGuffie; Violin: Tony Gilbert; Clarinet: Henry McKenzie; Drums: Bobby Orr
A Surrey suburb in the 1930's.
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Colonel Manton: Peter Jeffrey
   Peter Furneaux: Ian Sharrock
   Mr Langdon: Malcolm Reid
   Daphne Hodgson: Deborah Paige
   Mrs Trevelyan: Norma Ronald
   Capt Furneaux: Stephen Thorne
   Det-Con Barrett: Paul Meier
   Mrs Ellington: Anne Jameson
   Mr Trevelyan: Leslie Heritage
   Mr Hodgson: Clifford Norgate
   Mr Inman: Steve Hodson
   Insp Cox: Garard Green
   Sgt Duke: Douglas Blackwell
   Mrs Furneaux: Joanna Wake
Repeated 28th June 1967
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]


28th June 1976
20.00-21.30:
The Monday Play: The Vet's Daughter (1959) by Barbara Comyns (Barbara Comyns Carr 1907-1992) dramatised by Shirley Gee
Alice said she could levitate.
Produced by David Spenser
   Mr Rowlands: Nigel Stock
   Mrs Peebles: Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
   Alice Rowlands: Julie Hallam
   Mrs Rowlands: Penelope Lee
   Mrs Churchill: Betty Hardy
   Henry Peebles: Nigel Anthony
   Rosa Fisher: Shirley Dixon
   Mr Gowley: Clifford Norgate
   Mrs Gowley: Kathleen Helme
   Nicholas Carshalton: Christopher Guard
   Amos Sully: Donald Gee
   Mr Frink/Cuthbert: Geoffrey Matthews
   Woman: Eva Haddon
[Revised from a R3 broadcast of 4th April 1976]


30th June 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Last Respects by Michael Toft
Produced by Tony Cliff.
BBC Manchester
   Jane: Elizabeth McKenzie
   Robert: Keith Clifford
   Joe: Derrick Gilbert
   Pant: Susan Littler
   Maisie: Dinah Handley
   Alice: Judith Barker
   Cissy: Lorraine Peters
   May: Rosalie Williams
   Godfrey: David Mahlowe
Repeated 9th and 12th September 1978
   
   
30th June 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Asya (1858) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) dramatised by Joan O'Connor
Music played by Hugo D'Alton
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Vlado: Michael Cochrane
   Gagin: Philip Bond
   Asya: Julie Hallam
Repeated 12th January 1979
[The title is sometimes translated as Annouchka]


1st July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Merry Juice of Summer by Philip Barker
Produced by Mary Price .
BBC Bristol
   Albert: Ivor Salter
   Stan: Robert Bashford
   Lennie: Kit Thacker
   Evie: Kim Hartman
   Doris: Richard Carey
   The Vicar: John Smith
   Swindale: Brian Haines
   Mrs Drake: Daisy Bell
   Mrs Palmer: Sally Noble
   Percy: David Hyde
[Note: 104 per cent proof in the UK is approximately equal to 59% ABV]


2nd July 1976
15.05
Juniper Drive Weighs Anchor by Brian Thompson
Producer: Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Eric: Nigel Anthony
   Janet: Carole Hayman
   Sally: Margot Leicester
   Keith: Tim Preece
   Cyril: Colin Edwynn


3rd July 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Post Mortem by Brian Clark
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
   Helen Ansty: Fiona Walker
   Dorothy: Elisabeth Sladen
   Ivens/Topolski: Brian Miller
   Tom: Alan Rothwell
   Herridge: David Mahlowe
   L K: Paul Webster
   Mr Joyce/Bradley: Paul Webster
   Cornforth/Charles: Colin Edwynn
Repeated 7th July 1976
[Previously made for BBC TV in 1975]


4th July 1976
14.30
The Devil's Disciple (1897) by (George) Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
New Hampshire USA 1777.
Producer: Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   General Burgoyne: Tony Church
   Richard Dudgeon: James Laurenson
   Judith Anderson: Lucy Fleming
   Mrs Dudgeon: Constance Chapman
   Essie: Eva Haddon
   Christy: Terence Wilton
   Rev A Anderson: Tenniel Evans
   Uncle Titus: Esmond Rideout
   Uncle William: Dennis Bowen
   Lawyer Hawkins: Michael Rothwell
   Sergeant: Trevor Martin
   Major Swindon: Haydn Jones
   Chaplain: Timothy Knightley
   Narrator: Denys Hawthorne
Repeated 21st November 1976 and 3rd June 1979
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2009-2015]
[Other productions: year/network/producer/actor playing Burgoyne:
Many productions before 1950.
1951/Home/?/Roger Delgado
1952/Light/Mary Hope Allen/William Devlin
1966 rptd 1969/R4/Stewart Conn/Max Adrian
2000 (rptd 2002)/R3/Rosalind Ayres/Simon Templeman]


5th July 1976
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: Next Man Through the Door by John Howlett (1940-2019)
Producer: Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Rosario Chianna: Sydney Tafler
   Blackjack Jackson: Manning Wilson
   Sally: Maggie McCarthy
   Lilly: Patricia Gallimore
   Det-Sgt Pike: John Samson
   Det-Con Masters: Alan Devereux
   Chris: John Baddeley
   Ben Chianna: Jon Rollason
   Ron: Roger Gartland
   Joe: Michael Shannon
   Kid Koster: Peter Pacey
   Old Man Koster: George Woolley
   Mr Baker: Philip Garston-Jones
   Amanda: Heather Barrett
Repeated from 15th and 17th March 1975


5th July 1976:
20.00:
The Monday Play: Springer's England by Frederick Bradnum (1922-2001)
Producer: Jane Morgan
   Veronica Springer: Monica Grey
   Gerald Springer: Hugh Dickson
   Tess: Deborah Paige
   James: Peter Woodthorpe
   Anthony: Nigel Anthony
   Dorabella: Prunella Scales
   Sally Titchener: Selina Cadell
Repeated 11th July 1976


7th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Fallen Angels (1925) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   Julia Sterroll: Mary Wimbush
   Fred Sterroll: William Fox
   Saunders: Hilda Schroder
   Willy Banbury: Michael Spice
   Jane Banbury: Isabel Dean
   Maurice Duclos: Nigel Graham
Repeated from 14th April 1973


8th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Death of The Insured by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Croll: John Hollis
   Thorpe: Jeffrey Segal
   Martin: Christopher Bidmead
   Betty: Shirley Dixon
   Doctor/Inspector: Garard Green
   Hopkins/Sergeant: David Neal
   Gladys: Kathleen Helme
   Julia Heston: Eva Haddon
Repeated 8th June 1977


9th July 1976
15.05
The Queen's Own by Stanley Eveling (1925-2008)
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Marion: Valerie Georgeson
   Tom: Peter Wheeler
   Loppy Lugs: Peter Wheeler
   Mother: Lizzie McKenzie
   Sam: Christian Rodska
   Father: Alan Hockey
   Psychiatrist: Paul Webster


10th July 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Pembroke's Mother by B. F. Rubinstein (1891-1975)
1603
Produced by Martin Jenkins
   Mary Herbert, Pembroke: Pauline Letts
   William Herbert: Sion Probert
   Philip Herbert: David Timson
   Alice: Julie Hallam
   Thomas, the steward: Alan Rowe
   Shakespeare: Michael Spice
   Richard Burbage: William Sleigh
   King James I: Alan Rowe
Repeated from 10th April 1974


10th July 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Splinterlight by Gregory Lyons
Smuggling drugs.
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Matheson: Gerald Cross
   Dicken: Peter Marinker
   Julie: Sandra Clark
   Nicos: Nigel Graham
   Marty: John Bull
   Ray: Peter Craze
   Susan/Telephonist: Elizabeth Revill
   Jacko/Mulligan: Eric Allan
   Sammy: Michael Ripper
Repeated 12th July 1976


12th July 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Whisperers by Robert Nicolson adapted by Joan O'Connor
Glasgow
Produced by Stewart Conn
BBC Scotland
   Mrs Ross: Effie Morrison
   Police Sergeant: Jameson Clark
   Constable: Paul Young
   Mr Conrad: Bryden Murdoch
   Rafferty: Henry Stamper
   Charlie: Charles Kearney
   First whisperer: Charles Baptiste
   Second whisperer: Henry Stamper
   Social Security Officer: John Young
   Girl/Nurse: Mary Riggans
   Mrs Noonan: Helen Norman
   Pat: Christopher Connor
   Noonan/Stranraer: Robert Docherty
   Andy: James Gavigan
   Fish: Paul Young
   Archie: Charles Baptiste
   Mrs Sloan: Jessie Morton
   Sonny: Andrew Byatt
Repeated 18th July 1976


14th July 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mild and Batter by Andrew Lynch
Automated fish and chips.
Produced by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Wilf: Geoffrey Banks
   Molly: Eileen Derbyshire
   Doreen: Gwen Taylor
   Mr Tomlinson: Paul Webster
   Alice: Judith Barker
   Pam: Sally Gibson
   Albert: Peter Wheeler
[Andrew Lynch also wrote the comedy serial "The Spamfritter Man", broadcast 1978 in which this play was episode 1 of 8, produced by Bob Oliver Rogers, BBC Manchester]


14th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Presentation by Gordon Ruttan
Produced by Christopher Venning
   Alf Keary: Cyril Shaps
   Mike: Paul Meier
   Ronnie: Steve Hodson
   Van driver: Jeffrey Segal
   Stan: Wayne Bell
   Danny: Anton Phillips
   Gladys: Irene Sutcliffe
   Betty Keary: Olive Lucius
   Charles Harper: Douglas Blackwell
   Linda: Mandy Cuthbert
   Marion: Ellzabeth Cassidy
   David Crawford: Mel Oxley
   Bill: David Richardson
   Pat: Valerie Murray


14th July 1976
19.30-20.00
The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark (1918-2006) adapted by David Fisher
Produced by Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Needle: Sarah Badel
   Kathleen: Jane Thomson
   George: Michael Jayston
   Skinny: Steven Pacey


15th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Final Ascent by Alan Wells
Produced by John Cardy
   Simon Turpin: Christopher Bidmead
   Dr Peter Hillier: Walter Nall
   Georgie: Jo Kendall
   Tim: John Turnbull
   Captain: Patrick Barr
   Staff Captain: Douglas Blackwell
   Inspector: David Graham


16th July 1976
15.05
The Last Phone-in by Keith Waterhouse
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 23rd June 1978


17th July 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Prospero's Farewell By H. F. Rubinstein (1891-1975)
London, 1610.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
   Shakespeare: Robert Lang
   Mistress Johnson: Eva Stuart
   Susanna HalL: Kate Binchy
   Henry, Earl of Southampton: William Eedle
   Elizabeth, Countess of Southampton: Jane Knowles
   A Strange Lady: Sheila Grant
Repeated from 31st March 1972


17th July 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Point of No Return by Stephen Barlay (1930-2011)
A plane crashes on take-off.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Capt Cornelius Penn: Gabriel Woolf
   Candy Penn: Sheila Grant
   Mara Boone: Shirley Dixon
   Capt Keith Brown: John Graham
   Alvin Singer: Paul Maxwell
   Drayton: Malcolm Hayes
   Passenger: Stephen Jack
   Richard Bryant: Paul Meier
   Candy's mother: Betty Baskcomb
Also with Jean England, Gordon Gardner, Garard Green, Leslie Heritage, Ursula Hirst,
   Valerie Murray, Clifford Norgate, Margaret Robertson, John Rowe, Christopher Scoular,
   James Thomason, Joanna Wake
Repeated 19th July 1976
[Stephen Barlay is the author of a number of books on air safety commencing with "Aircrash detective: the quest for aviation safety: an international report" (1969) ]


19th July 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Thistlewood by Stewart Conn
Music composed and arranged by Adrian Secchi
An English revolutionary.
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
   John Bull: John Hollis
   Arthur Thistlewood: Ian Hogg
   Sea Captain/George Edwards: Russell Dixon
   Orator Hunt/James Ings: Peter Wheeler
   Samuel Bamford/Richard Tidd: James Tomlinson
   Mrs Bamford: Daphne Oxenford
   Susan: Judith Barker
   Viscount Sidmouth: Geoffrey Banks
   Secretary Taylor: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Dr Watson/John Brunt: Brian Miller
Repeated 25th July 1976
[Also broadcast on R7 and R4X 2009-2019]


21st July 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mother by Neville Smith
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   John: Nigel Anthony
   Vivian: Alison Steadman


21st July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Kingdom Cottage by Bill Lyons
Autumn 1962
Directed by Jane Morgan
   Peter Givens: Nigel Anthony
   Sandra Aldred: Emily Richard
   Henry Aldred: Malcolm Hayes
   Helen Aldred: Liz Smith
   Mr Frobisher: Roger Brierley
   Newsreader: Steve Hodson


21st July 1976
19.30-20.00
The Hand (1883) by Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893) adapted by Michael Robson
1880's Corsica.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Bermutier: Cyril Shaps
   Sir John Rowell: Denis Quilley
   Olivier: Edward Seckerson
   Audas: David Strong
   Chavanne: Hector Ross
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2024]


22nd July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Bang, Bang, You're Dead * by Muriel Spark (1918-2006) adapted by Jill Hyem
Produced by Betty Davies
   Desiree: Christine Finn
   Sybil: Jill Bennett
   Ella : Betty Huntley-Wright
   Cynthia: Elizabeth Morgan
   Ted: Alan Dudley
   Ralph: David Timson
   Amelia: Grizelda Hervey
   Sybil's mother: Elizabeth Morgan
   Sybil's father: Hector Ross
   Ariadne: Carole Boyd
   Barry Weston: John Rye
   David Carter: Sean Arnold
Repeated from 25th and 26th September 1974
[Also produced in 2006 with Emma Currie as Sybil- the title then had no dash or comma between Bang and bang...]
[ * The Sparke story is usually referenced as Bang-bang instead of Bang, Bang. The title with a comma was used for a 1999 work by William Mastrosimone and a 1966 film by Harry Towers. ]


22nd July 1976
20.00-20.45
The Ripper's Apprentice by Donald Thomas (1934-2022)
Producer: Maurice Leitch
   Inspector Harvey: Alan Dudley
Also with Paul Meier, David Neal, Shirley Dixon, Douglas Blackwell, Kevin Flood, Mary Healey, Michael Fawkes
Repeated 23rd July 1976
[Published in book form in 1986 with renamed character "Inspector Alfred Swain"]


23rd July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Trapped by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017)
Produced by Norman Wright
   Michael Trent: Tim Seely
   Harry Croft: David March
   Mrs Camden: Betty Hardy
   BBC newsreader: Alvar Lidell
   Sergeant Baker: Stephen Jack
   Bank clerk: John Pullen
Repeated from 19th October 1968 and 26th October 1973


24th July 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Very Like a Whale by H. F. Rubinstein (1891-1975)
Stratford-upon-Avon, 25 March 1616
Directed by Martin Jenkins
   Shakespeare: Peter Jeffrey
   Anne, his wife: Pauline Letts
   Susanna: Margaret Robertson
   Judith: Joanna Wake
   Thomas Combe: Brian Hewlitt
   John Rogers: James Thomason
   Leonard Digges: Christopher Bidmead
[In 1921 Rubinstein wrote -with Clifford Bax- "Shakespeare, a play in five episodes "]


24th July 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Jonas by J. C. W. Brook
A cursed ouija board
Producer: Ian Cotterell
    Max Brown: Julian Holloway
    Julie Brown: Anna Cropper
    Hugo Stevens: John Rye
    Pat Stevens: Prunella Scales
    Mohammet Asif: David March
Also with Carole Boyd
Repeated from 23rd February 1975
Repeated 26th July 1976 and 7th April 1991, 30th December 1992,
[Also broadcast on R4X 2015-2021]


26th July 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Suffering Madonna by Martin Walser (1927-2023) translated by Christopher Holme
Germany. A medieval statue.
Produced by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Maximiliana: Ambrosine Phlllpotts
   Thassilo: Alan- Moore
   Miesbach/Rudi: David Ponting
   Dr Neukamm: Dennis Bowen
   Bertie: John Rowe
   Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Clothilda: Vanessa Millard
   Hugo: Jeffrey Segal
   Biddie: Margaret Robertson
   Dr Buchinger/Wailer: Douglas Blackwell
   Isabel: Shirley Dixon
   Annie: Joanna Wake
   ElsaL Maev Alexander
Repeated 1st August 1976


28th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Put Down to Experience by Geoffrey Parkinson
1956: the Downlands Community Association.
Produced by Shaun MacLoughlin
   Celia Glover: Norma Ronald
   Benedict Burden: Gerald Cross
   Miss Edith Pewter: Hilda Schroder
   Tobias O'Hare: John Rowe
   Jessie O'Hare: Kathleen Helms
   North Country Candidate: Peter Woodthorpe
   Sensitive Candidate: Steve Hodson
   Miss Hooper: Karen Ford
   Miss Golly: Margaret Robertson
   Rev Cornelius Dunscombe: John Rowe
   Herr Frink (once of Leipzig): Jeffrey Segal
   Rufus Glover: Steve Hodson
Repeated 7th September 1978


28th July 1976
19.30
Mess by Frances King adapted by David Fisher.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Myra: Phyllis Calvert
   Roger: Steven Pacey
   Harrap: David Griffin
   Marje: Bonnie Hurren
   Mac: Christopher Muncke
   Jack: Stephen Thorne


29th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Game of Murder by Thomas Johnston
Produced by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Miles: Peter John
   Alice: Rosalind Knight
   Emma: Emily Richard
   Tenby: David Mahlowe
   

30th July 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Invisible Chains by Peggy Eaton
Produced by Cherry Cookson
   Sybil: Gwen Watford
   Fred: John Hollis
   Bill: Steve Hodson
   Marion: Joanna Wake
   Edna: Irene Sutcliffe


31st July 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Nick of Time by Lawrence Dobie
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Ernie: Terry Scully
   Shirt: Julie Hallam
Repeated 4th August 1976


31st July 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Storm in a Teacup by Bruno Frank (1887-1945), adapted by James Bridie (1888-1951) for USA and UK theatre and film, and further adapted by Gordon Gildard
Produced by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Maggie: Jennifer Angus
   Victoria Thomson: Maev Alexander
   Francis Burdon: Paul Young
   Lisbet Skirving: Hilary Paterson
   Mrs Flanagan: Mary Riggans
   Provost Thomson: Tom Watson
   Mr McKellar: Michael Elder
   Mr Skirving: Arthur Boland
   Sheriff: David Steuart
   Procurator Fiscal: Bryden Murdoch
   Mr Menzies: Finlay Welsh
   Mr Cassidy: Peter Kelly
Repeated 2nd August 1976
[Original title: "Sturm im Wasserglas" (1930)]


2nd August 1976
19.30:
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Lute player: Julian Byzantine
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Prologue: Terry Scully
   Lucentio: David Spenser
   Tranio: Nigel Lambert
   Baptista: Carleton Hobbs
   Gremio: Richard Goolden
   Katherine: Fenella Fielding
   Hortensio: John Rowe
   Bianca: Miriam Margolyes
   Biondello: Timothy Bateson
   Petruchio: Paul Daneman
   Grumio: Ronald Herdman
   Curtis: Terry Scully
   Petruchio's servants: Nigel Anthony, William Sleigh, Robin Browne
   Pedant: John Ruddock
   Tailor: Sam Dastor
   Vincentio: William Fox
   Widow: Sheila Grant
Repeated from 11th June 1973


4th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Blood Lines by John Kirkmorris
Directed By: Richard Wortley
   Arthur: William Eedle
   Sara: Joy Harrison
   Joe: Anthony Hall
   Margaret: Margot Boyd
   Kit: Jo Manning Wilson
   Claire: Julie Hallam
Repeated from 2nd June 1973


4th August 1976
18.15
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 105): The Head of the Practice by Donald Bull.
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Archie McGlusky: Ian Wallace
   Liddie: Katharine Page
   Maggie: Shirley Dixon
   Strachan: John Dunbar
Repeated 6th August 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]
[This was the first radio episode NOT based on a prior tv episode]


4th August 1976
19.30:
The Queen of Spades (1834) by Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) adapted by Maurice Travers
Produced by Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Vanin: Godfrey Kenton
   Dmitri: Christopher Bidmead
   Hermann: Ian Ogilvy
   Tomski: Gareth Armstrong
   Naroumov: Nigel Lambert
   Surin/Chekalinski: Sion Probert
   Countess: Joan Matheson
   Lizaveta: Susan Maudslay
[Repeated from 4th August 1967]


5th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Lament for the Highland Laddie by Graham Blackett
Produced by David Johnston
   Len Smart: Bryan Pringle
   Sid Teesdale: Anthony Jackson
   Joan Smart: Shirley Dixon
   Elsie Teesdale: Sarah Thomas
   Mr Savage: Gerald Cross
   Karim: Saeed Jaffrey
   Arthur Ford: Steve Hodson
   Larky Chisholm: Christopher Jenkinson
   Constable: David Neal


6th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Couple of Splints and the Kiss of Life by Ivor Wilson (1924-2002)
A First Aid competition.
Produced by Tony Cliff.
BBC Manchester
   Norman: Brun Peck
   Harry: Colin Edwynn
   Michael: Alan Rothwell
   Mr Bassett: Peter Wheeler
   Gwen: Sally Gibson
   Sharon: Binkie Shoebridge
   Pearl: Vicki Ireland
   Col Tranter: James Tomlinson
   Betty: Judith Barker
[Note: This play is not held by the Ivor Wilson archives in Hull, and is also not listed by them as missing].


7th August 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Blind Man Running for his Life by Simon Gough
Produced by Margaret Etall
   James: Kerry Francis
   Nigel: John Bentley
   Doctor: Clifford Norgate
   Sister: Sonia Fraser
   Receptionist: Hilda Kriseman
   Waiter: Sean Barrett
Repeated from 26th May 1970 and 19th September 1973
Repeated 11th August 1976


7th August 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: It's a Battlefield (1934, revised 1948) by Graham Greene (1904-1991) dramatised by Geoffrey M. Matthews
London in the 1930s
Produced Shaun MacLoughlin
   the Assistant Commissioner: Gerald Cross
   Harry Conder: Clive Swift
   Conrad Drover: John Rime
   Milly Drover: Carole Boyd
   Caroline Bury: Kathleen Helme
   Jules Briton: Michael Deacon
   Kay Rimmer: Elizabeth Proud
   Philip Surrogate: William Fox
   Patmore: Peter Woodthorpe
   Mrs Coney: Shirley Dixon
   The Warder: David Graham
   The Chaplain: David Neal
   Mr Bernay: Haydn Jones
   Jim Drover: Peter Craze
   PC Coney: Patrick Barr
   Private Secretary: Nigel Anthony
Repeated 9th August 1976


8th August 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Last Temptation (1955), by Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), translated and adapted by Andreas Stavrou and Hallam Tennyson
1 of 2: The Lion Within
Music specially composed by Elizabeth Poston and Conducted by Elgar Howarth (in 1973 the credits indicated conducted by Peter Marchbank)
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Narrator: Gabriel Woolf
   Rabbi Simeon: John Ruddock
   Jesus: John Hurt
   Mary: Diana Bishop
   Centurion: Vernon Joyner
   Judas: David Buck
   Peter: Walter Hall
   Mary Magdalene: Judi Dench
   Women in the crowd: Julie Hallam and Betty Huntley-Wright
   Man in the crowd: David Timson
   Barabbas: John Rowe
   Guestmaster: Timothy Bateson
   Abbot: Clive Swift
   Monk/ Simon of Cyrene: William Sleigh
   Andrew: Peter Craze
   Zebedee/ Crowd: Brian Haines
   Baptist/ Crowd: Haydn Jones
   Tempter: Heron Carvic
Additional cast in part 2:
   Saul: Peter Williams
   Melchizadek: Rolf Lefebvre
Repeated from 16th September 1973
Part Two: 15th August 1976


9th August 1976
19.30:
The Monday Play: Major Barbara (1905) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Trombone and concertina played by Alf Edwards
Should a charity worry about where donations come from?
Produced by John Powell
   Lady Britomart Undershaft: Janet Burnell
   Stephen, her son: Tim Seely
   Morrison, her butler: Alexander John
   Barbara, her elder daughter: Dorothy Tutin
   Sarah, her younger daughter: Rosalind Shanks
   Adolphus Cusins Barbara's fiance: Alec McCowen
   Charles Lomax, Sarah's fiance: Nigel Graham
   Andrew Undershaft: Max Adrian
   Rummy Mitchens: Anna Burden
   Snobby Price: Nigel Anthony
   Jenny Hill: Eva Haddon
   Peter Shirley: Ronald Herdman
   Bill Walker: Anthony Jackson
   Mrs Baines: Noel Hood
   Bilton: Alexander John
Repeated from 10th April 1967


11th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Knight of the Long Trousers by Donald Bull
Producer: 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 6th April 1978, 7th July 1984


11th August 1976
18.15
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 106): Where There's Smoke by Dick Sharples
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Alice Dunlop: Christina Gray
   Jamie: Douglas Blackwell
   Edith: Elizabeth Proud
   Sergeant Bell: Gordon Clyde
Repeated 13th August 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


11th August 1976
19.30-20.00
Conversation at Night (1957) by Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) translated in 1969 by Robert David Macdonald (1929-2004)
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Man: Tony Britton
   Executioner: George Cole
   Prime Minister: Michael Shannon
[ Original title: "Nachlitches Gesprach mit einem verachteten Menschen." (1952), full English title: "Conversation at night with a despised character: a curriculum for our times"]
[This English translation first broadcast on BBC2 tv in 1969]


12th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Away from it all by David Duncombe
Produced by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Gerald: John Malcolm
   Susan: Maggie McCarthy
   Danny: Alan Rowe
   Jane: Patricia Gibson
   Gary: Terry Molloy


13th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Nemesis Machine by Eric Saward
London 1890.
Produced by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Richard Mace: Geoffrey Matthews
   Roundtree: Tony McEwan
   Inspector Maitland: William Eedle
   Sergeant Bound: John Hollis
   Assistant Commissioner: Norman Shelley
   Kasper Gutman: Nigel Lambert
   Black Peter: Graham Weston
   Old Tom: Ralph Lawton
   Mrs Farmer: Ysanne Churchman
   Landlord: Terry Molloy
   Albert: George Woolley
   Crabbe: Alan Devereux
   Henchman: Paul Henry
[Other radio plays featured the character Richard Mace: The Assassin (1st June 1974) and Pegasus (28th May 1975)]
[Richard Mace appeared in 1982 in a Doctor Who tv story The Visitation, written by Eric Saward]


14th August 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Victim of the System by Donald Bull
Produced by Martin Jenkins
   Halmar Loden: Nigel Stock
   Paxton: Malcolm Reid
   Jim Abel: David Graham
   Spofforth: Nigel Hawthorne
Repeated 18th August 1976


14th August 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Kildruim Hoard by John Lawson
Produced by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Andrew Kerr: Ron Bain
   Partick Spiller: Paul Kermack
   Carroll: Ian Ireland
   Kenyon: Brown Derby
   Ray: Alex Norton
   Hilda Carson: June Andrews
   Colonel Milne: John Shedden
   McNair: Willy Joss
   Meg McNair: Valerie Fyfer
   Bella Campbell: Eileen McCallum
   Grierson: Charles Kearney
   Percival: Martin Heller
Repeated 18th August 1976



16th August 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Spin a Loving Thread by Alick Rowe (1938-2009)
A scheme to help old people.
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Andy: Steven Pacey
   Mrs Deans: Betty Hardy
   Boyo: Douglas Blackwell
   Mrs Nairn: Diana Bishop
   Mr Nairn: Willam Eedle
   Willy: Peter Craze
   Tom: John Rowe
   Deb: Glynis Brooks
   Invigilator: Malcolm Reid
Repeated 22nd August 1976 and 24th February 1979


17th August 1976
19.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sweet Smell of Success by Peter Crowter
The Energy Crisis.
Produced Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Ben Burditch: Ivor Sailer
   Violet: Dorothy Hawkins
   Rose: Alison Hancock
   Henry: Anthony Smee
   Vicar: Ronald Russell
   Bob: Malcolm Young
   Dora: Penelope Nice
   Mrs Pugh: Peggy Ann Wood
Repeated from 30th July 1975


18th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Anything But Love by Michael Judge
Produced by Michael Heffernan
   Vincent Kelleher: Kevin McHugh
   Clare Kelleher: Pauline Delany
   David Kelleher: Gerard McSorley
   Ann Delaney: Zelda Golden
   Desmond O'Donovan: Michael Duffy
   Maureen: Deirdre Lawless
   Barman: Eoin White
[Contains colloquial words which may offend- if you know them... ]


18th August 1976
18.15
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 107): Miller's Tale by Pat Dunlop
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Miller: Patrick Troughton
   Bobbie: Elizabeth Proud
   Mary Hamilton: Audrey Muir
   Chairman: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated 20th August 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


18th August 1976
19.30-20.00:
The Treasure in the Forest (1894) by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), adapted by Michael Robson.
Gold.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Hooker: Christopher Cazenove
   Evans: Michael Bryant
   de Witt: Joss Ackland
[Also broadcast on R4X in 2021]


19th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Blue-Blood Hang-Up by David Marshall
Produced by Gerry Jones
   Syd: John Hollis
   Queenie: Patricia Hayes
   Monica: Bonnie Hurren
   Hugh: Nigel Anthony
   Charles: Steve Hodson
   James: John Rowe


20th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Commercial Break by Gillian Freeman (1929-2019)
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Pat Warren: Elizabeth Proud
   Ruth: Kate Coleridge
   Mrs Porter: Hazel Coppen
   John Warren: John Samson
   Evelyn Anderson: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Buckleigh: Michael Deacon
   Chris: Peter Marinker
   Miss Armitage: Elizabeth Morgan
   Mrs Purvis: Norma Ronald
   Roger Bellingham: Paul Gaymon
   Simon, aged 14: Ian Sharrock
Repeated from 7th December 1974


21st August 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Slopes of Misadventure by Graham Blackett
Produced by Gordon House
   Roger: Nigel Anthony
   Rhys: Sion Probert
   Islwyn: Gareth Armstrong
   Celia: Nicolette McKenzie
   Shaun: Steve Hodson
   Mary: Anne Rosenfeld
   Joe: David Graham
   Harry: David Neal
   Waitress/Nurse: Valerie Murray
Repeated 25th August 1976


21st August 1976
18.15
Maigret Goes Home (1932) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Robert Baldick, adapted by Frederick Bradnum
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Lucas: Brian Haines
   Janvier: Sean Barrett
   Maurice Saint Fiacre: Michael Spice
   Dr Bnuchardon: Hector Ross
   Jean Metayer: Clifford Norgate
   Gautier: Cyril Shaps
   Emile Gautier: Anthony Daniels
   Priest: Michael Deacon
Repeated 27th August 1976 and 26th December 1983
[Original title: L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre, other English titles are "Maigret on Home Ground" and "Maigret and the Countess."]


21st August 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Weekend at Montacute by Michael Robson
1923. The next Prime Minister.
Produced by David Spenser
   Lord Curzon: Paul Rogers
   Mary Wimbush: Lady Curzon
   Stanley Baldwin: Alan Rowe
   Andrew Bonar Law: Malcolm Hayes
   Lord Crewe: Noel Iliff
   Lord Beaverbrook: Peter Marinker
   John Davidson: John Rowe
   Col Sir Ronald Waterhouse: Garard Green
   Sir John Lavery: David Graham
   King George V: John Westbrook
   Lord Stamfordham: Haydn Jones
   Lord Salisbury: James Thomason
   Queen Mary: Margaret Robertson
   Lord Balfour: William Fox
   Policeman: William Eedle
Repeated 23rd August 1976


22nd August 1976
21.03-22.00:
John Caldigate (1879) by Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) dramatised by D. G. Bridson
1 of 8: The Prodigal
Concertina player Terry Lynch
Directed by David H. Godfrey
   John Caldigate : Jeremy Clyde
   His father, Daniel: Jeffrey Segal
   Anthony Trollope the Narrator: Patrick Barr
   Capt Munday: Douglas Blackwell
   Uncle Babington: James Thomason
   Aunt Polly: Margot Boyd
   Nicholas Bolton: Alan Dudley
   Mrs Mary Bolton: Carole Boyd
   Hester Bolton: Gretta Gouriet
   Robert Bolton: Michael Kilgarriff
   Dr Shand: Garard Green
   Mrs Shand: Joan Matheson
   Maria Shand: Jill Shilllng
   Dick Shand: Nigel Lambert
   Thomas Holt: Wilfrid Carter
   Euphemia Smith: Margaret Wolfit
Additional actors in parts 2-8:
Allan McClelland, Bettina Dickson, Bruce Beeby, Clifford Norgate, David Graham, Denis McCarthy, Fraser Kerr, Haydn Jones, Jane Knowles, John Rowe, Kenneth McClellan, Leslie Heritage, Lewis Stringer, Madi Hedd, Malcolm Reid, Jo Manning Wilson, Nigel Graham, Noel Howlett, Paul Meier, Peter Bull, Peter Craze, Peter Woodthorpe, Trader Faulkner, Walter Hall, William Eedle
Episode 8 broadcast: 10th October 1976
Each episode repeated after two days.


23rd August 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) edited by Bill Morrison
New Jersey.
Special sound sequences by Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by John Theocharis
   Sabina: Toby Robins
   Mr Antrobus: Don Fellows
   Mrs Antrobus: Betsy Blair
   Fortune-teller: Margaret Robertson
   Henry: Garrick Hagon
   Reporter: Michael Fawkes
   Gladys: Valerie Murray
   Telegraph boy: Paul Meier
Also With Peter Craze, William Eedle, Walter Hall, Leslie Heritage, Nicolette McKenzie, Clifford Norgate, Jeffrey Segal, Joanna Wake
Repeated 29th August 1976
[Also produced in 1950 by Peter Watts with Betty Bascomb as Sabina]


25th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Trouble with Mother by Alec Baron (1913-1991)
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester,
   Grandma: Paula Tilbrook
   Tim: Paul Webster
   Jenny: June Barry
   Ewan/Hospital Nurse: Judy Bennett
   Paula/Home Nurse: Helen Worth
   Mr Wiggington: Geoffrey Banks
   Alice/Mrs Porter: Judith Barker
   Mrs Morris: Olive Pendleton
   Mrs Winters: Kathleen Locke


25th August 1976
18.15
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 108): The Visitors by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Craigie: Simon Lack
   Alison: Eva Haddon
   Tuke: Benny Lee
   Matron: Margaret Robertson
Repeated 27th August 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


26th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Blaggin' Job by Joan Lock
Produced 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 Rosenfeld


27th August 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Along Came a Spider by Joan Sadler
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Roger Randall: Christopher Scoular
   Sue Randall: Nicolette McKenzie
   Dorothy Randall: Lala Lloyd
   Jane: Sarah Nash
   Tony: Bruce Bennett
   Sylvia Webb: Elizabeth Villiers
   Mary Saunders: Irene Sutcliffe
   Customer: Valerie Murray


28th August 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: In Confidence by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001)
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Bob Mooney: Douglas Blackwell
   Westerman: Norma Ronald
   Roz Elliot: Joanna Wake
   Geraldine Dobree: Carol Marsh
   Captain Boyd: William Eedle
Repeated 1st September 1976


28th August 1976
18.15
Maigret in Montmartre (1950) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Daphne Woodward, adapted by Aubrey Woods
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Lucas: Brian Haines
   Lapointe: John Rye
   Janvier: Sean Barrett
   Inspector Lognon: Garard Green
   Rose: Madi Hedd
   Fred: Haydn Jones
   Arlette: Nicolette McKenzie
   Arlette's aunt: Kathleen Helme
   Philippe: Michael Billington
   Rosalie: Katherine Parr
   Sergeant Simon: Peter Craze
Repeated 3rd September 1976
[Original title: Maigret au "Picratt's", other English titles are "Maigret at Picratt's" and "Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper"]


28th August 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Rabid Summer by James Follett
Rabies.
Animal effects by Percy Edwards
With the assistance of the Animal Health Division of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Produced by Kay Patrick
   David Coleman: Patrick Barr
   Muriel Coleman: Pauline Letts
   Mrs Collins/Receptionist: Betty Baskcomb
   Margent: John Ringham
   Swann: Clifford Norgate
   Dr Menon: Valerie Murray
   Harding: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Blanchard/Townsman: Leslie Heritage
   Willis: Keith Smith
   Major Lathan: Garard Green
   Tess Coleman: Jo Manning Wilson
   Mathis: Malcolm Reid
   Nurse/Townsman: Anne Rosenfeld
   Mrs Fairchild/Nurse: Diana Payan
   Kemp/Holidaymaker: Peter Woodthorpe
Repeated 30th August 1976 and 27th February 1977
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018]


30th August 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: All in Good Time by Bill Naughton (1910-1992)
Pianist: Trevor Holroyd
Cornet player: J F R Tinker
Produced Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester (1974: BBC Leeds)
   Lucy Fitton: Paula Tilbrook
   Ezra Fitton: Geoffrey Banks
   Arthur Fitton: Alan Rothwell
   Geoffrey Fitton: Keith Ladd
   Violet Piper: Anna Keaveney
   Leslie Piper: Ray Mort
   Liz Piper: Jane Lowe
   Joe Thompson: Kenneth Farrington
   Molly Thompson: Juliet Cooke
   Uncle Fred/Vicar: Graham Roberts
   Eddie: Colin Edwynn
Repeated from 8th and 10th June 1974
Repeated 5th September 1976
[The play was developed from a 1961 tv play "Honeymoon Postponed"]


1st September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Brushes by Keith Miles
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Dacre Wallington: Noel Johnson
   Margaret Wallington: Cecile Chevreau
   Emma Wallington: Madeleine Cannon
   Eric Chell: Sion Probert
   Lena Penn: Carol Snape
   Roland Penn: Haydn Jones
   Millie Biddle: Joyce Latham
   Colin Wallington/Kilpatrick: Tony McEwan


1st September 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 109): Nobody Heard by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Gentry: John Graham
   Mrs Gentry: Sheila Grant
   Shop Manager: Michael Shannon
   Lily: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 3rd September 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


1st September 1976
19.30-20.00:
Mad Monkton (1853) by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) adapted by Michael Robson
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Piers Fortune: Gary Bond
   Ada Elmslie: Sandra Freeman
   Alfred Monkton: John Castle
   Damian: Lewis Stringer
   Captain Rounce: Geoffrey Matthews
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]


2nd September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Chair by Roger Longrigg (1929-2000)
The club member's chair.
Producer: 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
   Petrol pump attendant: Leslie Heritage
   Garage proprietor: Haydn Jones
Repeated 7th June 1978
[The author used a lot of pseudonyms]


3rd September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: No Quarter by Barry Bermange
Produced by Dickon Reed
BBC World Service production
Cast: Nigel Anthony, Gerald Cross, Walter Hall and Victor Lucas
[Also produced by John Gibson in 1962 rptd 1963 for R3, rptd 1972 R4]


4th September 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: No Hand-outs by Maria Charles
Song composed by John Turner sung by Sue Brine
Producer: Mary Price
BBC Bristol
   Linda: Jenny Tomasin
   Terry: Peter Allmond
   Father: Howard Goorney
   Social worker: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 8th September 1976


4th September 1976
18.15
   Maigret has Scruples (1958) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Robert Eglesfield, adapted by Edward Bruce
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Lucas: Brian Haines
   Lapointe: John Rye
   Janvier: Sean Barrett
   Louise Maigret: Irene Sutcliffe
   Dr Pardon: Douglas Blackwell
   Marton: Malcolm Reid
   Giselle: Pamela Lane
   Jenny: Jill Shilling
Repeated 10th September 1976
[Original title: Les Scrupules de Maigret]


4th September 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: At Your Service by Alan Melville (1910-1983)
The BBC will have a tv broadcast from the village.
Produced by John Tydeman
   The Vicar: James Thomason
   Mrs Mitchell: Margot Boyd
   Mrs Grant: Cecile Chevreau
   Miss Gray: Gudrun Ure
   Monique: Carolle Rousseau
   Anthony Anstruther: Michael Spice
   Col Gregson: William Fox
   Dr Thorburn: Leslie Heritage
   Miss Peel: Sheila Grant
   Mr Rees: David Neal
   Lady Granger: Mary Wimbush
   Minnie: Eva Stuart
   Robin Durnforth: Steve Hodson
   Era: Patrick Barr
   Fred: Malcolm Reid
   Gardiner: Michael Tudor Barnes
Repeated 6th September 1976 and 26th February 1979


6th September 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
Murder in Rhodesia.
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Charlie Slatter: Bruce Purchase
   Tony Marston: David Savile
   Dick Turner: Ronald Lewis
   Mary Turner: Janet Suzman
   Samson: Louis Mahoney
   Gondwe: Ilarrlo Pedro
   Phiri: Willie Jonah
   Moses: Alton Kumalo
also with Irene Sutcliffe, John Rowe
Repeated 12th September 1976 and 8th January 1978


8th September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Cash Me a Portrait by Andrew Sachs (1930-2016)
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Bluehaigh: Rolf Lefebvre
   Mrs Sloper: Katherine Parr
   Trudi Snape: Jo Manning Wilson
   Lord Bufflemere: William Fox
   Crawford: Leslie Heritage
   Ridge: William Eedle
   Vernon Clench-Blaise: Jack May
   Lady Bufflemere: Olwen Griffiths
   Mrs Ridge: Eva Stuart
   Rodney: Judy Bennett
Repeated from 2nd December 1972
[Again produced by Glyn Dearman in 1985 with Rosalind Adams as Trudi and Andrew Sachs as Spot the Dog]


8th September 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 110): Wednesday's Child by Dick Sharples
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   John Craig: Trevor Martin
   Mary Anderson: Ellen McIntosh
Repeated 10th September 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


8th September 1976
19.30-20.00
Somebody's Telling the Truth (1971) by Patricia McGerr (1917-1985) adapted by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Pringle: Paul Gregory
   Rogan: Alan Tilvern
   Sanderson: Phil Brown
   Paul Sanderson: Bob Sessions
   Horace Sanderson: Christopher Muncke


9th September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Elusive Baby by Michael Gilbert (1912-2006)
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Det-Insp Patrick Petrella: Peter Gilmore
   Supt Watterson: Henry Stamper
   Sgt Blencowe: Peter Craze
   Sgt Glover: Walter Hall
   Det Lampier: Andrew Branch
   PC Owers: Nigel Graham
   Det Chief Supt Baylis: Garard Green
   Mrs Morgan: Elizabeth Proud
   CPO Morgan: Haydn Jones
   Commander Fanshawe: Clifford Norgate
   Mrs Field: Marjorie Forsyth
   Mrs Shorter: Vera Lennox
   Mrs Cross: Ysanne Churchman
   Sam Turner: Peter Woodthorpe
[Petrella appeared in several radio plays- also see the next three weeks]
[Gilbert was a practicing solicitor who wrote while commuting]


10th September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Man with Great Possessions by Peter Preston (1938-2018)
1381
Produced by David Spenser
   Robert de Fosse: David March
   Constance: Irene Sutcliffe
   Nicholas Rookwood: John Pullen
   Stephen: Steve Hodson
   Geoffrey, Bishop of Fenchester: Patrick Barr
   Matilda: Valerie Murray
   Will Hamme: Jack Carr
   Adam: William Eedle
   John Bull: John Baker
   Herald: Michael Tudor Barnes


11th September 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Forty-Love by Peter McKelvey
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Elaine Bartram: Sylvia Syms
   Edith Raynor: Susan Richards
   Derek Tyler: Peter Baldwin
   Reggie Bartram: Michael Goldie
   Frank Cresswell: Tom Wylton
   Daphne Cresswell: Nicolette McKenzie
   Herbert Joyce: Andrew Branch
Repeated 16th September 1976


11th September 1976
18.15
Maigret in Society (1960) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Robert Eglesfield, adapted by Edward Bruce
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Lapointe: John Rye
   Janvier: And Sean Barrett
   The Princess de Veret: Joyce Carey
   Philippe: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Julien de Veret: Steve Hodson
   Jaquette: Marjorie Westbury
   Moers: Patrick Barr
   Mazeron: Leslie Heritage
   Aubonnet: James Thomason
   Abbe: Ralph Truman
   Cromieres: Paul Meier
Repeated 17th September 1976
[Original title: "Maigret et les Vieillards", also known in English as "Maigret and the Old People"]


11th September 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Penelope. by Antonia Fraser
Produced by Betty Davies
   Penelope: Maria Aitken
   Sandy Sanchez: Nigel Davenport
   Fred Rosenberg: Frederick Jaeger
   Timothy: Christopher Good
   Andrew: Victor Lucas
   Verna Bartholomew: Christine Finn
   Topsy: Susan Colgrave
   Eileen: Sandra Clark
   Mr Nutting: Douglas Blackwell
Repeated 13th September 1976


13th September 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Cardinal Richelieu by David Pinner
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   the Cardinal: Alfred Burke
   Marie de Medici: Maxine Audley
   Louis: Michael Deacon
   brother to Louis: Denis Lill
   Anne of Austria, wife to Louis: Catherine Griller
   Father Joseph: John Hollis
   A captain: Jack Holloway
   Doctor/Priest: Ray Llewellyn
   Cinq-Mars: Peter Craze
Repeated 19th September 1976


15th September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Darkened Room by Robert Nicolson
Produced by Stewart Conn.
BBC Scotland
   Laura: Ruth Goring
   Ian and: Paul Young
   Alison: Sarah Collier


15th September 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 111): The Trouper by Pat Dunlop
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Lila: Katy Gardiner
   McMurdo: Benny Lee
   McLaren: James Thomason
   Mary McLaren: Shirley Dixon
   Dr Bennie: Don McKillop
Repeated 17th September 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


15th September 1976
19.30-20.00
The Executioner (1830) by Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) Adapted by Joan O'Connor
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Pierre Duchene: Nigel Lambert
   Victor Marchand: Neville Jason
   Clara: Maureen O'Brien
   General: John Franklyn Robbins
   Marquis: Hector Ross
   Marquesa: Jane Thomson
   Juanito: Peter Craze
[Original title: "El Verdugo"]


16th September 1976
15.05
The Death of Mrs Key by Michael Gilbert
Directed By: Graham Gauld
   Supt Watterson: Henry Stamper
   Sgt Blencowe: Peter Craze
   Det Lampier: Andrew Branch
   PC Owers: Nigel Graham
   Sgt Ambrose: John Rowe
   Supt Marsh: Jeffrey Segal
   Father Ambeline: Douglas Blackwell
   Jenny Liversedge: Nicolette McKenzie
   Eileen Fairweather: Anne Rosenfeld
   Ronald Blanchard: Paul Meier
   Mrs Oldershaw: Aimee Delamain
   Mr Rapp: William Eedle
   Joan Petrella: Shirley Dixon
   Mrs Burgess: Janet Burnell


17th September 1976
15.05-16.00
Saint Joan (1923) by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
(Four scenes chosen and introduced by Dame Sybil).
Music by John Foulds conducted by Alan Paul.
Producer: Graham Gauld.
   Robert de Baudricourt: Clive Morton
   Steward/The Executioner: Duncan McIntyre
   Joan: Sybil Thorndike
   De Poulengey/De Cauchon: Frank Henderson
   The Dauphin: Ian McKellen
   Bluebeard: Peter Bartlett
   La Tremouille/The Executioner: Geoffrey Wincott
   The Archbishop/Chaplain: Walter Fitzgerald
   La Hire/Canon d'Estivet: John Justin
   The Duchess: Betty Hardy
   Page: Terry Raven
   Dunois: Michael Spice
   The Inquisitor: Alan Wheatley
   Brother Martin/Ladvenu: Nigel Clayton
[Repeated from 27th May 1967]


18th September 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Solitaire by Frederick Treves (1925-2012)
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Dame Sarah Gordon: Lydia Sherwood
   Philip: Stephen Thorne
   Margaret: Katherine Parr
Repeated 22nd September 1976


18th September 1976
18.15
Maigret Sets a Trap (1955) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Daphne Woodward, adapted by Edward Bruce
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Lucas: Brian Haines
   Lapointe: John Rye
   Janvier: Sean Barrett
   Moncin: Malcolm Reid
   Madame Moncin: Margaret Robertson
   Moncin's mother: Gladys Spencer
   Tissot: Patrick Barr
   Rougin: Christopher Bidmead
   Policewoman: Frances Jeater
Repeated 24th September 1976 and 29th December 1983
[Original title: "Maigret tend un piege"]


18th September 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Black Tom Tyrant by Brian Hayles
1641.
Produced by Roger Pine.
BBC Birmingham
   Strafford: Denys Hawthorne
   John Pym: Noel Johnson
   Archbishop William Laud: William Fox
   Captain John Smith: Terry Molloy
   King Charles I: Michael Harbour
   Queen Henrietta Maria: Sylvie Dattas
   Sir William Balfour: John Samson
   Lord Save: Gerald Cross
   Lord Warwick: Arnold Peters
   Mr Glyn: Alan Devereux
   Lady Carlisle: Patricia Gallimore
   Lord Maxwell: Stephen Hancock
   Bishop Williams: Charles Williams
   Lord Arundel: Jack Holloway
Repeated 20th September 1976


20th September 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Diana of the Crossways (1884) by George Meredith (1828-1909) adapted by Denis Constanduros.
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Lady Dunstane (Emmy): Daphne Anderson
   Sir Lukin Dunstane: Garard Green
   Tom Redworth: David Buck
   Percy Dacier: Michael Tudor-Barnes
   Lady Wathin: Betty Huntley-Wright
   Mr Tonans: Douglas Blackwell
   Danvers: Hilda Schroder
   Manservant: Walter Hall
Also with Maureen O'Brien
Repeated 26th September 1976 and 25th February 1979
[Inspired by the life of Caroline Norton but not intended to represent actual events.]


22nd September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Incident at Greenwich by Aubrey Woods (1928-2013)
A Bank Holiday boat trip on the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich.
Produced by John Tydeman
   Paul: Geoffrey Beevers
   Justine: Valerie Murray
   Alan: Derek Seaton
   James: Anthony Hall
   Colin: Michael Deacon
   George: Neville Jason
   Pat: Garard Green
   Arthur: Jonathan Scott
   Jordan: Paul Meier
   Det-Insp Graham: Fraser Kerr
   Police Sgt: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Mrs Bridges: Irene Sutcliffe
   Newsreader: Robin Holmes
Also with Shirley Dixon, Walter Hall, Jeffrey Segal, Steve Hodson, Leslie Heritage and David Neal


22nd September 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 112): The Curing of Jock McGregor by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Jock McGregor: John Graham
   Aggie: Molly Weir
Repeated 24th September 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


22nd September 1976
19.30-20.00
Footprints in the Jungle (1927) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Maurice Travers
Malaya.
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
   Major Gaze: George Baker
   Ashenden: Jack May
   Mrs Cartwright: Gwen Cherrell
   Mr Cartwright: Alan Cuthbertson
   Dr Warren/Kai Ning: Leslie Heritage
   Sgt Osman: Peter Craze


23rd September 1976
15.05
The Banting Street Fire by Michael Gilbert.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   DI Patrick Petrella: Peter Gilmore
   Supt Watterson: Henry Stamper
   Sgt Blencowe: Peter Craze
   Det Lampier: Andrew Branch
   Albert Rugg: Garard Green
   Willie Cookson: Clifford Norgate
   Stan Corner: David Graham
   Joan Petrella: Shirley Dixon
   Brewer: Haydn Jones
   Tasker: James Thomason
   Magistrate: Leslie Heritage
   Phipps: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Aitken: John Rowe
   Perkins: Walter Hall
   Mears: Malcolm Reid
   Sam: David Neal


24th September 1976
15.05
Afternoon Theatre: The Changing Wind by Margaret Harris
Produced by: Kay Patrick
   Muriel Hunter/Matty: Diana Olsson
   Catherine Hunter Sandra Clark
   Ralph Grazeby: John Graham
   Emily Grazeby: Colette O'Neil
   Deirdre Grazeby: Valerie Verdon
   Rachael Grazeby: Betty Hardy
   Grace Castleton: Audrey Muir
Repeated from 28th November 1973


25th September 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Count's Courtship (1907) by Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), adapted by David Davis
Produced by Terence Tiller
   Narrator: David Davis
   Richard: Sam Dastor
   Count: Peter Williams
   Aunt: Kathleen Helme
Repeated 29th September 1976


25th September 1976
18.15
Maigret and the Young Girl (1954) by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), translated by Daphne Woodward, adapted by Frederick Bradnum
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Jules Maigret: Maurice Denham
   Georges Simenon: Michael Gough
   Janvier Inspector Lognon.: Garard Green
   Dr Paul: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Viviane: Nicolette McKenzie
   Irene: Gudrun Ure
   Madame Cremieux: Noel Hood
   Rose: Anne Rosenfeld
Also with Sean Barrett
Repeated 1st October 1976
[Original title: "Maigret et la jeune morte" also known in English as "Maigret and the Dead Girl"]


25th September 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Shoplifter by A. R Rawlinson
Produced by Gordon House
   May Bridgerton: Elizabeth Proud
   Tom Bridgerton: Christopher Good
   Mervyn Grant-Ellison: Sean Barrett
   Harvey Grinton: James Cossins
   Paolo: Leonardo Pierroni
   Miss Oliver: Hilary Sesta
   Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Father: James Thomason
   Sister/Female diner: Anne Rosenfeld
   Brother: Earl Rhodes
   Jimmy Send: Patrick Barr
   Mrs Send: Cecile Chevreau
   Ship's officer: Steve Hodson
   Ship's stewardess/Spanish Governor's Wife: Carole Boyd
   Norton: John Rowe
   British Governor: William Fox
   Resident Ministers/Norton's clerks: Michael Harbour and Ilarrio Bisi-Pedro
   Male diner: Simon Jones
Repeated 27th September 1976


27th September 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Last Summer by Lester Powell (1912-1993)
Produced by Barry Catlin
   Brian Beatson: Joe Melia
   Brenda Beatson: Penelope Keith
   Ruth Sparling: Jane Knowles
   Malcolm Sparling: Michael Harbour
   Mr Scotbee: Jeffrey Segal
   Mrs Scotbee: Joan Matheson
   Shop assistants: David Neal
   Woman: Irene Sutcliffe
   Hotel receptionist: Valerie Murray
Repeated 3rd October 1976


29th September 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 113): The Rebel by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Mary Cairns: Eva Stuart
   Randal: Lawrence Douglas
   Firth: Jon Glover
   Matron: Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated 1st October 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


29th September 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Only a Game by Barrie Keeffe
Producer: Piers Plowright
   Murray: Will Knightley
   Reporter/TV voice: Steve Hodson
   Gloria: Vicky Ireland
   Eleanor: Shirley Dixon
   Harry: Brian Glover
   Jimmy: Nigel Lambert
   Alan: Philip Davis
   Dad: John Hollis
   Specialist: David Neal
   Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Specialist: Michael Tudor Barnes


29th September 1976
19.30-20.00:
The Fall (1923) by Stacy Aumonier (1877-1928) adapted by Michael Robson
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
BBC World Service production
   Inspector Tolozan: Clive Swift
   Jules Destourney: Alfred Burke
   Dr Lancret: Geoffrey Beevers
   Edgar Thomas: William Ashley
   Gabriel Foret: Nigel Lambert
   Francois Mossel: Alan Haines
[Also produced by Charles Lefeaux in 1950 and again (differing actors) in 1958]


30th September 1976
15.05
Why Tarry the Wheels of his Chariot? by Michael Gilbert
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Det-Insp Patrick Petrella: Peter Gilmore
   Supt Watterson: Henry Stamper
   Sgt Blencowe: Peter Craze
   Sgt Phillips: Jeffrey Segal
   Ma Lamson Nan: Marriott Watson
   Arthur Lamson: Michael Deacon
   Ronald Lamson: Jim McManus
   Bruno Sondheim: Steve Hodson
   Jackie: Emily Richard
   Mr Michaelson: Patrick Barr
   Mr Channing: William Eedle
   Joan Petrella: Shirley Dixon
   Almoner: Carol Marsh
   Walter: Malcolm Reid
   Albert: Walter Hall
[There were a number of radio plays featuring DI Petrella]
[The next Petrella appearance on the radio was in 1997 produced by John Taylor]


1st October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Search and Rescue by Ian Cullen (1939-2019)
Two disappearances.
Produced by Christopher Venning
   Bob: David Horovitch
   Alison: Anne Rosenfeld
   June Watson: Sheila Ferris
   Constable Fern: Richard Kay
   Sergeant: Chris Hallam
   PC Elkins: Tony McEwan
   PC Hazlitt: Walter Hall
   Doctor: Leslie Heritage
   Inspector Carpenter: Christopher Jenkinson
   Nurse Rigg: Selena Cadell
   Doctor Peski: Neville Jason
   Mike Lawson: Christopher Scoular
   Mrs Sutton: Sheelah Wilcocks
   Andie Sutton: John Oxley
   Radio Operators: Paul Meier and Christopher Saul


2nd October 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: It's a Very Common Complaint by Nigel Bellairs (1934-2003)
Produced by Christopher Venning
   Nurse: Miranda Forbes
   Eddie Emerson: Albert Welling
   Pessimistic patient: Paul Meier
   Tom Batty: Walter Hall
   Concerned patient: David Neal
   Ruth Emerson: Jane Knowles
   Mr Capon: James Thomason
   Sister Davies: Joan Matheson
   First consultant: Leslie Heritage
   Second consultant: Garard Green
   Registrar: Malcolm Reid
   The Umbrella: Brian Croucher
   Basher: John Rowe
   Terry Constant: Robin Langford
Repeated 6th October 1976


2nd October 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Deep Waters by Malcolm Stewart
Produced by Robert Cooper.
BBC Manchester
   Galloway Hatch: David Mahlowe
   Margot Delisle: Sandra Clark
   Olga: Sally Gibson
   Moujik: Paul Webster
   Milford: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Z/Burroughs: Peter Wheeler
Repeated 4th October 1976


4th October 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Most Wonderful Thing by Henry Livings (1929-1998)
Pianist: Brian Layton
Produced by Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester
   Eric: Bryan Pringle
   Benny: Peter Woodthorpe
   Amy: Paula Tilbrook
   Coop/Walter: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Miss Higgins/Ruth: Rachel Davies
   Billy: George Malpas
   Clifford: Ray Mort
   John: Henry Livings
   Maurice/ Charlie: Peter John
   Arnold: Malcolm Storry
   Ken: Sam Kelly
   Kelvin/Artiste: David Beames
Repeated 10th October 1976, 26th November 1978


6th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Day After the Fair by Frank Harvey, based on On the Western Circuit by Thomas Hardy
Producer: John Pitman
BBC World Service production
   Edith: Penelope Lee
   Arthur: Denis McCarthy
   Letty: Judith Fellows
   Anna: Julie Hallam
   Charles: Christopher Bidmead
   Sarah: Jill Lidstone


6th October 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook: (Radio Episode 114): Physician Visiting a Lady by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Beatrice: Ellen McIntosh
   Patty: Audrey Muir
   Percy: James Thomason
   Morse: Peter Woodthorpe
   Elspeth/Moira: Elizabeth Proud
Repeated 8th October 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


7th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Whisper in the Ear by Sheila Hodgson (1921-2001), based on an idea by M. R. James
Produced by David Johnston
   M R James: David March
   Robert Stafford: Steve Hodson
   Madame Blanche Angier: Grizelda Hervey
   Madame Louise Angier: Mandy Cuthbert
   Hotel Manager/Anstey Guthrie: Jeffrey Segal
   Waiter: Douglas Blackwell
[Also broadcast on R4X 2024]
[Inspired by "Stories I Have Tried to Write" by M R James]


8th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Wall by Dorothy Gharbaoui
Produced by Michael Heffernan
BBC Northern Ireland
   Foreman: Michael Duffy
   Gerry McKnight: John Hewitt
   Charlie: William Hunter
   Dick McDonald: Mark Mulholland
   Clare McDonald: Kate Binchy
   Wilfie McKnight: J J Murphy
   Chrissie: Maureen Dow
   Meta McKnight: Catherine Gibson
   Nurse Hannah: Caroline Taylor
   Karen: Ann Healey
   Announcer: Paul Thompson-Clark


9th October 1976
20.30:
Arsenic and Old Lace (1939) by Joseph Kesselring (1902-1967)
Brooklyn.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Abby Brewster: Sybil Thorndike
   Teddy Brewster: Desmond Walter Ellis
   Dr Harper: Lewis Stringer
   Officer Brophy: David Valla
   Officer Klein: John Rye
   Martha Brewster: Athene Seyler
   Elaine Harper: Prunella Scales
   Mortimer Brewster: Dinsdale Landen
   Jonathan Brewster: Heron Carvic
   Dr Einstein: Gerald Cross
   Officer O'Hara: Alaric Cotter
   Lieutenant Rooney: Edward Kelsey
   Mr Witherspoon: Lockwood West
Repeated from 29th May 1971, 2nd September 1973
Repeated 11th October 1976, 28th May 1989


11th October 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: A Fine Country (1969) by Elizabeth Troop
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Sylvia Cass: Anna Massey
   George Cass: Peter Jeffrey
   Ambulanceman: Paul Meier
   Dr Desai: Madhav Sharma
   Nurse Robinson: Joan Matheson
   a child Sylvia: Annabelle Lanyon
   Stewardess: Nicolette McKenzie
   Buchanan: Douglas Blackwell
   Berit: Emily Richard
   Gregory Cass: Susan Thomas
   Second nurse: Terri Lang
   Huber: Jeffrey Segal
   Jo: Sarah Colding
   Mr Ingham: James Thomasom
   Nathan: Blain Fairman
   Maggie: Diana Olsson
   Stan: Clifford Norgate
Repeated 17th October 1976 and 17th December 1978


13th October 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Winner Takes the Kitty by R. D. Wingfield (1928-2007)
Produced by Anton Gill
   Kitty: Pat Ashton
   Stanley: Derek Francis
   Harry: Bob Hoskins
   George: Derek Deadman
   Johnny: Don McKillop
   Fred: Brian Croucher
   Sybil: Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated 20th October 1981


13th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Fugitives by Bruce Beeby (1921-2013) (based on the book Chain of Darkness (1962) by Kenneth Cook (1929-1987))
Australia: the time-the present.
Produced by Betty Davies
   The staff of Hunter TV:Ben Davidson and Nigel Anthony
   Jimmy Meredith: Bruce Beeby
   Rex Forster: Nigel Graham
   Prescott: Kevin Brennan
   Carl: Trader Faulkner
   Johnson, the fugitive: Kerry Francis
   Gwennie: Madi Hedd
   Inspector Osborne: Lloyd Lamble
   The father: Patrick Barr
   His Son: Judy Bennett
Also with Shirley Dixon, Peter Craze, John Rowe, Garard Green, Haydn Jones, Patrick Barr, Trader Faulkner


13th October 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook: (Radio Episode 115): The Beautiful Lady by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Rachel: Sandra Clark
   Willy: Gordon Gardner
   Mrs Carlisle: Katharine Page
   Mrs McPhee: Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated 15th October 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


14th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Steph and the Zero-Structured Lifestyle by Andrew Davies.
Produced by Roger Pine.
BBC Birmingham
   Steph Smith: Kate Crutchley
   Joe: Eric Allen
   Ben: Michael Harbour
   Headmaster: John Baddeley
   Restaurant manager: Saeed Jaffrey
   Upperclass lout: Terry Molloy
Also with Paul Henry, Elizabeth Revill, Esma Wilson, members of the fifth-year Drama Group of Droitwich High School


15th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Bitter Almond by Dave Simpson (/David Simpson)
Produced by Tony Cliff.
BBC Manchester
   Denise: Carole Turner
   Dora: Ann Aris
   Eddie: John Franklyn-Robbjns
   John: Paul Copley
   Brenda: Elisabeth Sladen
   Heppenstall: Brian Miller
   Denis: Christian Rodska
   Graham: Alun Bond
Repeated 20th January 1979


16th October 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Richard Gunn Show by David Hopkins
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Richard Gunn: Peter Whitman
   Arthur Driver: George Cole
   Liz: Jane Knowles
   Ted: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Eleanor: Shirley Dixon
   Dave: Kenneth McClellan
   Keith: Adam Bareham
Repeated 20th October 1976


16th October 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Holy Experiment by William Fox (1911-2008).
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   William Penn: Richard Pasco
   John Locke: 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
   Court clerk/Equerry: David Neal
   Recorder: David Graham
   Lord Mayor: Jeffrey Segal
   Foreman: Douglas Blackwell
   Colonel Aston: Walter Hall
   John Aubrey: Nigel Lambert
   Charles II: Brian Sanders
   Colonel Markham: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Taminent: Clifford Norgate
Repeated 18th October 1976 and 26th March 1978


17th October 1976
Festival at Farbridge by J B Priestley (1894-1984), adapted by Antony Kearsy.
Music arranged by David Fleming-Williams
Producer: Trevor Hill
BBC Manchester
1951.
1 of 9.
   Laura Casey: Anna Cropper
   Commodore Tribe: Jack Watson
   Madge Bulfoss: Rosalind Knight
   Major Bulfoss, MP for Farbridge: Graham Roberts
   Crandry: Alan Meadows
   Mrs Watson: Madeleine Vacher
   Captain Mobbs, the Conservative agent: Wilfred Harrison
   Hilda Saxon: Rosalie Williams
   Ernest, her husband: Andrew Jackson
   Grace: Valerie Skardon
   Colonel Whatmore: Donald Troedson
   Claudia Peck: Marah Stohl
Additional actors in parts 2-9:
Alan Rothwell, Anthony Wingate, Antony Kearey, Colin Bean, David Mahlowe, Diane Moran, Dickon Penny, Freda Jeffries, George Hagan, Gordon Chambers, Graham Tennant, Herbert Smith, James Tomlinson, Jo Kendall, Joan Anstey, John Baldwin, John Gillett, Lesley Nicol, Merle Kessler, Olive Pendleton, Paul Webster, Paula Tilbrook, Roger Grainger, Ronald Harvi, Tom Harrison, Tommy Boyle, Valerie Windsor
All parts repeated after two days.
Part 9 broadcast 12th December 1976


18th October 1976
20.00-21.00:
The Sacred Flame (1928) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by Peter Watts
A mystery.
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Maurice Tahret: John Graham
   Dr Harvester: Stephen Jack
   Mrs Tabret: Sybil Thorndike
   Nurse Wayland: Jill Balcon
   Alice: Jo Manning Wilson
   Major Liconda: Carleton Hobbs
   Stella Tabret: Pat Pleasance
   Colin Tabret: Denis Goacher
Repeated from 17th and 19th July 1965 and 2nd January 1966
[Also produced by Peter Watts in 1953]
[Also produced by Graham Gauld in 1989 with Wendy Hiller as Mrs Tabret]


20th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Twenty-One Days by Rachel Wyatt (1929-2024)
Produced by Liane Aukin
   Helen: Fiona Walker
   Shirley: Elizabeth Bell
   Ethel: Margery Withers
   Jack: Ronald Herdman
   Peter: Michael Harbour
   Tommy: Jane Knowles
   Vera: Annie Rosenfeld
   Passenger/Doctor: Walter Hall
   Pilot: David Graham
[Rachel Wyatt was from Bradford, and emigrated to Canada in 1957]


20th October 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook: (Radio Episode 116): Mother's Boy by Dick Sharples (1927-2015)
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Alistair: Gordon Gardner
   Mrs Murdoch: Kathleen Helme
   Jennie: Sheila Grant
   Fiona: Hazel McBride
   Mrs Baird: Shirley Dixon
Repeated 22nd October 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


21st October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Tale of Iron by Ken Miyamoto
Farewell to steam.
Train recordings supplied by Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK)
Harmonica played by Alfie Kahn
Produced by Christopher Venning
   the old man: John Barrett
   the young man: Barry Philips
   the girl: Miranda Bell
also with Clifford Norgate and Andrew Seear


22nd October 1976
15.05
Peace by Magda Szabo (1917-2007), translated by George Mikes
Director: Geza Varga, Hungarian Radio.
Producer: Martin Esslin
   Old Woman: Sybil Thorndike
    Agatha: Janet Suzman
    Gilta: Joan Matheson
    Gustaf: Duncan Mclntyre
    Feri: Leonard Felton
Repeated from 18th February 1969, 25th June 1969, 11th August 1972


23rd October 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Two Men from Derby by Barry Hines (1939-2016)
1930.
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Freda: Sharon Duce
   Joe: Colin Edwynn
   George: Bernard Gallagher
   Winnie: Juliet Cooke
   Stanley: Charles Booth
Repeated 27th October 1976 and 24th January 1978.
[The play was first broadcast on BBC2 TV on 21st February 1976 in which Charles Booth played Stanley]
[Barry Hines played football for the England Grammar Schools team (and trialled for Manchester United) and worked for the National Coal Board.]


23rd October 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Body on the Heath by Bill Lyons
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Sgt Mann: Walter Hall
   PC Jackson: Michael Harbour
   Det-Sgt Vogel: Douglas Livingstone
   Maureen Vogel: Diana Bishop
   Pathologist/Mr Simon: Bruce Purchase
   Det-Supt Fraser: Nigel Hawthorne
   Hairdresser/Waiter/Car park attendant: Alan Dudley
   Laura Holland: Colette O'Neil
   Annie Viccars: Valerie Murray
   Eric Hills: Christopher Bidmead
   David Simon: Steven Pacey
also with Michael Tudor Barnes and Irene Sucliffe
Repeated 25th October 1976
[Also broadcast on R4X 2021]
[The characters Vogel and Fraser also appeared in "Background"(29th January 1983) and "Sins of the Father"(22nd September 1979) ]


25th October 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Under the Wool by David Pownall (1938-2022)
Oil.
Produced Alfred Bradley.
BBC Manchester
   Harry Calder: Jack Carr
   Jane Calder: Janet Dale
   Stan/Chairman: Peter John
   Bert: Alan Rothwell
   Stella: Valerie Georgeson
   Cindy: Jenny Oulton
   Mrs Kelp: Paula Tilbrook
   Gordon: Harry Beety
   First rustler/Policeman: Andrew Tourell
Repeated 31st October 1976


27th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Priest and the President by Michael Kittermaster
Africa.
Produced by Betty Davies
   Robert Lubasi: Alton Kumalo
   Father Moyo: Willie Jonah
   Father Duval: Carleton Hobbs
   Major Kawinga: Louis Mahoney
   Edward Chanda: Tommy Eytle


27th October 1976
18.15:
Doctor Finlay's Casebook: (Radio Episode 117): A Liberated Woman by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Jennie: Elizabeth Proud
   Fraser: John Dunbar
   Mrs Campbell: Irene Sutcliffe
Repeated 29th October 1976
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


28th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Bird has Flown by Jim Crace
Produced by Michael Rolfe.
BBC Birmingham
   PC Snell: Terry Molloy
   Inspector Mabbot: Garard Green
   Sgt Hook: John Baddeley
   WPC Drew: Patricia Gallimore
   Charles Sydney 'Cuckoo' Clock: Tony McEwan
   Desk Sgt/PC Smith: Alan Devereux
   Insp Wheeler/Howard: Ronald Baddiley
   Mrs Clock: Joy Stewart
[Unrelated to the 1978 rptd 1980 radio play of the same name by Grant C Eustace]


29th October 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Where is This Here Building - By What Route Do I Get There? by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Producer Alan Ayckbourn.
BBC Manchester (1972: Leeds).
   Ronnie: Christopher Martin
   Sergeant: David Mahlowe
   Ginger: Ronald Herdman
   Tony: Paul Webster
   Surveyor: Leonard Fenton
   Janey: Stephanie Turner
   Superintendent: David Butler
   Town Clerk: Roy Barraclough
Repeated from 5th September 1970 and 8th December 1972


30th October 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Little Domestic Disaster by Gordon Ruttan
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Vivian: Sylvia Coleridge
   Diana, her daughter: Jo Manning Wilson
   Diana's husband, Rob: Michael Harbour
   Diana's friend, Carol: Shirley Dixon
   Mrs Cunning-Sherrat: Margot Boyd
   Mrs Bell: Joan Matheson
   Michael: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Virginia: Jane Knowles
   Bill: Walter Hall
Repeated 3rd November 1976


30th October 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Crown Matrimonial (1972) by Royce Ryton (1924-2009)
London 1936.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   Queen Mary: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
   Mabell, Countess of Airlie: Rachel Kempson
   The Hon Margaret Wyndham: Hilda Schroder
   King Edward VIII, David: Peter Barkworth
   The Princess Royal, Mary: Rosalind Shanks
   The Duchess of Gloucester: Alice Deborah Paige
   Walter Monckton, KC: Peter Howell
   The Duchess of York- Elizabeth: Jane Wenham
   The Duke of York- Bertie: Martin Jarvis
   Queen's Page: Anthony Smee
   Narrator: Alvar Lidell
Repeated from 25th December 1975
Repeated 1st November 1976, 7th December 1996
[Peter Barkworth also played Edward VIII in the initial West End production]


1st November 1976
19.30:
The Monday Play: Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) translated by Brian Hooker
Music composed and conducted by Steve Race
France, 17th Century.
Produced by John Powell. ..
   Cyrano de Bergerac: Ralph Richardson
   Roxane: Jane Wenham
   Christian: Tim Seely
   De Guiche: Patrick Barr
   Le Bret: Hector Ross
   Ragueneau: Haroid Kasket
   The Duenna: Anna Burden
   Ligniere: Eric Anderson
   De Valvert/Cadet: Michael McClain
   The Citizen: Humphrey Morton
   Capt de Castel-Jaloux: Douglas Hankin
   The Son: Nigel Anthony
   Montfleury: Michael Kilgarriff
   Jodelet/Cadet: Peter Marinker
   Cuigy/Cadet: Wilfred Babbage
   Brissaille: Nigel Graham
   Mother Marguerite: Valerie Taylor
   Sister Marthe: Noel Hood
   Sister Claire: Hilda Schroder
   Cadets: Geoffrey Matthews, Kevin McHugh, Basil Jones.
Also with Anthony Hall
Repeated from 4th July 1966 (Home); 8th December 1967 (R3); 20th August 1973 (R4)
Repeated 31st December 1990
[Other productions: year/network/producer/actor playing Cyrano:
1996 rptd 1998/R4/Hilary Norrish/Alex Norton
2008/R3/Nicolas Soames/Kenneth Branagh
2015/R4/Susan Roberts/Tom Burke (rpt R4X) ]


3rd November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Forty is a Dangerous Age, Arnold by T. D. Webster
Produced by 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


4th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Mrs Bleasdale's Lodger by Rachel Billington
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   The Lodger: Geoffrey Banks
   Hestor Francis: Susan Sydney
   Tom Francis: Mark Sheridan
   Sandy Bleasdale: Paul Webster


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


6th November 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Astronaut by Allen Harbinson
Produced by Gerry Jones
   Narrator: John Rowe
   Astronaut: Blain Fairman
   Woman: Liza Ross
Repeated from 6th July 1972


6th November 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: The Man In the Dark (1928) by John Ferguson (1871-1952), dramatized by Gwen Cherrell
Cornet player: Graham Whiting
Produced by John Cardy
   Kinloch: Robert Trotter
   Stella: Karin Fernald
   Chance: Christopher Scoular
   McNab: Kenneth McClellan
   Beaumont: Haydn Jones
   Matheson: Douglas Blackwell
   Ponsonby Paget: David Bird
   Man in the fog: Jeffrey Segal
   London pc/Sgt Howley: Walter Hall
   Dr Dunn: Peter Craze
   Cab driver: Andrew Seear
   Sir Stephen Ware: Malcolm Gerard
   Insp Green: Malcolm Reid
   Insp Snargrove: David Graham
   Mrs Spedding: Shirley Dixon
   Solicitor: James Thomason
   Tolputt: Michael Harbour
Repeated 8th November 1976
[The character of McNab was used in several books by Ferguson, the last was Death of Mr Dodsley (1937). This was the only one transferred to a radio play.]


7th November 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet by Henry Reed
Music composed by Donald Swann
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
   Hilda Tablet, a composeress: Mary O'Farrell
   Herbert Reeve, a scholar: Hugh Burden
   Stephen Shewin/Reuben Cobb: Carleton Hobbs
   Janet / Connie: Gwen Cherrell
   Elsa Strauss, a singer: Marjorie Westbury
   Sir Eric Tablet, Hilda's father: Norman Shelley
   Lady Tablet, Hilda's mother: Susan Richmond
   Duke of Mulset: Frank Duncan
   Duchess of Mulset: Diana Maddox
   Rector of Mull Extrinseca: Deryck Guyler
   Nancy Shewin: Dorothy Primrose
   Owen: Denis Quilley
   Brian: Wilfrid Downing
   George: Marjorie Westbury
   Miss Welbeck/ Mrs Pitney: Vivienne Chatterton
   Harold Reith, a librettist: Frank Duncan
   R Egerton Bunningfleld: Norman Shelley
   Roger Cloud, a male composer: Deryck Guyler
Repeated from R3: 24th and 26th May 1954; 23rd August 1954; 9th November 1954; 20th February 1958; 27th December 1961; 7th March 1969
Repeated 9th June 1987.
[Hilda Tablet can be heard again on 14th November 1976- see below]


10th November 1976:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Peck and Call by J. P. Bean
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
   Charlie: Geoffrey Banks
   Violet: Jane Lowe
   Jackpot Jones: Sam Kelly
   Long John: Leonard Fenton


11th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Darkened Schoolroom by T. D. Webster
Produced by Harry Catlin
   Martin Chapman: John Pullen
   Jill Chapman: Jane Wenham
   Bob Kingsley: Garard Green
   Molly Kingsley: Anne Jameson
   Andrew Smith: Michael Deacon
   Mr Green: Peter Woodthorpe
   Mr Watson: Michael Shannon
   Mrs Watson: Madi Hedd
Repeated from 3rd July 1975


12th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Post-Mortem (1930) by Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Were the deaths of WW1 worth it?
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   John Cavan: Christopher Cazenove
   Perry Lomas: Derek Fowlds
   Sir James Cavan: William Fox
   Lady Cavan: Joyce Carey
   Shaw: Charles Hodgson
   Tilley: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Babe Robins: Peter Settelen
   Monica Chellerton: Nicolette McKenzie
   Kitty Harris: Jane Knowles
   Eggie Brace: Leslie Heritage
   Bertie Chellerton: William Eedle
   Alfred Borrow: Haydn Jones
   Miss Beayer: Irene Sutcliffe
   Lady Stagg-Mortimer: Joan Matheson
   Bishop of Ketchworth: James Thomason
   Sir Henry Merstham: Preston Lockwood
Repeated 13th July 1985


13th November 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Echoes by Arthur Kelly
Produced by Robert Cooper
BBC Manchester
   Ada: Eileen Derbyshire
   Wilf as an old man: Ronald Herdman
   Les/Landlord: David Jackson
   Mam/Annie Sissons: Eileen O'Brien
   Billie/Billie Sissons: Reg Farrier
   Uncle Mikey: Peter Wheeler
   Wilf a young man: Russell Dixon


13th November 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Some Distant Star by David H. Godfrey
A bishop of all people!
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   John Wardale: Manning Wilson
   Gwendoline Wardale: Joan Matheson
   Rosemary Wardale: Sandra Clark
   Rex Mulligan: Nigel Lambert
   Betty Mulligan: Joanna Wake
   Patrick Mulligan: Allan McClelland
   Airport girl/Shop assistant: Jill Shilling
   Stranger/Mr Redfern: Paul Meier
   Dr Mclntyre/The Bishop: Simon Lack
   Professor of theology/Air-line Captain: Lewis Stringer
   Lecturer/Policeman: Alan Reid
Repeated 15th November 1976


14th November 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Primal Scene, as It were.... by Henry Reed
Flamenco singers: Marjorie Westbury and Denis Quilley .
Guitarist: Freddie Phillips
Music composed by Donald Swann
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
   Herbert Reeve, a scholar: Hugh Burden
   Hilda Tablet, a composeress: Mary O'Farrei.
   Evelyn Baxter, her secretary: Colin Campbell
   Elsa Strauss / George: Marjorie Westbury
   General Gland: Deryck Guyler
   Nancy Shewin: Dorothy Primrose
   Janet / Connie: Gwen Cherrell
   Owen: Denis Quilley
   Brian: Wilfrid Downing
   Stephen Shewin: Carleton Hobbs
   Captain Smithers/ Plankton: Frank Duncan
   Aeschylus Aphanisis a millionaire: Harold Lang
Repeated from R3 11th and 14th March 1958; 18th September 1958; 18th September 1962; 8th October 1969
Repeated R3 on 1st January 1988
[The characters in this play appeared in several radio plays by Henry Reed.]


15th November 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: The Streets of Pompeii by Henry Reed
Music by Anthony Smith-Masters
Solo clarinet: Sidney Fell
Orchestra directed by Patrick Savill
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
   The Sibyl: Flora Robson
   The Traveller: Marius Goring
   Francesca: Rosalind Shanks
   Attilio: Carlo Cura
   The Lizard: Carleton Hobbs
   Judy: Hilda Kriseman
   Margery: Deborah Dallas
   Bill: Derek Seaton
   Walter: David Spenser
   Professor MacBride: Frank Duncan
   Professor MacFarlane: John Laurie
   The Guide: Hector Ross
   The Merchant: Godfrey Kenton
   His Wife: Kathleen Helme
   An Old Man: Malcolm Hayes
Repeated from R3: 20th February and 24th May 1970
(1976 was a shortened repeat of the 1970 production on Radio 3)
Also repeated on R3 on 4th March 1980
[Also produced by Douglas Cleverdon on R3 in 1952 rptd 1953, 1955, 1956 with Robert Rietty as Attillo and Gwen Cherrell as Francesca]


17th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Clovis in the Country by Colin Tucker (based on some of Saki's short stories - ( Saki = H H Munro 1870-1916) )
Produced by David Spenser
   Clovis Sangrail: Ronald Pickup
   Betty Coulterneb: Angela Pleasence
   Rex Dillot: John Rowe
   Mrs Olston: Gwen Cherrell
   Morton Lanner: William Eedle
   Teresa Thundleford: Mary Wimbush
   Bertie van Tahn: Steve Hodson
   Hugo Peterby: Andrew Seear
   Strinnit: Marcus Campbell
   Miss Schmidt, the governess: Hilda Kriseman
Repeated 17th February 1979 and 9th February 1985


18th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Gossamer Syndrome by Emery Bonett (Felicity W Carter 1906-1995)
Slimming.
Produced by David H. Godfrey
   Sheila Scott: Irene Sutcliffe
   Lindi: Jill Shilling
   Sir Geoffrey MacNab: Henry Stamper
   Nicola, his daughter: Kate Gielgud
   Francis Gribble: Douglas Blackwell
   Toni Bland: Michael Harbour
   Marion Blake: Shirley Dixon
   Switchboard operator: Jane Knowles
   Beryl: Anne Rosenfeld
   Chairwoman: Joan Matheson


19th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Dustbin Days by Peter Silcock
Produced by Tony Cliff.
BBC Manchester
   Jane: Carole Hayman
   Alfred: Christopher Godwin
   Alice: Rosalind Knight
   Carol: Janet Dale
   Alan: Alan Rothwell
   Dad: Paul Webster


20th November 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Footprints in the Sand by Denis Constanduros (1910-1978)
Produced and directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Robin: Alan Moore
   Miss French: Judy Cornwell
   a boy Robin: Jonathan Scott-Taylor
   Mother: Irene Sutcliffe
   Father: Haydn Jones
   David: Christopher Morris
   Keith: Peter Craze


20th November 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Celebration by Keith Waterhouse (1929-2009) and Willis Hall (1929-2005)
Produced by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Edgar Lucas: Ronald Baddiley
   Rhoda Lucas: Lorraine Peters
   Irene Howes: Gwen Taylor
   Arthur Broadbent: George A. Cooper
   Bernard Fuller: Alan Rothwell
   Alice Fuller: Dinah Handley
   Lilian Howes: Rosalie Williams
   Christine Lucas: Janet Dale
   Edna Fuller: Eileen Derbyshire
   Frank Broadbent: Colin Edwynn
   Lionel Fuller: David Threlfall
   Margo Fuller: Margot Leicester
   Stan Dyson: John Wheatley
   May Beckett: Judith Barker
   Sgt-Maj Tommy Lodge: Geoffrey Banks
Repeated 22nd November 1976
[First presented as a theatrical play with excerpts on tv in 1961, then a BBC tv play in 1965]


22nd November 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: An Example of a Human Life by Jeffrey Segal (1920-2015)
With the choir of the London, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Congregation at Bevis Marks. Shofar blown by Sam Dias
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Ufriel da Costa: John Hurt
   Father Manoel: Timothy Bateson
   Man/Stallholder: Leonard Fenton
   Sara da Costa: Elizabeth Spriggs
   Rabbi Saul Morteira/Enrico Capucci: David Swift
   Jacob da Silva: Douglas Blackwell
   Mordechai: Christopher Bidmead
   Abraham: Peter Craze
   Joseph/David: Judy Bennett
   Rachel: Patricia Gallimore
   Aaron: Steve Hodson
   Samuel da Silva: Tim Wylton
   Miriam: Marian Diamond
   Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel: Geoffrey Beevers
   Rabbi Isaac Aboab: John Bennett
   Diego de Mattos: Phillp Voss
   Rodrigo de Castro: Alan Rowe
   Gracia Mendes: Thelma Whiteley
   Rabbi Athias Miguel Sanchez: Neville Jason
Repeated 28th November 1976


24th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Renaissance Man by John Lloyd Fraser
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Dr John Mallory: John Rowe
   Professor Douglas Porter: William Eedle
   Dr Peter Gilpin: Jeffrey Segal
   Frank Moon: Michael Harbour
   Eve Mallory: Nicolette McKenzie
   Chris: Paul Meier
   Pete: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Duggie: Steve Hodson
   Alan: Christopher B1dmead
   Helen: Anne Rosenfeld
   Student: Jane Knowles
Also with Peter Craze, Terri Lang and Walter Hall


25th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Maltese Cat (1895) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) adapted by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
Polo in India, 1890.
Producer: Glyn Dearman
   Rudyard Kipling: Sean Barrett
   Lutyens: Andrew Seear
   Powell: Blain Fairman
   Hughes: Geoffrey Collins
   Archangel Captain: Jonathan Scott
   Maltese Cat: Douglas Blackwell
   Shiraz: Graham Ashley
   Kittywink: Jo Manning Wilson
   Polaris: Rod 8eacham
   Corks: Malcolm Garard
   Who's Who: Kerry Francis
[The British reintroduced polo to India in 1863 (possibly 1850)- just 32 years before this story was written.]


25th November 1976
20.00-20.45
The Hon and the Rebel by Jessica Mitford (1917-1996), adapted by Lionel W Bailey.
Producer: Maurice Leitch
   Jessica Mitford: Sarah Badel
   Esmond Romilly: Geoffrey Beevers
Also with Nigel Graham, Michael Harbour, Edward Kelsey, Denis McCarthy, David Brierley, Joan Matheson and Daphne Rogers
[The book title was Hons and Rebels (1960) ]


26th November 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Behind the Spearmint Sign by Nicholas Palmer
Harry Thole is a private detective.
Produced by Cherry Cookson
   Harry Thole: Joe Melia
   Helen Burroway: Sheila Grant
   Jenny: Katherine Parr
   Hooker: Jeffrey Segal
   Maxine/Misg Craddock: Shirley Dixon
   George: William Eedle
   Liz: Anne Rosenfeld
   Waiter: James Thomason
[The play was previously on ITV in 1971. The Wrigley's advert could be seen for many years in Piccadilly Circus. Now there is just a multi-advert large LED screen.]


27th November 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Mr Jessop and The Devil by J. C. W. Brook
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   Mr Jessop: John Hollis
   The Devil: Peter Woodthorpe
   The Secretary: Mary Wimbush
Repeated 1st December 1976


27th November 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Crocodile by Graham England
Yvette Marson set out for Japan
Produced 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
   Father O'Halloran: Allan McClelland
   Jack Hennessey: Leslie Heritage
Also with Douglas Blackwell, Walter Hall, Shirley Dixon and Anne Rosenfeld
Repeated 29th November 1976


29th November 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Animals in the Zoo by Gale Houston
Produced By: Liane Aukin
   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 5th December 1976 and 10th September 1978


1st December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Festival by Roger Milner (1925-2014)
The Annual Festival of Music and Drama in the little market town of Boreston.
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Henry Dawson: Manning Wilson
   Mr Treece, clerk: Terry Molloy
   Mrs Claudia Coles: Diana Bishop
   Bill, schoolmaster: Ray Llewellyn
   Mr Hood, solicitor: David Pinner
   Nobby, electrician: Peter Gordon
   Richard Pelham, artistic director: Alexander John
   Tanya Pelham, designer: Caroline Hunt
   Nora, housewife: Jo Manning Wilson
   Colonel Blakeney, of the district council: Jack Holloway


2nd December 1976
15.05:
The Ship that Found Herself (1895) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) adapted by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Rudyard Kipling: Sean Barrett
   Captain: Simon Lack
   Mr Buchanan: Peter Pratt
   Mr Frazier: Norman Shelley
   Miss Frazier: Jane Knowles
   Foreman Shipwright: Peter Howell
   Sandy: Fraser Kerr
also with Douglas Blackwell, Geoffrey Collins, Peter Craze, William Eedle, Walter Hall, Adam Richardson and Peter Settelen


3rd December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Siege by William Andrew
Produced by Gordon Emslie
BBC Scotland
   Matt: Finlay Welsh
   Helen: Joanna Tope
   Clem: Paul Young
   Rena: Gwyneth Guthrie


4th December 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Small Monet by Eric Saward
Police corruption
Produced by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Detective Inspector Rough: Frederick Treves
   Detective-Sergeant Binns: Ralph Lawton
   Jenny: Eva Haddon
   Robert: Roger Hume
   Constable: Kenneth Hadley
Repeated 8th December 1976


4th December 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Henrietta by William Smethurst (1945-2016)
1682
Produced by Roger Pine
BBC Birmingham
   Henrietta: Elizabeth Cassidy
   Lord Grey: Edward Fox
   Lady Lucy Berkeley: Patricia Gallimore
   Lady Arabella Berkeley: Heidi Niklaus
   Lady Berkeley: Penelope Shaw
   Swynford, a printer: Geoffrey Matthews
   Becky: Caroline Hunt
   Lord Berkeley: Peter Dyneley
   Charnock: John Malcolm
   Purcell/Mr Turner: Richard Carrington
   Gadbury, an astrologer/Captain Fitz-Gerrard.: Roger Hume
   Lord Chief Justice: Jack Holloway
   Mr Serj Jefferies: George Woolley
Repeated 6th December 1976
[William Smethurst had a daughter- called Henrietta]


5th December 1976
22.15-22.54
On a Day in Summer in a Garden by Don Haworth (1924-2007)
Produced by Richard Wortley
   Dick Dock: Colin Blakely
   Jim Dock: Geoffrey Banks
   Jack Dock: Julie Hallam
   The Man: Malcolm Hayes
   The Woman: Carole Boyd
Repeated from R3, 19th August 1975, 2nd May 1976


8th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: An Ergonomist about the House by John Pores
Produced by Shaun MacLoughlin
   Brenda: Norma Ronald
   Harry: Bryan Pringle
   Norman: John Rows
   Clare: Elizabeth Proud
   Arthur: Timothy Bateson
   Mr Banbury: David Graham
   Policeman: William Eedle
   Margaret: Sheila Gayer
   James: Crispian Thorne


9th December 1976
15.05:
A Walking Delegate (1894) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) adapted by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
Vermont, 1890s.
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Rudyard Kipling: Sean Barrett
   B.B: Blain Fairman
   The Deacon: Noel Howlett
   Rod: Peter Woodthorpe
   Rick: Ronald Baddiley
   Nip: Paul Meier
   Muldoon: David March
   Tweezy: Malcolm Reid
   Marcus: Gerald Cross
   Bony: Henry Stamper
   Tedda: Irene Sutcliffe
   Tuck: Jill Simcox


10th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Handsome Hubert by Rita Zimmer translated by Jane Brenton
Produced by Martin Esslin
   Katherina: Carole Boyd
   Kurt: John Pullen
   Susanna: Annabelle Lanyon
   Old Man: Timothy Bateson
[The only play by Rita Zimmer listed in the BBC Programme Database]


11th December 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: PM In the Morning by David Marshall
We will go forward together, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, tongue in cheek, back to front....
Produced by David Spenser
   the Prime Minister: Michael Denison
   Hangar: Cyril Shaps
   Doorman: Andrew Seear
   Esperanza: Norma Ronald
   Edna: Gudrun Ure
Repeated 15th December 1976


11th December 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: For Old Times' Sake by Max Williams
Produced by Tony Cliff
BBC Manchester
   Molly: Janet Dale
   Simms: Paul Webster
   Editor: Harry Beety
   Foster: Christian Rodska
   Mrs Wallace: Lorraine Peters
   Freistadler: David Mahlowe
   Breitner: John Franklyn-Robbins
Repeated 13th December 1976


12th December 1976
14.30:
Afternoon Theatre: The Hideous Silence by Michael Robson
Northern India: 1885
Produced by David Spenser
   Allan Reece: John Pullen
   Alice Laker: Jane Wenham
   Gus Laker: Lockwood West
   Captain Fairfax: Michael Cochrane
   Letty Fairfax: Judy Bennett
   Flora Bellew: Julie Hallam
   Dr Kitson: Hugh Dickson
   Prince Louis Napoleon: Steve Hodson
   Colonel Harrison: Peter Williams
   Colonel Glyn: Malcolm Hayes
   Corporal Grubb: Anthony Smee
   Le Tocq: Leslie Heritage
Repeated from 29th November 1975 and 1st December 1975


13th December 1976
20.00
A Passage to India (1924) by E M Forster (1879-1970), adapted for the stage (1960) by Santha Rama Rau (1923-2009), further adapted for tv (1965) and radio by John Maynard
Producer: Graham Gauld
   Dr Aziz: Zia Mohyeddin
   Mrs Moore: Sybil Thorndike
   Mr Fielding: Frank Duncan
   Rajit: Leroy Lingwood
   Adela Quested: Jill Balcon
   Professor Godbole: Garard Green
   Ronny Heaslop: Geoffrey Matthews
   Mrs Turton: Betty Hardy
   Mrs Callendar: Anna Burden
   Mrs Lesley: Beth Boyd
   Mrs McBryde: Gwen Day Burroughs
   Mrs Burton: Marjorie Forsyth
   Mr Burton: Wilfred Babbage
   Maj Callendar: Geoffrey Wincott
   Mr Turton: Carleton Hobbs
   Mr McBryde: Duncan McIntyre
   Mr Hamidullah: Victor Lucas
   Mr Das: Brian Hewlett
   Mr Amritrao: Saeed Jaffrey
Repeated from 7th August 1967, 30th December 1968
Repeated 19th December 1976
[Sybil Thorndyke played Mrs Moore, and Zia Mohyeddin played Dr Aziz in the BBC TV version of 1965]


15th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: In the Shadow in the Sun by Alan Williams
Produced by Bernard Krichefski
   James: Anthony Hall
   Father: Gerald James
   Gillian: Annabel Leventon
   Marged: Joan Matheson
   Robinson: Ronald Baddiley
   Annie: Mary Wimbush
   Attendant: Douglas Blackwell


16th December 1976
15.05:
The Bridge Builders (1898) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) adapted by A. R. Rawlinson (1894-1984)
India, 1890s.
Produced by Glyn Dearman
   Rudyard Kipling: Sean Barrett
   Findlayson: John Pullen
   Hitchcock: Leslie Heritage
   Peroo: Madhav Sharma
   Guru: Garard Green
   Rao of Baraon: Sam Dastor
   Mother Gunga: Jane Hylton
   Shiva: Peter Pratt
   Hanuman: Andrew Sachs
   Kali: Shirley Dixon
   Ganesh: Jack May
   Indra: John Rye
   Krishna: Malcolm Reid


17th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Father Christmas by J. C. W. Brook
Produced by Christopher Venning
   Rafe: Christopher Cazenove
   Sue: Rosalind Shanks
   Alec: Christopher Scoular
   Christopher: Simon Richmond
   Inspector Pait: Neville Jason
   Judge: William Eedle
   PC Jennings: Anton Philips
Also with Andrew Seear
[Also broadcast on R4X 2023]


18th December 1976
15.05:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Princess and the Plumber by Royce Ryton (1924-2009)
Produced by Gerry Jones
   The Princess: Pauline Letts
   The Plumber: Henry Stamper
Repeated from 19th April 1972


18th December 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Colder than of Late by Ken Whitmore
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Sarah Minshull: Judith Barker
   Norman Minshull/George Sarum: Russell Dixon
   Martha Murrain: Sheila Price
   Det Supt Baxter: John Franklyn-Robbins
   Peter/Sgt Titus: John Jardine
   Stanley Grinton: Harry Beety
   Rev Arthur Sinico: Ronald Herdman
   Charlotte Perigorde/Susan Sarum: Heather Stoney
   Dr Dunsany/Rose: Bonnie Hurren
Repeated 20th December 1976, 7th May 1979


19th December 1976:
15.05:
The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Dramatised by Mary Hope Allen
1 of 2
Venice. Writing a biography.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
   The Biographer: Alec McCowen
   The Misses Bordereau: Anna Cropper and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
   Mrs Prest: Irene Sutcliffe
   Pasquale: Andrew Seear
   Olimpia: Anne Rosenfeld
Part 2: 26th December 1976
Both parts were repeated after two days.
[Other productions: Year/Producer/actor playing Story teller
1951/Mary Hope Allen/Harold Ayer
1968 rptd 1971/Douglas Cleverdon/Robert Harris
1997/Janet Whitaker/James Laurenson
2018/Gary Brown/Zubin Varla]


20th December 1976
20.00:
The Monday Play: Frost at Midnight by Andre Obey, translated by Warren Tute and adapted by David Pinner
1499, the usual local Nativity Play is due.
Produced by Michael Rolfe
BBC Birmingham
   Blackwill, the nightwatchman: Chris Gittins
   George Bradshaw, blacksmith/The Ox: Peter Dyneley
   John Greene apprentice clerk/The Ass: Peter Craze
   Scott, a tailor/First Shepherd: Alaric Cotter
   Dodger, a butcher/Second Shepherd: Paul Moriarty
   Lowell, a carpenter/Third Shepherd: Eric Allan
   Hodge, a cobbler/Joseph: Roger Hume
   Alice/The Virgin Mary: Illona Linthwaite
   Goodlack, the inn-keeper: Don Henderson
Repeated 24th December 1990
[First presented by the BBC on tv in 1957 in which Chris Gittins played Hodge]


22nd December 1976:
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: In This Stable, adapted and translated by Dorothy Baker, adapted from The Ox and the Ass by Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)
The first nights of Christianity.
Music composed by Richard Yeoman-Clark of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by Patricia Brent
   Virgin: Rosalind Shanks
   Joseph: William Eedle
   Ox: Norman Shelley
   Ass: Malcolm Hayes
   Storyteller: Jill Balcon


22nd December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: A Family Sort of Thing by Janet Howorth
Produced by Margaret Etall
   Roderick Pilkington: Frank Duncan
   Pamela, his wife: Maggie Riley
   Felicity: Jane Knowles
   Peter: Peter Craze
   Sue: Susan Colgrave
   Cyril, his father: Brian Haines
   Maud, his aunt: Bay White
   Cora, his mother-in-law: Mary Wimbush
   Bill, Felicity's boyfriend: Malcolm Reid
   Mick, an ex-wrestler: Andrew Seear
   Driver/Policeman: Rod Beacham


23rd December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The House at Rainbow's End by Graham Blackett
Produced by Patricia Brent
   Richard: Richard O'Callaghan
   Amanda: Nicolette McKenzie
   Sergeant Lewis: Michael Goldie
   Carter: David Graham
   Inspector Fry: Peter Howell
   PC Tewitt: Timothy Bateson
   Milkman: Michael Harbour
   PC: Geoffrey Collins


24th December 1976
23.00-23.30:
The Dog by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), translated by Constance Garnett adapted by Peter Fozzard
A ghost story.
Producer Peter Novis
   The Hussar: Timothy West
   Guest: Marcus Campbell
   Civil servant: Nigel Graham
   Manservant: Peter Craze
   Neighbour: Malcolm Reid
   Lady: Carole Boyd
[Also broadcast on R4X 2025]


25th December 1976
15.00:
Afternoon Theatre: The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett dramatised by Barry Campbell
When treated badly he buys the business...
Produced by Jane Morgan
   Theodore Racksole: Peter Vaughan
   Jules: Philip Bond
   Miss Spencer: Shirley Dixon
   Nella Racksole: Angela Pleasence
   Felix Babylon: Hugh Dickson
   Rocco: John Hollis
   Reginald Dimmock: David Savile
   Prince Aribert of Posen: Simon Cadell
   Smethers: Alan Lawrance
   Sampson Levi: Christopher Benjamin
   The Grand Duke Eugen of Posen: Andrew Seear
   Hans: Tim Wylton
   Hazell: Michael Goldie
Also with Alison Frazer, Douglas Blackwell, William Eedle, Leslie Heritage


25th December 1976
18.45-19.30:
Dr Finlay's Casebook (Radio Episode 118): A Sentimental Tale by Donald Bull
Producer: Edward Taylor
   Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
   Janet: Barbara Mullen
   Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
   Calder: Alastair Hunter
   Maggie: Elizabeth Proud
   Reid: Gordon Clyde
   McDougal: David Strong
Repeated 28th December 1976 and 25th December 1985
[Characters created by A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) - Cronin was a GP.]
[Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart - who Cronin had granted the tv rights to.]


25th December 1976
20.30:
Saturday-Night Theatre: Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989), adapted by Cynthia Pughe
Pianist: Mary Nash
Produced by Graham Gauld
   Mrs Danvers: Flora Robson
   Maxim de Winter: Richard Pasco
   Mrs de Winter: Jane Asher
   Jack Favell: Charles Hodgson
   Frank Crawley: Paul Meier
   Beatrice Lacy: Joan Matheson
   Major Lacy: Douglas Blackwell
   Col Julyan: Jeffrey Segal
   Tabb: William Eedle
   Frith: Denis McCarthy
   Robert: Michael Tudor Barnes
Repeated from 21st March 1977


26th December 1976
14.30-16.00:
Afternoon Theatre: Toad of Toad Hall (1929) by A. A. Milne (1882-1956), adapted from The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Music: Harold Fraser-Simson (1872-1944) arranged for this production by Peter Hope
Produced by Martin Jenkins
   Marigold: Tina Heath
   Nurse: Diana Bishop
   Mole: Richard Goolden
   Rat: Bernard Cribbins
   Badger: Cyril Luckham
   Toad: Derek Smith
   Alfred: Brian Haines
   Chief Weasel: William Fox
   Chief Stoat: Fraser Kerr
   Chief Ferret: William Sleigh
   Judge: Hugh Paddick
   Usher: Terry Scully
   Policeman: Ronald Herdman
   Phoebe: Kate Binchy
   Washerwoman: Jo Manning Wilson
   Frightened Ferret: Sam Dastor
   Brave Weasel: Nigel Graham
   Duck: John Forrest
   Turkey: Andrew Rivers
Repeated from: 21st and 23rd April 1973
Repeated: 1st January 1979, 31st August 1981, 26th December 1990


26th December 1976
22.10-23.00:
Money with Menaces by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
London in the late 1930s.
Produced by Iain MacLoughlin
   Andrew Carruthers: Hugh Burden
   Mr Poland: Peter Jeffrey
   McPherson: Fraser Kerr
   Miss Rough/Mrs Sanderson: Patricia Leventon
   Miss Moyna Carruthers Darts girl/Woman on the telephone: Carole Boyd
   Shopkeeper/Club porter: Timothy Bateson
   Bank clerk: Jonathan Scott
   Hilliard: William Eedle
   Mrs Carruthers: Betty Baskoomb
[Other productions: year/producer/actor playing McPherson:
1952/E J King Bull/Duncan McIntyre
1956/Martyn C Webster/Ian Sadler
1976 rptd 2004, 2006/Richard Wortley/Joe Dunlop]
[Commissioned in 1937, many pre-1950 productions.]
[Unrelated to the story of this name by Frederick Forsyth]


27th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925), by Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) adapted by Antony Kearey
Trumpet: John Wilbraham; flute: George Crozier; bass drum: Anne Collis
Dance music by John Wilbraham.
Produced by Betty Davies
   Charles Harkness: Peter Marinker
   Frances Prentice: Norma Ronald
   Peter Prentice: Antony Kearey
   David Dunbar: Martin Jarvis
   Jabez: Geoffrey Matthews
   Hesther: Caroline John
   Herrick: John Rye
   Mabel: Carole Boyd
   Crispin: David March
   Gideon: Basil Jones
   Geoffrey: Sion Probert
   Tamsin: Emily Richard
Repeated from 4th and 6th January 1975


27th December 1976
18.15-18.45:
What Ho! Jeeves- The Ordeal of Young Tuppy (1930) by P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), adapted by Chris Miller
Producer: Simon Brett
   Jeeves: Michael Hordern
   Bertie Wooster: Richard Briers
   Aunt Dahlia: Vivian Pickles
   Tuppy Glossop: Stephen Moore
Repeated 29th December 1976


27th December 1976
20.30:
The Monday Play: Design for Living (1932) by Noel Coward (1899-1973), edited by Guy Vaesen
Menage a Trois.
Produced by Ian Cotterell
   Gilda: Anna Massey
   Otto: John Rye
   Leo: Martin Jarvis
   Ernest: John Rowe
   Grace: Irene Sutcliffe
   Henry: David Graham
   Helen: Nicolette McKenzie
Repeated from 2nd January 1977
Repeated 30th December 1983
[Also produced for R3 in 1991, rptd 1992, by Ned Chaillet with Alex Jennings as Otto.]


29th December 1976
11.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Big Jake Rides Again by John Unsworth
Visiting the American West.
Produced by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
   Jack: James Thomason
   Annie: Olwin Griffiths
   Albert: Jo Manning Wilson
   Waiter: Rex Holdsworth
   Guggin: Roger Snowdon


29th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: Out for the Count by Ken Whitmore
Produced by Alfred Bradley
BBC Manchester
   Molly Martingale: June Barry
   Customer: Herbert Smith
   Oscar: Christopher Godwin
   Cleo/The Princess: Carole Hayman
   Crystal Swinkly: Penelope Davis
   Victor: Laurence Kenny
   Mr Spice: Ronald Herdman
   Count: Geoffrey Wheeler
Repeated 11th August 1978


30th December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The Half Believers by Margaret Harris
Produced by Kay Patrick
   Aunt Eva: Irene Sutcliffe
   Carol Selby: Nicolette McKenzie
   Mike Yearsby: John Rye
   Don Pearson: Michael Tudor Barnes
   Leo Rennister: Peter Williams
   Mrs Fletcher: Valerie Lush
   Dr Phillips: Michael Bilton


31st December 1976
15.05:
Afternoon Theatre: The 13 Clocks (1950) by James Thurber (1894-1961) adapted by Peter Fieldson
Music by David Cain
The Duke murdered time.
Music played by The Praetorius Consort conducted by David Cain
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by John Theocharis
   Golux: Heron Carvic
   the Duke: Paul Hardwick
   Xingu a minstrel: Nigel Lambert
   Narrator: John Rowe
   Tosspot: Alan Dudley
   Hark: Godfrey Kenton
   Hagga: Pauline Wynn
   Saralinda: Sandra Clark
   Captain: David Sinclair
Repeated from 22nd December 1973





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