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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
Hole: 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
Compiled 2025 by Stephen Shaw
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