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Dr Finlay's Casebook
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
It's the System: written and adapted by HARRY GREEN
Finlay gets caught up in a tangle of red tape due to a colleague's administrative mistake.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
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It's the System: written and adapted by HARRY GREEN
Finlay gets caught up in a tangle of red tape due to a colleague's administrative mistake.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Flute and the Sword
by John Ashe
The play is set in and around the court of King Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia in the year 1730.
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The play is set in and around the court of King Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia in the year 1730.
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The Man Born to be King: 7: The Light and the Life
A cycle of 12 plays on The Life of Jesus Christ by Dorothy L. Sayers.
A new version adapted for stereo and produced by Raymond Raikes with music specially composed by Roberto Gerhard played by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rae Jenkins.
A new version adapted for stereo and produced by Raymond Raikes with music specially composed by Roberto Gerhard played by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rae Jenkins.
Afternoon Theatre
A Shady Business
A dramatisation in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR based on Une Ténébreuse Affaire by HONORE DE BALZAC with Peter Vaughan
Philip Bond , Gillian McCutcheon Napoleon is about to be proclaimed Emperor and there are hopes that he will soon grant an amnesty to such exiles as the Simeuse twins, but in the meantime they must remain in hiding - in a hide-out which is to play a fatal part in the story. 2: Outmanoeuvred
Producer JANE GRAHAM
A dramatisation in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR based on Une Ténébreuse Affaire by HONORE DE BALZAC with Peter Vaughan
Philip Bond , Gillian McCutcheon Napoleon is about to be proclaimed Emperor and there are hopes that he will soon grant an amnesty to such exiles as the Simeuse twins, but in the meantime they must remain in hiding - in a hide-out which is to play a fatal part in the story. 2: Outmanoeuvred
Producer JANE GRAHAM
Afternoon Theatre
The Family Firm by PIERS PAU. READ with Dinsdale Landen and Caroline Mortimer
It's almost impossible for single women to get jobs that pay as well as mine; and anyway, I don' want to work night shifts. Why don' you change your wife? \
Producer SUSANNA CAPON
It's almost impossible for single women to get jobs that pay as well as mine; and anyway, I don' want to work night shifts. Why don' you change your wife? \
Producer SUSANNA CAPON
Stem Saturday-Night Theatre
The House on the Strand
The novel by DAPHNE du MAURIER adapted for radio by PHILIP LEAVER and KAY PATRICK with Ian Richardson
A man finds he can revisit the past. His fascination with what he sees becomes a passion. with terrifying results. One of Daphne du Maurier's most hauntingly sinister stories. Today :
The 14th century:
Special sound by DAVID CAIN of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
The novel by DAPHNE du MAURIER adapted for radio by PHILIP LEAVER and KAY PATRICK with Ian Richardson
A man finds he can revisit the past. His fascination with what he sees becomes a passion. with terrifying results. One of Daphne du Maurier's most hauntingly sinister stories. Today :
The 14th century:
Special sound by DAVID CAIN of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday-Night Theatre
John Carson and Jane Wenham in Crocodile by GRAHAM ENGLAND
Yvette Marson set out for Japan by way of the Trans-Siberian railway. But she never arrived. John, her husband, worried, the way husbands do, but nobody would listen. Then he took matters into his own hands - and another sensational disappearance made everybody listen - carefully!
Other parts played by DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , WALTER HALL SHIRLEY DIXON and ANNE ROSENFELD
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
Yvette Marson set out for Japan by way of the Trans-Siberian railway. But she never arrived. John, her husband, worried, the way husbands do, but nobody would listen. Then he took matters into his own hands - and another sensational disappearance made everybody listen - carefully!
Other parts played by DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , WALTER HALL SHIRLEY DIXON and ANNE ROSENFELD
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
Aliens in the Mind: 6: Final Tribulations
A serial in six parts Vincent Price as Curtis Lark Peter Cushing as John Cornelius
When Flora Keiry is murdered, Professor Lark and John Cornelius reveal to her father, the MP Ian Sanderson, that he himself is a mutant being manipulated by some unidentified Controller. Shocked and horrified, Sanderson helps them trace the organisation back to a merchant bank in the City. As they await their interview with the Chairman, Sir Graham McLudden, who should they see leaving the bank but the Reverend Donal Scoular, minister on the Isle of Lewigh.
Script by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes.
(Rptd: Wed 11.30 am)
When Flora Keiry is murdered, Professor Lark and John Cornelius reveal to her father, the MP Ian Sanderson, that he himself is a mutant being manipulated by some unidentified Controller. Shocked and horrified, Sanderson helps them trace the organisation back to a merchant bank in the City. As they await their interview with the Chairman, Sir Graham McLudden, who should they see leaving the bank but the Reverend Donal Scoular, minister on the Isle of Lewigh.
Script by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes.
(Rptd: Wed 11.30 am)
Saturday-Night Theatre
The Instruments of Darkness
The second of two plays about the eccentric Inspector Millions by MICHAEL ROBSON
The happy excitement attendant upon the forthcoming opening of the Crystal Palace has been marred by two inexplicable fatalities. Two days ago at half past six in the morning, a scaffolder was seen to fall abruptly some 40 feet to the floor of the Oriental Tea Room and, yesterday morning, an even more macabre death was to follow ... a man was seen lying motionless 60 feet up in the branches of a sycamore tree - the centre-piece of a horticultural display! "
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
The second of two plays about the eccentric Inspector Millions by MICHAEL ROBSON
The happy excitement attendant upon the forthcoming opening of the Crystal Palace has been marred by two inexplicable fatalities. Two days ago at half past six in the morning, a scaffolder was seen to fall abruptly some 40 feet to the floor of the Oriental Tea Room and, yesterday morning, an even more macabre death was to follow ... a man was seen lying motionless 60 feet up in the branches of a sycamore tree - the centre-piece of a horticultural display! "
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
Afternoon Theatre
The Last Escape by R. D. WINGFIELD with Lyndon Brook as Seaton and Chris Hallam as Det Supt Dawson
Seaton had been a model patient for all those years - and then something had been triggered off.;
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Seaton had been a model patient for all those years - and then something had been triggered off.;
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Call for the Dead
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parts by RENE BASILICO ,
starring with
Part 1: Smiley is asked to carry out a security check on a newly-promoted member of the Foreign Office. Apparently, a routine assignment - but one that leads to unfortunate and unforeseeable consequences.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
starring with
Part 1: Smiley is asked to carry out a security check on a newly-promoted member of the Foreign Office. Apparently, a routine assignment - but one that leads to unfortunate and unforeseeable consequences.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
Vanity Fair
A novel without a hero by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY and 1: Introducing the Puppet Show and Music under the direction of MICHAEL STEER
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
The Pickwick Papers
by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE cox
' Your mother-in-law passed the last pike at 20 minutes afore six o'clock yesterday evening, having done the journey wery much under regulation time. If you will come and see me. Sammy. I will take it as a wery great favour for I am wery lonely Samivel.'
Tony Weller 's relationship with his second wife had not been a happy one, but neither he nor his son can rejoice at her death.
12: Beginnings and Endings
With MICHAEL GOLDIE and THELMA WHITELEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Technical presentation by PETER NOVIS. assisted by PENNY LEICESTER, DAVID HITCHINSON and JANE BRINSMEAD
(Tim Wylton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
' Your mother-in-law passed the last pike at 20 minutes afore six o'clock yesterday evening, having done the journey wery much under regulation time. If you will come and see me. Sammy. I will take it as a wery great favour for I am wery lonely Samivel.'
Tony Weller 's relationship with his second wife had not been a happy one, but neither he nor his son can rejoice at her death.
12: Beginnings and Endings
With MICHAEL GOLDIE and THELMA WHITELEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Technical presentation by PETER NOVIS. assisted by PENNY LEICESTER, DAVID HITCHINSON and JANE BRINSMEAD
(Tim Wylton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
M One, M Two. M Three by GEOFFREY HUBBARD
A political comedy, set some time in the future, with the British Government under severe pressure to solve its economic problems. A wily civil servant decides that the only answer is to stop printing money and devise a new system of barter - but he falls foul of his own measures.... It's getting very difficult. I tried to offer my services as washer-up to pay for my lunch, and the manager said he didn't use the professional classes - the breakages were too high.'
Other parts played by BILL MONKS , HENRY KNOWLES and GAVIN CAMPBELL
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Tony Britton is in ' Murder Among Friends ' at the Comedy Theatre, London)
A political comedy, set some time in the future, with the British Government under severe pressure to solve its economic problems. A wily civil servant decides that the only answer is to stop printing money and devise a new system of barter - but he falls foul of his own measures.... It's getting very difficult. I tried to offer my services as washer-up to pay for my lunch, and the manager said he didn't use the professional classes - the breakages were too high.'
Other parts played by BILL MONKS , HENRY KNOWLES and GAVIN CAMPBELL
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Tony Britton is in ' Murder Among Friends ' at the Comedy Theatre, London)
Afternoon Theatre
in ALEKSEI ARBUZOV 'S
Old World. from the translation by ARIADNE NICOLAEFF adapted by WALTER HALL
An elderly surgeon and a failed circus artist might seem an unlikely couple to fall in love, but this is just what happens. He's in charge of a sanitorium and she's his new patient - and a truly extraordinary patient she turns out to be, with a zany sense of humour and an outsize love of life which nearly drives the poor doctor crazy.
A bitter-sweet sentimental love story by Soviet Russia's only widely respected and nationally performed stage writer.
Directed by DICKON REED . A World Service Drama productions
Old World. from the translation by ARIADNE NICOLAEFF adapted by WALTER HALL
An elderly surgeon and a failed circus artist might seem an unlikely couple to fall in love, but this is just what happens. He's in charge of a sanitorium and she's his new patient - and a truly extraordinary patient she turns out to be, with a zany sense of humour and an outsize love of life which nearly drives the poor doctor crazy.
A bitter-sweet sentimental love story by Soviet Russia's only widely respected and nationally performed stage writer.
Directed by DICKON REED . A World Service Drama productions
Call for the Dead
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parla by RENE BASILICO starring
Part 5
A chance incident - the memory of a defecting agent's trade craft in the baiting of a trap. And always the unexpected - before Smiley finally meets up with an old friend from the past. Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
Part 5
A chance incident - the memory of a defecting agent's trade craft in the baiting of a trap. And always the unexpected - before Smiley finally meets up with an old friend from the past. Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
Afternoon Theatre
with Simon Cadell Joanna David
Christopher Benjamin and Angela Pleasence as The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be....
A serious comedy for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM
'Do you know about the crowns? Virgin crowns? Unique to this church, you know. If a person is born, baptised and dies tn the parish, above the age of puberty, and is a virgin, then the next of kin ask for a virgin crown. There's a sort of calling of the banns, so that if anyone wants to object they can.'
When Maggie Bell died no one did actually object, though there were several who should have done. But Maggie herself objects quite strongly.
Technical presentation by JOCK FARRELL
Assisted by DAVID HITCHINSON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Christopher Benjamin and Angela Pleasence as The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be....
A serious comedy for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM
'Do you know about the crowns? Virgin crowns? Unique to this church, you know. If a person is born, baptised and dies tn the parish, above the age of puberty, and is a virgin, then the next of kin ask for a virgin crown. There's a sort of calling of the banns, so that if anyone wants to object they can.'
When Maggie Bell died no one did actually object, though there were several who should have done. But Maggie herself objects quite strongly.
Technical presentation by JOCK FARRELL
Assisted by DAVID HITCHINSON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Afternoon Theatre
John Carson and Jane Wenham in Crocodile by GRAHAM ENGLAND
Yvette Marson set out for Japan by way of the Trans-Siberian railway. But she never arrived....
Directed by BETTY DAVIES (First broadcast in 1976)
Yvette Marson set out for Japan by way of the Trans-Siberian railway. But she never arrived....
Directed by BETTY DAVIES (First broadcast in 1976)
Vanity Fair
A novel without a hero by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY with and and Alec McCowen at Thackeray
9: Changed Fortunes
In which the Manager of our Performance, the Puppet Master, brings back two of his major puppets from the mysterious East, the good William Dobbin and the Fat Collector of Bogley Wollah. Fortunes change for our two heroines. Becky receives a severe warning in Naples; and Vanity Fair looses one of its most brilliant ornaments. with and Henry Knowles as the Observer and the memory of George Osborne
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
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9: Changed Fortunes
In which the Manager of our Performance, the Puppet Master, brings back two of his major puppets from the mysterious East, the good William Dobbin and the Fat Collector of Bogley Wollah. Fortunes change for our two heroines. Becky receives a severe warning in Naples; and Vanity Fair looses one of its most brilliant ornaments. with and Henry Knowles as the Observer and the memory of George Osborne
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
4.30 Announcements
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