Village Green - BBC Saturday Night Theatre - John Montgomery
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4.
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The B B C at it's best before it's decline,
I think they’re better than ever.
Your opinion's would carry more we'ight if you didn't have s'o many 'surplu's apo'strophe's.
In England during the 50's there was a brand of film called "Ealing Comodies" always a wonderful cast of characters stop the closure of a steam railway line etc etc. This is an audio version of those "let's make the village a hip spot" movies. In a lull after the exhaustion of the War nothing happened and in the late 50s and early sixties the Country woke up. I thought this play was a delight - old Vicars and shopkeepers looking for the bacon - where I lived was exactly like that. This is also pre-sexual revolution so there's not even a stolen kiss in the bakery. Thank you, this was a delight and gave me a warm feeling- it's an audio cartoon of course but this life style actually existed .
Deport
An Ealing audio comedy-- are there more?
*Comodies - love it.
I remember the Titfield Thunderbolt---the movie about a train; we watched it every Christmas. Lovely.
what an hilarious spelling of comedies !
Nice to hear this old stuff, with the accents my grandparents had. Don’t hear that in the Beeb anymore☹️
Brilliant!
I'm so sorry for your loss. I feel the same way.
Instablaster.
Thoroughly agree .
Lovely accents. Good story, thanks for upload
Like many objects in our lives they don't make radio dramas like this any more , B.B.C Radio4 plays full of woke nonsense and political correctness these days . No doubt lost so many followers over the years ,thankfully we can listen to some gems from the past
Author: John Montgomery
Dramatised by: Lance Sieveking
Producer: Betty Davies
Mary White: Eva Haddon
Mrs. Crabbe: Mary O'Farrell
Mrs. Bangs: Vi Stevens
Michael White: Denys Hawthorne
Lady Edmonds: Barbara Couper
The Vicar: Rolf Lefebvre
Ivo Cockett, Minister of Development: Eric Anderson
Alec Bellman: Derek Blomfield
Hugo Spoon: Preston Lockwood
Mr. Gale: Peter Claughton
Landlord: Peter Pratt
Harold Blain: Leigh Crutchley
Young Jenner: Andrew Irvine
Blessinglon-Smythe: Anthony Hall
Lord Fleet: Arthur Gomez
Loved this. Transports you back in time.
The BBC has changed so much that old fashioned fiction has given way to wholeness so that all we hear is personal angst dressed up as a story. Everybody is dead miserable, with mental health problems and all are portrayed as victims, with men being the oppressors. That's not for me. I can get that at home every day of the week👍
What, Peter are you doing to induce such misery in your household ? How vast is your collection of angst ridden, depressed females ? Is there a cellar that normal, decent folk need to find to liberate your captives ?
@@damarekonayaro5781 What a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work you are.
@@bayadere8308
My thoughts exactly.
@@damarekonayaro5781 Well, I grew up with the BBC when it was trusted by the majority of the British people. It is now just a Woke organisation which is funded by a tax which few wish to pay and which I no longer pay. A bloated organisation with managers and executives who freeloading on that tax. So, I am entitled to look back at the time when the BBC was an organisation to be proud of. What experience do you and your fellow travellers have of the BBC as it was. In other words I have an opinion which is based upon MY experience.
@@damarekonayaro5781 as I say, I know what I am talking about do you and/or your fellow travellers have that same knowledge?
Superb kept me company on train home Thank You
Really enjoyed this, sadly this sort of thing happening everywhere these days, its all about greed and profit? Ruining the countryside!
Adore, these old pieces of a different time! Thank you for continuing to entertain us with life from a simpler, kinder era. 🇺🇸
Kinder? Brush up on social history!
Simpler and kinder for whom?
@@nibblypig6291 I can see where the original post is coming from. I'd say they could mean tolerance. There is an increasing lack of it towards those whom think, act or hold views different to them. For instance, when I started cycling 53 years ago, it was unheard of for someone to abuse me for simply being on the the road, now I would say it's a weekly occurence, no matter how helpful or considerate a cyclist I try to be (I also a car driver of 44 years).
Well that was a play for the times, in these days of growth, growth, growth at any cost and bugger the consequences. A great treat, thanks.
The irony being that that area of Surrey has remained a bastion of privilege and wealth and to this day indulges in the type of NIMBYism the authour / playright is yet to meet / acknowledge.
You are being deliberately destroyed ,you won't be getting any growth.
The comments about the changes within the BBC seem highlighted by the theme of the delightful radio play.. Change and modernisation....
A British comedy about developing a new town and the villagers fight against it. Gentle with lots of archetypes. Set post world war 2.
Ty Clive. It's nice to hear again.
Outstanding thank you very much had a great laugh x
Thank you. A wonderful story!
Corrupt politicians and complicit media...well who knew
Thank you so much for posting Cheston,Radio !
!i,see Arch has been again had his channel cancelled for the 3rd time so please take care to keep yours alive!!!”
Darn why do they keep canceling Arch? It ain't right.
Was that down to repetition??!!
@@eddiemunster2196 I'm game so count me in!👍
Eddie Munster Yes Eddie, I’ve been listening to his channel since I discovered him and his first channel on Utube and this is the 3rd one Arch has had his taken down. I think in the past it’s may have been copy write problems but can’t see that this time around with Arch Phoenix.
Someone has it in for him! At some point sadly I think he’ll say, that’s it I’ve had enough, having posted his plays 3 times already!!!!!
Whoopee! 👏👏👏👏👏👏Thanks for the above information Eddie, I never thought of doing that!! Yes he’s back and apparently I’m subscribed.. it’s under arch Phoenix Stanton...👍😊
Many heartfelt thanks 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧
I Totally loved it . Thank You.
what a fantastic story. Montgomery possessed real insight into the lunatic machinations of government. Little changes
😂😂 What a nice twist at the end, that was one smart old lady!😊
This is a 2023 satire on HS2 isn't it 😂???
Thankyou. This is brilliant. 😁👍
Would a synopsis be too much to ask ?
Sounds wonderful when people had respect for others
Shanelle Kay Well, actually they didn’t. That’s the point of the thing. The beginning of the end. The age of regress in the name of progress. The old lady was as sharp as a tac!
The whole of the BBC is going to go the same way as these plays too!
Such a shame the great BBC is being run into the ground by stupid woke imbeciles.
So very sad!
yep - especially as we keep listening to their plays for free! But they should put more on four xtra they have so many but seem to often repeat the same ones ..
@@oblongtom I have packed that one in myself because of the continual repeats. They will be using LibriVox next. It's just a job creation scheme for the spare parts that hang around BBC studios.
@@oblongtomThe UK citizens pay a licence fee every year, so they have been paid for. What you imply is that everytime you listen to anything you have to pay every time, which in a country in the midst of recession with foodbanks and more austerity, is probably impractical at the present time.
Most enjoyable - thank you🙏🇨🇦
There’s an episode in the wonderful series Foyle’s War which reminds me of this. Developers want to destroy a village green that goes back to the Magna Carta. Foyle mentions that it isn’t just any old green but an archeological site... w plenty of findings... which info saves the Green & the people of Hastings from turning into an ugly “modern” town. Both that & this story show that going forward isn’t always progress. Wonderful, even suspenseful, &, at the end, poetic listening. Many thanks! 👏👏👏
Thank you poThank you for posting this gem
Excellent drama. I also enjoy the light orchestra music and wonder if it's possible to find a cd of that type of music?
Absolutely Excellent
Good to hear again. Ty CR!
Excellent.
'people must be persuaded.....by force if necessary...…' 40:10
Ah....the dulcet sounds of socialism..... :-(
Right dumbass, because western capitalists never use force.
@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters Amen!
Thank you for uploading this play.
I used to live in chiddingfold wow
Excellent !!!!!!!!
Love these old plays
Enjoyed this drama.Ministry of devolpement planing building a new town causes more problems
Thoroughly enjoyed it 👍🏽😀
Oh, very good. I didn't see that ending coming. So nice to hear such old-fashioned voices again.
thx. :)
Thank you I really enjoyed this play very good
Thank you❤
Absolutely wonderful.
From the days when BBC and Rolls Royce stood for the best in the world... Sadly, the former has gone insane, and the latter is owned by the Germans... Enough said?
I usually love these Saturday Night Theatre productions but found this one quite dull and plodding and with a rather suspect underlying message. Essentially we don't care if you go and build your factories and homes somewhere else but not in our back yard.
Nice play. Also tells the machinations of senior folks in government and wealthy are similar in any country of the world. Just screw the ordinary people for their own greed.
"The past is a foreign country", unfortunately so true and the present is much to be regretted.
Ive. Just discovered these absolutely love them better than television thank you
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This is truly fantastic but so so sad that these times are gone by but like in the programme things change over time!!
Excellent! Thank you!!
Love it xx
Isnt this the plot of Blot on the Landscape?
Excellent!
Good story
We who are now in 65-80 had the best 1950s-70s now the whole world's in a mess.
Yeah….put the voice speed back a bit……sounds like chipmunks.
I always wonder in scenarios such as this, how much of this is based on reality or historic practices
What year was this written and is it a drama
7th July 1962. It's a dramatisation of John Montgomey's light novel.
Clever old lady 🤔... guess if it belongs to you all bets are off 😳
Ha men of development vs men of sanitation. LOL
Thank you
Fun ! are there more ??
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A lot of posh toffs
Get some education you silly girl this is what English people used to be like...not like you lot now...every other word is a swear word and you have no commence sense ....I loved my time as a young women...but I really feel sorry for society to-day.....SO SAD.
The bad language is an American influence. Their dumbing down of the English language has left them with little to express themselves.
@@iap-ug3oy HI, I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME, ONE TOUGH FATHER, TWO HUSBANDS AND NOW 84, I JUST CANNOT BEAR TO LISTEN TO RADIO/ AUDIOBOOKS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE READER IS A WOMAN READI NG FOUL LANGUAGE BOOKS, I CRINGE, I FIND IT REALLY INSULTS ME AND IT IS SO UNNECESSARY, THESE PEOPLE MUST HAVE VERY LOW SELF ESTEEM AND LACK OF SELF DIGNITY. I AM NOT A CROTCHETY OLD BIRD I AM A VERY INTELLIGENT CONTINUALLY SELF EDUCATING NICE PERTSON. BLESSINGS.XX
Old Blue haired cunts were never allowed to express themselves.
Complacency and taking the future for granted is what destroyed the UK empire.
@@whiterose.5684 Well tell us how you really feel LOL 😁 Ouch though..pls don't paint us all with such a wide brush. 😳😏 Cheers & Blessings yall 😉😄✌💕