Sweet Sorrow - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Ronald Barnes
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2020
- Ronald Gorell Barnes was a British peer, Liberal politician, poet, author and newspaper editor.
Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.
Saturday Night Theatre was noted as the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was scrapped as a programme strand in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in April 1998 by James Boyle, when single dramas were removed from the Saturday evening schedule. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime programme that runs for 60-90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theatre, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theatre was abolished),[4] any return looks unlikely.
Originally Broadcast 8/12/1961
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A play that has a beginning, a middle and an end - a joy to listen to and can only leave the listener wondering how it all developed in the weeks that followed.
I read the comments first so anticipated the duplicity but bit the final twist! Bravo Miss Pierce. 😅
Very well done - thank you!
Yes, a good story topped with a twist at the end.
Absolutely brilliant. What an ending. Such a superb twist at the end. Double, triple crossing all over the place.
Thanks so much for this, I enjoyed it very much. Saturday night theatre was always ironing time.
After polishing the lino.
Thank you for sharing this drama! Worth every listening second!
The governess doesn't have a 30 year old voice. Sounds 40.
Forty plus
Even 50+
That was so good.Thank you
Excellent thank you x
A great Play one of the best I have listened too ..Thankyou
Love the twist at the end!
A very clever and well thought out play! Many thanks for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
Very amusing. Thankyou.
Excellent indeed. Thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful play😊
Brilliant 👏 story
Loved it ❤. Love these dramas
That was great, I wonder if there is a sequel!
WHEN PLANS GO AWRY... GOOD STORY -))
How I wish ther were
a part - 2 to this play !
It would have been
EXPLODING !!!
Exploding? What are you filled with lil guy? 💥 🤯
Well this was great. Sorry for the wife but a delicious ending for justice.
Just met the husband and here's hoping he has a heart attack soon! It will be interesting to see how this story goes.
Eeek! How creepy. interesting unravelling. thanks for sharing
I have a collection of wonderful radio plays that I would like to share
How does one go about it without encountering problems regarding copy right infringements? infringement infringement infringement
Brilliant!
Gripping story from beginning to end.
Adults doing children's voices - irritating .
Unless I got the plot wrong Elisabeth is the pompous man's illegitimate daughter and yet they are flirting and planning to kill the wife and marry! Surely not.
Step daughter. There's only an 11 year age difference from what I ascertained.
He fell into the trap of revenge for her mother's death! While he burnt the envelopes & thought he'd destroyed the love-letters, they were with her solicitor all the time!
This is a very silly story. There's more holes in it than in a fishing net.
That's how real life tends to pan out, it's full of uncertainties and unexpected turns.
The pomposity and idiocy of the English Upper Middle CLASS. Miss Peale does not miss a beat, "...but if you find me in any way unsuitable, it would be best to say so now" He does not a clue about her subtle insolence. She plays him like a fiddle.
This is a play - comments might be better suited to the writing style, characterisation or theme. Particular views on a perception of 'class' seem a little naive, given the time in which the piece was written. Example: Telling us that Henry VIII wasn't very kind is a bit unnecessary!
@@ysel6287 I agree with your observations…. That said? Perhaps the fact that his individual got SO wrapped up in the characters is a compliment !
@@84CORVETTEBILL You are right! I suppose I am more used to genuine critiques, but perhaps unfair given the global listeners.
@@ysel6287 ❤️ 👍
That was handled civilly. ^^^ Congrats! ❤️☮️🙏🏽
Sexist drama.
I don’t think anything set in this era would be different.
Are you suggesting that all fiction written in the past which accurately portrays the socials norms of the times in which the work was written BUT offends current beliefs and practices should be burnt? Before you answer that, pick up a history book and learn who advocated book burning in the past.
@@anaderol5408 Well said.
@@anaderol5408 here here
@@anaderol5408 Burning? Nobody but you suggested "burning" this drama. The commenter accurately pointed out that the drama is sexist (and not very well written, either). And yet, you're lecturing her? Before you answer, perhaps examine your own behavior.