Hmmm, I think now, during the era of 'worldwide stay at home orders", it might be a good time for Radio 4 to re-launch some radio dramas/mysteries. I have noticed a resurgence in popularity of radio shows on YT and podcasts since the lockdowns. Many of these shows have doubled, even quadrupled the number of listens in a short time. I love the radio format and listening to audio broadcast stories; so much more imagination and brain activity involved.
This is was so awesome. My oldest grandchild passed by my room, when he heard the dialogue. He wheeled back around to my door. Now he stops by room ever time
Definitely one for the " So Bad : It's Good " category. Where's TedaR I wonder ? This is her favourite category.....must be something in the Tennessee air ??
They don't write plays like this anymore, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, and something actually happens. Nowadays it's all psycho-babble drama, with confusing flashbacks all over the place.
Hmmm ... well, we have to take the not-so-good to appreciate the good and really great plays. Best part for me was hearing the very civilised 10 o'clock news and Big Ben's chimes. Thank you for uploading.
There were parts in this play that sounded like it was the movie Rebecca. Kate's voice for one, and how she pleaded with Johnnie concerning his wife after they left the cinema. As one person said, Kate's voice does sound like the actress was much older than the age she was playing. I did enjoy the play. There were comments that were really funny.
Really enjoyed listening, Thank you for sharing... Wonderful plays and should be listened to in an historical context, pity Britain isn't like this now.
The beginning of this play has the male protagonist blaming the female murder victim. Disgusting. Don’t pine for the acceptance of domestic abuse, child abuse, low social mobility, infant mortality, rickets, police brutality, slums etc etc.
@@nibblypig6291 The men in this play are deeply misogynistic, narcissistic and casually violent. The women serve them. Why anyone would want to return to these times is beyond me. However, they weren't meant to be typical men. This definitely wasn't the standard for the times. In my own family in 1950s UK, all men and women played equal roles, and I know that was the norm that my family saw all around.
Exactly! It's so common to see so many comments under these plays from people complaining about the 'good old days ', how life was simpler, better etc.. forgetting all the points you just made, never mind the dreadful things going on across Latin America, South Africa, Northern Ireland &other places. What's really meant is that we were younger, more accepting of the propaganda of the ruling classes& as we get older&face harsh realities&our relative impotence every generation looks back&focuses on the endless summer days of youth. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely not a fan of that ghastly expression "woke" but I was never a fan of the open acceptance or even celebration of sexual abuse of girls&young women,or the casual &relentless racism of the times. Every generation creates it's own social problems&every generation can learn from those who went before. But no-one ever got it right. There 😂 Sermon over! 😂
After listening to this I will try to give a thumbnail sketch with no spoilers. An author who can no longer write goes to Scotland for rest following his nasty divorce. But the small town he goes to is reeling from an appalling murder. Who is the murderer, and how will he be apprehended?
It’s nice to listen to such un-PC plays. Sure makes one appreciate our present times. Was 1965 that bad in the Highlands? I hope not! Lol. Certainly wasn’t like my 1965.
(Late 2021) The principal lady is still living - Gudrun Ure (Kate) is 95. What changes she's seen! David March (John), his wonderful emotional range showcased in this piece, chose to give up theatre and television to focus on radio drama for his prolific career. He plays the womaniser role in this piece, now seemingly sexist but of its times. In real life, his life partner Derek Lewis supported his career. This play is missing from BBC Genome and doesn't appear in either of the actors' attributions, but I found it in the bibliography of the writer, which established the authorship date as 1958. The two principal actors were aged 33 (John) and 32 (Kate) at the time, so not far from the ages of their roles - Kate's age is set in her mid-twenties. The author, Charity Blackstock, was Ursula Torday, an English author who worked under five pseudonyms. This play was also published in the US entitled All Men Are Murderers under her pseudonym Lee Blackstock. She wrote 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels. This piece is a good example of this brilliant series, BBC Saturday Night Theatre, a leader in the underrated genre of radio drama. Thanks again for the upload!
Wow and I'm surprised that no-one has thanked u for the information on the two main actors and the 'Lassy' is still alive as of ur comment date so I thank you kind Sir and I hope u r well and came thru Covid untouched so to speak??
@@SimonMcGrath-o8jk Thanks for your kind comment, Simon. I'm glad you found the information interesting. I do like to find out about radio drama and its contributors, and share it in case anyone else is interested, but this was the hardest ever to pin down! Sadly, Gudrun Ure died in May 2024, but she lived to the grand old age of 98 years, 2 months.
@@janebrown7231 Jane I shall endeavour to keep an eye out for ur facts of actors, years etc and passed away only recently well we thank them for their service in making our days more interesting when listening to their plays.
@SimonMcGrath-o8jk They certainly keep us entertained, and many of us value these old masterpieces that have emerged from the huge archives of the BBC. 😊
Well, they don't make them like that anymore, do they?! For all the people speculating on the age of the actor portraying Kate - Gudrun Ure was around 29 at the time as she was born in 1926.
Thank you. Good point. People became/behaved like adults at a younger age. Adolescence was not prolonged into middle age as seems to be common in the 21st century.
Gudrun Ure was 32 when this play was written in 1958. It was presumably cast and broadcast in the same year, but there seems no convincing record of that.
Whoa! I was highly entertained by this even though it was very un PC. I didn't know whether to be amused or shocked. So I was both. My attention never lapsed, that's for certain!
@@tottiemae2258 personally, I lmao. So much un pc🤣 but was definitely nostalgic. Represents a bygone era that’s never coming back and is not welcome back.
There might be worse plays than this elsewhere on UA-cam but somehow I doubt it ! It's like a combination of a Carry On film and a rejected Agatha Christie script with a bit of Strindberg thrown in. Add in every cliche about the Highlands for good measure and there you have it !
According to the news afterwards, this was broadcast on the day the Chairman of Rolls-Royce died. Interestingly to me alone 😂, this must also have been the day when my great-uncle was promoted to vice-chairman of the same company.
@@2msvalkyrie529 😂 Unfortunately, that's not how it worked! And I never got a free aero engine either... more of the group's business came from aero engines than from cars.
The characters are meant to be exaggerated; there is sarcasm galore and at times it’s funny. WTF is the importance of simpering PC? People were people and they were real, whatever their characters. So imo a good reading, except that Kate sounded older than her supposed age of 25. But good acting all around. Thanks for the post - a great listen while walking!
Unfortunately not for me this time. I couldn’t stand the voice of Kate, or all the ‘I’m going to throw you over my shoulder’ stuff. I had to give up in the end.
I must have listened to this particular play : At least a half-a-dozen times or even more than that. The characters - with the writer that comes in town, Or is it a town or Village ? But some other characters the sarcastic --- Angry Young Man... But moving on. : NOW IF ANYONE. READS COMMENTS. BEFORE THEY LISTEN TO PLAYS. : AS. I. DO. ? You must take the time to listen to this entertaining play, And once again, thank you
Very good radio drama didnt know play was from the nigthteen sixties These audio plays from the bbc are very good and exciting with a touch of mystery and intriguing plot and great characters i remember recording these dramas on c 90 cassettes on my my trusty NAD cassette PLAYER AND my nad stereo receiver as time went by the recordings got lost only listned to radio 4 never listened to radio two or radio one or any other radio 🚉⛽
Gudrun Ure, who played Kate and has just celebrated her 95th birthday (12th March, 1926) would have been 39 years old when this was first broadcast on 24th April, 1965.
What a weird play that was. The main character John was quite the arsehole all things considered. He was not a nice man at all. The woman playing Kate who was meant to be 25yrs old, sounded like a woman in her 50s. I have to say I did work out who the murderer was, about halfway through. I listened to the end but it was a very strange play.
Why were actors so loud and aggressive back in the day? The shouting is tremendously off-putting, and the Scottish accent baffling. And were cuts made?
How amazing to hear a real News report from 1970! A real treat...
Hmmm, I think now, during the era of 'worldwide stay at home orders", it might be a good time for Radio 4 to re-launch some radio dramas/mysteries. I have noticed a resurgence in popularity of radio shows on YT and podcasts since the lockdowns. Many of these shows have doubled, even quadrupled the number of listens in a short time. I love the radio format and listening to audio broadcast stories; so much more imagination and brain activity involved.
I completely agree.
It’s now part of my bedtime routine. Love them.
This is was so awesome. My oldest grandchild passed by my room, when he heard the dialogue. He wheeled back around to my door. Now he stops by room ever time
@@teresaballardagent7111 that is most beautiful ❤️
The radio plays are like medicine to my soul.
Being Scots born and a great fan of mysteries and the likes of 39 Steps, this is just my cup of tea x thanking you 😊.
Thank you so much for these keeps us also happy and warm❤❤❤❤
Definitely one for the " So Bad : It's Good " category. Where's TedaR I wonder ?
This is her favourite category.....must be something in the Tennessee air ??
When I'm alone and particularly when working on a project I find these casts very good company.
They don't write plays like this anymore, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, and something actually happens. Nowadays it's all psycho-babble drama, with confusing flashbacks all over the place.
I have to say there is a great deal of truth in what u say Mike.
Thats BBC for you keep your licence money
Thank you for taking the time to upload these wonderful radio dramas. 😀
Always amazing to listen to a full news report from so long ago after the play finishes.
I can relate to the old man......even If he was shown as mad....I have no patience with people, who are cruel to animals,either....
What an enjoyable play - so captivating and charming. It constantly held my attention. Thank you so much for making these dramas available.
Charming is not the word I would use!
Hmmm ... well, we have to take the not-so-good to appreciate the good and really great plays. Best part for me was hearing the very civilised 10 o'clock news and Big Ben's chimes. Thank you for uploading.
Aghhh I just love the nostalgia. Thanks a million 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Never listened to anything like this before but I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you.
Thank you, very entertaining!
There were parts in this play that sounded like it was the movie Rebecca. Kate's voice for one, and how she pleaded with Johnnie concerning his wife after they left the cinema. As one person said, Kate's voice does sound like the actress was much older than the age she was playing. I did enjoy the play. There were comments that were really funny.
The days before television much simpler times really enjoy listening
Good stuff. Really enjoy the news afterwards.👍🏼
Great play keeps you guessing right to the end. Thanks
Really enjoyed listening, Thank you for sharing...
Wonderful plays and should be listened to in an historical context, pity Britain isn't like this now.
I agree but let us be glad that the BBC World service at least is still going strong !
The beginning of this play has the male protagonist blaming the female murder victim. Disgusting.
Don’t pine for the acceptance of domestic abuse, child abuse, low social mobility, infant mortality, rickets, police brutality, slums etc etc.
@@nibblypig6291 The men in this play are deeply misogynistic, narcissistic and casually violent. The women serve them.
Why anyone would want to return to these times is beyond me.
However, they weren't meant to be typical men.
This definitely wasn't the standard for the times. In my own family in 1950s UK, all men and women played equal roles, and I know that was the norm that my family saw all around.
Exactly! It's so common to see so many comments under these plays from people complaining about the 'good old days ', how life was simpler, better etc.. forgetting all the points you just made, never mind the dreadful things going on across Latin America, South Africa, Northern Ireland &other places. What's really meant is that we were younger, more accepting of the propaganda of the ruling classes& as we get older&face harsh realities&our relative impotence every generation looks back&focuses on the endless summer days of youth. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely not a fan of that ghastly expression "woke" but I was never a fan of the open acceptance or even celebration of sexual abuse of girls&young women,or the casual &relentless racism of the times. Every generation creates it's own social problems&every generation can learn from those who went before. But no-one ever got it right. There 😂 Sermon over! 😂
Thanks again för a great show !
The New broadcast at the end was a very wellcome "bonus".
More of the same , please!
So loving these! Thank you!
OH! So wonderful!!!!
Thank you for these GREAT videos. I am Thoroughly enjoying them 🙌🤗
After listening to this I will try to give a thumbnail sketch with no spoilers. An author who can no longer write goes to Scotland for rest following his nasty divorce. But the small town he goes to is reeling from an appalling murder. Who is the murderer, and how will he be apprehended?
tottie mae Thank you! ❤️
tottie mae V precise summary
Thank you!
Thank you
I can't get to the end. All it is is senseless arguing and shouting.
Wonderful play really enjoyed it
Another very enjoyable evening listening to this play.. thank you!
I enjoyed it very much! Thank you for the uploading.
The news at the end was very interesting.
K
What a great story. Loved it. Thank you for uploading for our enjoyment.
Great stuff. Thankyou.👍💜
This was first broadcast on 24/04/1965 on the bbc and it’s quality is still preserved
Cheers for the upload! ✨
It’s nice to listen to such un-PC plays. Sure makes one appreciate our present times. Was 1965 that bad in the Highlands? I hope not! Lol. Certainly wasn’t like my 1965.
Are there any other like this it’s become my favorite
what a strange bunch of people these characters are, so emotional and yoyoing between all those emotions, a good story none the less
Excellent! Thank you so much for this gem...!
Good play. The news bulletin is an interesting extra from the BBC.
If they'd run that sonic-boom test for another 6mths, I reckon over 90% of the population would've been begging them to stop, with rest being deaf!
I enjoyed this story very much. Thank you ❤
Very good play indeed
(Late 2021)
The principal lady is still living
- Gudrun Ure (Kate) is 95.
What changes she's seen!
David March (John), his wonderful emotional range showcased in this piece, chose to give up theatre and television to focus on radio drama for his prolific career.
He plays the womaniser role in this piece, now seemingly sexist but of its times. In real life, his life partner Derek Lewis supported his career.
This play is missing from BBC Genome and doesn't appear in either of the actors' attributions, but I found it in the bibliography of the writer, which established the authorship date as 1958.
The two principal actors were aged 33 (John) and 32 (Kate) at the time, so not far from the ages of their roles - Kate's age is set in her mid-twenties.
The author, Charity Blackstock, was Ursula Torday, an English author who worked under five pseudonyms. This play was also published in the US entitled All Men Are Murderers under her pseudonym Lee Blackstock.
She wrote 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels.
This piece is a good example of this brilliant series, BBC Saturday Night Theatre, a leader in the underrated genre of radio drama.
Thanks again for the upload!
Wow and I'm surprised that no-one has thanked u for the information on the two main actors and the 'Lassy' is still alive as of ur comment date so I thank you kind Sir and I hope u r well and came thru Covid untouched so to speak??
@@SimonMcGrath-o8jk Thanks for your kind comment, Simon. I'm glad you found the information interesting. I do like to find out about radio drama and its contributors, and share it in case anyone else is interested, but this was the hardest ever to pin down!
Sadly, Gudrun Ure died in May 2024, but she lived to the grand old age of 98 years, 2 months.
@@janebrown7231 Jane I shall endeavour to keep an eye out for ur facts of actors, years etc and passed away only recently well we thank them for their service in making our days more interesting when listening to their plays.
@SimonMcGrath-o8jk They certainly
keep us entertained, and many of us value these old masterpieces that have emerged from the huge archives of the BBC. 😊
Well, they don't make them like that anymore, do they?! For all the people speculating on the age of the actor portraying Kate - Gudrun Ure was around 29 at the time as she was born in 1926.
Thank you. Good point. People became/behaved like adults at a younger age. Adolescence was not prolonged into middle age as seems to be common in the 21st century.
My word, Gudrun was Supergran when I was a teenager in the 80s!!
Gudrun Ure was 32 when this play was written in 1958. It was presumably cast and broadcast in the same year, but there seems no convincing record of that.
@@rosacamilleri3193 oh that's nice info, thank you. I do remember the series, I watched it back then on TV, too!
Greetings from Slovenia 😉
Good to know. She sounds 79, not 29.
Nice one ,thank you
Great show love it bravo 👏
Ships stuck in the Suez Canal, India & Pakistan fighting....all these years later and nothing has changed.
Whoa! I was highly entertained by this even though it was very un PC. I didn't know whether to be amused or shocked. So I was both. My attention never lapsed, that's for certain!
Don't forget the era it was written in...
@@susansherlock6934 So true! Although the dialogue wouldn't allow you to forget that for a minute. 😅
@@tottiemae2258 personally, I lmao. So much un pc🤣 but was definitely nostalgic. Represents a bygone era that’s never coming back and is not welcome back.
@@andrewsefia2059 SO true! (Had to look up imao. I may use that! 😂)
Un PC is good
Great story and well acted by the cast.
A very exciting and mysterious tale!
WHAT on earth is that line @45:08? "The pistol I shot you with 300 years ago!"
Are these characters from "Highlander", with Duncan MacLeod????
So VERY good!!!
The news afterwards was the best bit!!!
Yes! What a treat!!
Alice Jackson I disagree. I liked it, but ofc I came to hear the play.
A
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Oh I love a tense vintage murder mystery with a happy ending 😂👍
Excellent 👏 .
The good old days of rude and inappropriate men.
There might be worse plays than this elsewhere on
UA-cam but somehow I doubt it ! It's like a combination
of a Carry On film and a rejected Agatha Christie script
with a bit of Strindberg thrown in. Add in every cliche about
the Highlands for good measure and there you have it !
thank you
What odd characters. I'd wager the actress playing the 25 yr old...is more like 55.
dirkbogarde44 65!
According to the news afterwards, this was broadcast on the day the Chairman of Rolls-Royce died.
Interestingly to me alone 😂, this must also have been the day when my great-uncle was promoted to vice-chairman of the same company.
Did he present you with a free
Roller ?
@@2msvalkyrie529 😂 Unfortunately, that's not how it worked! And I never got a free aero engine either... more of the group's business came from aero engines than from cars.
Ive watched upstairs and downstairs like I lived it😊💃😎
Loved this but felt Kate’s voice was more 40 than 25 .
Excellent
Why don’t they stable Hughy in a warm barn?
Back when erratic moods, narcissistic abuse, and repeatedly making your love interest cry by molesting her was seen as innocent flirting...
And killers who murdered and cut up their wives were "gutsy" "poor devils" who had reached their breaking point. It's terrifying.
This was so over-the-top Gothic, I couldn't pay attention to the mystery. Ah well, the news afterward was entertaining.
Excellent ❤❤❤
That was great.
Very enjoyable ❤
That was so appalling it was compelling. Like watching a car crash
The characters are meant to be exaggerated; there is sarcasm galore and at times it’s funny. WTF is the importance of simpering PC? People were people and they were real, whatever their characters. So imo a good reading, except that Kate sounded older than her supposed age of 25. But good acting all around.
Thanks for the post - a great listen while walking!
Can you form a thought that doesn't blame "pc" or "wokeness"? It's intentionally camp but everyone doesn't have to like it.
@@lexicon1913 a little touchy, are you?
Unfortunately not for me this time. I couldn’t stand the voice of Kate, or all the ‘I’m going to throw you over my shoulder’ stuff. I had to give up in the end.
I use to watch a tv series called take the high road 🛣️
Saturday Night Theatre
I am enjoying listening to these plays but there was too much bad temperedness and angst in this one. It grated in the end.
It is a rather predivtable story however i enjoyed it
All a bit melodramatic!
Mr. Schoefield / Campbell seems to be rather delusional and somewhat psychotic. Would have liked more consistency in his character.
That's a long description for something that tells us absolutely nothing about the story
The news after is an interesting 🧐 we still blame the nurses pay
Goodness, Kate sounded like a whiny old woman! Always simpering and crying.That would drive me batty. RUN FOREST RUN!😂😂😂🥀
If they'd run that sonic-boom test for another 6mths, I reckon over 90% of the population would've been begging them to stop, with rest being deaf!
Hahah ... I thought I'd missed something during the play.
She sounds a very old 25 lol
This was such a silly story 🤨… on to the next one.
Awful, particularly the 25yr old girl with the 45yr old voice lots of going off for a walk and shouting for no reason
She sounds more like 85
@@allisophiajones3865 🤣🤣It actually was her crying that kinda drove me nutty🤯and her melodramatics.
"But i'm 25"....she says, a dozen times
I must have listened to this particular play :
At least a half-a-dozen times or even more than that.
The characters - with the writer that comes in town,
Or is it a town or Village ?
But some other characters the sarcastic
--- Angry Young Man...
But moving on. :
NOW IF ANYONE. READS
COMMENTS. BEFORE THEY
LISTEN TO PLAYS. :
AS. I. DO. ?
You must take the time to listen to this entertaining play,
And once again,
thank you
Hmmm . . . very over-dramatic. Pretty predictable outcome, too.
great
I just,deteste that sonne voice, very ambition.
Half the news is football. Today they just take the knee.
Very good radio drama didnt know play was from the nigthteen sixties These audio plays from the bbc are very good and exciting with a touch of mystery and intriguing plot and great characters i remember recording these dramas on c 90 cassettes on my my trusty NAD cassette PLAYER AND my nad stereo receiver as time went by the recordings got lost only listned to radio 4 never listened to radio two or radio one or any other radio 🚉⛽
A little histrionic for my taste. And the actress who played Kate sounded much older than 25.
Gudrun Ure, who played Kate and has just celebrated her 95th birthday (12th March, 1926) would have been 39 years old when this was first broadcast on 24th April, 1965.
@@stewartmcardle8149 I have no memory of this!
THEATRE!
Overacted..... Puts women in bad light..!
Halfway through..... Cannot abide any further mysogenist drivel..
Overacting much?
No scenery left unchewed, love it!
I wished there were a way I could fast-forward through it without hearing all the melodrama. Oh my goodness, it almost gave me a backache.
TOO QUIET.
Ive been told i wud make a terrible actress 😂🎉 cant think 🤔 why 😂
Cringworthy melodrama.
What a weird play that was. The main character John was quite the arsehole all things considered. He was not a nice man at all. The woman playing Kate who was meant to be 25yrs old, sounded like a woman in her 50s. I have to say I did work out who the murderer was, about halfway through. I listened to the end but it was a very strange play.
Twist at the end... double twist. And most politically incorrect it is too. 😝☹️🤣
Why were actors so loud and aggressive back in the day? The shouting is tremendously off-putting, and the Scottish accent baffling. And were cuts made?