The House of the Seven Flies - Saturday Night Theatre - Victor Canning

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • Plot revolves around a quarter of a million pounds worth of diamonds stolen from an Amsterdam bank, and the death of the man who ex-British Army officer Edward Furse rents out his boat.
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    The House of the Seven Flies is a 1952 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.
    In 1959 it was adapted into the film The House of the Seven Hawks directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey and Linda Christian.
    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 dramatizations. For most of its history, programs ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centered, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries. (Wikipedia)
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 66

  • @American-In-Mykolaiv
    @American-In-Mykolaiv Рік тому +13

    Great to listen, radio is the best theater of the mind - and it allows other activity while listening...Thanks, BBC, for publishing these stories, and thanks to Chesterton Radio for this upload.

  • @michaelberg9656
    @michaelberg9656 2 місяці тому +5

    Another one with my uncle in the cast!😊😊😊

  • @JoanKentBible
    @JoanKentBible 4 місяці тому +8

    Thank you. An hour and half of sheer entertainment. I really appreciated the actor's beautiful voices and clear enunciation. I expect there are many elderly people, who like me, find these old radio plays an essential part of every day life.❤❤❤

  • @maisiesummerfield265
    @maisiesummerfield265 2 роки тому +3

    quite impressed with the Dutch pronunciation but there is a confusion with Mr which should be Meneer (menear) and not Mein Herr which is German - never mind, cracking plot

  • @royweblin9561
    @royweblin9561 4 роки тому +13

    What a terrific, gripping story, not dumbed down enough for today’s audience, I suspect as the BBC decided our attention span for a drama can only attain an hour, then 45 minutes and finally 15 minutes.
    Such arrogance

    • @zoyablake9538
      @zoyablake9538 3 роки тому +1

      It's scary how little attention people can pay nowadays, even to something interesting.

    • @thebrainpimp136
      @thebrainpimp136 3 роки тому

      If YOU liked it it's worth while

    • @TheVaughan5
      @TheVaughan5 2 роки тому +1

      Well I think the BBC are being premature catering for the ever growing short attention span syndrome but it’s coming to a time not too far distant when this will be the norm. The downside of modern technology that can have so much to offer the enquiring mind but those of that ilk are fast disappearing.

    • @andrewarthurmatthews6685
      @andrewarthurmatthews6685 3 місяці тому +2

      Yes having grown up listening to radio four afternoon plays that were a full hour and the Saturday evening plays were one and a half hours it’s so disappointing that the bbc are gradually shortening these radio dramas

  • @Failte630
    @Failte630 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed listening to it. I did think it was drawn out a bit too much at that end and the romantic piece was unbelievable the way it happened. But overall a good plot. Thanks

  • @tottiemae2258
    @tottiemae2258 3 роки тому +20

    Synopsis: Edward Furse charters out his yacht to a man who becomes extremely sea sick. Later, when he checks on him, the man is dead. Going through his luggage he finds maps to a dangerous find.

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 3 роки тому +1

      just Why???!!! this is totally unnecessary!

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 3 роки тому +18

      @@feralbluee Well, lots of listeners ask for a synopsis so they can decide if they want to listen to it. I do it as a kindness for them. Most books, radio plays, tv shows, and movies come with a brief summary for that reason. I'm sorry if you find it unnecessary.

    • @susanhrubis1908
      @susanhrubis1908 3 роки тому +10

      @@feralbluee Why, just why, do you not just not read. Leave the synopsis for those, like myself, who appreciate them.

    • @susanhrubis1908
      @susanhrubis1908 3 роки тому +8

      Thank you Tottie.

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 3 роки тому +7

      @@susanhrubis1908 Thank YOU for your appreciative spirit, Susan!

  • @jillylloyd3527
    @jillylloyd3527 3 роки тому +7

    A really good play. Thank you very much as ever.

  • @michealburnettis2
    @michealburnettis2 9 місяців тому +1

    Yes, sadly.
    But, we do not have the Groat, either!
    Rejoice in what is
    Remembrance of times past,
    Can lead to Maudling & sadness!!
    🎁💐🌹🇮🇪🎊🎈🎶🍾🤣😜

  • @michealburnettis2
    @michealburnettis2 9 місяців тому +1

    I liked this.
    Matters not, if they do not do this standard, any more.
    😂
    Here it is.
    Rejoice, Rejoice!!
    😂
    Yes, sadly.
    But, we do not have the Groat, either!
    Rejoice in what is
    Remembrance of times past,
    Can lead to Maudling & sadness!!
    🎁💐🌹🇮🇪🎊🎈🎶🍾🤣😜

  • @michealburnettis2
    @michealburnettis2 9 місяців тому +1

    A bit BOYS OWN, or The Saint.
    A grand 2 hours, listening...
    😂🎉❤

  • @jordsupp
    @jordsupp 4 роки тому +7

    Another great adventure - a bit drawn out at the end, but still good fun. Thankyou.

  • @andrewarthurmatthews6685
    @andrewarthurmatthews6685 3 місяці тому +5

    It’s so good with radio when the location needs to be established so we hear a pipe organ and immediately the listener is transported to Holland within minutes

    • @michaelberg9656
      @michaelberg9656 2 місяці тому +1

      I'd call it a street organ or barrel organ, "pipe organ" suggests a church or concert hall. But yes you are right!

  • @sylvia6785
    @sylvia6785 Рік тому +2

    Thank you Tottie Mae, so helpful🙂

  • @carolewilson1311
    @carolewilson1311 3 роки тому +6

    A gem

  • @TheNemocharlie
    @TheNemocharlie 4 роки тому +13

    Thank you for finding this gem of a play. I won't spoil it for others but the plot pivots on a unique black and white agent! Incidentally, many of the plays of this era featured actors from the BBC repertory company. This accounts for the casts that routinely featured over twenty of them - a cost effective but significant amount of on-going cost.
    Today, most of any drama output features casts that can be counted on the fingers of one hand which seriously limits the material available. Also, who is there now writing radio fiction? Having said that, it's worth finding anything by Julian Simpson who is never boring and always creative. His characters loosely inhabit the same world in an often surprising way. There are some on utube but all can be found on his own website.

    • @elizabethmoriarty1661
      @elizabethmoriarty1661 3 роки тому

      Randy Zaid what is flixzone?

    • @michealburnettis2
      @michealburnettis2 9 місяців тому

      Yes, sadly.
      But, we do not have the Groat, either!
      Rejoice in what is
      Remembrance of times past,
      Can lead to Maudling & sadness!!
      🎁💐🌹🇮🇪🎊🎈🎶🍾🤣😜

  • @marilyntruscott6395
    @marilyntruscott6395 3 роки тому +3

    So enjoyed this..Thankyou

  • @anthonyrichardson4761
    @anthonyrichardson4761 2 місяці тому +1

    Classic radio 📻

  • @shebillings8942
    @shebillings8942 9 днів тому

    Bypass

  • @denestarjanyi8892
    @denestarjanyi8892 Рік тому +1

    Thank you.

  • @rosebud3971
    @rosebud3971 3 роки тому +1

    😊

  • @jamesmason8052
    @jamesmason8052 3 роки тому +1

    👋😃👍

  • @leciabella9461
    @leciabella9461 3 роки тому +1

    Too a bit to get into but was worth it in the end.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 3 роки тому +3

    fabulous - on the edge of my chair for most of it - such a good play. thanks much :) 🌷🙃

  • @tomscott8270
    @tomscott8270 3 роки тому +1

    What a load of pretentious crap.☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️