BBC RADIO DRAMA: THE ABSENT GUEST by Peter Whalley
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2020
- The Absent Guest was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 August 2005.
[Music at end removed for copyright reasons]
Story:
A sharp and tense whodunnit. When the absent guest from a dinner party is discovered murdered, the remaining guests, one by one, become suspects.
Cast:
Ian: Robert Plckavance
Lynn: Deborah Findlay
Mike: John Thomson
Julie: Katy Cavanagh
Claire: Denlse Welch
Alan: John Kazek
Director: Pauline Harris
Two bits of advice I've always stuck by, tell nobody nowt and never argue in the kitchen...
Loved every minute of this - thank you
Too many 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🤪
In case anyone is wondering, the classical music that starts around the five-minute mark is Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor.
Thank u 🙏🏼
thanks for that information. very kind of you !
Thank you. It's beautiful.
Thanks
Also Brian Eno.
I wish the BBC still produced drama of this calibre. Thank you for uploading.
Right. Did we just become drama radio beat friends?
@@pinkgirl281982 Yes probably!
@@pinkgirl281982 Yes, why not!
Could not agree more. Now everything they do has to include THE MESSAGE...
The dramas are not so good now.x
I remember 'if you can't keep a secret don't expect the person you tell it to to keep it', Whalley was a good writer.
Great production values, breath, feet noises, intimacy of microphone work. Radio is such a fine medium in the hands of professionals. Simply story a dinnner party and a ,missing guest. Thank you to all concerned.
jeez! they didn’t even leave a split second before starting the cast! what is wrong with them? incredible!! the story has just ended and your emotions are peaked and need settling - but Whap!
but to the play - so very well done. the plot is a very intricate weave. kinda out there for reality, but it works because of the writing skill, direction, the actors, and the production values. thanks much 🌷🎭
And murder
Really enjoyed this one as I always do when it's Peter Whalley. I've just looked him up and found out he used to write the best storylines for Coronation St in the days when it was good.
Boy .....and do we miss those days!
Great play. Couldn't stop listening. Couldn't have guessed. Terrific acting. Thanks so much for posting.
I grew up with Radio Drama and I love it. Sadly BBC Radio 4 have slashed their Radio budget and an hour long play is a thing of the past.
Yes I miss the Book at Bedtime. I used to listen to it all the time.
Thank you for these Peter Whaley dramas
Excellent storytelling
Brilliant writing along with top notch actors gave this play four plus stars!!
Thank you for presenting this wonderful play.
As an American from the great state of Alabama, one wouldn’t think I would have a great love of British programming, however, my many years of military service brought me to really enjoy them. The programs, unlike our American programming, actually tells a story. It is not just grit and grime . From Doctor Who to Last of the Summer Wine and everything in between, it is all great. Thanks from a good ole country boy from The Great State of Alabama, USA!
Glad you enjoyed it
As a Yorkshireman from the Weat Riding and ex soldier, I love our home grown thrillers, but I would like to say that the US make some quality series also
A brilliant production with great dialogue . Thanks for uploading.
Spreading the word about these entertaining plays. Thank you for this one!
Excellent. Love these dramas, very compulsive listening. Tfs
Listening again to this well written drama. Thank you Arch.
Worthy of a movie truly. Best stand alone episode I've EVER HEARD from the BBC. SALUTE! #BRIL
Absolutely amazing writing, wonderful cast, enjoyed it immensely.
Your productions make me fall in love with Radio dramas 👍
I'm so glad to have found this channel...used to listen to plays and book readings years ago 😍
Thank you, I enjoyed it so much! Greetings from Guatemala, Central America.
excellent excellent!! Thank you for downloading this. So well written. love from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦❤❤Happy 2024 to everybody
Fabulous script, acting and plot. Thank you for posting
Glad you enjoyed it
Great story, well acted. Enjoyable drama.
Great listening! Thank you for uploading 👍
Brilliant production and not long winded. Great acting and suspense.
Such a lovely group of friends
Arch, please feel free to upload as many Peter Whalley's and Nicolas Freeling's … to your heart's desire!
Thank you and merci beaucoup!! What an amazing plot and the actors are fantastic. I felt like I was right there with all of them! Please give us more of these awesome mysteries!!
Really enjoyed listening to again! Thanks Arch👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
Beautiful drama. I thoroughly enjoyed enjoyed. Thank you!!🇨🇦🇨🇦
That was really good!!! Thank you!
Great story, very well done!
Thoughtless, unkind words lead to horrible actions. Great story but sad and heavy too.
Claire was a wonderful friend wasn't she?!😂
Charming gal.
@@wendyharris8026The Best😳🤣
Peter Whalley - what a brilliant playwrite!
@@crispindry2815 *Pendant.
He's a favourite playwright of mine - writes some of the best radio and TV material ever.
Great drama. Admire the scriptwriters who can tell a story like this. Not to mention actors who perform.
What a dreadful and shallow group of people. Everybody meddling in each other’s business. One of the comments below had it right: never tell anyone anything and never argue in the kitchen.
Yes too many 🔪🔪🔪🔪about
With friends like this who needs enemies.
Fabulous writing brilliant acting thanks xxx
Nice to have you back ArchBStanton
Love these, thankyou.
Great story well done production, Peter Whaleys stories are ace wish I could find more there’s 5 of his stories on UA-cam have listened to them
What are they called?
@@elizabethman7313 missing wife, the test
Longest journey the.missing guest
when last I saw you
Probably the best dining room drama on here. SALUTE!!!
Very good 👏👏👏👏👏👏 right to the end 👍👍👍
That was excellent. Thank you so very much. I was spellbound. 🙋
Gosh, these old dramas are good. Thank you.
Wonderful. Loved it
When I first saw the photo of everyone seated with double plates and food and wine being poured I thought-- Oh if only. I would love to go to such dinner parties but I've never been in a city where people actually do that.🥴 AND then I got to the end and I thought --thank God 🤪lol
Dinner parties do still occur. You just have to make the effort and have like minded friends.
Fabulous! Was listening cleaning up as I have no time to sit and watch anything. Loved this!
Thank you for another fine BBC radio drama by Peter Whalley. Well scripted & acted
Very Well Done !
Thank you!!!!
It was starting to get almost comical with the last minute 'confession' by every person 😆
Wonderful stuff thanks
11/10 superb
Thanks again
I would develop a pommy accent if I listened to too many of these.
Well, whatever her ex husband said about the victim, was perfectly true.
And deserved what she got !
@@dorielle62 Yep! She should have kept her big mouth shut!!!
thank you arch
Great little interwoven story.
Thank you
excellent
thank you
Fabtastic
What a whirlwind love it ❤️
Excellent
I don't feel so bad for Claire anymore. She kinda...deserved what she got.
Excellent drama.
Anybody got a list EXCLUSIVELY of the whodunnit / howcatchem
mysteries?
Nice one and good action. Only that it seems to say all the couples have no business in the world except cheating on their spouses. 😁
@archphoenixstanton6998 Cheers, Arch!! I remember listen to to this one a few years ago, but I'd forgotten all about it! I hope you are doing very well! 🥰 We miss you! xxx
Glad you enjoyed it
Oh very good thankyou
Ooh! This is a good one! ❤ XXX
Jasper the Dog was wonderful.
So good, my 3rd listen
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Brilliant great ending.
Bravo!
Looks like i will be busy doing nothing today Arch ! 👍
Oh, Peter Whalley!
Wow!
Thanks x
Why would he stand by her??!
Claire's gob was too big , a closed mouth catches no flies or fruit knives.
Great who done it
That was good.
😵😵😵😵I knew it!! wow.
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V good
Great story. Claire was a witch 🧙♀️.
Great twists highly recommend
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Great story. I love anything English. 💞 But barking dogs...😡
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Sets Claire up dramatically. Despicable.
Claire had it coming.
Uncomfortable: thy name is 19:00
Dumbed down writing with post 2012 style production treatment (made in 2015). It's like a movie trailer with soap opera style acting. I don't need all the sound effects & synthetic piano notes if the story is actually good.
Is someone also making the poochie sounds ?
As soon as you said, "Denise Welsh," I went to the comments, wrote this, and shut this off. Can't abide her. 👎
Have got to 28:40, and now moving on elsewhere.
It's descended into the B-grade predictability of suspects not telling the police what they should tell the police.
You should have stayed to the end. You would have found it worth it.
I feel sorry for you.
An eminently forgettable piece of contrived lightweight writing. The plot has more holes than a colander.
Predictable and boring
Livipool accents are just so bloody wrongah.