Darkness at Pemberley - T. H. White - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @MinkaSchlossberger4ever
    @MinkaSchlossberger4ever Рік тому +22

    I love it.... excellently spoken, very easy to understand.... even for me, who can t hear anything with the right ear. The athmosphere just sooo British...Thank You so much for this!!!

  • @gijsje011
    @gijsje011 2 роки тому +48

    Best mystery play I have heard.
    Great actors. Being Dutch, I had no problems, thanks to the perfectly spoken English. ❤️ Thank You, Chesterton!

  • @latzmenon5770
    @latzmenon5770 2 роки тому +58

    I had the perfect day to listen to this today . Storms and rain , sitting with my hot chocolate . And switched my phone off .

    • @AnitaSews
      @AnitaSews 2 роки тому +13

      Sounds so cozy...

    • @louise7552
      @louise7552 8 місяців тому +3

      Ah, a person after my own heart. Perfection.😊😊

  • @deborahrobertson8606
    @deborahrobertson8606 2 роки тому +56

    I was 12 when this was broadcast. This is the BBC that formed me. What a different country it was then. The BBC now is appalling. A wonderful play, with ,any familiar voices. Thank you !

    • @artur4613
      @artur4613 Рік тому +17

      Yes, absolutely. I listen to these old radio-dramas to polish (I'm Polish by the way) my English.
      There is this charm in classic radio.
      The style has changed not only in England. There are brilliant old Polish radio programmes from 60ties or 70ties with perfect grammar and spelling. Nowadays the "actors" can barely speak, but certainly they would take part in every commercial available to them.

    • @deborahrobertson8606
      @deborahrobertson8606 Рік тому +13

      @@artur4613 Exactly! I listen to all the old productions. It keeps me sane!

    • @applesandpears9756
      @applesandpears9756 Рік тому +11

      100%. I listen to the BBC for 10 mins a day in the car...just to find out what we're supposed to be thinking...I miss the days when drama was challenging and varied, and England was different world..

    • @stephenhaywood5672
      @stephenhaywood5672 Рік тому +13

      @@applesandpears9756I agree 90% with you but I’m afraid I just can’t stomach to listen to the BBC for even 10 minutes these days without raising my blood pressure. 👍

    • @fw6667
      @fw6667 Рік тому +5

      I absolutely agree with you both that this is the BBC that formed me also and that the BBC now is not worth its licence fee in fact I never watch BBC I only ever listen

  • @AnitaSews
    @AnitaSews 2 роки тому +35

    I love these old time stories, they're the best!

  • @curtcaudle5900
    @curtcaudle5900 Рік тому +8

    Thoroughly enjoyed this radio play 😊🎉. Fine actors and wonderful production. BRAVO 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @joycehilkey7238
    @joycehilkey7238 3 роки тому +148

    A cup of Earl Grey strong with milk and a scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam and a good mystery…perfect

    • @pamwarhurst2519
      @pamwarhurst2519 3 роки тому +2

      S

    • @paulharris9268
      @paulharris9268 3 роки тому +8

      Or as a bedtime story, in bed.

    • @lucrtrvl
      @lucrtrvl 3 роки тому +5

      Where is Envy moji? 😹

    • @mwatts-riley2688
      @mwatts-riley2688 2 роки тому +6

      Joyce:
      Right and wrong-
      Right with the general scene;
      Wrong with the accessories.
      Assam with 2 sugars. Milk. Toast with melting butter. Dark room, no lights. 2 candles electric.
      No kids. No brother.
      Ahhh. 😃 m

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 2 роки тому +6

      It's traditional in England to serve the scones laced with cyanide ..
      apparently ?

  • @marymaceachran2586
    @marymaceachran2586 Місяць тому

    Thank you for posting.

  • @PinkyPuff69
    @PinkyPuff69 Рік тому +12

    I wish it were raining, but I'm listening in August 2023... In California. San Francisco is usually foggy, even in the Summer, so at least I can pretend it's a cold wintery night!

    • @nonayoung8177
      @nonayoung8177 9 місяців тому +1

      sounds like a perfectly cozy day. i’m in Ventura, California.

    • @gordonshewan9892
      @gordonshewan9892 2 місяці тому

      Freezing in Scotland tonight 😊

  • @katecavell7969
    @katecavell7969 2 місяці тому +1

    This play was excellent.Thankyou very much.🎉❤

  • @TheLeeattwood
    @TheLeeattwood Рік тому +5

    Jolly marvellous

    • @ChestertonRadio
      @ChestertonRadio  Рік тому +1

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  • @debbie9340
    @debbie9340 Рік тому +2

    Enjoyed very much

  • @denestarjanyi8892
    @denestarjanyi8892 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for uploading this play.

  • @brennykins8823
    @brennykins8823 3 роки тому +11

    Pure entertainment, a fun frolic. Thank you.

  • @susanhepburn6040
    @susanhepburn6040 2 роки тому +8

    Well, that was an oddity and a half! Brilliant but quite, quite bonkers!

  • @donwardell4605
    @donwardell4605 4 роки тому +64

    Of all the radio plays in the "Saturday Night Theatre" vault this is my number one pick. I can recall hearing it when originally broadcast. A car carrying the chief suspect was racing around the Midlands and I remember, convinced that they would pass our house in Birmingham, standing in the bay window to look out. Guess the producer and writer did a good job convincing me that fiction was in fact reality.

    • @lindawalters4098
      @lindawalters4098 4 роки тому +9

      It’s amazing how memories can come flooding back listening to these splendid plays from the past

    • @Kathymorrison1958
      @Kathymorrison1958 3 роки тому +3

      Is this a true story??

    • @donwardell4605
      @donwardell4605 3 роки тому +1

      not at all but google the writer - really top notch

  • @mellisande638
    @mellisande638 3 роки тому +13

    Absolutely loved it!! Thank you all so much😊😊😊

  • @aprilskies1051
    @aprilskies1051 4 роки тому +20

    Absolutely teriffic! I thoroughly enjoyed this..thanks once again for uploading. I love these broadcasts.

  • @bettysteubing8129
    @bettysteubing8129 3 роки тому +14

    This TX girl has been a fan of T. H. White for at least 20 yrs (The Once & Future King + others), but man, oh man, this recording was fantastic! Thank you, thank you.

  • @lorrainevanlelyveld8065
    @lorrainevanlelyveld8065 3 роки тому +7

    Thank you thank you for this great radio drama. I loved it.

  • @captainswing4487
    @captainswing4487 3 роки тому +8

    Great stuff..... I must remember that an hour's steeple chase before a breakfast of kidneys and coffee is a fine start to any day.

  • @natasharosetarrant
    @natasharosetarrant 3 роки тому +6

    Great little play. Thank you.

  • @AB-nr8cu
    @AB-nr8cu 3 роки тому +9

    This is bonkers! Loved it. Thankyou 👍😁

  • @iap-ug3oy
    @iap-ug3oy Рік тому

    Thank you for this story…..Best wishes to you . Please keep them coming…

  • @robertbuckman-b3j
    @robertbuckman-b3j 2 місяці тому

    Thanks!

  • @patticlare8306
    @patticlare8306 4 роки тому +11

    Brilliant... really good listening. Many thanks.🌟

  • @deanazcoolzi4382
    @deanazcoolzi4382 4 роки тому +16

    The beautiful and utter terror of the imagination

  • @vivmarshall6797
    @vivmarshall6797 4 роки тому +9

    I thoroughly enjoyed that! Thank you.

  • @janeclarkson8471
    @janeclarkson8471 2 роки тому +5

    Odd ball bu that's it's charm for me. I thought it was a delightful change. I love eccentricity! A little gem. Thank you.👌

  • @claireb4259
    @claireb4259 3 роки тому +8

    Absolutely smashing!

  • @kirpalani-griffin3706
    @kirpalani-griffin3706 4 роки тому +6

    Wonderful stuff. Thank you.

  • @janetmackinnon3411
    @janetmackinnon3411 Рік тому +2

    Extraordinary!

  • @princessdumbarton9877
    @princessdumbarton9877 Рік тому +2

    The bad guy was played by Marius Goring. He was the composer in The Red Shoes.

  • @civilpanda9422
    @civilpanda9422 Рік тому +9

    Stellar police service, he hangs up on the caller reporting the dead body, laments that murder is rare in his precinct, and his sergeant locks the woman at the scene in the dining room. 😂😅😆

    • @Ciara1594
      @Ciara1594 Рік тому +2

      Are we sure that
      he's not Chief Wiggum?
      ☺️

  • @jomancao2341
    @jomancao2341 Рік тому +2

    How is it that I have only just found out about Chesterton Radio! ? Possibly because I am from the other side of the globe. 😁 Regardless, I am now an avid follower of the channel. Thank you so much for sharing these "wireless" - I believe that is how it is called over there in England- treasures. ❤❤

  • @michaelprobert4014
    @michaelprobert4014 3 роки тому +10

    I'll never read Pride and Prejudice in the same way ever again!

  • @vulcanswork
    @vulcanswork 2 місяці тому

    100% appreciated.

  • @TheBrewforbreakfast
    @TheBrewforbreakfast 2 роки тому +5

    brilliant British folly

  • @carolynthornber748
    @carolynthornber748 Місяць тому

    Now that sounds proper cosy to me ☺️ your my type of person 🤘 xxx

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 4 роки тому +32

    @ 25.26
    ' Come on, old man.....polish off that scone ; I want to show you my new
    rifle range....'
    I'd like to nominate that as Quintessential Golden Age Murder Mystery
    line of dialogue .?

  • @davidarundel6187
    @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +3

    A good yarn, with an unexpected outcome. 🤔👍😚

  • @bmf1949
    @bmf1949 4 роки тому +13

    ‘My great aunt in Montreal had the same trouble, only with her it was owls’. .......!!

  • @michaelfagan1823
    @michaelfagan1823 Рік тому +2

    Love this story thanks “that’s entertainment” 😜Micky N London 😎🙏☯️

  • @stewartlancaster6155
    @stewartlancaster6155 11 місяців тому +1

    listened whilst on the loo, made the process a bit easier, as I do struggle with movements of that nature.

  • @milliewilkie1969
    @milliewilkie1969 Рік тому

    i was walking around cambridge today then this play popped up tonight🙂

  • @hAnah1112xX
    @hAnah1112xX Рік тому +3

    This was completely not what I expected… in the best possible way 😄😄

  • @debbiewilliams2946
    @debbiewilliams2946 4 роки тому +7

    Goodness gracious me what a bizarre plot!

  • @dianaantu8227
    @dianaantu8227 3 роки тому +6

    Elizabeth wouldn't it be marvelous to get married, or something? love it !!!! Thank you, great story.

  • @johnpeet5862
    @johnpeet5862 3 роки тому +4

    Brilliant. Thank you very much 💕👌

  • @JayGideon-7
    @JayGideon-7 7 днів тому

    I began to get mostly a sound of static at the 30 minute mark. I'm wondering if it's somehow just on my end. Has anyone else had static sounds drown out the dialogue?

  • @21anusha
    @21anusha 3 роки тому +2

    Cheers ✌🏽

  • @alanesplen2253
    @alanesplen2253 3 роки тому +6

    Another great classic R4 Saturday Night Theatre first time I have heard it.

  • @mikewellwood1412
    @mikewellwood1412 2 роки тому +12

    This has to be the strangest play I have ever heard from the BBC. Jolly good fun though! Thank you for uploading it. I think I started listening to it once before, but can't have been in the right mood or something, so gave up on it. However, I stuck with it this time, and I'm glad I did.
    Broadcast in 1973, but surely set in an earlier age, when there were no motorways, not much traffic on the roads, and police constables and garage attendants touched their forelock and bowed and scraped to the "gennelemen" in their big cars who talked down to them, and there were housefuls of servants ready to search the house bearing arms and prepared to use them....oops, better stop there....
    Very odd delivery of lines by the actors as well, I thought.

    • @hermione9445
      @hermione9445 Рік тому

      What are you ..some kind of Marxist ?

  • @valeriejohnson5283
    @valeriejohnson5283 3 роки тому +6

    Wonderful!😍

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 3 роки тому +2

    great

  • @kimberlykasimoff1447
    @kimberlykasimoff1447 4 роки тому +9

    This Saturday Night Theatre really is the best one that I have listened to so far. The Constable at the cross roads sounded like Ringo Starr!

    • @FrancienDanielsWebb
      @FrancienDanielsWebb 3 роки тому +1

      I will listen to him.

    • @mikewellwood1412
      @mikewellwood1412 2 роки тому +1

      I thought he sounded like Sid Perks! :-D

    • @kimberlykasimoff1447
      @kimberlykasimoff1447 2 роки тому +1

      @@mikewellwood1412 Sid Perks from the Archers? I have to admit that I have listened to the show once. There was an annoying woman with tons of problems who depressed me, so I did not continue. I remember the grandfather and his grandson. Maybe I will listen to it again. 🙂

    • @mikewellwood1412
      @mikewellwood1412 2 роки тому +2

      @@kimberlykasimoff1447 I did mean Sid Perks from the Archers, but I didn't mean it terribly seriously. I was more making the point that it was a Birmingham (UK!) accent that he had, not a Liverpool one.
      Might possibly have been the same actor though, as I'm pretty sure Sid was a character in TA back in 1973 (he was in it for decades). I used to be an Archers Addict, but I'm pretty much recovered now, if one can ever say that.... :-) ) .
      FWIW, they were driving all around "Archers" country. It was fun to hear real place names being mentioned, and I could imagine some of those roads, which away from the motorways, may not have changed all that much, apart from a bit of widening, straightening, and bypasses added.

    • @kimberlykasimoff1447
      @kimberlykasimoff1447 2 роки тому +1

      @@mikewellwood1412 Gotchya!

  • @markcrook4615
    @markcrook4615 3 місяці тому

    Why do all these radio programmes keep stopping and starting? Nothing wrong with my data connection

  • @robertmatch6550
    @robertmatch6550 2 роки тому +2

    I bet Mickey Spillane got started after listening to a coupla these!

  • @llyngibson4160
    @llyngibson4160 Рік тому

    A big coincidence that Miss Darcy lives at Pemberly.
    A very suspenseful story.

  • @juliam7056
    @juliam7056 2 роки тому +2

    Unusual story but entertaining

  • @WWZenaDo
    @WWZenaDo 2 роки тому +3

    Another gigantic plot flaw - to claim that a small, bookish weakling would be able to lift a full grown muscular policeman up to the roof AND after that to have the strength to carry the woman - up to the roof, no less - is beyond belief.

  • @golaswati
    @golaswati 3 роки тому +6

    How big are those bloody chimneys that he could not only hide a body in there and then take the pistol from the hands of the inspector as if he was next to him 🤦 And why didn't they light fire in the chimneys of the rooms where people were sleeping 💁

    • @jaszi33
      @jaszi33 3 роки тому +1

      It's not unheard of for many old chimneys to have spaces in for people to hide, often called priest holes. Frequented by priests to hide during the reformation & smuggling times later. Got to love the layers of history hidden in old British houses. 😁💗🏰

  • @citizen1163
    @citizen1163 4 роки тому +5

    Marius Goring! The Scarlet Pimpernel!

  • @WWZenaDo
    @WWZenaDo 2 роки тому +5

    It's a polished performance, but there are two significant plot holes that were disappointing.
    1. These are English people in an English manor, great house or castle. Whether or not this is their ancestral home, they or their ancestors would have had such respect for the history of the building and estate as to have had some inkling of the possibility of "priest holes".
    2. The English steeplechase originally was loosely connected to fox hunting, which required sharp-nosed hunting hounds. This family may not have had a single hound left (questionable, since they were continuing the tradition of steeplechasing), but at the very least they probably had a neighbor or two with a good hound (or several) which could have been put on the scent of the psychopath narcissistic murderer.

    • @jonjames7328
      @jonjames7328 Рік тому

      Yawn. You’re an outsider and know very little of houses and hounds.

    • @tessaoshea5697
      @tessaoshea5697 28 днів тому

      Have you read any T H White? Plot holes didn't really concern him. Just enjoy the fantasy

  • @Jemmainadilemma
    @Jemmainadilemma 2 роки тому +2

    I don’t understand the motivations of any of the characters or why they talk the way they do or how anyone ever wrote such an odd play that could have been more logical with a bit of reorganising… still enjoyed it though, not sure why!

  • @skirlaugh100
    @skirlaugh100 2 місяці тому

    "Wouldn't it be marvellous if we could get married or something"

  • @bernard0142
    @bernard0142 Рік тому

    Um, a guy confesses at 18:00. He also knows a lot of details that weren't released publicly, such as the order in which the deceased had been shot. In real life that would merit an arrest.

  • @MaxFactor-k8g
    @MaxFactor-k8g Рік тому +1

    🍵

  • @pariscribe5245
    @pariscribe5245 3 роки тому +3

    Delightfull ! Only lacking a ghost...

  • @ellie698
    @ellie698 2 роки тому

    When was this broadcast?

  • @1234cheerful
    @1234cheerful Рік тому

    It's as if SOMEONE read Pride and Prejudice and a few "Golden Age" British "country house" mysteries, maybe Ngaio Marsh? and just HAD to play with the exquisite attention to the proprieties for a while, producing a lovely pastiche. Miss Darcy's first name in Jane Austen's novel was Georgina I believe but that's only one piece of the extensive and enjoyable artistic license. Ok, just my theory. It was so over the top, and quite fun!

  • @emmaknight3890
    @emmaknight3890 5 місяців тому

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 4 роки тому +9

    Hmm.....starts off very promisingly . Unfortunately after the half way point
    things start to become more and more ludicrous before a damp squib of an ending . T H White obviously lost interest and / or couldn't be bothered to
    develop the plot properly. Very odd since he was extremely talented.
    Perhaps Murder Mysteries not quite his thing.?

  • @mmitchellhouston
    @mmitchellhouston 2 роки тому

    Very interesting, but odd. I wasn't sure why they were using Pemberly in that manner.
    Nevertheless, quite enjoyable.

  • @Gillby47
    @Gillby47 4 роки тому +3

    Delightfully potty.

  • @davidfist3872
    @davidfist3872 Місяць тому

    01:09:48

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 4 роки тому +2

    I now know why Harold Pinter took to writing plays.

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 4 роки тому +2

      Ha ! ...No-actually...and strangely....I enjoyed it.

  • @parrmik
    @parrmik 4 роки тому

    nobodies that clever !

  • @ronin472100
    @ronin472100 4 роки тому +7

    This story is beyond doubt, the worst I have ever read or heard...

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 4 роки тому +1

      Ha !

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 роки тому +5

      Try listening to The Archers ?
      This is King Lear by comparison.

    • @mikewellwood1412
      @mikewellwood1412 2 роки тому +1

      It's so bad, it's good. No, it's not good, it's great! :-D

  • @frankah
    @frankah Рік тому

    Preposterous story but riveting nonetheless.

  • @Kernowcornwall
    @Kernowcornwall Місяць тому

    Can't get through this one. A bit overwrought and a tad silly

  • @deegeraghty9426
    @deegeraghty9426 4 місяці тому

    Preposterous ! Persevered but gave up at 1 hour 14 minutes. None of the characters invoked my interest.

    • @lingham2099
      @lingham2099 2 місяці тому

      All the comments here are positive. I must be too young to appreciate these old shows. I am 71. I thought it was absolute crap.

  • @bertspeggly4428
    @bertspeggly4428 Місяць тому

    After the bit about the pig I stopped listening. Just nasty.

  • @anthonysokolsky6210
    @anthonysokolsky6210 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant story & I enjoyed the way the sadistic bastard was killed in the end!

  • @shebillings8942
    @shebillings8942 Рік тому

    Love all these plays but this was my least favourite!

  • @janholland7160
    @janholland7160 4 роки тому

    Ll

  • @ferberina
    @ferberina 4 роки тому +3

    Ok but not a great read

    • @susankelly5585
      @susankelly5585 3 роки тому +1

      Completely bonkers, but loved it!😄

  • @guitarboogieboogie
    @guitarboogieboogie 5 місяців тому

    stupid nonsense.