Whose Body? 1987 Radio Drama Version with Gary Bond as Lord Peter Wimsey
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2022
- Whose Body? - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
A body is found and a body is lost.
But whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body a famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared?
Debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.
Starring Gary Bond as the suave sleuth.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. He features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.
Whose Body? was first published in 1923.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Lord Peter Wimsey …… Gary Bond
Bunter …… John Cater
Mr Parker …… Roger Rowland
Sir Julian Freke …… Michael Graham Cox
Duchess of Denver …… Veda Warwick
Mr Thipps …… Kim Durham
John P Milligan …… Terry Molloy
Mr Crimplesham …… Christopher Benjamin
Sir Reuben Levy …… Geoff Serle
Freddie Arbuthnot …… Tim Brierley
Gladys Horrocks …… Charlotte Martin
Mr Piggot …… Alex Jones
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987. - Розваги
Ian Carmichael has always been my favorite Lord Peter Wimsey. Secondly, Edward Petherbridge, but I do like Gary Bond as Lord Peter. I like his interpretation.
Love these Lord Peter Whimsy’s tales!
Wimsey
It's allways nice with new or in this case Old version of different caracters😊..Thank You so Much for this one😊❤
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Thank you
Very good! Thank you (and I loved the Scarlatti!).
So did I!
Lord Peter playing the piano is an essential part of his character as written by Dorothy L Sayers. That could not possibly be left out!
Did Bertie Wooster play piano in the original P.G Wodehouse books, or was that aspect of his character just added to his TV persona? Maybe because Hugh Laurie (who played Bertie) is an excellent pianist..? Wikipedia quote: "He keeps a piano in his flat, and once played "Happy Days Are Here Again" with one finger on the piano at Totleigh Towers when there was no other method of self-expression available." Dorothy L Sayers said that Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster (starting 1915) influenced her creation of Wimsey & Bunter (first appearing in 1923). I wonder if later re-inventions of Wooster (such as Laurie, 1990's) were not somewhat influenced by the character of Lord Peter Wimsey? Chicken-Egg/Egg-Chicken...
@@paulleverton9569 Bertie did not play the piano but was very fond of singing Music Hall tunes, which he attended with regularity.
A free wheeling who-dun-it by an author just starting.
A perfectly good adaptation.
Buuuuuuut.
Without Carmichael it is like;
The new Top Gear, Dr Who, Holmes… just not the same..
Bond adds a different dimension to the Wimsey character. A bit more "straight" versus the Carmichael's frivolous 'gay"chsracteration.
Enjoyable but, the piano is very distracting
Whimsy does indeed, B gh, although, in fairness, I do appreciate what carrie-ann means. I completely went off TV dramas in recent years due to the constant Hollywood Blockbuster style thumping foreground music. When you watch classics such as 'Survivors' and 'I, Caligula' (two of my favourites, which show my age!), you realise part of what makes them so wonderful is the complete lack of incidental music. However, I've never been bothered by the piano in 'Whose Body?'. Shame it slightly spoilt things for carrie-ann, because she did say she enjoyed it otherwise. I hope I don't become too aware of it from now on! Thank you both for your feedback.
carrie-ann have you read this book or any of the Lord Peter series?