The Great British Radio Play presents ..................A Decent British Murder.
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Great British Radio Play presents......
A Decent British Murder
by Ken Whitmore
Publication date 1980-02-02
A rather amusing yet thrilling "Escape Room mystery" radio play.
It's Christmas time. Colonel Grace is hosting a dinner party at his country manor consisting of people experienced in breaking and entering ... and his servants aren't quite on the up-and-up either.
As part of the festivities, the Colonel decides to hold an unusual parlor game: offering a thousand pounds to the person who can get into his intruder-proof library. The catch? The room is protected by an a deafening alarm, heavy security locks and a guillotine device that will slice in half anyone entering or trying to enter unannounced. And on top of it all, there'll be one or two rather gruesome murders.
Vanessa Grace ... Kathleen Helmi
Colonel Grace ... Graham Roberts
Marina Grace ... Linda Gardner
Fred Gingrich ... Christopher Godwin
Lionel Munro ... David Calder
Ella Chatto ... Annette Robertson
Albert Congleton ... John Hollis
Directed by Alfred Bradley
Broadcast on 02 February 1980
Additional Music
I Don't Smoke
By Mythical Score Society - Розваги
I try and listen to them while I'm in bed. I fall asleep almost immediately and I always wake up around 2am and i start over again. I fall back to sleep and most of the time I've had to start over 5 or 6 times before i get to the end. I discovered these programs by accident and I'm so glad i did.
I can identify with that!
😂👍
Me also. Once I hear their lovely voices I’m out for the count! I’m in Australian but I love their voices! Xxxx
Every bedtime for me
SAME HERE. 🙂
Lovely painting of an era when things were simple and families got together around the radio to hear a radio concert or a play. There was nothing else to take your attention … no tv, no smart phones, no computers, just the simple radio! Gave so much pleasure 👏👏👏. Thanks for uploading this …. I’m listening to the play even as I’m typing!
Indeed
Not these types, they’re 5th columnists , Quizlings, Nazi spy’s left over from Moseleys lot , they’re listening to Lord HawHaw , remember it was a much simpler time with a world war to defeat fascism on the doorstep , millions and millions killed across Europe , North Africa the Pacific and SE Asia, we were dying like flys but we were happy is what we used to say , oh what larks , is that an air raid siren ? Better get under that bit of corrugated iron in the back garden lest we and our children our babies our wives and girlfriends are blown to bits in these simple happy times
Get your lazy male asses in the kitchen then it's a "lovely painting"
it was broadcast in 1980! plenty to do and radio was still having to go up against TV like 'The Play For Today' ect. Still great to hear but maybe you are thinking of the 40s and 50s if not even earlier!
@@Crashed2023 it wasn’t the play so much as the picture which is far more evocative of the 30’s and 40’s . Plus I was being snarky about someone waxing lyrical about a time when ‘things were much simpler and life less complicated’ it’s a selective view of history and relies on memories coloured by the security of childhood . I object to this maudlin reminiscing because its indulgence in fantasy leads to ridiculous political notions of returning to that simpler time , it’s selective and doesn’t reflect the reality of the difficulties of those times. The rise of fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany had their genus in trying to return to a previous delusional fictitious incarnation of the nations history . It proffered simple solutions to complex problems, just as now opportunist politicians are offering simple solutions to complex problems with populist rhetoric .
I really don’t like to hear older generations extolling the virtues of their younger years as being better or simpler and happier it’s tantamount to condemning the current generation before they’ve even got started , they will make of the world what they will as long as they have the freedom to explore it , shutting people down , segregating people, building walls, divisive rhetoric , harping on about a fictitious past just leads to discontent and discontent leads to conflict .
What people really find attractive about the past is that they were young
Absolutely brilliant, enjoyed every minute 😊.
Great story! Thanks❤
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you
Thank you. Another nap 😘
I love this one! It’s my go to favourite for listening to on a wild night with rain battering the windows and wind making moan around the roof . Love from Scotland 🏴 ❤
Omg I’m addicted to British radio dramas. I’m not even English 😂
me too!!! I loved this one!!
I know! I put one of these on and then do all my chores while listening. Time passes much more quickly.
Me too! I go out of my way to listen to them. ❤
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There accents
We love our British cousins so much🇩🇪❤️🏴🇬🇧🌹
Bitte sehr mein Deutsch freund
And we love you .......whoever you are !!...👍 🇬🇧 !
Just love what I call ‘real British language (how they spoke before the end of 1940’s).
Yes, it was lovely wasn’t it….I was born in 1942 and I remember those wonderful days ,with really decent good working , proud ,good mannered ,kind people…How I miss those wonderful days and people….
@@iap-ug3oyIt was only the accent of the upper classes. I grew up in Lancashire and no one spoke with that accent. But even our local accents ate changing now. The richness of lical accents is dying out. My mother, a Londoner, could hardly understand what was said when, after the war, she moved north with our Lancastrian father.
Each town then had a slightly different accent and counties certainly did. Vocabulary varied as well.
Now the young city dwellers have their own language known as Multicultural London English for that city though other cities have their own versions. This is an eclectic mix of cockney and the various languages of the cultural groups that live there. It is spoken mostly by the young working class city dwellers. And like cockney before it, intentionally unintelligible to outsiders.
Yes, I was born in England in 1954 and that was how my family and others spoke. It is so pleasant to listen to and I try to find old recordings of books. ❤️🙏🕊️
I disagree. It's how Americans think the English spoke in the 50s, complete with faux cockney
Yes proper English CF now!!
Only found this today, but so wanted to say thank you and what a brilliant play. Very much enjoyed.
I enjoyed this immensely. Being partly blind I enjoy audio book's. This wasn't draw out where I would lose interest snd was able to keep track of the characters. Thank you so much for posting these entertaining mysteries.
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@@TheGreatBritishRadioPlay-ce3xd I love old murder mysteries specially British. This story was so easy for me to follow and I so enjoyed it and your voice it so soothing to listen to. Thank you again.
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Thanks for this, perfect listening for a dark and stormy night in Cornwall.
So much appreciated.
I’d like to hear about the dark and stormy night in Cornwall
@@kathypatterson9800 Hear, hear.
Remember listening to them in the early 1950s very few tvs then ...journey into space was on then!
I remember war of the worlds
Fantastic play. It had my hooked all the way through.
We Brits know how to do a play properly
... INDUBITABLY SO 🏴🥂🥸
Yes, 8:40 you do. You Brits know how to do radio, period, and thank God I have access to it in the cultural desert of the rural US. Just one reason I'm a lifelong Anglophile. Thanks...
I grew up 3:02 listening to radio programs. My father bought a television when I was seven. I miss those wonderful radio programs. Now I have your channel to listen to. ❤
I didn't even know that they existed until I was 8 years old. We didn't get one until I was 12 years old. I am 76 now.
Superb. Riveted throughout, the drama made even more suspenseful against a backdrop of lightning and thunder. Perfect. Couldn't make it up.
Why are some people so critical? Thank you for posting this 😊
Excellent listen !…..first time I’ve seen your channel
Thank you for this
I am addicted to radio theatre,as it is know in my country Romania,since i am a child. We have a rich repertoire of drama,comedies,thrilers and even sf titles. This BBC drama are amazing.
Brilliant! I like how no one ever gives a monkeys about the victim. Very upper class 😂
It’s the same in modern detective stories which portray people from middle class milieus as well. Even just bereaved parents are able to calmly talk to the police. I’ve lost a child not that long ago and know there’s no way one can be that calm just after hearing one has lost a child.
@@kellydalstok8900 I'm so very sorry for your loss.
I suppose there is some comfort in knowing these stories are fiction, the reaction (or non reaction more like) of the families being confirmation.
It depends on the level of detachment; in these dramas, it's often an adopted child who gets murdered. Since it's not their "real child", it's not painful in the way the loss of a biological child would be.
Of course, it *is* the same way in real life...
People were not encouraged to show their feelings. My mother in law lost a child in birth. She saw her for a few moments then she was taken away. It was a case of pull yourself together and get on with it. 05/08/23 @ 22.48 UK
@@GodISGood103No wonder so many people were emotionally cauterised in those days. It started in school, total repression, no spontaneity of any kind. A breeding ground for weirdos.
I am loving this, pure entertainment, and such an evocative setting, and picture.
Good story well presented, time is irrelevant for some old classics.
The Alphabet Algorithm recommended one of your Sherlock Holmes plays to me and I enjoyed it so subscribed. Enjoyed this one even more. A fantastically twisty murder-mystery!
"A fantastically twisty murder-mystery" is one of the best sentences I've ever read. 👍🏼
@@icarusalchemist1398 Thank you!
This was Rather Ravashing Darling ☘️❤️🇮🇪
Great story really enjoyed it can't wait for the next one
More to come!
Thanks for posting these. I love listening and the actors are great. Plus it feels cosy sitting in an armchair listening to them.
With such attention, I imagine they are listening to the cricket or horse racing. Appropriate picture.
I love Radio Theater. We used to listen to radio theater programs, when I was younger. We haven't always had television, DVDs, and computers. I love to do my needle work while listening. I'm so happy to find this.
Reminds me of Christies' 'and then there were none.'
Agreed. 👍🏻
I loved this! I’m American and visit Oxford each summer . I started listening to old radio shows but most are in the 1930’s- 40’s etc. I like you have things I’ve never heard !🎉
Subscribed!
Have you visited Wren's sundial in the quadrant of All Souls college yet?
lucky!!!! i wish i could go!!!
No , I have seen All Souls from the outside only , I wasn’t aware it was open to visitors , but I’ll try to see that , thx.
I stay at Christchurch college & this summer is my 4th time ( “ the Oxford Experience “ - Google it , it’s a great program )
@@Oxford322 God knows what happened to the reply I typed previously. All I can say is, use the 'Open days'.
I like the ones occasionally re broadcast on bbc radio 4 extra. There are several Christie ones. Poirot and Tommy and Tuppence once plus several Paul Temple ones. They dont seem to be available for long on the site but I subscribed to them using the sounds app.and dip in every now and then.
Such a great listening stuff. I enjoyed very much listening this episode.. And I've subscribed to your wonderful Channel. Keeping on posting more Radio Plays.. They are very entertaining. ®️
Yes I do same so relaxing 😂
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No Drugs no stabbings no grooming come on bbc
I just love radio plays, British and American. I can close my eyes and relax, while listening to crime dramas and mysteries. Thank you, I've liked and subscribed.
Oh, I say! Bravo old fellow, good show!
Must be American...
Wonderful, thank you so much! Such a treat xx
There great I enjoy going to sleep listening I'm Scottish x
I came back to this one because its so good. The narrator is great!
Fun..and well done
The Brits can really tell a good story well.
Love these help me relax. Thanks 😊
I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💚 Thanks for sharing !!
There's nothing like a good British who dunnit
great to hear without background music playing all the time.
Leonel Munro sounds like mr Peacock from “are u being served”😊
Superb
Enjoyed very much and thank you.
It’s a breath of fresh air and I love them.
Very addictive loving these plays
I don’t usually like crime stories but I loved this! Well done !
These story are great and the best part is we can use our imagination of how the story would look. Thank you
Thank you
As a Proud Brit, thank you for appreciation of our early radio plays.
THATS WAS A LOT OF FUN TO LISTEN TOO
Im glad im not the only one!, sometimes I'm listening to a different story!
This is quite dark..but enjoyable.
I love listening to these programmes❤.
Excellent! Perfect for a rainy day.
Listening to these help me though my night owl evening ❤
it was sooo good loved it!!!
Love the British actors n actresses. They act n interpret the character n look like normal people..
I,m afraid I,m like the person above/below, I too fall asleep listening to great stories. Totally enjoyed this one on the 3rd occasion I listened to it. Find I love listening to them all, many thanks you to those who downloaded them on You Tube what would it be like without You Tube
Love these can’t sleep without it
Every old British radio play is sullied by a fake American accent
Revenge for all the shite British accents perpetrated by Yank actors
I've just discovered the plays, too. They would send me to sleep as well so I'll keep them for daytime. Maybe play one I've heard to get to sleep.
Thank you so much.Interesting vintage radio
I was 11 years old when this aired, ha.
I was 10❤
Sadly, the American ad style visual doesn't ad to the presentation.
What is with this obsession of always having an American visitor??
thanks so much for posting this enjoyed so
Very old style if you like that kind of class stereotypes......
Please try and get for me ‘ The Disposal Man’ starring Edward Woodward. Thanks
I managed to get it some months ago and forgot l’d saved it.
Such a fascinating story with an interesting plot. Kudos to the writer and actors 😊🇦🇺👍❤️
I liked that story.
Just found u. ❤️
A pity the mechanical voice introduces the play
A fantastic Sunday afternoon matinee
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13/05/2023
Posh chaps talking, just the job. No commonality I hope.
Fabulous, Thank you. Xx
Brilliant story! More like these, please!!
Really good! So glad I found this.
Enjoyable. Thank you
Good plays.
Absolutely dreadful intros.
The music is far too loud and the reader drones and mumbles in a barely intelligible monotone. Couldn’t even hear the date of the play in this instance.
Sorry to be critical.
🙏
Amazing story. WOW
well done!
Love all British and all mysteries. Thank you!
I wish the BBC would repeat it's huge drama collection. But it no longer has a 90 minute slot in the schedule for plays like this. It could put them on the web on Sounds, but I guess working out any residuals payments is too much trouble (even though radio residuals tend to be pennies rather than pounds). All very sad really. 😢
Ken Whitmore! Excellent writer!!
Really good thank you
I really enjoyed this play, thank you
I hope they're not listening to 'War of the Worlds'...
Very enjoy. Loved it.
HOW AWESOME THIS IS 👑👑👑👑👑👑🌷👸🌷
Excellent, thank you
Brilliant entertainment
It’s great plot!!!!!
Such a brilliant accompaniment to cleaning up my place❤😂❤
A lot of twists in this one.
😂 haha that ending was a crack up