Requiem for a Wren - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Nevil Shute
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2020
- Requiem For A Wren is a novel by Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1955 by William Heinemann Ltd. It was published in the United States under the title The Breaking Wave
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 dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.
Saturday Night Theatre was noted as the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was scrapped as a programme strand in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in April 1998 by James Boyle, when single dramas were removed from the Saturday evening schedule. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime programme that runs for 60-90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theatre, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theatre was abolished), any return looks unlikely.
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They took off all the great plays for BBC Budget cuts! Makes me laugh when people are getting paid nearly £2 million pounds per year just to play records a couple of times per week. The BBC needs to get priorities right! Thank you for bringing these plays to us we really appreciate this.
That was such a sad story. If she only told the parents who she was it would have been such a comfort to them knowing that their son had someone he loved in his life but that's what you make stories interesting and this was a very good story thank you as always
Took me back to childhood when I loved radio plays. We didn’t have tv and the radio voices told such wonderful stories. Became quite emotion al about it. More please. Judy
Just finished reading this book for the fourth time in my life. This is one story they should have committed to a movie. Another book of Neville Shute that should have gone to the big screen is The Far Country. 😊
People think that we're going through tough times now.
Well to let you know that you efforts are appreciated - I'm a huge Shute fan and loved listening to this. Thank you
What a Great story in our troubled times...kind regards Dave 👍👍👍👍👍
LOVE these old BBC Sat Night plays. Such an insight into the culture of the times as well as the almost lost British accent.
Here's a quick synopsis for those not familiar with the author.
"Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid. A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman's identity, the death of Alan's brother Bill and, above all, the disappearance of his brother's fiancée, Janet."
Cheers from Canada North
Such a great story
Thank you, Wayne! 👍
Excellent, Nevil Shute is one of the best!
Neville Shute great story teller very readable great to listen too
Anna Raymond Massey CBE (11 August 1937 - 3 July 2011)
Thank you for another good play; Anna Massey a true actress, one of my favourites.🎭🌹
Really enjoyed this, love Nevil Shute stories. Thank you.
This was a lovely story, thank you. I am very interested in stiries related to the wars and this one reveals what was in the poor girls mind all of those years.
Thank you. It’s almost like being there eavesdropping on a private confab. Most unethical, of course, but highly enjoyable. A guilty pleasure, this.
Thank you for this play, read the story years ago.
Thank you so much for posting! Love Neville Shute’s books and haven’t heard this one before 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
This was tragic story
But it was a good story
And as always
thank you once again
Really enjoyed this shame the sound was distorted throughout
"Was she attractive ... was there a man involved?" I love these old plays even though they sometimes speak to some very outmoded values. Thankyou. I really enjoyed this one.
jordsupp Let’s face it. Politically incorrect. Sometimes PC makes sense.
@@mckavitt13 It's only politically incorrect today - we cannot judge the past by today's standards - if the reverse were possible (the past judging us today) - many of our acceptable behaviours would be abhorrent to our ancestors. We should leave judgement of behaviour to the time and place it belongs in the historical timeline. However, we have the luxury in present day to appreciate or deplore their behaviour and hopefully learn from their mistakes but judgement, I feel, is unfair. Denial of past realities / destruction of unpalatable truths - only leads to ignorance and makes it more likely that past atrocities get repeated.
@@anaderol5408 I agree. UNLESS the behaviour described is psychologically ridiculous... was never credible.
@@anaderol5408 well said
Because - as we know - none of us ever notice whether someone
is attractive or not . Whether male or female . ? And attractive people rarely get involved with the
opposite sex .? Remind us again ;
which planet are you from ?
Great play, coming from an Army Veteran.
War = heartbreak. Always.
Thank you. ☺️👵🏻🇦🇺
I loved this play but unfortunately the background noise took some of the pleasure away 😢
Interesting that Shute explores suicide in at least 5 novels. "On the Beach" was a continent, or worldwide suicide. Who died in his life that affected him so?
Terrible background noise spoils it.