Very good play, excellent acting. Love the clean crisp language, no curse words or slang. I am from India , am an avid listener of BBC radio dramas. As a student of English Literature, I deplore the stuff that passes for "English" literature ( bad language, filthy plots) these days, and prefer mid or early 20th Century literature. Thanks for this one
Marvellous. A fascinating story of the missing day in David's life triggered by a car backfiring like a gun shot with horrible consequences but thank goodness it ended well. Thank you I was hooked from start to finish. Xxx
One of those perfectly plotted little gems ( like Trent's Last Case ) that the British theatre used to excel at. Now , sadly , replaced by box ticking " issue " plays dealing with identity issues and victimhood studies.
@@Pete9Tails Sometimes the precise word you mean - not the near synonym - is a word forgotten by many. Maybe ElegantPaws01 meant "salacious," and not "crude" or "titillating."
The protagonist of this play was temporarily afflicted by what is known today as a condition called "Psychogenic Amnesia;" This is "a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years." There's a Wikipedia article on this condition.
Fantastic play with superb actors. Lots of twists and turns which certainly piqued my interest and curiosity. Would appreciate knowing about any other stories by this playwright.
Thanks for listening! We have several other plays by R. C. Sherriff: Home at Seven ua-cam.com/video/uvDGyjR4_2w/v-deo.html The Long Sunset ua-cam.com/video/DuQpglShKvE/v-deo.html St. Helena ua-cam.com/video/7DlzXnDBf7s/v-deo.html
I was a child actor in BBC Radio for years, hence my enthusiasm for "Saturday Night Theatre". Used to be transmitted at 9.00 p.m. on the Home Service. Recently i was researching this series and it was described as "drama for the Middle Class" I had never thought of this series in terms of "class" whatever that is. The phrase stuck with me - and low and behold it was as if the selections were in fact run through a middle income ringer - 'cause there's nothing too highbrow or diving into the gutter.
I spent the first twenty years of my life growing up in the middle of a large council estate , in South-East London. The accents were a million miles from those in this play. However, what stands out during this play is the excellent diction. Now, in my early eighties, wearing hearing-aids, I can understand every word. One rarely hears people speak as well as this, these days; in the street on radio or TV.. What a shame. Thank you for posting this most enjoyable play.
Hello, Don! Can you link us to any plays you were in? I'd love to hear you. In the 70s I used to sing as a kid for BBC Radio for their children's music education series. I acted as a kid then but on stage.
@@michaelmayoh656 I had relatively humble origins too, but we grew up listening to the BBC on "the wireless", and these middle or upper class accents were always there, and we got used to them, and the lifestyles they represented were a long way from our own, but we didn't resent them (possibly aspired to them). The country was getting more prosperous then, and most of us prospered with it. I think we "boomers" (or post-war-bulge-ers to use the more British phrase) were lucky to grow up when we did.
Reading through the comments, it seems that a lot of people notice this channel is called Chesterton radio, and believe that G K Chesterton wrote all of the content, maybe it should be emphasized who the authors of the plays are , to prevent misconceptions.
Just listened to this again, a year or so later. Well worth it, and thanks again for uploading it. From a social / historical point of view, it's all terribly terribly middle class isn't it? Or how the middle / professional classes were at that time. (Or as they were portrayed in drama). Can you imagine a family doctor nowadays recommending you a lawyer, and then going to see him on your behalf? Quite a different world. Very good listening though.
“In the context of BBC budget cuts”. Of course in order to pay the obscene salaries of announcers etc. The once great corporation is now in full meltdown and the architect of its own downfall.
It's not so much the salaries - though they are ludicrously high - It's the pension deal which BBC employees have which is basically unaffordable.!! Staff could retire earlier than normal workers and receive VERY generous pension. Problem was that Life expectancy has increased so much. In many cases they are on pension longer than they actually worked at the Beeb !!
Agreed , unfortunately I had to stop watching the bbc a few years ago due to the PC woke crap in ever program, and as you say the overpayment of staff.
Apparently, a £1.5 billion pension deficit. All those workers on fantastic pensions for life. All paid for by the taxpayer. What a fantastic gravy train to ride into old age.
I’m a retired federal agent and I wish those with PTSD, like myself, can see how a simple backfire can be a “trigger”. Loved the mystery! Anymore you can recommend?
Thanks for listening! You might enjoy some of the I Love A Mystery shows by Carlton E Morse. Their Temple of Vampires adventure with Mercedes McCambridge is good. Group of ex military guys go on adventures. Night Beat with Frank Lovejoy is good too. Newspaper man has some well written gritty adventures
@@ChestertonRadio Thank you for responding. I’m just a little Southern gal that had a tough job. I never was in the military but had military associates, NCIS and other groups when I was in DC on the Natl. Joint Terrorism Task Force. So the Pre WWI and WWII are wonderful to listen to and hear the preparations. A huge Anglophile and I even breed British Labradors!! I train them for myself and others as therapy dogs, we’re a bit low on ducks here in Gulf Coast Mississippi, but they are wonderful to work with. We recently rescued an AKC registered lab from Louisiana kennel that was flooded. The puppy was 8 weeks old and we named her Pippa! She’s running the house and we’re closer to the end of Hurricane Season! Y’all kept me company during the storm and luckily we had minimal damage. A week without power was NOT fun. Missed hearing your plays. Better than audio books. PS, not a big Vampire fan. Just good historical mysteries.
You might also check out our WWII playlist: WWII.ChestertonRadio.com. The VJ Day Command Performance show is one of my all time favorites. Whole show is a prayer of Thanksgiving... Includes Bing Crosby, Sinatra, President Truman and more
@sandyconner 1736 Trent's Last Case . ? Anything by John Dickson Carr . The Red House Mystery. The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Most of those are available as Radio Dramas. Keep you occupied for a few weeks !
S L , - R. C. Sherriff, was most famous for 'Journey's End' about W.W.I., although his plays are a bit dated, but are still relevant to human nature. Chesterton is famous for converting to Catholicism and for writing the Father Brown detective stories.
ATTENTION: The playback no longer works. All you get is a voice-over announcing the film and the poster image all the way to the end. Will someone find a usable download?
I watch the Father Brown mysteries when I can. They are good mysteries. I went on to listen to this one because I found out it was written by G Chesterton and I was not disappointed.
I really don’t mind ads, but UA-cam is abusing this channel- I’ve been listening to 47 minutes of this show and there have been 12 ads, several of which were not the short kind that end in 10 or 15 seconds and then return to the show, but were actually several minutes long if I hadn’t clicked “skip”, and 3 had 2 or more ads. I hope you are getting paid, at least…
---SPOILERS--- This had a MUCH more straight forward, happy ending than I was expecting. It's not that I still believed so late that he actually knowingly did it (too many details wouldn't really line up with that), I'd thought that he'd genuinely started to believe, despite not being able to remember it, that he DID do it, and he was going to kill himself out of guilt. Especially when he's so resistant to bother even listening to the bar woman's story at the end, thinking she'd come to think so highly of him that she'd go that far to concoct a lie. He just seemed too calm in going back upstairs, like he'd already made up his mind (plus having been so insistent earlier in making sure things for his wife were set well if he'd be gone). When his wife tells the detective she'll go upstairs to tell him he's been officially cleared, I was certain she was going to find him dead and that'd be the end of the story.
Hahaha This is really a comedy! Observe all in this play And then, I ask you to Wonder, what would happen to the alleged murderer/thief, If he was from the wrong side of the tracks!!!! 🤔 Hilarious.
I have just copied and pasted this passage from Wiki... Psychogenic amnesia or dissociative amnesia is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years to decades.
I think this was real waste of an hour and a half. How trite. And where was Jack Hawkins or Ralph Richardson that featured in the intro? It was quite disappointing.
I think the thumbnail is a poster from the movie that was made of the same name. A common practice among youtubers to use the movie poster for art since radio plays often don’t have art associated with them. (Also possibly intentionally misleading since people see famous actor names and click on that. But I don’t care. I actually think radio actors are more skilled at radio than movie actors are. Imagine that!
Just wonderful. Please keep these vintage BBC productions coming. Thank you!
Very good play, excellent acting. Love the clean crisp language, no curse words or slang. I am from India , am an avid listener of BBC radio dramas. As a student of English Literature, I deplore the stuff that passes for "English" literature ( bad language, filthy plots) these days, and prefer mid or early 20th Century literature. Thanks for this one
Hear! Hear! Best wishes from South Africa 🇿🇦
@@all4paws508here here! not hear hear
Totally agree, from the US (we aren’t ALL crazy here).
Absolutely correct!
I so, so, so agree with you.
I loved this one. Great plot, actors, writing and, well, everything. Thanks for your commitment by giving us these gems to listen to! BRAVO!!!
Really excellent entertainment a good play well presented thank you for this, a tragedy we do not have anything like this made by the BBC any more.
RC Sherrif wrote the screenplays of most of my favorite old British movies, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Four Feathers, The Dam Busters and others.
Marvellous. A fascinating story of the missing day in David's life triggered by a car backfiring like a gun shot with horrible consequences but thank goodness it ended well. Thank you I was hooked from start to finish. Xxx
This one was top notch. Thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you.
These are real gems !
Great story and well done!
Excellent play, thank you!
The Saturday night play was always 90mins long, which gave it a greater scope like a movie, now its truncated to 60mins.
Really enjoyed that The actors all definetly broke a leg 😊
Excellent. I didn't expect it to stop so soon, could've gone on longer. Great outline for a novel
One of those perfectly plotted little gems ( like Trent's
Last Case ) that the British theatre used to excel at.
Now , sadly , replaced by box ticking " issue " plays
dealing with identity issues and victimhood studies.
Blacks and bad whites
I enjoy & appreciate all of these plays. Some more than others. This one is absolutely brilliant, on all counts.
Again another classic radio drama thank you so much really appreciated ❤❤❤
Thank you. enjoyed it/
Splendid.
Thankyou. Thoroughly enjoyed it.John (Australia)
Can't you Aussies write your own plays...?
Excellent acting, intriguing story. Most interesting plot and twists. Thank you!!
This story never gets old. Thank you
Excellent
Outstanding play. Honestly wish there was more outstanding modern works along these lines. No salaciousness necessary to intrigue an audience.
"Salaciousness" 😂 🤣 what century are you from, the 19th?
@@Pete9Tails Sometimes the precise word you mean - not the near synonym - is a word forgotten by many. Maybe ElegantPaws01 meant "salacious," and not "crude" or "titillating."
The protagonist of this play was temporarily afflicted by what is known today as a condition called "Psychogenic Amnesia;" This is "a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years." There's a Wikipedia article on this condition.
This Play is one of the finest that I have ever listened to... The writing and acting are superb... Thank You for these most excellent Uploads...
Another great play.
They should post more stories like this they are really good stories to listen to
A very good play.I’ve seen the film too ( DVD).Keeps you guessing until almost the very end.Thanks for uploading these fine plays.
Excellent story, I really enjoyed it.
What a superb play for my morning whilst cooking! Thank your very much for uploading 👍
Thank you for uploading this excellent performance of an interesting play.
Plenty of twists in this one, for sure! Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA.
Great radio 📻
Fantastic play with superb actors. Lots of twists and turns which certainly piqued my interest and curiosity. Would appreciate knowing about any other stories by this playwright.
Thanks for listening!
We have several other plays by R. C. Sherriff:
Home at Seven
ua-cam.com/video/uvDGyjR4_2w/v-deo.html
The Long Sunset
ua-cam.com/video/DuQpglShKvE/v-deo.html
St. Helena
ua-cam.com/video/7DlzXnDBf7s/v-deo.html
A great story.Thanks.
Brilliant, absolutlely brilliant!! no spoilers.
Brilliant plot. Keeps one guessing. Thanks.
ptsd before it was diagnosed as such
An excellent drama. Thank you.
Big fan...really enjoy listening to these plays
Second time listening. Outstanding play. Thanks for uploading
I was a child actor in BBC Radio for years, hence my enthusiasm for "Saturday Night Theatre". Used to be transmitted at 9.00 p.m. on the Home Service. Recently i was researching this series and it was described as "drama for the Middle Class" I had never thought of this series in terms of "class" whatever that is. The phrase stuck with me - and low and behold it was as if the selections were in fact run through a middle income ringer - 'cause there's nothing too highbrow or diving into the gutter.
Well i am working class but i loved this!
How interesting.
I spent the first twenty years of my life growing up in the middle of a large council estate , in South-East London. The accents were a million miles from those in this play.
However, what stands out during this play is the excellent diction. Now, in my early eighties, wearing hearing-aids, I can understand every word.
One rarely hears people speak as well as this, these days; in the street on radio or TV..
What a shame.
Thank you for posting this most enjoyable play.
Hello, Don! Can you link us to any plays you were in? I'd love to hear you. In the 70s I used to sing as a kid for BBC Radio for their children's music education series. I acted as a kid then but on stage.
@@michaelmayoh656 I had relatively humble origins too, but we grew up listening to the BBC on "the wireless", and these middle or upper class accents were always there, and we got used to them, and the lifestyles they represented were a long way from our own, but we didn't resent them (possibly aspired to them). The country was getting more prosperous then, and most of us prospered with it. I think we "boomers" (or post-war-bulge-ers to use the more British phrase) were lucky to grow up when we did.
What a wonderful story, thank you.
Thank you for listening and commenting. You can find more like this in our "Plays" playlist:
Plays.ChestertonRadio.com
Reading through the comments, it seems that a lot of people notice this channel is called Chesterton radio, and believe that G K Chesterton wrote all of the content, maybe it should be emphasized who the authors of the plays are , to prevent misconceptions.
Excellent play 👍🏽😀📻
Thank you 🌷🌿💐🌿🌷
That was brilliant!!!! Merry Christmas from Ireland xx 17th of December 2021.
oh.....how wonderful! Thank you. A sweet little story.
Just listened to this again, a year or so later. Well worth it, and thanks again for uploading it.
From a social / historical point of view, it's all terribly terribly middle class isn't it? Or how the middle / professional classes were at that time. (Or as they were portrayed in drama). Can you imagine a family doctor nowadays recommending you a lawyer, and then going to see him on your behalf? Quite a different world. Very good listening though.
Thankyou wonderful story
“In the context of BBC budget cuts”. Of course in order to pay the obscene salaries of announcers etc. The once great corporation is now in full meltdown and the architect of its own downfall.
Perfectly correct
It's not so much the salaries - though they are ludicrously high -
It's the pension deal which BBC employees have which is basically unaffordable.!! Staff could retire earlier than normal workers and receive VERY generous pension.
Problem was that Life expectancy
has increased so much. In many cases they are on pension longer than they actually worked at the Beeb !!
Agreed , unfortunately I had to stop watching the bbc a few years ago due to the PC woke crap in ever program, and as you say the overpayment of staff.
Apparently, a £1.5 billion pension deficit. All those workers on fantastic pensions for life. All paid for by the taxpayer. What a fantastic gravy train to ride into old age.
Lineker and Winkleman…. Guess the connection
I’m a retired federal agent and I wish those with PTSD, like myself, can see how a simple backfire can be a “trigger”. Loved the mystery! Anymore you can recommend?
Thanks for listening! You might enjoy some of the I Love A Mystery shows by Carlton E Morse. Their Temple of Vampires adventure with Mercedes McCambridge is good. Group of ex military guys go on adventures. Night Beat with Frank Lovejoy is good too. Newspaper man has some well written gritty adventures
@@ChestertonRadio Thank you for responding. I’m just a little Southern gal that had a tough job. I never was in the military but had military associates, NCIS and other groups when I was in DC on the Natl. Joint Terrorism Task Force. So the Pre WWI and WWII are wonderful to listen to and hear the preparations. A huge Anglophile and I even breed British Labradors!! I train them for myself and others as therapy dogs, we’re a bit low on ducks here in Gulf Coast Mississippi, but they are wonderful to work with. We recently rescued an AKC registered lab from Louisiana kennel that was flooded. The puppy was 8 weeks old and we named her Pippa! She’s running the house and we’re closer to the end of Hurricane Season! Y’all kept me company during the storm and luckily we had minimal damage. A week without power was NOT fun. Missed hearing your plays. Better than audio books. PS, not a big Vampire fan. Just good historical mysteries.
You might also check out our WWII playlist: WWII.ChestertonRadio.com. The VJ Day Command Performance show is one of my all time favorites. Whole show is a prayer of Thanksgiving... Includes Bing Crosby, Sinatra, President Truman and more
@sandyconner 1736
Trent's Last Case . ? Anything by John Dickson Carr . The Red House Mystery. The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Most of those are available as Radio Dramas.
Keep you occupied for a few weeks !
Enjoyed this play. The story kept my interest. Excellent acting and production.
Jolly good!
I absolutely loved it. Now a small scotch and off to bed. Thank you
Everything was of superior quality back then even the people
Thoroughly enjoyed this suspenseful production. I was on tentahooks until the end.
That was wonderful!
''Chesterton is the most unjustly neglected writer of our time.'' RIP 🌿💐🌿
Play was written by RC Sherrif!
Absolute classic. RIP G K Chesteron
S L , - R. C. Sherriff, was most famous for 'Journey's End' about W.W.I., although his plays are a bit dated, but are still relevant to human nature. Chesterton is famous for converting to Catholicism and for writing the Father Brown detective stories.
@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 Thank you
Great story
ATTENTION: The playback no longer works. All you get is a voice-over announcing the film and the poster image all the way to the end. Will someone find a usable download?
It’s a radio play, the poster is for the film, but the play here was on the radio with different actors
None of the people in the poster above this, were in this play !!!
That poster will be from the movie version of the same story.
Ohh....To have a Doctor after R.C. Sheriff's making!
I watch the Father Brown mysteries when I can. They are good mysteries. I went on to listen to this one because I found out it was written by G Chesterton and I was not disappointed.
Not sure whether I prefer the movie or the play… first class listen, thank you 😊
I agree. Smashing play but having seen the film it took the edge off. But the main protagonist practically matched Sir Ralph (not an easy task)
I really don’t mind ads, but UA-cam is abusing this channel- I’ve been listening to 47 minutes of this show and there have been 12 ads, several of which were not the short kind that end in 10 or 15 seconds and then return to the show, but were actually several minutes long if I hadn’t clicked “skip”, and 3 had 2 or more ads. I hope you are getting paid, at least…
great
Very good play-Bit middle class...if you ask me.....I can see why Pinter wrote his play's though.
Great stuff 👍🏾🍻
The artwork depicted here HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AUDIO - COULD BE A MOVIE VERSION DOES ANYONE KNOW?
---SPOILERS---
This had a MUCH more straight forward, happy ending than I was expecting. It's not that I still believed so late that he actually knowingly did it (too many details wouldn't really line up with that), I'd thought that he'd genuinely started to believe, despite not being able to remember it, that he DID do it, and he was going to kill himself out of guilt. Especially when he's so resistant to bother even listening to the bar woman's story at the end, thinking she'd come to think so highly of him that she'd go that far to concoct a lie. He just seemed too calm in going back upstairs, like he'd already made up his mind (plus having been so insistent earlier in making sure things for his wife were set well if he'd be gone). When his wife tells the detective she'll go upstairs to tell him he's been officially cleared, I was certain she was going to find him dead and that'd be the end of the story.
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Having listened to this play in the past, I thought he had killed someone as well! In self defense, that is. Turns out I’m the one with amnesia…
Hahaha
This is really a comedy!
Observe all in this play
And then, I ask you to
Wonder, what would happen to the alleged murderer/thief,
If he was from the wrong side of the tracks!!!!
🤔
Hilarious.
Very enjoyable story. Well acted.
the movie is on Talking Pictures t.v ..
I have just copied and pasted this passage from Wiki...
Psychogenic amnesia or dissociative amnesia is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years to decades.
I'm 1 hour and 2 minutes into this and still have no idea if he'll get off with it.
thats it! seriously! they didnt play by the rules , all they said was main character didnt like the steward, thought for sure that the wife did it
Hopefully not too posh
Fine acting, but the story was wearisome. One of the worst I've heard. Still, everyone's a critic eh?
I think this was real waste of an hour and a half. How trite. And where was Jack Hawkins or Ralph Richardson that featured in the intro? It was quite disappointing.
Those actors were in the actual play that this audio is based on.
I think the thumbnail is a poster from the movie that was made of the same name. A common practice among youtubers to use the movie poster for art since radio plays often don’t have art associated with them. (Also possibly intentionally misleading since people see famous actor names and click on that. But I don’t care. I actually think radio actors are more skilled at radio than movie actors are. Imagine that!