The Storm | BBC RADIO DRAMA
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Published 2024-04-29
An adaptation for radio of his novel by H.L.V. Fletcher with Mary Wimbush and Oscar Quitak
Jacob Huws - Prysor Williams
Mollie Moseley - Mary Wimbush
John Moseley - Ivor Maddox
Mr James - Oscar Quitak
Tom Morgan - Wyn Thomas
Sergeant Lewis - Ieuan Rhys Williams
Written by H.L.V. Fletcher
Produced by Herbert Davies
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in May 1961
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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All Comments (21)
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This is essential posting. All these radio plays will be lost 4 ever in a decade if we dont change our attitude to archive recordings. The BBC aren't interested in anything but taking stuff down. BBC sounds could be an amazing tool with 1000s of old radio productions but theres no ££ or no interest. But thank you - it brings alot of happiness
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Call me old fashioned but doesn’t the radio plays from yesterday just bring back an innocent that we’ve lost. No need for bad words or sexual innuendo , a absolute pleasure for me to listen to. Thank you ❤
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30 April 2024 - Listening from the beautiful Blue Grass, Kentucky, USA, on a rainy green spring morning, coffee in hand.
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Cosy listening, snuggled under the feather duvet with the dog!
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A good way to pass an evening , listening to a decent play .Thank you for sharing .
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Keep up the work. Archive every thing on the new platform. 🎉 😊 thank you. If not for folks like you it will be lost 😮
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Having morning Joe & listening to this instead of tv any day. Actually I fall asleep to these fabulous stories at night as well. Can’t get enough of them lol.
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Yes. I love a good old fashioned play. A real treat. Thanks
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Thank you for these wonderful treasures. Cheers. ❤❤❤❤
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This play is excellent. Ive listened to it twice now. Thanks for the upload. 😊😊
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Loved listening to this 😎👌🏼
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Wonderful play xxx
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Very enjoyable,thanks👏🏻
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Heard many times & recommend ✅👍🏼
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I love a happy ending ❤💯
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I enjoyed listening to this story than you
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NEW LISTENERS BE WARE SLIGHT DETAILS IN COMMENTS SECTION
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What ! the fuck word was not used 😮
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So she dumped her boyfriend of ages for some bloke she met for a few hours?
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In your picture for this play : Is that a cracked, sky light. window, with a thick piece, steel driven, threw it. ? -- NOW MY FRIENDS this is not a storm -- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT A STORM IS ? -- PLEASE READ ON ? Now this piece of metal : It actually looks like, an old car front suspension steering arm part !!! Which is, highly unlikely you would see flying in the, air in a snow storm !! -- Now, when a twister would hit a state in the Midwest : -- OR : A hurricane would hit states with such high Gran Winds -- This is when some, things so heavy can be picked up ! -- LIKE A CARDBOARD. BOX : I know the damage &, experiences of type of storms what a twister covers through it's not the same as a hurricane.: -- A HURRICANE. can come from 1,2,or 3, Directions that's the same time which is deadfullly dangerous ! Now,, A twister will rip your house from its foundation will lift it at 80 to 380 ft above the ground.. PEOPLE. I. AM. NOT KIDDING. YOU. ! THANK. YOUR. LUCKY, STARS YOU NEVER HAVE BEEN THREW OR EVER EXPERIENCED. A TWISTER. OR. A HURRICANE YOURSELF'S Nothing. IS. LEFT !!!!! . SNOW. IS. JUST. A MAJOR. WHITE. OUT ! -- yes unfortunately there are real tragedies in people die in snow storms. -- WITH ALL STORMS ARE DREADFUL -- EVERY ONE MUST PREPARE, PREPLAN, THE WAY, OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED & STILL IS CHANGING PREPARE FOR ALL OF THEM. -- YOU. CAN -- THINK 1ST. ? -- THEN. PREPARE FOR THE WORST ! ------------------------------------ NOW, I know that I overextended this comment I Just created " just from a skylight " "" with snow "" --- watch and study storms they are all over the world. --- any atmospheric from our ozone layer down to below our Cloud for we can see : -- Could change every quarter year ? -- as now that it snows in Texas Nevada with blizards in California direct me to saltwater line of the sea. --- that atmospheric change could change the different countries those twister or hurricane could come to your neck of the woods.. Where you never hear of twisters in Canada, the United Kingdom, Iraq ,Iran, and Egypt ? Now they do have sand storms which is not a twister ? Well if you read this far, thank you for doing so.!!! !!! --- NOW I DO BELIEVE YOU GOT MY POINT !!
