Saturday, March 23, 2019

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Philip Levine - The Invader and other short pieces




A composer cannot understand how somebody else is able to publish his work before he can. It is as if somebody can read his mind......

James Thomason as Edmund Stanway 
Ronald Faulkner as Paul Farrow 
Patricia Leventon as Joan Sheldon 
Hamlyn Benson as Hanley
Valerie Kirkbright as Millie


Producer: Michael Bakewell

It's fun to hear how much can be done with less than a quarter of an hour.


Alan Bennett - A Visit From Miss Prothero


Mr Dodsworth is happy in retirement. He has his budgie, his bowls, his grandchildren, and his quiet satisfaction with a lifetime's achievements in the Accounts Department at Warburtons. But then Miss Prothero visits and nothing will ever be quite the same again.

Patricia Routledge as Miss Prothero 
Hugh Lloyd as Mr Dodsworth


Greg Taylor - Black Jack Justice - Justice And The Deluge 


It was the third straight day of rain that did it. People had been cooped up for days, riding out the storm, and Black Jack is sure that a flurry of human misery, or as he likes to call it - rent money is on its way. But when he turns out to be more right than either he or Trixie could have guessed, they find themselves on an island in the middle of the city, with the water rising fast. An island of the "gaudy, hard-boiled metaphor" variety, admittedly; but sometimes that's the way it goes.

Christopher Mott, Black Jack Justice
 Andrea Lyons, Trixie Dixon girl detective
Clarissa Der Nederlanden, Mary 
Gregory Z. Cook, Christopher Haydn (Donald Tell)

This long-running series of short episodes is one of my favorites. I love the writing, the voice-acting, the timing, etc.   


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