CHRIS THOMPSON RADIO PLAYS
BBC BROADCASTS
15.08.00 Summer of Love at the Buena Vista, Margate*
03.09.99 Skeggy*
25.09.98 Legal Affairs - no. 5
18.09.98 Legal Affairs - no. 4
11.09.98 Legal Affairs - no. 3
04.09.98 Legal Affairs - no. 2
28.08.98 Legal Affairs - no. 1
23.04.94 Blackballed*
15.06.92 Shuttlecocks & Socialism
19.07.90 You Can't Put It Back
09.11.89 Welcome Home
13.09.89 Jogging Can Damage Your Marriage
21.02.89 Shaz, Daz, Gaz & Baz
07.12.88 Yorkshiremen Never Drink Gin
02.03.88 An Act For Every Occasion
NOTES
BLACKBALLED
Industrialists at each other's throats, if memory serves
correctly; Saturday Night Theatre, with Dale Rapley as Mike Ramsden,
Stephen Thorne as Ken Douglas, Malcolm Hebden as the Club chairman,
and Ann Rye as Margery his wife. Catherine Hunt played Kent, Tariq
Ali was Saleem, and Russell Dixon was Ronald Glawin. Produced in
Manchester by Tony Cliff.
LEGAL AFFAIRS
A series about three solicitors in a country practice in the
Midlands. With Graham Padden, Meera Syal, Julia St. John, Ravi
Kapoor, Nina Thomas, Andreew Robinson.
SKEGGY
A play about three couples staying in the infamous holiday
resort...with Norman Bird, Susan Brooke, Alison Carney. Dir. Peter
Leslie Wild.
SUMMER OF LOVE AT THE BUENA VISTA, MARGATE
This play is set in 1967. Col is stuck in England - he's going to
the Buena Vista Hotel in Margate, where he has a summer job with his
friend Pete. Pete is good at attracting girls, but Col has no chance;
he's too sensitive. Then a wedding anniversary changes things....story
based in the kitchen of a large hotel...with James Bradshaw as Col,
Amy Schindler as Sally, Tom George as Pete, Ashleigh Miller as Rosie.
Directed in Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. An excellent play.
asterisked plays known to exist within VRPCC
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