1961 Radio Plays
FOR ELISE....1961
By Kenneth Bird. A play rooted in the Second World War, but taking place many years later. An atrocity takes place in a concentration camp, and a survivor, with some co-conspirators, finds a way of evening the score. 19 Aug 61, Home Service. With Sebastian Shaw, Ernst Ullman.John Wise, Felix Felton, Irene Prador, Peter Wilde; directed by Hugh Stewart.
The Intervener
By Donald Wilson,Home,21.10.1961, Stephen Murray/Monica Grey
Man With A Background Of Flames
By Richard Johns,Home,23.9.1961, Frank Partington/Grizelda Hervey
Doctor Jo
By Joan Morgan,Home,16.9.1961, Freda Jackson/Laidman Browne/Gladys Young
A Picture Of Autumn
By N.C. Hunter,Home,9.9.1961, Sybil Thorndike/Lewis Casson
Daughters In Law
By Henry Cecil,Home,2.9.1961, Cecil Parker/Naunton Wayne
Sweet Sorrow
By Ronald Barnes,Home,12.8.1961, Ruth Dunning/Hamilton Dyce/Mary O'Farrell
. In spite of some rather old-fashioned acting, this story of love, intrigue
and murder has its moments.
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
By Arthur Conan Doyle,Home,5.8.1961, Carleton Hobbs/Norman Shelley
The Storm
By H.L.V. Fletcher,Home,6.5.1961, Mary Wimbush/Oscar Quitak. Old -
fashioned thriller. Appalling weather; snowed in ... who is
the murderer?
THE FIRST TRAIN HOME
3.6.1961. By Ronnie Balls. With Frank Wolsey, Ronnie Balls, Gordon Kerry, Alan Devereux.
Recording sent by George Balls, grandson of Ronnie Balls, who also played the part of the Skipper in the radio play - one of the fishermen who took part in "D-Day".
George writes: My grandfather was an owner/skipper of a herring drifter in Great Yarmouth. He was also a researcher, raconteur, and author of books and articles about fishing. He was awarded the MBE for his work in 1950. He also took part in the Radio Ballard “Singing The Fishing”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/genres/folk/aod.shtml?radio2/r2_singingthefishing#
Ronnie died in 1966.
The Truth Game
By Ivor Novello/Mollie Greenhalgh,Home,25.3.1961, Ivor Novello/Vanessa Lee/Ivy St. Helier. Rather strange domestic play.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Above plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
