1967 - Other Radio Plays
The Potting Shed....1967
by Graham Greene;
with Sybil Thorndike, Robert Harris and Jill Balcon.
BBC Home Service, Mon 20 Mar 67.
Psychological drama: Henry Califer, the patriarch of the family, is dying and James, his estranged son, appears unexpectedly.
James, now a middle-aged newspaperman, can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that occurred in the family's potting shed in the summer of 1925 half a lifetime ago. With the help of a psychoanalyst, he tries to recall the event which left him alienated from his family.
Adapted for radio by Peggy Wells from Graham Greene's stage play.
Cast: Sybil Thorndike [Mrs. Mary Callifer, James's Mother], Robert Harris [James Callifer], Jill Balcon [Sara Callifer, James's Ex-Wife], John Justin [John Callifer, James's Brother], Chrys Salt [Anne Callifer, John's Daughter], Ronald Herdman [Dr. Frederick Baston], Brian Hewlett [Mr. Corner, a Reporter on the Nottingham Journal who shares rooms with James], Harold Kasket [Dr. Kreuzer, James's Psychoanalyst], Marjorie Forsyth [Mrs. Potter, Widow of the Califer's former Gardener], Anna Burden [Miss Connolly, Father William
Califer's Housekeeper], and Henry Stamper [Father William Califer, James's Uncle].
Music of Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody performed by the Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra.
Produced by John Powell
The Reluctant Peer....1967
By William Douglas Home, Home, 8.4.1967,2030, with
Athene Seyler/Griffith Jones/Faith Brook. Light domestic
comedy. Saturday Night Theatre.
THE INDOMITABLE PIPPIN....1967
By Allan Peacock, Home Service, 6 May 67. I'm told by Katie, Allan's daughter, that this story is autobiographical. It's a military play lasting about 90 minutes (Saturday Night Theatre), set in and around a prisoner-of-war camp on a remote Far Eastern stretch of the Berlin - Baghdad railway. The year is 1918. Stars William Lucas, Peter Stevens, John Bowen, Roger Delgardo, John Rowe, Kim Ward. Bakshee Prem, Colin Skipp, George Woolley, Charles Butler. Produced by Anthony Cornish; BBC Midlands studio.
In lieu of cash.... 1967
By Frederick Treves
Night Caller.... 1967
By Leslie Darbon
The Greeting....1967
By Osbert Sitwell
Sixpence for a self-made man.... 1967
By Patrick Simpson
The sewing machine ....1967
By P. V. Donaldson
Money for old rope ....1967
By David Ellis
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Above plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
