BBC Radio Plays from 1968
Chiefest Enemy....1968
by Hope Lee,
adapted and produced by Hallam Tennyson.
with David Brierley, Ralph Truman and Shirley Cooklin.
Broadcast 24 Feb 68 - Saturday Night Theatre.
Drama set in a Japanese civilian detention center outside Shanghai
near the end of WW2.
A Place Like Tomorrow....1968
by Patrick Simpson,
with Margaret Robertson, John Bentley and Alan Tilvern.
Produced by Norman Wright.
18 May 68 - Saturday Night Theatre
Drama set in Ecuador.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING....1968
By Arnold Wesker. Monday play, 27 May 68. An exploration of the class system, set in a RAF training camp for National Service conscripts, shortly after the war. With Nigel Anthony, Peter Jeffrey, Leonard Fenton.
Dark Encounter....1968
By Vivian Paget R2 26.6.1968/2015 Petra Davies/Richard
Bebb/Noel Johnson.
KEEPING UP WITH FATHER....1968
Part of Michael Davies' trilogy of plays about a respectable
turf accountant. With Noel Johnson, Noel Hood.
R2, 17 Jul 68, Radio 2.
BONADVENTURE....1968
By Charlotte Hastings. At the convent of Our Lady of Rheims, in the Fens, homeless villagers are being housed in the convent until the floods caused by the breaking of the Great Drain recede.. The flood has also trapped two prison officials and their prisoner, a talented artist convicted of her brother's murder and on her way to the gallows. The evidence is circumstantial, and Sister Bonaventure is not sure of the woman's guilt. She makes some discreet inquiries. The story goes from there.
This excellent play starred Flora Robson in the title role and was produced by Graham Gauld.
OUR WEST LADYTON BRANCH....1968
By R.D.Wingfield. If my memory serves correctly, this
was Rodney's first radio play. Frederick Treves / Peter Pratt.
13 Nov 68, Radio 2.
CHOCKY....1968
By John Wyndham; not sure of the dramatist. 27 Nov 68, R2, with
Eric Thompson, Judy Bennett, Sheila Grant. One of JW's
lesser-known tales about a visitor from another world.
Most of the above recordings exist in vrpcc collections.
compiled by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
