BBC Radio Plays from 1973
THE MYSTERY ....1973
.........information from Clive Lever........."a play broadcast early to mid seventies. A man has been persuaded against his own inclination to take his tom cat to the vet to be neutered. He's relaxing in the garden and falls asleep. He dreams he's on the operating table, having been abducted and taken to hospital against his will to have the equivalent operation."
Radio Times.....Edward Grock is a writer married to a rich woman. He is ordered by his wife to take the cat and the dog to the vet to be neutered. He has some sympathy with their predicament. With Norman Rodway, Irene Sutcliffe, Amm Morrish, Peggy Aitcheson, Julie Hallam, Fraser Kerr, Anthony Jay, Sam Dastor, Diana Bishop, Leonard Fenton, Doreen Andrew. Producer- Guy Vaisen. This play won the 1974 Italia Prize. 1973; repeated 19 May 92 (ND).
Rules Of Asylum
By James Follett 10.11.1973 Vernon Joyner/Manning Wilson/Francis de Wolff/Cyril Shaps
Henrietta Who?
By Catherine Aird 13.10.1973 Ciaran Madden/Alan Rowe/Nigel Anthony
The Doubting Thomases
By Mike Stott 6.10.1973 Alan Downer/Caroline John/Margot Boyd/Geoffrey Beevers
Darkness At Pemberley
By T.H. White 29.9.1973 Marius Goring/Brewster Mason/Vernon Joyner
Forty Years On
By Alan Bennett 11.8.1973 John Gielgud/Alan Bennett/Dorothy Reynolds/Nora Nicholson/Paul Eddington
Murder At The Eisteddfod
By Brian Evans 4.8.1973 Douglas Blackwell/Petra Davies/Dillwyn Owen
The Fallow Land
By H.E. Bates 14.7.1973 Denise Bryer/Geoffrey Matthews
Rupert Of Hentzau
By Anthony Hope 26.5.1973 Julian Glover/Nigel Stock/Hannah Gordon/Martin Jarvis/David Timson
The Prisoner Of Zenda
By Anthony Hope 19.5.1973 Julian Glover/Nigel Stock/Hannah Gordon/Martin Jarvis/David Timson
Thunder On Sunday
By Karen Campbell 10.3.1973 Noel Johnson/Rosalind Shanks/Duncan McIntyre/Simon Lack/Tom Watson
Abracadaver
By Peter Lovesey 3.3.1973 Frank Windsor/John Hollis
compiled by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
