Ships - Radio Plays
1972 Peter Terson- The 1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster
1973 Mutiny on the Bounty, 90m
1980 James Follett - The long lonely voyage of U-395 (WW2)
1981 Nick Darke - Lifeboat
c1985 David Fisher - The Manila Galleon. 60m.
1994 Moya O'Shea - C.Q.D.
1995 Bert Coules - Mutiny on the Bounty, 3 x 60m classic serial
1998 Eric Pringle - Hard Row to Porlock
1998 Nicholas Monserrat / Joe Dunlop - The Cruel Sea
2002 J.M.Scott - Sea Wyf and Biscuit. 45m.
2004 Jennie Buckman - Deptford Wives
NOTES
THE WHITBY LIFEBOAT DISASTER....1972
See Radio Plays by Year, 1972.
THE LONG LONELY VOYAGE OF U-395....1980
U-395 is a U-boat. 90m; stars Margot Boyd.
LIFEBOAT....1981
A dramatic rescue at sea.
C.Q.D.....1994
R4 , 25/1/94 , 30min.
A ship en route to Canada picks up a female survivor on a lifeboat, but from what boat has she come?
HARD ROW TO PORLOCK....1998
The amazing story of the Lynmouth lifeboat rescue of 1897. See Eric Pringle page for more information.
THE CRUEL SEA....1998
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat was adapted by Joe Dunlop and went out on 6 Wednesday evenings on R2 at 2130 hrs. from 7 January. Sir Donald Sinden narrated and the cast included Philip Madoc, Paul Rhys and Helen Baxendale. The production was 50% longer than that broadcast in September, 1980, but held the attention well. A memorable scene was HMS 'Compass', engines stopped, motionless, a sitting target for a U-boat, whilst the engineers struggled to do the repair. "Radio Times" reported the efforts of Jonathan Ruffle, the Producer, to get the sound effects right. He decided that it was no good using any old wind and wave recordings - they had to be from the North Atlantic. He went from Le Havre to Montreal on a cargo ship, taking tape recorders and microphones with him. "It's no good trying to fool the listeners", he said. "They'd be able to tell if we were recording on board the Isle of Wight ferry".
SEA WYF & BISCUIT....2002
The story of a shipwreck. 45m.
DEPTFORD WIVES....2004
The story behind an extraordinary autobiography -
"The history of the female shipwright". Directed by
Janet Whitaker.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Asterisked plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
