Welcome, These Pleasant Days - Michael Robson - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

A huge business empire collapses with results that are tragic, farcical, erratic and disturbing.
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[@FrancienDanielsWebb]

Thank you for A Pleasant Night....

[@mellisande638]

Thank you😊 I thoroughly enjoyed that!💜😃

[@lydiamarks8577]

Superb entertainment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Thank you for uploading 👍

[@Lydioski]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@thomasbaillie-carrigan3100]

Brilliant GK! Thank you.

[@factifino1]

How the world has changed since this was made. Thank goodness.

[@Lydioski]

It is like these programs are coming from another dimension. Another planet, surely.

[@zoyablake9538]

The story of what happens when a business empire collapses, and how people react depending on how much, or how little they stand to win (or lose) from the fallout.

[@tottiemae2258]

I'm much obliged, Zoya! 😃

[@zoyablake9538]

@@tottiemae2258 I listen to anything with nigel anthony.

[@tottiemae2258]

@@zoyablake9538 Thanks! I'll remember that. 😉

[@csbax8187]

@@zoyablake9538 Me too! I love his voice!

[@clivejones1152]

Thank you.

[@stewartmcardle8149]

Welcome, These Pleasant Days
by Michael Robson
Originally broadcast as a Saturday Night Theatre drama production on Saturday 30th January, 1982.
With Elizabeth Proud as Elaine Birmingham and Nigel Anthony as Forgan
A vast business empire collapses overnight. To the closely involved, the results are tragic. To the uninvolved, the whole affair seems farcical. To those on that uneasy ground between involvement and observation the consequences are erratic and disturbing.
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
Contributors
Writer: Michael Robson
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin
Elaine Birmingham: Elizabeth Proud
Forgan: Nigel Anthony
Dymoke: Ian Hogg
Wilfred Birmingham: Peter Woodthorpe
Angela Birmingham: Constance Chapman
Daphne Birmingham: Jo Anderson
Denis Ludlam: John Westbrook
Kate Ludlam: Peggy Ann Wood
Blazer Povey: Norman Bowler
Susan: Angela Phillips
Richard: Cornelius Garrett

[@peterjeffery8495]

I am very appreciative of your efforts. These are magical time bending well written and produced bits of "theater of the mind".

[@Lakeslover1]

Brilliant play 👍🏼😀📻

[@debl9957]

Enjoyed!

[@mathonamoore123]

I'm Irish and 47, and I've never heard of the surname Forgan. In 1901 there were only six Forgans, in Ireland. I believe it is of Scottish origin originally!!

[@clivejones1152]

The story of Elaine told in hindsight from her privilege upbringing before the second world war. A rollicking tale of a survivor told by a long term admirer

[@tobyjack9608]

That was a good one! Thank you!

[@martinadarcy781]

Listening now in a sinister world

[@jlm56]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@shantibel]

Entertaining glimpse of a bygone era peopled by eccentric characters.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Entertaining but very odd play which takes a rather unexpected plot turn
around the hour mark . The excellent Nigel Anthony is unconvincing as Professor
of Greek at Oxford : although his profession seems entirely irrelevant to the
course of events. The other " characters ' are a mixed bag of the sleazy and the
puritanical . The ending ?......well, judge for yourself ..?