The Fatal Flaw - Chris Allen - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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- The Fatal Flaw - Play by Chris Allen
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I used to enjoy listening to these longer radio plays when they were a regular thing on BBC Radio 4. For some reason in the early 2000s the BBC decided these were too difficult for us to listen to with our minuscule attention spans so we got 45 minute plays instead. Nothing wrong with shorter plays but the 90 minute radio dramas were a speciality of Radio 4. It's so good to be able to hear them again.
Down to half an hour now!
You voice my opinion,hardly even listen to radio four now after a lifetime of dawn to dusk enjoyable listening.Little to enjoy now.
100% agree Isle of the radio plays in the afternoon on radio four of the evening please I haven’t listened to radio four in a long time. I didn’t even know they cut their plays down to 30 minutes by God how far the BBC have fallen beyond the gutter. They treat us like stupid Americans. We have a short concentration span. We don’t. But they try to convince us that we do. How can you encapsulate character motivation location and plot in bloody half an hour. Disgraceful.
My daughter doesn't understand why I watch old moves. I told her the new ones are an insult. No thinking involved.
Yes and full of foul language and loud background music.
It probably doesn’t reflect very well on the quality of what is presented today as entertainment if I, a 25-year-old, can honestly say that I love to lie on my bed after a shift doing my job as a psychiatric nurse enjoying radio plays that my friends of my age would rag me about if they knew I listened to them so avidly (we hit the town at the weekend to party like most people of our age who work hard all week…). My dad sometimes joins me to enjoy listening to a play I’ve chosen to listen to that evening, it’s great if that play has us discussing it once it has finished. I really appreciate that someone takes the time to gather the wonderful plays & shows that so many of us enjoy so much and then upload them to TH-cam. Thank you to Chesterton Radio for providing them for our listening pleasure. (My name, Thorvald, is pronounced Tourval by the way, Norwegian) 😊
I'm late 30s, I love a listen to these old plays. They're fantastic. I often walk the dog and listen to one also.
I'm so glad we can hear these radio plays. I was born in the wrong era. I love radio far more than TV. You can listen and relax or get on with crocheting and still concentrate. ❤
This held my attention from the start.
Dystopian! That poor guy
I've never had a TV and I often didn't have any Internet connection at home, but I've always had a radio and I remember listening to Saturday Night Theatre. Always a treat. It's so nice to be able to hear these plays again.
I still think: Radio Drama has the side-effect of being more timeless than movies. In movies it only takes seconds to see anything outdated, in audio it is mostly that old, analogue phone ringing (in contrast to having a smartphone wherever we are) that reminds of such. 🤔
Peeling spuds&veg Sunday roast I’m listening 🍷 thank you for uploading 👍
Excellent, thank you.
Shocking ❤. Thanks😮!!!!
I wish BBC Radio 4 Extra would play some of the fine old British dramas here. R4 Extra has really been turning up quite a lot of rubbish of late, whilst they sit on a veritable goldmine of drama.
Said this so many times, there are so many plays in the archive. 1000s just sitting doing nothing. It is sad waste.
Wonderful podcasts -
Thank you.
I enjoy this so much!
Amazing story thank you
10:45 The best reality check of why a job us not a "career" and hiw co-workers are not "family"
It would be great if you could give a brief synopsis in the introductory notes.
If you listen to the play you'll find that very apposite !
Yes, would prefer a synopsis rather than going down Blind roads investing time in place and then find out they’re not my genre.
Very, very good. Intriguing flat lots of twist and turns thought I could predict the ending but not quite got there. Really recommend this.
It's June 2022 , and here I am giving this radio drama another listen.
Top marks! It makes a person wonder about many other commercial endeavors based on illusion and fantasy being their hallmarks to sucess!!
I put these on at bedtime and usually drift off. This one had me so tense I couldn't fall asleep! 😅
Thank you for the warning that this story is so tense. I like to fall asleep too.
@@MorganMcCartorwell I fell asleep after about 5 minutes so having to listen again this morning whilst waiting for hubby to make the morning cuppa
Very interesting. There’s a Stepford Wives quality to the story. Packaging the perfect author and then causing the real author to “disappear .” My spouse has a novel currently under review by a publisher. Thankfully we are now warned! ;)
So Kafka-esque, it made me indignant all the way to the end! Terrifically written - Kafka would have been proud!
July 2024 and it’s raining here, in West Wales. I am listening whilst I hand sew a medieval hood for my daughter’s partner. Life is blissful.
I’m very happy for you honestly. I am good luck to you.
The acting is splendid!
I can't believe he couldn't see it coming.That's my only complaint: I could see it coming.
Me too, it was a weak twist in the story.
Loved Marlene - how to make a talentless, entitled whining walley into a cash machine. My role model😁
These stories are hugely superior to the modern and woke crap radio 4 puts out now.
The title is appropriate as each of the characters is "flawed" to the point irritability...and that's great because it just adds to the drama. Of all the uploads I've listened to this is my absolute favorite. I love it!!! Thanks for uploading!
Ps - Victor the giraffe is hilarious 🤣
My parents listen to radio dramas in the day. Wonderful example thanks for this.
I feel spoiled with all these wonderful radio broadcasts that you post and I LOVE IT AND APPRECIATE YOU !!!!🙌🙏🏽🤗THANK YOU!!!
Synopsis: A writer with a modest success behind him. A huge American corporation interested in film scripts. The two come together! Suddenly Matthew Bradford finds himself caught up in a world of make-believe that becomes, for him, beyond belief.
With Martyn Read and Margaret Robertson
Thanks! This sounds good!
Nice descriptive synopsis from a Maestro...😉
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@@tottiemae2258 ( Maureen ) good morning Tottie it’s a lovely morning here in the Ch. Maritime I hope it’s the same for you in Arizona ,and thank you .
@@hectorbrown656 Yes, it's bright and beautiful here. It's supposed to be in the mid-70s, our Spring. Hope you've had a happy day, Maureen!
Several possible reasons.
- some bright spark at the beeb thought we could only listen to short plays.
- 90min, full cast productions got reduced in a round of budget cuts.
- stiff competition from docial media and other media outlets meant drama audiences slumped
Cost cutting saw fewer full cast dramas and more where one thesp does all the parts.
Lucky there enough archives to keep most of us going😉
Excellent thank you ... wonderful way to spend a sleepless night!
Just discovered these and love them thank you
This drama is rich with twists and intrigue.
It’s the story of Faust with Marleen playing the part of the devil
Ah...I like that angle! Maybe they could do a bit of a re-write on this and suggest---I don't know, just spit-balling here---some hints of strange charts on Shapiro's desk. And some sexy parties that he winds up attending that take place in some "hip" bit obscure part of town, in a series of sub-sub-basements. where there's more than a mere hint that there are deep dark deals being made with power-brokers from around the world, all involved in entertainment, and hint of...."rituals"?? A mysterious stranger dressed in red?----But maybe that's too on the nose?
A mind twist til the very end. Superb! Thanks ☮️
This story reflects the way society is today, people are more interested in sensationalism than the real story. Everything is dumbed down so it requires no stimulated thought.
It's always been that way.
I have to admit I couldn't listen to the whole thing. The writer seem a bit dim (I won't say why due to spoilers.)
The reality is if people didn't like what was being offered they wouldn't buy it. Publisher is a business there to make money off that.
No, the guy's problem was not just society. It was his unrelentingly negative attitude, which he told himself and others was his elevated literary ideals. Every time someone says something positive to him, he interrupts to contradict them. I'm only 25 minutes in, and I assume that he's going to turn it around (for good or ill), but his agent, Ms. Shapiro, is telling him of an idea that he doesn't have to turn into a Tom Robbins blockbuster. He can make it a modern Dickens-level blockbuster by combining her insights with his literary skill (assuming he has as much as he insists he has). But I'm guessing he won't. He doesn't really have a strong mind of his own.
Unfortunately the majority seems to like it that way. That’s why comic book heroes and transformers make so much money for the studios. I love independent films myself.
.....yes, but this play asks; What is the 'real story'?
@@Cheepchipsable I just wonder how much of the play you did actually listen too. The character of the writer isn't dim at all. He has principles, knows about the subject he's writing and has integrity. He soon discovers that the publisher is totally unscrupulous and is more concerned about manipulating the situation for her own needs, rather than treating the author with any respect for his creative content.
Thank you so much, I was completely absorbed in this story.
Second to none. 👌👌 The play and the Wireless!!! 😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗 📻 funny too, I worked in Halesowen for a few years!
Thanks, this was a good story, thanks for finding and sharing for all us audiophiles
It wouldn't surprise me if this was a true story and had happened on more than one occasion.
I've gone thru this sort of thing, tho in not as Faustian a way, but with some of the same principles involved. And I know others who have been thru that same kind of "mill".
@@RSEFX It still happens. The music industry is rife with this.
Do you think we should call the company Eagle Publishing or Vulture Press? We want to create the right first impression...
It was well-acted but too hysterical and overdone, sorry. Colin. UK.
There was no other possible ending. Great!
Everyone's behind him, yet he's too negative to go foreward... I can't finish listening....it's frustrating
Because he's used to producing trash.
He's just trying not to get lost and give away his soul. Probably should've realized that he'd already sold that part of himself and it was useless to struggle. Take the money and run, then go off and ----with money to support his true interests---write what he truly believes and is interested in....
But then....no drama. No story. Blah.
Creme de menthe reminds me of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's hero . Am I the only one?
Quite interesting start the american influence was irritating! But what a ridiculous story it was in the end? How stupid was Mathew??
It's changed hands 4 times😂
I found this and now, second listening...
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😮 wow!! Thank you very much! ❤😮
Utterly brill!! Cheers for the upload! 👏🏻✨
I miss these hour long plays. There's a real cutting back on BBC radio drama.
The BBC can’t spend licence payers money on producing quality radio dramas and pay grotesque 000,000 £ salaries to so called football pundits for sitting on their backsides sprouting their rubbish every week and making statements about matters they obviously don’t really understand.
I would rather listen to the mother in law go on about her bad feet than this pure rubbish
This is quite a prescient drama as it's been documented that certain writers have been de-commissioned by their publishers for "anti-woke" comments by the specific authors who created the "franchise" ............a bit like "truth is stranger than fiction".....
Yes well it's good the publishers don't want to be propaganda tools for racists and misogynists ..shows things may be changing slowly. It must be very scary for the poor fragile reactionary types having their worldview critiqued and perceived as 'uncool' by the younger generations. These "Anti-wokers" are so frightened they refer to people generally left of centre as the 'elite' and suchlike to try to put people off ideas of just being generally respectful to each other in terms of race, gender sex, sexuality, and co-operation instead of conflict.
If we are for freedom of private enterprise, we have no grounds to oppose the right of publishers to publish only what they believe to be true or helpful for their public.
This particular radio drama is so interesting that I'm listening to it for the third time.
Your comment has made me decide to listen for the first time.
@@avisjohnson6185 you won't be disappointed.
I've listened to this one more than I have any of the others and it never gets old...I still love it
Signed Victor - the giraffe 🦒
Me and my son love listening to radio drama on our 2 hour weekly trip to visit my Mum. Makes the journey so much more tolerable. Thank you ❤
He didn't want to do the rubbish novel, then got annoyed when after minimal effort, it gave him the money and time to do the serious stuff without having to teach and without the adverse publicity/notoriety. Instead he whined and chased credit for the steaming pile he didn't want to be associated with anyway. The premise is 'fatally flawed'.
I can't believe I stayed up for the end of Fatal Flaw. So frickin depressing and pointless. A nihilistic radio play?? I wanna puke.
Great story line. The acting magnificent. You close your eyes and your imagination follows the voices. It was a wonderful story. Thank you
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Thanks for the upload
I say old fruit . Can I bother you to pass me a slice of guinea fowl .
I'm finally back to finish this story, it seemed to good to listen to while being distracted. I read the comments, looking forward to seeing how it goes
Very much enjoyed listening to the play, excellent!!
Driven insane by a society constantly bleating on about councelling and mental health. What, exactly, is reality these days ??
Sounds like our society now
That's a Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK on the title photograph.
Very good. thank you for uploading it.
I have to agree with Anaderol. He was naive in the extreme. I knew he was on a downward path as soon as he stood up Jenny on that lunch date near the beginning of the play.
Poor Jenny
yes.....I actually got a bad feeling after that and I could guess the rest and just couldn't go on.... Reminds me of some Evelyn Waugh stories, esp Handful of Dust..... UGH..... good writing but a bummer of an ending.
Do people remember Tony Bilbow in connection with a lot of these
plays?
That was fantastic. Would make a great one off tv drama.
We have a problem Mohamed. Brought the property 😮
This is a gripping and confounding mystery but am I the only one a tad disappointed by the ending?
What a great piece of work! Exciting until the end, although the turn it takes was easily forecast. This has to be one of my top ten to twenty favorites of all time.
I am finding it difficult to ‘turn on’ my friends to this genre of entertainment, but if you have a rabid book reader in your circle, try this on them, as I have done. BRAVO!
I love them to
Perfect 🤍💗
30:08 "for a teacher you learn fast"?! What's that supposed to mean?
Obvious the airhead DJ hadn't bothered eveb read a synopsis or do his research 😂
Great story. Hard to feel sorry for him.
Splendid
Why he praying 🙏 on the floor 😭😔 at the bk of me shocking
The variety of opinions on these radio dramas is quite fun, and interesting!
My own modest opinion id-excellent! Any British drama-mysteries best! More avail. pls.
Thank you so much for this very clever story. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I think the ending is ridiculous. Enjoyed the play up to the time of the nursing home but after that it went haywire.
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for the upload!
That was fantastic! Thank you.
Like the twist.
Hated the ending.
Why all writers are presented as alcoholic?
That was completely trippy!! 😂
A mind twister right to the end. Smashing! Thanks ☮️
Loved it. Especially enjoyed the overbearing editor.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to always give the dates of transmission? It would be much appreciated - save us looking it up.
Anyway, thanks very much for all these uploads. Hugely valuable to so many people.
Oh put yourself out and look up the dates if you are interested.
@@vespadavidson2315 I do. As I said.
The point remains valid, as it's easy for the uploader to add the date to their introductory words. A lot of listeners would appreciate it.
@@robwilde855 Point was never valid. Try and wipe your own ass.
Edit; due to complaints, if the word ass, or the idea of wiping ones own, offends you, then substitute the words bottom and bidet. Also consider looking up the use of metaphors, for linguistic effect.
@@vespadavidson2315 so enlightening to spew your hate and vitriol on the interwebz, innit?
@@vespadavidson2315 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻ugly way to speak to others.
Awesome broadcast
It's a 90 yr old building 🏫😂
Mrs shonki white 😂😂sheep
Good grief - the main character has a PhD in naivety. Worse he does not learn from experience. An entertaining story nonetheless.
At the back of me my neighbor gone on a trip to iran
Lots of truth in this play. A lot of truth...
Utterly ridiculous and totally unbelievable.
Fantastic story! Darkly humourous
Mathew makes me a little angry. He gets makes enough money to live for ten years and gets a house from partly writing a novel, he doesn’t even have to do marketing and yet he isn’t satisfied. The poor fella.
He's working there🤑
Corpse husband 🤣🤩
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