Warning - the sound goes from can't hear it to very loud in a flash. Not recommended for listening late at night with others sleeping. It is not possible to turn it down fast enough when there is a sudden very loud blast.
I read the book version of this story about 25 years ago or more and was so intrigued by it that I’d have a copy with me all this time. I fantasized about making it into a screenplay and seeing it up on the big screen but I never did anything like that. I so much more enjoy Daphne than I do Agatha, but that’s just my personal preference. Thanks for putting this up so I could enjoy it and I did enjoy it.
I remember reading this as a teen and being very impressed and affected by the story. I went on to reading all her works and recently bought them all again in French to compare the versions.
I am norwegian, not too familiar with BBC. BUT I have heard many radio dramas ( at least 60-70) made by BBC today, and there are sooooo many amazingly good ones. Check out Arch Stanton and Jamie Mason`s uplaods. (amongst others) Btw..I read here this is so very good.It is pretty avarage to what I have heard recently.. DID NOT like the stort at all!! Just the acting!
I actually wished I’d had a paper book of it in my hands so I could read it more quickly! Absolutely loved it! Brilliantly performed; such depth of character and plot; and some history, science and ……..love. Very moving!
Daphne du Maurier had such an exceptional imagination. Extraordinary that she should have written "Rebecca" and that her short stories included "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". Consider the huge gap in time between the film of Rebecca and the film of Don't Look Now. She was an extraordinary, unpredictable writer.
I read this book in my teen years (now late 50s) translated in different language. The feeling that left after reading this book never gone away all these years. Daphne Du'maurier was amazing writer.
My intro to dumaurier was a book I picked up at my grandmothers house once. It was called, "the house on the strand." And it made me quit writing because I had already written something extremely similar and deciding I had no originality, stopped writing.
O dear. I stopped making “art” when I’d witnessed the sand dune formations in Namibia. The purity of form and light reduced me to tears borne from ecstasy I even dropped the camera. No way could you record such an experience. However the experience of such greatness can be absorbed such that it becomes apart of your experiential dna and then………..
Thanks for this. Adore Ian Richardson and have been trying to finish this book for years. Have a strange issue with Du Maurier. Love it, but struggle to get through it. Something to do with the pacing. Maybe this will help open up the book for me.
Many years ago, Ian Richardson brilliantly read a collection called "Art of the Essay". Find it if you can. The perfect reader for the essays. My library used to have it on cassette, but now they no longer carry cassettes. My favourites are the Hunt and Leacock. Francis Bacon - "On Friendship" Joseph Addison - "Sir Roger DeCoverly In Church" Charles Lamb - "A Dissertation On Roast Pig" Robert Louis Stevenson - "On Falling In Love" James Henry Leagh Hunt - "On Getting Up On Cold Mornings" Stephen Leacock - "A, B and C - The Human Element In Mathematics"
Roman Strange. Thank you for making this Radio Drama available for us to enjoy. Every second keenly held my interest. I had been getting bored lately with so many books that looked and sounded like they'd be a great mystery book to listen too. Not so. Twenty minutes in, it went Bla into boredom, and for the first time I hit the 15 sec.fast forward until it sounded interesting again. The book was filled with so much fillers and not wanting to use 15 sec fast forwarding I quit listening. I needed this book, every word used, needed to be there. I had thought at first it might be lame, not at all, it was a refreshing short story.🤗
Great cast, great writer her short story 'The Birds ' set in Cornwall had me spellbound, more so than the film..thought Hitchcock wrote it as a kid 😆 🤣
+monoecumsemper Exactly: if the beeb had its way these old classics would be lying in some vault being forgotten instead of being appreciated by a larger audience.
+Yamam Alyousef Well, there are different archives, private collections and so on. In the end it is all about 'to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield' you know.
I had a look at the "Internet Archive" the other week. I was able to find and download a copy of "Midnight House, The" but when I searched for other named dramas I obtained a list of dates and times of 'airing' a number of "Afternoon Theatres". Sadly there is a reminder that the BBC do not include the names of the individual plays. At circa 20 mb per 45 minutes It's not viable for me to take 'pot luck'. However you can listen to choices. One just needs to search the archive with some patience, I suppose.
Wonderful acting. But also, what a wonderful story-teller Daphne Du Maurier was. BTW, can anyone explain the title to me? EDIT: It's OK. The Wikipedia entry ( which someone below linked to ) explains it.
I was a teenager living in Tywardreath when Daphne Du Maurier (though we addressed her as Lady Browning) wrote the novel, the drug idea was interesting.
The best part is that the 14th century nobility characters were actually "all" real people ( you can look them up 😉) - I guess DdM simply forgot to ask them about their permission, before she involved them in all her intrigues, affairs and evil plots 😊
This needs to be made to made in to a film as it under ground CULT classic in it's own right as the Birds And various works that Alfred Hitchcock did of her works
I love the book but, like the character of Richard, I always found his real life more irritating than Roger and Isolde from the past - especially the character of his wife. It's an easier read than listening! As for the moaners about the BBC I wish they'd give it a rest. The Beeb can't do right for doing wrong - if they show too many repeats, people moan. If they don't show any at all people moan. It's a fact that some programmes were deleted or lost, a lot of have been sold but for me the BBC is still making more diverse good quality programmes - whether it's drama or documentary - than a lot of the commercial channels. They still try out things that might only have a minority interest and I am glad that they do.
*SPOILER ALERT* . *SPOILER ALERT* Eight minutes in: *_A man who cain't say no._* Am thinking of song in *Oklahoma!* - the woman who sings: *I cain't say no!* .... *There is a BBC interview with du Maurier which shows her as the very model of an Englishwoman - in the bosom of the Establishment, very faithful to her past: medals and pictures of ancestors everywhere. I mention this because of the way she depicts the two men, graduates of Cambridge, and the way the wife of one of them is very much an 'unreasonable' outsider to their interactions (a friendship of two lofty creatures, dependent on rules/maleness, and place in hierarchy).* She is a brilliant writer, though: compelling. One of the greats of the 20th century.
The white knight stratagem staring Ian Richardson is a very good Television play from the series murder rooms the dark beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. Although not a audiobook recording it is still a good bedtime listen.
I can recommend the following which are personal favourites of mine, the 1st one has th most fantastic atmosphere & some of th best acting iv ever heard. So here they are :- 1) The Exorcism - A Christmas Ghost Story - BBC Radio Play Uploaded by hisime 13 2) Bad Memories by Julian Simpson. A BBC Radio Drama. Uploaded by Cecily Parsley. 3) M.R. James At Christmas BBC Radio Drama, uploaded by Cecily Parsley ( this has 5 wonderful tales & they are all M R James best) Hope you enjoy listening to them 👻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Who should play the fair Isolde Carminowe / Ferrers in a thriller movie or TV series based on this wonderful DdM novel? 😉 And the other parts? Which American actress is annoying enough to play the part of the nosy and BEEEP awful Vita? 😂
All comments are about the actors.. no comments about the novel or the author, Daphne du Maurier. Did anyone read the novel? No... If they had they would understand this is mediocre.
Yes, we comment about the actor because the story is, as you say, quite silly. I mean, who the hell would take an "experimental" drug to oblige a mad chemist friend?!
i've just finished the book and now delighted I found this masterpiece!
Warning - the sound goes from can't hear it to very loud in a flash. Not recommended for listening late at night with others sleeping. It is not possible to turn it down fast enough when there is a sudden very loud blast.
What a fantastic story and so well portrayed by the actors. Thank you!
Throughly enjoyed this ,,,, what a brilliant actor ( sadly missed ) a master class In how it's done
Wonderful mesmerising DD story coupled with Ian Richardson's fabulous voice. Thank you so much for posting! Thankfully the BBC hasn't removed it.
What a great actor...what a beautiful life with his one time life wife! And their two sons...beautiful beautiful...
I read the book version of this story about 25 years ago or more and was so intrigued by it that I’d have a copy with me all this time. I fantasized about making it into a screenplay and seeing it up on the big screen but I never did anything like that. I so much more enjoy Daphne than I do Agatha, but that’s just my personal preference. Thanks for putting this up so I could enjoy it and I did enjoy it.
Who’s Agatha?
"Who's Agatha?" Surely you jest? 🏹
I’m
@@autumn5852 The biggest selling novelist EVER - BY FAR
@@dianaprestonking2600 have you stolen my brain? That's so much like something I'd say!
What an actor Richardson was, and what an author Du Maurier was!👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
Brilliantly acted. A treat indeed and thank you for this amazing drama.
This story has haunted me from time to time for some decades and I couldn't remember where it came from. Wonderful to find it . Thank you
I remember reading this as a teen and being very impressed and affected by the story. I went on to reading all her works and recently bought them all again in French to compare the versions.
Another brilliant Daphne Du Maurier. Excellent acting by Richardson of Young. Thanks for uploading
I am mesmerized by Ian Richardson’s voice. ♥️♥️♥️
Great story, more like this please. Hi from winter's day in New Zealand
Hi from cold winter’s day in Tasmania! 😄
Hi! Im in HK.
Very hot here and a typhoon possible.
From Newzealand 2024
Thank you so much for posting this! Such a great pleasure to hear my favorite actor again.
Cynthia Brome h
Daphne du Maurier was one of the best writers of the 20th century
Absolutely
Why oh why has this never been made into a movie like Rebecca was? The book was soooo good.
So grateful that you posted this! THank you so very much, what an unexpected pleasure!
If only the BBC made productions like this still!
+Charles Jenkins and the ones they have made are lying in storage when they should be aired !
they still do
Very enjoyable
I am norwegian, not too familiar with BBC.
BUT I have heard many radio dramas ( at least 60-70) made by BBC today, and there are sooooo many amazingly good ones. Check out Arch Stanton and Jamie Mason`s uplaods. (amongst others)
Btw..I read here this is so very good.It is pretty avarage to what I have heard recently.. DID NOT like the stort at all!! Just the acting!
YES! There is an appetite for descency and intelligence and grace on YT. Great stress reliever. These English voices and actors are second to none....
My first awareness of Richardson was as Bill Haydon in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Since then I've tried to watch/hear everything he's done.
Same with me!!!
Have you seen the original House of Cards with him?
And house of cards as the wicked PM... Brilliant..
For me it was his reading of Samuel Pepys.
I first saw him in Jack Gold's comedy serial Private Schulz. He was wonderful in that.
I always loved this man's talent, voice, and style. RIP, Ian.
I actually wished I’d had a paper book of it in my hands so I could read it more quickly! Absolutely loved it! Brilliantly performed; such depth of character and plot; and some history, science and ……..love. Very moving!
Remember the first time I read this book. I was hooked :) Like when I read Rebecca several years before :)
Same here! Loved, loved the story.
So nice to have found Ian Richardson on your channel ty so much.
Daphne du Maurier had such an exceptional imagination. Extraordinary that she should have written "Rebecca" and that her short stories included "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". Consider the huge gap in time between the film of Rebecca and the film of Don't Look Now. She was an extraordinary, unpredictable writer.
My favourite book, bought alive by the haunting voice of Ian Richardson.
Harry Fell p
I'm currently reading the book... so good!
I've chosen to listen because Ian Richardson is acting it!😉😘
excellent, thank you
Few have eyes as dramatic as Richardson. Brilliant actor.
I read this book in my teen years (now late 50s) translated in different language. The feeling that left after reading this book never gone away all these years. Daphne Du'maurier was amazing writer.
I have always thought that this would make an excellent movie or TV series, especially with the CGI effects we now have.
Better the theatre of the mind.
Found this by accident. Awesome. Thanks for the upload.
Ian richardson had a rich,soothing voice,great to hear this book bought to life.
This is my favourite book of DuMaurier.
What an actor Richardson was!
What a disappointment that there is no movie as far I can see ,!?!?
That was excellent, need more of these. Thanks.
Thanks for posting
Superb radio drama!
👏🏻👏🏻thank you!!
Ian Richardson and Richard Hurndall both have such rich voices
Similar in a way, but also quite distinctive. Two masters of the spoken word.
My intro to dumaurier was a book I picked up at my grandmothers house once. It was called, "the house on the strand." And it made me quit writing because I had already written something extremely similar and deciding I had no originality, stopped writing.
I hope you took it up again. Originality is not the highest virtue :)
O dear. I stopped making “art” when I’d witnessed the sand dune formations in Namibia. The purity of form and light reduced me to tears borne from ecstasy I even dropped the camera. No way could you record such an experience. However the experience of such greatness can be absorbed such that it becomes apart of your experiential dna and then………..
Thanks for this. Adore Ian Richardson and have been trying to finish this book for years. Have a strange issue with Du Maurier. Love it, but struggle to get through it. Something to do with the pacing. Maybe this will help open up the book for me.
My favourite book, I reread it about every couple of years.
Thank you. Can we have more
Many years ago, Ian Richardson brilliantly read a collection called "Art of the Essay". Find it if you can. The perfect reader for the essays. My library used to have it on cassette, but now they no longer carry cassettes. My favourites are the Hunt and Leacock.
Francis Bacon - "On Friendship"
Joseph Addison - "Sir Roger DeCoverly In Church"
Charles Lamb - "A Dissertation On Roast Pig"
Robert Louis Stevenson - "On Falling In Love"
James Henry Leagh Hunt - "On Getting Up On Cold Mornings"
Stephen Leacock - "A, B and C - The Human Element In Mathematics"
Roman Strange. Thank you for making this Radio Drama available for us to enjoy.
Every second keenly held my interest.
I had been getting bored lately with so many books that looked and sounded like they'd be a great mystery book to listen too. Not so. Twenty minutes in, it went Bla into boredom, and for the first time I hit the 15 sec.fast forward until it sounded interesting again. The book was filled with so much fillers and not wanting to use 15 sec fast forwarding I quit listening.
I needed this book, every word used, needed to be there. I had thought at first it might be lame, not at all, it was a refreshing short story.🤗
Ian Richardson = priceless !
yes his voice,tone ,and modulation are a priceless gift this man had.
Ugh, I didn’t want it to end!!!
Great cast, great writer her short story 'The Birds ' set in Cornwall had me spellbound, more so than the film..thought Hitchcock wrote it as a kid 😆 🤣
Super 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Professionally performed excellent quality-very enjoyable sci-fi mystery thriller.
My favourite Daphne du Maurier is the Kings General, but I have never heard of it in film.
Excellent
It's like he's still alive. This clip is new to me.
Thank you !!
superb.
Love Ian Richardson!
+DaMon Turnbull So do I.
if only the BBC didn't delete most of the uploads...!
+monoecumsemper
Exactly: if the beeb had its way these old classics would be lying in some vault being forgotten instead of being appreciated by a larger audience.
how can we keep those treasures? most of them are disappearing. Are there any other sources?
+Yamam Alyousef Well, there are different archives, private collections and so on. In the end it is all about 'to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield' you know.
Thank you.
Why do they do that?T
They won't repeat them & BBC radio is licence free....so where's the harm?
Wondrous!
I had a look at the "Internet Archive" the other week. I was able to find and download a copy of "Midnight House, The" but when I searched for other named dramas I obtained a list of dates and times of 'airing' a number of "Afternoon Theatres". Sadly there is a reminder that the BBC do not include the names of the individual plays. At circa 20 mb per 45 minutes It's not viable for me to take 'pot luck'. However you can listen to choices. One just needs to search the archive with some patience, I suppose.
Love tbis book, read it as a teen a few times. I wish they could make a movie of it somehow.
If only the ABC put these up each night...great shows.
Unforgettable. If you like stories of the other side, you'll like "The Gables" here on YT: th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html ---Claud.
Marvellous ❤
very enjoyable
Wonderful acting. But also, what a wonderful story-teller Daphne Du Maurier was.
BTW, can anyone explain the title to me? EDIT: It's OK. The Wikipedia entry ( which someone below linked to ) explains it.
I remember listening to this in bed one night and wondered if I was hallucinating.
Why is this the only adaptation? It’s a cracking book.
Seeing as us licence payer's fund the BBC they should have every file available for upload? Bastards
@Becky Zaugg every need
Don't you people swear casually, anyway? I mean not as excessively as the urbanized American, but still...
bascet1 Seeing as we... fund...
Yes they are.
magnifico...
I was a teenager living in Tywardreath when Daphne Du Maurier (though we addressed her as Lady Browning) wrote the novel, the drug idea was interesting.
Brilliant novel by DdM - really wish someone would turn this into a Sci-Fi thriller movie or TV-series 😎
Includes another great radio voice: Richard Hurndall.
oh to have that voice
great
The best part is that the 14th century nobility characters were actually "all" real people ( you can look them up 😉) - I guess DdM simply forgot to ask them about their permission, before she involved them in all her intrigues, affairs and evil plots 😊
This needs to be made to made in to a film as it under ground CULT classic in it's own right as the Birds And various works that Alfred Hitchcock did of her works
I love the book but, like the character of Richard, I always found his real life more irritating than Roger and Isolde from the past - especially the character of his wife. It's an easier read than listening! As for the moaners about the BBC I wish they'd give it a rest. The Beeb can't do right for doing wrong - if they show too many repeats, people moan. If they don't show any at all people moan. It's a fact that some programmes were deleted or lost, a lot of have been sold but for me the BBC is still making more diverse good quality programmes - whether it's drama or documentary - than a lot of the commercial channels. They still try out things that might only have a minority interest and I am glad that they do.
The unfortunately wild fluctuations in volume in the actors' voices made this intolerable to me....oh well.
I agree. I had thought it was my phone!
Yes poor quality sound unable to follow this intreiging storey.
the sound is getting lower and lower ..... but it's fab....wish the sound was better
Great radio drama but spoiled by poor sound quality in sections of vt, but still enjoyed it thanks
I'm glad to read this comment, as I thought it was my phone!
It’s in stereo.
Why no summary??
What happened to the sound not the best sound.
Bill was a real bro. He kept Richards secret. His wife was god awful.
I don't think Richard would have been happy in America.
Read the book many years ago.
Edward III actually reigned from 1327-1377
*SPOILER ALERT*
.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Eight minutes in:
*_A man who cain't say no._* Am thinking of song in *Oklahoma!* - the woman who sings: *I cain't say no!* ....
*There is a BBC interview with du Maurier which shows her as the very model of an Englishwoman - in the bosom of the Establishment, very faithful to her past: medals and pictures of ancestors everywhere. I mention this because of the way she depicts the two men, graduates of Cambridge, and the way the wife of one of them is very much an 'unreasonable' outsider to their interactions (a friendship of two lofty creatures, dependent on rules/maleness, and place in hierarchy).* She is a brilliant writer, though: compelling. One of the greats of the 20th century.
You are my fav nnThe
Terrible audio quality. Far too much compression.
The only drug-induced mind/body-altering literary moments I have ever enjoyed were in "Alice In Wonderland."
Can anyone tell me a good British play just something that is easy listening .A bed time story
Steve Eyre anything by RD WINGFIELD
eugene freda thank you
Steve Eyre your very welcome
The white knight stratagem staring Ian Richardson is a very good Television play from the series murder rooms the dark beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. Although not a audiobook recording it is still a good bedtime listen.
I can recommend the following which are personal favourites of mine, the 1st one has th most fantastic atmosphere & some of th best acting iv ever heard. So here they are :-
1) The Exorcism - A Christmas Ghost Story - BBC Radio Play
Uploaded by hisime 13
2) Bad Memories by Julian Simpson. A BBC Radio Drama.
Uploaded by Cecily Parsley.
3) M.R. James At Christmas
BBC Radio Drama, uploaded by
Cecily Parsley
( this has 5 wonderful tales & they are all M R James best)
Hope you enjoy listening to them 👻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Wish I had read the book instead of listening to this first
Another American? And yet her name is Vita. Can't escape us!
Who should play the fair Isolde Carminowe / Ferrers in a thriller movie or TV series based on this wonderful DdM novel? 😉
And the other parts?
Which American actress is annoying enough to play the part of the nosy and BEEEP awful Vita? 😂
The actress does a great job of playing a super annoying American wife.
This is nothing like the novel.
Will have to hear this storey on audio books at least the sound qaulity won't suffer.
I very much enjoy being a freeloader, especially so as to aggravate people like bascet 1 from 8 months ago.
Volume is rubbish
Are you?
@@984francis That's a bit personal,I'm sure shosana is not a rubbish person.
All comments are about the actors.. no comments about the novel or the author, Daphne du Maurier. Did anyone read the novel? No... If they had they would understand this is mediocre.
Yes, we comment about the actor because the story is, as you say, quite silly. I mean, who the hell would take an "experimental" drug to oblige a mad chemist friend?!