Deal with Murder - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Peter Cornish
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- Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years,
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Really enjoyed this play. When I think of the terrible television shows we have today. This is music to my ears.🇦🇺
M Ma
I so enjoyed these radios stories, especially on drives.
These stories even consume my grandkids, and time goes by so quickly on long drives.
1 June 2024 - Listening from the beautiful Blue Grass state, Kentucky, USA. This was easy to figure out but still a great listen. Loved all the voices/accents.
The sheer "Englishness" of these plays is so heart-warming. Marjorie Westbury (Paul Temple's radio wife is here). We would hear these plays on a Saturday evening and go to Church on Sunday - seems a million years ago --- wonderful - thank you. With Radio, you have to use your brain - t.v. just washes over you - Radio is Theater of the Mind!
I am from India. In my pre teen years radio was very popular, especially Saturday and Sunday dramas. I was missing them. Missing radio. That brought me here. And yes I agree with you about what you observed about radio and TV. Very well said. And yes I adore the very English-ness of it all. An Anglophile here.
Nothing to stop you returning to those habits is there? Where there is life, there is hope.
@@carolinemcgovern8059 I agree ...
With you all the way!
Hi everyone hi thanks everyone has
I grew up listening to the radio from the BBC - my parents couldn't afford TV, even when later they could they refused it, and I'm eternally grateful. Plays such as these exercise the imagination and afford the listener the opportunity to perform other tasks simultaneously whilst TV demands total attention.
Haven’t watched television for over 14 years, radio plays and audiobook plays are much more entertaining and agree with you, we prefer this because we enjoy using our own imagination to create the scenes and how characters look plus the radio plays are anything from 1940’s onwards with much better acting methods than todays real life acting that becomes boring. Enjoy! 📻
It's like reading; it exercises the imagination by making you form the images in your mind. TV and film impose them on you.
@bobwebb1348 exactly, much better than TV in 2023!
I have always had a love for anything English. My grandfather’s father and 6 of his brothers immigrated to the US. I watch all the Miss Marples just to see the English cottage decor. I also watch the more modern Midsomer Murders. This gives me a little piece of Great Britain to listen to at night. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Emily,
I understand what you say. I feel very similar, and i live in England. It must feel nice and refreshing living over there along with the constant American accent Emily. Warm regards, Dave
I understand I'm half English and I'm proud of it. So I have always loved BBC radio and BBC TV.
@@Swimkid1 Thank you so much for your reply. In my book the sun never sets on Great Britain still.
I feel exactly the same even though I don't have British ancestry.
Emily ,I'm with you.my father is from yorkshire.I live in Australia and my siblings and I grew up on a diet of UK TV shows in the 60s and 70s.
And with the wonderful world of internet my main diet is british radio drama and audiobooks.
I really enjoy the beautiful accents and pronounced words and manners.
We lived on a boat late 60s listening to plays like this , imagination can run amok, great fun thanks 🙏
A boat? Wow that sounds really interesting.
Thank you so so much, I’d rather listen to these wonderful plays than tv any day. I’m sure I was born in the wrong era.
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I agreed
So, so many people agree with you - including me x
Me too😂
I’m so glad it’s not just me who feels this way! 😊
One of the main reasons i come here is for the accents. 😊
I no longer live in England so its a pleasure to listen to these offerings which remind me of when there was " the Queens English " on the rare occasion I watch English Television I am appalled by the way the young , even University Students speak What happened to our wonderful language ? Thank you so much for downloading these they give such pleasure .
It's a valid point you make, and I agree that it is great to still be able to hear these plays so many years after they were broadcast.
The first 40 years of my life were spent in England (London and Essex), for the last 20 years however I have lived in the Sydney area in Australia.
I listened back to some old Australian radio and TV and and no one speaks as they used to, much in the same way as in the UK.
I think it must be due to the amount of travel everyone does, the fact of the matter is that when I worked in an office here in Sydney there were at one stage over 30 different nationalities, everyone spoke English but of course with all the different accents I am sure that it "rubs off" somehow and effects how everyone speaks.
Same thing I would suspect may have happened in the UK over the years ?
Like you, I am saddened by the ‘dumbing down’ of our beautifully rich language. I am so grateful for my education and upbringing, and the stress that was put on English, it’s speech and use, also good handwriting......But that’s another issue!
I totally agree. Even the BBC has many who don’t speak properly. Once they were the epitome of good spoken English. I switch off from radio and TV as soon as l get angry at lazy speech. I write and complain. It sometimes brings changes. Not often though.
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@@philgray7320 If you haven't already come across him Simon Stanhope has a channel " Bitesize Audio Classics " He is an English actor of the old school in as much as he speaks English beautifully a pleasure to listen to .Enjoy
@@chrisberry7712 Please read my reply to Phil Grey
I know I will give away my age, but I also grew up listening to the radio in the 60's even though we had a small TV...but we only watched it on special occasions. I love audio stories...makes the imagination come alive! It is still my choice above all! I'm so pleased I have discovered you!
I am delighted to see that so very many listeners are here! I have listened to BBC and CBC all my life, every day. It's brilliant to know that perhaps we have finally turned away from the BIG SCREEN, if only for awhile. I believe we have done this because we are cooped up inside much of the time. Needs must... Cheers, enjoy and Stay Safe. Big thumbs up to Chesterton Radio - thank you - hailing from London, Canada
@ Maison
Actually ....no one does give a s##t ! So bore off somewhere else. And try to expand your vocabulary a little ?
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How exciting and wonderful this story is, along with so much of the BBC’s content, radio and otherwise!! I often recommend these offering to my fellow friends and family here in Michigan, USA and abroad.
My Granddad came out from the UK to NZ .
Before , and after tv came , radio was king in their house and ours .
These type programers sometimes came on dad's favorite station , otherwise it was change stations - we needed a second radio 🙏🙂
These story's are quite enjoyable to listen to , wrapped up warm on a winters evening .
I listened to this twice to ensure I got it. It was quite complicated but I really concentrated. Love these old plays and this one especially. Thanks for the upload.
So happy I haven't had tv for 7 years. I can't imagine how many radio dramas and narrated books I've listened to ❤😁
Better than the tv love the radio plays. And can still get on with house work 😂
I live in Southwest France and have listened to these plays through a recent stay in Haut L'évêque hôpital in Bordeaux I was teleported back to a different era and listened to these wonderful plays. I deeply thank all concerned into the plays being downloaded. Please keep up this excellent work ❤
Yet another gem my friends,😀👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
I, too, grew up listening to the radio and preferred the radio programmes, even when we had a TV. I still do. I would listen to such programmes as Billy Cotton's Big Band Show and The Black and White minstrels, which I know is not politically correct, but since it was the radio, I enjoyed the songs they sang. It became Sing Something Simple. I loved the Saturday Night Drama and, on Sunday, the half-hour serial. Does anyone else remember The Wall Came Tumbling Down? I adored that particularly and have tried since to find a recording.
How any of these BBC radio dramas espec. the murder mysteries can get a thumbs down boggles the mind
Absolutely wonderful. Many thanks for all your hard work uploading these gems.
Great radio 📻
I absolutely love this.Really is a good thriller .everytime I listen to this I get something else from it.
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There were some marvellous Australian radio plays in the 1950s & 1960s. “Fire on the Snow” and “Death of a Wombat” have stayed with me, though I heard them as a child
" Death of a Wombat " ? ! ?
Sounds intriguing !! Was he killed with a boomerang. ?
Absolutely brilliant, this is top notch stuff 👍thank you so much.
@ Glenda Jones of Michigan, USA: I enthusiastically join in applauding the quality BBC radio productions. Thank you Chesterton Radio for making Saturday Night Theatre available on TH-cam. BTW, I regularly pull up current BBC NEWS on the Internet. Best wishes from Chicago, Illinois USA.
I remember this, so well.
I am happy to recommend this, though a bit on the silly side.
Love it
😊🎉❤
Love these radio dramas. I have given up on the Hollywood crap on tv totally!!!
Wendy- American films and drams always include mention of vast sums of money, sex and violence. Good stories are ruined by pandering to the younger generations. These British productions are classic and for the discerning.
That was a very enjoyable story and played very well.
Fantastic play, really gripping. Thank you!
Listened to this twice! On repeat..
Great story really enjoyable. Thank you
Very enjoyable! Thank you very much ...
I used to listen to these on my brickphone am/fm radio. I would just scroll through till I found something I liked, these stories were my favourite to sleep too though.
A great play thank you. I became well involved in the plot - but I wanted to assertively remind her all along that the police have to prove her guilt... not her prove her innocence.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for helping me get through my convalescence.
Another performance by the great Stephen Thorne, my all time favourite actor.
Fanbloodytastic!! Thank you for sharing. 🙏🏾✌🏾👍🏾💯🍻
Hahaha
Indeed
Can I count how many times, I have listened, to this?
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This is a great story and I love these old time English plays. This is a great whodunnit and I think I no win did it at 35 mins in but we'll see? Great programme and don't miss it, it's very good!!
Don’t worry Elisabeth I grew up listening to the radio in the 50….BBC Dick Barton special agent …listened to this when I was lighting a coal fire….Those we’re the days…and I am still going strong…BEST WISHES TO YOU.
Great story, well acted. I also enyoyed the way it was worked out.
Great stuff Chesterton Radio! Love Marjorie Westbury. Her and Peter Coke were excellent in the Paul Temple episodes.
Jon Smith Yes, I agree! She & Peter Coke are not playing here too? Sounds just like him. I didn’t even recognise her! Love her as I do.
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Thorough enjoyed this.
Saturday-Night Theatre: Deal With Murder
BBC Home Service Basic, 9 May 1964 20.30
A play for radio by Peter Cornish.
With Jane Wenham, Frank Duncan, John Pullen and Marjorie Westbury.
Lynn Harker, an up-and-coming portrait painter, answers her telephone and a strange American voice tells her that he is interested in preserving--her life!
Produced by Audrey Cameron
Contributors
Writer: Peter Cornish
Producer: Audrey Cameron
Lynn Harker: Jane Wenham
American telephone caller: Stephen Thorne
Tom Swayne: John Pullen
Jason Flowerdew, an actor: Frank Duncan
Lila James, his friend: Nicolette Bernard
Lady Mathry (Nina): Marjorie Westbury
Billy, her chauffeur: William Fox
Mr Thrale, a solicitor: John Ruddock
American motorist: Andrew Sachs
George, porter at the flats: Garard Green
Det -Sgt Harvey: Frederick Treves
Inspector Davis: Denys Graham
Bob Hazelrig: Geoffrey Matthews
Waiter at The Raven: Peter Bartlett
Mr Frisby, laundry manager: Hamlyn Benson
Mrs Beezeley, a landlady: Eva Stuart
Mrs Cooper: Mary Wimbush
Thank you for the synopsis and cast members!
I realised I had heard this before but it is still a very entertaining play. Marjorie Westbury was fab!
Thanks for posting.
I found it very enjoyable listening.
Well !!, that was MOST enjoyable. What a trip!. Lol . Cheers 👍🏼
That was extremely complex but excellent!!
This was the equivalent of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity for Murder mystery fans . Anyone who can explain the plot hasn't really understood it !
Wonderful! Thank you so much! Jason reverting back to his bombastic self at the end was a riot!
Utterly brilliant, thank you
Unfortunate that current programming is of low quality but high costs.
Thanks for sharing with us!
Thank you CR. Very enjoyable 👍🇬🇧
I'm sorry I don't understand. Whilst at the theatre she said he was 'learned counsel' and he said there was a premium of £ 5000 to join a leading law firm. At the time at this play was set counsel/barristers were self-employed sole practitioners in a set of chambers and were strictly prohibited by the rules of both the Law Society and the Bar Council of working for a 'law firm' otherwise a firm of solicitors. In the same way solicitors had very limited rights of audience before the courts, probably limited to the police/magistrates court. Indeed so strict were the rules that whilst counsel and solicitors might meet in 'conference' it could only be at the barristers chambers and never at the solicitors office. When at court 'instructing solicitors' were not permitted to discuss the barrister's charge or 'brief fee', this having been previously argeed between the solicitor and the barrister's clerk. Oh and the play was quite good! (irony).
I think she was being a little ironic and informative to us the listeners. Don’t barristers have to pay to join Chambers ? Usually as a pupil l believe.
@@elaineedgar2913 Misinformation I think. Clearly as he spoke he wasn't a pupil, counsel may change chambers at will, not a premium,subject to the agreement of both sets.
Oh those were the days 4 shillings for a gin in a theatre bar!!!
Yes they were...I was on the stage and when I wasn’t working I worked in the theatre box office and used to go into the bar......Ho I wish I could go back....I loved it...
Thank you for uploading this. Greetings from Ireland the 14th of June 2022 🇮🇪💐♥️
Hello, from Argentina, 2024. ❤
Thank you
This show was absolutely marellous!
Don't lose the thread...it gets real crazy. At least my 3rd time over the yrs & I'm still like "Huh...wait...what?!" LOL
Nice still from noir classic " The Big Combo "......
Fiendishly clever plot and cracking dialogue ! You'll need to
listen twice ( at least ) in order to appreciate it . The writer -
Peter Cornish - is a man of mystery. Very little info about him. For me : he's as good as John Dickson Carr . And that's as good as it gets !
Yes i was here 2yrs ago. I think this will be my 3rd listen. Thanks for putting it back on my radar 2msvalkyrie.
Lynn Harker: Jane Wenham
American telephone caller: Stephen Thorne
Tom Swayne: John Pullen
Jason Flowerdew, an actor: Frank Duncan
Lila James, his friend: Nicolette Bernard
Lady Mathry (Nina): Marjorie Westbury
Billy, her chauffeur: William Fox
Mr Thrale, a solicitor: John Ruddock
American motorist: Andrew Sachs
George, porter at the flats: Garard Green
Det -Sgt Harvey: Frederick Treves
Inspector Davis: Denys Graham
Bob Hazelrig: Geoffrey Matthews
Waiter at The Raven: Peter Bartlett
Mr Frisby, laundry manager: Hamlyn Benson
Mrs Beezeley, a landlady: Eva Stuart
Mrs Cooper: Mary Wimbush
Writer: Peter Cornish
Producer: Audrey Cameron
So these are the silhouettes they got for the bathroom signs 🤔 😆
Great stuff
Thank you again.
Cracking plot. Andrew Sachs, of Fawlty Tower fame....I didn't recognise him.
Love the clear crisp enunciation. Queens English all right. Sounds so much better to my ears than American accents. Just saying.
" The Queen's English ! ? ? I am really tired of hearing comments about how marvellous the British accent is compared to the American . As though every Brit speaks like James Mason or Laurence Olivier . Ever been to Barnsley or Sunderland ?? It's cultural snobbery of the most condescending kind. And I'm British !!
@@2msvalkyrie529 Sure it's cultural snobbery?
Not just another bit of nomenclature used to refer to posh bastards?
Clear and crisp was the best bit.
Don't feel so victimised. Not worth your bother.
I am in the United States and I adore this !! 😍
Sounds like Paul Temple actor, Peter Coke! Yet his name is not mentioned. It would be too much of a coincidence w Steve Temple actress Marjory Lawrence, I suppose. But it does sound exactly like Peter Coke! Andrew Sachs is also a genius. Thank you so much for the share 👏👏👏
I thought so too, and looked it up. But it’s John Pullen! Very like Peter Coke, I agree.
@@jamiecampbell2637 Incredible vocal likeness. I wonder if Pullen wasn't a great admirer of Coke's. 😊🙆
Yes, he probably was!
great
That annoying 'signal' at the end, I thought my computer had a serious problem!
Finding the suspecs and clues. A most Excellent who done it one of the better audio dramas .Great stuff cunning intriguing subterfuge like a jigsaw puzzle just the case for Agatha Christies Inspector poirot the Belgium detective 🔎🎭👒🎩👍
Theatre of the mind.
I don't have TV so cassettes cds etc are life line to me because I have vision probable
❤
"it sounds like Sputnik" 😁
I love these🌈💓
I have a bit of advice for the 58 ppl that 'disliked' this play--- FIND SOMETHING ELSE BETTER TO DO....!
those are just bots that 'roam' TH-cam with dislikes...sowing discord. Just ignore them. They're not real.
It is an odd.thing to go to the the effort.of putting thumbs down or for that matter a thumbs up.. On the other hand putting a comment or replying to a comment seems a more reasonable thing to do.
patricia S that’s interesting..
MrBazzabee 👏👏👏 exactly my sentiments 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😂
MrBazzabee IF they can!
The phone on the voice sounds American. But various parts of the USA.
Right! He sounds like he’s from Illinois one moment, Virginia the next. I’m guessing the actor guy. 😬
Omg !!! Such a complicated ending
There are lots of different dialects spoken, not all English is well spoken as these play.. An example... Arightwotyerdoin, translated: alright(hello), what are you doing?(how are you keeping) 🤣
It plays OK on my tablet (Android) but on the Roku stick TV the sound comes on and off ....like a broken mic. This only happens on ALL the Chesterton Radio videos, Other audio plays work fine ......any solutions ?
The Wheelbarrow in the lefthand corner of the photograph, someone explain that mystery to me?
Maybe the pic was from Gardner's
Question Time ?
Was this originally broadcast live? its sounds like one of the actors repeated his lines at 49:20
Also at about 36:00 minutes the cop stumbled over the name of the hotel.
This was intriguing and entertaining but - wow! - has there ever been such a convoluted, intricate plot in the history of crime? The actor/detective who worked it out makes the combined skills of Charlie Chan, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Columbo and Perry Mason look like a 5 year old moron.
😂😂🤣👍🏾💯
I agree . This was as ingenious and witty as anything by the great
John Dickson Carr . More stylish than anything by Agatha or that ghastly snob Sayers. Comparable to Trent's Last Case ?
Good listening
Quite good
Very entertaining. Thanks again for uploading this.
Quite complex and fast-moving. I don't want to give away the ending, but as far as I can see, at the time of death, the will was not in favour of the murderer, so the motive wasn't clear, although it would have been clear, if by some subterfuge, the will had indeed been altered by that time (although if it was, it wasn't obvious to me).
If anyone wants to reply to explain this, can you please precede your answer with the word SPOILER, so as to hopefully not spoil it for anyone else.
Also, did they actually catch "Mr X"? That wasn't clear to me either, even if they did know who it was by then.
I was quite amused by the camp behaviour of the actor friend at the beginning, who became quite the amateur private detective, and who sounded less and less camp as the play proceeded, except right at the end.
Didn't the niece refer to him as "queer" at some point (right at the beginning)? Fairly normal for the time, I guess, which I'm estimating was early 1960s...?
I remember hearing John Osborne say that at one period (probably the same one), it was almost de rigeur for actors and anyone connected with the theatre to put on a camp act, regardless of their actual sexuality, and probably sexuality and camp behaviour have nothing to do with each other, except perhaps in people's imaginations.
Was the American driver part of the plot?
I tried sketching out the plot on a couple of sheets of A 4 . But gave up. There may be a couple of plot holes but it's so witty and well constructed ( and acted ! ) that I
don't care !
Jane Wenham is the actress l think, in this drama?
Lynn's boyfriend sure is a piss poor lawyer. The cop didn't tap the boyfriend's phone? These are fatal flaws in this plot.
Do you see how the
( picture )
" Can deceive you "
Please continue
Reading ?
" Any artist knows this "
" The death of perception "
"Well besides all of that"
This is a great play,
"take the time"
to listen to it
" You won't be sorry "
The Big Combo ...
Too complex for a murder
All lovely to hear Mary Wimbush
😜
Cheers
Tom, played by John Pullen, sounds so very like Cary Grant. Not all the time but here and there.
The landlady, played by Eva Stuart, at 1:03:00 sounds just like one of Catherine Tates characters.
This is a great mystery story with amazing character actors. They have simply divine voices & accents the likes of which you will not come across anymore. Todays voices all sound cookie-cutter homogenized.
Play was broadcast Sat 9th May 1964, coming up on 60 years.
Binky bink - the voices and diction of the main characters spot on. I don’t listen or watch TV as even the BBC announcers don’t speak correctly.
@@elaineedgar2913 I've started to pick up on that too--and Im American!!!
Marjory Westbury the long serving Steve, wife of radio's Paul Temple the private detective of the 50's and 60's.
I got a headache listening to the solution!
Please help this Yankee.
What accent does Billy the chauffeur have.
Thank you.
I am enjoying this TH-cam presentation so much.
RADA rural
A very dubious one! It’s like no accent I have ever heard. No doubt trying to be West Country.
Are there anymore by Peter Cornish
Oh that voice!! Banging on. Not a cop but explained everything about the case. Not using any evidence but he seems to know it all. I’m done. How tedious!
WHAT A PITY IT'S TOO QUIET.