After the Fine Weather - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Michael Gilbert
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Michael Francis Gilbert was an English solicitor and author of crime fiction
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, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.
Saturday Night Theatre was noted as the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was scrapped as a programme strand in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in April 1998 by James Boyle, when single dramas were removed from the Saturday evening schedule. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime programme that runs for 60-90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theatre, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theatre was abolished), any return looks unlikely.
Originally Broadcast 11/16/1963
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I listened ALL the way to the end of the actual recording including the news bulletin.....what a snapshot of life on that day! RIP 8 year old girl. Never forgotten.....your life has been immortalised in this random snipped of recording.
@saralee7627
9 ай бұрын
Bless her 😢❤
The wonderful Peter Barker, who reads the news at the end of the play, was still on our airwaves in the 1990's. One of the last true voices of the old BBC.
Prunella Scales. How could we miss? Romance, foreign states, sabotage, political intrigue & heroics. A fab little adventure.
Thank you for uploading this. Greetings from Ireland on the 20th of June 2022 🇮🇪💐💕
@davidryan6616
2 жыл бұрын
🙂🇮🇪☘️
@brendataylor5108
Жыл бұрын
Greetings from South Africa November 2022
Thank you , very enjoyable
Brilliant plus the news at the end was wonderful.
The story line, the beautiful dialoge and the rich quality of the characters voices makes for fabulous entertainment. Anyone who judges the drama just on the story line didnt really listen to the drama at all!
Yes the news at the end most interesting but I loved the RESPECT for Big Ben.... a whole 30 seconds of dead air time before Big Ben starts to ring
Wonderful news bulletin left on at the end. Plus ca change
A newspaperman with "a nose for trouble" is traveling through Italy and meets a young woman tourist. They are both going to the same town and agree to meet there. The reporter is interested in a potential clash in the Tyrol, governed by Italy over mostly Germans.
@simcatman1607
2 жыл бұрын
As ever many thanks Tottie Mae!
@tottiemae2258
2 жыл бұрын
@@simcatman1607 You're very welcome, Simon. 😊
@squaretriangle9208
2 жыл бұрын
Austrians not Germans, German speakers and it's pronounced Li:enz
@tottiemae2258
2 жыл бұрын
@@squaretriangle9208 Thank you for the clarification. 😊
@hectorbrown656
Жыл бұрын
Tottie Mae , thank you very much .
Prunella Scales! Blimey. Love the BBC English almost as much as the cod American/Austrian/Italian accents. They don't make them like this any more!
I may be incorrect here but I believe helicopters were not present before the war. Their first use was in the '50s in the Koeran War.
@anaderol5408
3 жыл бұрын
Agree - helicopters were still very experimental and initially used only by the military (although in the story it could have been an Austrian military helicopter) - but I don't think the flying machine heard in the story sounds like a helicopter - more like a small airplane
@2msvalkyrie529
2 жыл бұрын
@ Philip Hema Quite so. A well known blooper in the otherwise excellent film : Where Eagles Dare has the SS officer arriving by helicopter . !
@northdallashs1
2 жыл бұрын
This story takes place sometime after 1960.
So many of these wonderfully entertaining plays have American actors but seem to lack Italian, German & French ones. Leaving us with hilariously bad English actors bravely attempting these accents. Knowing the location, I wonder why the lack of European actors?
A quick synopsis would be appreciated!!
Story was rather mediocre but LOVE the news at the end.
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Was she gonna marry the first dude who asked her? 🤔
@electrictofumuffins6384
Жыл бұрын
And she hasn't even had her first tinder date yet
@morganlowe3353
Жыл бұрын
@@electrictofumuffins6384 Right, girls needs at least one Z pack kinda situation 😂
My God, amazing how sexist and racist this sounds today! LOL
@yvonnewalesuk8035
2 жыл бұрын
And yet, it seems to me, that there is far more racism and sexism today.
@katharinebarker5222
Жыл бұрын
Only to the woke drips.
@kayi9236
5 ай бұрын
This was first broadcast over 60 years ago, so not comparable to today!
Awful soap opera tripe.🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 Too bad. Usually love the brilliant old BBC radio dramas.