I am English by birth but have lived in Australia for many years These plays make me remember England and takes me back to my roots.

Grand story, listened so often. Peter Walley is one of those writers....! 😂🎉😊

A good radio play is like a good book. It transports you somewhere else, away from the day to day stresses & drudgery. You make the appearance of the characters band the locations your own. It used to listen to R4 plays avidly, and that wasn’t always easy when driving as the signal would drift. So glad I found this site, maybe belatedly but I am making up time. Thank you for the uploading.

This was a truly gripping story… Many thanks for sharing… RIP Peter Whalley

Classic! That’s all that needs to be said! BRAVO!

@sailorsquatandhisseaman

2 ай бұрын

This is my second listen and I had forgotten how really great this performance was!

Thank you for loading this superb drama. I shall watch my neighbours’ behaviour more closely.

Gripping! Didn’t expect that ending

Nice one Peter Whalley. Thanks for uploading Arch Phoenix Stanton. :-)

Good plot and engaging storyline with the twists and turns. Would not want to live in their neighborhood. Best to choose better friends.

Thanks for uploading. Loved the twist.

The plot is very similar to one episode of Tales of the Unexpected, and, before that, one from Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 1950s. In those versions, the philandering wife returns and is buried in the cellar, which the police had already excavated. Still, nicely done, and as others have observed, from a time when BBC productions did not have to include, by law it seems, THE MESSAGE...

Listen ALL THE WAY to the end. This is a sweeeeeet one.

Thank you for taking the trouble to upload this. I have heard it several times via Radio 4. Unfortunately it does shine another light on the decline of BBC Radio 4's current offerings. The future of radio drama looks bleak whether by cost-cutting, reference to 'woke' or other excuses; BBC radio drama ceases to employ the fine writers, actors & directors that were the mainstay of this fine audio tradition. So sad.

@archphoenixstanton6998

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@kaylemon2286

Жыл бұрын

I❤

@saintessa

10 ай бұрын

Honestly, I spend most of my recreational viewing/listening time on YT these days to find stories... Because I don't want to spend hours sifting through all the crap on subscription streaming services for something that might be good. Whereas when you listen to older stuff before all the money stuff, you know you're gonna find something of quality.

@HarringtonsApocy

9 ай бұрын

This “everything’s gone woke” whining business wasn’t the same in the past, but watch out, its the exact same curmudgeonly behavior every sour old person stuck in their sheltered past has had for generations. You think of this as good, but ask my nan, and she would have said THIS “showed the moral decline” of the BBC😂😂😂. History repeating itself in real time

@ysel6287

9 ай бұрын

@@HarringtonsApocy I don't believe I mentioned 'woke' as the only reason for decline in quality in BBC Radio dramas. Economy is obviously the main issue. Please don't assume that because some folk have differing attitudes that they are all from or in 'a sheltered past', whatever that is. Quality is the main point is it not?

Peter Whalley scripts some really excellent plays!!!

Whalley’s a bloody genius! 😊

I thought that Roy sounded like Norris Cole from Coronation Street.

Thank you for this very enjoyable…..I miss B B C Saturday night theatre.

Superb! Writer understands everyday people and their common behavior throughly! Can't wait to listen again!

Very clever ending !

Wasn't David a complete drip...Let's hope he stays in Wales 🤣🤣 Great play 👍

I really liked this one. Thanks for uploading this. 😊👍

That was SO good! Superb performances and a solid story of truth, lies and deception.Thank you so much for sharing.

Brilliant, loved the ending!

Thanks heaps for the upload. The ending isn't unexpected but it's very well written and acted.

Thank you.

Brilliant, brilliant! Really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Listening to this while mending a sleeve on my coat. Nice company.

@MartysWhiteSuit

Жыл бұрын

@@crispindry2815 One of those summer casual jackets, as I recall.

Amazing. l love the suspense, thank you!

Well worth listening to .

Good one. Heard this one many times and i still listen lol😀

Great it was to find a Peter Walley that I'd not heard. Thank you v much. Power to 🇺🇦 love 🇫🇮 🇨🇦

Love the ending

Welp she won't be missed! Great story Arch. Thank you again for all your hard work

@joantennant5579

2 жыл бұрын

Jhhhj)

@pegallen6983

2 жыл бұрын

@@joantennant5579 Could you repeat that in English please?

Really good great ending

Brilliant play many thanks 🙋🏼‍♀️

@archphoenixstanton6998

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant play thank you 😊👏

Very good Arch👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊

Omigoodness Arch.....I'm so happy you're there!! Here's a big old hug, from two metres away, obviously 😉 👍💜💛💚💙

@hilaryeales1268

3 жыл бұрын

@Hitogokochi I flippin' hope not.....I'd need someone to hit me with a cricket bat if I didn't have his stories to fall asleep to 😉

@hilaryeales1268

3 жыл бұрын

@Hitogokochi I found it, thank you! I'll fall asleep listening to it....👍😪

@hilaryeales1268

3 жыл бұрын

@Hitogokochi I love a bit of spooky goings on.....as long as it's not in real life lol

@liscatcat8756

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment was a year ago and nothing has changed. That's really sad :(

@suspendeddisbelief401

2 жыл бұрын

@@liscatcat8756 Only sad for those who (on orders) stopped hugging their loved ones.

Love this play and writer

Loved this one! Thank you Arch!

Amazing thank you

Excellent !

Wow! I'm so happy you are back. .. Thank you..

Haha! Fixing up his garden.

Brilliant 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰

Peter Whalley and RD Wingfield are my two current favourite writers. Does anyone have any other writer recommendations?

@srinagesht

Жыл бұрын

RD Wingfield has humour too.

@shelbythomas

2 ай бұрын

Mike Walker, James Follet

Another good play ,thanks

Thank u for this 🤗

Bloody Hell!! With neighbors like. them, I'd keep to myself or move!. Lmao!!😂🤣 But this was an excellent play! And a great but not unsurprising ending

@sallyone7029

2 жыл бұрын

Moving sounds the better option.

@sparklemotion8377

2 жыл бұрын

Why?

Great story, well acted, enjoyable drama.

Enjoyed it. Thanks

Nicely done Roy 👍

Thank you

There seems to be a heavy thread of similarity about the work of this writer. Very formulaic…Mills and Boon type repetition. A huge emphasis on adultery blabber mouthed women and secretive men. But entertaining enough

Excellent ! Really enjoyed this drama. Thank you Arch

Amazing!

Thanks!

Brilliant play!

Thankyou

Thankyou fot the upload .i really enjoyed this one i have listened to it about 5 times its brilliant 😘❤

Tks very much south africa.

Smacking noises in beginning

Delightful!!

Good story

Does anyone really know their neighbors, walls and fences can hide a multitude of sins? An expat listening in S Florida.

Haha This should be a MUST LISTEN 😜

Ha ha ha. Very enjoyable, this one

@archphoenixstanton6998

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Is that the voice of Ford Prefect I’m picking up there?

I wish I could figure out who us talking when. This requires a lit of concentration.

@dianapeek6936

12 күн бұрын

I agree. Two of the male actors sounded identical at times in fact I had to go back a couple of times to double check. Great play though.

Listening to something from 37 years ago (from 1985) reminds me of the struggle women had not to be repeatedly portrayed as stupid and feckless as the missing wife is portrayed here.

@xeldinn86

Жыл бұрын

Now today men are portrayed as stupid and feckless

@saintessa

10 ай бұрын

I've noticed that while listening to radio dramas lately... (ones from 1970s+)

@gillps5130

5 ай бұрын

Ah but the errant wife was with someone equally stupid and feckless by her own account. So equality there of a sort.

nice story

I will second that with a hand shake from 2 metres away.......i've got long arms ! ! 😉 🙋‍♂️ 👍

Great story

Side question; the road in the photo looks familiar. Does anyone know where it is?

More like "noseyhood watch !"

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Many thanks for uploading, thoroughly enjoyed it but please I do not understand the ending.. Did, he then impulsively decide to kill the wife after she confessed that she had been aware that he was being accused of murdering her and yet kept quiet instead of coming forward to clarify she s still alive?

@lynneosborne5200

6 ай бұрын

I think so, he didn't want her back so as he was already accused of killing her he might as well do it

@dianapeek6936

12 күн бұрын

Yes, with empty bottle of wine.

I think I've listened to all the BBC radio drama plays of Peter Whalley Sadly, there don't appear to be any more. He's my favourite playwright by far. Is there anyone else who does similar plays? I don't like Agatha Christie (way too complicated and convoluted), and Inspector Wingfield and Inspector Frost just don't seem to "do it" for me. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance! Ian

@maryw6506

8 ай бұрын

You could try Paolo Baldi.

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Aaaaaaarch!!!! :D

No hurry would convict him.

Karma!!!

I am not sure, did he kill her in the end?

She had it coming...i wish David had been found out, too...

How did he kill her,what was empty?

@dianapeek6936

12 күн бұрын

A glass wine bottle.

I have come to 2:12 and I am afraid I know how this is going to end. The husband wants to invite over a guy who is suspected of having murdered his wife to show his sympathy for him, arguing that he hasn't been charged yet. But at the same time, he admits that the guy, who was twice as old as his late wife, had been used to hitting her. In my book, that is enough grounds for disqualification, but I bet the maker/s of this play would not think so and would be bent upon showing that he was innocent of the murder, as if that's the only thing that matters! Well, if they turn out to be better than that, I will put down the passing of this play to my loss.

Yet another dig at Christians. Sad and predictable . Interesting play.

@deerinheadlights100

7 ай бұрын

They don't dare dig at any other kind! That would be "hate" - but Christianity just has to take it.

Cheers for the upload, Arch!!! Second or third time I'm listening to this gripping story, I loved it! @ArchPhoenixStanton6998 !!! Virtual hug from Buenos Aires! 🤗 xxx

@archphoenixstanton6998

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@patriciallamas2050

3 ай бұрын

@@archphoenixstanton6998 I'm so happy to hear from you, dear Arch!! 🤩 I (re) relisten to your radio dramas at least twice a week, they help me to deal with everyday anxiety. 🤗 I hope you are doing great!! 🥰 We miss you a lot here! xxx

Excellent!