Higher They Fly - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Christopher Hodder-Williams
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John Christopher Glazebrook Hodder-Williams was an English writer, mainly of science fiction. But he also wrote novels about aviation and espionage. He was the son of Ralph Hodder-Williams, who was one of the owners of the British publishing firm 'Hodder and Stoughton. Many of his books are early examples of what would later be called techno-thrillers. He also wrote teleplays and worked as a composer and lyricist.
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 8/21/1965
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Thank you so much for posting this. I listened spellbound many years ago when it was first broadcast and never forgot it. Thank you!
Thank you for allowing me to listen to this..Quality drama x
A very good story - enjoyed it for the second time
Excellent! This was so exciting! I really love these radio plays. Thank you for posting.
@jenniferh6813
2 жыл бұрын
I enthusiastically second Kimberly Kasimoff's comment!
Crikey I had to take a valium listening to that, fantastic.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole flight! These are so good for the brain and staying in the moment. 🙏
Gripping stuff. Great play but never in flight entertainment! Wonderful radio performance. Thank you very much.
I heard this many years ago; but I still find it gripping. Thank you for posting it..It was an excellent production , by top-class actors and also credit to the writer, who adapted the story,
That was nail biting such a great play not another banana
That was riveting! Enjoyed listening to it.
Christopher Hodder Williams, Britians most underrated Sci Fi Author
This was a good one - very good story. Thanks for uploading!
This is a good one! Thanks for uploading.
Excellent play! Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks dear Uncle Chestereton....that was much better than your normal stuff.
Really good! Thank you!
Fabulous drama..edge of the seat stuff.. highly recommended listening thanks for sharing...kind regards Dave 😁👍👍👍
Well done
Brilliant
Great story
Any radio dramas with Dinsdale Langdon👨🏫 Nigel Anthony 👨💼Clive Merryman🧑💼 Just three excellent radio actors stars i rate very highly.
Enjoy your next flight with Ryanair after this one. Good drama.
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Good grief I hope that if I am ever in a dangerous situation on a plane,the people in charge would be a bit more focused on my safety.
@louisbrugnoni1291
3 жыл бұрын
I’m listening because of your comment! Lol
An audio version of an Airline disaster movie - well done and its hard to do giving all those technical directions via sound only. From a production point of view there should be aviation sound effects behind all the in flight dialogue but there isn't just chat.
Synopsis.......he harder they fall -- in this case a new Jet Four which leaves some of its undercarriage on the runway. Involved in the prospective disaster are the passengers aboard and the crew, its Captain Crooke and his handsome, hollow co-pilot Truman; some of the personnel of the company which manufactured the plane, and of the airlines now flying it; and in particular Robert Fleming, an engineer-pilot who had been grounded as unfit because of Truman, and who had also warned that the plane itself was unfit some two years previously. Fleming now has the chance to redeem himself when, from the ground, he directs the operation in midair which will permit the plane to be landed (a procedure this writer used in an earlier book). It's a real squeaker of a situation, and while the story itself is fuelled with predictable stuff (the mechanism of men under stress; solid navigational detail, and a little romance) it's all high-test. The market should suggest itself, Gann and David Beatty have flown this frequency. Cheers from Canada North
Not as good as the film Airplane, that was a classic
I am definitely in the minority I thought this play was overwrought and so over-the-top Doris Day had to land a plane in a film I think you needed to slip her in somewhere here but I did love it anyway and I listen to at least one of these programs a day have never found one that I didn't like but this one well I won't say I didn't like it but it was an odd one I don't know if I'm making any sense it's early in the morning and I may be rambling so I'll stop and say have a good day
@philowens5498
2 жыл бұрын
l agree with you entirely, don't understand all the good comments it got.lt was poorly written and very silly.
Don Juan is pronounced Don Hwan! Amazed the BBC pronuciation department let that go back in the day! Thouroughly enjoyed it though.
@johnbunyan5834
3 жыл бұрын
Keith Walker . Most people, today , would use an English pronunciation of Juan and fifty years ago , just about everybody did.
@Alan_Mac
3 жыл бұрын
Unless you're Lord Byron, of course,
@johnbunyan5834
3 жыл бұрын
I think that Lord Byron has long since passed on ( :- ) He was , of course, an educated man, unlike so many , in England, today (:- )
@Alan_Mac
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnbunyan5834 His poem lives on and he definitely pronounced it Joo-an.
@johnbunyan5834
3 жыл бұрын
@@Alan_Mac . I'm not old enough to have heard Lord Byron speak, but looking at the poem , it has to rhyme with : 'new one' , and 'true one'; so , by inference, you are correct (:- )
unlike all other comments l thought this poorly written and rather silly.
@bnipmnaa
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Especially the bit where the dreadful stereotypical 'murican hero revealed the extent of his engineering skills amounted to a couple of tips on "souping up his car" from a car spares company. Truly awful writing.
The various sub - plots are supposed to add to the tension ! Here they are just irritating and ridiculously contrived . !
Sorry but people just don't behave like this. Pretty amateurish all round.