Please Support This Channel. Thanks!😘 buymeacoffee.com/ThinkingLoud The Eye of The Needle | BBC RADIO DRAMA: Ma Lacey is a constant source of friction in the ward. If only her son would visit her ... why does he never come? I Have No Control Over The Adverts😭😭 rb.gy/ixs3w BBC RADIO DRAMA💖 rb.gy/dma1xh Beatrix Lehmann with Rachel Thomas and Helen Sessions in The Eye of the Needle by ALUN RICHARDS AFTERNOON THEATRE BBC Home Service Produced by EMYR HUMPHREYS Recorded broadcast of March 20, in the Welsh Home Service Ma Lacey: Beatrix Lehmann Hilda Lacey: Helen Sessions Maurice Lacey: Oscar Quitak Dada: Roddy Hughes Mrs Lane: Gladys Spencer Mrs Lewis: Rachel Thomas Alec Wintle: Robert Desmond Edwards: Christopher Burgess Constable: Dillwyn Owen Medical Superintendent: Michael Turner Son-in-law: Dillwyn Owen First broadcast: Wed 28th Mar 1962, 15:00 on BBC Home Service Basic

I love this. While the lead character is brash, the structure and writing are so complex and subtle. This is an absolute tour de force by the remarkable Beatrix Lehmann, who maintains a wonderful character voice despite her distinguished upbringing. "Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 - 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist." Amongst her many achievements, "she was awarded Britain's Radio Actress of the Year in 1977." "There are 12 portraits of Lehmann in the British National Portrait Gallery Collection." "She came from a family of notable achievers: the third of four children of author and publisher Rudolph Chambers Lehmann. Her great-uncle was Henri Lehmann, the artist. Her brother was publisher John Lehmann and one of her two elder sisters was the novelist Rosamond Lehmann." Beatrix's partner, American Henrietta Bingham, was also a high achiever from a notable family, and also apparently quite a character! "On the spur of the moment in 1930, Henrietta bought a Bentley Speed Six Mulliner drophead coupé, and she and Beatrix set off on a tour of Europe going via Stockholm to Berlin, Munich and Paris, enjoying the Roaring Twenties night life."

Interesting and enjoyable. Well worth a listen.❤️

Enjoyed very much.

Friday

Why if 2 actors cannot have the same name can two productions or works be permitted. The Eye of the Needle is a book by Ken Follette about a German WW2 spy. A movie , also called that is available and is the same story and now this but a completely different story. If I was the author Alun Richards, I would call my work something that was unique.

@Thinkingbbc

23 күн бұрын

It was first broadcast in 1962. 💖

@thesmallerhalf1968

23 күн бұрын

Follet’s book was published in 1978, this author used the title first.

@boatguy3800

10 күн бұрын

He did.

@stevec2993

6 күн бұрын

Actors' Equity rules apply only to actors.