The Storm - BBC Saturday Night Theater - H.L.V.Fletcher
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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, having been launched in April 1943.[1] 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.
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'Now look here my girl' in that Welsh accent - I was little again, listening to my grandparents. Still missed after nearly 50 years.
Great line : "It's silly to quarrel so late ; let's have a quarrel in the morning , then we can make it last all day...
My favourite play to listen to on a winter’s evening.
I can't keep up! Brilliant! I am so enjoying these old plays. I've never heard any of them before and they are helping me pass the time during this pandemic. Thank you Chesterton Radio for uploading all of these gems
What a great play. I discovered these during the plague.now I will keep tuning in. This one though makes me long for the good old days,no WiFi,radio,newspapers,and a snow storm. Even though I'm from Africa and iv never seen snow!
@suzannenichol6077
3 жыл бұрын
I hope you see snow one day. I live in uk and we do not get as much snow as in the past. Global warming i guess.
@nzd100
3 жыл бұрын
@@suzannenichol6077 thank you
@davidcummings2190
3 жыл бұрын
Looks nice in photos,not so nice when your up to your waist in it.
@mandymandy1524
3 жыл бұрын
Oh i really hope i get an opportunity to see snow - my neices were delighted when on their visit to uk they experienced it ⛄☃️
@anaderol5408
2 жыл бұрын
You should put snow on your bucket list - it's beautiful but like most of the elements needs to be respected.
The mention of M & B tablets take me back a long, long time! Love to let my mind drift conjuring up images as the play progresses. Greetings from a Brit living in the USA. Thank you.
Excellent story! Many thanks for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊
Wow this is just great. Such a great story and I'm only a third the way thru and I'm hooked !!!
Great story and thank you 👏
Superb thank you so very much
I enjoy all of these plays, some more than others. This one held my interest right through. Ty.
Beat me to it.. i was going to say brilliant. THANKS
Great play. Many thanks.
That was very enjoyable, thank you 😊
Excellent thank you
Thank you very much for uploading this. This is one of those great regional plays that the BBC used to do so well. They don't seem to exist any more; not in the same way anyway. My theory is that the BBC spent money that might have been used to develop truly regional radio on "local radio" stations, which were and still are an endless series of middle-of-the-road music and phone-ins - certainly no drama, or indeed anything of an uplifting nature.
Thank you
I'm guessing that if it wasn't for your Uploads, I don't think that I would have come across these excellent Plays.... Thank You!
Keep them coming!
Good one ❤
Tell you what, I wish I had their doors on my house. Open them a snickle and there's a full-on Antarctic blizzard going on out there, close them and it's dead silent, as silent as... well, as a radio studio🎙 Great play. Thanks for the upload. Totally agree with the "then and now" BBC comments, at least as far as drama is concerned. They still make some excellent work - listening to two excellent series at the moment - but the regular great dramas, thrillers and classic serials are few and far between now.
Synopsis: A famous actress has been murdered. Police are looking for her husband who has disappeared. He has but one hand. In a snowstorm a farm family takes in a man found wandering in the snow. He has only one hand.
@suzannenichol6077
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much.
@tottiemae2258
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@silverthreadsamongstthegol7643
2 жыл бұрын
I always scroll down to see if you have put us a synopsis and thankfully you have.
@tottiemae2258
2 жыл бұрын
@@silverthreadsamongstthegol7643 You're too sweet!
Very good play but a weak ending. Thanks for sharing.
English BBC would be spelling ‘theatre’ THIS way, NOT that way, -‘Theater’!!!!!!
@mikewellwood1412
2 жыл бұрын
A pedant writes: At the end, they say it was made in Cardiff, i.e. Welsh BBC. :-D (See elsewhere my comment on old time BBC regional radio). (Just for fun, I looked up the Welsh word for "theatre" - it's "theatr" (no "e" at the end)).
Loved every second, except for the ghastly pseudo dramatic ‘music’. I too recall M & B medicine.
Why the ghastly “music” awful,
@mikewellwood1412
2 жыл бұрын
I must admit: the music was unnecessary. It doesn't detract from the play though,