So Then I Became A Lord
Article in Punch about troubles with car insurance.
Read it here
The Euro
Five minute magazine piece for Radio 4's 'Afternoon Shift' broadcast in '97.
Read it here
Country Week
Article for Country Life about Norfolk.
Read it here
My Village
Longer article for Country Life about Ambridge.
Read it here
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Timothy Bentinck
BBC Radio Plays
1978 - 2020
Flight Into a Wilderness by DON TAYLOR
Narrated by Conrad Phillips
1660: with the rout of the Puritans at the Restoration of the Stuarts, two former commanders in Cromwell's army find themselves fugitives and flee to New England to escape Royalist retribution. The story and characters are based on fact.
Music composed by DEREK BOURGEOIS
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
medium only
Jack's Wedding by DAVID BUCKLEY with The eve of the wedding is a traditional time for second thoughts, but when you are actually standing at the altar it's a bit late ... Or is it?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
A novel without a hero by William Makepeace Thackeray dramatised for radio in ten parts by Michael Kittermaster
with Sarah Badel as Becky, Petra Markham as Amelia, Timothy West as Joseph Sedley, Henry Knowles as George Osborne, John Pullen as Rawdon Crawley, Sean Barrett as William Dobbin and Alec McCowen as Thackeray
In which the Manager of the Performance, the Puppet Master, removes his characters to one of the gayest and most brilliant little capitals in Europe - Brussels, where all the Vanity Fair booths are laid out with the most tempting liveliness and splendour. What is Mrs Rawdon Crawley to do but to shine out in the great company of lords and ladies and fashionable persons who throng the town?
With Margaret Ward as Lady Bareacres, Fred Bryant as General Tufto, Gregory de Polnay as Isidor and Harold Kasket as the Corsican tyrant, Napoleon
(Timothy West is in 'The Homecoming' at the Garrick Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
The Investiture by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with The young. wounded Major Reed has returned on leave during the First World War. He is also going to an Investiture at the Palace. But there is a mvstery over an ex-compatriot in the line, Charles Shanklin , only one of several events to disturb his peace of mind ...
MARY NASH (piano) Directed bv
RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Wednesday
15 November
1978
15.05
Giving Up. a comedy by J. C. W. BROOK
A man gets up and goes to work and decides to give up smoking. A simple story you might say, but this time we hear it from the point of view of the various organs in his body - the inside story as it were.
The man's Brain is played by John Pullen and the other parts by ERIC ALLAN , TIM BENTINCK , ANDREW BRANCH, FRED BRYANT , JOHN GABRIEL , BRIAN HAINES , HENRY KNOWLES , ANTHONY NEW-LANDS, NIGEL LAMBERT , DANNY SCHILLER , MICHAEL SPICE, PHILIP SULLY , PHILIP VOSS , PETER WICKHAM and MANNING WILSON
Directed by GERRY JONES
Thursday
16 November
1978
15.35
A Life Here Between Us by JANE BEESON
' How much longer am I going on, standin' at the sink all day, no money to shop with, and buckets stood all round the house to catch the leaks? When's it coming to an end? '
Starved of any glamour in her life, Eve gets herself financially involved with a travelling salesman over the purchase of new clothes ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Against all Natural
Instincts by JOAN LOCK
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
Tuesday
28 November
1978
11.00
Barrable's Caper by PETER RUSSELL with Barry Evans as Dave Young Dave is having a lean spell, so he gets a job. He's quietly building this wall in this garden when the lady of the house asks him in for this drink; and before he knows where he is, he's blackmailed into helping out with the perfect robbery. But there is also this dog, a basenji, that can' bark. The alibi is impeccable. Or is it?
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
A novel without a hero by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY and 10: The End of the Puppet Show
In which some of our puppets visit the little ducal town of Pumpernickel, where schinken. braten and kartoffeln are consumed in great quantities and in which our two heroines find their different booths in Vanity Fair before the Manager of our Performance, the Puppet Master, reluctantly - Ah Vanitas, Vanitatum - shuts up the box and his puppets. with young Georgy
Signature tune composed by MICHAEL STEER
Technical assistance to the puppets of Vanity Fair was graciously given by JOCK FARRELL, PENNY LEICESTER and ENYD CLOWES Directed by DAVID SPENSER
4.31 Announcements
Saturday
9 December
1978
14.30
The BBC Repertory Company in I Know An Old Lady ... A play for radio by BETTY DAVIES
It all began when the old lady, confined to her room in a block of high-rise flats, was sent a dead fly. Other animals were to follow. Were the children in the flats just trying to frighten her? Or was there a more sinister motive behind her receipt of this menagerie?
Marilyn ALISON DRAPER Joanna ... JENNIFER PIERCEY Mrs White .HiLDA KRISEMAN Other parts played by TIM BENTINCK , ROGER HAMMOND , AMANDA MURRAY
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
Saturday
16 December
1978
20.55
Being a way to pass the time pleasantly with a dip into Samuel Pepys 's own collection of Chap-books as selected by Norman Tozer from the edition of Roger Thomp son of the University of East Anglia at Norwich.
The Histories, Jests, Magic. Amorous Tales, and Accounts of Rogues and Fools, told by TIMOTHY BATESON
TIM BENTINCK , ALISON DRAPER, PRUNELLA SCALES, DANNY SCHILLER, ROY SPENCER , and PETER WICKHAM and played and sung by MEMBERS OF THE ALBION BAND. Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Saturday
23 December
1978
20.30
Dear Octopus by DODIE smith, adapted for radio by CYNTHIA PUGHE with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Robert Harris
A revival of Dodie Smith's delightfully nostalgic play set in the home of Charles and Dora Randolph on the occasion of their Golden Wedding anniversary.
Directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
9.58 Weather
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
A radio version by Tom Stoppard based on his original stage play.
with Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz and Freddie Jones as the Player
"An erudite comedy, punning, far-jetched, leaping from depth to dizziness" (THE OBSERVER)
A farce by ARTHUR W. PINERO with Nigel Stock. Jill Ben nett. Charles Gray , Maria Aitken. Anthony Daniels , Jonathan Cecil
The magistrate, circumspect and scrupulously just, has married a widow with a young son. But his wife has deceived him and the son leads him astray.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Nigel Stock is in 'Look After Lulu ' at the Hay-market Theatre, London)
9.58 Weather
Thursday
28 December
1978
15.35
Afternoon Theatre: All Those Women
by David Wheeler
with Richard Hurndall as Stephen Ryan
An elderly art collector who has prided himself always on his taste in women, wishes to see them all again before he dies, so that he can leave his collection to the one who most recalls the pleasures of the past. But memory is so unreliable...
A feature about
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Written and presented by Michael Meyer with Colin Blakely as Herman Melville
In one sad respect, the author of Moby Dick was unique among great novelists. He was both famous and forgotten in his lifetime.
Born in New York, he was 20 when he signed on as a cabin boy - a deeply shocking experience. His later adventures as a whaler, deserter and mutineer were described in his novels Typee and Omoo, which were successful, and in his masterpiece Moby Dick , which was a failure. Two years after Moby Dick , a fire at his publishers' destroyed his books and the plates from which they had been printed. They were not reprinted during his lifetime. Billy Budd , finished just before his death, was accidentally discovered some 30 years later, with TIM BENTINCK
JOE DUNLOP , ADRIAN BGAN
PAUL MAXWELL , BILL MONKS PENELOPE REYNOLDS
EVA STUART and HARRY TOWB Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Moby Dick : tomorrow 7.20)
Patrick Mower in The Humane Solution by STEVE GALLAGHER with Peter Pacey Malcolm Hayes and Anthony Hall
A journalist and his photographer are fog-bound at an airport in Holland. The situation seems unusual - until the story breaks around them. A scoop! But the implications behind the story make it unlikely that the truth will ever be revealed. Can silence be bought at a price? And are there possibly occasions when an end can justify the means?
Other parts played by BILL MONKS , TIM BENTINCK , EVA STUART and members of the cast.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
A radio version by Tom Stoppard based ou his original stage play \ and Tragedians and others
TIM BENTINCK , ANDREW BRANCH, ROGER HAMMOND , PHILIP SULLY , PHILIP VOSS and PETER WICKHAM
Music by MARC WILKINSON Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
An erudite comedy, punning, far-fetched, leaping from depth to dizziness
(THE OBSERVER)
by CHARLES KINGSLEY 6: Homeward Bound
Three years have Amyas Leigh and his dwindling band of seafarers lived and fought and survived in the South American jungles, until one brilliant coup enables them to gain the treasure they need to return home ...
Narrator WILLIAM SQUIRE
Commandant.TIM BENTINCK Don Alvarez JOHN BULL
Other parts played by DEREK GRAHAM , TIM MEATS
Music composed and conducted by NICHOLAS MARSHALL
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
4.30 Announcements
by ANDREY SINYAVSKY adapted for radio by HALLAM TENNYSON from the translation of MAX HAYWARD and KYRIL FITZLYON with Paul Scofleld as Andrey and ERIC ALLAN , SEAN BARRETT, TIMOTHY BATESON , TIM BENTINCK , MALCOLM HAYES , JOHN HOLLIS , STEFAN KALIPHA , HAROLD KASKET , HILDA KRISEMAN ,GEOFFREY MATTHEWS , DANNY SCHILLER , PHILIP SULLY and DAVID SWIFT as the Chorus
Andrey Sinyavsky was sentenced to six years in a Soviet labour camp in 1965. A Voice from the Chorus is compiled from the 4etters he wrote to his wife. Songs composed by STEPHEN OLIVER
JOHN TOMLINSON (singer) ANTHEA GIFFORD (guitar)
TOMMY REILLY (harmonica) Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON
Paul Scofield , speaking light as paper and hard as steel ...y managed to slide, within seconds, from lofty meditation to the ludicrous. (OBSERVER)
The Greenhill Pals by BRIAN THOMPSON
(Leslie Sands is a National Theatre player)
A dip into Samuel Pepys's own collection of Chap-books as selected by Norman Tozer from the edition of Roger Thompson of the University of East Anglia at Norwich.
The Histories, Jests, Magic. Amorous Tales, and Accounts of Rogues and Fools, told by TIMOTHY BATESON, TIM BENTINCK , ALISON DRAPER , PRUNELLA SCALES, DANNY SCHILLER , ROY SPENCER and PETER WICKHAM, and played and sung by THE CITY WAITES Under the direction of DOUG WOOTON. Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT followed by an interlude
A feature about Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Written and presented by Michael Meyer
TIM BENTINCK
JOE DUNLOP. ADRIAN EGAN
PAUL MAXWELL. BILL MONKS PENELOPE REYNOLDS ,
EVA STUART and HARRY TOWB
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(First broadcast on R4VK)
A history in 26 parts, In the words of those who have made the history. 16: Master Mariner
To be captain of a ship has always been one of the most demanding and many-sided responsibilities an ordinary citizen can undertake. What sort of men has it produced?
Readers: LEONARD MAGUIRE , JOE DUNLOP , ANTHONY NEWLANDS , MICHAEL GOLDIE , ANTHONY HALL , RONALD BADDILEY, DAVID ASHFORD , BILL MONKS, TIMOTHY BENTINCK , KATHLEEN HELME , CAROLE BOYD , JOHN HOLLIS
Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhill, Director, National Maritime Museum
Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Book, same title, published by BBC Publications and Hutchinson, £5.95 paperback, £9.95 hardback
Saturday
27 December
1980
15.25
bv PAUL HYLAND
A portrait of St Boniface of Crediton. Apostle to Germany (680-754)
'A man of piety and energy about whom a surprising amount is known, mostly because as a missionary administrator, he wrote many letters and many of these letters have survived. The portrait was illumined, as in a medieval manuscript. by a melodious production and by the comment of Dame Felicitas Corrigan. Appropriate that St Boniface, who in his lifetime was venerated by many nuns, should be appraised by this wise and beautifully spoken religious.' (THE GUARDIAN) with contributions by Professor E. W. F. Tomlin, CBE, and Peter Cousins Narrator NEIL STACY Musical research and direction by CHRISTOPHER WALKER with members of SS Peter and Paul Cath edral Choir, Clifton
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN . BBC Bristol
Stop Me if You've Heard it Before
A rearrangement of an old fairytale by SARAH MAXWELL with and The toad needs to be kissed by a princess to be turned back into a handsome prince. Any old princess will do ...
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Nicky Henson is a National Theatre player) High Midnight bv GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS When Ringo rides into town to claim Dallas as his woman, he guns down Marshall Snelgrove. The Kid picks up his badge, but as High Noon has already passed, gives
Ringo till midnight to git outa town.
The ' High midnight ' song played and sung by TIM BENTINCK Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Thursday
28 November
1985
10.30
Tripe by FRANCIS GIBBONS
Read by Timothy Bentinck Producer DIANE CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham
Level byMARKCHILDS
Read by Timothy Bentinck
'I don't know how far we went down but it felt like we were going to the centre of the earth.
Then the lift stopped, the doors opened, we showed the guard at the door our passes and we were out. Level 5.'
Producer diane CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham
Sunday
30 September
1990
14.30
Typhoid Mary
Shirley Gee 's award-winning play based on the true story of a typhoid-carrier.
With Helen Horton ,
Nicolette McKenzie , Andrew Branch , Tim Bentinck , Alan Tilvern , Rod Beacham ,
Harry Towb and John Bull. Director David Spenser. Stereo
speaks for the Week's Good Cause about a charity which supports and provides information for people who have terminated a pregnancy as a result of an abnormality.
DONATIONS TO: SATFA (Support around
Termination for Abnormality), [address removed]
CREDIT CARDS: (0171) [number removed]
A five-part anthology in celebration of parenthood, featuringTim Bentinck , Lindsay Duncan ,
Barbara Rynn and Geoffrey Palmer. Introduced by poet Kate Clanchy. 1: Conception and Pregnancy Director Lindsay Leonard. Repeated from 10.45am
The actor Timothy Bentinck, who plays David Archer in The Archers, appeals on behalf of Counsel and Care, charity that gives help and advice to older people.
Donations: Counsel and Care, [address removed]
Credit cards: [number removed]
Repeated from Sunday at 7.55am
The Beaux' Stratagem
George Farquhar 's Restoration comedy in which two penniless dandies flee London society for the countryside and evolve a stratagem for each to ensnare a wife of fortune and beauty. Adapted and directed by John Tydeman.
Producer Nicolas Soames
6/10. Art critic and presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon and actor Tim Bentinck (David in The Archers) join Sue MacGregor to talk about the books they love. producer Beth O'Dea Repeated on Sunday at 11pm
BBC Radio 4 - 1980-01-16, 12-27
Double Act
A selection of plays from the series
Just Before Midnight Mr Bruin who Once Drove the Bus by DON HAWORTH with strive to arrive more punctually. Make it your aim your target, your goal. So that one day we shall have the pleasure of chiselling on your head-stone .......... .. Mr Bruin, as everontime.'' '
Directed by JOHN CARDY
The Kitchen Maid by PETER RUSSELL
BOWEN .......... Had a gander at the garden? Nice out there. Might take some cuttings. lift a tuber. She wouldn't notice, would she?
MILTON Not with her throat cut from ear to ear -no, sir.
Directed by GERRY JONES
12.55 Weather .......... programme news .......... long uave only
Contributors
Don Haworth
Directed By .......... John Cardy
Peter Russell
Directed By .......... Gerry Jones
Mr Bruin .......... John Bott
Headmaster .......... Brian Haines
Narrator .......... Philip Fox
Connie cupboard .......... Eva Stuart
Fatty Foggon .......... John Bull
Mr Pilchard .......... Roger Hammond
Councillor Garbage .......... Peter Baldwin
First boy in bus .......... Jean England
First girl in bus .......... Tammy Ustinov
Other children .......... Gina Bellman
Other children .......... Adrian Cale
Other children .......... Katherine Hughes
Other children .......... Darren Phelan
Other children .......... Barren Smalley
Other children .......... Howard Taylor
Insp Bowen .......... David Lodge
Sgt Milton .......... Nigel Lambert
Tim .......... Tim Bentinck
Tracey .......... Karen Archer
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-02-07, 15-15
Afternoon Theatre
All the Way Down by CHRISTOPHER DENYS
' When was the last time you sat down in a pub with a few friends and " enjoyed " a drink? Just one. For the company. Without getting irritated because they drank so slow. Without getting yourself an extra double every time it was your round ...'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Contributors
Christopher Denys
Directed By: Brian Miller
Colin: Norman Bowler
Janet: Marion Fiddick
George: Manning Wilson
Mrs Monks: Marcot Boyd
Sheila: Jenifer Armitage
Adele: Hedli Niklaus
Clifford: Simon Shaw
Frank: Jacx Holloway
Joe: Barkley Jonnson
Gerry: Tim Bentinck
Veronica: Maureen Beddoes
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-03-22, 14-30
Saturday-Afternoon Theatre
A Life Here Between Us by JANE BEESON
, How much longer am I going on, standin' at the sink all day, no money to shop with, and buckets stood all round the house to catch the leaks? When's it coming to an end? '
Starved of any glamour in her life, Eve gets herself financially involved with a travelling salesman over the purchase of new clothes ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol long wave only
Contributors
Jane Beeson
Directed By: Brian Miller
Eve: Allison Hancock
Joe: Tim Bentinck
Angy: Heather Bell
Tom: Danny Schiller
Hepjohn: Peter Wickham
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-04-13, 22-15
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts in the words of those who have made the history
1 .......... Introduction-The Deep Sea
Sea covers 70 per cent of the globe; man himself was cradled in it. Our maritime history is a story which everyone thinks they know - and which on the whole they don't .......... the great unknown subject. It is an amazing human achievement, and all the more so because so much of it is salt sores, the stench of bilge-water, and weevilly biscuits.
Readers .......... GARARD GREEN. CAROLE BOYD , DAVID MARCH, TIMOTHY BATESON , NIGEL LAMBERT , RONALD BADDILEY , MICHAEL GOLDIE , ANTHONY HALL , DAVID CASEY. MALCOLM TERRIS , TIMOTHY BENTINCK , RONALD HERDMAN , LEONARD MAGUIRE , ROBERT TROTTER. GORDON GOSTELOW , HENRY KNOWLES , ROBERT LANG , DOUGLAS BLACKWELL and KATHLEEN HELM.
Programme consultants and presenters .......... Basil Greenhill (Director, the National Maritime Museum) and Robin Craig (Lecturer in Economic History, University College, London)
Special sound by DICK MILLS of the BBC Radio-phonic Workshop Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON , , in collaboration with the Na- , tional Maritime
Museum
(Neat week .......... 2 - Canvas, Hemp and Wood)
Contributors
Carole Boyd
Timothy Bateson
Nigel Lambert
Ronald Baddiley
Michael Goldie
Anthony Hall
David Casey.
Malcolm Terris
Timothy Bentinck
Ronald Herdman
Leonard Maguire
Robert Trotter.
Gordon Gostelow
Henry Knowles
Robert Lang
Douglas Blackwell
Presenters .......... Basil Greenhill
Presenters .......... Robin Craig
Dick Mills
Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-05-19, 19-45
The Monday Play
A New Step Every Day
A story of rehabilitation by ROBIN R. TAYLOR with and As young dancer.
Tom Bryceland has to face the emotional and physical shock of multiple selerosis. It seems as if there is nothing left to live for. But Tom is determined to come to terms with his handicap at a rehabilitation centre he is given various mental and physical therapies to help him face his future with hope. Jack Feathers. BRYAN HAINES
MARY NASH (piano)
Directed by DAVID SPENSER (Repeated .......... Sun 2.30 pm)
Contributors
Robin R. Taylor
Tom Bryceland
Jack Feathers.
Bryan Haines
Piano .......... Mary Nash
Directed By .......... David Spenser
Tom Biryceland .......... Michael Maloney
Maggie Cunningham .......... Jill Balcon
Gwen .......... Charlotte Mitchell
Rosie .......... Diana Bishop
Larry .......... Tim Bentinck
Choreographer .......... Michael Deacon
Doctor .......... Geoffrey Collins
Barry Jenkins .......... Jack Carr
Joyce Clarke .......... Eve Karpf
Brian Maybury .......... Peter Baldwin
Alix Wakefield .......... Sonia Fraser
Mr Wingate .......... Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Stone .......... Margot Boyd
Muriel .......... Josie Kidd
Pam .......... Eva Stuart
Alan Cunningham .......... John Bull
Stephen Marley .......... Nigel Greaves.
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-06-16, 19-45
The Monday Play
Now and at the Hour of Our Birth by BRUCE STEWART with Lee Montague Helen Horton Robert Beatty Ed Bishop
Paul Maxwell
Was Jim Jones , the leader of the People's Temple (whose members committed mass suicide in Guyana in 1978) insane? If he was, then the madness did not manifest itself so much in the new social order he intended to create, but in the methods he used to bring it about - the methods of a paranoid whose mind was under the constant influence of drugs.
GEOFFREY BRAWN (organ and celeste)
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS (Repeated .......... next Sun 2.30) Preview .......... page 23
Contributors
Bruce Stewart
Lee Montague
Helen Horton
Robert Beatty
Ed Bishop
Paul Maxwell
Was Jim Jones
Geoffrey Brawn
Directed By .......... Martin Jenkins
The Rev Jim Jones .......... Lee Montague
Edith Bessamer .......... Hilda Krlseman
MacElvane .......... Murray Kash
Marceline Jones .......... Helen Horton
Bridie Pastorelle .......... Catherine Kessler
Harriet Trent .......... Amanda Murray
Richard Trent .......... Ed Bishop
Sweet Daddy Grace .......... Brian Haines
Don Harris .......... John Church
Congressman Ryan .......... Paul Maxwell
Larry Schacht .......... Tim Bentinck
Maria Katsaris .......... Beth Porter
Ben Larsen .......... Robert Beatty
Lenin .......... Brian Carroll
Sharon Amos .......... Annie Ross
Luscombe .......... Anthony Hyde
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-07-21, 19-45
The Monday Play
God's Chosen Children by RAMSAY WILLIAMS
A new Church will be established under a new Prophet. Be ready, Joseph Smith for you shall be the prophet for this time of the living God!
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the I Mormon ! faith as it came to be known, was established 150 years ago this year in the United States in a time of religious and messianic ferment. This play chronicles the epic struggle of the church to survive, from the death of Joseph Smith , the great trek to Utah under the leadership of Brigham Young, to the death of Young some years after the American Civil War. with Hymns sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City, USA
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol (Rptd.Sun
2.30 pm) ,
Contributors
Ramsay Williams
Joseph Smith
Jesus Christ
Joseph Smith
Directed By .......... Brian Miller
Brigham Young .......... Ramsay Williams
John Taylor .......... Bob Sherman
Mary Kendall .......... Ann Murray
Amelia Kendall .......... Eva Haddon
Kendall .......... Hal Jeayes
Lydia .......... Amanda Murray
Will .......... Peter Whitman
Nephi/Sam Houston .......... Carrick Hagon
Rigdon .......... Keith Alexander
Kimball .......... ,patrick Barr
Pratt .......... Rex Holdsworth
Filbert/Horace Greeley/Porter .......... Bill Wallis
McBride/Leon .......... Tim Bentinck
Larsen/Silas Creel .......... Graham Faulkner
Jones/Stanger/Dennis .......... Kerry Shale
Flora/Hepzibah .......... Amanda Bell
Angel .......... Margaret Robertson
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-09-08, 19-45
The Monday Play
Darts with the Boys by WILLIAM INGRAM
Gwyn feels a misfit at university, abandons it and returns to his mining village in the Rhondda where he is visited by an upper-class ex-fellow student. The feeling is that the villagers will find the stranger alien and that Gwyn will have proved himself right to have returned to his roots. But the visitor is a success in the community and it is Gwyn who, even at home, proves to be out of place.
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Contributors
William Ingram
Directed By: Enyd Williams
Gwyn: Huw Ceredig
Adrian: Tim Bentinck
Ruth: Myfanwy Talog
Mam: Margaret John
Dad: Gerald James
Trevor: Sion Probert
Dilwyn: Dewi Morris
Uncle Gwil: Dillwyn Owen
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-09-09, 11-05
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Shanghai Conspiracy by ALEX PAGE
At the end of World War n, Shanghai was in a state of limbo. For the members of a small counter-intelligence unit of the us Army life was all play and no work - until one morning when the fiery Major Rocklyn burst in from Headquarters and changed the course of history.
Directed by GERRY JONES
Contributors
Directed By: Gerry Jones
Pete: Peter Whitman
Jocko: Tim Bentinck
Scolly: Peter Marinker
Wang: Ric Young
Capt Musgrove: David Healy
Major Rocklyn: Bruce Boa
General Schmiedeking: John Church
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-10-13, 11-05
The Greatest Englishman
A portrait of Saint Boniface of Crediton, Apostle to Germany by PAUL HYLAND
John Franklyn-Robbins as Saint
Boniface Wynfrith of Crediton, better known as St Boni face, Apostle to Germany. was born in Devonshire
1.300 years ago.
This programme is based largely on his correspondence and other contemporary sources with contributions by PROFESSOR E. W. F. TOMLIN, CBE, DAME FELICITAS CORRI-GAN, OSB, and PETER cousins
Musical research and direction by CHRISTOPHER WALKER with members of SS Peter and Paul Cath edral Choir. Clifton
Directed by SHAUN MAC -LOUGHLIN, BBC Bristol long wave only
Contributors
Paul Hyland
John Franklyn-Robbins
Boniface Wynfrith
St Boni
Christopher Walker
Paul Cath
Directed By .......... Shaun Mac
Narrator .......... Neil Stacy
Willibald .......... Bill Wallis
Eadburga .......... Constance Chapman
Gregory II/Aldebert .......... Sean Barrett
Daniel/Ethelbert .......... Eric Allan
Willibrord/Grcgory III/ Miltret .... .......... Steve Hodson
Charles Martel/Zacharias .......... Tim Bentinck
Leoba .......... Heather Moray
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-10-25, 20-30
1 Saturday-Night Theatre
The Last Invasion of London by JOHN ROBERT KING
In 1497 ' An Gof the smithy from St Keverne, and Tomas Flamank , a lawyer from Bodmin, both men of very different character and ambition, became joint leaders of the Cornish army that rebelled against Henry VII 's taxes.
BRENDA WOOTTON Sings some new songs by RICHARD GENDALL
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol (Repeated ..........
Mon 3.2 pm
9.58 Weather
Contributors
John Robert King
Tomas Flamank
Henry Vii
Brenda Wootton
Songs By .......... Richard Gendall
An Gof .......... Geoffrey Matthews
Tomas Flamank .......... Donald McBride
Peder .......... And Peter Pacey
Jane .......... June Marlow
Henry VII .......... John Rowe
Daubeney .......... Christian Rodska
Oby .......... Roger Snowdon
Audley .......... Tim Bentinck
Mary .......... Gwen Taylor
Whalley .......... John Abineri
Sir Richard .......... Ronald Russell
John Rosewarne .......... David Ponting
Woman in crowd .......... Stella Riley
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-11-09, 22-15
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts, in the words of those who have made the history. 13 .......... Fisherman
Small-craft fishing has probably changed less over the centuries than almost any other kind of seafaring. Its centre is timeless - wet, cold and the heavy weight of the catch.
Readers DAVID ASHFORD , LEONARD MAGUIRE , DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY NEWLANDS. RONALD HERDMAN , TIMOTHY BENTINCK. KATHLEEN HELME , BILL MONKS, MICHAEL GOL-DIE, JOE DUNLOP
Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Programme consultant KEITH MATTHEWS , Chairman, Maritime History Group. Memorial University of St John 's, Newfoundland
Presenter Basil Greenhill Director, National Maritime Museum. Greenwich Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Contributors
Readers .......... David Ashford
Readers .......... Leonard Maguire
Readers .......... David Casey
Readers .......... Anthony Newlands.
Readers .......... Ronald Herdman
Readers .......... Timothy Bentinck.
Readers .......... Kathleen Helme
Dick Mills
Keith Matthews
St John
Presenter .......... Basil Greenhill
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-11-23, 22-15
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts, in the words of those who have made the history.
15 .......... Engineroom and Stokehold
In the great steamer the bridge was a gold-braided Olympus; the engineroom a kind of underworld; and the stokehold Hades itself. Yet engineers could regard their huge machines with almost religious devotion; and the sub-human stoker of legend plied in fact a skilled trade.
Readers .......... ANTHONY NEW-LANDS, LEONARD MAGUIRE. TIMOTHY BENTINCK , ROBERT TROTTER , DOUGLAS BLACK-WELL, BILL MONKS, RONALD BADDILEY , DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY HALL , DAVID ASH-FORD. JOHN HOLLIS , JOE DUNLOP.
Programme consultant and presenter Campbell Mac-Murray, Assistant Keeper, Dept of mss and Printed Books, National Maritime Museum.
Special sound DICK MILLS BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Contributors
Leonard Maguire.
Timothy Bentinck
Robert Trotter
Ronald Baddiley
David Casey
Anthony Hall
Ford. John Hollis
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-11-30, 22-15
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts, In the words of those who have made the history. 16 .......... Master Mariner
To be captain of a ship has always been one of the most demanding and many-sided responsibilities an ordinary citizen can undertake. What sort of men has it produced?
Readers .......... LEONARD MAGUIRE , JOE DUNLOP , ANTHONY NEWLANDS , MICHAEL GOLDIE , ANTHONY HALL , RONALD BADDILEY, DAVID ASHFORD , BILL MONKS, TIMOTHY BENTINCK , KATHLEEN HELME , CAROLE BOYD , JOHN HOLLIS
Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhill, Director, National Maritime Museum
Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Book, same title, published by BBC Publications and Hutchinson, £5.95 paperback, £9.95 hardback
Contributors
Readers .......... Leonard Maguire
Readers .......... Joe Dunlop
Anthony Newlands
Michael Goldie
Anthony Hall
David Ashford
Timothy Bentinck
Kathleen Helme
Carole Boyd
John Hollis
Dick Mills
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-12-07, 22-15
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts, in the words of those who have made the history. 17 .......... The Small Port
' Oh, very busy, you know. you'd see perhaps brigs schooners, little steamers and umpteen barges, ketches, all rigs, you know. Oh, yes, I've seen 'em three abreast along that quay in my young days.'
Readers .......... MICHAEL GOLDIE, KATHLEEN HELME , CAROLE BOYD , RONALD BADDILEY , DAVID ASHFORD , ANTHONY HALL , JOE DUNLOP. BILL MONKS, JOHN HOLLIS and TIMOTHY BENTINCK
Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhill Director National Maritime Museum.
Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
(This series to be resumed in spring 1981)
Contributors
Kathleen Helme
Carole Boyd
Ronald Baddiley
David Ashford
Anthony Hall
Joe Dunlop.
John Hollis
Timothy Bentinck
Dick Mills
Presenter .......... Basil Greenhill
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1980-12-27, 15-25
The Greatest Englishman
bv PAUL HYLAND
A portrait of St Boniface of Crediton. Apostle to Germany (680-754)
'A man of piety and energy about whom a surprising amount is known, mostly because as a missionary administrator, he wrote many letters and many of these letters have survived. The portrait was illumined, as in a medieval manuscript. by a melodious production and by the comment of Dame Felicitas Corrigan. Appropriate that St Boniface, who in his lifetime was venerated by many nuns, should be appraised by this wise and beautifully spoken religious.' (THE GUARDIAN) with contributions by Professor E. W. F. Tomlin, CBE, and Peter Cousins Narrator NEIL STACY Musical research and direction by CHRISTOPHER WALKER with members of SS Peter and Paul Cath edral Choir, Clifton
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN . BBC Bristol
Contributors
Paul Hyland
Narrator .......... Neil Stacy
Christopher Walker
Paul Cath
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
St Boniface .......... John Franklyn-Robbins
Willibald .......... Bill Wallis
Eadburga .......... Constance Chapman
Gregory II .......... Sean Barrett
Aldebert .......... Sean Barrett
Daniel .......... Eric Allan
Ethelbert .......... Eric Allan
Willibroad .......... Steve Hodson
Gregory III .......... Steve Hodson
Milret .......... Steve Hodson
Charles Martel .......... Tim Bentinck
Zacharias .......... Tim Bentinck
Leoba .......... Heather Moray
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-01-26, 11-05
Excursion to an Emperor
A Portrait of Augustus Smith of Scilly (1804-72) by JOHN WILKIE
' His rule was absolute and his word the law. To oppose him spelt ostracism and deportation.'
1 His rents he spent upon the people.'
' The last example of a beneficent autocrat, a peaceful Frederick the Great, but bent on making people happy and prosperous.'
Narrator CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Other parts by MICHAEL SPICE , PAUL NICHOLSON and CAROLINE GOODALL
Contributions by ROBERT DORRIEN-SMITH
, MRS CHRISTOPHER, PETER CLOUGH , ROY COOPER , FRANK GIBSON , ROY GRAHAM ,
RICHARD JENKINS and JOHN WOOSNAM
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol long wave only
Contributors
Augustus Smith
John Wilkie
Narrator .......... Christian Rodska
Michael Spice
Paul Nicholson
Caroline Goodall
Robert Dorrien-Smith
Peter Clough
Roy Cooper
Frank Gibson
Roy Graham
Richard Jenkins
John Woosnam
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Augustus Smith .......... Andrew Hilton
W T Johns .......... Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-02-07, 20-30
There'll Almost Be an England
Saturday-Night Theatre
Contributors
Bruce Stewart
Maisie Coulthard.
Maisie Coulthard, the: Elizabeth Bell
Alex Hannibal: Robert Morris
Waverly: John Rye
Jasper Codd: John Hollis
President Eremasi: Olu Jacobs
Kamina Eremasi: Isabelle Lucas
Wesley T Schumacher: Robert Beatty
Blanche Schumacher: Jenny Lee
Bluey Baxter: Bruce Stewart
Archbishop Tostino: Anthony Newlands
Nikolai Grigori: Malcolm Hayes
Dr Freda Vinson: Jane Knowles
Commentator: John Webb
MP: Jonathan Scott
Fr Ciccolini: Tim Bentinck
Comrade Rostrova: Kathryn Hurlbutt
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-02-25, 15-02
Afternoon Theatre
The Trotlinen by TED WALKER with ' Missus at death's door
Just had a babby and struck with purple fever,
Nothing in the house to eat. Me dole money all gone on doctor's bills and medicine.'
' Where you from? ' Brummagem.'
' Should've stayed put, mate. Coming down south, pinching our jobs off us.' The play is set on the South Coast in 1937. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
Ted Walker
George: John Rowe
Edie: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Gran: Sonia Fraser
Andrew: Rosalind Adams
Doctor: Peter Copley
Labourer: Tim Bentinck
Foreman: Roger Snowdon
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-03-27, 15-02
Afternoon Theatre
Men of Violence by JAN NEEDLE with Leslie Sands Eric Allan and Kenneth Cranham
Albert Winterbottom is a cantankerous, violent old fisherman, but when his boat runs aground, regional television journalists turn him into a local hero. The resultant publicity causes an outbreak of violence, but who is really responsible?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Contributors
Leslie Sands
Eric Allan
Kenneth Cranham
Albert Winterbottom
Directed By .......... Michael Bartlett
Albert Winterbottom .......... Leslie Sands
John Spragg .......... Eric Allan
Polly .......... Amanda Murray
Blaze .......... Kenneth Cranham
Tom .......... Bill Monks
Capt Clark .......... Norman Shelley
Mrs Winterbottom .......... Betty Hardy
Les .......... Kenneth Shanley
Dave .......... John Vine
Jim .......... Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-04-14, 11-05
Double Act
Stop Me if You've Heard it Before
A rearrangement of an old fairytale by SARAH MAXWELL with and The toad needs to be kissed by a princess to be turned back into a handsome prince. Any old princess will do ...
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Nicky Henson is a National Theatre player) High Midnight bv GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS When Ringo rides into town to claim Dallas as his woman, he guns down Marshall Snelgrove. The Kid picks up his badge, but as High Noon has already passed, gives
Ringo till midnight to git outa town.
The ' High midnight ' song played and sung by TIM BENTINCK Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Contributors
Sarah Maxwell
Directed By .......... Glyn Dearman
Directed By .......... Nicky Henson
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Sung By .......... Tim Bentinck
Directed By .......... Michael Bartlett
the Princess .......... Mollie Sugden
the Toad .......... Nicky Henson
Second toad .......... Colin Haigh
Pancho .......... Kerry Shale
Ringo .......... John Rye
Dallas .......... Kathryn Hurlbutt
The Kid .......... John McAndrew
Marshall .......... Tim Bentinck
Mayor McGee .......... Patrick Barr
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-07-26, 18-45
Excursion to an Emperor
A portrait of AUGUSTUS
SMITH OF SCILLY (1804-72) by JOHN WILKIE
'The last example of a beneficient autocrat. a peaceful Frederick the Great, but bent on making people happy and prosperous after his own model, not according to their impulses. " All for the people, nothing through the people." '
Narrator CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Other parts by MICHAEL
SPICE, PAUL NICHOLSON and CAROLINE GOODALL
Contributions by ROBERT DORRIEN-SMITH ,
MRS CHRISTOPHER , PETER CLOUGH , ROY COOPER. FRANK GIBSON , ROY GRAHAM.
RICHARD JENKINS and JOHN WOOSNAM Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol
Contributors
John Wilkie
Paul Nicholson
Caroline Goodall
Robert Dorrien-Smith
Mrs Christopher
Peter Clough
Roy Cooper.
Frank Gibson
Roy Graham.
Richard Jenkins
John Woosnam
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Augustus Smith .......... Andrew Hilton
W T Johns .......... Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-08-13, 15-02
Afternoon Theatre
Tell Me When the Feeling Stops by COLIN HAYDN EVANS with Jane Knowles as Judy ' The " cause " of my disability, Mum, was a ear rolling over my back, leaving me - as I am. If, just if, your Mr Soper could actually bring back the sensation in my legs, do you know what the result would be? '
' You'd walk, Judy. You'd walk again.'
I'd scream blue murder.'
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
Colin Haydn Evans
Jane Knowles
Mr Soper
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Dr Balkin .......... Gabriel Woolf
Chris/Disc jockey .......... Christian Rodska
Liz/Ward sister .......... Diana Bishop
Mrs Shelley .......... Margot Boyd
Cathy .......... Angela Phillips
Mr Fellows/Clive Standish .......... Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-11-07, 20-30
Saturday-Night Theatre
Operation Lightning Pegasus
A comedy by ALICK ROWE with Timothy West as Agamemnon
What really happened at the fall of Troy? Was the episode of the wooden horse as heroic as Homer would have it? Or was his Iliad a cover-up, a PR job, for what was in fact a military fiasco?
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN. BBC Bristol (Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
Contributors
Comedy By: Alick Rowe
Timothy West
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin.
Andromache: Joy Harrison
Hector: Neil Stacy
Achilles: Henry Stamper
Patroclus: Nicholas Courtney
Melops: Christian Rodska
PhiliCUS: Ronald Herdman
Menelaus: Siôn Probert
Odysseus: Hugh Dickson
Helen: Norma Ronald
Paris: Tim Bentinck
Priam: Andrew Hilton
Cassandra: Rosalind Adams
Diomedes: Geoffrey Bateman
Harpist: Valerie Aldrich-Smitb
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BBC Radio 4 - 1981-11-12, 15-02
Afternoon Theatre
Mother Care by TIM ASPINALL with Petra Malcolm as Rose and Elizabeth Bell as Kay Rose , a sixth-former at a girls' public school in London, is awaiting the results of a scholarship to Cambridge. When James and Kay, her thoroughly nice middle-class, liberal-minded parents learn that Rose is about to become a mother, they aren't quite sure how to react.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
Tim Aspinall
Petra Malcolm
Elizabeth Bell
Kay Rose
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
James: John Rowe
Jo: Jenny Twigge
Pat: Judith Arthy
David: John Abineri
Jean: Sarah Benfield
Librarian: Steve Hodson
Harry: Rupert Graves
Terry: Cornelius Garrett
Bus conductor: Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-04-03, 15-30
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts
12 .......... The Tramp and the Liner
The tramp steamer was a legend of rust, soot, decks awash and dirty, smelly cargoes bound for steamy or icy ports. The liner was a legend of Metro-Goldwyn-baroque decor; blazing lights, haute cuisine and triple expansion engines 40 foot high. The legends were not too far from reality.
Readers CORDON GOSTELOW, ROBERT LANG, ROBERT
TROTTER. MALCOLM TERRIS, RONALD HERD.MAN, HENRY KNOWLES, KATHLEEN HELM,
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL, JOE DUNLOP. LEONARD MAGUIRE ,
ANTHONY NEWLANDS , DAVID CASEY , TIMOTHY BENTINCK and ANTHONY HALL
Special sound DICK MILLS. BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Consultant and presenter Robin Craig , lecturer in Economic History,
University College, London Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON , in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum.
Contributors
Leonard Maguire
Anthony Newlands
David Casey
Timothy Bentinck
Presenter .......... Robin Craig
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-04-10, 15-30
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts 13 .......... Fishermen
Small-craft fishing has probably changed less over the centuries than almost any other kind of seafaring. Its centre is timeless .......... wet. cold. and the heavy weight of the catch.
Readers DAVID ASHFORD, LEONARD MACUIRE.
DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY NEWLANDS. RONALD HERDMAN . TIMOTHY BENTINCK , KATHLEEN HELME. BILL MONKS .JOE DUNLOP and MICHAEL COLDIE
Special sound DICK MILLS ,BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Consultant
KEITH MATTHEWS. Chairman.
Maritime History Group. Memorial University of St John's. Newfoundland Presenter Basil Greenhill Director. National Maritime Museum. Greenwich
Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Contributors
Leonard MacUire.
David Casey
Anthony Newlands.
Ronald Herdman
Timothy Bentinck
Kathleen Helme.
Bill Monks
Joe Dunlop
Michael Coldie
Dick Mills
Keith Matthews.
Presenter .......... Basil Greenhill
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-04-24, 15-30
The British Seafarer
A history In 26 parts 15: Eng.neroom and Stokehold
In the great steamer the bridge was a gold-braided Olympus: the lengineroom a kind of underworld; and the stokehold Hades itself. Yet engineers could regard their huge machines with almost religious devotion; and the subhuman stoker of legend, in fact plied a skilled trade. Readers anthony NEWLANDS.
LEONARD MACUIRE, TIMOTHY BENTINCK, ROBERT TROTTER ,
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL. BILL MONKS, RONALD BADDILEY.
DAVID CASEY. ANTHONY HALL. DAVID ASHFORD , JOE DUNLOP Consultant and presenter Campbell MacMurray. Assistant Keeper. Dept of MSS and Printed
Books. National Maritime Museum
Special sound by DICK mills, BBC Radiophonlc Workshop
Series composed and directed by michael MASON
Contributors
Robert Trotter
Douglas Blackwell.
Ronald Baddiley.
David Casey.
David Ashford
Presenter: Campbell MacMurray.
Directed By: Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-05-01, 15-30
The British Seafarer
A history in 26 parts In the words of those who have made the history. 16 .......... Master Mariner
To be captain of a ship has always been one of the most demanding and many-sided responsibilities an ordinary citizen can undertake. What sort of men has it produced?
Readers LEONARD MAGUIRE , JOE DUNLOP , ANTHONY NEW LANDS,
MICHAEL GOLDIE , ANTHONY HALL , RONALD BADDILEY. DAVID ASHFORD , BILL MONKS, TIMOTHY BENTINCK ,
KATHLEEN HELME. CAROLE BOYD and JOHN HOLLIS Special sound by dick mills, BBC Radiophonlc Workshop. Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhlll , Director, National Maritime
Museum. Series composed and directed by michael mason
Contributors
Readers .......... Leonard Maguire
Readers .......... Joe Dunlop
Michael Goldie
Anthony Hall
Ronald Baddiley.
David Ashford
Timothy Bentinck
Kathleen Helme.
Carole Boyd
John Hollis
Presenter .......... Basil Greenhlll
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-05-08, 15-30
The British Seafarer
A history in 20 parts 17 .......... The Small Port Oh, very busy, you know, you'd see perhaps brigs, schooners, little steamers and umpteen barges, ketches, all rigs. you know.'
Readers michael goldie KATHLEEN HELME ,
CAROLE BOYD , RONALD BADDILEY , DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY HALL , JOE DUNLOP , BILL MONKS, JoHN HOLLIS , TIMOTHY BENTINCK Special sound by DICK MILLS , BBC Radiophonlc Workshop. Programme consultant and presenter Basil Greenhill , Director, National Maritime
Museum. Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Contributors
Kathleen Helme
Carole Boyd
Ronald Baddiley
David Casey
Anthony Hall
Joe Dunlop
John Hollis
Timothy Bentinck
Dick Mills
Presenter .......... Basil Greenhill
Directed By .......... Michael Mason
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BBC Radio 4 - 1982-06-02, 15-02
Afternoon Theatre
Mother Care by TIM ASTINALL , With and Rose, a sixth-former at a girls' public school In
London, is awaiting the results of a scholarship to Cambridge. When James and Kay, her thoroughly nice middle-class, liberal-minded parents, learn that Rose Is about to become a mother, they aren't quite sure how to react.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
Tim Astinall
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Rose .......... Pctra Markham
Kay .......... Elizabeth Bell
James .......... John Rowe
JO .......... Jenny Twigge
Pat .......... Judith Arthy
David .......... John Abineri
Jean .......... Sarah Benfield
Librarian .......... Steve Hodson
Harry .......... Rupert Graves
Terry .......... Cornelius Garrett
Bus conductor .......... Tim Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1983-08-04, 19-20
Four Classic Comedies
2 .......... The Magistrate A farce by ARTH13 W. PI NERO with Nigel Stock , Jill Bennett Charles Gray Maria Aitken
Anthony Daniels Jonathan Cecil The magistrate. circumspect and scrupulously just, has married a widow with a youngson.Buthiswife has deceived him and the son leads him astray.
Pianist MARY NASH
Directed by john tydeman
Contributors
Nigel Stock
Jill Bennett
Charles Gray
Maria Aitken
Anthony Daniels
Jonathan Cecil
Pianist .......... Mary Nash
Directed By .......... John Tydeman
Aeneas Posket .......... Nigel Stock
Agatha Posket .......... Jill Bennette
Mr Bullamy .......... Anthony Newlands
Col Lukyn .......... Charles Gray
Capt ValU .......... Jonathan Cecil
Cis Farringdon .......... Anthony Daniels
Achille Blond .......... Philip Sully
Isidore .......... *adrian Egan
Mr Wormlngton .......... Manning Wilson
Insp Messlter .......... John Gabriel
Sgt Lugg .......... Roger Hammond
Constable Harris .......... Bill Monks
Wyke .......... Tim Bentinck
Charlotte .......... Maria Aitken
Beatie Tomlinson .......... Amanda Murray
Popham .......... Eva Stuart
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BBC Radio 4 - 1983-11-10, 15-00
Afternoon Theatre
The Mark 2 Wife by WILLIAM TREVOR with and Anna is a still beautiful, middle-aged woman, but is haunted by visions of the girl who may or may not exist in her husband's life.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
William Trevor
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
Anna: Meg Davies
General Ritchie: William Fox
Mrs Ritchie: Pauline Letts
Mrs Graham: Ingrid Hafner
Mr Graham: Alan Moore
Mrs Lowhr: Margot Boyd
Mr Lowhr: Peter Copley
Toby Oath: Timothy Bentinck
Dolores Sweeting: June Barrie
Lady Jill: Sarah Benfield
Drunk man: Bill Wallis
Clergyman: John Abineri
Dr Abbatt: Geoffrey Collins
Japanese waiter: Tony Robinson
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BBC Radio 4 - 1983-11-12, 14-05
Afternoon Theatre
Tell Me When the Feeling Stops by COLIN HAYDN EVANS with Jane Knowles as Judy ' The " cause " of my disability. Mum, was a car rolling over my back, leaving me ... as I am. If - just If - your Mr Soper could actually bring back the sensation in my legs do you know what the result would be?
(Maudlin) ' You'd walk, Judy. You'd walk again.' ' I'd scream blue murder.'
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol
Contributors
Colin Haydn Evans
Jane Knowles
Mr Soper
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
Dr Balkin: Garriel Woolf
Chris/Disc jockey: Christian Rocska
Liz/Ward sister: Diana Bishop
Mrs Shelley: Margot Boyd
Cathy: Angela Phillips
Mr Fellows/Clive Standish: Timothy Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1985-10-19, 20-30
Saturday-Night Theatre
Odysseus on an Iceberg by ALICK ROWE with and What really happened to
Odysseus? Why did he take so long sailing home? And what did Penelope really think of her 112 suitors? Chorus
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. 0 pm) Stereo
Contributors
Alick Rowe
Directed By .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Odysseus .......... Hugh Dickson
Penelope .......... June Barrie
CHRISTIAN RODSKA .......... Stephen Thorne
BOW .......... Eric Allan
Stroke .......... Alexjennlngs
Eurylochus .......... Nell Stacy
Telemachus .......... Timothy bentinck
Eumaeus .......... David March
Eurycleia .......... Margot Boyd
Demoptolemus .......... Andrew Hilton
Eurydamus .......... Geoffrry Bateman
Dermatitis .......... Paul Nicholson
Alopecia .......... Maggie McCarthy
Polly Cyclops .......... Mark Straker
Circe .......... Angela Phillips
Nausicaa .......... Melinda Walker
.......... Phaea Jillybond
MedOn .......... Patrick Malahide
Arete .......... Holly Wilson
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BBC Radio 4 - 1985-11-28, 10-30
Morning Story
Tripe by FRANCIS GIBBONS
Read by Timothy Bentinck Producer DIANE CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham
Contributors
Francis Gibbons
Read By: Timothy Bentinck
Producer: Diane Culverhouse
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BBC Radio 4 - 1985-12-27, 11-05
Westward Ho!
5 .......... Ayacanora
Losing his brother Frank to the Spaniards, Amyas vows a war of attrition, spurred also by thoughts of the gold of El Dorado. ...
DAVID HYDE. JUNE MARLOW TIM MEATS. ANNA NYGH . ANNA PERRY DAVID PONTING. SARA PUGSLEY
ROSEMARY SIGEL
Music composed and conducted by NICHOLAS MARSHALL
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC BristoL Stereo (R)
Contributors
El Dorado.
David Hyde.
June Marlow
Tim Meats.
Anna Nygh
Anna Perry
David Ponting.
Sara Pugsley
Rosemary Sigel
Conducted By .......... Nicholas Marshall
Directed By .......... Brian Miller
Narrator .......... William Squire
Amyas Leigh .......... Tim Woodward
Richard Grenville .......... Richard Greene
Frank Leigh .......... Richard Warwick
Will Cary .......... Cornelius Garrett
Rose JUUE .......... Dawn Cole
Don Guzman .......... John Abineri
Salvation Yeo .......... Brian Jackson
Ayacanora .......... Elizabeth Bell
Lucy Passmore .......... Constance Chapman
Mr Leigh .......... Barry Jackson
Mrs Leigh .......... Ann Queensberry
Brimblecombe/Ebsworthy .......... Danny Schiller
Yeo's mother .......... Daphne Heard
Salteme/Lord Grey .......... Hedley Good All
Eustace Leigh .......... Peter Baldwin
Ostler/Modena .......... Fred Bryant
Fr Campion .......... John Linstrum
Eustace's father .......... Phillip Manikum
Old Cary .......... Stephen Sylvester
Oxenham .......... Trevor Martin
Servant .......... Douglas Leach
Walter Raleigh .......... Eric Allan
Winter .......... John Gabriel
Lady Grenville .......... Rosemary Whitfield
St Leger/Witch doctor .......... John Telfer
Mrs Hawkins .......... Eva Stuart
Adrian Gilbert .......... Philip Sully
Fr Parsons .......... Michael Tudor Barnes
Innkeeper/Indian .......... Rex Holdsworth
Will Parracombe .......... Roger Leach
Jack/Command .......... Tim Bentinck
Drew .......... Paul Nicholson
Michael Heard .......... Hubert Tucker
Jesuit .......... Peter Harlowe
Guide .......... Andrew Branch
Don Alvarez/Evans .......... John Bull
Bishop .......... Harold Kasket
Tita/Grace .......... Christine Winter
Captain .......... Derek Graham
FrGerundio .......... Geoffrey Serle
Other parts played by .......... Ian Cross
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BBC Radio 4 - 1986-01-09, 10-30
Morning Story
Level byMARKCHILDS
Read by Timothy Bentinck
'I don't know how far we went down but it felt like we were going to the centre of the earth.
Then the lift stopped, the doors opened, we showed the guard at the door our passes and we were out. Level 5.'
Producer diane CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham
Contributors
Read By .......... Timothy Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 1987-08-17, 19-45
The Monday Play
Moby Dick
HENRY REED 'S radio version of the novel by HERMAN MELVILLE with music by ANTONY HOPKINS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BBC NORTHERN SINGERS Produced and directed byJOHNTYDEMAN and IAN COTTRELL Stereo (R)
(First broadcast in 1979, this production is re-broadcast as a tribute to poet Henry Reed and actor Colin Blakely. )
Contributors
Moby Dick
Henry Reed
Novel By .......... Herman Melville
Music By .......... Antony Hopkins
Henry Reed
Colin Blakely.
Captain Ahab .......... Colin Blakely
Ishmael .......... Philip Sully
Fr Mapple .......... Marius Goring
Starbuck .......... Malcolm Hayes
Pip .......... Adam Godley
StUbb .......... Seanbarrett
Flask .......... John Hollis
Capt Peleg .......... Geoffrey Matthews
Elijah .......... Lewis Stringer
Manxman .......... Bill Monks
Queequeg .......... Mark Heath
Capt Mayhew .......... Denys Hawthorne
Capt Gardiner .......... Manning Wilson
Fedallah .......... Saeed Jaffrey
Tashtego .......... Danny Schiller
Daggoo .......... Roger Hammond
Doughboy .......... Andrew Branch
Archy .......... Timbentinck
Cabaco .......... John Bull
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BBC Radio 4 - 1988-07-30, 19-45
Saturday-Night Theatre
Peter Ibbetson by GEORGE DU MAURIER dramatised by DAVID BUCK with and From the fatal act of his youth, Peter Ibbetson finds that his life is over. Yet at the same time he learns to live a new life. one in which all his most intense romantic hopes are fulfilled.
Other parts played by members of the cast
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo
Contributors
Peter Ibbetson
George du Maurier
Dramatised By .......... David Buck
Peter Ibbetson
Directed By .......... Brian Miller
Mary Duchess of Towers .......... Cherie Lunghi
Peter Ibbetson .......... Timothy Bentinck
Old Peter .......... Laurence Payne
Warden/Lord Cray .......... Paul Gregory
Madge Plunkett/Mrs Deane .......... Joan Matheson
Mme Pasquier/Lady Cray .......... Diana Olsson
Young Peter .......... Matthew Francis
Mme Seraskier .......... Angela Barlow
Lady Soames .......... Angela Barlow
Young Mary .......... Gemma Field
Monsieur Le Major .......... John Samson
Sir Ralph .......... John Samson
Colonel Ibbetson .......... Norman Bird
Lintot .......... Michael Tudor Barnes
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BBC Radio 4 - 1989-03-28, 15-00
The Makeup
by CHARLES JENNINGS. Joan wants to rejoin the cabaret act 'Four Nobodies'...
Directed by JANET WHITAKER Stereo
Contributors
Charles Jennings.
Directed By: Janet Whitaker
Joan: Tilly Vosburgh
Alex: Tim Bentinck
Terry: Mike Grady
Neville: John Bull
Chrissie: Melinda Walker
Georgina: Joanna MacKie
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BBC Radio 4 - 1989-04-22, 14-30
Night Express
by JOHN FLETCHER. With and November 1933: Gregory is a young British spy on his first assignment. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Contributors
John Fletcher.
Directed By: Shaun MacLoughlin
Gregory: Cornelius Garrett
Harold St John: Timothy Bentinck
Litzi: Melinda Walker
Simpson: Christian Rodska
Archie: Andrew Hilton
MacDonald: John Rowe
the Professor: Gabriel Woolf
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BBC Radio 4 - 1989-09-04, 15-00
Dear Octopus by DODIE SMITH , adapted by CYNTHIA PUGHE. With and Directed by DAVID h. GODFREY Stereo (R)
0 See David Gillard , left
Contributors
Dodie Smith
Directed By: David H. Godfrey
David Gillard
Dora Randolph: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Charles Randolph: Robert Harris
Hilda: Monica Grey
Margery: Eva Haddon
Cynthia: Jo Manning Wilson
Nicholas: Martin Jarvis
Hugh: Tim Bentinck
Flouncy: Susan Sheridan
Bill: Elizabeth Lindsay
Scrap: Bernadette Windsor
Belle: Barbara Couper
Kenneth: Garard Green
Edna: Irene Sutcliffe
Laurel: Gretta Gouriet
Fenny: Lisa Harrow
Gertrude: Janet Burnell
Nanny: Margot Boyd
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BBC Radio 4 - 1990-09-30, 14-30
Sunday Playhouse
Typhoid
Mary Shirley Gee 's award-winning play based on the true story of a typhoid-carrier.
With Helen Horton ,
Nicolette McKenzie , Andrew Branch , Tim Bentinck , Alan Tilvern , Rod Beacham ,
Harry Towb and John Bull. Director David Spenser. Stereo
Contributors
Mary Shirley Gee
Helen Horton
Nicolette McKenzie
Andrew Branch
Tim Bentinck
Alan Tilvern
Rod Beacham
Harry Towb
John Bull.
Director: David Spenser.
Mary Mallon: Margaret Whiting
DrSoper: Daniel Massey
Ed Bishop: Elliot Kendall
Mary as a child: Susan Sheridan
Sister Joseph: Sheila Grant
Fr John: Denys Hawthorne
Immigration officer: Peter Whitman
Agnes: Sandra Dickinson
Elspeth: Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Palmer: Carole Boyd
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BBC Radio 4 - 1993-01-30, 14-30
Playhouse
Operation Lightning Pegasus by Alick Rowe Starring Timothy West as Agamemnon, Geoffrey Bateman as Diomedes. What really happened at the Fall of Troy? Was the Episode of the Wooden
Horse as heroic as Homer would have it? Or was his Iliad a cover-up for what was a military fiasco?
Harpist Valerie Aldrich-Smith Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Stereo (First broadcast in 1981)
Contributors
Alick Rowe
Timothy West
Geoffrey Bateman
Harpist: Valerie Aldrich-Smith
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin
Paris: Tim Bentinck
Odysseus: Hugh Dickson
Menelaus: Sion Probert
Helen: Norma Ronald
Hector: Neil Stacy
Achilles: Henry Stamper
Andromache: Joy Harrison
Melops: Christian Rodska
Philicus: Ronald Herdman
Patroclus: Nicholas Courtney
Priam: Andrew Hilton
Cassandra: Rosalind Adams
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BBC Radio 4 - 1993-10-30, 14-30
Playhouse .......... Operation Lightning Pegasus
by Alick Rowe. What really happened at the fall of Troy? Was the episode of the wooden horse as heroic as Homer would have it?
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Contributors
Alick Rowe.
Director .......... Shaun MacLoughlin
Agamemnon .......... Timothy West
Diomdes .......... Geoffrey Bateman
Paris .......... Tim Bentinck
Odysseus .......... Hugh Dickson
Menelaus .......... Sion Probert
Helen .......... Norma Ronald
HectorZ .......... Neil Stacy
Achilles .......... Henry Stamper
Andromache .......... Joy Harrison
Melops .......... Christian Rodska
Philicus .......... Ronald Herdman
Patroclus .......... Nicholas Courtney
Priam .......... Andrew Hilton
Cassandra .......... Rosalind Adams
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BBC Radio 4 - 1996-03-10, 08-50
Tim Bentinck
speaks for the Week's Good Cause about a charity which supports and provides information for people who have terminated a pregnancy as a result of an abnormality.
DONATIONS TO .......... SATFA (Support around
Termination for Abnormality), [address removed]
CREDIT CARDS .......... (0171) [number removed]
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BBC Radio 4 - 2001-05-28, 19-45
Growing Pains
A five-part anthology in celebration of parenthood, featuringTim Bentinck , Lindsay Duncan ,
Barbara Rynn and Geoffrey Palmer. Introduced by poet Kate Clanchy. 1: Conception and Pregnancy Director Lindsay Leonard. Repeated from 10.45am
Contributors
Tim Bentinck
Lindsay Duncan
Barbara Rynn
Geoffrey Palmer.
Kate Clanchy.
Director: Lindsay Leonard.
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BBC Radio 4 - 2002-06-17, 19-45
Growing Pains
An anthology celebrating parenthood, featuring Geoffrey Palmer , Lindsay Duncan , Barbara Flynn and Tim Bentinck. Introduced by the poet Kate Clanchy. 1: Conception and Pregnancy Director Lindsay Leonard Repeat of 10.45am
Contributors
Geoffrey Palmer
Lindsay Duncan
Barbara Flynn
Tim Bentinck.
Kate Clanchy.
Director: Lindsay Leonard Repeat
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BBC Radio 4 - 2004-06-13, 07-55
Radio 4 Appeal
Timothy Bentinck appeals on behalf of counsel and Care, a charity that gives help and advice to older people.
Donations: Counsel and Care. [address removed]Credit cards: [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman
Repeated at 8.27pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm
Contributors
Timothy Bentinck
Producer: Sally Flatman
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BBC Radio 4 - 2007-04-29, 07-55
Radio 4 Appeal
Timothy Bentinck appeals on behalf of Emmaus.
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm
Donations: [address removed]: Credit cards: Freephone [number removed], online via the Radio 4 website
Contributors
Timothy Bentinck
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BBC Radio 4 - 2011-08-15, 14-15
Afternoon Drama - A Question of Royalty
Comedy by Andrew Lynch, inspired by real events. Two bungling self-employed plasterers, ignorant of the constitutional crisis their actions could precipitate, steal The Queen's wedding certificate while working on the refurbishment of the Public Records Office.
Bernie ...... Johnny Vegas
Danny ...... Ricky Tomlinson
Sarah ...... Catherine McCormack
Jan ...... Nicola Stephenson
Tim ...... Tim Bentinck
Farnworth ...... Rupert Degas.
BBC Radio 4 - 2009-05-22, 21-00
Friday Drama
A Hit to the Heart
By Rachel Joyce. The man with everything finds his perfect world blown apart when his daughter is linked to an act of terrorism.
Peter ...... Nicholas Farrell
Verity ...... Niamh Cusack
Michael ...... Timothy BentinckS
ara ...... Emma Fielding
Lucy ...... Angela Terence
Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Jim Hall ...... Jon Strickland
With original music by David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown.
Directed by Gordon House.
A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4."