Tuesday 4 November 2014

Beatrix radio and TV for the BBC 1963-1964

All dates and descriptions from the Radio Times online archive

Third Programme, 4 January 1963 20.09
CROSS PURPOSE
Le Malentendu by Albert Camus  Translated by STUART GILBERT
* Anyhow, to my mind the man was asking for trouble; one shouldn'play fool tricks of that sort.' (Meursault in The Outsider) with Kenneth Haigh as Jan, the Son
Beatrix Lehmann as The Mother
Rosalie Crutchley as Martha, the Sister
Gudrun Ure as Maria, the Wife
George Hagan as The Old Manservant
Produced by RICHARD IMISON Second broadcast (4 Dec 1962)

BBC Television, 3 May 1963 21.25
THE SPREAD OF THE EAGLE
A nine-part cycle based on three Roman plays by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Part 1:  The Hero Coriolanus, Acts 1 and 3 starring
ROBERT HARDY ROLAND CULVER
BEATRIX LEHMANN FRANK PETTINGELL Produced by Peter Dews
Characters in order of speaking: with Pamela Craig. Marion Desmond Bernard Finch. John Gay
Barry Jackson. Caroline Stephens Wendy Varnals. Paul Webster Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN Fights arranged by John Greenwood and Derek Ware Costumes supervised by Elizabeth Agombar
Make-up supervised by Tommy Manderson
Designer. Clifford Hatts
Citizens: Bernard Lloyd
Citizens: Terry Wale
Citizens: Michael Graham Cox
Citizens: Paul Bailey
Menenius Agrippa: Roland Culver
Caius Martius (later Coriolanus): Robert Hardy
Messenger: Roy Herrick
Roman Senator: Maurice Colbourne
Cominius: Noel Johnson
Titus Lartius: Roger Croucher
Sicinius Velutus: Peter Jeffrey
Junius Brutus: Frank Pettingell
Volsce Senators: David King
.Volsce Senators: Paul Harris
Tullus Aufldius: Jerome Willis
Volumnia: Beatrlx Lehmann
Virgilia: Jennifer Daniel
Gentlewoman: Hilary Wright
Valeria: Mary Steele
Messenger: John Greenwood
Roman Soldiers.: Raymond Clarkb
Roman Soldiers.: David Weston
Roman Soldiers.: Leonard Cracknell
Roman Soldiers.: Ben Harte
Roman Soldiers.: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Roman Lieutenant: Charles Laurence
Lieutenant to Aufidius: John Barcroft
The Aedile: Hugh Dickson

BBC Television, 10 May 1963 21.25
THE SPREAD OF THE EAGLE
A nine-part cycle based on three Roman plays by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Part 2: The Voices Coriolanus, Acts 2, 3, and 4 starring
ROBERT HARDY ROLAND CULVER BEATRIX LEHMANN
FRANK PETTINGELL Produced and directed by Peter Dews with John Barcroft. Leonard Cracknell Pamela Craig. Marion Desmond John Greenwood. Paul Harris Roy Herrick , Geoffrey Hinslift
Charles Laurence , Caroline Stephens Wendy Varnals , David Weston Hilary Wright
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN Costumes supervised by Elizabeth Agombar
Make-up supervised by Tommy Manderson
Designer. Clifford Hatts
Menenius Agrippa: Roland Culver
Roman Senators: Maurice Colbourne
Roman Senators: John Gay
Sicinius Velutus: Peter Jeffrey
Junius Brutus: Frank Pettingell
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Robert Hardy
Cominius: Noel Johnson
Officers: Paul Webster
Officers: David Kino
Citizens.: Bernard Lloyd
Citizens.: Terry Wale
Citizens.: Michael
Citizens.: Graham Cox
Citizens.: Paul Bailey
Citizens.: Raymond Clarke
Citizens.: Bernard Finch
Citizens.: Barry Jackson
Titus Lartius: Roger Croucher
The Aediles: Hugh Dickson
The Aediles: Ben Harte
Volumnia: Beatrix Lehmann
Virgilia: Jennifer Daniel


BBC Television, 17 May 1963 21.25
THE SPREAD OF THE EAGLE
A nine-part cycle based on three Roman Plays by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 3:
The Outcast Coriolanus, Acts 4 and 5 starring
ROBERT HARDY ROLAND CILVER
BEATRIX LEHMANN FRANK PETTINGELL produced and directed by Peter Dews
Characters in order of speaking: with Pamela Craig Marion Desmond
CaSline Stephens , Wendy Varnals Paul Webster , Hilary Wright
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN Fights arranged by John Greenwood and Derek Ware Costumes supervised by Elizabeth Agombar
Make-up supervised by Tommy Manderson
Designer, Clifford Hatts
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Robert Hardt
VoIsce Citizen: Raymond Clarke
Serving-men: Paul Bailey
Serving-men ,: Charles Laurence
Serving-men: David Weston
Tullus Aufidius: Jerome Willis
Junius Brutus: Frank Pettingell
Sicinius Velutus: Peter Jeffrey
Menenius Agrippa: Roland Culver
ritiyeno: Bernard Lloyd
ritiyeno: Terry Wale
ritiyeno ,: Michael Graham Cox
Aediles: Hugh , Dickson
Aediles: Ben Harte
Messenger , .: John Greenwood
Messenger: Roy Herrick
Cominius: Noel Jolhnson
Lieutenant to Aufidius: John Barcroft
Volsce Sentries: Paul Harris
Volsce Sentries: Barry Jackson
Virgilia: Jennifer Daniel
Volumnia: Beatrix Lehmann
Valeria: Mary Steele
Young Martius: Kirk Martin
Messenger: Geoffrey Hinsliff
Messenger: Roger Croucher
Roman Senator: Maurice Colbourne
Volsce Conspirators: Leonard Cracknell
Volsce Conspirators: David Weston
Volsce Conspirators: Charles Laurence
Volsce Lords: David King
Volsce Lords ,: John Gay
Volsce Lords: Bernard Finch


BBC Television, 27 July 1963 22.25
MAIGRET
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon starring
The Dirty House
Dramatised by Giles Cooper from the novel
' Maigret se fâche' Guest stars:
Beatrix Lehmann
Ernest Clark
Rosalie Crutchley
Directed by Terence Williams
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Eileen Diss
Music composed by RON GRAINER Film cameraman, Hugh Wilson Film editor, Barry Toovey Script editor, Donald Bull
Executive producer, ANDREW OSBORN
Associate, Bill Luckwell
produced in association with WinweU Productions Ltd. First shown on November 5. 1962

Third Programme, 11 September 1963 20.50
THE HAUNTED VILLAGE
The report of a search by Ian Grimble Archaeological Report:
DR. J. X. W. P. CORCORAN
Highland Voices:
JAMES CAMPBELL , EDITH MACKAT GEORGE MACKAY , JOSEPH MACKAT ROBERT MACKAY , ANGUS Ross
Readers:
BEATRIX LEHMANN , JOHN BADDELET JACQUES BRUNIUS DUNCAN MCINTYRE
JOHN SOUTHWORTH , DOUGLAS STORM JOHN YOUNG Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
To be repeated on September 28 Today it would be called ' genocide ': during the ' clearances ' of the early nineteenth century a whole community of Highlanders in Scotland, settled for many centuries and adequately prosperous, was obliterated in the name of progress.
See page 38

Third Programme, 17 September 1963 20.00
PILLARS OF SOCIETY
by Henrik Ibsen translated and adapted for radio by MAX FABER with Paul Rogers and Beatrix Lehmann
The action takes place in Consul Bernick's house in a small Norwegian coastal town in 1877. Continued in next column
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Third broadcast (first broadcast 28 Sept 1962)

BBC Television, 26 September 1963 20.00
DR. FINLAY'S CASEBOOK  by A. J. CRONIN starring
ANDREW CRUICKSHANK BARBARA MULLEN with BILL SIMPSON as Dr Alan Finlay
Cup, Hand, or Cards dramatised by Harry Green
Guest star:
Beatrix Lehmann
Directed by Cedric Messina
Designer, Lawrence Broadhouse Film cameraman. Peter Sargent Film editor, Valerie Best Associate, Graham Stewart t Produced by CAMPBELL LOGAN
Dr Finlay: Bill Simpson
Mrs Frazer: Marjorie Thompson
Miss Sutherland: Beatrix Lehmann
Janet: Barbara Mullen
Dr Cameron: Andrew Cruickshank
Jennie Cochrane: Fiona Duncan
Biddy: Margaret Boyd
Mrs Crawford: Joan Veitch
Mrs Cromarty: Louise MacLaren
Constable Dickie: David MacMillan
Mrs Fyffe: Beth Boyd
Matron: Jean McPrerson
Mr Robertson: Rolf Lefebvre

Third Programme, 28 September 1963 19.20
THE HAUNTED VILLAGE
The report of a search by Ian Grimble
(as above)

Third Programme, 23 October 1963 20.50
WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH
A portrait of William Cobbett drawn from recollections of his children and his contemporaries by Eric Ewens
Other parts played by Robert Ayres. Denys Blakelock
Cécile Chevreau, Leigh Crutchlej Frank Dunne. James Dyrenforth Alec Finter. Neville Hartley Guy Kingsley Poynter
Lew luton. Eric Phillips Peter Pratt. Jack Shaw
Norman Shelley. Geoffrey Wlncott and Norman Wynne Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
William Cobbett: John Sharp
Anne Cobbett: Beatrix Lehmann
James Cobbett: Rolf Lefebvre
John Cobbett: Gary Watson

Third Programme, 15 November 1963 21.25
WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH
(as above)


Third Programme, 3 January 1964 20.00
PING PONG
A play by Arthur Adamov translated by DEREK PROUSE adapted for radio by Martin Esslin with Kenneth Haigh as Arthur and Michael Caine as Victor Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
To be repeated on January 19
Mrs Duranty: Beatrix Lehmann
Sutter: John Slater
Roger: Denys Hawthorne
Annette: Liane Aukin
Old Man: James McKechnie

Third Programme, 18 January 1964 18.55
A DIALOGUE ON PACIFISM  by Maurice Cranston
This conversation is assumed to have taken place in 1917 at Garsington Manor, Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second Lady Ottoline Morrell: Beatrix Lehmann
G Lowes Dickinson: Frank Duncan
Lytton Strachey: Denys Blakelock
D H Lawrence: Donald Cotton
G G Coulton: Richard Hurndall
T E Hulme: Donald McKillop

BBC Home Service Basic, 10 May 1964 16.10
THE SUNDAY PLAY  The Mislaid Cause by Jean Morris
Produced by Michael BAKEWELL
Gaius Marcius Coriolanus: John Westbrook
Valerius: Fftaser Kerr
Volumnia: Beatrix Lehmann
Tullus Aufidius: John Dearth

Third Programme, 5 June 1964 20.35
BACCHAE
by Euripides newly translated by KENNETH CAVANDER
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN with Robert Hardy , Beatrix Lehmann
Nigel Stock
Singers:
PAULINE TINSLEY
MARJORIE WESTBURY
THE AMBROSlAN SINGERS
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
To be repeated on June 21
Robert Hardy is in 'A Severed Head' at the Criterion Theatre; Gerald James in ' 'Pickwick' at the Saville Theatre
Dionysos (also called Iacchos and Bromios), son of Zeus and Semele: Robert Hardy
Teiresias, a blind Theban prophet: Arthur Ridley
Kadmos, formerly King of Thebes: Cyril Shaps
Pentheus, King of Thebes: Nigel Stock
Guard: Garard Green
Herdsman: Andrew Sachs
Servant: Gerald James
Agave, daughter of Kadmos,mother of Pentheus: Beatrix Lehmann
MARJORIE: Westbury, Valerie
KIRKBRIGHT,: Patricia Leven
TON, ISABEL: Rennie, Mary
WIMBUSH,: Margaret Wolfit

Third Programme, 21 June 1964 18.30
BACCHAE
by Euripides newly translated by KENNETH CAVANDER
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN with Robert Hardy
Beatrix Lehmann , Nigel Stock
(as above)

Third Programme, 3 July 1964 20.30
THE TOWER
A radio play by Peter Weiss translated from the German by MICHAEL HAMBURGER with Michael Bryant  Beatrix Lehmann Nigel Davenport
Other parts played by Patricia Leventon Kevin Flood , Bruce Beeby Michael Kilgarriff
Glyn Dearman , Wilfrid Carter
Special effects by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
To be repeated on July 19
See page 55
Pablo: Michael Bryant
Manageress: Beatrix Lehmann
Ringmaster: Felix Felton
Carlo: Gabriel Woolf
Conjuror: Nigel Davenport
Midget: Timothy Harley
Lady Lion Tamer: Margaret Wolfit

Third Programme, 19 July 1964 21.00
THE TOWER
A radio play by Peter Weiss translated from the German by MICHAEL HAMBURGER with Michael Bryant   Beatrix Lehmann Nigel Davenport
(as above)

Third Programme, 27 July 1964 20.55
WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH
A portrait of William Cobbett drawn from recollections of his children and his contemporaries by Eric EWENS
William Cobbett John SHARP
Anne Cobbett. BEATRIX LEHMANN
James Cobbett ... ROLF LEFEBVRE
John Cobbett ..... GARY WATSON
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Third broadcast (first broadcast 23 Oct 1963)

BBC One London, 1 August 1964 19.05
DR. FINLAY'S CASEBOOK
created by A. J. CRONIN starring ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
BARBARA MULLEN with BILL SIMPSON as Dr. Finlay
Cup, Hand or Cards? Script by HARRY GREEN
Guest star,
Beatrix Lehmann
First transmission on Sept. 26, 1963

Third Programme, 10 August 1964 20.00
A DIALOGUE ON PACIFISM LADY OTTOLINE MORRELL
This conversation is assumed to have taken place in 1917 at Garsington Manor, Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell , between her guests....
Lytton STRACHEY, T. E. HULME D. H. LAWRENCE , G. G. COULTON and G. Lowes Dickinson
Produced by DOUGLAS Cleverdon
Third broadcast (as above)

BBC One London, 31 August 1964 19.35
COMPACT
A series by HAZEL ADAIR and PETER LING
Business with Pleasure
Storm clouds gather in Corsica. At home, Alan gets an SOS call.
Script editor, Donald Tosh
Designer, Gillian Howard
Producer, JOAN CRAFT
Directed by JOHN Crockett
Ben: Bill Kerr
Sheila: Joanna Vogel
Adrian: Robert Desmond
Camilla: Carmen Silvera
Alan: Basil Moss
Janet: Christine Pollon
Mrs Chater: Beryl Cooke
Doug: Lawrence James
Julia: Polly Adams
Ian: Ronald Allen
Rosalind Garner: Jennifer Wood
Mrs J J Devon: Beatrix Lehmann
Annette Kingdom: Mellssa Stribling
Hotel desk clerk: Kim Grant
Waiter: Louis Mansi

BBC One London, 3 September 1964 19.35
COMPACT
by HAZEL ADAIR and PETER Lino
Treasure Hunt
Ian's quest in Corsica takes him into difficult territory-Alan's investigations uncover startling new evidence.
Script editor, Donald Tosh Designer, Gillian Howard Producer, JOAN CRAFT
Directed by JOHN CROCKETT
Mrs J J Devon: Beatrix Lehmann
fan: Ronald Allen
Camilla: Carmen Silvera
Doug: Lawrence James
Julia: Polly Adams
Annette Kingdom: Melissa Stribling
Sheila: Joanna Vogel
Alan: Basil Moss
Jeff: Horace James
Hotel desk clerk: Kim Grant
Aristide: Andreas Malandrinos
Theo Clay: David Swift
Det -Insp Gillingham: Alan Curtis
Rosalind Garner: Jennifer Wood

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