Beatrix radio and TV for the BBC 1967-1969

All dates and descriptions from the Radio Times archives

BBC Two England, 1 January 1967 22.05
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN
The Prophet from Reason by ISAAC Asimov dramatised by ROBERT MULLER with . BEATRIX LEHMANN TENNIEL EVANS and DAVID HEALY BRIAN DAVIES
Title music composed and conducted by NORMAN KAY
In sixty years as a robot psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin has seen many strange developments, but none stranger than robot QT-1.
Designer, Richard Henry
Producer. IRENE SHUBIK
Directed by Naomi CAPON
Cast in order of appearance:
Dr Susan Calvin: Beatrix Lehmann
Interviewer: James Cossins
QT-1: Tenniel Evans
Greg Powell: David Healy
Mike Donovan: Brian Davies
Martha Powell: Julie Allan
Abigail Donovan: Judy Keirn
Von Muller: Michael Wolf
Robot: Ron Eagleton
Robot: Robin Sherringham
Robot: Chris Blackwell
Robot: Jim Wyatt
Robot: Graham Lawson
Robot: George Rutland
Robot: Tony Barnes
Robot: Derek Davis
Robot Voices:: David Graham
Robot Voices:: Haydn Jones
Robot Voices:: Roy Skelton

BBC One London, 20 May 1967 22.50
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN
The Prophet from Reason by ISAAC Asimov dramatised by ROBERT MULLER with BEATRIX LEHMANN
(as above)
First shown on BBC-2

Network Three, 31 July 1967 20.25
THE UNBLEST by Henry Reed
First of two dramatic studies of the life of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi with Marius Goring , Sonia Dresdel and Beatrix Lehmann
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Third broadcast of  [6 April]1966 production

BBC Two England, 6 January 1968 19.55
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN as Ralph Touchett
The story of a young woman affronting her destiny while searching for her own way of truth.
PART 1: Proposals
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Roy Oxley
Producer, DAVID CONROY
Directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
Isabel: Suzanne Neve
Mrs Touchett: Beatrix Lehmann
Maid: Margaret Corey
Caspar Goodwood: Edward Bishop
Mr Touchett: Alan Gifford
Ralph, ,: Richard Chamberlain
Lord Warburton: Edward Fox
Mildred: Felicity Gibson
Constance: Susan Tebbs
Henrietta: Sarah Brackett

BBC Two England, 13 January 1968 19.55
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Having refused Goodwood's proposal of marriage, Isabel has come to England and met Lord Warburton. He too has fallen in love with her.
PART 2: Bequests
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Roy Oxley
Producer, DAVID CONROY Directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
Ralph Touchett: Richard Chamberlain
Isabel: Suzanne Neve
Lord Warburton: Edward Fox
Henrietta: Sarah Brackett
Ralph: Richard Chamberlain
Mr Touchett: Alan Gifford
Constance: Susan Tebbs
Mrs Touchett: Beatrix Lehmann
Mr Bantling: Angus MacKay
Receptionist: Richard Young
Caspar Goodwood: Edward Bishop
Porter: Howard Charlton
Madame Merle: Rachel Gurney

BBC Two England, 20 January 1968 19.55
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Isabel has refused Lord Warburton. Her uncle has died and at Ralph's instigation has left her half his wealth.
PART 3: Schemes
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Roy Oxley
Producer, DAVID CONROY
Directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
Repeated on Thursday at 9.55 p.m.
Ralph Touchett: Richard Chamberlain
Pansy: Sharon Gurney
Osmond: James Maxwell
Sister Catherine: Rosalind Atkinson
Sister Theresa: Kitty Fitzgerald
Servant: John Devaut
Madame Merle: Rachel Gurney
Ralph: Richard Chamberlain
Isabel: Suzanne Neve
Countess Gemini: Kathleen Byron
Mrs Touchett: Beatrix Lehmann
Henrietta: Sarah Brackett
Mr Bantling: Angus MacKay

BBC Two England, 27 January 1968 19.55
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Isabel has accompanied her aunt to Florence where she has met Gilbert Osmond. Encouraged by his friend Madame Merle , he is planning to marry Isabel for her fortune.
PART 4: Decisions
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Roy Oxley
Producer, DAVID CONROY
Directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
Ralph Touchett: Richard Chamberlain
Isabel: Suzanne Neve
Lord Warburton: Edward Fox
Ralph: Richard Chamberlain
Henrietta: Sarah Brackett
Mr Bantling: Angus MacKay
Osmond: James Maxwell
Messenger: Michael Reubens
Pansy: Sharon Gurney
Caspar Goodwood: Edward Bishop
Mrs Touchett: Beatrix Lehmann
Countess Gemini: Kathleen Byron

BBC Two England, 10 February 1968 19.55
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring ft
Isabel has discovered she" has made a terrible mistake, that in searching for freedom she has found a cage. PART 6: Revelations
Cast in order of appearance:
Designer, Roy Oxley
Producer, DAVID CONROY
Directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
Repeated on Thursday at 9.55 p.m.
Next Saturday: part 1 of 'The Gambler' by Fyodor Dostoevsky , starring Edith Evans with Maurice Roeves
Ralph Touchett: Richard Chamberlain
Isabel: Suzanne Neve
Ralph: Richard Chamberlain
Henrietta: Sarah Brackett
Caspar Goodwood: Edward Bishop
Countess Gemini: Kathleen Byron
Osmond: James Maxwell
Pansy: Sharon Gurney
Madame Merle: Rachel Gurney
Nun: Marguerite Young
Mrs Touchett: Beatrix Lehmann 

BBC Two England, 29 May 1968 20.00
THIRTY-MINUTE THEATRE
Walk in the Dark by JOHN WILES
Designer, Jeremy Davies Producer, INNES LLOYD
Directed by CHRISTOPHER BARRY
Frieda: Beatrix Lehmann
Manny: Maxwell Shaw
Johann: Cavan Kendall
Karen: Dallia Penn

BBC Two England, 5 October 1968 20.45
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN as Ralph Touchett
The story of a young woman affronting her destiny while searching for her own way of truth.
PART 1: Proposals
(As above)

BBC Two England, 12 October 1968 21.00
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Having refused Goodwood's proposal of marriage, Isabel has come to England and met Lord Warburton. He too has fallen in love with her.
Part 2 : Bequests (as above)

BBC Two England, 19 October 1968 20.30
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Isabel has refused Lord Warburton. Her uncle has died and at Ralph's instigation has left her half his wealth.
PART 3: Schemes (as above)

BBC Two England, 26 October 1968 20.30
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN as Ralph Touchett
Isabel has accompanied her aunt to Florence where she has met Gilbert Osmond. Encouraged by his friend Madame Merle , he is planning to marry Isabel for her fortune.
PART 4: Decisions (as above)

BBC Radio 3, 27 October 1968 19.00
OUTLOOK FOR WEDNESDAY by Colin Finbow with Michael Hordern and Beatrix Lehmann
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Withdrawn from a world which has no use for them, an old couple long out of love relive their past through their old gramophone records.
Ernie: Michael Hordern
Ada: Beatrix Lehmann
Boy: Paul Dorfman
Liftman: Leonard Fenton

BBC Two England, 9 November 1968 21.00
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in six parts by JACK PULMAN starring
Isabel has discovered she has made a terrible mistake, that in searching for freedom she has found a cage.
PART 6: Revelations (as above)

BBC Radio 3, 29 December 1968 18.50
OUTLOOK FOR WEDNESDAY
by Colin Finbow with Michael Hordern and Beatrix Lehmann
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast (as above)

BBC Radio 4 FM, 28 April 1969 20.30
THERESE RAQUIN
The play by Emile Zola translated by KATHLEEN BOUTALL adapted for radio and produced by JOHN POWELL
The action of the play takes place above the haberdashery shop of Madame Raquin in the Passage du Pont Neuf in Paris in the 1860s.
Thérèse Raquin. Zola's third novel, was first published in 1867. The author himself dramalised the book and the play was first performed in 1873. See page 42
Therese Raquin: Margaret Wolfit
Laurent: Edward Woodward
Madame Raquin: Beatrix Lehmann
Camille: Martin Jarvis
M Michaud: Francis de Wolff
M Grivet: John Wyse
Suzanne: Kate Coledridge

BBC Radio 3, 29 December 1968 18.50
OUTLOOK FOR WEDNESDAY
by Colin Finbow with Michael Hordern and Beatrix Lehmann
Withdrawn from a world which has no use for them, an old couple long out of love relive their past through their old gramophone records.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast (actually 3rd from 27 Oct 1968 see above)

BBC Radio 4 FM, 28 April 1969 20.30
THERESE RAQUIN
The play by Emile Zola translated by KATHLEEN BOUTALL adapted for radio and produced by JOHN POWELL
The action of the play takes place above the haberdashery shop of Madame Raquin in the Passage du Pont Neuf in Paris in the 1860s.
(as above)

BBC Radio 4 FM, 5 May 1969 20.15
WORLD THEATRE
Stephen Murray Andre Morell in The Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh translated by LUCIENNE HILL Music composed by JOHN HOTCHKIS with Beatrix Lehmann
Margaret Rawlings and Trader Faulkner
Cast in order of speaking:
The action of the play takes place in the house of General Saint-PG.
1 Produced by JOHN POWELL
See page 44
Eugenie, a maid: Grizelda Hervey
General Leon de Saint-Pé: Stephen Murray
Amelie, the General's wife: Beatrix Lehmann
Gaston, the General's secretary: Trader Faulkner
Sidonie and Estelle, the General's daughters: Kate Coleridge
Sidonie and Estelle, the General's daughters: Patricia Gallimore
Dr Armand Bonfant: André Morell
Mile Ghislaine de Sainte-Euverte: Margaret Rawlings
Mme. Dupont-Fredaine. a dress-maker: Pauline Letts
Father Ambrose: John Wyse
Pamela, the new maid: Frances Jeater

BBC One London, 4 August 1969 21.05
BOY MEETS GIRL
The Eye of Heaven by JOHN GORRIE with Music by RON GRAINER
Designer. Barry Newbery
Producer, GEORGE SPENTON-FOSTER
Directed by JOHN GORRIE
In the sinister atmosphere of a decaying country house the lives of three young people become entwined. But their relationship is spoiled when death by drowning strikes a note of tragedy.
 Mrs Millicent: Beatrix Lehmann
Job Standish: Edward Jewesbury
Nan Martin: Sharon Gurney
Mrs Last: Hilary Mason
Paul Millicent: Paul Greenhalgh
Tom Last: Kenneth Cranham

BBC Two England, 8 August 1969 20.00
THE EXPERT
starring MARIUS GORING with ANN MORRISH and Victor Winding
Michael Farnsworth in Lie Down, You're Dead by DAVID T. CHANTLER
Guest stars,
Beatrix Lehmann , Lyndon Brook Roddy McMillan , Sylvia Kay
Series devised by GERARD GLAISTER and N. J. CRISP Script editor, John Pennington Lighting. Jim Richards
Designer, Don Homfray
Producer. GERARD GLAISTER
Directed by PRUDENCE FITZGERALD
A man is shot three times in front of witnesses. When the police arrive there is no body. Has he been shot? Is he really dead?
Wilma Franklin: Sylvia Kay
Victor Franklin: Lyndon Brook
Emma Franklin: Beatrix Lehmann
Dr Jo Hardy: Ann Morrish
Det -Sgt Ashe: Michael Farnsworth
Farmer: Nicholas Brent
Dr John Hardy: Marius Goring
Det Chief Insp Fleming: Victor Winding
Russell Franklin: Lyndon Brook
George Blair: Edward Brayshaw
Young boy: Keith Ashton
John Franklin: John Nettles
Ernst Farago: Roddy McMillan