Beatrix radio and TV for the BBC 1975 on

All dates and descriptions taken from the Radio Times archive online.

BBC Two England, 4 September 1976 22.00
The Early Life of Stephen Hind
by STORM JAMESON
Dramatised in three parts by ALEXANDER BARON
Stephen Hind is poor, unscrupulous and very ambitious. As secretary to Sir Henry Chatteney , he is travelling abroad and feels he is on his way at last. Part 1 Repeat from  30 Nov 1974
Producer WILLIAM SLATER
Director TIMOTHY COMBE
Stephen Hind: Michael Kitchen
Sir Henry Chatteney: Roland Culver
Colette Hyde: Hildegard Neil
Edouard: Leonard Fenton
Doctor: John Serret
Bruegel: Mary Wimbush
Stephen's mother: Maureen Pryor
Mother's friend: Lucy Griffiths
Tarry: Veronica Roberts
Lady Renee Chatteney: Beatrix Lehmann
Frederick Hyde: Angus MacKay
Laura Gide: Suzanne Delaney
Wexford: Kenneth Benda
Duffy: Jonathan Elsom
Lady Emily Grosmont: Aimee Delamain
Mary Duquesne: Nora Swinburne

BBC Two England, 11 September 1976 20.20
The Early Life of Stephen Hind
by STORM JAMESON: dramatised in three parts by ALEXANDER BARON
Col etite Hyde , attracted by Stephen's good looks and his knowledge of certain confidential memoirs, takes ,him as her lover. Part 2 (as above repeat from 1974)

BBC Two England, 18 September 1976 22.00
The Early Life of Stephen Hind
by STORM JAMESON
Dramatised in three parts by ALEXANDER BARON
Stephen has married Olivia and discovered Sir Henry's secret. Lady Chatteney threatens legal proceedings.
Part 3 (as above repeat from 1974)

BBC Radio 3, 6 March 1977 18.15
World Drama Hecuba
A working for radio, by DAVID RUDKIN , of the play Hecuba by EURIPIDES, first staged in Athens about the year 424 BC, with GINNETTE CLARKE , KATE COLERIDGE ALISON GOLLINGS , SHEILA GRANT MARGARET ROBERTSON NORMA RONALD
Sound score by MALCOLM CLARKE , BBC Radiophonic Workshop Technical assistants:
JOCK FARRELL , ANNE HUNT and DAVID HITCHINSON
(For this production Beatrix Lehmann was awarded The Imperial Tobacco Award for the best radio performance by an actress in 1976) Produced and" directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast 14 Dec 1975)
Hecuba: Beatrix Lehmann
Aga/nemnon: Michael Aldridge
Ulysses: Maurice Denham
Polymestor: Tom Watson
Polyxena: Deborah Paige
Polydorus: Christopher Bidmead
Talthivius: Peter Williams
Old Woman: Gladys Spencer
Chorus: Janet Burnell

BBC One London, 22 September 1977 22.15
Great Writers Four literary portraits from Omnibus
This week: Living Together an Ivy Compton-Burnett household
Narration by BEATRIX LEHMANN Script by HILARY SPURLING and TRISTRAM POWELL
Behind the doors of a large Victorian house a family is locked in conflict. The old father is an unbridled tyrant, the mother is worn out and ill, the children bullied but rebellious.
The effects of power, sex, money and death within the family circle are all put under the microscope, as we explore the witty and ruthless world of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Photography NIGEL WALTERS Film editor JOHN NEEDHAM
Director TRISTRAM POWELL
Ellen Edgeworth: Celia Johnson
Duncan Edgeworth: Roland Culver
Nance Edgeworth: Deborah Norton
Grant Edgeworth: Joseph Blatchley
Sibyl Edgeworth: Ann Zelda
Cassie: Sheila Ballantine
Alison Edgeworth: Ciaren Madden

BBC Radio 4 FM, 6 March 1978 19.20
The Monday Play Caesar and Cleopatra bv BERNARD SHAW and Sarah Badel as Cleopatra Bernard Shaw 's famous ' history ' takes a typically Shavian view of these two famous characters, at the same time being an attempt to pay ' an instalment of the debt that the dramatists owe to the art of heroic acting'.
Music composed and conducted by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Musicians: SKAILA KANGA (harp) ALAN TOMLINSON (trombone) MICHAEL LAIRD , PETER REEVI (trumpets)
JOHN ROYSTON MITCHELL (percussion)
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (First broadcast in 1975)
Ftatateeta: Beatrix Lehmann
The God Ra: David March
Pothinus: Peter Woodthorpe
Rufio: Hector Ross
Britannus: Nigel Lambert
Apollodorus: Sandor Eles
Theodotus: Alan Dudley
Ptolemy: Judy Bennett
Achillas: Paul Gaymon
Lucius Septimus: Alan Rowe
Centurion: Anthony Smee
fras: Emily Richard
Charmian: Eva Haddon
Majordomo: Peter Whitman

BBC One London, 28 October 1978 18.25
Doctor Who
Tom Baker in The Stones of Blood A four-part story by DAVID FISHER
1: Romana's introduction to Earth is not all that the Doctor had hoped. What is the mystery surrounding the ancient stone circle? Is there really a Celtic goddess demanding blood sacrifices? The answers threaten danger for the travellers.
Incidental music by DUDLEY SIMPSON Script editor ANTHONY READ Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer GRAHAM WILLIAMS Director DARROL BLAKE
Record, Dr Who Sound Effects (REC 316), from record shops
Dr Who: Tom Baker
Romana: Mary Tamm
Prof Rumford: Beatrix Lehmann
Vivien Fay: Susan Engel
De Vries: Nicholas McArdle
Martha: Elaine Ives-Cameron
Voice of K9: John Leeson
Voice of the Guardian: Gerald Cross

BBC One London, 4 November 1978 18.20
Dr Who
starring Tom Baker in The Stones of Blood
A four-part story by DAVID FISHER
2: How is the stone circle involved in the search for the Key to Time? The Doctor, Romana and K9 are faced by strange monsters as they try to solve the mystery.
Incidental music by DUDLEY SIMPSON Script editor ANTHONY READ Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer GRAHAM WILLIAMS Director DARROL BLAKE
Dr Who: Tom Baker
Romana: Mary Tamm
Prof Rumford: Beatrix Lehmann
Vivien Fay: Susan Engel
De Vries: Nicholas McArdle
Martha: Elaine Ives-Cameron
Voice of K9: John Leeson

BBC One London, 11 November 1978 18.20
Dr Who starring Tom Baker in The Stones of Blood
A four-part story by DAVID FISHER
3: The Doctor unmasks the villain at last. But he and Romana find themselves trapped in another dimension, apparently for ever. Their only hope of rescue lies with K9 - but he, too, is in danger.
Incidental music by DUDLEY SIMPSON Script editor ANTHONY READ Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer GRAHAM WILLIAMS Director DARROL BLAKE
Dr Who: Tom Baker
Romana: Mary Tamm
Prof Rumford: Beatrix Lehmann
Vivien Fay: Susan Engel
Campers: James Murray
Campers: Shirin Taylor
Voice of K9: John Leeson
Megara voices: Gerald Cross
Megara voices: David McAlister

BBC One London, 18 November 1978 18.20
Dr Who
starring Tom Baker in The Stones of Blood
A four-part story by DAVID FISHER
4: Trapped in hyperspace, the Doctor and Romana suddenly find themselves faced with a new and even greater threat. Can they survive it -and turn it to their advantage?
Incidental music by DUDLEY SIMPSON Script editorANTHONY READ Designer JOHN STOUT
Producer GRAHAM WILLIAMS Director DARROL BLAKE
Record, Dr Who Sound Effects (REC 316), from record shops
Dr Who: Tom Baker
Romana: Mary Tamm
Prof Rumford: Beatrix Lehmann
Vivien Fay: Susan Engel
Voice of K9: John Leeson
Megara voices: Gerald Cross
Megara voices: David McAlister

BBC Two England, 22 May 1979 21.00
Crime and Punishment
by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The BBC2 Classic Serial dramatised in three parts by JACK PULMAN starring John Hurt , Sian Phillips Frank Middlemass Beatrix Lehmann
Part 1: St Petersburg 1860s
Isolated and poor, Raskolnikov, a student, finds no sense in life. He is sure of only one thing -truly great men are above the law in all ways. Finding himself deeply in debt, he plans to put his theory to the ultimate test.
People of St Petersburg:
HOWARD BELL , JOHN J. CARNEY
PETER CARTWRIGHT , CATHERINE HALL KRISTINE HOWARTH , JULIE MAY CHRISTINE OZANNE , BRIAN TULLY
Music composed and conducted by FRANCIS SHAW
Film cameraman KENNETH MACMILLAN Studio lightingHOWARD KING
Script editor BETTY WILLINGALA Designer TONY ABBOTT
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Director MICHAEL DARLOW
(.Repeated next Sunday) ,
Raskolnikov: John Hurt
Lizaverta: Carinthia West
Pawnbroker: Beatrix Lehmann
Student in tavern: S!mon Rouse
Cadet: Tom Wilkinson
Landlady: Olwen Griffiths
Nastasya: Anne Orwin
Students in hay market: Les Davidov
Students in hay market: Tim Brown
Police Constable: Alan Downer
The Gypsy Band: Tziganka
Tavern proprietor: James Duggan
Marmeladov: Frank Middlemass
Katerina Ivanovna: Sian Phillips
Polenka: Fiona Glassbrook
Kolya: Nicky Stoter
Lida: Francesca Gerrard
Stein: Matthew Francis
Pestryakov: Darryl Kavaan
Nikolay: Colin Higgins
Dmitri: Allan Ross
Porter at Pawnbroker's flat: Gertan Klal'Ber
Porter at Raskolnikov's lodgings: Rob Inglis
Zametov: Malcolm Tierney
Ilya Petrovitch: David Dodlmead
Luise Ivanovna: Magda Miller
Nikodim Fomitch: David Webb

BBC Two England, 27 May 1979 21.05
Crime and Punishment by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The BBC2 Classic Serial dramatised in three parts by JACK ITLMAN starring John Hurt , Sian Phillips Frank Middlemass Beatrix Lehmann
Part 1: St Petersburg 1860s (repeated as above)

BBC Two England, 29 May 1979 21.00
Crime and Punishment by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The BBC2 Classic Serial dramatised in three parts by JACK PULMAN starring John Hurt , Sian Phillips Timothy West , Anthony Bate
Part 2: Raskolnikov, having brutally killed the old pawnbroker and her half-sister, escaped from the scene of the crime. (Beatrix only appears very briefly in the delirium scene at the beginning)
Music composed and conducted by FRANCIS SHAW. Studio sound CHICK ANTHONY Studio lighting HOWARD KING. Script editor BETTY WILLINGDALE. Designer TONY ABBOTT Producer JONATHAN POWELL Director MICHAEL DARLOW
Raskolnikov: John Hurt
Razumihin: David Troughton
Zametov: Malcolm Tierney
Pawnbroker: Beatrix Lehmann
Lizaveta: Carinthia West
Bank messenger: Warwick Evans
Nastasya: Anne Orwin
ZoSSimOV: Christopher Biggins
Luzhin: Derek Smith
First workman: Alec Linstead
Second workman: Roy Sampson
Porter: Gertan Klauber
Coachman: Stephen McDonald
Marmeladov: Frank Middlemass
Policeman: Glenn Williams
Katerina Ivanovna: Sian Phillips
Polenka: Fiona Glassbrook
Kolya: Nicky Stoter
Lida: Francesca Gerrard
Mme Lippevechsel: Barbara Young
Priest: John Baker
Sonia: Yolande Palfrey
Raskolnikov's mother: Yvonne Coilette
Dounia: Prunella Ransome
Svidrigaïlov: Anthony Bate
Porfiry: Timothy West
Accuser: Gordon Gostelow
People of St Petersburg: Peggyann Clifford,
People of St Petersburg: Christine Ozanne,
People of St Petersburg: Fred Radley
http://youtu.be/3qxezDPVoig part 2
http://youtu.be/3vK2ZMQ_BvY part 3
 


The following are repeats shown after Beatrix's death

BBC Radio 4 FM, 30 June 1980 19.45
The Shaw Festival: Caesar and Cleopatra
by BERNARD SHAW with Bernard Shaw's famous ' history ' takes a typic-ally Shavian view of these two famous characters at the same time being an attempt ' to pay an instal-ment of the debt that all dramatists owe to the art of heroic acting.with Music composed and conducted by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Musicians SKAILA KANGA (harp), ALAN TOMLINSON (trombone), MICHAEL LAIRD and PETER REEVE (trum-pets), JOHN ROYSTON MIT-CHELL (percussion) Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(Revised repeat) (first broadcast 21 April 1975)
Caesar: Alan Badel
Cleopatra: Sarah Badel
Ftatateeta: Beatrix Lehmann
the God Ra: David March
Pothinus: Peter Woodthorpe
Rufio: Hector Ross
Britannus: Nigel Lambert
Apollodorus: Sandor Elès
Theodotus: Alan Dudley
Ptolemy: Judy Bennett
Achillas: Paul Gaymon
Lucius Septimius: Alan Rowe
Centurion: Anthony Smee
Iras: Emily Richard
Charmian: Eva Haddon
Major Domo: Peter Whitman

BBC Radio 3, 2 December 1980 20.30
' This Fabulous Genius'
A portrait of the actor Wilfrid Lawson (1900-1966) Compiled by PETER cotes Narrator HUGH DICKSON
Many people remember Wilfrid Lawson for his definitive Doolittle in the 1938 film version of Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion. But it was as a stage actor that Lawson truly scaled the pinnacles ofhisart.In1953he ended a long absence from London's West End to appear in a production of Strindberg's The Father. His performance for those who saw it was the experience of a lifetime. The American film and theatre director Joseph Losey , who later worked with Lawson, recalls ' I was bowled over by this fabulous genius '. Other contributors include BRIDGET BOLAND , JOHN BOULT -ING, KEITH DEWHURST , GRACE WYNDHAM GOLDIE, TREVOR HOWARD , BEATRIX LEHMANN. JOAN MILLER , DONALD PLEASENCE and J. C. TREWIN. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

BBC Radio 3, 18 December 1980 19.30
Huis Clos by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE translated by MARJORIE GABAIN and JOAN SWINSTEAD
A repeat of the 1946 radio recording with the cast used in Peter Brooks original stage production at the Arts Theatre, London in the same year
Directed bv MARY HOPE ALLEN
Garcin: Alec Guinness
Attendant: Donald Pleasence
Ines: Beatrix Lehmann
Estelle: Betty Ann Davies
(can listen to at the British Library)

BBC Radio 4 FM, 12 June 1983 14.30
Afternoon Theatre The Waltz of the Toreadors by JEAN ANOUILH translated by LUCIENNE HILL , starring Stephen Murray (1812-83) as General Léon de Saint Pé with Andre Morell Beatrix Lehmann
Margaret Rawlings and Trader Faulkner
The distinguished actor STEPHEN MURRAY died on 31 March. As a tribute
Radio 4 is repeating this play about an ageing general who lacks the courage to say ' yes' to life. but yet has ' a young man's heart waiting to give his all '.
This is one of Anoullh's most enduring plays - comic, bizarre, tender and lyrical by turns.
Music by JOHN HOTCHKIS Directed by JOHN POWELL (First broadcast in 1969)
Amélie: Beatrix Lehmann
Mile Ghislaine de Sainte-Euverte: Margaret Rawlings
Gaston: Trader Faulkner
Eugenie: Grizelda Hervey
Sidonie: Kate Coleridge
Estelle: Patricia Gallimore
Mme Dupont-Fredaine: Pauline Letts
Fr Ambrose: John Wyse
Pamela: Frances Jeater
(as had copy may be able to find recording)

BBC Two England, 19 August 1984 22.00
Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The first of four films as a tribute to one of the screen's most memorable actors with Claire Bloom, Oscar Werner The finest-and most successful-adaptation of a John Ie Carre novel to the big screen. Richard Burton gives one of his finest performances as Leamas, a British Intelligence agent forced into a plot to discredit the KGB. The seedy world of spying and counter-espionage is portrayed by a fine British cast, including Rupert Davies as the first personification of the now famous 'Smiley'.
Screenplay by PAUL DEHN , GUY TROSPER Based on the novel by JOHN LE carre Produced and directed by MARTIN ritt
Alec Leamas: Richard Burton
Nan Perry: Claire Bloom
Fiedler: Oscar Werner
Hans-Dieter Mundt: Peter van Eyck
Peters: Sam Wanamaker
East German defence attorney: George Voskovec
Smiley: Rupert Davies
Control: Cyril Cusack
Ashe: Michael Hordern
Carlton: Robert Hardy
Patmore: Bernard Lee
President of tribunal: Beatrix Lehmann
Old judge: Esmond Knight

BBC One London, 30 October 1987 23.35
The Late Film: The Cat and the Canary
Honor Blackman Michael Callan Edward Fox
On a stormy night, 20 years after the death of Cyrus West , his relatives gather at Glencliffe Manor for the reading of his will. When the beautiful, young Annabella West is named the sole heir, a night of unbridled terror begins as an insane murderer stalks the family mansion.
Screenplay by RADLEY METZGER
Based on the play by JOHN WILLARD Produced by RICHARD GORDON Directed by RADLEY METZGER
Susan: Honor Blackman
Paul Jones: Michael Callan
Hendricks: Edward Fox
Allison Crosby: Wendy Hiller
Cicily Young: Olivia Hussey
Mrs Pleasant: Beatrix Lehmann
Annabella: Carol Lynley
Harry Blythe: Daniel Massey
Charlie: Peter McEnery
Cyrus: Wilfrid Hyde White

BBC Two England, 30 July 1988 23.00
The Key
starring William Holden Sophia Loren Trevor Howard
Second World War: David Ross , commander of an unarmed sea-going tug, 'inherits' the key to an apartment from the now dead former captain. With the apartment 'comes' a beautiful woman. Ross has a duplicate key made in the knowledge that his existence is daily threatened by the dangerous nature of his profession. This melodrama blends romance and elements of the supernatural in its vivid portrait of men at war.
Screenplay by CARL FOREMAN based on the novel Stella by JAN DE HARTOG Produced by AUBREY BARING Directed by CAROL REED
David Ross: William Holden
Stella: Sophia Loren
Chris Ford: Trevor Howard
Captain Van Dam: Oscar Homolda
Kane: Kieron Moore
Wadlow: Bernard Lee
Housekeeper: Beatrix Lehmann
Hotel porter: Noel Purcell
Weaver: Bryan Forbes

BBC One London, 25 August 1989 13.50
The Key
(as above)

BBC Radio 4 FM, 27 August 1990 19.45
The Monday Play Caesar and Cleopatra First broadcast in 1975, Bernard Shaw 's play featured father and daughter Alan and Sarah Badel acting together for the first time.
Music Terence Allbright
Director Ian Cotterell. Stereo (R)
(as above)