Ohh Carlton Hobbs was such a voice of BBC radio plays. Love, love, his voice. This is the best medium EVER! and never ever, a profanity. Thank you 🙏🏻 for bringing the golden days back!
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This was really good and it's nice to have aa great play, great acting and no effs and jeffs as my Nan used to say she died in 1979 so i was only ten years old and i still remember. Haha i used to go to the shop for her to buy a bar of Nougat and 10 Embassy No.1 they were the days!!
Such great acting from the cast! (Esp. the jailbird Clover-what a psycho!) And the dynamic between the lawyer & his wife is an added bonus of well-written realism.
Synopsis- A BBC Radio adaptation by Felix Felton of Jeffrey Ashford's novel. George Clover, a vicious gangster, has been arrested along with some of his gang and charged with bank robbery. Their trial is about to begin. Clover tries to get David Adams, an extremely capable attorney, to act as his Counsel for Defence, but Adams refuses. However, Clover is not the man to take no for an answer, so he has Adams' daughter kidnapped to force Adams to represent him. Gorge Clover ... James Kenney David Adams ... William Eedle William Brane ... Keith Williams Detective Inspector Dreasley ... Haydn Jones Gwen Adams ... Jane Tobin Jane Adams ... Anna Bentinck Mr. Casgo ... Norman Shelley Mr. Justice Leeming ... Carleton Hobbs Mr. Pride ... William Dexter Amelia Weston ... Joan Hickson Mrs. Brane ... Mary O'Farrell Mrs. Ash ... Diana Olsson Mr. McMenton ... Douglas Storm Broadcast on BBC Home Service 08 April 1961
Properly Saturday Night Theatre,. I nearly didn't bother with it, with the American theater spelling, which I suspected of being a cheap copy with loud music, old adverts, and voices trained to speak unnaturally, thankfully it was the BBC original!
We should be noting the negative stereotypes of females in this drama and many more during this period. Written by men who see women as emotional and bitter. It would have worked so much better if he and his wife had acted like the team they seemed at the beginning .. her role to harry and belittle him couldn't possibly have survive that marriage
One of the best plays I've listened to. Clever plot and wonderful acting. Thank you 🎉
Ohh Carlton Hobbs was such a voice of BBC radio plays. Love, love, his voice. This is the best medium EVER! and never ever, a profanity. Thank you 🙏🏻 for bringing the golden days back!
Thank you for listening! We invite you to listen to more plays on our all-day live stream here: Listen.ChestertonRadio.com We also have a player with over 900 Saturday Night Theatre shows! Plays.ChestertonRadio.com
This was really good and it's nice to have aa great play, great acting and no effs and jeffs as my Nan used to say she died in 1979 so i was only ten years old and i still remember. Haha i used to go to the shop for her to buy a bar of Nougat and 10 Embassy No.1 they were the days!!
I noticed Joan Hickson’s voice immediately! Love her ❤
Such great acting from the cast! (Esp. the jailbird Clover-what a psycho!) And the dynamic between the lawyer & his wife is an added bonus of well-written realism.
Absolutely love these BC Radio plays! ❤
Can't get enough of them...
Excellent radio drama. Thank you so much. Newly subscribed.
New subscriber to your channel. Thanks for these great radio plays 👍👍
The unmistakable voice of Carleton Hobbs as the Judge. Brings back memories!
So does the unmistakable voice of Joan Hickson., voted not long ago as the best Miss Marple of all in the televised series. ***
Really good play, lots of twists and turns. Thanks for uploading.
enjoyed this thank you
Thank you.
Synopsis- A BBC Radio adaptation by Felix Felton of Jeffrey Ashford's novel.
George Clover, a vicious gangster, has been arrested along with some of his gang and charged with bank robbery. Their trial is about to begin.
Clover tries to get David Adams, an extremely capable attorney, to act as his Counsel for Defence, but Adams refuses. However, Clover is not the man to take no for an answer, so he has Adams' daughter kidnapped to force Adams to represent him.
Gorge Clover ... James Kenney
David Adams ... William Eedle
William Brane ... Keith Williams
Detective Inspector Dreasley ... Haydn Jones
Gwen Adams ... Jane Tobin
Jane Adams ... Anna Bentinck
Mr. Casgo ... Norman Shelley
Mr. Justice Leeming ... Carleton Hobbs
Mr. Pride ... William Dexter
Amelia Weston ... Joan Hickson
Mrs. Brane ... Mary O'Farrell
Mrs. Ash ... Diana Olsson
Mr. McMenton ... Douglas Storm
Broadcast on BBC Home Service 08 April 1961
Thanks 👍
Thank you so much for the time to do this! ❤️☮️🙏🏽
Very helpful. Like looking at the map before starting out on a journey. Yes I do use Sat Nav!
Excellent! I thought I heard Joan Hickson. Miss Marple to the rescue!
Very good
"Sit down. Here, smoke this." I'm surprised the husband didn't offer his wife a drink. Or a cuppa!
Was probably a spliff to shut her up 😮
Chesterton channel one of the elite of youtube..simply fantastic❤😊
Excellent!
Nice twist at the end
Wonderful 😊❤
That hysterical wife ... pfft! She drove me nuts! But a great production. Thanks.
My wife is also hysterical.....but she still does the Friday Shopping.
You should meet mine....I'd settle for hysterical.
A mother going crazy for safety of her daughter is hysterical?
@jordsupp Absolutely agree!
She was a nightmare!
Brilliant drama .
"daddyo" haven't heard that term used in quite a while, pretty good if dated drama nonetheless
🕵️thank you
Pity it wasn't the wife who was kidnapped 👋🥳could of done poor defence got them locked up and rid of her 🤫result
...could have...
@@emcarver8983Such prowess…
The unmistakable Joan Hickson (the only Miss Marple) as the car mad witness?
I think I might've clobbered the wife - thank goodness I could turn her off!
Properly Saturday Night Theatre,. I nearly didn't bother with it, with the American theater spelling, which I suspected of being a cheap copy with loud music, old adverts, and voices trained to speak unnaturally, thankfully it was the BBC original!
But then you also spelled it theater instead of theatre 🙃😂
I'm grateful that an American is posting these, and allow for our differences in spelling.
Ummm no he didn't 😂😂😂😂😂😂@UnknownName5050
Another arrogant Brit...! Is this supposed to be an example of classic British theatre ? 😂😂
We should be noting the negative stereotypes of females in this drama and many more during this period. Written by men who see women as emotional and bitter. It would have worked so much better if he and his wife had acted like the team they seemed at the beginning .. her role to harry and belittle him couldn't possibly have survive that marriage
Dr Syntax !!
What an awful wife. I'd divorce her promptly after
Sorry to say but this play was ruined by the attitude of the wife.
Awful
Loved it but the wife was a pain in the a**e.
Worst play I've ever heard
Try " The Shadow of Murder "...?
You might change your mind. ?