The Linden Tree by J B PRIESTLEY

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2022
  • The Linden Tree by J B PRIESTLEY
    Britain, 1947: Rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family.
    Professor Linden wants only to continue teaching in a world that no longer seems to share his quiet ideals.
    His family urge him to retire from the fight, but the Professor is not so easily deterred...
    JB Priestley’s stage play made its debut in 1947.
    Dramatised for radio by Mollie Greenhalgh.
    Professor Linden .... Geoffrey Banks
    Isabel .... Kathleen Helme
    Rex Linden .... Christopher Godwin
    Dr Jean Linden .... Carole Hayman
    Marion de Saint Vaury .... Joanna Wake
    Dinah Linden .... Penelope Reynolds
    Alfred Lockhart .... David Mahlowe
    Edith Westmore .... Sally Gibson
    Bernard Fawcett .... Christian Rodska
    Mrs Cotton .... Shirley Dixon
    Cellist: Rosalind Gonley
    Directed at BBC Manchester by Kay Patrick.
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Комментарии • 33

  • @janeclarkson8471
    @janeclarkson8471 Год назад +29

    It strangely applies today. What a wonderful observer and writer JB Priestly was. So evocative. I could listen to his work anytime! Radio is the best medium. You're without any distraction but your own imagination! Thank you for your upload 👌🙏🏻

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 Год назад +4

      JB is definitely one of the major voices of the last century. He is top of my list of the 6 people I’d invite to my dinner party. If only.

    • @Failte630
      @Failte630 Год назад +1

      100% agree with ye both

  • @marymary5494
    @marymary5494 Год назад +10

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, love Priestley. 👌💕

  • @maryalice5357
    @maryalice5357 Год назад +8

    Captures all the bittersweetness of life. The music enhances perfectly. Beautiful adaptation, a keeper to hear over and over.

  • @janeclarkson8471
    @janeclarkson8471 Год назад +10

    I listened again too, to Elgar's cello concerto. Sublime!! ❤️

  • @wendyrichards7458
    @wendyrichards7458 11 месяцев назад +4

    I loved this ,so much wisdom and the ending made me smile .Life is all phases and perspectives ,we all see things differently according to our age ,personality and experience. What appeals to one is distasteful to another and we struggle to understand feelings that oppose our own .That's the genius of this play ,it's a simple plot that turns on nothing but differing perspectives but still engages and provokes .Priestley seems to have been a master at this .

  • @FoD1975
    @FoD1975 Год назад +7

    Funny, in my 40’s I’m thinking “what a stubborn fool!” I wonder what I’ll think when I’m 65…

  • @user-rw1qo3vk3l
    @user-rw1qo3vk3l Год назад +4

    I saw this play in 1947 as a young girl with Sybil Thorndyke and her husband Sir Lewis Casson Lovely to hear it again Marion

    • @jow6845
      @jow6845 2 месяца назад

      How lovely to have that experience and memory 💖

  • @lydiazammit1626
    @lydiazammit1626 Год назад +6

    Enjoyed this thoroughly. Excellent production. Thank you for uploading it. ❤

  • @kazneasham9110
    @kazneasham9110 Год назад +3

    Love Priestley's plays. Also scripts are written in a clear audible fashion ( unlike many programs on TV which often have inaudible muffled dialogue)

  • @belle6577
    @belle6577 Год назад +4

    Thank you so much for downloading this play which I throughly enjoyed. In saying that the play I loved but the relentless interruptions by adverts it would seem every five minutes or so just wanted to make me scream. I think u tube has a lot to answer for as I know they are not a charity but there are limits. I sound grouchy because it was a wonderful play ruined by incentive advertisers

  • @kazneasham9110
    @kazneasham9110 Год назад +2

    Marvellous

  • @derekeaton4798
    @derekeaton4798 Год назад +4

    Lovely play

  • @TedaR
    @TedaR Год назад +4

    💜 JBP!
    Thank you FMD!

  • @Lyfs-Awsumm
    @Lyfs-Awsumm Год назад +4

    ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! Great Characters and Great Story!. Nice to hear a story without Murder and Mayhem! To me this story is about human relationships. I'll look for more by this same author because this was wonderful!!❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️

    • @judiththomas9995
      @judiththomas9995 Год назад

      JB P was a really great story teller. A great observer of the human condition.
      Unlike the unimaginative blood and mayhem recounters of modern novels

  • @jacquiadams863
    @jacquiadams863 Год назад +1

    Beautiful writing and acting. Thank you

  • @colinglass1342
    @colinglass1342 7 месяцев назад

    You can alawys skip the adverts

  • @ricardomusicdoc7227
    @ricardomusicdoc7227 8 месяцев назад

    Couldn't take another bl. ad..!

  • @forgottentelevisiondrama2750
    @forgottentelevisiondrama2750 Год назад +1

    Broadcast: 23 July 1977

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 Год назад +4

    Once we had intellectual giants like Priestley ;
    Now we have virtue signalling , box ticking
    professional " victims " .

  • @tessamichael9766
    @tessamichael9766 4 месяца назад

    Awfull interruption by adverts

  • @sammyunderthesea7347
    @sammyunderthesea7347 11 месяцев назад

    So many ads

  • @jow6845
    @jow6845 2 месяца назад +1

    Wonderful play - hideous intrusive cheapening ads…

  • @clovelly1946
    @clovelly1946 Год назад +2

    Did not enjoy this.

  • @shelbythomas
    @shelbythomas 2 месяца назад

    Predictable, no likeable characters, lame.

  • @aquageraniablue6990
    @aquageraniablue6990 Год назад

    Pompous english voices talking way too fast. 😢

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 9 месяцев назад +3

      Pompous commenters are even worse. .!

    • @brianmaloney-cc2kt
      @brianmaloney-cc2kt 7 месяцев назад

      aquageraniabl
      These people are not talking quickly, but if English is not your first language I can understand it uses a wider vocabulary than modern offerings.
      What you dismiss as pompous is a man fighting to remain employed because his whole identity is his job and he can't face the future outside of the certainty of his years as a professor.

    • @MyUncleToby
      @MyUncleToby 5 месяцев назад

      aquageraniablue - Typical innit bro! They hate us truth-telling pidgin English speakers bro. Fancy having the audacity to allow ENGLISH people to speak with ENGLISH accents! - Do you notice that they never put Cockneys or Jamaican Yardies in Priestley's plays? - It's bloody obvious they all talk superfast on purpose just to confuse common folks like you and me. Am I Rite or Am I Rite?