The Dark Windows of a Room - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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I love listening tho these while I work. They are genteel.
The windows of my room
Are dark with bitter frost,
The stillness aches with doom
Of something loved and lost
This poignant verse, which Anna picks at random is from a long lament, A Northern Vigil, by Bliss William Carman, of New Brunswick (1861-1929).
44.45
Excellent.v well reflection of life at the time
Just wonderful
engaging.....a lovely little tale
The Dark Windows Of A Room
by William Keenan.
Broadcast as a Saturday Night Theatre drama production on Saturday 6th September, 1975.
The first production from the Drama Suite at New Broadcasting House, Manchester.
'I'm John Rouke, and for the record, the jury gave me the benefit of the doubt. Inspector Rouke is not a crook, and he's going to prove it.'
With Brian Trueman as John Rouke, Geoffrey Banks as Chief Inspector Norris, and Jane Knowles as Anna.
The play is set in and around Manchester in 1975.
Guest appearances by: Violet Carson, Judith Chalmers, Sandra Chalmers, Nigel Davenport, Bryan Forbes, Philip Jenkinson, Bryan Martin, Peter Massey, Wilfred Pickles, Alan Rothwell, Herbert Smith, Madeleine Vacher, Paul Webster, Geoffrey Wheeler, Peter Wheeler, and Billie Whitelaw.
(Billie Whitelaw is currently appearing in "Alphabetical Order" at the Mayfair Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Contributors
Writer: William Keenan
Stereo effects: David Fleming-Williams.
Theme music and song composed by: Simon Park
Producer: Trevor Hill
John Rouke: Brian Trueman
Chief Inspector Norris: Geoffrey Banks
Anna: Jane Knowles
Guest appearance: Violet Carson
Guest appearance: Judith Chalmers
Guest appearance: Sandra Chalmers
Guest appearance: Nigel Davenport
Guest appearance: Bryan Forbes
Guest appearance: Philip Jenkinson
Guest appearance: Bryan Martin
Guest appearance: Peter Massey
Guest appearance: Wilfred Pickles
Guest appearance: Alan Rothwell
Guest appearance: Herbert Smith
Guest appearance: Madeleine Vacher
Guest appearance: Paul Webster
Guest appearance: Geoffrey Wheeler
Guest appearance: Peter Wheeler
Guest appearance: Billie Whitelaw
Thank you . I had searched all over the web but drawn a blank.
@@QHarefield so glad to be of service!
@@QHarefield PS....I inadvertently omitted (I usually include) the source of the credits which is BBC Genome Project..... though not every programme is in there.
@@stewartmcardle8149 Thank you. 😊
Thank you...appreciate very much the info. 🙏🤣
Love your channel but a little description about the story read by yourself in the beginning would be greatly appreciated
Take a chance!
I do agree it would be useful to have a short discription @@lavonnefitts5893
What?
It would be nice to know the subject matter.😊
I so agree! I want to at least know the type of story to see if I’m interested
Detective under investigation himself tries to clear his name in seedy 50s Manchester. First rate cast including Violet Carson, Billie Whitelaw and Wilfred Pickles.
Billie Whitelaw & Wilfred Pickles?! Will listen to it straightaway. Dunno about Violet Carson, but am looking forward to hearing her.
Thank you, Clive!
@Clive - many thanks!!
Thank you very much .
@@mckavitt13 Violet played Ena Sharples on Corrie for years. I agree - as soon as I read Whitelaw and Pickles I knew the play was going to be a real treat!
Wonderful entertainment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Thank you for uploading 👍
I really love these and this channel. One thing though , would it be possible to put a v brief synopsis?
We've decided to delegate that task to you. You know, a bit of "share the effort", what, what?
Maybe not a full synopsis but a clue about storyline would be good ...
I like not forming any opinion, by not having a synopsis. It's good listening to the play, unfold.
I have an idea. Spend 90 minutes listening to the show and taking down notes. Edit those notes to a comprehensible synopsis. Do not give away too much of the plot. Upload your synopsis to the comment section of the appropriate story. This will take you probably close to an hour and 50 minutes to complete. Now you can see why the people posting these shows do not have the time to write these story synopsis.
Repeat this process for five or ten stories in this series. This will keep you very busy my friend.
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@@incrediblesimilarity5858 ok synopsis was not the correct word. How about a two line brief idea of the story or even just an idea of genre ?
Second time listening to this play 😃😃 I love this channel thanks so much 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
Why did you not let it go on? I wanted to hear if Anna got her formal proposal. Such a disappointment that it cut off so quickly without even a list of names. However, it was a good drama and I enjoyed it.
Thankyou for hours of quality entertainment. X
I love all these radio plays so much. Its like reading a short story and all the images that come with it. 😊 Thanks
The list of names at the end of this play is as good as the play itself. What a list! They don’t make them like them anymore.
Thank you for uploading. The Irish nurse is hilarious. 😂
Is that Imelda Staunton?
Very good. Thank you for this.
Some big names there, in small parts!
e.g. Violet Carson, Nigel Davenport, Brian Forbes. Also, Alan Rothwell, who, like Violet Carson, was a regular in early Coronation Street.
Also Judith Chalmers announcing.
I was trying to work out what era this was... Must have been a long time ago, if you could get change from £1 for a sherry and a pint of beer! 1960s or early 1970s, I presume.
Judith Chalmers refers to New Broadcasting House:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Broadcasting_House_(Manchester)
Construction began in 1971 and finished in 1975, so this play would have been in the 1970s at the earliest.
Love your channel! Thank you for great entertainment! ❤️🏆
Excellent service thank you.😀
Loved listening in bed in the dark .
Doing exactly that now 😁 listening in SW Missouri 🇺🇸. Thank you for sharing these gems with us!
how very cozy
Doing that right now!
Listening in the dark right now!
As a kid I used to listen to the man in black in bed with my brother it was quite scary then
Everyone already said everything good about these play's all I can say thank you.
plays
Violet Carson in a very different role from that of Ena Sharples
Before she was type cast...
Thanks for this very interesting play.
Good stuff. So well done.
Fine story.Thanks.🇺🇸
I remember Pickles et all. A brief synopsis would be useful.
Really great story, worth listening to again.
Thank you very good!
Burwell AirBase is RAFLakenheath.
shame about fluctuating sound
That is an unfortunate turn of phrase, at around 56 mins, when the old lady talks about the last male member hanged outside the front door...
I've just started listening to these dramas and I'm loving them. Its placing the voices that sound familiar to.
We were fortunate to have a generation of actors who had spent years in Rep learning their craft . Sadly so many of them have passed away and the current crop simply don't have the technique . Unbelievably I hear that RADA now permits drama students to perform while wearing
throat mics . Voice projection and
breath control are now considered " too demanding "..! ? !
Great entertainment - a pint of bitter and a medium sherry for less than 1 pound ! Those were the days.
Great story thank you.
great mystery - and really good American accents, unusual to say the least! good writer good production, too. thanks so much. and Keep safe :) 🌷
Unusual, my foot. They do us great since Jean Marsh (Upstairs, Downstairs) made evident on the Johnny Carson Show years ago. As to us Americans doing the English accent since ages? Forget it.
@@mckavitt13 yes very good actors can do it, but on the BBC radio and book readings i’ve heard some doozies. their favorite easy one is the southern accent. maybe you just haven’t heard as many as i’ve had. btw, some american actors do lousy English accents. so cool it!!
@@feralbluee I haven’t.
Egg head detective together with silly girl solve convoluted drug suppliers mystery.
Love this actor. So funny . Helps me to get dressed !
audio bit missing around 1.01.
Thankyou
They were very keen to show off the range of their new studio with giving the varying contrasts in different settings .
Very enjoyable, an interesting tale and well actedr
Most enjoyable--thank you.
Good story,. Hate fake American accents but the plot compensated for that. Lots of famous names in this play.
The American accents a simply terrible. Yet, I often read comments from Brits that British accents are terrible in American programs. 😄😄😄
@@SBCBears I agree, it doesn`t work either way, always ott.
Though, Renee Z does a very good middle class Brit in Bridget Jones - and in the Beatrix Potter biog. But my fave American playing a Brit is the Romany Gypsy played by Brad Pitt in Snatch. He really is brilliant.
There is no American accent. The accents vary by region greatly. The non-American doing an American accent sounds off because they are trying to combine accents from various regions. Kinda like doing a Cockney accent and a Jordie accent. Greetings from Mayberry, North Carolina.
😆😆😆😆😆😆 That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I loved “ liking” this and watching it go from 999 to 1k😊you’re my fav channel !
Really like the BBC series
Splendid 👍🏼
Thanks for the upload! Just one comment: a well-educated person, especially one who studies history, would know how to spell the surname 'Schiller,' as Friedrich Schiller was a world famous and highly influential 18th century German dramatist & philosopher.
Those American accents were torture, not to mention the fraulein, but it was nice to hear Ena Sharples
Ho,! Why can’t you just enjoy without criticising all the time......this was over 50 years ago and all these fab actors are all dead now, and they don’t make them like this anymore.....Maybe you could do better.
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Have the decency to tolerate people's comments without admonishing them for doing so. Personally, I found the fake foreign accents awful. They _should_ have used foreign actors.
Are you aware that the actors' union, at the time, banned foreigners from working? - An odious practice of shutting out anyone other than British actors. Similarly, in Elizabethan days, women were banned from appearing in plays and men had to play the roles of ladies. Do you want to go back to those days?
By the sound of things you're a proponent of cultural discrimination - in which case, shame on you.
This entire comment thread is cancerous.
@@NoosaHeads some of the writing was clunky and typically chauvinistic (of the time) - "I know you mean to be kind - I also know I have a plain face and I feel very spinsterish and school-teacherish at times" - said no woman ever ....
Things were different then .
I remember hearing this play and that the main character's landlady was played by Violet Carson who played the iconic Ena Sharples in the uk soap " Coronation Street" in its early days in the 1960s.
I did recognised her voice 😂😂😂
Does anyone have a cast and character list for this play? I know that Violet Carson, Billie Whitelaw and Nigel Davenport were guest actors but which roles did they play?
I think it is in one of the comments.
One continuous point,
You also see it in TV soaps, take a drink yourself, to the barman!!
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In all my business life, I never see that happen once!!
Stoooooopid in the extreme.
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a good story! but a very odd ending! so the two people in the play, one being a copper and one a teacher, are appearing in alphabetical order at the Mayfair Theatre in London. my how lives can be changed about. LOL
so what were the last words of the play anyway?
Is this how people spent their Saturday nights back then?
Life in the bus lane.
I can totally tell that those aren't Americans. We'd say flashlight instead of torch. We'd say laid off instead of made redundant . We'd say woods instead of wood.
Are these accents "Manchester"?!
God bless the BBC! It's sensitive to my wish to go no further north than Banbury, the next town up ...
A wonderful play set in the 1970s. Rourke is falsely accused, at trial he is acquitted by the jury. The drama proceeds with the former police Inspector trying to discover what happened. You will hear the sound of typewriters, tills being closed and the wonderful Violet Carson. The former Mrs Sharples plays Rourke’s hospitable and kind landlady You will not hear this kind of play on Radio 4 anytime soon.
Cheers!! xx
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Started interesting, but then he gets involved with the sister of Hilda who possibly set him up😮???
Thank you 🌻🌻
I listen in bed and whilst I'm working from home.
The Irish Nurse is a Riot ! Please make a Drama with her Character in it ! 😂
Doing my duty ! Yes thats what the axmen said to the queen 😂
Thank you.
I find it amusing to read comments whenever one of these plays features characters with accents- inevitably there will be opposing viewpoints:- best accents ever/Good Lord, what horrible accents !
7:30 A lesson we seem to have not learned almost 50 years later
The ending is chopped off!!! 😞
Thanks for loading, however what an appalling production/storyline….i wouldn’t bother if you are thinking of listening.
Very good, a good old style police story, thank-you xx
Accents were awful, the story was very good. I really enjoyed it.
i thought they were good - i live in NYC, NY mayve you thought some of the actors weren't so good. but i disagree mmmmmm ? Keep safe 🌷
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Not bad..
Excellent
Thank you
Personally, I found the fake foreign accents unpleasant. They _should_ have used foreign actors instead.
Is everyone aware that the actors' union, at the time (Equity) banned foreigners from working in Britain? - Odious and brazen discrimination. Similarly, in Elizabethan days, women were banned from appearing in plays and men had to play the roles of ladies.
'Actors' Equity only permits foreign actors to appear on Broadway if "they are an established star or can do something that an American actor can't do." Actors' Equity spokesperson Maria Somma told the Evening Times, "The rules are there to give our own actors the first shot."'
www.playbill.com/article/report-actors-equity-blocks-angell-from-broadway-tarzan-com-128612
Another terrific play with some excellent actors. Definitely worth listening to. Thank you CR. Hi from Oz. 👇💜🙃