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Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Další tvůrci a interpreti nezjištěni.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1950. Premiéra 4. 10. 1960 (75 min.).

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Další tvůrci a interpreti nezjištěni.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1959. Premiéra 7. 7. 1959 (BBC nk).

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Další tvůrci a interpreti nezjištěni.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1959. Premiéra 4. 6. 1959 (45 min.).

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Další tvůrci a interpreti nezjištěni.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1959. Premiéra 20. 4. 1959 (90 min.)

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Další tvůrci a interpreti nezjištěni.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1958. Premiéra 12. 1. 1959 (60 min.).

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Produkce Donald McWhinnie.

Osoby a obsazení: ředitel (Anthony Viccars), John Ebony (Peter Howell), Cary Farthingale (John Sharp), Nadia (Violet Loxley), Cuthbun (Jonathan Bailey), Cloistermouth (Leonard Monahan), Orris, chapec 1 (Jonathan Margates), Bungabine (John Graham), Unman (Nigel Anthony), Lipstrob (Jonathan Scott), Aggeridge (Michael Walker), Terhew (Anthony Adams, Wittering (David Spenser). Dále účinkují Jean England, Alice Esmie-Bell, Harold Young, Will Leighton.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1958. Premiéra 23. 11. 1958 (BBC 3rd Programme, 90 min.).

Pozn.: The play is a thriller set in a traditional boys boarding school where a senior form master has just been killed in a tragic accident. The main character is John Ebony, a teacher in his first job, brought in as a temporary measure, though one he hopes will be confirmed as permanent. Between his rebellious wife Nadia, the eccentric art master Cary Farthingale and the class of Lower 5B, Ebony struggles to exercise power, but is thwarted by reality and a disbelieving Headmaster. The resonant quotation from the play falls to the wise old Farthingale. „Authority is a necessary evil, and every bit as evil as it is necessary.“
Alan Bennett credits Giles Cooper and the play’s influence in his creation of The History Boys.

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra.  Produkce Donald McWhinnie.

Osoby a obsazení: Edward Thwaite / otec (Hamilton Dyce),   Muriel / matka (Kathleen Helme), matka / Rory (Patricia Hayes). Dále účinkují Gabriel Wolf, Haydn Jones, John Dearth a John Hollis.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1958. Premiéra  3. 8. 1958 (BBC Tree, 40 min.).

Pozn.: A simple fable of a man having a bath, but within this framework the author concentrates a pungent assessment of certain contemporary beliefs – a curiously touching but merciless scrutiny of a certain kind of human being. He uses every shorthand device of imaginative radio to paint a man’s life, his aspirations, and his will to survive. This is forty-five minutes of highly distilled experience crystallised into a sound – complex: words, rhythms, evocative noises, fused into a kind of musical score which constantly stimulates the ear and the imagination. ….taken from some remarks written by Donald McWhinnie in his introduction to a volume of Giles Cooper’s plays, published by the BBC in 1966.

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra. Produkce Donald McWhinnie.

Osoby a obsazení: Innes Corrie (Peter Howell), Hazel (Betty Baskcomb), Das (Roger Snowdon), řidič (Satish Bhatnagar), major (V.R.Krishnamurthi), Leila (Renee Goddard), Derek (David Enders), Suban (Bakshi Prem), Felix (Michael Hordern), Siri (Geoffrey Matthews).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1958. Premiéra 13. 1. 1958 (90 min.).

Pozn.: Without the Grail begins with the pragmatic hero, Innes Corrie, preparing to go on business to to a tea plantation in India and tying up the loose ends of his life, such as brushing off his socially unsuitable girlfriend. At first we see the plantation as a strange outpost of empire; the owner, Felix Barrington, drills the servants in the etiquette of calling-cards and organises port after dinner and tea on the lawn. Cooper gradually exposes the facade: monkeys throw dung at the tea parties, the port is coloured water, and Barrington’s children reject his myths for their own: his son Derek for dreams of an England as false as anything at the plantation, his daughter Leila for Communism, his protege Siri for his own Naga heritage. Felix sees himself as a latter-day Arthur. Arthur the Briton who kept the ideals of Rome alive in the Dark Ages when the legions had gone home. An essentially Victorian dream of benevolent rule over lesser breeds without the Law. The sounds of the play – the tigers, the monkeys, the Indian voices – clash violently with the vocabulary of chivalry and stress the point finally articulated by Innes, the absence of the Grail. But the myths have results, Felix is prepared to kill for them, he outlines his ideals to Innes with a gun in one hand and the Morte D’Arthur in the other.Siri creates his own myth of the Nagas and sets off a revolt, the Nagas cut off Barrington’s head. Leila confronted with the reality of revolution can make no sense of it. Innes finds that his own self-sufficiency is also a myth.

Giles Cooper. Rozhlasová hra o malé skupině mužů a žen, kteří nepřetržitě střeží přísně tajnou raketovou základnu kdesi ve Walesu, několik let poté, co válka skončila. Produkce Donald McWhinnie. Hudba Freddie Clayton, hraje autor.

Osoby a obsazení: Edvard Gann (Maurice Denham), Andrew Blick (David Markham), Jake Olim (Earl Cameron), Rita Bleeningová (Eleanor Summerfield), Gunner Evans (Dudley Jones), pilotka bombardéru Betsy Lingová (Janette Richer). Dále účinkují Sheila Moloney, Elaine Macnamara, Shelagh Kennedy.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 1956. Premiéra 18. 6. 1956 (BBC Third 19:25 h.).

Alternativní verze názvu: Maják Mathry

Pozn.: The play opens during the Second World War, a group of service men and women are sent to operate and guard a secret installation at Mathry Beacon in a remote and isolated part of Wales. During this enforced isolation they begin to form a community so potentially perfect that their leaders keep them in ignorance that the war is over. Cooper shows the forces that keep society together and those that break it apart…