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Marty Ross. Hrůzostrašný příběh. Produkce Bruce Young.

Osoby a obsazení: Kate (Claire Knight), Colleen (Suzanne Donaldson), Strachan (Liam Brennan), Old Strachan (John Shedden), Donnie (Lewis Howden), Isla (Eileen McCallum), Octavia (Lucy Patterson), DC Carbeth (James Bryce), WPC Briggs (Jill Riddiford), Dennis (Finlay McLean).

Nastudoval BBC 7 – BBC Radio Scotland v roce 2007. Premiéra 2. dílu 11. 12. 2007 (BBC Radio 7, 18:00 h).

Lit.: anonym: Marty Ross – Catch My Breath. Episode 1. In web BBC Radio 4 Extra, září 2018 (anotace). – Cit.:  On the run from a women’s prison in the Scottish Highlands, Kate and Colleen are given refuge in a vast country mansion by a charming but rather enigmatic host, Adam Strachan. It could be a decision they come to regret… The storyline for Marty Ross’s supernatural five-part thriller is based around the notion, found in old Scottish folk tales, of the Beatha Greimach – literally ‚The Breath Thief‘ – a celtic demon said to lure victims into a kiss which would drain the soul from their bodies.

Cyklus dramatizací hrůzostrašných příběhů. Roald Dahl (1), William Ingram (2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 15 – 21), Stanley Ellin (3), Robert Arthur (4), Richard Davies / Davis (5, 13), R. Chetwynd-Hayes (6), Barry Campbell (9), A. M. Burrage (9), Elizabeth Morgan (10), Rene Basilico (11), Bram Stoker (13), Maurice Travers (14), Charles Birkin (14), Jack Ritchie (15). Režie John Dyas.

Účinkují Vincent Price, Edward Woodward, Annette Crosby, Margaret Courtney, Sheila Grant, Henry Stamper, Shandor Ellis, Mervyn Johns, Michael Gwynne, Clive Swift, Avril Angers, Diana Bishop, Robin Brown, Gerhard Greene, Phyllis Schroeder, Kenneth J. Warren, Frederick Schraeker, John Sampson, Bonnie Harron, Kate Coleridge, Steve Plietus, Michael Deacon, Peter Cushing, Diana Olson, Steve Preston, Elizabeth Morgan, Douglas Blackwell, Alexander John, Peter Barkweth, Cyril Schaps, Joan Cooper, Christopher Bidmeade, Bruce Beebe, Amanda Marley, Bill Kerr, Coral Brown, John Grahame, Roger Snowdon, Michael Burlington, Morris Perry, Maurice Denham, Betty Humphrey-Wright, Peter Williams, Hugh Burton, Frances DeWolff, Vernon Joiner, William Slade, Freda Jackson, Richard Pearson, Claire Sutcliffe, Michael Siegel, Alan Rowe, Freddie Jones, Geoffrey Collins, Anne Jamieson, Michael Jayston, Daphne Heard , Sondra Clarke, Nigel Grahame.

Natočeno 1973 – 1983 (BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4; BBC 7).

Obsah: 1. William and Mary by Barry Campbell (based on the story by Roald Dahl). Premiéra 9. 4. 1973 – 2. Come As You Are by William Ingram. Premiéra 2. 7. 1973 – 3. Speciality of the House /Specialita šéfkuchaře/ (based on the story by Stanley Ellin). Premiéra 3. 7. 1973 – 4. The Man Who Hated Scenes by William Ingram (based on the story by Robert Arthur). Premiéra 29. 9. 1973 – 5. Guy Fawkes‘ Night by Richard Davies. Premiéra 17. 11. 1973 – 6. The Ninth Removal (based on the story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes). Premiéra 19. 11. 1973 – 7. Soul Music by William Ingram. Premiéra 1. 7. 1973 – 8. An Eye for An Eye by William Ingram. Premiéra 4. 7. 1975 – 9. The Waxwork by Barry Campbell (based on the story by A.M Burrage). Premiéra 18. 7. 1973 – 10. Lot 132 by Elizabeth Morgan. Premiéra 25. 7. 1973 – 11. Fish by Rene Basilico. Premiéra 8. 8. 1973 – 12. Blind Man’s Bluff by William Ingram. Premiéra 4. 8. 1975 – 13. Cat’s Cradle by Richard Davis (based on „The Squaw'“ by Bram Stoker). Premiéra 15. 9. 1973 – 14. Meeting in Athens by Maurice Travers (based on „So Cold, So Pale, So Fair“ by Charles Birkin). Premiéra 22. 9. 1973. – 15. Remains to be Seen by William Ingram (based on the story by Jack Ritchie). Premiéra 1. 9. 1973 – 16. The Family Album by William Ingram. Premiéra 8. 2. 1983. – 17. Not Wanted on Voyage by William Ingram. Premiéra 26. 4. 1983 – 18.  Goody Two Shoes by William Ingram. Premiéra 27. 4. 1983. – 19.To My Dear, Dear Saladin by William Ingram. Premiéra 27. 4. 1983. – 20. Out of the Mouths by William Ingram. Premiéra 11. 5. 1983. – 21. Is There Anybody There? by William Ingram. Premiéra 25. 5. 1983. – 22. Never Gamble With A Loser. Premiéra ??.

Lit.: anonym: The Price of Fear Radio Program. Background. In web The Digital Deli Too, b. d. (článek). – Cit.:  The Price of Fear will always be associated more with Vincent Price the famous American actor and host of the series, than its British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) production history. BBC’s World Service first broadcast the intial order of five The Price of Fear episodes in the Spring of 1973. The initial five episodes aired consecutively, Monday through Friday between July 2, 1973 and July 6, 1973, then again between December 17 and December 21 of the same year. The World Service broadcasts were so popular that the BBC ordered another five, which, combined with the previous five episodes, apparently aired weekly on both Tuesdays and Saturdays, from September 1, 1973 to November 6, 1973.

By 1974, the BBC’s Radio 4 had ordered another six installments of the series, now widely referred to as Season 2, which aired weekly from April 6, 1974 through May 11, 1974. Remember that the BBC, a state-owned broadcasting service traditionally prohibited any form of commercial messages or sponsorship. Any series that was extended or expanded was due only to listener support, letters and phone calls to the service. The series‘ that returned again and again over the BBC had only their listeners to thank for their longevity.

The BBC’s Radio 4 ordered another six installments in 1982, for a Season 3, which aired weekly from May 30, 1983 through July 4, 1983, bringing the entire canon to a theoretical twenty-two installments over ten years and three ostensible ‚seasons.‘ We say ostensible, since the intent and actual air dates and order for the 1973 broadcasts are still somewhat ambiguous.
The Price of Fear becomes a popular international favorite

Recorded in every corner of the world when first broadcast over the BBC’s World Service, The Price of Fear soon became one of the most widely recorded offerings of its era. As with most BBC productions, the acting talent and production values were excellent throughout. The stories dramatized in the series are from some of the supernatural fiction world’s finest authors. William Ingram was responsible for almost half of the stories and scripts, backed up the works of Bram Stoker, Roald Dahl, Robert Arthur, Rene Basilico, Stanley Ellin, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes. John Dyas produced and directed all three series over the ten year period.

Host Vincent Price, already long since recognized throughout the world as the reigning Master of The Macabre, virtually ensured that the series would be heard. True to his legend, Price’s imprimatur on the series provided a voice as chilling and familiar to World Service listeners as that of their own Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. The Price of Fear has been an international favorite ever since it’s first airing. It was picked up by several short-wave and FM stations in the U.S. and enjoyed broadcast airing over several American public broadcasting stations from 1973, on. The BBC’s proscription against commercial broadcast of its productions left only national or public broadcasting networks and stations capable of airing the compelling program. (more…)

Herbert George Wells. Dramatizace Jon Manchip White. Zvuk David Cain (BBC Radiophonic Workshop). Produkce John Powell.

Osoby a obsazení: profesor John Nicholson (Paul Daneman),  Ogilvy, jeho asistent (Martin Jarvis), Dora Nicholson (Isabel Rennie),  Sir James Stent (Harold Kasket), seržant Holroyd (Alan Dudley), poručík (Anthony Jackson), plukovník (Ronald Herdman), desátník (Frank Henderson), starý gentleman (Walter Fitzgerald), farář (Peter Sallis), mluvčí (Denys Hawthorne, Anthony Hall). Dále účinkují  Brian Hewlett, LeRoy Lingwood, Christopher Bidmead, Ronald Herdman, Ian Thompson, Alan Dudley, Carole Boyd, Rolf Lefebvre a Beth Boyd.

Natočeno 1967. Premiéra 9. 6. 1967 (BBC, 19:00 – 19:30 h) –

Obsah: 1. The Red Planet. June 9, 7pm to 7.30pm.
2. The Heat Ray. June 16, 7pm to 7.30pm
3. The Fighting Machines. June 23, 7pm to 7.30pm
4. The Black Smoke. June 30, 7pm to 7.30pm
5. The Red Weed. July 7, 7pm to 7.30pm
6. The Bacillus. July 14, 7pm to 7.30pm

Lit.: anonym: War of the Worlds radio broadcast (BBC, 1950 and 1967). In web War of the Worlds, b.d. (článek). – Cit.:

What a shame then that this extraordinary sounding production may no longer exist, but we can hope for a flavour of it since the 1967 version has survived and seems to share a connection, because Jon Manchip White is again listed as the writer. Yet there is a mystery here, since as he himself has told me in no uncertain terms, „I could not have been concerned with it because 1967 was the year in which I first came to America to take up a professorship at the University Of Texas.“ The 1967 version certainly can’t be a direct word for word remake, since it is thoroughly updated, with a modern English setting, helicopters and jet fighters, yet White has the sole writing credit, the episode titles are identical and both productions share very similar character names. Despite all this, it remains to be seen how much of White’s original dialogue survives into the 1967 version.

The first episode introduces us to the character of Nicholson, played by Paul Daneman. Nicholson replaces Wells‘ nameless narrator, though in a fairly major departure from the original novel the character is now an astronomer and Ogilvy his assistant. Nicholson is a determined believer in the possibility of life on Mars, and sees the eruptions he is observing on Mars as proof positive of an impending invasion. This is fully confirmed by the arrival of the first cylinder and the emergence of a Martian. In the second episode troops and helicopters arrive to contain the Martians, with one of the pilots assuming the role of the Artillery man, but despite his best efforts to dissuade them from the attempt, Nicholson is unable to stop Ogilvy and the Astronomer Royal Stent from leading a peace delegation to their doom at the hands of the Heat Ray.

By the third episode a second Cylinder is seen to arrive and Nicholson’s predictions are proven horribly true when the badly injured helicopter pilot stumbles into his home with news of a terrible defeat for the army and air force. There are some effective descriptions of modern weapons succumbing to the Heat Ray, such as the rotors disintegrating on a helicopter and interesting speculation on the problem with fighting the Martians with modern weapons in the midst of a civilian population. The episode culminates with a fantastic re-imagining of the battle for Shepperton with tanks against the Martian Tripods.

In the 4th episode there is another fantastically realised battle, this time with Jet Fighters against the Tripods, but most are shot down and the Martians deploy their Black Smoke against waiting Tanks. By now, Nicholson has met the Priest and the pair become entombed beneath a newly arrived Martian cylinder. Peter Sallis (British readers will likely recognise him for his long running portrayal of the wonderfully reprehensible Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine) plays the conflicted priest to perfection.

For the penultimate episode, Nicholson arrives in London (the character of his brother is entirely excised from this version) and meets the helicopter pilot again, who seems to have landed on his feet and is plotting the survival of the human race by retreating underground, though first he persuades Nicholson to set up base in an abandoned luxury hotel. The highlight of this episode has to be a superb recap of the Martian assault, replayed from the point of view of government pronouncements, at first incredulous in tone, then humorous and smugly confident, before becoming increasingly panicked and strident. In another interesting departure from the novel, Nicholson is far more receptive to the ideas of his companion, and there is an interesting reference to the visibility of the Canals on Mars. I feel this may be one definite example of original dialogue from the 1950 production, as by 1967, the idea of Canals on Mars had been refuted, not least by the return of photographs a few years previously by Mariner 4.

The final episode builds to a highly satisfying crescendo, with the Martians defeated as in the original novel by Earthly germs, but ends a little differently, bringing Nicholson and the helicopter pilot together one more time for an ominous discussion about the chances of another invasion.

The sound and music for the 1967 version is provided by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which I have never found to be a particularly entertaining listening experience, with its trademark cacophony of discordant notes, but this is the only real (and subjectively personal) criticism I can level at the production, which boasts excellent acting and a well thought out script, though not uncommonly to adaptations, the portion of the book containing the adventures of the narrators brother is completely removed,. This means rather tragically that the sequence involving the Thunderchild is absent.

The episodes titles and broadcast times are as follows. (Click on the links to see the original BBC Radio Times entry for each).

Herbert George Wells. Dramatizace románu. Produkce David H. Godfrey.

Osoby a obsazení:  Nicholson (Anthony Hawtrey), Ogilvy (Peter Coke),  Stent (Deryck Guyler), Holroyd (Stanley Groome), Dora Nicholson (Dorothy Green), první chlapec (Ursula Hirst), druhý chlapec (Brian Weske), poručík (Manning Wilson), plukovník (Laidman Browne), desátník (Lewis Stringer), starý gentleman (J. Hubert Leslie), Parson (Raf De La Torre), první mluvčí (Hamilton Dyce), druhý mluvčí (Howieson Culff), muž (Ronald Sidney), dívka (Joan Hart). Dále účinkují  David Kossoff, Alan Reid, Basil Jones, Joan Matheson, Margaret Vines a Hugh Manning.

Natočeno 1950. Premiéra 30. 5. 1950 (BBC, 21:00 – 22:00 h) – 4. 7. 1950 (BBC, 21:30 – 22:00 h), nedochováno.

Obsah:  1. The Red Planet. Premiéra 30. 5. 1950 (BBC, 21:00 – 22:00 h) – 2. The Heat Ray. Premiéra 6. 6. 1950 (BBC, 22:15 – 22:45 h). – 3. The Fighting Machines. Premiéra 13. 6. 1950 (BBC, 21:30 – 22:00 h.) – 4. The Black Smoke. Premiéra 20. 6.  1950 (BBC, 21:30 – 22:00 h) – 5. The Red Weed. Premiéra 27. 6. 1950 (BBC, 21:30 – 22:00 h) – 6. The Bacillus. Premiéra 4. 7. 1950 (BBC, 21:30 – 22:00 h).

Lit.: anonym: War of the Worlds radio broadcast (BBC, 1950 and 1967). In web War of the Worlds, b.d. (článek). – Cit.:  The War of the Worlds was first adapted by the BBC in 1950. Tragically, like so much of their early output, the 6 part series appears to have been lost to posterity, but we can find some detail in the BBC listings magazine of the time. The Radio Times lists 6 episodes, the first of which, The Red Planet, was broadcast at 9.30 pm on Tuesday, May 30th 1950. The writer was Jon Manchip White, who has been kind enough to help me fill in some of the blanks on this production and the subsequent 1967 version.

White is by now the author of nearly thirty books of fiction, history, travel, and biography, but in 1950 had just joined the BBC Drama Script Unit as an editor. He had very definite ideas about the production as he made clear in a feature he wrote at the time for the BBC Radio Times magazine. „Out of respect for the Martian Fighting-Machines – a bit obsolescent by the standards of jet-planes and anti-tank guns – the dramatised version of The War of the Worlds has not been brought up to date.“

In personal correspondence with me, Mr White further comments „I had kept the Victorian setting and as much of Wells‘ wonderful atmosphere and dialogue as I could. As for the music, it was not radiophonic, but I selected it myself – as I took care to do in all my radio and TV plays. So I opened with Mars, The Bringer Of War, from Holst’s great suite The Planets, which provided a suitably rousing, indeed frightening, introduction.“

In the first episode, Anthony Hawtrey, the son of the great Charles Hawtrey, starred as the hero Nicholson, Peter Coke (famous for his portrayal of the detective Paul Temple) was Ogilvy and Derek Guyler played Stent.

The episodes titles and broadcast times are as follows. (Click on the links to see the original BBC Radio Times entry for each). (….)

Richard Gordon. Třináctidílná rozhlasová dramatizace stejnojmenné knihy. Rozhlasová dramatizace a režie Ray Cooney. Produkce David Hatch.

Osoby a obsazení (v různých dílech s alternacemi postav): Simon Sparrow (Richard Briers), Sir Lancelot Sprat (Geoffrey Sumner), Colonel Bryan (Dennis Ramsden), Easter, stevard (Peter Jones), Ginger, Virginia Sprat (Tanya Robinson), dívka (Wendy Hall),  Harris (David Jason), Harry Hawkins, taxikář (Sam Kydd),  Joan Sanderson (Sister Virtue),  Kitty Buckingham (Fenella Fielding),  Lady Sprat (Joan Young),  Lady Westhouse (Frieda Dowey),  Lord Crutchley (Ronald Adam),  Miss Bottomly (Patsy Rowland),  sluha Montravers (Garrard Green),  Mr. Smith (Bill Fraser),  Mr. Stoker (Christopher Denham),  Mrs. Clarke (Irene Handl),  Mrs. Stephens (Gwendolyn Watts), Mrs. Travers, stará lady (Dandy Nichols),  sestra (Rosalind Adams),  sestra Michaelsová (Carole Marsh),  Padre a George (Antony Jackson), Porter, Padre (Dennis McCarthy), Porter, Padre, Adams (Brian Haines),  Rigor Mortis (Alithea Charlton),  Sir Raymond Beecham (Richard Caldicot), sestra (Anne Murray), sestra (Barbara Mitchell), sestra Virtue (Joan Sanderson), sestra  Virtue (Kathleen Helm),  sestra, babička (Beth Boyd),  Stanley (Robin Davis),  Taffy Evans, číšník (Edward Cast),  děkan (John LeMesurier),  vévoda (Howard Marion Crawford), matka (Mary Head), padre (Michael Deacon), sekretář, Sir Mortimer Huckston (Erik Chitty),  Tony Benskin (Ray Cooney),  Vera, Matron, Wendy Swithinbank (Norma Ronald). Dále hrají Stanley Baxter, Miriam Margoyles, Joan Sims, Gwendoline Watts, Marjorie Westbury a další.

Za účasti publika živě natočilo BBC Radio 4 v roce 1968. (13 dílů 25-26 min., celkem asi 5:33 hod.). Premiéra 25. 6. 1968 – 17. 9. 1968. Repríza 8. 12. 2009 – 23. 2. 2010 (BBC Radio 7 – vždy každé úterý). (more…)

Agatha Christie. Dramatizace Michael Bakewell. Režie Enyd Williams.

Osoby a obsazení: slečna Marplová (June Whitfield), reverend Leonard Clement (Francis Matthews), Griselda Clementová (Imelda Staunton), dr. Haydock (Nigel Davenport), Dennis (Nicholas Boulton), Lettice Protheroeová (Rachel Atkins), slečna Wetherbyová (Joan Matheson), paní Price-Ridleyová (Margot Boyd), paní Lestrangeová (Jillie Meers), Lawrence Redding (James Telfer), Anne Protheroeová (Frances Jeater), plukovník Protheroe (James Greene), Mary (Alece Arnold) a inspektor Slack (John Baddeley).

Natočeno 1993.

Lit.: anonym: Miss Marple, The Murder at the Vicarage Episode 1 of 5. In web BBC Radio 4, červenec 2018 (článek). – Cit.:  Even the vicar of St Mary Mead detests a certain member of his flock. But murder seems to be carrying things a bit far?