Afternoon Play
Dramas which delight and surprise.
Dramas broadcast each weekday afternoon.
| First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|
| 20050921 | A double bill of two J M Barrie short plays. Seven Women In this piece about childhood reunion and eccentric womanhood, Mr and Mrs Tovey are a 'pleasant couple of agreeable age'. The play precedes a dinner party at their Chelsea home. Captain Rattrey (Inky Paws) arrives early and engages in banter with his old school friend Tovey (Bobbin) about which women are coming to the party. Tovey says that one of them is a murderess, and challenges old Inky Paws to work out which one. J M Barrie....Bill Paterson Tovey....Benedict Cumberbatch Mrs Tovey....Diana Quick Rattray....Alexander Armstrong Leonora....Harriet Walter The Twelve Pound Look In this play about a man confronting his past, it is the evening before Harry Sims is to receive his knighthood, and he has hired a typist to answer his congratulatory letters. Unbeknownst to him, the secretary is his ex-wife, who left him suddenly years ago. Sims uses the opportunity to find out who she left him for, but ends up being forced to confront himself. Lady Sims....Joanna David Harry Sims....Anton Rodgers Tombes....Colin Haigh Kate....Maureen Lipman Both plays directed and adapted by Julia Mckenzie |
| 20051018 | It's Aug 8th 1974 - the day of President Nixon's resignation. Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, is alone with her books of press clippings, her dog and her whisky. She tape records her testimony, makes calls to journalists and remembers how the administration forcibly tried to silence her when she spoke out about Nixon's role in the Watergate burglary and cover-up. Martha Mitchell....Judith Ivey Directed by Eoin O'callaghan |
| 20070720 | Elizabeth Lewis' surreal comic parable about the pitfalls of romantic fantasy. Alice is frightened of the reality of marriage to a Welsh asparagus farmer and runs away from her wedding. Still wearing her white dress and veil, she books herself into a Paris hotel to pursue her romantic dreams. Alice Arden....Caroline Harker Simone de Beauvoir....Ana-Luisa De Cavilla Ieuan the asparagus farmer....Iestyn Jones The Ubiquitous Frenchman....Richard Elfyn Stallholder....Iwan Tudor Genevieve....Sheila Ballantine Agnes....Alex Alderton Mireille....Phyllida Nash Directed by Kate McAll. |
| 20071119 | By Catherine Shepherd. Eve has come to India following the recent death of her parents. While everyone around her is seeking enlightenment, she is only concerned with obtaining a legal document which will allow probate on her parents' estate to be granted. Vivanti....Anna Carteret Eve....Madelaine Brolly Piturbaba....Jack Shepherd Xavier....Ben Lewis Mette....Catherine Shepherd Daniel....Paddy Anderson Directed by Lu Kemp |
| 20080508 | Two plays by Harold Pinter. 1/2. Landscape A man and a woman sit deep in recollection. While the man's thoughts are of his day in the park and a quarrel in the pub, the woman's are of an idyllic day spent many years ago on a beach with the man she loved. Duff....Harold Pinter Beth....Penelope Wilton 2/2. The Examination A chilling yet playful monologue in which a man about to be questioned summons up every mental resource to empower himself over his interrogator. With Michael Gambon. Directed by Peter Kavanagh |
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