Priestley, J B

Last Edited: 06-Jul-2018 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.


Date Title Cast Parameters
Broadcast:
20-Jan-2004
21-Jan-2004
22-Jan-2004
Lost Empires
  1. Overtures and Beginnings
  2. First Night
  3. Final Curtain
Tom Baker, Brian Pringle, Richard Holywell,
Stephen Frost, Brigit Forsythe, Russell Dixon,
Debbie McCanthy, Katherine Hunt, John Lloyd
Fillingham, Mike Edmonds, Freddie Davis
Music by Chris Monks
Dramatized by Bert Coules
Directed by Jake Rowland
55:28, 52009, S
56:06, 52604, S
57:09, 53588, S
Broadcast R7:
24-Aug-2004 to
26-Aug-2004
13-Dec-2004 to
15-Dec-2004
The Good Companions


Helen Longworth, Phillip Jackson, Jemma Churchill,
Nicholas Boulton, Mia Sitiriou, Karl Prekopp,
Gerard McDermott, Paula Jacobs, Ian Masters,
Ben Crowe
Dramatized by Eric Pringle
Directed by Claire Grove
57:08, 53576, S
57:12, 53634, S
57:13, 53645, S
BBC R4
24-Feb-2018
The Good Companions
Ralph Ineson, Fenella Woolgar, Roy Hudd, Oliver
Gomm, Isabella Inchbald, Gerard McDermott, Ellie
Darvill, Clive Hayward, Gary Duncan, Philip
Bretherton, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Adam
Fitzgerald, Rupert Holliday Evans, David Reakes,
Katherine Weare
Music composed by Neil Brand
Director: David Hunter
85:49, 80452, S
BBC R4
31-Dec-1993
The Good Companions
Hannah Gordon, Bernard Cribbins, Christopher
Scoular, Elizabeth Mansfield, Sunny Ormonde,
Jill Graham, John Webb, Gareth Armstrong,
John Baddeley, John Hollis, John Harwood,
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Christopher Scott, Jillie
Meers, Richard Pearce, David Bannerman,
Philip Anthony, Dominic Letts, John Evitts,
Elizabeth Proud, Jenny Funnell, Elizabeth Bell,
Nicholas Boulton
Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud
Directed by Sue Wilson
120:09, 112641, S
1946
Broadcast R7:
25-Sep-2004
An Inspector Calls


Bob Peck, John Woodvine, Maggie Steed,
Sarah Jane Home, David Antrobus, Joe Stone
Fewings, Alison Pettit
Dramatized by John Foley
Directed by Rosalind Ward
87:09, 81714, S
BBC WS
1978
An Inspector Calls
Alan Dobie, Jack Watson, Joan Matheson, Steven
Pacey, Elizabeth Bell, Paul Gregory,Marielet Nelson
Adaptation for radio by Richard Whitmore
59:03, 55360, M
BBC WS
1984
An Inspector Calls
Directed by Gordon House
57:54, 13570, M
R4:
29-May-2010
An Inspector Calls
Toby Jones, David Calder, Frances Barber,
Morvern Christie, Sam Alexander, Geoffrey
Streatfeild, Vineeta Rishi
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
87:14, 81783, S
1946
Broadcast R7:
02-Oct-2004
14-May-2005
When We Are Married


Alan Armstrong, Gwen Taylor, Alan Bennett,
Brenda Blethyn, Michael Jayston, Nicola Paget,
Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter Woodthrope, Polly James,
Catherine Bradshaw, Timothy Watson, Deborah
Berlin, Paul Panting, James Taylor
Directed by Matthew Walters
87:36, 82136, S
BBC WS
30-Jun-1984
When We Are Married

adapted by Lynn McVeron
directed by Martin Williamson
58:52, 13800, M
1940 –
R4:
21-Nov-2004
28-Nov-2004
05-Dec-2004
12-Dec-2004
19-Dec-2004
Postscripts
  1. Dunkirk, On Watch, Cinema
  2. Duck Family, A Dig in the Ribs,
    Margate
  3. A Family Party, Remembering the
    Start of the Great War
  4. The First Day of the Second World
    War, Women and the War
  5. A Trip to Bradford, The Last Postscript
Read by Patrick Stewart
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Emma Harding
14:45, 6916, m
14:36, 6847, m
14:34, 6829, m
14:39, 6869, m
14:03, 6593, m
08-Aug-2005 to
12-Aug-2005
The Thirty First of June


Read by Nicky Henson
Abridged and produced by Chris Wallace
13:30, 6333, m
13:48, 6470, m
13:20, 6256, m
13:43, 6434, m
13:47, 6463, m
BBC R4
28-May-1983
The Thirty First of June Debby Cumming, John Levitt, Alan Dudley,
Anthony Newlands, Henry Stamper, John Rye,
Peter Woodthorpe, Maggie Mullarkey, Rosalind
Adams, Jill Lidstone, Jean Trend, David
Gooderson, Philip Reilly, James Carey
dramatised by Brian Sibley
Directed by Graham Gauld
86:05, 80710, S
30-May-2010
06-Jun-2010
Bright Day Jack Shepherd, Liza Sadovy, Dean Smith,
Sarah Smart, Sarah Churm, Lowri Evans,
Conrad Nelson, Fred Ridgeway, Janice Mckenzie,
David Fleeshman, Fine Time Fontayne, Seamus
O'Neill, Steve Marsh, Megan Winnard, Olwen
May, Jake Norton
Dramatised by Diana Griffiths
Producer/Director - Pauline Harris
56:41, 53152, S
57:07, 53557, S
BBC Home Svc.
21-Mar-1965
Bright Day
William Eedle,  Rolf Lefebvre, Annabel Maule, George
Merritt, Wilfred Babbage, Dorit Welles, Nigel
Anthony, Mary O'Farrell, Sulwen Morgan, Sheila
Grant, Antony Viccars, Simon Lack, James
Thomason, John Pullen, Diana Olsson, Frank
Partington, Hilda Kriseman
adapted by Howard Agg
produced by Martyn C Webster
88:52, 83307, M
BBC R4
07-Sep-1994 to
12-Oct-1994
Bright Day
David Hargreaves, Peter Kenny, Frances Jeater,
Steve Hodson, Gareth Armstrong, Elaine Claxton,
Tara Dominick, Teresa Gallagher, Paul Panting,
Peter Whitman,  Gavin Muir, Margaret John, John
Evitts, James Taylor, Richard Pearce, Tina Gray,
Malcolm Ward, Dominic Letts, Tom Bevan, David
Jarvis, Susannah Corbett, Lyndam Gregory,
Caroline Strong, Nina Wadia, Maggie McCarthy
Dramatised by Eric Pringle
Produced by Adrian Bean
6 files
2:48:55, 154 MB, S
31-May-2010 to
11-Jun-2010
Blackout in Gretley
read by Anton Lesser
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
13:50, 12984, S
13:54, 13033, S
13:47, 12931, S
13:40, 12982, S
13:50, 12971, S
13:54, 13033, S
13:50, 12970, S
13:53, 13020, S
13:50, 12976, S
13:54, 13039, S
05-May-2013
12-May-2013
Angel Pavement
Marcus Brigstocke, Henry Goodman, Jeff Rawle,
Fenella Norman, Joseph Kloska, Shaun Prendergast,
Victoria Brazier, Carl Prekopp, Stephen Critchlow,
Millie Binks, Colleen Prendergast, Jane Purcell, Faye
Castelow, Angela Curran, Oswald Scott, Lucia Cox
Dramatised by Martin Jameson
Directed by Chris Wallis
56:38, 53016, S
56:45, 53116, S
14-Sep-2014
Time and the Conways
Harriet Walter, Anna Madeley, Rupert Evans, Amaka
Okafor, Eleanor Howell, Harry Hadden-Paton,
Heather Craney, Clare Corbett, Tony Bell, Clive
Hayward, Michael Bertenshaw
Pianist Colin Guthrie
Director David Hunter
114:01, 106668, S
BBC R4
17-Sep-1994
BBC R4X
18-Jun-2012
Time and the Conways
Marsha Warren, Belinda Sinclair, Stella Gonet,
Amanda Redmond, John Duttine, Toby Stephens,
Emma Fielding, John McCardle, Julia Hills,
Christopher Scott, Malcolm McKee, Sharon Wilmot
Adapted and Directed by Sue Wilson
118:31, 111159, S
BBC WS
18-Sep-1979
Time and the Conways
Petra Davies, John Quayle
Adapted by Richard Wigmore
Directed by Gordon House
61:29, 14412, M
1974
BBC R4X
09-Nov-2014
Eden End
Leslie Sands, Joan Plowright, Michael Jayston,
Geoffrey Palmer, Paul Gregory, Gabrielle Day,
Louis Ramsey
Producer Roger Pine
102:55, 96275, S
08-Apr-1972
Laburnum Grove
Diana Olsson, Geoffrey Matthews, Jane Knowles,
Bernard Archard, Michael Harbour, Douglas
Blackwell, Kathleen Michael, Michael Byrne,
Manning Wilson
adapted and produced by Christopher Venning
87:49, 82332, M
BBC R4
01-Jun-1968
Dangerous Corner
David March, Flora Robson, Gudrun Ure, Elizabeth
Proud, Garard Green, Noel Davis, Mary Grew,
Jan Edwards, Michael Brooke
Produced by R. D. Smith
85:00, 79697, M
BBC R4
08-Sep-1984
Dangerous Corner
Martin Jarvis, Stephanie Turner, Heather Stoney,
Helen Worth, Paul Webster, Christian Rodska, Ann
Rye, Julia Sharon
Directed by Alfred Bradle
81:05, 76014, S
BBC WS
29-Nov-1982
Dangerous Corner

60:09, 14101, M
BBC WS
24-Jul-1994
Dangerous Corner
Jeremy Clyde, Karen Archer, Emily Richard
Adapted for radio by John Foley
directed by David Hitchinson
56:40, 13282, M
BBC R4
22-09-1984
BBC R4x 14-09-2014
I Have Been Here Before
Lesley Nichol, George A Cooper, Geoffrey Banks,
Alan Rothwell
Directed by Alfred Bradley
86:59, 81545, S
BBC R4
27-Sep-1975
Salt Is Leaving
Frederick Treves, Patricia Gallimore, Alan
Devereux, Ralph Lawton, Jack Holloway, Maggie
McCarthy, William Fox, Elizabeth Revill, Eileen
Barry, Howard Benbrook, Paul Maxwell, Paul
Henry, Liz Daniels, Joyce Latham, Graham
Weston, George Woolley, Lawrence Rew,
Harvey Edwards
adapted by Elizabeth Bradbury
Producer Roger Pine
86:44, 40658, m
BBC R4
12-Nov-1977
The Carfitt Crisis
Margaret Robertson, Ronald Baddiley, Shirley
Dixon, Peter Tuddenham, Liza Ross, Henry
Knowles, Peter Craze, Mary Nelson
dramatised by Terence Tiller
Directed by: David Johnston
83:54, 78656, m
BBC Home Svc.
26-Dec-1962
The Demon King
Frederick Treves, David Valla, Ian Wallace,
Godfrey Kenton, John Baddeley, Marjorie
Westbury, George Merritt, Sheila Grant
adaptedby Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick
Produced by: Charles Lefeaux
26:42, 15650, M
BBC WS
1984
BBC R4X
01-Mar-2013
The Grey Ones
Tony Britton, Jack May
dramatised by Patricia Mays
Producer: Derek Hoddinott
Director: Martin Williamson
26:43, 25092, S
BBC R4
23-Jul-1977
BBC R4X
08-Jul-2017
The Linden Tree
Geoffrey Banks, Kathleen Helme, Christopher
Godwin, Carole Hayman, Joanna Wake, Penelope
Reynolds, David Mahlowe, Sally Gibson, Christian
Rodska, Shirley Dixon
adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Directed at BBC Manchester by Kay Patrick
87:49, 82339, S

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