Darkness at Pemberley - T. H. White - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

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Terence Hanbury "Tim" White was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels.
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The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938.
The fictional St Bernard's College in Darkness at Pemberley is a loosely disguised version of Queens' College.
Originally Broadcast 9/29/1973
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@latzmenon5770 2 жыл бұрын

I had the perfect day to listen to this today . Storms and rain , sitting with my hot chocolate . And switched my phone off .

@AnitaSews Жыл бұрын

Sounds so cozy...

@louise7552 2 ай бұрын

Ah, a person after my own heart. Perfection.😊😊

@joycehilkey7238 3 жыл бұрын

A cup of Earl Grey strong with milk and a scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam and a good mystery…perfect

@pamwarhurst2519 3 жыл бұрын

@paulharris9268 2 жыл бұрын

Or as a bedtime story, in bed.

@lucrtrvl 2 жыл бұрын

Where is Envy moji? 😹

@mwatts-riley2688 2 жыл бұрын

Joyce: Right and wrong- Right with the general scene; Wrong with the accessories. Assam with 2 sugars. Milk. Toast with melting butter. Dark room, no lights. 2 candles electric. No kids. No brother. Ahhh. 😃 m

@2msvalkyrie529 2 жыл бұрын

It's traditional in England to serve the scones laced with cyanide .. apparently ?

@AnitaSews Жыл бұрын

I love these old time stories, they're the best!

@gijsje011 2 жыл бұрын

Best mystery play I have heard. Great actors. Being Dutch, I had no problems, thanks to the perfectly spoken English. ❤️ Thank You, Chesterton!

@MinkaSchlossberger4ever 7 ай бұрын

I love it.... excellently spoken, very easy to understand.... even for me, who can t hear anything with the right ear. The athmosphere just sooo British...Thank You so much for this!!!

@deborahrobertson8606 Жыл бұрын

I was 12 when this was broadcast. This is the BBC that formed me. What a different country it was then. The BBC now is appalling. A wonderful play, with ,any familiar voices. Thank you !

@artur4613 Жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. I listen to these old radio-dramas to polish (I'm Polish by the way) my English. There is this charm in classic radio. The style has changed not only in England. There are brilliant old Polish radio programmes from 60ties or 70ties with perfect grammar and spelling. Nowadays the "actors" can barely speak, but certainly they would take part in every commercial available to them.

@deborahrobertson8606 Жыл бұрын

@@artur4613 Exactly! I listen to all the old productions. It keeps me sane!

@applesandpears9756 Жыл бұрын

100%. I listen to the BBC for 10 mins a day in the car...just to find out what we're supposed to be thinking...I miss the days when drama was challenging and varied, and England was different world..

@stephenhaywood5672 7 ай бұрын

@@applesandpears9756I agree 90% with you but I’m afraid I just can’t stomach to listen to the BBC for even 10 minutes these days without raising my blood pressure. 👍

@fw6667 7 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree with you both that this is the BBC that formed me also and that the BBC now is not worth its licence fee in fact I never watch BBC I only ever listen

@PinkyPuff69 9 ай бұрын

I wish it were raining, but I'm listening in August 2023... In California. San Francisco is usually foggy, even in the Summer, so at least I can pretend it's a cold wintery night!

@nonayoung8177 3 ай бұрын

sounds like a perfectly cozy day. i’m in Ventura, California.

@donwardell4605 3 жыл бұрын

Of all the radio plays in the "Saturday Night Theatre" vault this is my number one pick. I can recall hearing it when originally broadcast. A car carrying the chief suspect was racing around the Midlands and I remember, convinced that they would pass our house in Birmingham, standing in the bay window to look out. Guess the producer and writer did a good job convincing me that fiction was in fact reality.

@lindawalters4098 3 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how memories can come flooding back listening to these splendid plays from the past

@TheKathymorrison 2 жыл бұрын

Is this a true story??

@donwardell4605 2 жыл бұрын

not at all but google the writer - really top notch

@brennykins8823 2 жыл бұрын

Pure entertainment, a fun frolic. Thank you.

@aprilskies1051 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely teriffic! I thoroughly enjoyed this..thanks once again for uploading. I love these broadcasts.

@susanhepburn6040 2 жыл бұрын

Well, that was an oddity and a half! Brilliant but quite, quite bonkers!

@bettysteubing8129 3 жыл бұрын

This TX girl has been a fan of T. H. White for at least 20 yrs (The Once & Future King + others), but man, oh man, this recording was fantastic! Thank you, thank you.

@civilpanda9422 Жыл бұрын

Stellar police service, he hangs up on the caller reporting the dead body, laments that murder is rare in his precinct, and his sergeant locks the woman at the scene in the dining room. 😂😅😆

@Ciara1594 8 ай бұрын

Are we sure that he's not Chief Wiggum? ☺️

@mellisande638 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved it!! Thank you all so much😊😊😊

@deanazcoolzi4382 3 жыл бұрын

The beautiful and utter terror of the imagination

@michaelprobert4014 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never read Pride and Prejudice in the same way ever again!

@lorrainevanlelyveld8065 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you for this great radio drama. I loved it.

@AB-nr8cu 3 жыл бұрын

This is bonkers! Loved it. Thankyou 👍😁

@curtcaudle5900 7 ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed this radio play 😊🎉. Fine actors and wonderful production. BRAVO 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@patticlare8306 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant... really good listening. Many thanks.🌟

@captainswing4487 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff..... I must remember that an hour's steeple chase before a breakfast of kidneys and coffee is a fine start to any day.

@mikewellwood1412 2 жыл бұрын

Top hole, what?

@natasharosetarrant 3 жыл бұрын

Great little play. Thank you.

@claireb4259 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely smashing!

@bmf1949 3 жыл бұрын

‘My great aunt in Montreal had the same trouble, only with her it was owls’. .......!!

@TheLeeattwood 10 ай бұрын

Jolly marvellous

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@denestarjanyi8892 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this play.

@2msvalkyrie529 3 жыл бұрын

@ 25.26 ' Come on, old man.....polish off that scone ; I want to show you my new rifle range....' I'd like to nominate that as Quintessential Golden Age Murder Mystery line of dialogue .?

@murkydepths181 3 жыл бұрын

Very good 👌

@bmf1949 3 жыл бұрын

Priceless!

@garydance4077 3 жыл бұрын

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@vivmarshall6797 3 жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed that! Thank you.

@shaukatali-qi3dc 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastically acted loved it.

@janeclarkson8471 2 жыл бұрын

Odd ball bu that's it's charm for me. I thought it was a delightful change. I love eccentricity! A little gem. Thank you.👌

@kirpalani-griffin3706 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful stuff. Thank you.

@janetmackinnon3411 10 ай бұрын

Extraordinary!

@jomancao2341 6 ай бұрын

How is it that I have only just found out about Chesterton Radio! ? Possibly because I am from the other side of the globe. 😁 Regardless, I am now an avid follower of the channel. Thank you so much for sharing these "wireless" - I believe that is how it is called over there in England- treasures. ❤❤

@hAnah1112xX Жыл бұрын

This was completely not what I expected… in the best possible way 😄😄

@debbiewilliams2946 3 жыл бұрын

Goodness gracious me what a bizarre plot!

@iap-ug3oy 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this story…..Best wishes to you . Please keep them coming…

@TheBrewforbreakfast 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant British folly

@davidarundel6187 2 жыл бұрын

A good yarn, with an unexpected outcome. 🤔👍😚

@dianaantu8227 3 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth wouldn't it be marvelous to get married, or something? love it !!!! Thank you, great story.

@michaelwalker2475 2 жыл бұрын

Tried it. Best to settle for the .. or something.

@QueenBee-gx4rp Жыл бұрын

@@michaelwalker2475 ☺️

@mikewellwood1412 2 жыл бұрын

This has to be the strangest play I have ever heard from the BBC. Jolly good fun though! Thank you for uploading it. I think I started listening to it once before, but can't have been in the right mood or something, so gave up on it. However, I stuck with it this time, and I'm glad I did. Broadcast in 1973, but surely set in an earlier age, when there were no motorways, not much traffic on the roads, and police constables and garage attendants touched their forelock and bowed and scraped to the "gennelemen" in their big cars who talked down to them, and there were housefuls of servants ready to search the house bearing arms and prepared to use them....oops, better stop there.... Very odd delivery of lines by the actors as well, I thought.

@hermione9445 Жыл бұрын

What are you ..some kind of Marxist ?

@princessdumbarton9877 7 ай бұрын

The bad guy was played by Marius Goring. He was the composer in The Red Shoes.

@21anusha 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers ✌🏽

@debbie9340 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed very much

@milliewilkie1969 7 ай бұрын

i was walking around cambridge today then this play popped up tonight🙂

@michaelfagan1823 8 ай бұрын

Love this story thanks “that’s entertainment” 😜Micky N London 😎🙏☯️

@johnpeet5862 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Thank you very much 💕👌

@valeriejohnson5283 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!😍

@juliam7056 2 жыл бұрын

Unusual story but entertaining

@robertmatch6550 Жыл бұрын

I bet Mickey Spillane got started after listening to a coupla these!

@stephaniehand503 2 жыл бұрын

great

@alanesplen2253 3 жыл бұрын

Another great classic R4 Saturday Night Theatre first time I have heard it.

@kimberlykasimoff1447 3 жыл бұрын

This Saturday Night Theatre really is the best one that I have listened to so far. The Constable at the cross roads sounded like Ringo Starr!

@FrancienDanielsWebb 3 жыл бұрын

I will listen to him.

@mikewellwood1412 2 жыл бұрын

I thought he sounded like Sid Perks! :-D

@kimberlykasimoff1447 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikewellwood1412 Sid Perks from the Archers? I have to admit that I have listened to the show once. There was an annoying woman with tons of problems who depressed me, so I did not continue. I remember the grandfather and his grandson. Maybe I will listen to it again. 🙂

@mikewellwood1412 2 жыл бұрын

@@kimberlykasimoff1447 I did mean Sid Perks from the Archers, but I didn't mean it terribly seriously. I was more making the point that it was a Birmingham (UK!) accent that he had, not a Liverpool one. Might possibly have been the same actor though, as I'm pretty sure Sid was a character in TA back in 1973 (he was in it for decades). I used to be an Archers Addict, but I'm pretty much recovered now, if one can ever say that.... :-) ) . FWIW, they were driving all around "Archers" country. It was fun to hear real place names being mentioned, and I could imagine some of those roads, which away from the motorways, may not have changed all that much, apart from a bit of widening, straightening, and bypasses added.

@kimberlykasimoff1447 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikewellwood1412 Gotchya!

@stewartlancaster6155 5 ай бұрын

listened whilst on the loo, made the process a bit easier, as I do struggle with movements of that nature.

@llyngibson4160 6 ай бұрын

A big coincidence that Miss Darcy lives at Pemberly. A very suspenseful story.

@WWZenaDo 2 жыл бұрын

It's a polished performance, but there are two significant plot holes that were disappointing. 1. These are English people in an English manor, great house or castle. Whether or not this is their ancestral home, they or their ancestors would have had such respect for the history of the building and estate as to have had some inkling of the possibility of "priest holes". 2. The English steeplechase originally was loosely connected to fox hunting, which required sharp-nosed hunting hounds. This family may not have had a single hound left (questionable, since they were continuing the tradition of steeplechasing), but at the very least they probably had a neighbor or two with a good hound (or several) which could have been put on the scent of the psychopath narcissistic murderer.

@jonjames7328 Жыл бұрын

Yawn. You’re an outsider and know very little of houses and hounds.

@citizen1163 3 жыл бұрын

Marius Goring! The Scarlet Pimpernel!

@michaelprobert4014 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I couldn't remember why his name was familiar.😊

@janeclarkson8471 2 жыл бұрын

And "The Expert" (a Coroner from tv)!

@golaswati 3 жыл бұрын

How big are those bloody chimneys that he could not only hide a body in there and then take the pistol from the hands of the inspector as if he was next to him 🤦 And why didn't they light fire in the chimneys of the rooms where people were sleeping 💁

@jaszi33 2 жыл бұрын

It's not unheard of for many old chimneys to have spaces in for people to hide, often called priest holes. Frequented by priests to hide during the reformation & smuggling times later. Got to love the layers of history hidden in old British houses. 😁💗🏰

@pariscribe5245 2 жыл бұрын

Delightfull ! Only lacking a ghost...

@1234cheerful 6 ай бұрын

It's as if SOMEONE read Pride and Prejudice and a few "Golden Age" British "country house" mysteries, maybe Ngaio Marsh? and just HAD to play with the exquisite attention to the proprieties for a while, producing a lovely pastiche. Miss Darcy's first name in Jane Austen's novel was Georgina I believe but that's only one piece of the extensive and enjoyable artistic license. Ok, just my theory. It was so over the top, and quite fun!

@ellie698 Жыл бұрын

When was this broadcast?

@WWZenaDo 2 жыл бұрын

Another gigantic plot flaw - to claim that a small, bookish weakling would be able to lift a full grown muscular policeman up to the roof AND after that to have the strength to carry the woman - up to the roof, no less - is beyond belief.

@Gillby47 3 жыл бұрын

Delightfully potty.

@user-jc6dx5qy6w 6 ай бұрын

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@Jemmainadilemma 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand the motivations of any of the characters or why they talk the way they do or how anyone ever wrote such an odd play that could have been more logical with a bit of reorganising… still enjoyed it though, not sure why!

@mrbazzabee4013 3 жыл бұрын

I now know why Harold Pinter took to writing plays.

@mrbazzabee4013 3 жыл бұрын

Ha ! ...No-actually...and strangely....I enjoyed it.

@parrmik 3 жыл бұрын

nobodies that clever !

@anthonysokolsky6210 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant story & I enjoyed the way the sadistic bastard was killed in the end!

@mmitchellhouston Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, but odd. I wasn't sure why they were using Pemberly in that manner. Nevertheless, quite enjoyable.

@bernard0142 6 ай бұрын

Um, a guy confesses at 18:00. He also knows a lot of details that weren't released publicly, such as the order in which the deceased had been shot. In real life that would merit an arrest.

@2msvalkyrie529 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm.....starts off very promisingly . Unfortunately after the half way point things start to become more and more ludicrous before a damp squib of an ending . T H White obviously lost interest and / or couldn't be bothered to develop the plot properly. Very odd since he was extremely talented. Perhaps Murder Mysteries not quite his thing.?