The Sacred Flame - W. Somerset Maugham

The Sacred Flame - W. Somerset Maugham - Saturday Night Theatre

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The Sacred Flame is the story about the misfortune of Maurice Tabret, previously a soldier of World War I who had returned home unscathed to marry his sweetheart Stella.
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The Sacred Flame (1928) is William Somerset Maugham's 21st play, written at the age of 54. Maugham dedicated the publication to his friend Messmore Kendall.
William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
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@marydugan4120 20 күн бұрын

As a person who is sick and homebound these audiobooks and plays are such a comfort to me .I get totally lost in the wonderful acting and writing !!!!! Thanks so much from Ireland 😊

@louise7552 9 күн бұрын

Arnt they wonderful ❤️. I'm in a similar position and with winter arrived in Australia 🇦🇺, I'm enjoying every play. May I recommend a radio play called, 40 Years On. Sir John Guilgude is the main character. It's so brilliant, the wit and nuances are on another level. You will chuckle all the way through it. 😊😊 .regards Louise.

@thresagraham8181 7 күн бұрын

They are wonderful. I hope your health improves quickly. 🙏🙏👍🌻

@hazelmead1434 2 ай бұрын

I loved this play. I agree, Maugham had a profound understanding of human emotions.

@user-iw8mg4sg4l 6 ай бұрын

Great to hear classics perform ed in original (excellent English)

@dab505279 4 ай бұрын

This is one of the absolute best radio plays I've ever listened to. I think I'll remember it for a long time. Thank you very much for providing such great entertainment. Much respect to you from Larry.

@angeladennis2879 5 ай бұрын

Incredible acting, a wonderful production.

@kayi9236 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this excellent play!

@juanitarogal1324 4 ай бұрын

I love this play, it's the second time I've listened to it, love, love, love ❤️

@johardy8512 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou so very much for this wonderful opportunity.

@mariewilliams602 7 ай бұрын

I loved this play ❤ I am a great fan of the actors and actresses to brought this play to life .the writer is a wonderful story teller thankyou ❤

@mrscpc1918 2 жыл бұрын

My dearest old friend is dying at the moment. So much of her life is reflected in this wonderful tender story. Thankyou.

@tedar3986 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless 🙏🏼🥰✝️

@jow6845 2 жыл бұрын

Strength to you all.

@JB--- 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry! 😢❤️

@MsBettyRubble 2 жыл бұрын

Kind and tender thoughts to you and your friend.

@natasharosetarrant 2 жыл бұрын

God bless xxx

@feralbluee Жыл бұрын

a beautifully written piece about human emotion and relationships. Maugham had such a profound understanding of humanity. the actors and the directing are integrated perfectly with the writing.

@deborahrobertson8606 Жыл бұрын

Exquisitely performed and genuinely moving. Thank you so much. More of the old BBC productions please. They take me back to a saner time...one that I can just remember!!

@louise7552 9 күн бұрын

Another Chersterton Classic .Thankyou so much, wonderful acting, especially the nurse. So emotive.❤ Now on my favourites list.😊

@glendacame5931 8 ай бұрын

What a beautiful story; life, death, all the emotions so well portrayed. Thank you.

@texasoutlook60 Жыл бұрын

This touched many aspects of a dying loved one and caretaker! Thanks

@johnwatson9702 3 жыл бұрын

How well Somerset Maugham writes; this play is nothing short of brilliant. It transported me into another era and l was in the sitting room absorbing every word with all the characters in the cast.

@susanweston9510 2 жыл бұрын

@roderickfernandez5382 Жыл бұрын

I was there also you probably won't remember me but I was wearing the green Tweed with Heather trousers and a nice pair of brogues

@janeclarkson8471 Жыл бұрын

It's the second time I've listened to his play. It was gripping. The story of human emotions, perception, differences, understanding, forgiveness is astonishing. What a wonderful writer Maugham was! It was conveyed by some of the most astounding and brilliant acting I've ever heard. Thank you everyone for for holding me spellbound! 👌❤️🙏🏻

@yesterdayitrained 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment- it expresses my feelings exactly.

@naradaian 2 ай бұрын

" I was on my way home and I dropped in for a ‘doc n doris’" - miss those days when we dropped in for a dip into a friends stash unannounced

@maridambrosio523 2 жыл бұрын

What a story!

@tomb4496 Жыл бұрын

Stunning

@ginaharrison5560 2 жыл бұрын

Whoa & woe... Such a poignant story... Somerset Maugham was a favorite author of mine my Freshman year of High School. Such an astute observer of human nature, Somerset Maugham. Thank you for putting this on KZfaq for us. 🙏💞🙏

@trixiepettman-south8500 8 ай бұрын

WELL. I GUESS IT GOES ON IN REAL LIFE. SO VERY SAD. WHAT MORE CAN ONE SAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT SPELLBINDING PLAY. BLESSINGS. TRIXIE, 86, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

@francespunnett9677 8 ай бұрын

I loved that !

@helenferullo5706 2 жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this play. I was initially confused identifying the characters and their roles, but after replaying the early parts of the play I easily understood. The acting was superb! I will long remember the insight and wisdom “Mother” shared.

@justanopinionsincerelynoof3860 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! What Mother said was amazing!

@tedar3986 2 жыл бұрын

She needed more dialogue. Best part done very well by treasure of an actress.

@frankah 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful entertainment - as I would expect from Somerset Maughan , one of my favorite writers. Unfortunately I listened to it in Phuket , Thailand where it was interrupted every 10 minutes or so by effing ads from Russian estate agents trying to sell property here. As if they think any Russian buyer is listening to a Somerset Maughan radio play ! Drives one crazy.

@phildyrtt6433 2 жыл бұрын

Love is so good and so powerful and so permanent.

@janefitton1198 2 жыл бұрын

These plays are so enjoyable. Thank you for the download Adelaide South Australia 24.8.21 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@cousinsister69 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. There were tears at the end. Really well acted. I was really involved. Hi from Oz. 👇💜🙃

@OperaJH 2 жыл бұрын

Dame Sybil. Maugham. Just palpably real all the way through. Just wow. Thank you so much for posting.

@totoro9590 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful play, enjoyed it very much. Many thanks 👍👍👍

@followyourheart7818 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with John Watson brilliant and so absorbed it felt like I was there with them. Thank you for posting this.

@martinpolach6171 2 жыл бұрын

Tears are running down my cheeks …Brilliant …absolutely brilliant !

@roxanavasilakis9435 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much , 🌷

@jenniferpierno6108 2 жыл бұрын

Maugham could write a great story. I always enjoy reading them and enjoyed this excellent production.

@karenlake1656 2 жыл бұрын

Made me cry 🥺 beautifully acted and a heartfelt story.

@jordsupp 2 жыл бұрын

I love Mr SM's work. Thankyou.

@MoonChild-yg3nw 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful story

@dontaylor7315 2 жыл бұрын

I've loved Maugham's novels and short stories ever since I was a teenager (and that was over 50 years ago) but I've never dipped into his plays before. This one's my first and I'm very pleased, the more so because it's a whodunnit. It's been a complaint of many people, including me, that the classic mystery story in the vein of Christie, Poe and Conan Doyle makes it impossible to portray fully fleshed-out characters because in order to make the solution a surprise the culprit has to be the one whose personality is least capable of the crime. Since Maugham has too much regard for character to play a cheap trick like that, the murderer was inevitably just who I thought from the start. Even as a mystery fan I'm ok with that because when WSM is the author the real reward isn't the solution to a puzzle but the pleasure of watching a master prose artist at work.

@TimGreig Жыл бұрын

It's the journey and not the goal that is to be enjoyed 😊

@doreekaplan2589 Ай бұрын

"What do we live for but our illusions?"....,not me.

@davelawday6609 2 жыл бұрын

That was absolutely brilliant...and sad.. thoroughly enjoyed it.. thanks for sharing.kind regards Dave 👍👍👍👍

@TedaR 2 жыл бұрын

Superb author, cast & all! Never gets old. Thank you CR! 💙 09:11 LOL!

@iqosuser2754 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant 👏 God Bless for posting it.

@dubinatub1 2 жыл бұрын

Powerful play.stirring the emotions,love the template of the universe.

@arliefor-real9749 2 жыл бұрын

A marvelous play!! Loved it emencly 😊

@dontaylor7315 2 жыл бұрын

I did too. And that's got to be the most original way to spell "immensely" that I've ever seen. I'm not criticizing! I kinda like it.

@madammim694 2 жыл бұрын

So powerfully played, excellent

@mazgriffiths8922 3 жыл бұрын

Sitting here in floods of tears. This play is so full of love and pain all blended into the complexity of life. The language and themes seem to be contemporary too!

@renardeargent1 2 жыл бұрын

Guessed "whodunnit" early on, but well acted and presented.

@fatimajcat6536 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant play, I'd forgotten how wonderful Somerset Maugham is

@rubytuesday5412 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chester. My second listen to this one. Outstanding!

@tedar3986 2 жыл бұрын

Same. Hey Ruby 👋

@rubytuesday5412 2 жыл бұрын

@@tedar3986 ~ Hey Teda. We get around!

@tedar3986 2 жыл бұрын

@@rubytuesday5412 Speak for yourself… Cheeky! JKJKLOL Hope you and yours are all well! Blessings kindred!

@rubytuesday5412 2 жыл бұрын

@@tedar3986 ~ Well speaking for myself, I've been known to visit 2 or 3 in a day! Shameless!! Same to you, hope all's good. Where will I see you next, I wonder! LOL!

@tedar3986 2 жыл бұрын

@@rubytuesday5412 Ik me too! What would our mothers say? Lol Have you been to Mjam from London or Matthew Jones lately?

@lynnmetzner4578 2 жыл бұрын

Still digesting the mother killing her own son as having more than one parent in my family, including my own mother, suffer the death of her child, and knowing the grief such a death causes very personally, I find that plot twist rather implausible. However, I love Somerset Maugham nonetheless, and appreciate the upload.

@sockmonkey22 2 жыл бұрын

What was implausible was that the doctor and nurse knew that the mother, Stella, her lover, and both the doctor and nurse each had a motive to murder him and this was not discussed. Even a country detective would have discovered this in about five minutes.

@sockmonkey22 2 жыл бұрын

I think the wife killed her husband and the mother covered for her.

@dennisthemenace57 22 күн бұрын

, Once opon a time the BBC was a great institution. Not now sadly

@Kojoanna 2 жыл бұрын

I liked this mystery

@waynemoore1708 3 жыл бұрын

This is my 3rd time I've heard this. Brilliant.

@naradaian 2 ай бұрын

Yes me too …but for good art like this - time moves more slowly so it stays interesting xx

@sidicniy874 3 жыл бұрын

I listen to this once and I refused to go through that heartbreaking emotion again, even I know the story is very good.

@adiconstantin4598 2 жыл бұрын

I admire the rounded shape of this play. Still, I do consider (Am I the only one?) the alternative of a diplomatic, long explanation that one of 3 characters - wife, brother or mother - could have had with the husband, to avoid the horrible act. I really think that he could understand that life is precious and there are so many great activities he could do, no to have a rich, accomplished life, even in those dreadful circumstances

@yesterdayitrained 2 ай бұрын

A the time this was written, things were very different than today. Morris was deeply unhappy, and at his request, his mother promised him, if life became too much to bear, she would help him end it. And that is exactly what she did- I see it as a selfless act of mercy.

@dawn.cheripaul3168 2 жыл бұрын

Important to remember the times it was written in. Not the same through our modern lense of social security support and womens lib

@lorrainenormanton9316 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent loved it . Thanks for this .

@nandi9318 2 жыл бұрын

How casually loyalty is forsaken...

@michellemiller4909 2 жыл бұрын

These types think other caucasian folks are meant to be relocated to traffic ⛔ dark times

@christinethornhill 3 жыл бұрын

Intelligent entertainment …. Wonderful 👌🏼

@martinadarcy781 Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@rosebud3971 2 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@marymary5494 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👌💕

@thecrone7964 Жыл бұрын

what we do for love

@21anusha 3 жыл бұрын

Emotive . Cheers ✌🏽

@johngalvin6010 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the butler that did it!

@olivemd 2 жыл бұрын

I liked the ideas explored in this play, but I’m not sure I liked the play. Very thought provoking though.

@gabyshepherd8855 3 жыл бұрын

With a slight hint of Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover, but the end is rather generous- relieved.

@eshaibraheem4218 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, dear. So obvious.

@sockmonkey22 2 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert. I now believe the wife did it while her mother-in-law covered for her.

@grandmahanustime 7 ай бұрын

Very modern values! Happiness, no matter how fleeting and shallow, is King. Forget the marriage vows, avoid suffering at all costs, and claim the right to decide who’s life is valuable, and who should be “put out of their misery.” Not a fan of this play, though of course it is well written and brilliantly performed.

@AT-qe3ib 5 ай бұрын

But it's all wrong. How can one build a happiness on the lie and murder?

@deegeraghty9426 2 жыл бұрын

Stella irritating, feeble character !

@Stormlucy111 3 жыл бұрын

Horrific

@thach295 3 жыл бұрын

What a load of crap!

@adrischolte 3 жыл бұрын

Mirrors can be cruel

@anaderol5408 3 жыл бұрын

@@adrischolte LOL. Well said - However, to be fair if one enjoys the Kardashians one would find Somerset a load of crap.....equally I'm certain I'd find the Kardashians a load of crap.....if I watched TV and had actually seen an episode....the rubbish magazines at the hairdressers are sufficient to give me a glimpse.😂😂

@spanishDoll1 3 жыл бұрын

I guess you have to have a bit of double digit IQ to enjoy it. This is top tier

@2msvalkyrie529 3 жыл бұрын

I agree ! What a ghastly shower of middle class prigs . And the way in which the husband tried to force his wife to display herself to his friends is downright creepy !

@jansmith6121 2 жыл бұрын

After googling I find that this was the first play he wrote in that flowery style. And the last. Smart man. And no I don’t like the Kardashians and I have a three digit IQ. Good grief. Over acted nonsense. Been listening to Easy Wand channel. MUCH better selections than the stuff here. Mistake to listen here again. Bleh.