BBC - Radio 4 - the Classic Serial

BBC - Radio 4 - the Classic Serial

Sunday 19 August

The Card, part 2 of 2

By Arnold Bennett, dramatised by Jennifer Howarth

2. Cheering Us All Up

Denry's engagement to Ruth Earp, the dancing teacher with her sights set on better things, is off. He is now wealthy and respected. His true love is waiting in the wings, if only Denry realises it in time.

Narrator/Arnold Bennett ...... Ron Cook
Mrs Machin ...... Elizabeth Spriggs
Denry Machin ...... William Ash
Councillor Barlow ...... Philip Jackson
Countess of Chell ...... Jasmine Hyde
Councillor Cotterill ...... David Shaw-Parker
Ruth Earp ...... Tilly Gaunt
Nellie Cotterill ...... Robin Weaver
Mrs Cotterill ...... Linda Broughton

Director Marilyn Imrie.



Saturday 18 August

The Card, part 1 of 2

By Arnold Bennett, dramatised by Jennifer Howarth

1. A Hatbox Full of Sovereigns
The rise and rise of Denry Machin in 19th-century Bursley. one of Arnold Bennett's Five Towns. The son of a seamstress, he finally becomes the youngest-ever mayor.

Narrator/Arnold Bennett ...... Ron Cook
Mrs Machin ...... Elizabeth Spriggs
Denry Machin ...... William Ash
Mr Duncalf ...... Philip Jackson
Countess of Chell ...... Jasmine Hyde
Mr Shillitoe/Mr Creegan ...... Matthew Morgan
Ruth Earp ...... Tilly Gaunt
Nellie Cotterill ...... Robin Weaver
Mr Etches ...... Daniel Weyman
Mrs Cotterill ...... Linda Broughton
Councillor Cotterill ...... David Shaw-Parker

Director Marilyn Imrie.

Lighting-Up Times Ten To The Power Of Invasion.....

Hi.

Random Observation: The lampost just outside, a tall slip of a slim thing, lit-up bright red about sixty minutes or so ago against a cool brooding late sun-setting evening with a few volumous threatening clouds looming about behind as the backdrop, hence the choice of these colours. Just this one singular alarmingly powerful crimson illumination that was hanging in the middle-distance, piercing the early night sky, with the jaded yellow-green remnants of the post-sun-set fast disappearing and disintegrating into the far-distance and all set above a darkened shadowed estate in the foreground, was enough to remind me of the fictional scenes in "War Of The Worlds", where blood-red lasers pour down from the opened heavens beyond to cut us down and destroy the charred remnants of an ashen laden incinerated landscape while the embers glowed away in the backgound, and smoke billowed up everywhere.
.....Or possibly the revenge of the "Tripods" as they stalk the earth, and seek you out... but I won't go there !

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