Dead Man's Bay - BBC Saturday Night Theatre - P.M. Hubbard

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  • Philip Maitland Hubbard was a British writer. He was known principally for his crime and suspense novels and stories, although he wrote in other genres as well. For example, contributing short stories and poetry to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and articles, verse, and parliamentary reports for Punch.
    Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. For most of its history, programmes ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centred, such as thrillers, comedies and mysteries.
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Komentáře • 154

  • @PeterShand-s5z
    @PeterShand-s5z Před 17 dny +9

    How nice to be able to listen to well crafted plays and the Queen's English-both have completely disappeared from today's BBC Radio4

  • @iqbaludkhan7559
    @iqbaludkhan7559 Před 11 měsíci +17

    Sheer class story telling. The good old days of speaking clearly.

  • @bobwebb1348
    @bobwebb1348 Před 3 lety +68

    As a child I didn't have television, thank god, so grew up with the various radio plays on the BBC. Saturday Night Theatre was the dog's bollocks!

    • @purplehouzz1358
      @purplehouzz1358 Před 3 lety +1

      P

    • @janegriffiths7733
      @janegriffiths7733 Před 3 lety +4

      loved listening to these plays with my Nana in the 60's such wonderful memories when summers were hot and Christmas was always white,

    • @maximomusiclounge
      @maximomusiclounge Před 2 lety

      Brilliant stuff! I invite you to visit my Fireplace stories as well. Thanks!

    • @VickersDoorter
      @VickersDoorter Před 13 dny

      And there were just two genders and no one claimed to have nut allergies!😂

  • @evolveausevolveaus
    @evolveausevolveaus Před 8 měsíci +12

    I absolutely love a BBC radio play ❤, especially ones set during or pre ww2.

  • @lydiamarks8577
    @lydiamarks8577 Před 3 lety +24

    Nothing to beat the old plays! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @chriswardlow9441
    @chriswardlow9441 Před 3 lety +49

    Never missed one throughout the 1950's and into the 1960's,you couldn't beat the old wireless in those day's, anyway we didn't have a Telly lol.

    • @anaderol5408
      @anaderol5408 Před 3 lety +4

      You just reminded me - we used to have a family photo of my parents and two daughters all gathered around the radio/record player - it was my father's pride and joy - it was a German brand - it could pick up most European cities (great big valves inside with which he was constantly playing) and the record player had tiny mirrors on the inside rear wall. The turntable played 45s, 33s and....78s!! It was a gorgeous piece of furniture.

  • @louisenel1303
    @louisenel1303 Před 10 měsíci +17

    Myself, I’m over watching movies & series. They’re all so same same. I love old time radio.

  • @hollihysell4
    @hollihysell4 Před rokem +15

    I found Chesterton Radio over a year ago. Im forever thankful. Ive never heard anything like this before. WIth that Im truly grateful. I even played this You Tube channel for some of my older nurses when I had covid. They all loved this channel. And thank you thank you thank you for adding search button so I can look for my favorites lol

    • @ChestertonRadio
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  • @wyominghome4857
    @wyominghome4857 Před rokem +39

    Let me add my appreciation for the well-spoken English. Ever since East Enders aired on TV I miss at least a third of what is said in British productions. You need subtitles to understand the dialogue. How lovely to have these earlier plays.

    • @stewartlancaster6155
      @stewartlancaster6155 Před 6 měsíci

      sod off yank, it is our language and we shall use it how we like, regional accents are one of the joys of being English.

    • @ld3418
      @ld3418 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Agreed, as American where most ambitious youngsters get rid of any accent by 20, I have been curious about why the British insist on unintelligible accents. I understand those from all parts with English as a 2nd language better than the native British who refuse to speak properly.

    • @wyominghome4857
      @wyominghome4857 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@ld3418 "Her English is too good, he said, that clearly indicates that she is foreign. Where others are instructed in their native language English people aren. And though she may have had an expert dialectician and grammarian, I....can....tell....that....she....was....born....Hungarian!" (Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady) Exactly!

    • @Pommy1957
      @Pommy1957 Před 5 měsíci

      @@ld3418 Lol. Your American accent is often unintelligible to us. English spoken in England is actually far more homogenised now, in the not too distant past dialects in England were far more common, today we simply have regional accents & no accent is better than another.

    • @Pommy1957
      @Pommy1957 Před 5 měsíci

      A non RP accent being introduced pre-dates East Enders by several decades when the BBC used the Yorkshire born Wilfred Pickles as an announcer during WW2.

  • @simonlevack4298
    @simonlevack4298 Před 2 lety +18

    Terrific this. I think it may have been Hubbard's only radio drama. Some of his favourite tropes (inshore sailing, men driven by their instincts, women who don't seem to do a lot but are actually hard as iron).
    Anyone who liked this should check out his books!

  • @robinparker3540
    @robinparker3540 Před 3 lety +195

    It was a disgraceful decision by the BBC to get rid of Saturday Night Theatre - but as usual the BBC completely ignore listeners' wishes.

    • @esterherschkovich6499
      @esterherschkovich6499 Před 3 lety +10

      Agree!🤔

    • @jillylloyd3527
      @jillylloyd3527 Před 3 lety +19

      Just so sad especially in these times when those of us who prefer radio plays to what is being turned out on tv!

    • @JimmyChangE16
      @JimmyChangE16 Před 3 lety +16

      Yes a real shame, so much middle management at the BBC and ludicrous Director bonuses. If these weren't being uploaded to CZcams I feel they would be lost and forgotten.

    • @davidskeeterskeeter1835
      @davidskeeterskeeter1835 Před 3 lety +12

      Robin Parker totally agree, I haven’t paid for a tv licence for 4 years,,I donate all the fee to animal charities,👏👏🇬🇧

    • @mikelheron20
      @mikelheron20 Před 3 lety +6

      Rubbish. These decisions are taken on the basis of the number of listeners.

  • @gvivo2120
    @gvivo2120 Před 3 lety +32

    Many thanks to Chesterton Radio for this fascinating upload. I wish we could have more of these nowadays on mainstream media... We miss these radio plays. I say, English phonetics evolved radically over the past decades. These vintage BBC plays portray the more elegant enunciation and elocution of the past generations.

    • @Rhialto-the-Marvellous
      @Rhialto-the-Marvellous Před rokem

      Completely concur.

    • @DizGuys
      @DizGuys Před 6 měsíci

      Yes, we'll spoken English is a delight to listen to. Will it ever return?

  • @susankelly5585
    @susankelly5585 Před 3 lety +12

    Just love their voices, I can hear every word! ♥️

  • @edwardanchor2107
    @edwardanchor2107 Před 3 lety +18

    I really enjoy listening to these recordings of Saturday Radio plays growing up in 1940/50’s we didn’t have any TV and it was marvellous to listen to them in bed as a young boy my father had wired our house during WWII with earphones in every bedroom connected to wireless in the living room..I can now listen 24/7 on my iPad wherever in the world I am at the moment in the French Alps during Covid quarantine but usually in our home in Panama..Keep posting these marvellous plays thank you.

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      @anglosaxonbreed Před 3 lety

      Better than most modern day movies. Most are not B movie but c amateur movies

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  • @piotrwisniewski9478
    @piotrwisniewski9478 Před 3 lety +10

    Good story. Thanks so much for all the wonderful old stuff you're treating us to. In this one it was a special pleasure to hear my favourite radio actress of those days, Cecile Chevreau.

  • @lorrainenormanton9316
    @lorrainenormanton9316 Před 3 lety +9

    Such a great cast they were so wonderful listening to these old programs is magic thanks so much I live in New Zealand 🇳🇿

  • @anaderol5408
    @anaderol5408 Před 3 lety +27

    Thank you for upload. To all the whingers who want a synopsis / brief description / cast list etc etc etc - imagine it is 1966 and that you failed to purchase your weekly copy of the Radio Times - this means you would only have two choices 1) listen to the play with absolutely no prior information or 2) don't listen to the play.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 Před 3 lety +2

      @Anaderol, right on!

    • @anaderol5408
      @anaderol5408 Před 3 lety +5

      @theKoshmeister Spoken like a true entitled individual of today whose life is lived like a bad actor of a soap opera ...... Newsflash - it's ok (really it is) to take a leap of faith with something as trivial (in the big scheme of things) as to the nature of a relatively short radio play whose sole purpose is to entertain. Save your angst for more important issues dear Koshmeister - no doubt in your mind you ARE skilled or prominent in a field or other. Hope I've not disappointed your expectation for obnoxious responses.....albeit your initial response fully fitted your own description.

    • @bernicecox5208
      @bernicecox5208 Před 3 lety

      Absolutely agree, I like to be surprised.

  • @wordscaninspire114
    @wordscaninspire114 Před 3 lety +6

    Excellent atmosphere. Listening over and over again.

  • @PinkyPuff69
    @PinkyPuff69 Před 3 lety +8

    Satahhday Night Theahtah. I’m hooked.

  • @katecridland8333
    @katecridland8333 Před 3 lety +23

    Thanks for these lovely plays, I love listening to them. Thank you also for your time doing this, much appreciated 🙂🌈

  • @cherbrowne1637
    @cherbrowne1637 Před 2 lety +5

    I say! That was frightfully good. 🤗

  • @jamesgraham6122
    @jamesgraham6122 Před 3 lety +6

    Great story.. Keep them coming !

  • @certuv
    @certuv Před 6 měsíci +2

    Most enjoyable. The sound effects were very good for the time reminded me of of many sailing trips made with friends during 1960's to the 1990's. Thank you for puyying it up.

  • @bluefriend1723
    @bluefriend1723 Před 3 lety +6

    Thank you so much!

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 Před 3 lety +3

    Great Find....Great Play and Production.

  • @tottiemae2258
    @tottiemae2258 Před 3 lety +18

    Dead Man’s Bay is an original play written by Hubbard for the BBC about Peter Robinson, an ordinary fellow who falls in with Joe Benson, a bad sort, who convinces Peter, against the wishes of his wife Letty, that his beloved sail boat and knowledge of local waters means he could pick up some much needed money with a little side of smuggling.

    • @eleanormurty9270
      @eleanormurty9270 Před 3 lety +3

      Thanks I like a little idea what it’s about 👌👌

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 Před 3 lety +1

      @@eleanormurty9270 Me too! 😉

    • @janegriffiths7733
      @janegriffiths7733 Před 3 lety

      Once again thanks Tottie,been too wrapped up in the AZ audits,hope you are keeping well

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 Před 3 lety +1

      @@janegriffiths7733 Are you in AZ too?! I'm in Tempe. 😎

    • @janegriffiths7733
      @janegriffiths7733 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tottiemae2258 hi Tottie lovely to hear from you again, no I am on The Wirral England but I remember you telling me that you were in AZ, I have been following USA politics since the election and haven't really been listening to plays ,happy to hear from you 🇬🇧🇺🇲🙏

  • @patriciallamas2050
    @patriciallamas2050 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for the upload!! 🙏🏻✨🤗

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 Před 3 lety

    Thank you

  • @camelia9802
    @camelia9802 Před 2 lety +1

    Very good play indeed.

  • @shonagriffiths8907
    @shonagriffiths8907 Před 3 lety +7

    Excellent play, I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for posting this.

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 Před 2 lety

    thank you

  • @AngelApprentice
    @AngelApprentice Před 3 měsíci

    Thankyou so very much

  • @Teapot333
    @Teapot333 Před 3 lety +18

    A happy accident finding your channel. Thank you, I am enjoying immensely 😀😀

  • @QPRTokyo
    @QPRTokyo Před rokem

    Thank you. 📻

  • @donwardell7203
    @donwardell7203 Před rokem +4

    Lots of chat further down as to why radio drama folded. well it was money, writers fees and the actors union. I was 13 when i started in this the bbc drama department and stayed until the air force said "come here" I was a time of great changes the onslaught of t.v. and the collapse of these radio grinders. I was 13 at the start of my radio adventure which at 83 now still goes on, Am a 107.3 in palm springs seven days a week - radio has been a real pal - good wishes to all
    -Don

  • @clovelly1946
    @clovelly1946 Před 3 měsíci

    Just found OTR it's terrific,more please...

  • @MsDormy
    @MsDormy Před 3 lety +5

    Really great vintage play - so enjoyable, but found myself hating Peter much more than his raffish brother!

  • @philhealey449
    @philhealey449 Před 2 lety

    Much appreciated the nyooows bulletin from apparently 1970.

  • @dmx5439
    @dmx5439 Před 3 lety +3

    Lucky me ,,thank you

  • @chicletlux
    @chicletlux Před 3 lety +2

    This was very good. Thank you for uploading it.

  • @simonmcgrath4112
    @simonmcgrath4112 Před 3 lety +12

    This was awful!!!!
    Awfully good!! Really enjoyed this and like every damn good thing the bbc or other type of company they'll have a great product etc and then put it to the sword. I'm assuming there must have been problems with the programme or product or the beeb wudnt have killed a winning formula for no reason but that's in the past!!! I've digressed long enough but a shame they don't do this type of show at the wkend instead of some obscure afternoon slot!!! Thanx for uploading these treasures for us all to peruse!!

  • @lyndaa7560
    @lyndaa7560 Před 3 lety +1

    That was one of my mums favourite sayings And the Best of British Luck, thank-you x

  • @hollyfleur6144
    @hollyfleur6144 Před 3 lety +1

    thx

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 Před 3 lety +1

    great

  • @ayferbektas7034
    @ayferbektas7034 Před 3 lety +3

    Synopsis, quoted:
    "Dead Man’s Bay is an original play written by Hubbard for the BBC about Peter Robinson, an ordinary fellow who falls in with Joe Benson, a bad sort, who convinces Peter, against the wishes of his wife Letty, that his beloved sail boat and knowledge of local waters means he could pick up some much needed money with a little side of smuggling."

  • @freednb
    @freednb Před 3 lety

    the swearing is funny 😂 good story though , thank you

  • @harryflash5202
    @harryflash5202 Před 10 měsíci

    Anything produced by Martin C Webster is worth a listen.

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 Před 3 lety +1

    Hey ! ....Uncle Chesterton....any Chance of " The Island Of Sheep' by John Buchan....?

    • @deerinheadlights100
      @deerinheadlights100 Před 9 měsíci

      Is there a play? I read the story years ago and would love to hear it. I love all John Buchan.

  • @admiralcraddock464
    @admiralcraddock464 Před 5 měsíci

    So many cut glass accents i nearly cut myself listening to it.

  • @georgemarie2049
    @georgemarie2049 Před rokem

    Interesting...

  • @elainepayne7047
    @elainepayne7047 Před 3 lety +8

    Well we all know what we must do? At 80 and now learn l have to pay the licence fee again! Shall l cancel my subscription to the once great BBC? Will l then be allowed to access these old broadcasts without being prosecuted?

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety

      Yes, you and peeps all over the world. Whether expats or those who enjoy a good play. Also A LOT learning English!

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 Před 3 lety +1

      @@daftirishmarej1827 I doubt that. You have to be either a native English speaker or someone who’s lived in an English-speaking country for at least one generation.

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mckavitt13 It's true - I'm an English teacher in Italy and I recommend these to my students so they can listen to more English - different accents etc., and they do 😃😉

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 Před 3 lety

      @@daftirishmarej1827 Perhaps, but I wonder how much they really understand. 😊🎓✒👓💼

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety +2

      @@mckavitt13 it depends how much they want to learn, and how well they want to learn it 😁😁😁😁

  • @deegeraghty3421
    @deegeraghty3421 Před 3 lety

    Weird ending !

  • @KensN2History
    @KensN2History Před 3 lety

    Why not add a short plot after the title

  • @dsd7004
    @dsd7004 Před 3 lety +2

    all these quality radio drama's from the permanently maligned bbc.
    great at things like this are the beeb

    • @rogerclark6605
      @rogerclark6605 Před 3 lety +5

      Can’t really compare the BBC of 1960 with today’s

  • @nicolenewsome4863
    @nicolenewsome4863 Před 2 lety +1

    Please say he's not related to L Ron Hubbard. 🤦‍♀️

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 Před 3 lety

    43:39...." He was here for a 'Bit' - this Afternoon' " ..... -A Bit of WHAT...? Ha'.

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety +1

      A bit of time

    • @johnbunyan5834
      @johnbunyan5834 Před 3 lety +4

      MrBazzabee .
      It was a common expression, at the time - and before.
      It simply mean't. "a little while".
      I suppose these days, people only notice a double meaning, and smirk.

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety +6

      @@johnbunyan5834 it's still a normal expression. "I popped in to mum and dad's for a bit". Not for Beebeecee original accent, but for everyday life. Double entendre has killed innocent language of years ago. 'Gay' used to mean 'very happy'. Please don't think I'm homophobic - we're talking about how language has changed, not reactions to sexuality. I have to tell my parents not to call me "Fanny" even though it's been what Americans call (and I can't think of a better phrase!) a 'pet name' of theirs for me for most of my 50 years, so not a habit easily broken. Sorry for the beebeecee writing, but I'm listening to "Libel" - terrifically English what ho!!
      Toodle pip old bean!

    • @daftirishmarej1827
      @daftirishmarej1827 Před 3 lety +1

      @Toni sumblin lining up in a queue... 😉

    • @mikewellwood1412
      @mikewellwood1412 Před 3 lety +2

      @@daftirishmarej1827 Or forming up in a queue, or forming a queue, or of course, just "queuing". :-)

  • @sparkfishes
    @sparkfishes Před 3 lety

    It plays OK on my tablet (Android) but on the Roku stick TV the sound comes on and off ....like a broken mic. This only happens on ALL the Chesterton Radio videos, Other audio plays work fine ......any solutions ?

  • @jameswebb4593
    @jameswebb4593 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Drug smuggling , such a lucrative business , if caught a few years in prison and several hundred thousand pounds salted away.
    Thats the mindset , the reality is different , the mole takes the risks and the bosses take the cake .

  • @bryine.willis8683
    @bryine.willis8683 Před 2 lety

    Open mic night

  • @mrgarrytoo
    @mrgarrytoo Před rokem

    Enthralling

  • @n4e780
    @n4e780 Před 29 dny

    How to make kiefer

  • @ourreg
    @ourreg Před 3 lety +5

    if they had saturday night theatre on the bbc now...it would just be some woke rubbish....

    • @susankelly5585
      @susankelly5585 Před 3 lety

      Just what I was thinking!😢

    • @Spectrescup
      @Spectrescup Před 8 měsíci

      That's simply not true. There's a lot less radio drama on the BBC but some of it is excellent.
      If you can't find something you like on the BBC Sounds app I despair.

  • @dellaturner2556
    @dellaturner2556 Před 3 lety

    M@a

  • @michealburnett7
    @michealburnett7 Před 2 měsíci

    Why are the listeners giving out about the BBC?
    It has to move on, You know.
    It moves with the times and the Audience!
    😂
    Learn to adapt.
    Share and enjoy.
    Sto moaning.
    Everything has moved on, since THE GROAT!!
    🇮🇪😅🤔🍀😂💯

  • @francis-mariedechatillon987
    @francis-mariedechatillon987 Před 11 měsíci

    Yes, the BBC do ignore listeners' opinions. The BBC plays, especially comedy, are dire. It's all such a sad indictment.

  • @xmaseveeve5259
    @xmaseveeve5259 Před rokem

    TOO QUIET.

  • @w1lf1ewoo
    @w1lf1ewoo Před 3 lety +2

    They could say bastard in 1966 but not ‘big twat’

  • @CosgroveNotts
    @CosgroveNotts Před 7 měsíci

    This middle class acting is atrocious. The BBC need to get more than one door
    It sounds the same in every play.

  • @guitarboogieboogie
    @guitarboogieboogie Před rokem

    Silly yarn about naive smuggler. Pointless ending. Could have been more interesting in a creative authors hands.

  • @dodojack1045
    @dodojack1045 Před 3 lety

    Poor plot. Poor ending. Even poorer story. Give it a miss.

    • @iap-ug3oy
      @iap-ug3oy Před 3 lety +3

      Ho! It is people like you that have made this country the mess it is in now....You have the right name though don’t you ....Dodo........

  • @karenturner7184
    @karenturner7184 Před rokem

    Thank you

  • @mrgarrytoo
    @mrgarrytoo Před rokem

    Enthralling

  • @mrgarrytoo
    @mrgarrytoo Před rokem

    Enthralling