The Long Fight - D.A. Rayner - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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.
Saturday Night Theatre was noted as the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was scrapped as a programme strand in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in April 1998 by James Boyle, when single dramas were removed from the Saturday evening schedule. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime programme that runs for 60–90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theatre, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theatre was abolished), any return looks unlikely.
Originally Broadcast 7/26/1969
Do you enjoy the variety of Chesterton Radio shows? Please consider supporting us.
http://Patreon.com/ChestertonRadio Join our family and access Patron-only podcasts
Visit the Chesterton Radio Shop
http://Shop.ChestertonRadio.com
Enjoy our shows anytime!
http://Plays.ChestertonRadio.com
http://Listen.ChestertonRadio.com
http://Player.ChestertonRadio.com
http://Orthodoxy.ChestertonRadio.com
http://EverlastingMan.ChestertonRadio.com
http://Eugenics.ChestertonRadio.com
http://Distributism.ChestertonRadio.com
http://FatherBrown.ChestertonRadio.com
-
18:12:15
Chesterton Radio
6 months ago $4.01 earnedChesterton Radio Live - Christmas Mystery-Drama-Adventure-Comedy - Chuck the TV & Discover a Whole New World!
16.6K2 -
LIVE
The Late Kick with Josh Pate
2 hours agoLate Kick Live Ep 518: CFB’s Wildest Era | Biggest 2024 ?s | Impact Freshmen | Bold Predictions
195 watching -
12:00
Dr. Eric Berg
1 day agoWhat Exercise Burns the Most Calories?
13.1K18 -
4:48:29
LumpyPotatoX2
6 hours ago$10,000 PUBG Tournament w/GamersError - #RumbleTakeover
13.5K8 -
3:22
One Bite Pizza Reviews
2 days agoBarstool Pizza Review - Marco Pizzeria & Restaurant (Branford, CT)
20.3K21 -
41:46
Standpoint with Gabe Groisman
11 hours agoEp. 27. From GameStop to the NBA. Gabe Plotkin
21K3 -
55:04
Matt Kohrs
8 hours agoThe Volatile Week Ahead || The MK Show
35.8K13 -
26:18
Stephen Gardner
7 hours agoTop Republican UNLOADS on Democrats and Biden's MENTAL HEALTH!!
45.3K64 -
44:30
Michael Franzese
2 days agoCancel Culture Backlash of My UK Tour | Michael Franzese
104K45 -
35:12
Island Hopper TV
1 day agoFull Costa Rica Travel Guide 2024
64.9K33