Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett

Saturday-Night Theatre: Buried Alive
Arnold Bennett’s 1912 novel
Dramatised by James Duckett

Sat 11th Mar 1972, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

With David King as Priam Farll

Jano Hylton as Alice Challice

The lie was out, and its speaker shuddered.... from somewhere deep within him he heard a stronger, bolder spirit speak .

'You're dead. You're free.

Re-christened Henry Leek.'
Producer Anthony Cornish from Birmingham

Narrator: John Rowe
Henry Leek: Paul Chapman
Dr Cashmore: Anthony Woodruff
Whitney Witt: David March
Duncan Farll: George Woolley
Shop assistant: Gabrielle Laye
Woman: Jane Freeman
Matthew: Drew Griffiths
Henry: Frank Moorey
John: Paul Chapman
Mr Oxford: David March
Mr Vodrey: Simon Carter
Mr Crepitude: Anthony Woodruff
Judge: Philip Garston-Jones
Lady Sophia: Ursula O'Leary

An ingenious satire, "Buried Alive" (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press attention.

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