The Dark Windows of a Room - BBC Saturday Night Theatre 

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Thanks for this very interesting play.

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Loved listening in bed in the dark .

Great story thank you.

Excellent.v well reflection of life at the time

Most enjoyable--thank you.

Very enjoyable, an interesting tale and well actedr

The windows of my room Are dark with bitter frost, The stillness aches with doom Of something loved and lost This poignant verse, which Anna picks at random is from a long lament, A Northern Vigil, by Bliss William Carman, of New Brunswick (1861-1929). 44.45

great mystery - and really good American accents, unusual to say the least! good writer good production, too. thanks so much. and Keep safe :) 🌷

I remember hearing this play and that the main character's landlady was played by Violet Carson who played the iconic Ena Sharples in the uk soap " Coronation Street" in its early days in the 1960s.

Very good, a good old style police story, thank-you xx

I listen in bed and whilst I'm working from home.

Does anyone have a cast and character list for this play? I know that Violet Carson, Billie Whitelaw and Nigel Davenport were guest actors but which roles did they play?

One continuous point, You also see it in TV soaps, take a drink yourself, to the barman!! 😜 In all my business life, I never see that happen once!! Stoooooopid in the extreme. 😭

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Another terrific play with some excellent actors. Definitely worth listening to. Thank you CR. Hi from Oz. 👇💜🙃

The Dark Windows Of A Room by William Keenan. Broadcast as a Saturday Night Theatre drama production on Saturday 6th September, 1975. The first production from the Drama Suite at New Broadcasting House, Manchester. 'I'm John Rouke, and for the record, the jury gave me the benefit of the doubt. Inspector Rouke is not a crook, and he's going to prove it.' With Brian Trueman as John Rouke, Geoffrey Banks as Chief Inspector Norris, and Jane Knowles as Anna. The play is set in and around Manchester in 1975. Guest appearances by: Violet Carson, Judith Chalmers, Sandra Chalmers, Nigel Davenport, Bryan Forbes, Philip Jenkinson, Bryan Martin, Peter Massey, Wilfred Pickles, Alan Rothwell, Herbert Smith, Madeleine Vacher, Paul Webster, Geoffrey Wheeler, Peter Wheeler, and Billie Whitelaw. (Billie Whitelaw is currently appearing in "Alphabetical Order" at the Mayfair Theatre, London) (Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm) Contributors Writer: William Keenan Stereo effects: David Fleming-Williams. Theme music and song composed by: Simon Park Producer: Trevor Hill John Rouke: Brian Trueman Chief Inspector Norris: Geoffrey Banks Anna: Jane Knowles Guest appearance: Violet Carson Guest appearance: Judith Chalmers Guest appearance: Sandra Chalmers Guest appearance: Nigel Davenport Guest appearance: Bryan Forbes Guest appearance: Philip Jenkinson Guest appearance: Bryan Martin Guest appearance: Peter Massey Guest appearance: Wilfred Pickles Guest appearance: Alan Rothwell Guest appearance: Herbert Smith Guest appearance: Madeleine Vacher Guest appearance: Paul Webster Guest appearance: Geoffrey Wheeler Guest appearance: Peter Wheeler Guest appearance: Billie Whitelaw

Detective under investigation himself tries to clear his name in seedy 50s Manchester. First rate cast including Violet Carson, Billie Whitelaw and Wilfred Pickles.

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Why did you not let it go on? I wanted to hear if Anna got her formal proposal. Such a disappointment that it cut off so quickly without even a list of names. However, it was a good drama and I enjoyed it.

The list of names at the end of this play is as good as the play itself. What a list! They don’t make them like them anymore.

I really love these and this channel. One thing though , would it be possible to put a v brief synopsis?

Love your channel but a little description about the story read by yourself in the beginning would be greatly appreciated

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Thank you for uploading. The Irish nurse is hilarious. 😂

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Good stuff. So well done.

Just wonderful

I love listening tho these while I work. They are genteel.

Everyone already said everything good about these play's all I can say thank you.

Really great story, worth listening to again.

I remember Pickles et all. A brief synopsis would be useful.

Fine story.Thanks.🇺🇸

I've just started listening to these dramas and I'm loving them. Its placing the voices that sound familiar to.

Thank you very good!

shame about fluctuating sound

They were very keen to show off the range of their new studio with giving the varying contrasts in different settings .

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Violet Carson in a very different role from that of Ena Sharples

Good story,. Hate fake American accents but the plot compensated for that. Lots of famous names in this play.

engaging.....a lovely little tale

Egg head detective together with silly girl solve convoluted drug suppliers mystery.

Love this actor. So funny . Helps me to get dressed !

Is that Imelda Staunton?

audio bit missing around 1.01.

Really like the BBC series

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That is an unfortunate turn of phrase, at around 56 mins, when the old lady talks about the last male member hanged outside the front door...

a good story! but a very odd ending! so the two people in the play, one being a copper and one a teacher, are appearing in alphabetical order at the Mayfair Theatre in London. my how lives can be changed about. LOL so what were the last words of the play anyway?

Burwell AirBase is RAFLakenheath.

Thanks for loading, however what an appalling production/storyline….i wouldn’t bother if you are thinking of listening.

Are these accents "Manchester"?! God bless the BBC! It's sensitive to my wish to go no further north than Banbury, the next town up ...

Is this how people spent their Saturday nights back then? Life in the bus lane.

A wonderful play set in the 1970s. Rourke is falsely accused, at trial he is acquitted by the jury. The drama proceeds with the former police Inspector trying to discover what happened. You will hear the sound of typewriters, tills being closed and the wonderful Violet Carson. The former Mrs Sharples plays Rourke’s hospitable and kind landlady You will not hear this kind of play on Radio 4 anytime soon.

Those American accents were torture, not to mention the fraulein, but it was nice to hear Ena Sharples

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Very good. Thank you for this. Some big names there, in small parts! e.g. Violet Carson, Nigel Davenport, Brian Forbes. Also, Alan Rothwell, who, like Violet Carson, was a regular in early Coronation Street. Also Judith Chalmers announcing. I was trying to work out what era this was... Must have been a long time ago, if you could get change from £1 for a sherry and a pint of beer! 1960s or early 1970s, I presume. Judith Chalmers refers to New Broadcasting House: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Broadcasting_House_(Manchester) Construction began in 1971 and finished in 1975, so this play would have been in the 1970s at the earliest.

I can totally tell that those aren't Americans. We'd say flashlight instead of torch. We'd say laid off instead of made redundant . We'd say woods instead of wood.

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Started interesting, but then he gets involved with the sister of Hilda who possibly set him up😮???

Great entertainment - a pint of bitter and a medium sherry for less than 1 pound ! Those were the days.

The Irish Nurse is a Riot ! Please make a Drama with her Character in it ! 😂

Doing my duty ! Yes thats what the axmen said to the queen 😂

Thanks for the upload! Just one comment: a well-educated person, especially one who studies history, would know how to spell the surname 'Schiller,' as Friedrich Schiller was a world famous and highly influential 18th century German dramatist & philosopher.

7:30 A lesson we seem to have not learned almost 50 years later

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The ending is chopped off!!! 😞

Thank you. I find it amusing to read comments whenever one of these plays features characters with accents- inevitably there will be opposing viewpoints:- best accents ever/Good Lord, what horrible accents !

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Accents were awful, the story was very good. I really enjoyed it.

Personally, I found the fake foreign accents unpleasant. They _should_ have used foreign actors instead. Is everyone aware that the actors' union, at the time (Equity) banned foreigners from working in Britain? - Odious and brazen discrimination. Similarly, in Elizabethan days, women were banned from appearing in plays and men had to play the roles of ladies.