Lonely Beat - Saturday Night Theatre - William Keenan

Lonely Beat - Saturday Night Theatre - William Keenan

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Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4 and its predecessor, the BBC Home Service. The strand showcased feature-length, middlebrow 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. Audiences reached a peak of 6.75 million in 1955, but by the end the average audience levels had fallen to between 50,000 and 100,000 - although with another 500,000 listening to the Monday afternoon repeat. 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

Originally Broadcast 9/8/1969

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[sailorsquatandhisseaman]

A fine bit of entertainment! Quality stuff! BRAVO!

[robyn]

Enjoyed listening to this, well acted and good story. Thanks

[chadpenner]

Love your channel thank u soooo much for letting us enjoy these great ol shows😊❤

[pieterdutoit]

I enjoyed this production & listened without pausing it!
The characters where very convincing!

[StephenWatkins-rivw]

Terrific stuff - enjoyed it all. Thanks.

[ashleysaunders]

Proper Mice and Men type set up. Old school petty villainy 😢

[elaineedgar]

Yes a brief synopsis would help. But this is written by William Keenan so it’s going to be good.

[Allsgood]

Strange whirring sound in the background?

[jonehaney]

A bit of information about the story would be helpful!

[dl]

Good but not the best ending. Needs part 2.

[elaineedgar]

The actor playing the Jewish club owner (Mannie?) is over acting, so annoying.