The Winds of Heaven - Monica Dickens - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

[@AuntClara0911]

What an excellent play. Moving, heart breaking & powerful! Thank You!

[@martenrae8419]

My mum knew Monica Dickens when she lived in Hertfordshire..she was very friendly and always had time for a chat ...she wrote at her Great Grandfather's writing desk which she had inherited.

[@sallydavis1391]

This was my first grown-up book I read as a child. I have 2 middle-aged daughters, and I remember this. Thank goodness for a pension.!

[@dicostigan1449]

Intelligence comes from the mother and nature of the father, according to a New Scientist article I read years ago.

[@deborahrobertson8606]

The BBC as I remember it as a child - wonderful. Thank you.

[@sandyno1089]

Before it went woke🤣🤣😰

[@elizabethbower2168]

What a wonderful play by Monica Dickens she is one of my favourite authors… Many thanks for sharing

[@kellygnow1]

Thank you

[@helenferullo5706]

This is a wonderful play. Very well done indeed!!

[@maureencrean]

Love this story

[@robertapearson3507]

What a powerful ending! I will say no more. Had me in its thrall all the way through. Thank you for this & Tottie Mae for her synopsis👵🏻🐾💕🇨🇦 🎗💙🌻💛🇺🇦💛🌻💙🎗

[@bib1961]

Thank you.

[@MrBazzabee]

Wonderful play.....thank you Uncle Chesterton.

[@joycemcleod8249]

Very enjoyable

[@lisabishop1691]

It’s so sad that Louise a loving mother and loving person is so unappreciated by daughters caught up in their own worlds… I hope Ellen continues to feel the real love that her Granny feels for her… This is how some feel in real life not just stories… Thankyou lovely story ❤

[@donwardell4605]

Monica Dickens (writer) of this piece had a famous relative - Charles who also wrote one or two little baubles.

[@michaelberg9656]

Pity she didn't inherit his talent. I found this hard to take.

[@natashafernando3503]

So beautiful ❤

[@jordsupp]

What interesting daughters... A great interpretation that moved at a good pace. Thankyou.

[@Loobylooto2]

I really enjoyed this .Thank you

[@yorkshirerose6334]

Brilliant. Loved it, thank you

[@marcelinecroonenborghs3503]

I really enjoyed listen tot the play.

[@TedaR]

I thought I had heard parts of it before but I do not remember it ending that way. It's well acted as my emotions thru out were quite stirred. Thank you once again!

[@chadpenner5059]

Great great actors :). What a treat!

[@gjones9409]

Really enjoyed this play, listened to it on the drive from Cardigan to Aberystwyth 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@christrinder1255]

Thoroughly enjoyed! Many thanks for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊

[@susanotway7875]

Loved this! Well worth listening to. Terrible daughters. Selfish and unkind. Poor Louise seems surrounded by people only interested in themselves.

[@doreendaykin6693]

Brilliant play ! Enjoyed every minute of it. Gratitude for sharing.

[@eskylent7962]

What a wonderful rabbit hole I’ve been on….starting with Edgar Allen Poe & landing on this!!!! I LOVE the names of the books he gives her! “Kisses and Corpes” (spelling?! Can’t be bothered correcting!) 😂

[@shafique1960]

Great play, thank you for sharing something so sad and enjoyable. ❤

[@wordscaninspire114]

Just Excellent

[@indesrpringles5356]

Brought tears to my eyes...very well done.

[@lydiamarks8577]

This was so beautiful & uplifting for me! Thank you so much for uploading 👍

[@JamesDavis-o5w]

Outstanding. A love story like no other.

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

So happy I subscribed 😀👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@waynemoore1708]

Brilliant !

[@pippinbaker8440]

LOVELY. THANK YOU.

[@21anusha]

Lovely Cheers✌🏽

[@fionnualaization]

❤❤❤😘😘, thank you for upload, so enjoyable,featuring the selfish, the kind, the Oscar Wilde vibe and Jane Austin vibe, heart warming. Horrible, selfish children, lovely mother. A good mother Ellen, 11, grandaughter, story there.. , the diabetic part time novel writer and The farmer. pig farmer.... a cheating husband, actress, loveless marriage, but we dont have any real feelings, they just get on with it.oh really a caravan........ optics so important Super 10/10 for script, acting, direction, everything and 10/10 for upload, thank you Chesterton.. 😘

[@AnnWatson-oi8qr]

Wonderful ❤❤❤

[@murkydepths181]

Oh I’m in love with that young man 🤗

[@Apostolic3564]

here! here! I don’t know who the actor is but I love his voice!!

[@fionnualaization]

Only 5 mins left, I don't want it to end. What horrible daughters and what a fabulous mother. I hope the ending will be okay, I saw a few comments that would suggest so🙈

[@lattep9613]

The granddaughter of Charles Dickens wrote this, wow.

[@n4e780]

I wish I could download this play. So sad that KZbin doesn’t let you.

[@anaderol5408]

Very good play - Can't help but think that the mother was the common determinator of the three despicable daughters.

[@crochetedlace2838]

Actually, in the novel, there is lots of detail about her dead husband, and he's the "common denominator" you speak of.

[@anaderol5408]

@@crochetedlace2838 OK Thanks - I'm not familiar with the novel.

[@crochetedlace2838]

@@anaderol5408 the play leaves out some plot points due to time constraints, but is very faithful to the book. It's a short novel, highly recommended.

[@anaderol5408]

@@crochetedlace2838 Thank you for the suggestion - I'll try to find it

[@sunnylife7934]

I was thinking the father must’ve been horrible.

[@Helen-xy9qj]

It is well acted. The daughters are modern version of the ugly sisters. Still all's well etc etc.

[@tottiemae2258]

Synopsis: A widow with no means of support is dependent on living with her three daughters. She is rotated from one to another since none of them wants her. Then she meets a kind gentleman, a lifelong bachelor. But, the going does not proceed smoothly.

[@robertapearson3507]

Tottie Mae - thank you for all your hard work in providing these synopsii (not sure of the plural for synopsis). ♥️👏🙏🏼👏♥️ 👵🏻🐾💕🇨🇦 🎗💙🌻💛🇺🇦💛🌻💙🎗

[@tottiemae2258]

@@robertapearson3507 It's my pleasure, Roberta. 😊💗

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

Roberta Pierson, I don't know the plural of synopsis, but crisis becomes crises, just a thought.

[@tottiemae2258]

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 I looked it up and you're right. It is synopses. But I kind of like Roberta's creative spelling. Makes me smile! 😄😉

[@58christiansful]

The story was engaging enough - till the accident at the caravan, which was unconvincing.

[@deniseroper9030]

Really good drama.

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

At first I didn't want to continue listening because of the family problems, but I wanted to see how it would end. I'm glad that I did and wish that the story was longer. I do have a question: Was there ever a man who actually left his wife for another woman? It's an old, old story. Some women are foolish.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Of course! It happens all the time!! 😆😂

[@lisabishop1691]

No they are all too self centred

[@clarecoleman801]

Ethan Hawke left Uma Thurman for the nanny. They've been married for years now.

[@crochetedlace2838]

Excellent and close adaptation of the novel. Which is even sadder than this marvelous dramatization. Though the daughters, esp Anne, got some comeuppance at the very end.

[@rosebud3971]

😍😍😍

[@leciabella9461]

Enjoyable drama... if only we could see ourselves in the characters and make a change in our lives 🤔

[@ashleysaunders9947]

Brilliant, top -notch, a village poacher ,local ruffian , gypsy character would of made this delightful drama complete 😊

[@debbielangton8371]

Im feeling 😪🤧 alot better now m🙌 been under the weather for 3 days❤ onlny gnot nout of bed today 😂

[@dirkbogarde44]

Poor woman...such terrible daughters

[@debramcfadden2701]

Such a reality of how selfish we are with concerning our older generations.

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

Only some. There are many who love and cherish our older parents. Lots of unsung people who are full time carers.

[@louise7552]

Did Louise sigh at the end or was that her final breath? I couldn't tell as it finished there.😢 great story. Thanks 😊

[@louisbrugnoni1291]

After reading the reviews I decided that 2020 has brought enough sadness. I’ll pass although I’m sure it’s very good!

[@jwsuicides8095]

It has happy tears

[@lisabishop1691]

You should listen ….

[@marymary5494]

👌💕

[@Gillby47]

Chesterton,when are you going to start potting a synopsis on your plays?

[@philiphema2678]

Who needs a family of do-gooders who actually only care about themselves. And being concerned about "what would people think". And the ghastly husband of the best friend. The little girl is the only reason I continued to the end. As a colonial I listen to the "social niceties" of the English with increasing distaste, Ms. Dickens family history notwithstanding.

[@jwsuicides8095]

I hand idea Monica Dickens was related to Charles.

[@groomdoggi]

DE-PRESS-ING!

[@Eternal-Student]

Ruined by the constant adverts. Literally every five minutes.

[@ChestertonRadio]

Sorry about that. Had the wrong settings. It's fixed now. Thanks for listening

[@Eternal-Student]

@@ChestertonRadioOh excellent, thank you!

[@Stormlucy111]

All the characters seem delusional. What a bad bunch.

[@paulhunter123]

why so frightfully posh

[@TheSuperHarrygeorge]

Why not ? The novel was written in 1955 when the Queens English was spoken and 'T's were sounded . It is a middle class family so diction was 'posh'.

[@honeyfungus4774]

Dreadful.

[@guitarboogieboogie]

👎

[@dorothyjacobs294]

The mother is a pain in the neck she dithers so much all the time.Shed also obstinate like the incident with Marion in the kitchen. I am surprised she was left penniless by her husband no pension etc.

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

You sound like one of her unlikeable daughters.

[@Angela-cc1hd]

I agree!

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[@annemaxwell9975]

Awful play. Dreadfully selfish daughters, a simpering halfwit of a mother who can only be in her sixties as her youngest is supposedly 27, and written as if in her dotage! I listen to these plays every day and they always entertain. This is just altogether dreadful writing. One to miss.

[@Lemon_N555]

More like in her late 50s since they married young (under 25yo) in those days. But in those days being a practically DESTITUTE widower or spinster over 50yo was the kiss of death; being treated as a 'poor relation" barely tolerated. A carry over from Victorian Era mores. It's social conditioning & people don't change much. So don't think this doesn't happen today ! Playing 'pass the parcel' with your parent...