The Montrose Ghost - BBC Saturday Night Theatre - Martin Jenkins

[@georgedog100]

Thank you Chesterton Radio, for another excellent production. The "great voice of radio", Patrick Barr had only a small part to play, but so easy to recognise him.

[@karenhumphries9376]

A wonderful, very affecting play. Thank you!

[@lucikate10]

Brilliant. Highly enjoyable

[@michaelberg9656]

Although I guessed the ending, great play. It had my skin crawling sometimes!

[@delmartin9587]

Love ❤ these audio books. Live in Zimbabwe and sitting in the dark. Lamps battery flat. I am listening on my mobile. 17 ÷/- hours no electricity 😢😢😢

[@waynegeordiesdad648]

Here's a brief synopsis of this and thank you Chesterton for this offering. "The play opens on July 5th 1942, but the story begins earlier one morning in the spring of 1915. After six hectic months over the other side of the German line, Desmond had been posted to the Royal Flying Corps station in Montrose, Scotland, as a flying instructor. His nerves were in a bad way and Montrose seemed an ideal spot to relax. But that was not to be when he met and fell in love with Sylvia Adam, the wife of one of his Officer Cadets, Rupert Adam. And when Rupert dies in a plane crash on his first solo flight, his ghost begins to haunt the Montrose Airfield until Desmond leaves it and Sylvia. Twenty-seven years have passed and Desmond Little has been promoted to Air Vice Marshall and given command of No. 32 Group in Benson, Oxfordshire. When he arrived there, all memories of Montrose had faded. However, one event, one conversation, was to bring the appalling business flooding back to his memory. It was exactly two days earlier that the whole story started again, on July 3rd 1942, that is when Desmond's god-daughter tells him that she is going to be engaged to be married to Flight Lieutenant Rupert Adam.... Cheers from Canada North

[@tottiemae2258]

Another brilliant synopsis! Thank you!

[@waynegeordiesdad648]

@Amber Fox You're most welcome

[@waynegeordiesdad648]

@@tottiemae2258 You're welcome Tottie Mae

[@geradgerad1958]

Excellent drama, well worth a listen.Thanks for the upload.Carry on the good work.

[@paul-t-geist4245]

I enjoyed that.

[@fallenxangel67]

Wonderfully written story. Love every letter of it!!!

[@bevharris3105]

Really enjoyed that thank you!

[@Soundpj]

Thankyou

[@sailorsquatandhisseaman]

Maybe I am naive to not have seen this one coming, but this drama sure caught steem as it went on and had a tremendous conclusion. The acting and directing were spot on. It really developed into an entirely engrossing production, as a whole. And following the timeline was very easy, as it went back and forth. Especially with the scene with Desmond and Sylvia changing location in mid conversation to the bedroom with the sudden shift in the sudden silence of music. Very solid! BRAVO!!!

[@jlb9368]

Sometimes I think that we live in strange times. Then the social picture of these plays make me think that they too lived in strange times, just a different version of strange.

[@barryballinger5912]

Thank you.enjoyed it.

[@mrbazzabee4013]

Thanks Uncle Chesterton.......Ooooh ! - That was a wikkle bit different was that one...indeed-a little bit moving too.

[@julitt4317]

So Desmond's 22? Riiiiiiiiight. What absolute tosh!

[@freednb]

cracking stuff! the woman is amazing ha ha must have been great fun for the actress

[@janettedewar6617]

Despicable woman getting her own way all the time and the sacrifices he made for her.

[@michaelhill753]

lovely & remember hearing it when i was a kid on me transistor! does anyone know whatever became of john pullen as desmond little? also, what’s the beautiful music?

[@nualaladd8923]

A very moving story,loved every minute of it,more of the same again please.

[@stewartmcardle8149]

Source : Genome project. A Saturday Night Theatre drama production from Saturday 12th June, 1976. The Montrose Ghost by MARTIN JENKINS ........based upon a short story of the same title by HAROLD BALFOUR, the LORD BALFOUR OF INCHRYE. It is the spring of 1915 and a ghost has come to haunt the Royal Flying Corps Station in Montrose, Scotland. Why has it come? Only Desmond Little knows ... and the price that must be paid: Produced and directed by GERRY JONES (Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm) Contributors Written by: Martin Jenkins Author: Harold Balfour Directed By: Gerry Jones Capt Little: John Pullen Lt Adam: Christopher Neame Fit Sgt Wood: Douglas Blackwell Sylvia: Rosalind Shanks Major Holt: Patrick Barr Flt Officer Anne Douglas: Jane Knowles Capt Roberts: David Graham Wing Commander Buckle: David Neal Rupert: Christopher Bidmead Lt Wainwright/Signals Officer: Sion Probert

[@lucikate10]

2nd time and just ss enjoyable. Thank you

[@morganlowe3353]

Oh hell naw she didn't flip the script on him! She said her words "I wish you could take his place!" And now she says "you knew it could never be" ? 🙄

[@morganlowe3353]

Oh my God now she says he tried to kill him on purpose when this bitch said her words " well then after TOMORROW we may not have to tell him" if that didn't mean she wanted him dead IDK what does. Then she gonna say it's not your baby, it's all your fault, like she didn't coax him into the sex! Oh this BITCH!

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

What a woman. She avails herself to the Captain, even pressures him, says in the relationship. Then blames him for her husband's death. Not a good prospect for a good wife.

[@feralbluee]

totally agree!! i have no pity whatsoever for her!

[@Paxtonparsnip]

She’s a lot more ghastly than the ghost!

[@WWZenaDo]

Too bad she didn't go down with the plane instead of Rupert. Plus, that accusation she made against Rupert's manhood is an easy one for a woman to falsely make, especially back then. I keep wondering how much money she was going to get from Rupert's estate and possible inheritances.

[@stevie-ray2020]

Bit of a King David move by Desmond!

[@boojay111]

didn't like her, what a manipulative woman, twisted words and stange reasoning, good play though

[@emf49]

Sylvia was a very strange woman. She treated Desmond appallingly; drew him in and then cast him off. 😕

[@WWZenaDo]

Classic power-hungry frustrated malignant narcissist. I pity her son, being raised by that momstrosity.

[@stevie-ray2020]

1:00:00 Technical blooper; Reconnaissance planes at that time were Mosquitoes fitted with cameras which had fixed-focus lens designed only for taking photos at higher altitudes! Nor would they risk losing the film-footage!

[@valcolvera]

In WW2?

[@jeremypearson6852]

There was only one way this story could end.

[@ayferbektas7034]

A gazillion of reasons not to wage war.

[@feralbluee]

i do NOT like her!!! to say the least!!😑

[@hanschristophercharles6981]

Yes, the "lady" Sylvia left a lot to be desired.

[@Su-Jo]

Sylvia is truly a vile and horrible person. It would have been a better story if either she had died or the author made her a more likeable character.

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

In all the radio dramas i've listened to I have never heard such bad acting. Like a Jeeves and Wooster, couldn't take it seriously.

[@michaelberg9656]

Well if you think that was bad I wonder what you will think of most of the others. I thought it was one of the better ones.

[@user-nd5bt7rm7u]

Stevie ray no they won't they had bi andmomo cc and rr pro engines

[@Paxtonparsnip]

A very enjoyable ‘classic’ ghost story! Intriguingly (but completely appropriately located in an eerie RAF war-time training base). Enjoy the play first, then for more on Montrose Ghost(s) try these - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZuxnXdnqKiZotU (pt 1) and kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIu6kqWMrdOAsLs (pt 2)

[@valcolvera]

Not RAF. RFC.

[@SemperFighting]

Not exactly a thumbs down but not a thumbs up either. 👎👍

[@TheBobbymcd]

I get it, you used to be indecisive, but now your not so sure! 😊

[@elainepayne7047]

Thanks Chesterton. They do say every writer puts something of his own experiences into his stories. That is a truism. Did MJ have a jaundiced view of women? Just wondering. Rupert’s Mother is difficult for any woman to find believable. Nevertheless a very good story.

[@stewartlancaster6155]

most men have jaundiced view of women dearie.

[@sarizaabdrahim9307]

Prove that ' women always right'😅😅😅