Daughters In Law - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Henry Cecil

Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow 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. 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. Since 1998, the main weekly play on the station has been The Saturday Play, a daytime programme that runs for 60-90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back Saturday Night Theatre, but in the context of BBC budget cuts, that have included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when Saturday Night Theatre was abolished), any return looks unlikely.

[@MaryPerry-s1g]

Many thanks for sharing this wonderful& witty play; great plot and actors, a real GEM! 👏👏👏

[@catherinedavies3727]

Brilliant! Highly recommended!

[@projectalice8119]

Very amusing play!! Thank you! 😊

[@davelawday6609]

🤣😂🤣😁 yet another brilliant drama and highly recommended... thanks for sharing.really appreciated 😂☺️👍👍👍

[@lindabrown253]

Loving this play

[@mrscpc1918]

Really enjoyed this. So intriguing and funny. Thankyou very much

[@christinethornhill]

Just had to pause for a moment to say what a treat this one is , I’m having great fun listening to it , many thanks for sharing a real gem ❤️ 👌🏼

[@prasadrao4594]

Excellent Please present plays of other works of HENRY CECIL.

[@tidbitsofmotivation1403]

Wonderful and funny...enjoyed it....thank you 😊

[@hanschristophercharles6981]

Extremely enjoyable!! Very very funny indeed!

[@robertdouglassim7715]

A wonderful piece of surreal satire.

[@paddymacmurphy8112]

That was class🏆 loved it👍

[@Gillby47]

This was really one to enjoy.

[@louisbrugnoni1291]

Clever and drew me in nicely!

[@euniceprobert9060]

That was very funny, loved it!

[@willowwobble]

Entertaining, good fun.

[@ronin472100]

You know...I am quite certain that a scenario like this has been played out in Court before...Truly

[@lyndamcardle4123]

Lovely vignette..these really did ought to be re-broadcast on Radio 4 Extra....someone ought to sort out the legalities.

[@hanneshuette]

by Henry Cecil adapted as a play for radio by the author from his novel of the same name. with Cecil Parker and Naunton Wayne Major Claude Buttonstep has two sons who fall in love with a Judge's attractive twin daughters. one of whom is a barrister and the other a solicitor. But Major Buttonstep, normally mild, kindly, rural squire, has a pathological aversion to lawyers ... Other parts played by members of the cast Produced by H. B. FORTUIN Broadcast on September 2. 1961

[@84CORVETTEBILL]

Thx for the synopsis! Cheers.

[@sailorsquatandhisseaman]

Thank you!!! ❤️🙏🏽☮️

[@Bhakti-rider]

This is splendid! Delicious! I enjoyed this almost as much as "A Box of Chocolates."

[@dollhousedelight8553]

😁😁

[@veeganboy]

That was fun.

[@jesseonfire1562]

Our family must on sat night as a small boy I can remember a lovely story bidden to the feast by Jack jones

[@ayferbektas7034]

"Certainly." "Not so certainly." 🤣🤣🤣

[@jwsuicides8095]

Great to hear Naunton Wayne!. Plus a very young Gudrun Ure.

[@TedaR]

Fun to hear this again. Thank you CR

[@Helen-xy9qj]

Bravo!

[@stevie-ray2020]

Amusing, although I did suspect the 'truth' half-way through!

[@crochetedlace2838]

So cute !! Thanks

[@debramcfadden2701]

Great fun

[@jordankennedy8421]

Love so cute ❤

[@rosainecalmeyer4428]

It would be of greater help if you added a short descri

[@mckavitt13]

Sounds like Peter Coke!

[@clivejones1152]

Delightful legal drama from Henry Cecil rather spoilt by prolonged periods of interference.

[@daveevans2696]

Bloody ads!!😡😡

[@ChestertonRadio]

Sorry. Settings were wrong. It's fixed now. Thanks for listening

[@dl18336]

Very silly show. Some small audio issues.

[@patriciaclark6171]

Found mr.trottter quite irritating and play was predictable from moment mower was borrowed.