Murder in Melbourne - BBC Saturday Night Theater - Dulcie Gray

Dulcie Winifred Catherine Denison,known professionally as Dulcie Gray, was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist.
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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.
Originally Broadcast 2/18/1961
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[@therunningjackal]

I love audio drama. The BBC were masters of this genre.

[@therunningjackal]

Rolf Harris was credited in this episode...

[@simonmcgrath4112]

Fantastic play very very good and stick with it guys n girls u won't be disappointed!!

[@sherrihinton2885]

What a terrific play. I loved it. Thank you. 3:30 am in Phoenix, Arizona.

[@hanschristophercharles6981]

I was born in Melbourne. I'm currently living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This program was particularly enjoyable for me. Sort of a touch of home. Lol! 😄 I was 5 when this was first broadcast.😆😄

[@patriciallamas2050]

Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻🤗 This was great! It reminded me so much of the Paul Temple series (by Francis Durbridge) ✨🥰

[@ellenmendoza7246]

I feel like I've gone back to being a child. I'm listening to the radio 4 at home . Beautiful spoken

[@therunningjackal]

Ellen Mendoza I grew up in London in the ‘51’s. Listen to the radio.

[@janjones9487]

It's taking me back to my childhood also.

[@janegriffiths7733]

back to the 50s listening with my Nana, when the summers were hot and Christmas was white, what memories, Thanks for posting so appreciated by many people

[@childoftheuniverse2644]

Same for me. 🍀🌸🌈

[@bazzit1]

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[@judikingsman6132]

I love it when foreigners, who tell us they've been here, say Mell Born when we call it Melbin.

[@cruisepaige]

Imagine people having accents!! 🙄

[@stevec2993]

The guy had supposedly lived most of his life in Oz yet he says Melborn

[@anneconway1717]

Haha that’s funny (I’m English so pronounce it all wrong!) but we find it funny when visitors try and pronounce Leicestershire 😅

[@annipetratos9401]

Thankyou...I'm loving these radio dramas..we listened to radio..afternoon theatre ...when I was a child. The acting and ambience are perfect. Can't say I think much of the hero as a person...but enjoyable ...thankyou

[@Liam-pl7rx]

Tremendous play and very well acted, I wish there were more of these wonderful presentations as I am sure there are I have just not found many of this quality. Regards, Liam

[@canuckyukyuk9164]

Try a page called FINEST MUSIC DRAMA. I really like the "Maigret" series. I think there are about 25 of them. Also "Paul Temple". There are others as well. Enjoy.

[@conniemoney4459]

This was GREAT

[@ayferbektas7034]

Thank you for uploading. 👍 Funny thing - I have seen this in so many comments sections of different radio dramas. The comments start out negatively and end up in praise of the drama. 😂🤔

[@hilarywade687]

I saw Dulcie Gray on stage with Michael Denison in An Ideal Husband. A great entertainer.

[@vicsaunders9710]

Yet again, many thanks 👏🇬🇧

[@rodpettet2819]

I found this enjoyable but so many characters meant I was forced to go back a few times to get them sorted.

[@eddiemunster2196]

Hello Chesterton I just left the theater on Melbourne place it was a bit brutal but the play [ leave it to the hangman ] the players did such a wonderful job on stage. I do think you should stop by that Playhouse, oh get tickets ahead of time because they do sell out. Make sure you take the time to see that play. You will find it quite enjoyable. Well it's getting a bit late and I have to get to my seat in the center of the theater. Maybe we can have a tea at intermission, cheers chesterton........

[@colinglass1342]

With so many nonsense distractions about now days its good to settle down and get lost in real 👍good stories and audio dramas

[@michealburnettis2]

Tell your friends Turn off the telephone Close the laptop! Here is what you know to be good!! 🤔

[@aprilblossom9268]

Haha so true! Sometimes the old ways are the best...😊

[@DaveATKIN]

I don't mind listening to a good drama twice but not simultaneously..

[@lindapreater840]

Enjoyed this play

[@arliefor-real9749]

Another great murder mystery!!

[@carmenpohl6061]

Very good story.

[@angelsone-five7912]

Complicated but enjoyable.

[@paulinefriar6916]

Great. Thank you

[@bayadere8308]

Cripes! File under 'preposterous'. The denouement seemed, necessarily, as long as the play. Yet somehow it just about holds you 'til the end.

[@lorrainemarshall4183]

Those subtitles are hilarious. Peaka knees.

[@indopleaser]

Classic whodunit murder mystery, more please!

[@joannavitoroullis6510]

Very good

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

Another enjoyable yarn, though a bit confusing at times

[@applesandpears9756]

Oooo, Mary Wimbush.... yes!

[@michealburnettis5]

Yes, pretty good, indeed 😊

[@aprilblossom9268]

Listening in 2024 so that must be gone..

[@jordansupport1923]

"...but, of course, there was no gay, mad scene in Melbourne". Hahah, not in August 2020 there isn't.

[@janerichman3100]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@lucylincoln3285]

🤣😆🤣😆🤣 Bless your heart!💖

[@magsmaher]

The plot is difficult to follow so unless you have a photographic memory write down all the names and who’s who otherwise you’re bound to get lost! That said an enjoyable play.

[@jacqui7672]

I don't stand a chance in that case. Thank you for the warning ⚠️

[@guyhadsell3976]

@@jacqui7672 but WAIT! I’ve heard it and loved it. I’m just saying that there are many different tastes. Take a dive, and exit if you like. ❤️🙏🏽☮️

[@patriciallamas2050]

@@jacqui7672 It's an entertaining story, it reminds me of the Paul Temple series. I'd give it a go, if I were you ✨😎

[@sarahatkin366]

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[@adamarlem9863]

Not here to remember all the detail,just the flow+ guess.

[@lucylincoln3285]

Murder plot aside...this is so friggin wholesome.

[@janetwayman9459]

I was a bit confused however by how the main character, all broken up by the death of his fiancee, starts canoodling with Valerie RIGHT UNDER HER HUSBAND'S NOSE .

[@cousinsister69]

@@janetwayman9459 He hadn't seen her for 4 months. I believe canoodling can be comforting. Hand holding, snuggling in a car + a kiss is sweet + kind. From Oz 👇💜🙃

[@colinglass7929]

Thank you for this download Im a Huge fan of all These radio dramas .A rather elegant stylish production love this dramas love the characters in this drama .Good narration It needs a proper synopsis or perhaps no spoilers. Me being a fan of Sherlock Holmes but I did not get this drama at first listen. I got lost in the plot and the characters. There was alot to think about here a bit of a mess at first listen. Confusing for me couldn't figure out this storey line.The case involved a sort of advanced detective work above average plot.a

[@marymary5494]

👌💕

[@judikingsman6132]

Wallaby Rd ... Oh cringe 😂

[@judikingsman6132]

And I used to live in Bris Bane 😮🤔 😂

[@johnking7685]

Remarkable that the word "queer" is used several times in this play broadcast Feb. 1961 on the respectable middle-class BBC Home Service apparently without any problem. In the same year, the film "Victim" premiered in August carrying an X certificate (adults only) & the scriptwriters had a massive battle with the censorship board over the use of the word "queer".The censors gave in but there was a massive controversy not least because of the word. The censors wanted "deviant" instead. There are no explicit sex scenes in the film so the X certificate was only because of the subject matter....and that word.(see Wikipedia ).

[@simonmcgrath4112]

U must remember the words gay and queer had totally different meanings in the 60's

[@VLind-uk6mb]

That's right. They meant "jolly" or "happy" and "odd" or "unusual" respectively. The latter was used with sexual reference by then, though not exclusively and was still understood in context just to mean "odd." The former was not co-opted till later. Titles like "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" had nothing to do with sex, any more than did the volume of biography of Robert Burns (a celebrated heterosexual) called "The Wonder of All the Gay World."

[@allisonschempf2230]

It depended on the context and intended meaning at the time.

[@hermajesty52]

too convoluted although I enjoyed the ambience

[@aussieagle]

Too complicated

[@TheMaggieDress1]

BG noise irritating

[@bobbydorou8438]

An interesting drama but in my opinion a better actress than dramatist.

[@nigeloakes4957]

Evidently lots of men wiggling their bottoms and mincing about in Australia. Not sure what to do with that information. Great yarn.

[@bmf1949]

Found the plot hard to follow...

[@gailmarks3472]

Cant stand the hissing sound in the background, I kept thinking if left the hose on and had to stop listening.

[@angelpet213]

Hi I didn't hear any hissing in the background maybe the speaker's you have were not working right

[@ellenmendoza7246]

There is a little hissing but I can remember old radio with nobbs. You be playing with them for ages back and forth slowly. so the hiss I fond nostalgic

[@bethnorris1361]

@@ellenmendoza7246 agreed!

[@janetmackinnon3411]

I found this turgid,uninteresting, and over-acted. But others have enjoyed it. There's room for many opinions....

[@dianepeck7500]

I found it a bit confusing to listen to.

[@stephenridley1153]

Preposterous plot 🤪

[@Gillby47]

What a ridiculous play,too many holes to pick .Too many "suddenly ".

[@colinglass7929]

I got a bit lost in this drama didn't quite get it the first time need a proper synopsis got a bit confused

[@douglasmckain4373]

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[@jimmaccormaic6890]

What absolutely dreadful rubbish! Idiotic plot and dreadful acting, especially from the main character who has only two tones of voice: angry or soulful. The plot and the writing are childish in the extreme and so derivative it comes across as a pale imitation of Dashiel Hammett.

[@lorrainemarshall4183]

Should've read the subtitles. Hilarious. I pity deaf people reading them.

[@davidhull1481]

Meh.

[@martinpolach6171]

One of the silliest, disjointed, absurd play I have ever waisted time on. Do NOT recommend!

[@84CORVETTEBILL]

Huh? I loved it! 😂

[@johnrowell4967]

waisted?

[@waynemoore1708]

Not my cup of tea this one each to there own. I lost the will to Live after 15mins.

[@nevaschalit6434]

Awful! Couldn't finish it!