Round the Bend - BBC Saturday Night Theatre - Nevil Shute

[@royweblin9561]

Thank you for providing us all with the service that the BBC once did. What quality and atmosphere. Entertainment rather than re-education.

[@johnhannay16]

Couldn't agree more.

[@berylfairchild591]

British play

[@FlintDB]

BBC radio 4 still Present excellent dramatisations of books

[@marshy1950]

Excellent play!! 71 years old and can still be heard!

[@johnhannay16]

Wonderful how profound subjects could be examined in a sober and interesting way. A serious book can be brought to like with a superb cast. What a break from the shallow 'issues' based drama we have to endure now.

[@jameshead9119]

This is the BBC at its best and wish still was

[@camelia9802]

A very good play indeed. Thanks for uploading.

[@pv175]

A wonderful and relaxing story. Thank you.

[@2GINGERPAIR]

I was privileged to find this drama. So many thanks x

[@lynnrobinson8885]

I feel the same! It is writing at its best - moving and uplifting.

[@lesconn1240]

Very well done by the BBC to condense the book into 90 minutes of radio, although Connie Shaklin didn't sound like that in my head when I read it first 40 odd years ago. Thank you for uploading it.

[@johnbunyan5834]

Thank you for posting this. An excellent production of this superb novel. Nevil Shute wrote beautifully plotted stories, compared with so many shallow shoot-em-ups that are churned out today.

[@joycarmichael1476]

I am so glad I heard this. Thank you for a most wonderful production.

[@pilgrim....]

Superb high quality product. Really enjoyed listening not just the tale itself but listening to something of historical importance. The language was fascinating after being spoon fed pre digested content from mainstream media, Definitely for adults only. Our 'Hero ?' Will protect his employees from racial slurs but is happy to grossly underpay them ? I think most of us long for better times but those Romans etc. Do not want anyone rocking the boat. Love this. Thank you all responsible thank you.

[@AliceWatts-d3v]

Thing’s don’t change do they, people still fear anything different to themselves, rather than respecting different ways of being 😊

[@damarekonayaro5781]

Thanks a lot for uploading this. I have enjoyed this before and again just now. Keep up the good work !

[@yutub6928]

What a beautiful play. I am not religious at all but this is really soul lifting stuff. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@marybowers2985]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@rodpettet2819]

Nice story, good listening.

[@jordsupp]

A play for today. Really enjoyable.

[@FlintDB]

Fantastic

[@martinblunden4689]

Cheers for these posts mdear,as others have said,the beeb at its best mdear 😁

[@johnlawrence2757]

So Stanley Kubrick got the idea of using Thus Spoke Zarathustra from Betty!

[@timwoods3173]

Thank you

[@DavidVerrells]

Good work

[@daftirishmarej1827]

The thought of buying a plane on HP! 😄😁

[@Ray-tk7ei]

Brilliant

[@jlb9368]

This has the same message as Karma Yoga, the path of action.

[@ecamp6360]

Someone should re-issue this novel as "The Fifth Buddha." Would be a great film with all these classic old planes.

[@ruthlenehjorth1097]

Great and sad

[@Pluscelamemechose]

It was good till the last sentence. I thought it was a cop out. Contrary to the whole idea.

[@janetwayman9459]

Exactly! The dying man expressed 2 wishes: 1) that his friend and his sister get married and 2) his followers not deify him after he's gone. So what do the 2 people who claim to care about him the most decide to do? Exactly the opposite.

[@daftirishmarej1827]

A true Nevil Shute ending

[@tonymarshall1452]

It felt like reading a Jehovah's witness pamphlet for an hour and a half.

[@ecamp6360]

The endings on these plays is often too facile. This should have ended as in the novel, with talk of the Gospels according to...

[@sandrabbitlane]

Apt title.

[@abdsaleh5378]

Very shallow ..