The only drama I love: "Betrayal" by Harold Pinter (audio) - Saturday Drama on BBC Radio 4 (2012)

[@halliecooper7556]

So glad you have this here!!! They took it down off the bbc and my mom and I freaked out. Amazing. Perfection.

[@EVZYL]

The film version with Jeremy Irons, Patricia Hodges and Ben Kingsley is one of my all time favourites. Thanks for this radio version, brings back memories!

[@sheilasimey2383]

Oh. so good, the play the actors, a delicious listen, no to be forgotten....what drama is about.

[@danjsy]

I'd never listened to Pinter before, lots to think about. KZbin plays are providing me with a belated dramatic education ! Thanks for the upload.

[@manfromnocky]

Pinter is fantastic. The finest craftsman of words in the English language in my humble opinion. I recommend the 1983 movie of this play this here on YT.

[@corvuscorone7735]

Wonderful, thank you so much for uploading!

[@petershimman5320]

The Jeremy Irons film is one of my very favourites but the odd thing is it doesn’t seem to be available on DVD or any streaming channels. I had an old VHS but who has a player for those now? I found someone had posted the entire film on KZbin and watched it recently. What a treat!

[@maisiesummerfield265]

Brilliant - thanks for putting this on line and so wonderful to hear recognition of the sixth vowel 'h'.

[@lm4646]

Amazing play. So many layers of betrayal! Jerry to Richard, Jerry to Judith, Judith to Jerry (we assume), Emma to Richard, Emma to Jerry (she's the biggest betrayer, surely?), Richard to Jerry, Emma to Judith. The punch at the beginning was hard-hitting: Emma will leave Richard but not for Jerry, perhaps for Casey.

[@ParulAgnihotri]

there was no betrayal from Judith to Jerry non which was implied.

[@ParulAgnihotri]

there was betrayal from Richard to Emma.

[@lm4646]

@@ParulAgnihotri Judith had another lover?

[@ParulAgnihotri]

@@lm4646 no she did not.

[@lm4646]

@@ParulAgnihotriOk thanks for the clarification!

[@largeadam]

Timeless Pinter. Incredible play. Beautifully nuanced performances.

[@mathonamoore123]

Hello, thank you for uploading this drama. Greetings from Ireland on Tuesday, the 11th of October 2022 @6.25 pm. 🧡🇮🇪💚

[@TedaR]

Hello dears, hope all is well. Do take care. Cheers & blessings yall! From your old theater of the mind companion near Nashville. God keep us all! ☑️💯🙏🏼✝️🕊️🥰

[@robynhenry2607]

I love him!!!🥰🥰🥰

[@caliqdeg]

Andrew Scott, with that incredibly sexy voice,...He deserves to be handed a Grammy award every time he talks.

[@r4b32t11]

Caly QdeG hes very attractive in person too 🤪

[@geraldineorman3564]

Caly QdeG i thought it was Freddie Fox of White House Farm.

[@lm4646]

The most perfect actor known to man.

[@nogo4022]

The wonderful Andrew Scott is a much-lauded 40something Irish actor. For Brit-loving Yanks, he’s been the super baddie in Cumberbatch’s Sherlock and TV’s Black Mirror & Fleabag. England turns out these talented artists by the bunch, much to American audiences’ delight…& yes, he IS sexy!

[@audiactiva]

Listening it for the first time, it’s brilliant! I always loved radio drama, and I wonder if this audio was aired exactly how we listen here. There are big pauses between scenes and rough cuts at the end and the beginning of each one… I find it a peculiar election for the sound design, being the rest soooo well recorded, that you can perfectly hear when the actors turn their head or touch one another. Anyway. Do you know if this was originally recorded as a radio drama or maybe its the audio of a tv show? Tails of music are audible and I miss the year being announced before every scene. Thanks for sharing. It’s been a grat pleasure hearing it!!! 🤩🤩🤩

[@RalphDratman]

One of my very favorite plays. But I have not seen it on the stage. I have only seen the Ben Kingsley Patricia Hodge Jeremy Irons film of it, many years ago, saw it twice I think. I was shocked and moved by it.

[@sandrastone7019]

On KZbin.

[@annasoloweszyk5224]

I would love to see this on video.

[@tonystarkdeservedbetter]

✨ *his voice* ✨

[@2msvalkyrie529]

He sounds like a petulant 12 year old . Is he supposed to be a grown up .?

[@nadaklen3254]

Can anyone tell me about the beautiful music in this play?

[@tonystarkdeservedbetter]

1hr 10mins just isn't enough 😔

[@thirdreichduce]

I have an exam in 24 hours about this book & the Great Gatsby 😐

[@amorsmuts]

Tuks student by any chance?😂because same

[@yourself4382]

we’re all here together lol

[@JulieannsSerenity]

Who’s the guy sitting in the chair? I don’t see a reference to his name.

[@p-isforpoetry]

He is Andrew Scott/Jerry.

[@wolfgangwagner2504]

I was 28 then and I guess, talented handsome , just before my arse became huge in the West End , id put it about you know , my arse I mean , id have it out ,remember .

[@lm4646]

@@p-isforpoetry The most perfect actor known to man.

[@lm4646]

@@wolfgangwagner2504Sorry, what?

[@lm4646]

@AMT Yes, and no. 😄

[@harrybauld96]

who are these actors?

[@p-isforpoetry]

Hi, Olivia Colman played Emma and Andrew Scott was Jerry.

[@SuchStuffStephen]

Andrew Scott is hot property right now, beloved by thousands as a racy cleric but I loved him as the badass baddy in Sherlock a few years ago.

[@siamesecat4]

Olivia Coleman is so wonderful in this. I prefer this version to the film.

[@annalo8351]

1:05:16

[@tanhuang_nua]

50:50 / p.52

[@blueclover3417]

38:17

[@luizalacaille9155]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqG5oJyYacpql9E the best part for me

[@2msvalkyrie529]

See : The Emperor's New Clothes. ( H C Anderson ) On the other hand you have to admire Pinter for managing to pass off this sort of drivel as " Drama " for so many years.

[@deborahdavies1530]

Sorry to disagree. I feel that way about modern art but this drama is engrossing. Watched the film over and over. Dialogue deceptively simple but somehow always makes me laugh. Structure so clever, with one betrayal after another being uncovered. Perfect ending. Give the film a try!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

@deborahdavies1330 Hmm.....I tried it again but almost lost the Will to Live. As the great P T BARNUM remarked : there never has been and never will be a shortage of Rubes....I'm off to listen to Wilde / Shaw / Sheridan ...even the Mousetrap would be preferable. !!

[@manfromnocky]

You wrote the same sort of comment on No Mans Land here on YT didn't you. About Emperors New Clothes? No, Im sorry but Pinter was definitely not a charlatan. Can you really not see the dialogue in this play is some of the finest drama in the English language? I admit No Man's Land also confuses me somewhat, but how you can not see the uniqueness and beauty of this writing and his totally original style and the craftmanship of words saddens me. It's your loss my friend I assure you. Also why seek out Pinter plays and watch them and then comment that they are shit?

[@michael_sharples]

The guy playing Jerry has no charisma or feeling to his delivery. He sounds permanently drunk!

[@lm4646]

😂

[@robynhenry2607]

How dare you !!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

I'm not a great fan of David Mamet but compared to THIS he is Shakespeare !!

[@TraceTaylor]

HAROLD PINTER DUDE!! !!!!!!🤣🎭

[@jimnewcombe7584]

Her knows who it is, ​@@TraceTaylor