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SNT 1964-02-01 Requiem for a Wren (Nevil Shute).txt
Nevil Shute - Requiem for a Wren
BBC Home Service: Saturday Night Theatre
Broadcast: Saturday 1st February 1964
The year is 1954. Alan Duncan is a recently qualified lawyer returning to Coombargana, his parent's sheep farming station in the
Western District of Australia. Alan had studied as a Rhodes Scholar after the end of World War II in which he fought as a pilot, before
being injured in action and losing both feet in an air crash. His arrival home, only his second visit since the war ended, is marred by the
apparent suicide of his parent's housekeeper, a young English woman called Jessie Proctor.
Duncan realises that this troubled woman must have left her personal papers hidden somewhere in case of her suicide attempt not
being successful. He searches the house and happens upon a small suitcase of letters, diaries and the woman's passport. As he tries
to piece this woman's story together to see what brought her to this tragic end, Alan is appalled to learn that the woman is, in fact, Janet
began in England before D-Day. As the invasion fleet masses, Janet Prentice, a forthright yet deeply sensitive Leading Wren, meets
two young Australians - a commando sergeant and his elder brother - a much-decorated pilot.
The events of those crowded days, and their aftermath, provide a deeply moving story of friendship and enduring love which brings to
a vivid reality the silent tensions of everyday life in England before D-Day.
Adapted by Stephen Grenfell from Nevil Shute's 1955 novel, "Requiem for a Wren".
With Anna Massey [Janet Prentice], Trader Faulkner [Alan Duncan], Brenda Dunrich [Mrs. Duncan], Russell Napier [Colonel Duncan],
Molly Rankin [Annie, the Maid], John Baddeley [Bill Duncan], Diana Olsson [Vila], Ronald Courage? [Lt. Commander Cartwright],
Kenneth Hyde [Admiral], Peter Pratt [First Sea Lord], Michael Goldie [Petty Officer Waters], Alan Haines [Sub-Lt. Creggie], Frederick
Treves [Captain Gibson], Garard Green [Flight Lt. Rigby], Andrew Sachs [Sergeant Albert Finch], Margaret Wolfit [Katherine Collins],
Gabriel Woolf [Lt. Parks], and Nicolette Barnard [Clerk].
Other parts were played by members of the BBC Repatory Drama Company
Produced by Betty Davies.
Size: 51,595 kb kbps: 80 kHz: 44 Time: 1 hr. 28 min. 2 sec. (Mono)
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