RADIO PLAYS

“I enjoy working for radio and doing voice-overs because voices are not too easily identified and, if you have the technique, are quick and easy to do. When I first heard my voice on radio, I cringed and wondered why I acted the part the way I did. I’m still critical of the way I work and hope I will always be hard with myself. I believe the day you stop being self-critical is the day you allow your acting talent to slide into the doldrums. I hope I never permit that to happen.”

Extract from an interview with Steven Pacey,
Blake’s 7 Marvel Monthly Magazine, p 21
Issue 3, December 1981


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2014 – 2015 Big Finish Blake’s 7
Classic Audio Adventures
Series 2
Tarrant various Paul Darrow
Michael Keating
Jan Chappell
Steven Pacey
Tom Chadbon
Alistair Lock
2013
October
TBA
Big Finish Blake’s 7 – Liberator Chronicles, Volume 6, Incentive Tarrant Peter Anghelides TBA Steven Pacey
Paul Darrow
Adrian Lukis
TBA
2008 Big Finish The Zygon Who Fell to Earth Trevor Paul Magrs Barnaby Edwards Paul McGann
Sheridan Smith
Steven Pacey
Malcolm Stoddard
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Lynsey Hardwick
Katarina Olsson
2008
8 March
2.30-3.30pm
BBC
Radio 4
Blinded by the Sun Christ-
opher Lathwell
Peter Leslie Wild Alex Jennings
Harriet Walter
Steven Pacey
Jodie Whittaker
John Rowe
Christine Kavanagh
Helen Longworth
Christian Rodska
2008
28 January – 22 February
(20 parts)
BBC
Radio 7
Middlemarch Laidslaw George Eliot
(darmatised by Judith Law)
Rojer Allam
Rachel Atkins
Candida Benson
Ron Cook
Richard Dillane
Nick Fletcher
William Gaunt
Robert Glenister
Tom Goodman-Hill
Martin Hyder
Katherine Igoe
Caroline Martin
Nicholas Murchie
Steven Pacey
30 January 2000 (part 1)
7 February 2000 (part 2)
BBC
Radio 4
Picture of Dorian Gray
Episode 1 (60 minutes)
Episode 2 (60 minutes)
Basil Oscar Wilde
(adapted by
Nick McCarty)
Gordon House Jamie Glover
Ian McDiarmid
Steven Pacey

The aristocrat is living a life of selfish pleasure. But is retribution on the horizon?
2003
23 January
BBC
Radio 4
Beyond the Canvas – 3 The Return of the Prodigal Son Tim Jackson Steven Pacey
Katya Kamotskaya
Michael Poole
Ben Darlington
2001
20 July
BBC
Radio 4
The Poetry Disease Alan McDonald
(poems by Char March)
Claire Grove Steven Pacey
Julia Ford
Ellie Beavan
Jennie Stoller

A council official finds that his prose is being infected with poetry, his reports are coming out in rhyme, and his boss is beginning to notice.
1999
25-31 October
BBC
Radio 4
Grand Hotel Vicki Baum
(dramatised by Malcolm McKee)
Sue Wilson Estelle Kohler
Steven Pacey
David Bradley
Richard Derrington
1999
10 April
BBC
Radio 4
Blake’s 7 – The Syndeton Experiment Tarrant Barry Letts Brian Lighthill Paul Darrow
Michael Keating
Steven Pacey
Jacqueline Pearce
1999
31 May
9:20pm
BBC
Radio 4
Shadow Play Noel Coward
(adapted by Malcolm McKee)
Sue Wilson Julia Watson
Steven Pacey

Vicky and Simon Gayforth’s love has been utterly romantic, but as society intrudes on their idyll, can their marriage withstand the assault? Coward’s surreal musical dream play takes wit and sentiment to the brink of madness.
1998
19 January
BBC
Radio 4
Blake’s 7 – The Sevenfold Crown Tarrant Barry Letts Brian Lighthill Paul Darrow
Jacqueline Pearce
Michael Keating
Steven Pacey
Angela Bruce
Paula Wilcox
Peter Tuddenham
Pip Donaghy
Janet Dale
Christian Rodska
Simon Carter
Kim Durham
Cornelius Garrett
Susan Jeffrey
Katherine Mount
Graham Padden
Rob Swinton
1997
2-9 November
BBC
Radio 4
Childhood’s End Jan Rodricks Arthur C Clarke
(adaapted by Tony Mulholland)
Brian Lighthill Steven Pacey
Philip Voss
Sarah-Jane Holm
Peter Jeffrey
1992
19 December
2:30pm
90 minutes
BBC
Radio 4
Martin Conisby’s Vengeance Martin Conisby Jeffery Farnol Brian Lighthill Steven Pacey
1991
30 November
2:30pm
90 minutes
BBC
Radio 4
Black Bartlemy’s Treasure Martin Conisby Jeffery Farnol
& Michael Bartlett
Brian Lighthill Steven Pacey
Julia Swift
Sean Barrett
1989
17 November – 1 December
BBC
Radio 4
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
(3 parts)
Patrick Hamilton Steven Pacey
Annette Badland
Emily Morgan
John Moffatt
1985
2 November
8:30pm
BBC
Radio 4
A Bumper Year For Dahlias Alan Downer Steven Pacey
Rosalind Adams
1982
13 February
8:30pm
BBC
Radio 4
The Centeneir Alan Downer Steven Pacey
Rosalind Adams
Geoffrey Matthews

Crime thriller set in the Channel Isles
1980
29 November
BBC
Radio 4
A Morbid Taste for Bones Ellis Peters Ray Smith
Steven Pacey
Lolly Cockerell
1979
1 April
VRPCC Anchors Graham Blackett Michael Robbins
Carole Boyd
Steven Pacey
1977
6 October
BBC
Radio 4
A Matter Of Form Peter E.J. Thompson Frances Jeater
Steven Pacey
Ronald Baddiley
1977
7 September
BBC
Radio 4
Boy With Lobster Pot Graham England Jane Knowles
Steven Pacey
Joan Matheson
Elizabeth Bell
1977
19 March
3:05pm
BBC
Radio 4
I’m Sorry, Mrs. Baxter David Campton Kenneth Hadley
Terry Molloy
Steven Pacey
Mark Chapman
1976
22 August
BBC
Radio 4
Spin A Loving Thread Alick Rowe Steven Pacey
Betty Hardy
1976
20 February
BBC
Radio 4
The Truest Wisdom A.A. Beeching Barry Foster
Penelope Lee
Steven Pacey
1976
17 January
3:05pm
BBC
Radio 4
Doors Closing Peter Russell Steven Pacey
Norma Ronald
Nicholas Dillane



Table compiled with many thanks to Roger Bickerton and the tireless efforts of the Radio Drama/Plays Archivist’s Group. The BBC did not keep copies of many radio plays, especially prior to 2000. If you have private copies of radio plays sitting in a attic somewhere, you may be able to help rescue plays that have been lost forever!


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