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
| FIRST BROAD CAST |
PROD UCER |
TITLE | CHAR ACTER |
WRITER | DIRECTOR | ENTIRE CAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 1985 2 November 8:30pm |
BBC Radio 4 |
A Bumper Year For Dahlias | Alan Downer | Steven Pacey Rosalind Adams |
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| 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 |
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| 1980 29 November |
BBC Radio 4 |
A Morbid Taste for Bones | Ellis Peters | Ray Smith Steven Pacey Lolly Cockerell |
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| 1979 1 April |
VRPCC | Anchors | Graham Blackett | Michael Robbins Carole Boyd Steven Pacey |
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| 1977 6 October |
BBC Radio 4 |
A Matter Of Form | Peter E.J. Thompson | Frances Jeater Steven Pacey Ronald Baddiley |
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| 1977 7 September |
BBC Radio 4 |
Boy With Lobster Pot | Graham England | Jane Knowles Steven Pacey Joan Matheson Elizabeth Bell |
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| 1977 19 March 3:05pm |
BBC Radio 4 |
I’m Sorry, Mrs. Baxter | David Campton | Kenneth Hadley Terry Molloy Steven Pacey Mark Chapman |
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| 1976 22 August |
BBC Radio 4 |
Spin A Loving Thread | Alick Rowe | Steven Pacey Betty Hardy |
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| 1976 20 February |
BBC Radio 4 |
The Truest Wisdom | A.A. Beeching | Barry Foster Penelope Lee Steven Pacey |
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| 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!
