Between Two Worlds - BBC Drama on 3

Posted by Star Eater on July 14, 2015 at 10:41am

24 Jul 2011 | 90 minutes | 128/44

Sir Oliver Lodge is a strange and forgotten figure from the Edwardian era: an Establishment scientist, the unacknowledged inventor of the wireless before Marconi, a dabbler in psychic phenomena, the friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Albert Einstein. He was also a tragic figure: destined to spend his life searching desperately for a way to communicate, using seances, with his son, Raymond, killed on the Western Front in 1915. Sir Oliver believed he had cracked the thin veil that separates two worlds.

Many of those seances were transcribed and form the heart of this drama written by Adrian Bean and David Hendy. Owen Teale plays Sir Oliver Lodge, Amanda Root plays his wife Mary Lodge.

Sir Oliver Lodge ..... Owen Teale
Mary Lodge ..... Amanda Root
Raymond Lodge ..... Sandy Grierson
Honor Lodge ..... Madeleine Worrall
Alec Lodge ..... Jim Webster-Stewart
Mrs Kennedy, Lawrence, Piper ..... Caroline Strong
Mrs Leonard and 'FEDA' ..... Madeleine Brolly
Myers, Padre and other parts ..... Crawford Logan

Producer: Matt Thompson.

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  • Tim Szeliga July 14, 2015 at 9:15pm

    For one brief, glorious moment, I thought this was a full BBC adaptation of "Between Two Worlds", the old movie with John Garfield onboard a mysterious, slow ship.  The passengers come to realize things are not what they seem.  Edmund Gwenn is the purser (and not Kris Kringle at all, not a bit).

    I'm not sure this slim tale could support revival, but I remember watching it every afternoon for a week on Million Dollar Movie.   Now, I could probably find it in two minutes on YouTube or EBay, but I don't think I will.  The memory is more precious than the reality.

  • Lesa Williams July 14, 2015 at 6:28pm

    Yea !  Looks great - thanks !

  • Star Eater July 14, 2015 at 6:08pm

    Drama on 3 is serious stuff and can be a bit hard going at times,   but usually worth it in the end. 

  • william warren July 14, 2015 at 5:07pm

    Thanks for introducing me to yet another radio drama I missed.

    I look forward to listening to it this weekend.

  • Gayle Crane July 14, 2015 at 4:23pm

    Thanks for this and for your very cool profile update!!

  • Anson (Bob) Roberts July 14, 2015 at 3:32pm

    Thanks!  I have a really crappy 64K encode of this.

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