This weekend on Radio 4 Extra happened to be the All Request Weekend:
Today the station is broadcasting favourite programmes selected by listeners. Among them, Dithering Heights, a black comedy about a Brontë heritage weekend run in a recently closed brothel.
February 17, 07:30, 12:30, 18:30
February 18 02:30
Dithering Heights
**** This programme was suggested by Mandy Poulton as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****
Theatre impresario Jimmy Trotter is down on his luck, so he decides to run courses for lady culture vultures in an old house he's rented on the Yorkshire Moors
But when the wrong party turns up, strange things start to happen.
The wind howls, Mrs Rochester howls, and when he finds that he has lost his trousers, even the Bishop of Skipton howls...
Comedy drama written by Ken Whitmore.
Jimmy Trotter .... Aubrey Woods
Oswald .... Nigel Anthony
PC Fanshaw .... Sam Kelly
Mrs Ablett .... Meg Johnson
Jane .... Joanne Zorian
Dr Malloy .... Bonnie Hurren
Arthur Tattersall .... Ronald Baddiley
Dr Skull .... Ronald Herdman
Mrs Tattersall .... Heather Stoney
Director: Alfred Bradley
First broadcast in Saturday Night Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
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