Keith Waterhouse : BBC Radio Drama Collection

Keith Spencer Waterhouse was a British novelist, newspaper columnist and the writer of many films and television series. His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s; Budgie; Worzel Gummidge; and Andy Capp (an adaptation of the comic strip).

Collected here are BBC Radio presentations of four Waterhouse stories:

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 00:00
A recreation of a time in London when poets, painters, artists and writers (Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Elizabeth Smart) lived alongside the local Low Life of No Knickers Joyce and Sid the Swimmer, inhabiting the clubs and pubs of Dean Street. A dying Soho, seen through the eyes of Jeffrey Bernard, the notorious columnist of The Spectator - plain-speaking drinker, gambler, wit and raconteur. With frequent, very strong language.
Alongside John Hurt in the lead role, the cast includes Nichola McAuliffe, Jeff Rawle, Amelia Bullmore and Miles Jupp.
Written by Keith Waterhouse
Producer: Celia de Wolff
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015

Mr and Mrs Nobody 1:27:03
A delightful diary account which reveals the day-to-day activities of one Charles Pooter, a London clerk, and his long-suffering wife Carrie.
Based on George and Weedon Grossmith's 19th Century comic masterpiece 'The Diary of a Nobody'.
Carrie Pooter ...... Judi Dench
Charles Pooter ...... Michael Williams
Written by Keith Waterhouse
Incidental music composed by Colin Sell.
Directed by Gordon House
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in May 1990

Albert and the Liner 2:25:06
A boy is convinced a model of the Queen Mary is coming his way for Christmas.
Written by Keith Waterhouse
Read by Malcolm Hebden
Producer: Gillian Hush
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015

Billy Liar 2:39:26
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Billy Fisher .... Tom Courtenay
Liz .... Julie Christie
Geoffrey Fisher .... Wilfred Pickles
Alice Fisher .... Mona Washbourne
Arthur Crabtree .... Rodney Bewes
Duxbury .... Finlay Currie
Rita .... Gwendolyn Watts
Barbara .... Helen Fraser
Emanuel Shadrack .... Leonard Rossiter
Stamp .... George Innes
Grandma Florence .... Ethel Griffies
Danny Boon .... Leslie Randall
Written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
Directed by John Schlesinger
Edited for radio by Roger Cherrill
First broadcast on BBC World Service in 1964.

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