Wyndham, John (1903 – 1969)

Last Edited: 25-Mar-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.


Date Title Cast Parameters
Publ. 1951 The Day of the Triffids
(Abridged, dramatization)
1. The End Begins
2. A Light in the Night
3. Conference and Confusion
4. Dead End
5. World Narrowing
6. Strategic Withdrawal
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17 episodes
Patrick Barr, Monica Gray, Gabrielle Blunt
Dramatised by Giles Cooper
Produced by Peter Watts
6 files
2:57:55, 40,7 MB, M
BBC R4
20-Jun-1968 to
25-Jul-1968
The Day of the Triffids
Gary Watson, Barbara Shelley, Peter Sallis, Marjorie
Westbury, Freda Dowie, Jan Edwards, Peter Pratt,
Christopher Bidmead, David Brierley, Colin Doran
Theme music by David Cain
Directed By Giles Cooper and Produced by John Powell
6 files
2:41:31, 147 MB, S
BBC WS
09-Sep-2001
23-Sep-2001
The Day of the Triffids
Jamie Glover, Tracy Anne Oberman, Lee Ingleby,
Geoffrey Whitehead, Regenda Carey, Gavin Muir, Helen
Ayres, Jonathan Forbes, Oliver Cookson, Lucy Tricket .
Dramatisation by Lance Dann
Directed by Rosalynd Ward
2 files
1:39:33, 91, MB, S
trailer
9:55, 9296, M

1982
The Day of the Triffids
Read by Robert Powell
4 files
1:59:09, 109 MB, S
Cover to Cover
The Day of the Triffids
Read by Samuel West
8 files
8:56:22, 491 MB, S
Publ. 1951
R7:
18-Feb-2004 through
11-Mar-2004
The Day of the Triffids
(Unabridged reading)

Read by Roger May
Produced by Susan Carson
17 files
8:18:01, 227 MB, S
Publ. 1953 The Kraken Wakes
(abridged, dramatization)
Jonathan Caike, Sarah Todd, David Flishman, Russell Dixon,
William Oxborough, Malcolm Hempton, John Branwell,
Katherine Hunt, James Nickerson, Tom Clarke-Hill,
Leonid Asalkin
Music: Paul Cargill
Dramatised by John Constable
Directed by Susan Roberts
43:02, 40345, S
43:57, 41216, S
clipping in file 1
Publ. 1953
28-May-2016
04-Jun-2016
The Kraken Wakes
(abridged, dramatization)
Paul Higgins, Tamsin Greig, Richard Harrington, Sally Carman,
Abdullah Afzal, Gareth Cassidy, Nicola Sturgeon
adapted by Val McDermid
Performed 'as live' with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer: Prof Alan E Williams
Conductor: Clark Rundell
Director and Producer: Justine Potter
52:41, 49287, S
52:38, 49248, S
CBC 1965
The Kraken Wakes
Sam Paine, Shirley Broderick, Michael Irwin, Derek Walston,
Allan Routon, John White, Ivar Harries, Greg Barnes, Peter
Brockington, Otto Lowy, Roland Hunter
Produced and directed by Norman Euton
5 files
2:23:20, 131 MB, M
Publ. 1953 The Kraken Wakes
(unabridged, reading)
Read by Stephen Moore
Produced by Susan Carson
16 files
7:52:04, 189 MB, S
Publ. 1968
14-Mar-1998
R7:
05-May-2007
Chocky Owen Teal, Cathy Tyson, Sasha Dewan, Holly Grainger,
Catherine Hunt, John Branwell, John Lloyd Fillingham,
William Oxborough, Melissa Syndon, William Haig,
Stephen Perry
Music: Paul Cargill
Dramatised by John Constable
Produced: Melanie Harris
88:59, 83432, S
BBC R2
27-Nov-1968
Chocky
J. Bennett, Eric Thompson, Sheila Grant, Peter Baldwin,
Michael Spice, Rolf Lefebvre, Lockwood West, John Baddeley,
Jack de Manio
Adapted by/Producer: John Tydeman
57:21, 53772, S
Publ.
R7:
26-Sep-2004
The Chrysalids Stephen Garlic, Amanda Murray, Judy Bennett, Spencer
Banks, Philippa Ritchie, Jenny Lee, Catherine Hurlbut,
Sonia Fraser, Peter Baldwin, Elizabeth Ryder, Michael
Spice, Susan Sheridan, Alissa Derwent, Jennifer Pearcey,
Robin Brown, John Rye, William Eadle, Martin Reid,
Jane Knowles
Dramatised by Barbara Clegg
Directed by Michael Bartlett
88:30, 82983, S
29-Jul-2012
05-Aug-2012
The Chrysalids Matthew Beard, Ben Hanley, Isobel Doran, Conrad Nelson,
Jeff Hordley, Fiona Clarke, Verity-May Henry, Emma Cunniffe,
Henry Devas, Robert Pickavance, Sydney Wade, Carla Henry
Adaptor Jane Rogers
Director Nadia Molinari
56:35, 52947, S
56:43, 53066, S
Cover to Cover
The Chrysalids
Read By Robert Powell
5 files
5:49:37, 320 MB, S
Publ.
R7:
11-Nov-2004
12-Nov-2004
15-Nov-2004
The Midwich Cuckoos Charles Kaye, William Gaunt, Mary Wilson, Pauline Yeats,
Jennie Quayle, Rosalind Adams, Gordon deLue, Hugh
Dickson, William Ingram, Garrard Greene, Martin
Randsley, Peter Tottenham, Ronald Baddeley, David Hirt,
Alex Jennings, Edward Cost, Manning Wilson, Nigel
Graham, Catherine Parr, Jill Dickston, Simon Hewitt
Dramatized by William Ingram
Directed by Gordon House
28:02, 26294, S
28:09, 26401, S
27:59, 26243, S
BBC Audio/R4
30-Nov-2003 to
13-Dec-2003
The Midwich Cuckoos
Bill Nighy, Sarah Parish, Clive Merrison, Nicholas R Bailey,
Katherine Tozer, Seamus O'Neill, Lloyd Peters, Christine
Brennan, Malcolm Raeburn, Rebecca Bridle, Casey O'Brien,
Mariella Brown, Rosie Fleeshman, Mat Belshaw
Dramatised by Dan Rebellato
Director Polly Thomas
3 files
1:54:12, 104 MB, S
BBC R4
31-Dec-2017
07-Jan-2018
The Midwich Cuckoos
Tyrone Huggins, Alexandra Mathie, Cherylee Houston,
Annabel Pattison, Hermon Berhane, Jermaine Anderson,
Cassie Campbell, Adam Ali, Terri Donovan, Graeme Hawley,
Reuben Johnson, Charlie Concannon
modernisation by Roy Williams
Co-directors Polly Thomas and Jenny Sealey
Producer/Sound designer Eloise Whitmore
2 files
1:53:59, 104 MB, S
R7:
09-Jan-2005
16-Jan-2005
Survival Read by Nicholas Boulton
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
30:54, 14487, m
31:16, 14663, m
R7:
25-Mar-2007
to
22-Apr-2007
Trouble with Lichen Read by Joanna Tope
Produced by Amy McReadie
27:52, 26142, S
27:34, 25858, S
27:29, 25779, S
27:46, 26034, S
28:06, 26357, S
BBC Home Svc
26-Nov-1962
Trouble with Lichen Hugh Latimer, Janet Burnell, Dorit Welles, Edward Brooks,
Rosalie Crutchley, Shirley Cooklln, Geoffrey Matthews,
Howieson Culkf, Penelope Lee, David Valla, Lewis Stringer,
Arthur Gomez, Vanessa Thornton, Kenneth Hyde, Michael
Spice, Jonathan Scott, Anthony Viccards, Leslie Perrins,
Lee Fox, George Curzon, Michael Deacon, Grizelda Hervey
Adapted by Archie Campbell
Produced By: Archie Campbell
89:00, 20862, M
19-Mar-1989
R7:
10-Apr-2005
Fear on Four – Survival Carlyn Ascoe, Simon Cuff, David March, Eva Stuart,
Michael Graham Cox, Nicolas Courtney, Richard Tate,
Michael Beacon, John Moffat, Martin Dew, Joe Dunlop
Adapted by Pat Booker
Directed by Jerry Jones
29:03, 27243, S
BBC WS
23-Sep-1985
Consider Her Ways

directed by Gordon House
58:34, 27452, s
CBC 1985
Vanishing Point #21
Meteor

28:41, 14779, M
29-May-1988
Future Imperfect #4
The Wheel

read by Robert Powell
14:27, 10168, S

Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
21-Dec-2010 John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth
Dan Rebellato
produced by Nicola Swords
27:53, 26155, S