Trouble at the Works (1960)

Channel	BBC Home Service
Broadcast Date	14 March 1960
Broadcast time	20:00:00
Length (minutes)
Series	Unknown
Episode
Description	Trouble at the Works was broadcast as part of the Monday Night at Home programme between 8.00 and 9.00 pm on 14 March 1960. The sketch was broadcast as the seventh item of that evening's broadcast, at around 8:20 pm. It was preceded by a performance of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C major, and followed by Hayden Minuet from The Faithful Shepherd. Richard Hurndall presented the sketch in this manner: ''Take the next few seconds (a present from Monday Night at Home) to consider what job you would least like doing. There's a wide range. Clerks don't like lathes; engineers won't cook. Comperes dislike picks and shovels; artists hate ledgers. Very well, now, children, all slowly relax. Now consider a job you do like, a job you just love doing. Get fed up a bit now and again, don't you?' The two characters were played by Tony Tanner and Hugh Manning, but the Radio Times does not specifiy who took which role. We have entered presumed casting here, as it is very clear from the roles that these actors were usually cast in which way round it would have been for these roles. A note on the script: the work here is a dramatic stage sketch that is being relayed on radio. We are unaware of any differences in dialogue between the broadcast text and the published text of the sketch, though the listing gave the title 'Trouble at the Works'.
Language	English

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Radio Times, 11 March 1960, p. 30

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