Sunday-Night Play Season 2, Episode 20: A Reason for Staying

The Chopping Block

Looking for Garrow

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.

The Wind and the Sun

The Squeeze

Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.

The Nightwalkers

The Assassins

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

The Song of a March Hare

A Time to Fight

Tuppence in the Gods

Nearer to Heaven

Venus Brown

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

A Woman Comes Home

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

Off Centre

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

A Kind of Strength

The Final Result

The Intervener

An Inspector Calls

The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.

The Mather Story

Old Mick Mack

The Wrong Side of the Park

Fury in Petticoats

Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

Charley's Aunt

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

Scene of the Accident

Marriage Lines

Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

Home at Seven

Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.

That Lady

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

Listen James

Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.

Wet Fish

The Hasty Heart

It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.