The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock (BBC Radio, 1993)
Broadcast Details
- BBC Radio 3
- date: 14/Mar/1993[1]
- length: approx 2 hours
Synopsis
The Master of Suspense is at the height of his powers. He toils in his mind’s eye to define a dreamlike vision of a dark-clad woman walking away from him. Where is she? On a deserted ship? In a street? And who is she? All he can hear are the first letters of her name: "M-a..." As again and again he revisits this image in his inner world, and begins the creative struggle to articulate it in story terms, the woman leads him to a graveyard, up a staircase to a scene of murder, into an open grave itself...
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Credits
- Written by David Rudkin
- Sound by Mark Dekker
- Music by Bernard Herrmann
- Directed at Pebble Mill by Phillip Martin
Cast
- Richard Griffiths - Alfred Hitchcock
- Judy Bennett - Hitchcock as a boy
- Kate Binchy - Mother
- Michael Fitzgerald - Camera
- Steve Nallon - Many Voices
- Gillian Goodman - Alma
- Frank Grimes - Priest
- Dominic Taylor - LA Lawyer
- Clark Peters - Screenwriter
Notes
- Rudkin's radio play was later adapted for the theatre as "The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock".
