Private lives by Noel Coward

Saturday-Night Theatre: West End Winners:
Private Lives
Sat 20th Dec 1975, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Noel Coward, adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe

A comedy of manners in three acts, it concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.

Music played and improvised by:….William Davies
Producer:…..Ian Cotterell

Elyot Chase:…..Paul Scofield
Amanda Prynne:…..Patricia Routledge
Sibyl Chase:…..Miriam Margolyes
Victor Prynne:…..John Rye
Louise:……Carole Boyd

Noel Coward wrote that Private Lives was 'conceived in Tokyo, written in Shanghai, and produced in London in September 1930.' The author reported that 'a gratifying number of respectable people queued up at the box office.' They have been doing so ever since.