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292:, later renowned for large-scale musicals. The Dales play was written by Charles Henry, who was soon discovered to be the versatile and experienced Charles Simon. Later dates in the tour were cancelled because the audience did not seem to be there. "It would have been different if Jessie had done the tour" Charles Simon remarked a few months later (to actor Roger Sansom, with whom he was in a broadcast). He was, however, the only member of the radio cast to make the transition. 189:. And now, after fifteen years in the role she had created, the BBC had summarily fired her partly because of her drinking habits, and partly because it was felt that the role, and also the entire programme, was in need of a facelift. Three months later, at the age of fifty-seven, she died. Her friends believed she never recovered from the shock and distress of her summary dismissal by the BBC. In the last weeks of her life she worked as a demonstrator at the 135:), Sally's husband. It was a brave move to feature a gay man, especially when homosexuality was still illegal in the United Kingdom. Clearly the programme's makers considered the time was right for the subject to be featured. Richard Fulton, however, was an odd character to use, in several ways. Not least is that (though apparently based on the homosexual writer 184:
On 19 February, 1963, a plump and embittered fifty-six-year-old character actress called Ellis Powell walked out of Broadcasting House for the last time. She was not a star. In fact, she had earned less than £30 a week. But her voice was as well known in Britain as that of Queen Elizabeth II, for it
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became more sensational. Mrs Dale became a councillor, a position she had to give up after she had caused a man's death by careless driving. A heart attack forced Dr Dale to retire from practice. Perhaps the most famous storyline was Jenny's getting measles; listeners wrote in thousands complaining
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where he was holidaying with his rich mistress. Mary Dale's sister, Sally, (which she always pronounced "Selly") lived in Chelsea and moved in exotic circles. The Dales and their friends (along with Captain, Mrs Freeman's cat, apparently named after the rank of her late husband, who had been killed
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The play was published, but has seldom been revived. In 1972 it received an amateur production at Rugby Theatre, with Bridget Watson as Mrs Dale and Harry Roberts as her husband the doctor. The only professional revival seems to have been in 1997 at the Kenneth More Studio Theatre in Ilford, when
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The phrase seized on by caricaturists as typical of Mrs Dale's narrative was "I'm rather worried about Jim..." Indeed, the phrase was a staple of many comedy programmes, radio and television, in the early 1960s aiming to poke fun at safe, staid and undemanding middle-class lifestyles. The last
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Over the years it ran there were a number of books written around the characters, several authored in whole or part by Jonquil Antony, the most important scriptwriter at the beginning and for many years. In 1970, the year after the programme finished, she took back her former characters after a
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In The Archive Hour's Out on Air, Richard Cole traced the history of homosexuality on BBC radio, from the love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name days of Mrs Dale's Diary in the 1950s to Radio 1's Loud and Proud.
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Mrs Dale's mother was Mrs Rosemary Freeman, whom Jim always called, rather gravely, "mother-in-law". Dr and Mrs Dale had a daughter, Gwen, and a son, Bob, who worked in the
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would sound as produced by Americans. It includes over-hyped music, multiple in-show advertisements for bizarrely named products, and ends with several murders.
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The serial ran for 5,531 episodes, culminating with the engagement of Mrs Dale's daughter Gwen to a famous TV professor on 25 April 1969. On news of its demise,
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An innovative characteristic of the programme was that a brief introductory narrative in each episode was spoken by Mrs Dale as if she were writing her diary.
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was heard twice a day by seven million devoted listeners. Miss Powell was Britain's most sacrosanct fictional paragon, Mrs. Dale, in the radio serial
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In the same year Charles Simon, who had played Dr Dale in the Jessie Matthews years, did his own continuation of the story, going on tour in
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the plots now revolved around medical conditions and problems. When the series ran a story about the importance of women having regular
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trade. He was married to Jenny; they had twins. Gwen was widowed after her husband David was killed in a water-skiing accident in the
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in the First World War) got along in almost perfect harmony. It was all respectable, comfortable and middle-class.
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episode ended with Mrs Dale saying, "There's one thing that won't change – I shall always worry about Jim..."
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The lead character, Mrs Dale, was played by Ellis Powell until she left the show in 1963 and was replaced by
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The main scriptwriter for many years was Jonquil Antony, and her first collaborator (under a pseudonym) was
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The programme is thought to be the first British mainstream drama which depicted a character known to be
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It was also one of the recordings used for torture in the BBC Listening Room, that episode's parody of
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I do remember Mrs. Dale's brother-in-law confiding in her that he was homosexual (shriek);
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In an untitled episode (s02 e01 - 22 January 1952), listeners are given an example of how
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The programme was often a 'target' (albeit an affectionate one) on the BBC Radio comedy
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sympathetically in a leading part – Richard Fulton (portrayed by
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Jonquil Antony & Robert Turley Pub: The World's Work 1958
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serial drama. It was first broadcast on 5 January 1948 on the
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Jonquil Antony & Robert Turley Pub: The World's Work 1959
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society. The Dales lived at Virginia Lodge in the fictional
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In 1975, Matthews's biographer, Michael Thornton, wrote:
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Angela Ellis and Roger Braban played the senior Dales.
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The show was mentioned in the following episodes of
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attempted to introduce a reprieve for the series in
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Ron Grainer
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Eric Coates
Springtime Suite
Ideal Home Exhibition
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