It was fifty years ago that the classic love story, The African Queen, was
released as a film.
In the Saturday Play, 10 March 2.30 pm on BBC Radio 4, a new production was broadcast.
In fact the first ever radio dramatisation of the
story. The C S Forester novel that first inspired the film has been adapted
for radio by the award-winning writer Mike Walker.
Tara Fitzgerald plays
uptight missionary spinster Rose Sayer, and Jamie Foreman plays Cockney
mechanic Charlie Allnutt, in this classic love and adventure story.
Plot
Set in German-controlled central Africa during the First World War.
Two unlikely companions - a strait-laced missionary and a gin-swigging Cockney - find themselves marooned. They board Charlie's old boat - The African Queen - for a journey through the rapids and crocodile swamps of the Ulanga river.
C a s t
Tara Fitzgerald as Rose Sayer
Jamie Foreman as Charlie Allnutt
Paul Humpoletz as the Captain
Production Credits
Produced and Directed by Kate McAll
Adapted for radio by Mike Walker based on the novel The African Queen by C S Forester
Broadcast Assistant Beth O'Dea
Original Music composed by Stuart Gordon
Recorded at BBC Christchurch studios in Bristol from the 20 to 22 February 2001
First broadcast 10 March 2001 on BBC Radio 4
