Loving, Doting & Party Going: Three Full - Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novelsBorn Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, he penned nine novels before giving up writing in 1952 at the age of 47. Three of them are dramatised here, with casts incuding Pauline Quirke, Amanda Root, Mark Straker, Fenella Fielding and Paul Herzberg. Loving – In their employers’ absence, the servants at Castle Tennant have enjoyed free run of the manor house, at liberty to indulge in romance, gossip, squabbles and battles over authority. Then an insurance man arrives, enquiring about Mrs Tennant’s missing diamond ring, and their habitual routine is thrown into disruption. Adapted by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, this charming dramatisation of Green’s 1945 fairytale depicts life above and below stairs in an Anglo-Irish country house during the Second World War. Doting – Stuck in a humdrum marriage, middle-aged civil servant Arthur Middleton suddenly finds himself besotted with a much younger pretty, 19-year-old Annabel Paynton, whom he has known since she was a child. As he pursues her, his wife Diana embarks on her own romantic adventure with family friend Charles Addinsell – who is in turn courting Annabel’s friend Claire… Set in postwar London, Henry Green’s final novel is a sophisticated social comedy exploring the subtle distinction between doting and loving. Party Going – Travelling by train to the South of France, a party of wealthy ‘Bright Young Things’ are delayed by heavy fog at Victoria Station. As they wait for the weather to lift, they take refuge in a hotel – but over the course of their stay, their lives change imperceptibly. Listed as one of the Guardian’s 100 best novels, this wry, dazzling, tale of self-absorbed socialites on the eve of war is adapted by veteran radio dramatist Neville Teller.First published 1939 (Party Going), 1945 (Loving), 1952 (Doting)Cast and creditsWritten by Henry Green Loving Charley Raunce – Martin KempEdith – Leanne RoweMiss Welch – Pauline OuirkeMrs Tennant – Joanna DavidViolet – Claudia HarrisonMiss Burch – Amanda RootKate – Zoe TapperCapt Davenport – Mark StrakerBert – Harry EdenAlbert – Johnny BrennanOther parts played by members of the cast Doting Mr Arthur Middleton – Frederick TrevesMrs Diana Middleton – Fenella FieldingMaster Peter Middleton – Stephen PaceyMr Charles Addinsell – James VilliersMiss Annabel Paynton – Illona LinthwaiteMiss Claire Belaine – Mary-Claire Nash Party Going Angela Crevy – Amanda MurrayRobin Adams – Paul HerzbergMiss Fellowes – Renee AshersonClaire Hignam – Rosalind ShanksRobert Hignam – Martin ConnorEvelyn Henderson – Penelope LeeThe Stranger – Sean ArnoldJulia Wray – Selina CadellAmabel – Frances JeaterMax Adey – David McAlisterEdwards – Haydn WoodAlex Alexander – Geoffrey BatemanThomson – Nick BrimbleStation announcer/Porter – Graham FaulknerDriver/Porter – Alexander JohnClerk/Driver – John LiveseyMr Roberts – Alan DudleyMr Wray/Floor waiter – John Forbes-RobertsonCloakroom attendant – Sonia FraserMr Ogilvie/Stationmaster/Doctor – David GrahamCounter Assistant/Receptionist – Jane KnowlesCounter Assistant/Room service – Vanessa Knox-MawerEmbassy Richard/Passer-by – Rupert Everett© 2026 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2026 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd