🎭 Home at Seven | Saturday Night Theatre

An Ordinary Evening — and the Day That Vanished

🕯️ A Chestertonian Introduction
There are few things more unsettling than being precisely on time — and yet profoundly wrong.

A man arrives home at seven o’clock, as he always does. The clock agrees with him. His habits agree with him. But the world does not. Somewhere between the last train ticket and the turning of a familiar key, a whole day has slipped clean out of his life — and taken his innocence with it.

This is the peculiar terror of Home at Seven: not the roar of catastrophe, but the quiet certainty that something has already happened — and that you were there when it did.

📖 Synopsis
Home at Seven, adapted for BBC Radio Saturday Night Theatre from the celebrated stage play by R. C. Sherriff, is a masterful psychological mystery centered on David Preston, a modest and methodical bank clerk.

One evening, Preston returns home believing it to be his usual hour — seven o’clock. But he is informed that an entire twenty-four hours have passed without his knowledge. He has no memory of where he has been, what he has done, or whom he has seen.

As the mystery deepens, disturbing evidence begins to surface. During the missing day, a crime has occurred — and the trail of clues points uncomfortably close to Preston himself. Friends, authorities, and even Preston begin to question whether he is merely a victim of amnesia… or something far more troubling.

With mounting tension and quiet dread, the play explores the fragility of memory, the terror of the unknown self, and the chilling notion that an ordinary life can fracture without warning.

🎙️ Why This Play Endures
• A classic example of British psychological suspense
• A gripping exploration of memory, identity, and moral doubt
• Perfectly suited to radio, where uncertainty lives in the shadows
• A reminder that the most frightening mysteries happen close to home

📻 Program Notes
Series: BBC Radio – Saturday Night Theatre
Genre: Psychological Mystery / Suspense
Source: Stage play by R. C. Sherriff
Mood: Quietly ominous, intimate, and unsettling

🔔 Listener Invitation
Dim the lights. Set the clock. And ask yourself — if a day of your life were missing…
would you really want it back?

📻 Listen, reflect, and share the mystery with someone who loves classic radio drama.

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