Rodney M. Bennett years as Senior English Producer in Ethiopia with the Lutheran church international Radio ETLF and a year in the African English service of West German overseas broadcasting. Through the 1980s he freelanced for BBC, in particular on the BBC World Service, and published a book "The Archer-Shees Against the Admiralty" which was a factual account of the Archer-Shee case upon which Terence Rattigan based his play "The Winslow Boy". His research unearthed the original five-shilling postal order which caused the problem. He also contributed many articles to the classical magazine Music and Musicians. Then in the 1980s he was a
Harlequinade (Rattigan) the Phoenix Theatre, directed by Peter Glenville, with the following cast: The play opened on Broadway with "The Browning Version", on 12 October at the Coronet Theater, with Maurice Evans playing Arthur and Edna Best playing Edna. "Harlequinade" was played from 17 October 2015 until 16 January 2016 at the Garrick Theatre together with one-woman play "All On Her Own". The show was played by the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company with Kenneth Branagh playing Arthur and Miranda Raison playing Edna. Harlequinade (Rattigan) Harlequinade is a comic play by Terence Rattigan. The play was first performed on 8 September 1948 at