January  1923  Broadcast plays

 

The Times gap 15 February to 22 February 1923

 

Friday 16 February 1923 2LO 7.15-9 (mixed)

‘Scenes from Shakespeare’

First radio drama broadcast (Gielgud, 1957, 17)

[B.B.C. Programme Records]

7.15 Harry Tate: Broadcasting; Margaret Jewell (Sop.); W. Walmisley (piano); Shayle Gardner and Hubert Carter: Scene from “Julius Caesar”; Grace Ivell and Vivien Worth (Duets). 9.0 Dr. J.A. Fleming: The Invention of the Valve. 9.0 2G.N.B.  9.50 Progr.[General News Bulletin]

 

Tuesday 17 April 1923 Cardiff 9.45

Scene from Shakespeare

 

 

Monday 23 April 1923 2LO  6

British Empire Shakespeare Society (broadcast)

Trial scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ with Arthur Bourchier as Shylock and supported by members of the Old Vic company.

Letter scene from ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ with Florence Saunders and Athene Seyler.

Fall of Wolsey from ‘Henry VIII’ with Acton Bond as Wolsey.

Tent scene from ‘Julius Caesar’ with Basil Gill and Lyn Harding

Hamlet’s soliloquy (listed in ‘The Times’ as by Miss Eva M. Donne)

Casket scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ with Cathleen Nesbitt, the most prominent name in the new radio drama, and Gerald Lawrence

Prison scene from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ with Henry Caine and Fred Groves

Speech from ‘As You Like It’ with Nigel Playfair

 

[B.B.C. Programme Records] p 13

Monday 23 April 1923

6.0 British Empire Shakespeare Society: Trial Scene from “The Merchant of Venice” – Arthur Bourchier (Shylock), and other scenes with Lyn Harding, Basil Gill, Athene Seyler, Nigel Playfair, etc.

 

 

Tuesday 1 May 1923

New Studio opened at 2, Savoy Hill and new amplifier (RT 25 April 1924 p 176)

 

[B.B.C. Programme Records] p 15

Thursday 10 May 1923 2LO 9.0

‘Love In  A Village’, by Mayfair Dramatic Club from Guildhall School of Music

 

15 May 1923 Tuesday London 9-9.45

Mr. Norman V. Norman and Miss Beatrice Wilson in a duologue “Love in a Train”

(London 9.0-9.45) within variety programme of songs (Times p 12)

[not in [B.B.C. Programme Records] p 15

lists Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir S.J.C. Hoare: The Air Defence of London

 

 

22 May 1923  Tuesday Cardiff 7.45-9.30

Selections from the works of the poets of the Restoration by Miss Marjorie Unett and Mr A Corbett-Smythe with a critical commentary by Mr A Corbett-Smythe (Cardiff  7.45-9.30)

Oscar Wilde, ‘A Woman of No Importance’ Act IV : Pianoforte sole (Cardiff 9.30-10.15)

 

Monday 28 May 1923 2LO 7.30-9.45

Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’

(source 'The Times')

Orsino - Gerald Lawrence

Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Nigel Playfair

Sir Toby Belch - Henry Caine

Malvolio - Herbert Waring

Clown - George Hayes

Captain - Arthur R. Burrows

Viola and Sebastian - Cathleen Nesbitt

Olivia - Enid Ross

Maria - Mabel Tait

music by Purcell will be played during the entr’actes

listed in ‘The Times’ p 10  Broadcasting   Performance of ‘Twelfth Night’

[B.B.C. Programme Records] p 17

7.30 “Twelfth Night” – Gerald Lawrence, Nigel Playfair (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Henry Caine (Sir Toby Belch), Herbert Waring, George Hayes, Cathleen Nesbitt (Viola), Enid Rose (Olivia), Mabel Tait, Norman Notley; Wireless Quintet

 

Tuesday 29 May 1923   Tuesday Cardiff 9.30-10.15

Act from selected play

 

Wednesday 30 May 1923  London  8.30-9.15

(source 'The Times')

Miss Ellen Terry will recite the “Hubert and Arthur” scene from ‘King John’ from the London station of the B.B.C.

 

Thursday 7 June 1923 8.0

[B.B.C. Programme Records]

Violet Vanbrugh: Excerpt from “Henry VIII”; Message of thanks from Ellen Terry

 

Friday 15 June 1923 8.0

[B.B.C. Programme Records] p 19

‘The Merchant of Venice’ (Shakespeare)

Gerald Lawrence (Shylock), Ben Webster (Antonio), George Relph, George Hayes,  Stafford Hilliard, Robert Harris, Laurence Hanray, George Howe, L. Winter, P. Thomas, Cathleen Nesbitt (Portia), Norman Notley, Wireless Quartet

9.45 J. Drinkwater: Robert E. Lee

 

Thursday 5 July 1923 London 8.0-10.0   

(source 'The Times')

‘Romeo and Juliet’

Prince of Verona -  Arthur C. Burrows

Old Montague  - Rex Palmer

Paris - Basil Howes

Capulet and Peter - Stafford Hilliard

Mercutio -  Lawrence Hanray

Benvolio - George Howe

Tybalt  -  Robert Harris

Friar Laurence - Ben Webster

Romeo  - Ernest Milton

Juliet - Cathleen Nesbitt

Nurse - Dame May Whitty

Lady Capulet - Helen Rous

Prologue - Cecil A. Lewis

Music ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Ed. German)

by the London Wireless Orchestra, under the direction of L. Stanton Jeffries

also [B.B.C. Programme Records] p 22 lists Kenneth Kent

 

Thursday 5 July 1923 Cardiff  7.10 (mixed)

(source 'The Times')

‘Paolo and Francesca’ (Stephen Phillips)

a tragedy with incidental music by the orchestra

 

Saturday 14 July 1923 Birmingham 7.30 - 8.0

(source 'The Times')

Mr William Macready and Miss Edna Godfrey Turner in a few scenes from Shakespeare

8.45-10.0

A farce in one act by Charles Dance

10.0 talk - 10.20

Mr William Macready and Miss Edna Godfrey Turner in a dramatic duologue

 

Wednesday 18 July 1923  Manchester  8.15

(source 'The Times')

First Shakespeare Night   ‘Twelfth Night’

 

Wednesday 25 July 1923  London  8-10

(source 'The Times')

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Shakespeare)

Lysander  -  Kenneth Kent

Demetrius - Stanley Warmington

Quince - Edmund Breon

Sly -  Arthur C. Burrows

Bottom  -  Nigel Playfair

Flute - Ivan Berlyn

Snout - Rex F. Palmer

Starveling - Stafford Hilliard

Hermia -  Sonia Seaton

Helena - Elizabeth Pollock

Oberon - Ernest Milton

Titania - Cathleen Nesbitt

Puck  - George Howe

Fairies - Leslie Winter

Prologue - Cecil A. Lewis

(music by Mendelssohn conductor Mr Dan Godfrey)

[B.B.C. Programme Records] 24

arr. Cathleen Nesbitt

 

Tuesday 31 July 1923  Cardiff  8.40-10.0

(source 'The Times')

Mr Eastman; Marie Thomas

M Dawson

scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Hamlet’

Mr Eastman: scenes from ‘Henry VIII’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

 

 

Tuesday 24 May 1927 Manchester 7.45-9 (mixed)

An Empire Day Concert

‘Gentlemen, The King!’ (Campbell Todd)

(First broadcast from Manchester, August 4, 1923)

Lieut.-Col. Charles Ainsworth, D.S.O.

Lieut.-Quartermaster James O’Grady

Captain Arthur Lloyd

Sergeant Patrick Flynn

2^nd Lieut. Harry Redmond

The scene is the Officers’ Mess room, Blankfield Barracks, Yorkshire, on an evening in December, 1901. Dinner has just concluded, and the Officers are talking and smoking. The walls of the room are decorated with pictures of events that have helped to build the British Empire, and just behind the Colonel, who is seated in the centre of the long mess-table, are the regimental Colours, crossed and eased. The Regimental Band is playing in the Barrack Square.

 

Tuesday 14 August 1923  Cardiff  8.0-10.0

(source 'The Times')

'Macbeth' Act I Scenes 5-7; Act II Scene 2

Mr George Gilbert, Miss Lily Chatworthy in ‘Henry VIII’ Act III Scene 1

 

Thursday 23 August 1923 London 7.30-8.30

(source 'The Times')

8.30 E. Thesiger and Nancy Roberts, Dramatic Sketches

8.30-9.45  Mr Ernest Thesiger and Miss Nancy Roberts in ‘Aunt Elija’

 

(Saturday 23 September 1923 - Radio Times published for the first time)

 

Thursday 28 September 1923 Newcastle  7.35-7.50

Act III Scene 5 from ‘Romeo and Juliet’  (Shakespeare)

 

Thursday  28 September 1923 Glasgow

(source 'The Radio Times')

‘Rob Roy’ (Scott)

Produced by R.E.Jeffrey

Every player has been chosen specially to suit the requirements of broadcasting.

 

Thursday  28 September 1923 Newcastle  10.5-10.15

(source 'The Radio Times')

‘Hamlet’ Act II Scene 5   

 

Saturday 6 October 1923  Cardiff  7.30-9.0 

(source 'The Radio Times')

'Rob Roy' (Scott)

 

 

Thursday 18 Oct 1923 London 7.30-9.30

(source 'The Radio Times')

Shakespeare Evening

Excerpts from ‘Macbeth’ arranged by Miss Cathleen Nesbitt

 

Saturday 20 October 1923  Birmingham 8.45

(source 'The Radio Times')

Mr Sydney Russell and Party

Trial Scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice’

 

Saturday 20 October 1923  Bournemouth 8.0 

Excerpts from Shakespeare

 

Wednesday 24 October 1923  Bournemouth  9.0

‘The Brass Door Knob’ (Matthew Boulton) (script 1957)

by “The Radio Players”

(New Theatre 12 November 1920, first performance Alexandra 9 October 1916)

9.30 ‘The Heart of a Clown’ (no script)

by “The Radio Players”

 

 

Friday 2 November Bournemouth 8.0

(source 'The Radio Times')

Three excerpts from Shakespeare under the direction of Miss Lillian Edwards

 

 

Tuesday 6 Nov 1923 Cardiff  7.30-9.30

(source 'The Radio Times')

Cardiff Station Dramatic Company

Shakespeare Evening III

'Henry VI' Parts 1, 2 and 3

 

Thursday 8 Nov 1923 London 7.30

(source 'The Radio Times')

London Shakespeare Evening

Scenes from ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘As You Like It’ and ‘Hamlet’

Relayed to Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle

 

Tuesday 13 Nov 1923  Birmingham 8.45-9.30

Birmingham University Literary and Dramatic Society will present ‘Malvolio’ in five episodes (taken from ‘Twelfth Night’)

 

 

Friday 23 Nov 1923 Birmingham 9.30-10

Dorchester Hardy Players

from their performance at Dorchester of the Hardy verse play, ‘The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall’ (Bournemouth)

 

Thursday 29 November 1923 London 7.50-8.25   

(source 'The Radio Times')

Studio performance of ‘Five Birds in a Cage’ one-act play (Miss Gertrude E. Jennings)

Producer Milton Rosmer

 

Tuesday 4 December 1923 Cardiff  7.30-9.30

Cardiff  Literary Night 

‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Shakespeare)  (with talk)

 

Thursday 6 December 1923 Birmingham  9.10 

The Station Repertory Company 

Mr. Jack Venables

 

Thursday 6 December 1923 Glasgow  7.35 

‘Trilby’ (adapted from the novel of George du Maurier)

 

Saturday 15 December 1923  Birmingham 7  

Balcony scene from ‘Romeo and Juliet’

 

Saturday 15 December 1923  Bournemouth  8 

Miss Rita Owen and Mr. Edward James in ‘The Bishop’s Candlesticks’ (Norman McKinnel)

 

Saturday 22 December 1923  Newcastle  7.35 

Mr. Lee Dixon and Party

dramatised version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Dickens)

 

Monday 24 December 1923 London 7-9.30  

Sir Frank Benson in Shakespearean Recitals (from Newcastle) with appropriate musical numbers

 

25 Dec 1923  Children’s play

Radio Times 25 January  1924 p 162:

Miss Phyllis Thomas, popular “Auntie Phyllis” to thousands of young listeners, she possesses the happy facility of being able to broadcast something of her charming personality ...  Miss Thomas produced the children’s play at 2LO London on Christmas Day ...

 

Monday 31 December 1923  Glasgow  7.30-8.50 

‘The Jolly Beggars’

play produced by Mr. George Ross

 

RT 14 November 1924 p 335

2ZY Manchester December 1923

first four act drama

received congratulatory mail larger than anything received before or after for any evening programme at that station