1923 Plays not Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde, ‘A Woman of No Importance’ Act IV
‘Paolo and Francesca’ (Stephen Phillips)
‘Gentlemen, The King!’ (Campbell Todd)
‘Aunt Elija’
'Rob Roy' (Scott)
‘The Brass Door Knob’ (Matthew Boulton)
‘The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall’
(Thomas Hardy)
‘A Christmas Carol’ (Dickens)
‘The Jolly Beggars’
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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)
Thursday 5 July 1923 Cardiff 7.10 (mixed)
(source 'The Times')
‘Paolo and Francesca’ (Stephen Phillips)
a tragedy with incidental music by the orchestra
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
2nd 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.
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 6 October 1923
Cardiff 7.30-9.0
(source 'The Radio Times')
'Rob Roy' (Scott)
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 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
Thursday 6 December 1923 Glasgow 7.35
‘Trilby’ (adapted from the novel of George du
Maurier)
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)
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