July 1925

Times Wednesday 1 July 1925 p 10

Broadcast from a moving train

transmission from King’s Cross was really convincing

The listener had only to shut his eyes to imagine that he was actually on the station platform, whence whistling, puffing, shouts and the clanging of bells were broadcast with the utmost clarity. Agaist this background the few words of dialogue spoken from the footplate of the locomotive attach to the 8.15 Aberdeen express before the train left the station, and the sketch, ‘The Parting’, sounded well, through the cameos of travel that followed were not particularly distinguished.

Sunday 12 July 1925 London 4.20-5

‘The Travelling Man’ (Lady Gregory)

Monday 13 July 1925 Glasgow 9.15-9.45

London Players

* ® ‘Christopher Columbus’ a historical listening play

Tuesday 14 July 1925 London and all stations 8-9.50

‘Winners’ By Far Too Many People (revue)

pr R.E. Jeffrey

Act 1 - Scene: Same as Act II

Act II - Scene: Same as Act I

Characters include:

the Geisha, San Toy

Country Girl

Dolores of Floradora

The Arcadians

The Merry Widow

Wednesday 15 July 1925 London

* ‘Wave Lengths’ humorous sketch

pr R.E. Jeffrey

Wednesday 15 July 1925 Aberdeen 9.15-9.45

* ® ‘A Month Come Sunday’ a bathing comedy specially written for broadcasting (L. du Garde Peach)

broadcast by the London Repertory Players

August 1925

Tuesday 11 August 1925 London 8.15-9.45

'Winners' Second Edition

A Revusical Extravaganza in three acts

under the direction of R.E. Jeffrey

Phyllis Panting

Lawrence Venn

Joan Hay

Raymond Trafford

Kingsley Lark

Wednesday 12 August 1925 London 8.45-9.15

'Wow-Wow' (Basil Charlton)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

This sketch is the outcome of a wager - a well-known manager bet an agent that he could not write an actable sketch in which every word of the dialogue commenced with the same letter in which every word of the dialogue commenced with the same letter of the English Alphabet. The letter chosen was 'W'.

Walter Whitaker - Clayton Greene

Winnifred Wood - Mary O'Farrell

William Wilkins - Henry Paine

Thursday 13 August 1925 London

'Radio Radiance'

first edition

A Revue in Fifteen Beams

S.B. to other stations

Book by Jack Hellier

Directed by James Lister and R.E. Jeffrey

Played by

A Company of West End Artistes

including

Tommy Handley

Eddie Morris

James Whigham

Iris White

Sophie Forrest

Violet Parry

Jean Allistone

and the Dancing Chorus

comedy skits

Friday 21 August 1925 2LO London 8.45-10 (mixed)

Selections from 'Herod' a poetic drama (Stephen Phillips)

Monday 24 August 1925 London 10.15-10.45

Bransly Williams

in Dickens' Characters

S.B. all stations

Tuesday 25 August 1925 2LO London 8.15-9.45

'Winners' third edition

A Revusical Extravaganza in three acts

arranged and directed by R.E. Jeffrey

Joan Hay

Phyllis Panting

George Pizzey

Lawrence Venn

Raymond Trafford

September 1925

Monday 14 September 1925 London 2.15

'Fetching the Doctor' a comedy sketch (Mabel Constanduros)

A Traveller - Henry Oscar

A Moss-Grown Man - Fewlass Llewellyn

Friday 18 September 1925 Cardiff 8-10

'A Woman of No Importance' (Oscar Wilde)

produced by Howard Rose

Lord Illingworth - Henry Oscar

Sir John Pontefract - David Thornton

Lady Caroline Pontefract - Mary O'Farrell

Mrs. Arbuthnot - Mary O'Farrell

Lday Hunstanton - Kate Sawle

Mrs. Allonby - Margaret N. King

Mr. Kelvil M.P. - Ivor Maddox

The Ven. Archdeacon Darbeny D.D. - Sidney Evans

Hester Worsley - Lillian Mills

Alice (maid) - Lillian Mills

Gerald Arbuthnot - Howard Rose

Friday 25 September 1925 London 8.30-10

'Winners'

Revusical Extravaganza

under the direction of R.E. Jeffrey

October 1925

Thursday 1 October 1925 London 8.20-9.20

'She Stoops to Conquer' (Oliver Goldsmith)

A shortened version

(no director listed)

Mrs. Hardcastle - Joyce Tremayne

Hardcastle - Ambrose Manning

Tony Lumpkin - Miles Malleson

Miss Hardcastle - Irene Rooke

Miss Neville - Rita Page

Diggory - James Hughes

Jack - Leonard Calvert

Muggins - John Reeve

Stingo - Frank Arlton

Young Marlow - Henry Oscar

Hastings - Carlton Hobbs

Maid - Barbara Horder

Friday 2 October 1925 8.10-10

'The Queen's Spy' a play of the days of Mary, Queen of Scots

(no author or director listed)

eight characters and actors listed

London Wednesday 7 October 1925 8.20-8.35

'The Executioner' a dramatic fragment in one act (F.W. Bradley)

(No director listed)

Isobel - Winifred Chenery

Bess - Muriel Fregusson

Visitor - H.R. Marchant

Scene: Interior of a lonely inn near Winchester

Time: 14^th. Century at night

Thursday 13 October 1925 London 8.10-8.40

(1) ‘The Little Stone House’ (George Calderon)

Astoryi – George Hayes

Varvara – Peggy Robb-Smith

Spiridon – Drelincourt Odlum

Foma – Leonard Walker

Praskovya – Lilian Mason

A Stranger – Howard Rose

A Corporal – John Reeve

Scene: The action takes place in the sitting-room of a small house in a provincial town of Russia.

(2) * ‘Bright Gold’ (R.E. Jeffrey and Frank H. Shaw) 9.15-9.45

a play specially written for broadcasting

First Seaman – Drelincourt Oldum

Second Seaman – James Hughes

Tom Gayland (the owner of a steam yacht) – Reginald Denham

The Captain – Victor Lewisohn

Dr. Jackson – Henry Oscar

Steward – Lawrence Gowdy

Elaine Wilding – Phyllis Panting

Scene: A steam yacht of some hundred tons.

Tuesday 20 October 1925 Daventry 9 (mixed)

Middleton Woods in an original character sketch

written specially for broadcasting

‘A Chat on a Park Seat’

Wednesday 21 October 1925 London 8-9.45

‘England Expects’ (mixed)

S.B. to all Stations

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

The “2LO London” Military Band

Dramatic Episode

(1) * ‘Outward Bound’

Specially contributed by Frank H. Shaw

As far as it can be made so, this is a faithful representation of an old-time sailing ship leaving prt for the deep sea. As the various duties incidental to its departure are performed, the traditional sea shanties will be sungby mariner members of the Seven Seas Club.

(2) * ‘What England Expects’

A naval sketch in Four Episodes of Modern Life in a Man o’ War, specially contributed by “Bartimeus”.

Episode 1 – The Mess Deck of a Man o’ War at sea – 5.30 a.m.

Episode 2 - The Quarterdeck – 6.30 a.m.

Episode 3 - The Starboard Battery – 9 a.m.

Episode 4 - The Mess Deck – 9.55 a.m.

Friday 23 October 1925 XXXX 9-10

‘Harvest Home’ (Boyle Lawrence)

Music selected by Philip Trevor

Arranged by Stanford Robinson

Harry Deepdene (the Squire)

Millicent

Barbara

Gran’fer Roberts

Miller Hoskins

Rustics, Women, Girls, Children

Silver Handbell Ringers

Scene: A field nearby a barn in Blankshire.

Time: A late afternoon and night in September about forty years ago.

(No actors listed)

Monday 26 October 1925 London 7.40-8.30 (mixed)

Storm and Calm

(1) Scene from ‘King Lear’ (Shakespeare)

King Lear – George Bealby

The Fool – Milton Rosmer

Kent – Victor Lewisohn

(2) 8.30

‘The Three Fishers’

The story of the song dramatically told

Old Man – Frank Aulton

Woman – Irene Rooke

Man – Milton Rosmer

(3) 9.30

‘The Fifth Eclogue’ (Vergil)

Menalcas – Henry Oscar

Mopsus – Michael Hogan

Monday 26 October 1925 Manchester 8.45-9.5

The London Radio Repertory Players present

* ® ‘War in Spain’ (Richard Hughes)

(no actors listed)

Friday 30 October 1925 London 8-9

‘An Hour in a Mid-Victorian Drawing-Room’ (Tyrone Power)

Period – 1882

Mrs. Podbury Pauncefoote

Alberta

Capt. Tupman-Tozer

Clara Twigg

Alfred Pantin

Frederick Blenkinsop

(No actors listed)

November 1925

Saturday 7 November 1925 London 8-10

‘Radio Radiance’ Eighth Edition

Sunday 8 November 1925 London

‘Hassan’ adaptation (James Elroy Flecker)

cast of 24 verse and prose with interlude music, static

pr R.E. Jeffrey and David Calthrop

Hassan - Nicholas Hannen

Pervaneh - Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Caliph - Ernest Milton

FX directions such as:

Fade in sound of a small fountain during Narrator’s lines (p 5)

Gate is shut and bolted again

Sudden splash of water followed by a retreating laugh from Yasmin (p RT 9)

Shutters are slammed (p 11)

Sound of the taut ropes as the creaking basked it drawn up in three heaves

Music fanfare ballet

Murmur from crowd

broadcast also 7 February 1933

see notes there

censorship row (script of 14 Nov 1938) (notes)

Tuesday 10 November 1925 London 8.30-9.35

By arrangement with the Dickens Fellowship

The B.B.C. present

‘Bardell v. Pickwick’

(The Trial Scene)

A number of well-known figures will take part including Sir Edward Marshall K.C., Sir Henry Dickens K.C. and Mr. Pett Ridge

directed by Donald Calthrop and R.E. Jeffrey

Wednesday 11 November 1925 2LO London 8.30-9.30

* ‘The White Chateau’ (Reginald Berkeley) (script)

(Armistice Day)

(first full length radio play and anti-war play before Robert Sherriff’s stage play, ‘Journey’s End’ of 1928) (script)

characters (in order of speaking)

Chronicler - Henry Oscar

Julie (maid) - Peggie Robb-Smith

Chatelaine - Mary Rorke

Jacques - Reginald Denham

Violet - Phyllis Panting

Van Eysen - Herbert Ross

Diane - Cathleen Nesbitt

General - Edmund Willard

Philip - Donald Calthrop

Spirit - Milton Rosmer

Minister for War - Victor Lewisohn

Badger - Michael Hogan

Braithwaite - Austin Trevor

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

(at the Everyman 29 March 1927 to 9 April 1927

The Chronicler - Henry Oscar

Private Cossington - Norman Shelley

Chancellor / Braithwaite - Douglas Jeffries

Sergeant Harvey - Eric Lugg

Colonel - Allan Wade

produced by Raymond Massey (who played Tommy Luttrell)

(script missing p 7)

RT 9 October 1925 p 101

The feature of the programme will be a Radio Drama entitled “The White Chateau” specially written for the occasion by Captain Reginald Berkeley. “The White Chateau” will be remembered by all ex-Service listeners who remember Hooge. This Radio Drama promises to provide a powerful interpretation of the transition from war to peace.

Monday 30 November 1925 Birmingham 8.45-9.15

The London Radio Repertory Players present

* ® ‘Bright Gold’ (Captain Frank H. Shaw)

This is a thrilling moment in the life of a social butterfly who is brought face to face under somewhat unusual circumstances with a man who genuinely loves her. There are several tensemoments in which the real natures of both are brought to light and the story ends on a note of reconciliation.

(no actors listed)

December 1925

Monday 7 December 1925 Cardiff 8.45-9.5

* ‘The War in Spain’ (Richard Hughes)

A Voice – Michael Hogan

A Dreamer – Henry Oscar

Mother – Mabel Constanduros

Mary – Phyllis Panting

Mary’s Father – Herbert Ross

The Spanish – Victor Lewisohn

This is a humorous fantasy and the listener is asked to recall the peculiar incidents which occur in dreams. As the sketch develops, it is seen that this also is a dream, and if therefore the incidents appear to be wholly unconnected, and the dialogue strangely irrelevant, these peculiarities can be reconciled if one remembers that it is, after all, only a dream.

Monday 7 December 1925 Cardiff 9.15-10

‘Radio Radiance’ 6^th edition

Monday 7 December 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9

London Radio Repertory Players

‘The War in Spain’ = Cardiff

Friday 11 December 1925 Birmingham 8.45-9.10

The Radio Repertory Players present

* ‘The Quest of Elizabeth’ one act (Reginald Berkeley)

Elizabeth – Lorna Hubbard

Nurse – Jean Shepherd

Sister – Mabel Constanduros

Dr. Hobday – Michael Hogan

Davy Jones – Victor Lewisohn

Sir Aubrey - Henry Oscar

Jack Horner – Herbert Ross

This is a tale of pathos, the scene of which is a casualty ward in a large hospital and in the course of which the principal character, a child named Elizabeth, has a childish vision of faith and reunion. The sketch might be taken as a comment on the opinions of those who would have us believe that children are not capable of sustaining faith in an after life.

Friday 11 December 1925 Aberdeen 8.45-9.10

‘The Quest of Elizabeth’ = Birmingham

Saturday 12 December 1925 London 10.30-11

* 'The Mayfair Mystery' (Frank H. Shaw not listed)

Second Part of the Radio Crime Drama

Reward £100

Every listener a detective

(No characters or actors listed)

Friday 18 December 1925 Manchester 8.15-8.45

London Radio Repertory Company

‘Force, Wits and a Woman’ (Julius Hare)

Montague – Henry Oscar

Ainsworth – Herbert Ross

Ruth – Phyllis Panting

Landlord – Victor Lewisohn

Ireton – Michael Hogan

(See 4 December Belfast)