January 1925

 

London

ORIGINATIONS 

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Tuesday 3 February 1925  High-Power Station Daventry and London

(1) 7.45-8.05

* ‘Christopher Columbus’ an episode in the voyage of the Santa Maria (Richard Hughes)  (no script)

(2) 8.35-8.55

* ‘Check-mate’ a modern cave-man comedy (P.L. Kim) (no script)

pr R.E. Jeffrey

(3) First Night of musical play ‘Love’s Prisoner’ relay from the Adelphi Theatre

9-9.10 Opening of Act II

9.40-9.50 Finale of Act II

Note: Harry Welchman actor-manager

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 14 April 1925 5XX 8.15-8.45

*  ‘Entertaining Mr. Waddington’ one act comedy specially written for broadcasting (Vernon Bartlett)

Richard Hilton - Raymond Trafford

Constance Hilton - Phyllis Panting

Silas Waddington - Henry Oscar

Mrs. Stone - Mabel Constanduros

 

Tuesday 14 April 1925 5XX 9.15-9.45

*   ‘The Dweller in the Darkness’ (Major Reginald Berkeley)

A play of the unknown in one act

pr R.E. Jeffrey

Mrs. Vyner - Mabel Constanduros

Phyllis Vyner - Phyllis Panting

Henry - Raymond Trafford

Mr. Mortimer - Henry Oscar

Mr. Vyner - Gordon Douglas

Prof. Urquhart - Ashton Pearse

(Both plays have been specially written for the B.B.C. for Radio Transmission.)

Berkeley author of 'French Leave', 'Eight O'Clock' etc.)

RT 3 April 1925 Official News and Views:

Each of the plays will last about half an hour; which is perhaps, the maximum length of time that a radio play can be fully enjoyed by the listener.

 

 

Thursday 16 April 1925 London 9.15-9.40

*   ‘The Dweller in the Darkness’ (Major Reginald Berkeley) ®

pr R.E. Jeffrey

Mrs. Vyner - Mabel Constanduros

Phyllis Vyner - Phyllis Panting

Henry - Raymond Trafford

Mr. Mortimer - Henry Oscar

Mr. Vyner - Gordon Douglas

Prof. Urquhart - Ashton Pearse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 15 May 1925 9.15-9.40

London Repertory Players

* ® ‘Christopher Columbus’ a historical listening play (Richard Hughes)

 

 

 

 

 

Wedesday 20 May 1925 London 9.25-10

London Radio Repertory Players

* ‘A Month Come Sunday’ written for broadcasting by Ashton Peats

Nance Treganna - Phyllis Panting

Tom  Gregg - Ashton Peace

Josiah Treganna (uncle) - Drelincourt Odlum

Widow Bregg - Mabel Constanduros

scene: Josiah Treganna’s garden or a West Country Cliff

 

 

 

Friday 5 June 1925 London 9.10-9.30

Repertory Players

* ® ‘Christopher Columbus’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 30 June 1925 2LO

* ‘The Party’ (L. du Garde Peach)

Times:

Celebration broadcast from King’s Cross Station railway centenary

performance on platform of a light comedy sketch written for the occasion

It will terminate immediately before the departure of the train

8.25 pm for Aberdeen express sleeping-car

scene in George Stephenson’s workshop ‘Locomotive no 1’

Edward Pease, wealthy Quaker

experiment  - establish two-way communication with the train

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 11 November 1925 2LO London 8.30-9.30

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

(Armistice Day)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

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

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.

(at the Everyman 29 March 1927 to 9 April 1927)

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

[p 300 Presented by R.E. Jeffrey is last item in listing]

‘The White Chateau’

Specially written for broadcasting by Reginald Berkeley

Incidental music by norman O’Neill

Characters in order of speaking

Scene: A Chateau in Belgium

Wartime

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

 

Repeats of 'The White Chateau'

Wednesday 4 August 1948 Third 9.30-11

'The White Chateau'

pr Peter Watts

 

 

 

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)

 

NUMBER OF ORIGINATIONS:  10

 

Total play nights  =  45

 

Total pieces  =  52

 

 

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