January 1925
Friday 2 January 1925 Bournemouth 10-10.05
‘A
Cautionary Tale with a Moral’ (Liza Lehman)
Marcia Bourn
Lena Copping
Friday 2 January 1925 Aberdeen 8-8.15
Popular Night
‘If Our Scots Comedians Had Written Macbeth’
pr (no billing) (?A.M. Shinnie)
Macbeth - A.M. Shinnie
Banquo - G.R. Harvey
Lady Macbeth / First Witch - Daisy Moncur
Second Witch - Molly Stuart
Third Witch - Jean Dunn
Friday 2 January 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30 (variety)
The Radio Players
‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ (W.B. Yeats)
pr Tyrone
Power
Mairteen Bruin - J.R. Mageaean
Bridget Bruin
- Jeannie Erskine
Shaun Bruin -
George Buchanan
Mary Bruin -
Mrs. Leslie Porter
Father Hart - Charles K. Ayre
A Faery Child
- Norah Campbell
Monday 5 January 1925 Cardiff 7.35-8.05
performed by the Amateur Players Company
Scenes from ‘Twelfth Night’ (Shakespeare) I, 5 II, 3
plus songs
Monday 5 January 1925 Manchester 10.30-11
The “2ZY” Drama Company present a one-act comedy
‘A Love Passage’ (W.W. Jacobs and Phillip E.
Hubbard)
pr Victor Smythe
Hetty Alson - Edith Leach
Sam Bross - D.E. Ormerod
Jack Hall - Tom Wilson
Monday 5 January 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9
The “5NO” Repertory Company
‘Tilda’s New Hat’ one-act play (George Paston)
pr Gordon Lea
Mrs. Fishwick - Janie Stevens
Tilda - Sal Sturgeon
Daisy Meadows - Clive Zalve
Walter Emerson - Norman Firmin
Wednesday 7 January 1925 London 7.40-8.10
(1) ‘The Day
Dream’ a comedy in verse (Sidney Lewis Ransom)
pr (no billing)
Ismarie (The Maid) - Allison Leggatt
Rochelle (The Duchess) - Dorothy Pantling
Faunus (The Statue) - S.L. Ransom
Fontaine (The Friend) - Tarver Penna
Hercules (The Duke)
- G.E. Bellamy
scene: the Duke’s garden date: 1700
Wednesday 7 January 1925 London 7.40-8.10
(2) ‘The
Abbe and the Maid’ (Charles Messent)
pr (no billing)
Abbe Liszt - Henry Oscar
Pierre Beaumont - Tarver Penna
Marchioness Hautant - Joyce Tremayne
Marie Jaumene - Allison Leggatt
scene: Hotel Lille
date: 1869
Wednesday 7 January 1925 Glasgow S.B. London
9.40-10.10
Greek Drama Lecture Recital
Elsie Fogarty and Lewis Casson
British Drama League
Thursday 8 January 1925 Dundee XXXX
Dundee Dramatic Society
'Campbell of Kilmhor'
Friday 9 January 1925 Aberdeen 8.35-8.40
‘A Visit to the Dentist’ an interlude (Arthur Black)
arr A.M. Shinnie
William Reed (farmer) - George Meston
Mr. Reginald Cavity (dentist) - A.M. Shinnie
Saturday 10 January 1925 Cardiff and relayed to
5XX 8.15-9.30
‘The Pied Piper of Hamelyn’ a Radio Pageant in three
Episodes
The “5WA” Players
Saturday 10 January 1925 Glasgow 7.35-7.55
Comedy and Dance Night
‘Holed Out In One’ comedy in one act (Charles
Radcliff)
pr George Ross
“5SC”’s Repertory Company
Monday 12 January 1925 Cardiff 8.30-9.30
Combined programme: ‘Nos Amis’ (musical items)
‘Fais Ce Que Dois’ short play in French
pr (no billing)
Marthe - Mlle. E. Le Goussard
Henri - Mlle. D. Maggi
Daniel - A.W. Swash
Monday 12 January 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9.30
‘Patsy For Granted’ one act and two scenes (Theodora
Wilson)
pr Gordon Lea
John Dearman - Kendrew Milson
Jean - Jennie Stevens
Mrs. Percival - Norah Balls
Paul - James Herdman
Jose - Mary Knybett
Patsy - Olive Zalva
Sir Stafford Dane - Gordon Lea
Friday 16 January 1925 London 7.30-9.30
‘The Tempest’ (Shakespeare)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
The characters will be played by leading Shakespearean
actors whose names will be announced in the press and over the microphone
before the date
Friday 16 January 1925 Newcastle 9-9.15
(1) ‘Playing
With Fire’ comedy one act (Percival Wilde)
pr Gordon Lea
5NO Repertory Company
(2) 9.15-9.30
‘A Game of Chess’ duologue (Alfred Sutro)
pr Gordon Lea
scene: secluded corner in the drawing-room of a
liner outward bound from America
Friday 16 January 1925 Aberdeen 7.30-8
‘Escape’ (E.F. Parr)
scene: interior of a cottage on Dartmoor
time: present day 4.30 afternoon in December
Friday 16 January 1925 Bournemouth 7.45-8
‘The Test Kiss’ sketch (Kible Howard)
pr (no billing)
Monica Lady Abingdon - Enid Shaw
Jack Heather - E.H. Poett
Saturday 17 January 1925 Birmingham relayed to 5XX
High Power 7.30-9
Radio Fantasy No. 3
‘Storm Calm’ (Joseph Lewis)
pr Joseph Lewis
spoken parts by:
Percy Edgar
William Macready
Joseph Lewis
Phyllis Richardson
Saturday 17 January 1925 Glasgow 7.20-7.45
‘Marjorie Meets Her Fate’ one act (Malcolm Watson)
pr George Ross
“5SC”’s Repertory Company
Monday 19 January 1925 Manchester
“2ZY” Company
‘Trespasses’
NOTE from RT: Edward Percy director a special
favourite with the repertory companies
special fresh additions to the cast
Wednesday 21 January 1925 London S.B. Stations
9.30-10.20
The British Drama League Lecture Recital
‘The Religious Plays of the Middle Ages’
Wednesday 21 January 1925 Glasgow S.B. Aberdeen
9-9.15
(1) ‘Nine O’Clock’ one act (Cyril Ashurst)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
Players from 2LO London (no cast billing)
(2) 10.30-10.45
* ‘Light and Shade’ a short comedy (L. du Garde
Peach) ®
pr R.E. Jeffrey
Players from 2LO London
Friday 23 January 1925 Bournemouth 8.50-9.10
‘The Call’ sketch (Cecile F. Boxer)
(no producer billing)
(no cast billing)
Friday 23 January 1925 Newcastle 9.10-9.30
(1) * ® ‘Light and Shade’ a short comedy (L. du
Garde Peach)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
(presumably) Players from 2LO London
(2) 10.30-11
* ® ‘Danger’ The Mine Play (Richard Hughes)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
Wednesday 28 January 1925 London
Music Comedy and Drama
Plays produced by R.E. Jeffrey
(1)
7.50-8.20
Repeat Transmission in Response to Very Many
Requests
* ® ‘Danger’ The Mine Play (Richard Hughes)
(2) 8.40-9
‘A Quarter of an Hour’s Quiet Meditiation’ a
suburban incident (Robert Magill)
Wednesday 28 January 1925 Glasgow 8.20-8.50
Drake Night
‘1588’ one act (George Ross) (possible origination?)
“5SC”’s Dramatic Company
Friday 30 January 1925 Bournemouth 9-9.30
‘The Mirror’ Japanese sketch (Rosina Fillipi)
pr William Keane and George Stone
Miura - Jackson Robbins
Ohama (wife) - Marjorie Burnside
Toyo (wise old man) - Wilfred J. Kirkpatrick
Friday 30 January 1925 Manchester 10.20-11
Light Music and a Play
‘The Dear Departed’ (Stanley Houghton)
pr (no billing)
Mrs. Slater - Florence Watts
Victoria (daughter) - Enid King
Hewey Slater - Astley Jordan
Ben Jordan - Kit Marlowe
Mrs. J. - Ella Slin
Abel Merryweather - Norman Oddy
scene: cottage in a Lancashire town
NOTE: first broadcast of a Houghton play
Friday 30 January 1925 Aberdeen 8-9
‘The Very Idea’ or ‘How One Plot Plays Many Parts’
six dramatic scenes (W.M. Manners B.A.)
pr (A.M. Shinnie)
arranged for broadcasting by the station staff
actors:
Toxie Reynard
Neil Maclean
Daisy Moncur
Flossie Tavaner
G.R. Harvey
W.M. Manners
A.M. Shinnie
W.D. Simpson
Saturday 31 January 1925 Aberdeen
An Evening With Shakespeare
(1) 7.55-8.05
‘Much Ado About Nothing’ III, 3
Dogberry - J. Forbes Knowles
Verges - Neil Mclean
(2) 8.40-8.50
‘Julius Caesar’ Tent Scene III, 3
Brutus - J. Forbes Knowles
Cassius - Neil Mclean
Monday 2 February 1925 Cardiff XXXX
* ‘Thirty Seconds’ an incomplete thriller
RT 23 January 1 925 p 195
listeners to send in suitable endings
three people are on the stage and at least one is
faced with death in thirty seconds
death of any one will solve the life problems of the
other two
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
Wednesday 4 February 1925 London and S.B. all
stations 9.30-10.20
(includes) British Drama League Lecture Recital
‘Shakespeare and His Theatre’
Thursday 5 February 1925 Newcastle 7.35-9
Wiliam Macready assisted by Edna Godfrey-Turner in
his recital ‘Shakespeare. Scene and Story’
excerpts from ‘Hamlet’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘King Lear’, ‘The
Merchant of Venice’, ‘Henry V’
Thursday 5 February 1925 Aberdeen 7.55-8.30
‘John McPhail’ a play in Scots (Arthur Black)
scene: modern sitting-room time: present day
Saturday 7 February 1925 Manchester 7.30-XXXX
Dickins Birthday Programme by members of the Dickens
Fellowship
directed by Gerald M. Farmer
‘A Christmas Party at Scrooge’s Nephew’s ‘
‘The Story of Caleb and Bertha’
‘Sam Weller’s Valentine’
‘David Copperfield and the Waiter’
‘Sally Gamp and Betsy Prig’
Monday 9 February 1925 Birmingham
A Triple Bill
arranged and directed by William Macready
The Station Players
(1) 7.30
‘Cheating the Hangman’ one act (Walter V. Garrod)
Harvey Otton (estate agent) - William Macready
Magaret (sister) - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Mr. Eskett (solicitor) - E. Stuart Vinden
Maid - Hilda Powis
Policeman - Frank V. Fenn
scene: County Town Hotel private sitting-room
(2) 8.15-9.15
‘Where There’s a Will’ farce in one act (J.M.
Morton)
Mr. Buzzard - Frank V. Fenn
Mr. Glimmer - E. Stuart Vinden
Mr. Small - William Macready
Miss Buzzard - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Sally - Hilda Powis
scene: apartment at Buzzard’s
(3) 10-10.30
‘A Daughter’s Choice’ one act (Donald Edwardes)
Margaret - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Lilian - Edna Lister
Henry Harty M.P. - William Macready
scene: room in the Herty home
Monday 9 February 1925 Glasgow XXXX
A Night to Charles Dickens
scenes presented by the “5SC” Dramatic Company
Wednesday 11 February 1925 London 7-9.30
‘The Seven Ages of Man’
A Pageant in Speech and Music
including R.E. Jeffrey (Recitals)
Mona Grey (Child Impersonator)
Friday 13 February 1925 Glasgow 8.25-8.50
‘The Maker of Dreams’ a fantasy in one act (Oliphant
Dunn)
arranged and pr by George Ross
(no cast billed)
Monday 16 February 1925 Manchester 10-10.30
Mermaid Club
‘St. Simeon Stylites’ (F. Sladen Smith)
Monday 16 February 1925 Newcastle 9-9.30
“5NO” Repertory Company
The Screen Scene from ‘The School for Scandal’
preceded by the prologue written by David Garrick
pr Lee Dixon
Joseph Surface - Fred Patterson
Servant - Kendrew Milson
Lady Teazle - Olive Zalva
Sir Peter Teazle - Lee Dixon
Charles Surface - Kendrew Milson
Monday 16 February 1925 Belfast 7.30-8.30
‘An Hour in a Mid-Victorian Drawing-Room’
originated and produced by Tyrone Power
Mrs. Podbury Pauncefote - Charlotte Tedlie
Alberta (daughter) - Evva Kerr
Clara Twigg - Kathleen Porter
Col. Tupman Tozer - Arthur Malcolm
Frederick Blenkinsop - Tyrone Power
Albert Pantin - T.O. Corrin
Wednesday 18 February 1925 Bournemouth
(1) 7.45-8.15
‘The Collaborators’ a sketch (Daisy McGeoch)
pr William Keane and George Stone
Mary - Muriel Barkas
Reginald - George Stone
(2) 8.45-9.15
‘Paint and Poverty’ a sketch (H. Salamon)
pr William R. Keene and George Stone
George Arnold (artist) - E. Byers
Lucy (his model) - Norma Flemming
The Broker’s Man - George Stone
Friday 20 February 1925 Dundee
Dramatic Night
(1) 7.55-8.35
“2DE”
Repertory Company
‘The Nineth Waltz’ (R.C. Carton)
pr R.E. Kingsley
(no cast billed)
(2) 10.05-10.25
‘An Object-Lesson’ (Frederick Serjeant)
pr R.E. Kingsley
(no cast billed)
Saturday 21 February 1925 Manchester XXXX
‘Cinderella’ a Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza (Henry
J. Byron)
pr Victor Smythe
“2ZY” Drama Repertory Company
Hilda Metcalf
Victor Smythe
H.B. Brenan
D.E. Ormerod
Toni Neilson
Betty Elsmore
T.O. Beachcroft
Nancy Ryness
Edith Leach
Helen McLachlan
Saturday 21 February 1925 Aberdeen 8.35-8.50
‘The Cure’ farce in one act (Arthur Black)
pr (no billing)
arranged W.D. Simpson
John McHardy (working man) - Gordon Malcolm
Mary (wife) - Betty Ross
Mrs. Sharpe (landlady) / Mrs. Bruce (matron) - Daisy Moncur
scene: Country Roadside time: spring
Monday 23 February 1925 Birmingham 8.05-9
AD ‘Handy Andy’ adapted from story in five scenes
(Samuel Lover)
produced and directed by William Macready
Squire Egan - Frank V. Fenn
Andy Rooney - William Macready
Edward O’Connor - Donald Powis
Fanny Egan - Hilda Powis
Mr. Murphy - George Roberts
Nance / Oonah - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Monday 23 February 1925 Newcastle 8-8.25
‘Lords of Creation’ one act comedy (Albert F.
Drinkwater)
pr (no billing)
Sir Mostyn Sykes -Kendrew Milson
Godfrey Lund - Norman Firmin
Hilda Reeve - Stella East
scene: Hild Reeve’s house in Twickenham time: summer, the present
Friday 27 February 1925 Birmingham 7.30-8.30
‘Boris Godunov’ First English production
translated by Alfred Hayes
Literary and Dramatic Society of the University of
Birmingham
Relayed from the Midland Institute
musical prelude specially composed by Granville
Bantock
Friday 27 February 1925 Manchester 8.30-9.30
‘The Case of Lady Camber’ four acts (Henry Annesley
Vachell)
produced by Victor Smythe
directed by D.E. Ormerod
Lord Camber - Charles Nesbitt
Sir Bedford Slufton - Tom Wilson
Harley Napier - Victor Smythe
Buckle - D.E. Ormerod
Lady Camber - Mary Eastwood
Lady Matilda Rye - Lucia Rogers
Peach (maid) - Betty Ellsmore
Esther York - Nancy Rynes
NOTE: first acted at the Savoy Theatre 1915
Friday 27 February 1925 Aberdeen 7.45-8.45
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (Abridged) a drama of two
acts and a prologue (Dickens)
abridged by Tom Taylor
arranged by W.D. Simpson
pr (no billing)
Chevalier de
St. Evremond - George McKerron
Marquis de St. Evremond - G.G. Paterson
Dr. Malette - Max Anton
Colette Dubois - Mary Webster
Barsad - James Murphy
Le Breton - Charles Sinclair
Charles Darney - Arthur Anderson
Jarvis Lorry - Alex Marshall
Sidney Carton - William McKerron
Lucy Manette - Barbara McKerron
Ernest Defarge - George McKerron
Madame Defarge - Ethel Dawson
Jacqies (1) - Patrick Reid
Jacques (2) - James Murray
Gaspard - Charles Sinclair
Public Prosecutor - Leslie McIntosh
The Vengeance - Ethel McKay
President - James Carroll
Father - Charles Sinclair
Jerry Cruncher - Charles McIntosh
Monday 2 March 1925 High-Power Daventry
Popular Excerpts from Shakespeare
pr R.E. Jeffrey
(1) 7.45-8
‘Romeo and Juliet’
(Shakespeare) Balcony Scene II, 2
Romeo - John Gielgud
Juliet - Dorothy Pantling
Nurse - Irene Rook
(2) 8.12-8.47
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (Shakespeare) Loan Scene I, 3
Shylock - Raymond Trafford
Bassanio - Henry Oscar
Antonio - Frank Randall
Trial Scene IV, 1
Shylock - Raymond Trafford
Bassanio - Henry Oscar
Antonio - Frank Randall
Duke - George Skillan
Salarino - Harold Gambrill
Nreissa - Dorothy Pantling
Gratiano - Douglas Ross
Portia - Joyce Chetwin
(3) 9.10-9.20
‘King Henry V’
(Shakespeare) V, 2
Henry V - George Skillan
Queen Katharine - Dorothy Pantling
Monday 2 March 1925 Birmingham
(1)
8.30-9.30
‘Check-mate’ farcical comedy in two acts (Andrew
Halliday)
Station Company of Players
pr (no billing)
[cast given]
Sam Winkle (his groom) - William Macready
(2) 10-10.30
‘Sally Sells Out’ one act (H.E. Huttroth)
Sir Andrew Halliday - William Macready
Polson (servant) - Frank V. Fenn
Sally (flower girl) - Edna Godfrey-Turner
scene: Sir Andrew’s chambers, MildMay Square, London
Monday 2 March 1925 Cardiff 8.10-9.10
Owing to numerous requests Revival of
‘The Locked Chest’ one act (John Masefield)
performed by the “5WA” Radio Players
(no cast)
Monday 2 March 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9
Repertory Company
‘The Young Idea’ comedy in one act (Herbert Swears)
Mrs. Lorrimer (widow) - Norah Balls
Nancy (daughter) - Mary Knyvett
scene: Nancy’s den at her mother’s house in the
country
Monday 2 March 1925 Glasgow 7.35-9.30
AD ‘Jeannie Deans’ or ‘The Heart of Midlothian’
three acts (from Sir Walter Scott) (T. Dibdin)
arranged and produced by George Ross
[cast billing]
Friday 6 March 1925 London 8-9.30
Italian Night
‘Under Italian Skies’ a Romantic Scena (Sydney
Russell)
pr R.E. Jeffrey in collaboration with the author
extra speaking part by Henry Oscar
Saturday 7 March 1925 London 7.30-9.30
(music)
‘Romeo and Juliet’ Balcony Scene (Shakespeare)
Romeo - Hubert Carter
Juliet - Gladys Palmer
Gregorio - Dennis Noble
Monday 13 March 1925 Birmingham
(1) 7.30-8.35
(music)
‘Charlie’s Escapade’ farce in one act (T.W.
Robertson)
pr (no billing) (?William Macready)
Hannah - Hilda Powis
Miss Boodle - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Boodle - E. Stuart Vinden
P.S. Berlinas - Frank V. Fenn
Charley Shedder - William Macready
(2) 8.55-9.30
‘Sand’ one act (Harold D. Margetto)
[cast]
® ‘Trilby’ (Du Maurier)
Gwen Verschoyle
Charles Freeman
played these parts for years on the professional
stage
Monday 16 March 1925 Newcastle 10-10.30
“5NO” Repertory Company
‘Shades of Night’ fantasy in one act (Robert
Marshall)
pr Gordon Lea
[cast]
Monday 16 March 1925 Belfast 8.40-9.30
The Belfast Players
An Ulster Ceilidh
‘A St. Patrick’s Eve Party’
written and produced by Charles K. Ayre
Charles Mcafe (man of the house) - Charles K. Ayre
Sarah Mcafe - Charlotte Tedlie
Arter FitzSimmons (old servant) - J.R. Mageean
Tom Logan (Fiddler) - Ernest Stoneley
James Anderson (Fluter) - S.H. Darvill
Sam Bryson - W.R. Gordon
Wednesday 18 March 1925 Aberdeen 8.05-8.35
‘The Clock Strikes Ten’ comedy in one act (A.G.
Phrys-Jones and D.E. Hickey)
Bernard Jeffreys (young author) - W.D. Simpson
Dorothy Fleming (actress) - Daisy Moncur
Thursday 19 March 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30
(variety)
‘The Wisdom of Fools’ (A.M. Warnock)
James Doyle - Charles K. Ayre
Mary Walsh - Jeannie Erskine
scene: kitchen
first performance in Ireland
Thursday 19 March 1925 8.25-8.40
Welsh Caracters from Shakespeare
‘Henry IV’ Pt. 1,
II, 4 and V, 4
‘Henry V’ Pt 1, IV, 5
Thursday 19 March 1925 Glasgow 8.25-9
Repertory Company
‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’ sketch
pr George Ross
Friday 20 March 1925 Manchester 8.10-8.35
“2ZY” Mermaid Club
‘The Constant Lover’ (St. John Hankin) (script /
photo)
Also July 1929
(Played at the Everyman Theatre, London 7 August
1922)
Saturday 21 March 1925 Aberdeen 7.45-9.15
‘A Tale of Alsatia’ a London picaresque of the time
of James I
lyrics by Norman Ingram and E.M. Cornforth
music Vincent Thomas
(musical?)
(no cast billing)
Monday 23 March 1925 Cardiff 8.05-8.40
*? ‘A Nasty Night in Nubia’ radio melodrama (Ivor
Herbert McClure) ®
“5WA” Players
Monday 23 March 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9
Repertory Company
(1) *
‘Congo Night’ (Richard Hughes)
pr Gordon Lea
Harry - Gordon Lea
Bill - Eric Stuart
Studdart (African gold prospector) - Alan Thompson
A Girl - Mary Pettie
scene: Congo Beach at night
(2) ‘The Perfect Pair’ duologue (Vera Beringer)
pr Gordon Lea
Jas. Willingham - Gordon Lea
Dora (wife)
- Mary Pettie
Monday 23 March 1925 Belfast 9-9.30
‘The Glittering Gate’ revival (Lord Dunsany)
The Radio Players
Jim - Charles K. Ayre
Bill - J.R. Mageean
Wednesday 25 March 1925 Bournemouth 8.10-8.50
‘Force, Wits - and a Woman’ (James Hare)
The Station Players
pr William R. Keene and George Stone
Thursday 26 March 1925 Aberdeen 8-9
‘Guy Mannering’ or ‘The Gypsy’s Prophecy’ a musical
play in three acts abridged (Daniel Terry)
arranged for broadcasting by W.D. Simpson
pr
[cast]
Friday 27 March 1925 Leeds-Bradford
William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner present a
series of plays
(1) 7.42-8.10 ‘David Garrick’ four scenes (William
Macready)
(2)
8.50-9.20 ‘The Daughter’s Choice’ (Donald Edwards)
(3) 10-10.30
‘Married Life’ (Donald Edwards)
Friday 27 March 1925 Hull (CHECK DATE) XXXX
(1) 7.50-8.20 ‘The Irish Doctor’ comedy (J.H. Wood)
(2)
8.40-9.10
‘The Daughter’s Choice’ (Donald Edwards)
Monday 29 March 1925 Belfast 7.30-9
Belfast Radio Players
'The Merchant of Venice' (Shakespeare)
abridged version prepared and produced by William
Macready
Shylock -
William Macready
Portia -
Edna Godfrey-Turner
The Duke of Venice - G. Coffey May
The Prince of Morocco - Arthur Malcolm
Tubal - J.R. Mageean
Antonio - Arthur Malcolm
Basanio - H. Richard Hayward
Gratiano - J.R. Mageean
Solenio - G. Coffey May
Salarino - Tyrone Power
Nerissa - Mary Healey
Monday 29 March 1925 Belfast 10-10.30
'Married Life' farce one act (Donald Edwardes)
Helen - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Archie - William Macready
Tuesday 30 March 1925 Manchester XXXX
‘The Gamblers’ three acts (Charles Klein)
pr Victor Smythe
play of the sensational type
as ‘The Third Degree’ by Charles Klein opened their
season in September 1924
Wilbur Emerson - Victor Smythe
Edward Mawdesley
D.E. Ormerod
Charles Nesbitt
H.B. Brenan
Gaston Leroux
Leo Martin
Hylda Metcalf
Angela Lopez
Betty Elsmore
directed by D.E. Ormerod
produced by Victor Smythe
Radio adaptation of ‘Westward Ho!’
Rose produced the radio adaptation of Westward Ho! in April 1925, a few months
before he joined the full‑time staff of the B.B.C. (Gielgud)
Wednesday 1 April 1925 2LO London SB all
stations 9.30-10.20 mixed
British Drama League Lecture Recital
'The Modern Amateur Movement'
Wednesday 1 April 1925 Birmingham 7.30-9.30
Radio Fantasy no. 4
(*) 'For a Crown' (John Overton)
music specially arranged by Joseph Lewis
Cromwell - Joseph Lewis
A Captain - William Macready
Jake, a trooper - Harold Casey
First Soldier - Harold Howes
A Sentry - William Bonsill
Cavaliers
Sir Richard Maxwell - Percy Edgar
Sir Peregrine Boyes - Joseph Lewis
Alan Throckmorton - Stanley Finchett
A Cavalier - Ernest Smith
A Sentry - Percy Edgar
Colonel Peard
- William Macready
Country Folk
Farmer Brooks - Joseph Lewis
Jarge, an old waggoner - Percy Edgar
Betty Brooker - Gladys Colbourne
Hal Carter - Harold Casey
Widow Morton - John Overton
An Old Parson - Percy Edgar
Scene 1 The Roundhead Camp
Scene 2 The Cavalier Camp
Scene 3 A Harvest Field
Scene 4 The Old Barn
The action takes place on a summer's evening, 1643.
Wednesday 1 April 1925 Newcastle 7.35-7.50
The '5NO' Repertory Company
'The House that Jack Built' (Albert E. Drinkwater)
(no cast)
Friday 3 April 1925 Plymouth 8-8.20
'History Repeats Itself' a duologue (Dawson Milward)
General Sir Rupert Kenneth, K.C.R. - Edwin Birch
Aileen Kaneth (his daughter) - Delsie Edgar
Friday 3 April 1925 Sheffield 7.30-9.30
'2ZY' Planets Productions present
'Princess Sonia' a new farce 3 acts (Victor Smythe)
pr Victor Smythe
assistant pr D.E. Ormerod
Mr. Simpkin - Eric Fogg
Mr. Politt - Victor Smythe
(partners of Simpkin and Pollitt)
Wilkins (office boy) - Tom Wilson
Max Langley (an international swindler) - D.E.
Ormerod
Matilda Pollitt (wife of Pollitt) - Betty Elsmore
Barclay (maid to Princess Sonia) - Miss E. Hilton
Dolores (a mannequin) - Edith Leach
Prince Karl (of a neighbouring province of Urania) -
Launcelot Quinn
Princess Sonia (Princess of Urania) - Hylda Metcalf
music directed by Eric Fogg
(seven musical numbers listed)
Scene: Salon at Simpkin and Pollitt's, Bond St.,
London
Time: the present
Twenty-four hours elapse between acts 1 and 2, and
forty-eight hours between acts 3 and 4.
Friday 3 April 1925 Stoke-on-Trent 7.50-8.20
An even of short plays presented by W. Macready
William Macready
Edna Godfrey-Turner
'The Irish Doctor' farce one act (J.K. Wood)
8.50-9.20
'A Daughter's Choice' (Donald Edwards)
10-10.30
'Love in an Office' (XXX)
Friday 3 April 1925 Swansea 10-10.30
'Cupboard Love' (Herbert Swears)
Kitty Belairs (of Drury Lane Theatre) - Lilian
Morgan
Diana, Pady Charters - Cissie Allen
Period 1789
The scene is laid in Kitty Belair's Boudoir.
Saturday 4 April 1925 Aberdeen 8.5-8.30
The '2BD' Radio Players
'The Glass Panel' comedy one act (Arthur Black)
arranged for broadcasting by W.D. Simpson
Miss Frame - Daisy Moncur
James Bingle - W.D. Simpson
Dr. Whitman - G.R. Harvey
Scene: A modern house
Time: Present day
8.40-9
* 'Is it
possible?' sketch (Dorothy Langton)
A wireless sketch in one act
arranged for broadcasting by W.D. Simpson
Monday 6 April 1925 Manchester 10-10.30
Victor Smythe presents
'A Musical Novelty'
Tuesday 7 April 1925 London SB to all stations
7.30-9.15
'Westward Ho!'
Ten Radioviews from Charles Kingsley's famous novel
Arranged by A. Whitman
pr R.E. Jeffrey
music The Wireless Orchestra
conductor Dan Godfrey jnr.
nautical songs Kenneth Ellis (bass)
The production is an innovation in broadcast drama;
it is an attempt to give an outline of the essential narrative of Charles
Kingsley's great work. The Radioviews will be linked up by the short
announcements giving the details of the scenes as they are reached, and the
intervening circumstances with which the Radioviews do not deal.
In addition to sound effects accompanying the
transition, a new feature will be introduced, that of having a musical
background. The actors will speak through the music; and it is hoped that all
our listeners will this have a further aid to the atmosphere which we will try
to impart.
1.
Bideford.
The birth of an adventure.
2.
Devois
welcome to daring voyagers.
3.
Capture
of Don Guzman.
4.
What
befells at Annery House.
5.
Amyas
Leigh undertakes a mission.
6.
Hijuerote,
Spanish Main; and how the oath was taken.
7.
On
the banks of the Meta.
8.
Homeward
Bound; Salvation Yeo's discovery.
9.
The
Armada; how Amyas settled with Don Guzman.
10.
Home;
Amyas, being blind, sees clearly.
Wednesday 8 April 1925 Newcastle 9-9.30
The '5NO' Repertory Company
'A King's Hard Bargain' one act (Lt.-Col. W.P.
Drury)
In the garden
Harry Quick (Leading Signaller, R.N.) - Gordon Lea
Joseph Pagett (Reservist, Royal Marines) - Kendrew
Milson
Mrs. Pagett (his wife) - Norah Balls
In the watertight compartment
Pincher Martin (Ordinary Seaman, R.N.) - Fred
Patterson
Privates, Royal Marine
William Wix - Norman Firman
Albert Shillitoe - James Herman
Scene 1 The Garden of the 'Coach and Horses'
Scene 2 The Watertight Compartment of H.M.S.
Belligerent
Scene 3 The Garden again
Time: A summer evening. Present day.
Wednesday 8 April 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30 mixed
Sketches of Ulster life
Radio Players
(1) 'In the
Brae' (R. Simmons Breane)
The Doctor - Charles K. Ayre
Hans - Gerald McNamara
Scene: A cave in Co. Down, and later in the house of
Hans
10.5-10.30 mixed
(2) * ‘Horse Sense’ specially written for
broadcasting (Gerald MacNamara)
original and somewhat fantastic satire
(listed as such in 'The Times' - not 'Radio Times'
listing)
'Horse Sense' (Gerald MacNamara)
The Horse - George Buchanan
The Man - Gerald MacNamara
The Policeman - Charles K. Ayre
Thursday 9 April 1925 Aberdeen 7.35-9.30
'A Nicht Wi' Mains O' Tullybogie' (Christine Crowe)
Mains - Gordon Malcolm
Mina's Wife - Christine Crowe
The Son - W.D. Simpson
Smithy - George Masson
Scene: A Farmhouse
Time: The present.
Thursday 9 April 1925 Glasgow 8.15-8.45
'Her Chance' (Florence Millward)
Hilda Bence (the girl) - Esther Wilson
Anthony Dacre (a popular dramatist) - Ronald Scott
Clarke (his Parlourmaid) - Nana Young
Scene: A Room in Anthony Dacre's house, Regent's
Park.
Time: the present.
Friday 10 April 1925 Cardiff 5-6
'5WA' Radio Players present
'Good Friday' (John Masefield)
a play in verse
pr Ivor Herbert McClure
(no cast listed)
Saturday 11 April 1925 Aberdeen 8.10-8.35
'The Rival' (Arthur Black)
Sandy McReady (the father) - Gordon Malcolm
Annie McReady (the mother) - Christine Crowe
Fred Fern (Prospective Son-in-law) - W.D. Simpson
Ian Alexander (wireless vocalist) - Arthur Black
Scene: the Macready's House.
Times: Present day.
arranged for broadcasting by W.D. Simpson
Saturday 11 April 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30 mixed
Radio Players
'Double-Sided Records' no 5a
Written and produced by H. Richard Hayward
Players:
Charlotte Tedlie
Kitty Murphy
J.R. Mageean
H. Richard Hayward
Monday 13 April 1925 Glasgow 8.50-9.25
Percival Steeds
Story Recital
'The Gentle Shepherd' (Allan Ramsay)
a pastoral comedy
Two scenes presented by the '5SC' Dramatic Company
Monday 13 April 1925 Belfast 8-9 mixed
The Radio Players
pr Tyrone Power
'A Perfect Pair' (Vera Beringer)
Dora Willingham - Kathleen Porter
James Willingham - J.R. Mageean
Scene: The drawing-room in the Willingham's house.
Time: the present.
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.
Wednesday 15 April 1925 Newcastle 8-10 mixed
'Five Birds in a Cage' one act (Gertrude E.
Jennings)
pr Gordon Lea
Susan (the Duchess of Wiltshire) - Stella East
Leonard (Lord Porth) - Kendrew Milson
Nellie (a milliner's assistant) - Norah Balls
Bert (a workman) - Norman Firmin
Horace (the liftman) - Alan Thompson
Scene: the interior of a tube lift
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
Thursday 16 April 1925 Cardiff 8.40-9.10
'5WA' Radio Players
'Opium' (Ivor Herbert McLure)
A series of episodes
No. 1 'On Fume'
Friday 17 April 1925 Liverpool 7.30-10
Shakespeare in Song and Music
William Macready in his recital
'Shakespeare in Scene and Story'
assisted by Edna Godfrey-Turner
Friday 17 April 1925 Plymouth 7.30-10 mixed
The Repertory Company
[Two plays]
(1) 'Caste' three acts (T.W. Robertson)
arranged and pr by Charles Freeman
dir Charles Denbeigh
Hon. George D'Alroy - Eric Morden
Capt. Hawtrey - Donald Pengelly
Eccles - Charles Freeman
Sam Gerridge - Fred Cavendish
Dixon - Charles Stapylton
The Marquise de St. Maure - Delsie Elgar
Esther Eccles - Gwen Verschoyle
9.30
(2) 'The Secret' one act comedy (William Barrymore)
arranged and pr by
Charles Freeman
dir Charles Denbeigh
Scene: the Library in the Dubois' house, Paris.
Friday 17 April 1925 Glasgow 8.40-9.15
The Station Repertory Company
A Tale of the Covenanter Period
'Bonnie Dundee' (Frank Richardson)
pr Gordon Ross
Margaret Elphinstone - Esther Wilson
Lady Elphinstone - Susie Maxwell
Graham of Claverhouse - Ronald Scott
Arthur Clelland T.M. - Eadie Palfrey
Starkey, an old Retainer - J. Livingstone Dyker
The Singer - Rene E. Ellison
Friday 24 April 1925 Manchester 7.40-10.15
“2ZY” Dramatic Company
‘The Chinese Puzzle’ four acts (Marian Bower and
Leon M. Lion)
characters:
Naomi Milsham
Mrs. Melsham
Victoria Cresswell
Aimee de Villesoptiur
Lady de la Haye
Paul Marketel (an international financier)
Sir Roger de la Haye
Armand de le Roche Corbon
Hon. William Hirst
Air Aylmer Brent of the Foreign Office
Littleport (butler)
Dr. Fu Yang (secretary)
(first performance Washington 24 June 1918)
29 April 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10
“5NO” Repertory Company
(1)
‘Afterthoughts’ (Albert E. Drinkwater)
characters:
Philip Deane-Nichol
Margaret (wife)
Mike Toddy
Hodges
(2) ‘Lucky
Peter’ (Robert Higgenbotham)
characters:
Sir Aubrey Scott
Peter Coulthhwaite
Pinchin
Thursday 30 April 1925 Belfast 7.30
Belfast Radio Players
(1) ‘An Hour
in a mid-Victorian Drawing-room’ (Tyrone Power) (Tyrone Guthrie?)
songs
(2) ‘Ten
Minutes of Progress’ (Tyrone Power)
characters:
Dr. Portia Tope-Glaishar
Henry Tope-Glaishar
Mrs. Magnolia Block
Osbert Hoyt
Sacheveral Hoyt
Gadarene B. Vancouver (sculptress)
Friday 1 May 1925 Edinburgh 9.25-10
* ‘Radio Rachel’ or ‘Along in the Ether’ (Willie
Carrier)
Friday 1 May 1925 Manchester 11 XXXXX
“2ZY” Mermaid Club
‘Fancy Free’ (Stanley Houghton)
Saturday 2 May 1925 London 11.15-12
‘Quality Street’ relay from the Midnight Follies,
Hotel Metropole
Miss Elsa Macfarlane
[RELAY]
Saturday 2 May 1925 Manchester 8.20
Mr. John E. Green (entertainer)
‘If Life Were a Play’ (Gray)
‘Philosophy of Work’
‘A North Country Interlude’
Monday 4 May 1925 Bournemourth 9.10-9.45
London Radio Repertory Players
* ® ‘The
Dweller in the Darkness’ (Reginald Berkeley)
characters:
Mrs. Vyner
Phyllis Vyner
Henry
Mr. Mortimer
Prof. Urquhart
Monday 4 May 1925 Newcastle 9-9.30
‘Between the Soup and the Savoury’ (Gertrude E.
Jennings)
Repertory Company
Wednesday 6 May 1925 Cardiff 9.15-9.40
London Radio Repertory Players
* ‘The Little Quaker’ (Edgar Wallace)
First Officer
Captain
Second Officer
Pilot
Voice of the Quaker Girl
Times 26 June 1925 p 8 Letter:
- A Russell, The Cottage, Esher
... I should also like to congratulate them (B.B.C.)
on their playlets written specially for wireless. ‘The Little Quaker’ by Mr.
Edgar Wallace given on Monday night was excellent, as was another playlet
called ‘Nine O’Clock’, given some time ago. They are so much better than relays
from theatres, as one must miss a great deal when they are written for seeing
and not hearing only. It would be a good thing if those satisfied with the
B.B.C. would write to the papers saying so and counteract the grumblers a
little.
Thursday 7 May 1925 London 8.50-9.15
London Station Repertory Players
‘Peace’ (George Calderon)
Sir Blennerhasset Postlethwaite
A Burglar
A Policeman
Friday 8 May 1925 Glasgow 9.05-9.25
*? ‘The Lovers’
a play written in A.D. 4000 (author?)
Friday 8 May 1925 Plymouth 8.50-9.35
‘The Sleigh Bells’ adapted from French
Sunday 10 May 1925
‘Manfred’ declaimed by Henry Ainley
Monday 11 May 1925 Cardiff 10.30-11
‘The Little Stone House’ (George Calderon)
“5WA” Radio Players
Monday 11 May 1925 Glasgow 10-10.30
Mr. Halbert Tatlock and his Dramatic Company
Mrs. Augustus Beddy and Mr. Duncan Clark
Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse
Tuesday 12 May 1925 London 8.45-9.15
*? ‘The Avengers’ (Una Broadbent)
a Scandanavian play taken from an incident in the
Icelandic Sagas
Thordis - Joyce Tremayne
Book of Holyfell (her husband) - Ashton Pearce
Snorri (son of Thordis) - Henry Oscar
Olaf (old family servant) - John Pennant
Eyolf / Gray (Bork’s cousin) - Tarver Penna
Kimbi (friend of Snorri) - George Skilian
Scene: a room in the manor house of Holyfell in Iceland
Thursday 14 May 1925 London 8.45-9
‘The Mother’ one act (Olive Lethbridge)
Jim Alban - Raymond Trafford
Mary (wife)
- Phyllis Panting
Thursday 14 May 1925 9.20-9.40
‘A Bit of Old Shakespeare’ humorous sketch (Amyas
Britten)
Listeners should imagine that they are seated in the
gallery of a theatre overhearing the remarks on the performance and
occasionally the voices of the performers
Thursday 14 May 1925 Belfast 7.30-10
Belfast Radio Players with Miss Flora Robson present
‘Iphigeneia in Tauris’ (Euripides)
tr Gilbert Murray
pr (?Tyrone Power/Guthrie)
Iphigeneia - Flora Robson
Orestes - Arthur Malcolm
Pylades - Tyrone Power
Thoas - G. Coffey May
Herdsman - Charles K. Ayre
Pallas Athene - Marjorie Sinclaire
Chorus: Kathleen Porter, Norah Campbell, Vera
Chambers, Doris Taunton. Marie Healey
Friday 15 May 1925 9.15-9.40
London Repertory Players
* ® ‘Christopher Columbus’ a historical listening
play (Richard Hughes)
Monday 18 May 1925 All Stations 10.05-11.15
‘Der Rosenkavalier’ opera relay Covent Garden first
night of season Act III
[RELAY] [OPERA]
Wednesday 20 May 1925 5XX and 2LO London
A series of musical pictures of famous historical
personages or events will be commented on by “L. du G.” (L. du Garde Peach) of
Punch
Saturday 16 May 1925 London 9.45-10.15
‘Frasquita (A Gypsy Maid)’ musical comedy relay
Princes Theatre
Act II
starring Jose Collins
[RELAY][MUSICAL]
Monday 18 May 1925 Glasgow 9.15-9.30
Repertory Players
* ® ‘The Little Quaker’ written for broadcasting by
Edgar Wallace
NOTE: Edgar Wallace novelist
Tuesday 19 May 1925 London 9.20-9.27
Sir Johnston Forbes- Robertson Recital
Buckingham’s Farewell Speech ‘Henry VIII’
Shakespeare
Hamlet’s Advice to the Players
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
Wednesday 22 May 1925 Birmingham 10.30-11
* ‘The Edge
O’ Beyond’ Radio Fantasette no. 1
specially written by John Overton for Percy Edgar
who will play the following characters in the order named:
Percy Edgar (himself)
Hiram K. Otis (an American)
Willyum Bent (a shepherd)
John O’ Dreams
Captain Yeo (a seaman)
Friday 22 May Manchester 7.30-10
Concert in Aid of Salford Royal Hospital
Mr. John Henry (entertainer)
“2ZY” Dramatic Company ‘A Grain of Truth’ (Herbert
Sargent)
‘The Registry Office’ (Herbert Sargent)
Monday 25 May 1925 Birmingham 9.15-9.40
The Repertory Players
* ® ‘The Little Quaker’
Monday 25 May 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11
‘The Philosopher of Butter-Buggins’ one act (B.
Harold Chapin) ®
Wednesday 27 May 1925 Manchester 9.15-9.40
London Radio Repertory Players
* ® ‘Columbus’ (Richard Hughes)
Columbus - Henry Oscar
Bo’Sunday - George Skillian
Cabin-Boy - Lewis Shaw
Manoel - Tarver Penna
Diego - Ashton Pearse
scene: deck
of Santa Maria October 1492
Friday 28 May 1925 Bournemouth 9.15-9.45
London Radio Repertory Players
* ® ‘A Month Come Sunday’ (Ashton Peats)
Monday 1 June 1925 Glasgow 9.15-9.45
* ® ‘The Dweller in the Darkness' (Reginald
Berkeley)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
Friday 5 June 1925 London 9.10-9.30
Repertory Players
* ® ‘Christopher Columbus’
(Friday 12 June 1925
Stage Reading by B.E.S.S.
‘King Henry V’
Stage of the Strand Theatre
Henry - Edmund Willard
Fluellon -
Stanley Lathbury
Earl of Cambridge
- Reginald Dunham Williams
French Princess
- Fabia Drake)
Times Saturday 13 June 1925 p 8
The practice of introducing more items of a dramatic
character is being continued today in Glasgow.
13 June 1925 Glasgow 8
Scenes from famous plays
William Macready
Edna Godfrey-Turner
Monday 15 June 1925 Birmingham XXXX
Birmingham Players
‘A Few More Loyalties’
‘The Homecoming’ (W.V. Garrod)
William Macready
Edna Godfrey-Turner
Thursday 18 June 1925 Aberdeen XXXX
‘The Dweller in Darkness’ (Reginald Berkeley) ®
Mr. Reginald Berkeley’s little play
Thursday 18 June 1925 Bournemouth XXXX
‘Christopher Columbus’ relayed from London ®
Thursday 18 June 1925 Dundee XXXX
Shakespeare Night
Thursday 18 June 1925 Glasgow XXXX
First in the serial of episodes from ‘The Three
Musketeers’ (Dumas)
Thursday 18 June 1925 Liverpool XXXX
‘The Sentimentalists’ new comedy (E.P. Genn)
Thursday 18 June 1925 Manchester XXXX
‘Gentlemen of the Road’
Saturday 20 June 1925 Aberdeen XXXX
‘The Luck Penny’ (Arthur Black)
Monday 22 June 1925 Cardiff XXXX
‘Spooks’
Monday 22 June 1925 Manchester XXXX
Daisy Kennedy
Monday 22 June 1925 Newcastle XXXXX
® ‘Trilby’
William Macready
Edna Godfrey-Turner
Tuesday 23 June 1925 London all stations except 5XX
relayed from London 8-9.50
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Shakespeare)
pr R.E. Jeffrey
Lysander -
Ernest Milton
Demetrius - Henry Oscar
Quince - Charles R. Stone
Snug - Tarver Penna
Bottom - Ivan Berlyn
Flute - Leonard Calvert
Snout - Eric Lugg
Starveling - Drelincourt Odlum
Hermia - Elaine Inescourt
Helena - Margaret Halstan
Oberon - Milton Rosmer
Titania - Irene Rooke
Puck – [D.] Hay Petrie
Fairies - Elizabeth Dundas
Times Wednesday 24 June 1925 review
The broadcast last night of the ‘Midsummer Night’s
Dream’ from the London station, though carefully carried out, rather suggested
that the transmission of a theatrical entertainment by wireless has not yet
reached a stage where it can, with complete satisfaction to listeners, be
substituted for the real thing. The cast was really strong, and the actors and
actresses spoke their lines and sang their songs well enough, but there was
some lack of conviction in the performance traceable, as one realized on
reflection, to the fact that the atmosphere cannot yet be effectively
broadcast.
Tuesday 23 June 1925 London S.B. all stations
10.30-11.15
(relay) ‘Beggar’s Opera’ Act IV relay from Lyric
Theatre, Hammersmith (RELAY)
Nigel Playfair revival
first broadcast under the new arrangements
Wednesday 24 June 1925 Newcastle
®
‘Christopher Columbus’
Thursday 25 June 1925 7.10-7.35
(relay) numbers to be broadcast direct from the
Palace Theatre by leading members of the ‘No No Nannette’ Company
7.35 (relay) ‘The Punch Bowl’ Company at His
Majesty’s direct from 2LO London
Friday 26 June 1925
2LO London London 9-9.30
‘A Sister to Assist ‘Er’ (sketch) (John Le Breton)
Mrs. May (a charlady) - Louis Hertel
Mrs. McMull (her landlady) - Helena Millais
Times p 8:
A sketch of John Le Breton’s extremely successful a
few years ago when played on the music-hall stage and is the sort of humorous
piece that ought to be very suitable for broadcasting.
Friday 26 June 1925 Belfast
® ‘Christopher Columbus’
Friday 26 June 1925 Glasgow 9.15-9.45
The Players in
* ® ‘A Month
Come Sunday’ written for broadcasting (Ashton Peats)
Saturday 27 June 1925 Aberdeen 9.35
“2BD” Players
‘A Model of Tact’ one act (A.F. Hyslop)
Saturday 27 June 1925 Belfast 9
Studio Concert
‘A Household Faery’ (Francis Talfourd)
played by William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner
Saturday 27 June 1925 Glasgow 8.50-9.15
‘The Three Musketeers’ second episode
arranged by Mungo M. Dewar and George Ross
Station Drama Company
Sunday 28 June 1925 4.15-5
‘Medea’ (Euripides)
abridged
tr. Gilbert Murray
Sybil Thorndike
Lewis Casson
Times Monday 29 June 1925 p 8:
The short argument spoken by the announcer and the introduction
of the characters were well done, but the actual performance of the play was
not so good as might have been legitimately hoped. The listener was sometimes
conscious of unevenness in transmission, of qualities in the voices of the
players that did not carry well, of periods when the movement, really
inseparable from the play, disappeared. It was suggested in an article recently
published on this page that the voice that is suitable to the theatre is not
always also the one that lends itself with success to the transmission by
wireless, and that argument one felt to be rather underlined in listening to
the ‘Medea’. In any case, all such performances should be followed with a copy
of the play before one, and should, in these days of experimentation, be heard
without prejudice.
Sunday 28 June 1925
Times Thursday 25 June 1925 p 8
From Sunday .. The first of a new series of dramatic
sketches dealing with the Arthurian legends will be broadcast from the Cardiff
station .. It is proposed to give six sketches at intervals. They have been
specially written by the Cardiff Radio Station Players with incidental music by
Mr. Warwick Braithwaite.
Monday 29 June 1925 London 9
Mabel Constanduros (entertainer) in original
sketches
Monday 29 June 1925 Manchester 9.15-9.40
London Players
‘The Dweller in the Darkness’ ®
Sunday 28 June 1925
London 4.15-5
'Medea'
Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in an abridged
version of ‘Medea’ (Euripides)
tr. Gilbert Murray
Monday 29 June 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10
“5NO” Repertory Company
‘Just Like a Woman’ a domestic trifle (Sewell
Collins)
Tuesday 30 June 1925
* ‘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
Daventry 5XX high power station into operation
Wednesday 1 July 1925 Bournemouth 9.15-9.40
‘The Little Quaker’ ®
London Repertory Players
Thursday 2 July 1925 Birmingham 8-9
(1) ‘Dream Faces’ sketch a dramatic fancy in one act
(Wynn Miller)
(2) ‘Mrs.
Hilary Reports’ sketch (Theyre Smith)
Thursday 2 July 1925 Glasgow 8.55-9.25
AD ‘The
Three Musketeers’ third episode
Glasgow Station Dramatic Company
pr George Ross
Friday 3 July 1925 Sheffield 8-10
‘The Planets’ revue in six scenes
pr Victor Smythe
dir D.E. Ormerod
Saturday 4 July 1925 Cardiff 8.25-9.15
‘May Day’ or ‘The Musical Gypsy’ (David Garrick)
a musical farce first produced at the Theatre Royal,
Drury Lane 1755
arr. Julian Herbage
Saturday 4 July 1925 Aberdeen 9.10-9.40
“2BD” Players
‘The Pipes
of Pan’ sketch (Helen MacLeod Moffat)
an improbable possiblity in two acts
Monday 6 July 1925
‘Radio Radiance Revue’
first performance of ‘Radio Radiance’ musical revue
specially prepared for broadcasting
The performance will be conducted on the same lines
as a revue in the theatre to secure the necessary ‘atmosphere’ an actual dance
chorus will be employed. The steps have been tested and found to transmit
extremely well.
three-quarters of an hour divided into 12 or 14 scenes, lasting 2 or 3 minutes.
Times 23 June 1925 p 8
sketches by Jack Heller
Arthur Chesney
Evelyn Drewe
Eddie Norris
Violet Parry
James Whigham
Bertha Russell
Chorus of Dancing Radios
(13 August 1925)
Monday 6 July 1925 Belfast 9.05-9.45
‘A Trip to Douglas’ sketch (H.R. Hayward)
Monday 6 July 1925 Birmingham 9.15-9.45
‘A Month Come Sunday’ sketch (Ashton Peats)
which is making a provincial tour, will reach and be
transmitted from Birmingham to-night
Monday 6 July 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11
‘When the Tide Comes In’ sketch (Florence Thornton
Smith)
scene: sitting-room in Vernons’ home time: time of Cromwell
Tuesday 7 July 1925 Belfast 4-5.30
‘Buying a Crystal Set’ sketch (Herbert Tatlock)
Thursday 9 July 1925 Birmingham 4.45-5.15
‘The Beauty Parlour’ sketch (G. Bernard Hughes)
Women’s Corner
Saturday 11 July 1925 London
‘Radio Radiance Revue’
Saturday 11 July 1925 Birmingham
‘The Gift of the Garden’ ‘radio fantasy’ (variety?)
Sunday 12 July 1925 London 4.20-5
‘The Travelling Man’ (Lady Gregory)
Monday 13 July 1925 Newcastle 10.30-11
Station Repertory Company
(1) ® ‘A Sister to Assist ‘Er’
(1)
®
‘Collaborators’
(the following information not listed: sketch (Daisy McGeoch) first broadcast :Tuesday 18
December 1923 London 7.30 two
characters)
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
Tuesday 14 July 1925 all stations
‘Revuesical Extravaganza’
‘Winners’
Times 1 July 1925 p 10:
first attempt to convey pure burlesque by wireless
The stage has burlesqued the B.B.C. on many
occasions.
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
15 July 1925 Manchester
(opera) ‘I Pagliacci’ (Leoncavallo)
Manchester already 15 operas
17 July 1925
Radio Times
‘The need for radio drama’
p 151
27 July 1925
Official opening of Daventry
August 1925
Monday 10 August 1925 Glasgow 9.7-9.37
'Phipps' (Stanley Houghton)
Sir Gerald - W.G. Stephen
Lady Fanny - Esther Wilson
Phipps the Butler - Ronald Scott
Scene: The library of Sir Gerald's London flat
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
Wednesday 12 August 1925 Bournemouth 8.45-9
'A Present from 'Orace' a sketch (Herman Salamon)
directed by George Stone
Miss Meek - Beatrix Cave
Brooks - James Emerson
'Orace Perkins
- George Stone
Robinson - Winifred Atkins
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
Thursday 13 August 1925 Birmingham 9-10
Scenes from Famous Plays
(1) 'Camille' (Dumas)
Georges Duval - William Macready
Marguerite - Edna Godfey-Turner
(2) 'Richelieu' (Lytton)
The Cardinal - William Macready
Julie - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Francois - William Macready
(3)
'The
Three Musketeers' (Dumas)
D'Artagnan - William Macready
Constance - Edna Godfrey-Turner
(4)
'East
Lynne' (Wood)
Archibald Carlyle - William Macready
Lady Isabel - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Friday 14 August 1925 London 10.40-11.15
Excerpts from 'By The Way' (RELAY)
Relayed from the Apollo Theatre, London
Jack Hubert
Cicely Courtneidge
and Company
S.B. to all Stations
Friday 14 August 1925 Cardiff 9-10
'The Merchant of Venice' (Shakespeare)
adapted and directed by Donald Davies
four scenes
Portia - Liliam Mills
Nerissa - Mabel Tait
Antonio - Richard Barron
Bassanio - Sidney Evans
Gratiano -
Ivor Maddox
Prince of Morocco - Horace Aye
Duke of Venice - Malcolm Watson
Tubal - Morgan Richards
Shylock - Donald Davies
incidental music by the Station Orchestra
Saturday 15 August 1925 London 9-10
'Radio Radiance'
Second Edition
(same company as first, and different material)
Monday 17 August 1925 Birmingham 5IT 8-9
The Players present
'Silence is Golden' comedy in one act (T.B.Bernard)
Mr. Sandford - William Macready
Mariam Sandford - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Arthur Merton - Donald Edwardes
Scene: Drawing-room in the Sandfords' house.
Friday 21 August 1925 2LO London 8.45-10 (mixed)
Selections from 'Herod' a poetic drama (Stephen Phillips)
RT p. 339
CARTOON
The man who goes to sleep on his aerial
Monday 24 August 1925 London 10.15-10.45
Bransly Williams
in Dickens' Characters
S.B. all stations
Monday 24 August 1925 Newcastle 9.0-9.30
The "5NO" Repertory Company in
'Scenes from Shakespeare's Comedies'
Monday 24 August 1925 Newcastle 10.15-10.45
'Enoch Arden' (Tennyson)
Declaimed by Gordon Lea
Monday 24 August 1925 Glasgow 9-10
'The Gate of Dreams' (Dion Clayton Calthorp)
Penelope Lavender - Esther Wilson
Robert Shaw (her grandfather) - J. Livingstone Dykes
Capt. Verneer (Southern Army) - Lister Warwick
Rose Shaw (her grandmother) - Susie Maxwell
Valentine Driscoll (Northern Secret Service) -
Ronald Scott
Sergeant Bunbury - Victor Bruce
Presented by George Ross
The scene represents the Shaws' garden in the
Southen States at the beginning of the war between North and South America.
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
Thursday 27 August 1925 Cardiff 9.25-9.45
'The Fog in the Bog' (Ivor Mclure)
The sixth adventure of Desmond, Tim and Podge
Presented by the author
Ivor Maddox
Sydney Evans
Donald Davies
Thursday 27 August 1925 Glasgow 3.45 - 4.00
'The Lover' a fantasy (Sierra)
Pr. Halbert Tatlock
The Queen - M. Mackenzie
The Lover - Halbert Tatlock
The Lady-in-Waiting - Victoria Radford
Scene: Salon in a Royal Palace
Saturday 29 August 1925 Manchester 8-10
An entertainment in four parts
Presented by Victor Smythe
Harry Hopewell
Hylda Metcalf
Betty Elsmore
Edith Hilton
Victor Smythe
Frank Foxon
The "2ZY" Revue Chorus
Part IV Humour, Verbal and Vocal
Saturday 5 September 1925 Birmingham 8-9.30
'A Night in Italy' (variety)
a scene with music
written by Mary Brotherton
directed by Syndey Russell
Mary Brotherton
Sydney Russell
Joseph Lewis
(other non-actors also listed)
Monday 7 September 1925 Brimingham 9-10 (mixed)
The Players in
'The Letter' (Donald Edwardes)
Jack Trent - William Macready
Capt. Cameron - Frank V. Fenn
Maude Day - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Lilian Trent - Edna Lester
Scene: The Trents' house in London
Monday 7 September 1925 Newcastle 8-9
The "ENO" Repertory Company
Scenes from 'Peer Gynt' (Henrik Ibsen)
Aase - Sal Sturgeon
Peer Gynt - Eric Barber
Kari - Renie Bruce
Solveig - Mary Pattie
The King of the Trolls - Fred Patterson
A Green-Clad Woman - Sydney Wilson
A Button Moulder - Gordon Lea
Friday 11 September 1925 Manchester 8-10
"2ZY" present
The Sixth Edition of
'The 7.30 Revue'
in five scenes
Book by Victor Smythe
including sketches by H.C. Sargent and Daisy McGeogh
presented by Victor Smythe and Eric Fogg
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
Monday 14 September 1925 Birmingham 10.15-10.45
S.B. to all stations
'Vision' (John Overton)
specially written by John Overton
for Percy Edgar
Monday 14 September 1925 Cardiff
The "5WA" Radio Players present
'An Hour in a Mid-Victorian Drawing-Room' (Tyrone
Power)
time: 1882
Monday 14 September 1925 Cardiff 9.40-9.50
The Players present
'10 Minutes of Progress' (Tyrone Power)
An Extravaganza by Tyrone Power
characters:
Dr. Portia Jope-Glaisher
Henry Jope-Glaisher
Magnolia Block
Osbert Hoyt
Sacheverall Hoyt
Gaderene B. Vancouver
(no actors listed)
Wednesday 16 September 1925 Birmingham 8-9.15
Radio Fantasy no. 7
'Moonshine' (John Overton)
music Joseph Lewis
Sir Charles Armitage - Percy Edgar
Sarah Grant (ward) - Gladys Colbourne
Thomas (footman) - Joseph Lewis
Sir Peter Winthrop - Joseph Lewis
John o' Dreams - Percy Edgar
Peter Winthrop - E.Stuart Vinden
Gaffer Hurst - Percy Edgar
A Waggoner - Joseph Lewis
Phoebe Darrell
- John Overton
The action takes place during Midsummer Eve in the
reign of George III
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
Lady 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
[listing Produced by Howard rose – at end
Incidental Music by The Station trio
[listig of actors is correct]
Monday 21 September 1925 Birmingham 10.30-10.50
The Station Players
directed by William Macready
'My Little Girl' (Dion Boucicault)
Geoffrey Linford - William Macready
Gladys - Edna Lester
Algernon Barford - Donald Edwardes
Mr. Jones - Frank V. Fenn
aunt Janet - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Scene: A country house in autumn
Friday 25 September 1925 London 8.30-10
'Winners'
Revusical Extravaganza
under the direction of R.E. Jeffrey
Friday 25 September 1925 Cardiff 8.25-8.45
'L'Avocat Patelin' 3 acts
(8 characters, no actors named)
Tuesday 22 September 1925 Glasgow 8.15-9.45
'Trilby' (Du Maurier) 4 acts
presented by George Ross
with "5SC's" Dramatic Company
S.B. to Dundee
Svengali - Ronald Scott
Talbot Wynne - R.M. Owen
McAlister - Augustus Beddie
W. Bagot - Jack Harris
Gecko - Ian Lowe
Rev. Mr. Bagot - Halbert Tatlock
Dodor - Lester Warwick
Zouzou - W.G. Stephen
Antony - J. Gibson
Lorimer - T. Trevis
Manager Kaw - L. Livingstone Dykes
Mrs. Bagot - Susie Maxwell
Madame Vinard - Peggy McIvor
Honorine -
Nana Young
Angele - Daisy Beach
Trilby O'Ferrall - Esther Wilson
singing the part of Trilby - Ella Gardner
Friday 25 September 1925 Aberdeen 10.30-11
'The Straw Wish' (Arthur Black) 1 act
directed by William Dundas
Angus - William Meston
Sandy - George Dewar
The Voice - William Dundas
Friday 25 September 1925 Belfast 2BE 9-9.40
The Players present
'Columbine' (Reginald Arkill)
play presented by Tyrone Power
Nathaniel - J.R. Mageean
Daniel - Charles K. Ayre
Columbine - Norah Campbell
Harlequin - Tyrone Power
Pierrot - Arthur Malcolm
Wednesday 30 September 1925 London 10.30-11
Donald Calthrop the well-known light comedy actor as
Himself
S.B. all stations
(nothing else listed)
Monday 28 September 1925 7.45-9.20
The Players revive
® 'A Trip to Douglas' a saga in two parts (H.
Richard-Hayward)
Charlotte Tedlie
Kitty Murphy
"Mrs. Rooney"
Elma Hayward
Pauline Barker
H. Richard Hayward
J.R. Mageean
Charles K. Ayre
Harold Lowe
(no characters listed)
[not London 30 Sept thurs]
[thurs is 14 May 1925 – not London
Thursday 14 May 1925 Belfast 7.30-10
Belfast Radio Players with Miss Flora Robson present
‘Iphigeneia in Tauris’ (Euripides)
tr Gilbert Murray
pr
Iphigeneia - Flora Robson
Orestes - Arthur Malcolm
Pylades - Tyrone Power
Thoas - G. Coffey May
Herdsman - Charles K. Ayre
Pallas Athene - Marjorie Sinclaire
Chorus: Kathleen Porter, Norah Campbell, Vera Chambers,
Doris Taunton. Marie Healey
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
Thursday 1 October 1925 Manchester 8.0 (mixed)
Victor Smythe in an Algy sketch
Thursday 1 October 1925 Glasgow 9-9.30
'Crazed' one act comedy (A.R. Phipps)
play presented by George Ross
(no director listed)
Mr. Brown, writer of operas - Lester Warwick
Mr. Smith, writer of tragedies - Ronald Scott
Sally, servant - Esther Wilson
Scene: Lodgings of Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith
Friday 2 October 1925 XXXXX 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
Friday 2 October 1925 Manchester 8-10
Opening of "2ZY" Dramatic Season
(1925-1926)
By special request
'The Witness for the Defence' four acts (A.E.W.
Mason)
presented by Victor Smythe
directed by D.E. Ormerod
Stephen Ballantyne - Charles Nesbitt
Stella Ballantyne - Hylda Metcalf
Baram Singh - L. Chatra
Harry Thresk -
Victor Smythe
Mrs. Pettifer - Betty Elsmore
Robert Pettifer -
Tom Wilson
Richard Hazelwood -
Ronald Gow
Harold Hazelwood -
D.E. Ormerod
Hubbard -
Claude Fargeon
Friday 2 October 1925 Newcastle 8.30-9
"5NO" Repertory Company
'An Old-Fashioned Girl' (Arthur Temple)
a broadcast play by Arthur Temple
Frank Selkey
- Fred Patterson
John Mackert - Alan Thompson
Ambrose Pellam - Kendrew Milson
Anne Pellam
- Sal Sturgeon
The action takes place on the high road and then in
Pelham's farmhouse.
Saturday 3 October 1925 Birmingham 9.20-10
The Station Company of Players
directed by William Macready
'Crazed' a
comedy in one act (A.K. Phillips)
Sally - Edna Godfrey-Turner
Mr. Smith - Donald Edwardes
Mr. Brown - William Macready
Monday 5 October 1925 9.30-10 Newcastle
"5N0" Repertory Company
'A Knock-Out' comedy (J. Vaughan Emmett)
(No director listed)
Humphrey Buckham - Norman Firmin
Douglas Morton - Kindrew Milson
Girl - Stella East
Railway Guard - Harold Wemyss
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: 14th. Century at night
9 October 1925 Glasgow 7.40-10
'Scenes from Peer Gynt' (Ibsen)
translated and produced by Isabelle M. Pagan
who will introduce and describe the scenes
Peer Gynt
- Stuart Black
Asse -
Violet H. Fullarton
Ingrid -
Muriel A. Taylor
Troll Princess
- Muriel A. Taylor
Troll King
- A.L. Watson
Troll Courtier -
E.A. Blanchard
Great Boyg
- E.W. Shanley
Solveig -
M.N.G. Baily
An Ugly Elf -
G.P. Davies
The Moulder of Buttons - G.P. Davies
Saturday 10 October 1925 Birmingham 9-10
'Three Scenes from Famous Comedies'
(1) 'The
School for Scandal' (Sheridan)
Sir Peter Teazle - William Macready
Lady Teazle - Edna Godfrey-Turner
(2) 'Caste'
(Robertson)
Eccles - William Macready
Esther - Edna Godfrey-Turner
(3) 'Nell
Gwynn' (Jarrold)
Rover -- William Macready
Buckingham - William Macready
Anna - Edna
Godrey-Turner
Monday 12 October 1925 Bournemouth 9.15-10
‘Radio Radiance’ second edition
Monday 12 October 1925 Newcastle 10.15-10.45
The “5NO” Repertory Company
“A Game of Bluff” (Lady Neish)
Mr. Gilbert, a mechanic – Eric Barber
Mrs. Gilbert – Una Rodenhurst
Florrie Gilbert – Stella East
Bert Warren, Booking Clerk (Florrie’s over) – Norman
Firmin
Scene: Mr. Gilbert’s Parlour
Presented by Kendrew Milson
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.
Wednesday 14 October 1925 Glasgow 8.10-8.40
‘The Fourth Man’ one act comedy (Austin Philips and
Edward Cecil)
George Finlay – W.G. Stephen
John Cunningham (Private Schoolmaster) – Lester
Warwick
Canon Lamb (an Anglican Clergyman) – T.M. Eadey
Palfrey
A Waiter – I.A. Gibson
Hall Porter – Ronald Scott
Servants at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Scene: A Private Room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Presented by George Ross
Thursday 15 October 1925 Hull 8.30-9.5
‘The Constant Lover’ (St. John Hankin)
(No characters or actors listed)
Friday 16 October 1925 London 9.30-10
RELAY
Excerpts from the musical comedy at the theatre
‘Dear Little Billy’
relayed from the Shaftesbury Theatre, London
S.B. to all Stations except Belfast
Monday 19 October 1925 Glasgow 8.35-9.20
‘Roads of Destiny’ (O. Henry)
O. Henry’s Fable of the Open Road re-told for
listening by Halbert Tatlock
David Mignot, a Shepherd Poet – Eric Lyall
Yvonne, his Dairy-Maid Fiancee – Madge MacKenzie
His Fate – Halbert Tatlock
A Perfumed Lady – Victoria Radford
The Terrible Marquis – Halbert Tatlock
The Landlord – Douglas Robertson
The Duke D’Aumale – Lester Warwick
Presented by Halbert Tatlock with his Dramatic
Company
Monday 19 October 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10
The “5NO” Repertory Company
‘That Brute Simmons’ (Arthur Morrison and Herbert C.
Sargent)
Thomas Simmons – Norman Firmin
Bob Ford – Kendrew Milson
Mrs. Simmons – Sal Sturgeon
Scene: The kitchen in the Simmons’ house at Bow.
Presented by Sal Sturgeon
Monday 19 October 1925 Belfast 8.5-9.30
The Radio Players present
‘Hip! Hip! Hooradio!’
A Revue
Originated by Gerald Macnamara, Tyrone Power and H.
Richard Hayward
Grace Ivell
Vivian Worth
Kathleen Porter
H. Richard Hayward
Tyrone Power
Sanders Warren
Compere: J.R. Mageean
four sketches
Tuesday 20 October 1925 Daventry 9 (mixed)
Middleton Woods in an original character sketch
written specially for broadcasting
‘A Chat on a Park Seat’
Tuesday 20 October 1925 Liverpool 9.30-9.50
The Station Repertory Players
‘The Rest Cure’ comedy in one act (Gertrude G.
Jennings)
Muriel – Pauline Parry
Alice Palmer (Dark Cat) – Muriel Levy
May Williams (Fair Cat) – Marvel Hulme
Olive Reed – Barbara Clements
Clarence Reed – Gerald W. Taylor
Scene: A Bedroom in a Nursing Home
Presented by Edward P.Genn
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
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 21 October 1925 Manchester 8-9.45 (mixed)
The Dramatic Company in
‘The Nelson Touch’ (Frederick Fener)
Presented by Victor Smythe
Sarah Rigley – Mary Eastwood
Samuel Denyer – Edward Mawdsley
Lieut. Quilliam – Ronald Gow
Lord Nelson – Victor Smythe
Scene: The “Oak of England” Inn on the Portsmouth
Road.
Time: Early morning
Wednesday 21 October 1925 Glasgow 8.40-9.15
* ‘Down Channel’ a wireless drama (Arlton Edie)
(Author of ‘A Clue from Mars’, ‘The Haunted Radio’
etc.)
Capt. John Harvey, Master of the SS. Teviotdale -
Ronald Scott
McTaggart, Chief Officer – J.W. Gibson
Eli Dale, Owner of the Dale Line of Steamships –
Lester Warwick
Richard Dale, son – Richard Stephen
Margaret, daughter – Esther Wilson
Upper deck of the SS. Teviotdale
Presented by George Ross and the Station Drama
Company
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)
Friday 23 October 1925 Manchester 8-10 (mixed)
The Dramatic Company in
‘The Happy State’ (J. Wardle)
Presented by Victor Smythe
John Burton – Tom Wilson
Sarah Burton – Lucia Rogers
Percy Jones – Charles Nesbitt
Ethel Smith Robinson – Stella Cassell
Scene: The Burton’s Sitting-Room
Time: Afternoon
Friday 23 October 1925 Newcastle 9.15-10
‘Radio Radiance’ second edition
Directed by James Lester and R.E. Jeffrey
Friday 23 October 1925 Plymouth 8.40-9.10
A duologue
(1) ‘Two in
a Trap’ (Albert E. Drinkwater)
Jim – Ian Shepherd
Kit – Delsie Edgar
Scene: A Flat in Chelsea
(2)
‘The
Sentimentalists’ (Edward P. Genn)
The Woman – Delsie Edgar
Young Man – Ian Shepherd
An Ogre – Ian Shepherd
Friday 23 October 1925 Aberdeen 8.17-8.40
‘The New Barn’ one act (Arthur Black)
Jamed Leslie – Gordon Malcolm
Mrs. Leslie – Grace R. Wilson
Hector McKechnie – William Mestor
Reginald Holl – William Dundas
Scene: A Farm House
Directed by Wiliam Dundas
Thursday 22 October 1925 Cardiff 9-9.30
‘A Love Passage’ one act comedy (W.W. Jacobs and
P.E. Hubbard)
Jack Hall (First Officer of the SS. Jessica)
Sam Bross (Capt. Alsen’s Steward)
Betty Halsen (daughter)
Scene: The saloon of the SS. Jessica
Performed by the “5WA” Radio Players
(No actors listed)
Saturday 24 October 1925 Birmingham 8-9.35
Radio Fantasy no. 9
‘Harvest Time’ (John Overton)
Music specially arranged by Joseph Lewis
Chorus – Joseph Lewis
An Old Farmer – Percy Edgar
A Waggoner – Harold Howes
A Faun – Joseph Lewis
John O’ Dreams – Percy Edgar
Paddy O’Shaughnessy – William Macready
Music by the Station Orchestra
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Saturday 24 October 1925 Aberdeen 8-10
‘A Tale of Alsatia’
A London picaresque in three acts
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)
Monday 26 October 1925 Birmingham 9-10 (mixed)
The Station Players
‘By Special Request’ comedy one act (Malcolm Watson)
Sir Henry Dene – William Macready
Blake (a servant) – Donald Edwardes
Arthur Stannard – Frank V. Fenn
Lady Dene – Edna Godfrey-Turner
Scene: Lady Dene’s Boudoir in Sir Henry’s London
house.
Monday 26 October 1925 Aberdeen 9.15-10
‘Radio Radiance’ Fourth edition
Wednesday 28 October 1925 Birmingham 9.15-10
‘Radio Radiance’ Fourth edition
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)
Friday 30 October 1925 Dundee 8.30-10 (mixed)
The Dramatic Society presents
‘The Pie in the Oven’ one act (J.J. Bell)
Under the direction of James B. Douglas
Scene: A kitchen in a small cottage in the country.
Time: Evening
(No actors listed)
Friday 30 October 1925 Nottingham 8-9
An Hour by the Nottingham Shakespeare Society
‘Richard III’ Act I Scene 4
‘The Merchant of Venice’ Act III Scene 1
‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act II Scene 2
‘Othello’
Act V Scene 2
Saturday 31 October 1925 Aberdeen 8-8.25
‘The Dear Departed’ comedy one act (Stanley
Houghton)
Mrs. Slater – Christine Crowe
Victoria Slater – Lorna Reid
Henry Slater – Gordon Malcolm
Mrs. Jordan – Daisy Moncur
Ben Jordan – G.R. Harvey
Abel Merryweather – G.R. Harvey
Scene: The action takes place in a provincial town
on a Saturday afternoon.
Directed by William Dundas
Monday 2 November 1925 Manchester 8-10
The Manchester Station Dramatic Company in
‘A Fool’s Paradise’ three acts (Sidney Grundy)
First performance at the Garrick Theatre 2 January
1892
Presented by Victor Smythe
Directed by D.E. Ormerod
Hon. Tom Verinder – Ronald Gow
Mildred Selwyn – Edith Leach
Kate Derwent – Hylda Metcalf
Philip Selwyn – Victor Smythe
Beatrice Selwyn – Angela Lopez
Sir Peter Lund – Edward Bridgstock
Price (Butler) – Charles Nesbitt
Lord Normantower – John Marchant
Johnson (maid) – Betty Elsmore
Monday 2 November 1925 Glasgow 8.35-9.15
New Story Recital Series
No. 1 – ‘The Social Aspirant’ (Percival Steeds)
The Story of Moliere’s ‘Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’
Scenes presented by the Percival Steeds’ Dramatic
Company
Monday 2 November 1925 Glasgow 9.15-10
‘Radio Radiance’ Fourth edition
Monday 2 November 1925 Newcastle 9.15-9.40
Newcastle Station Repertory Company
Presented by Sal Sturgeon
‘The Burglar’ one act (Clarence Ponting)
Jim Quest – Alan Thompson
Lily Quest – Sal Sturgeon
Scene: The dining-room of a small country bungalow
The Radio Times 6 November 1925 vol 9 no 111
Three Years – Two Committees by J. Reith
p 291
A prolonged mystery drama will be broadcast on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, December 7, 9th. and 12th.
The crime will take place in the London Studio on the 7th. The trial
will take place on the 9th, but will be stopped at the critical
moment. Between the 9th and the 12th, listeners will be
asked to provide their own solutions of the mystery, and on the 12th,
the secret will be disclosed. The prize for correct solutions will be announced
later.
Wednesday 18 November 1925 Dundee
* ‘The Moon Path’ specially written for the occasion
(first birthday)
The Radio Times 6 November 1925 vol 9 no 111
RT p 292
Henry Ainley
the finest elocutionist of today
joined Sir Frank Benson’s company
Paolo in ‘Paolo and Francesca‘ at St. James’ Theatre
1902
After the first
night of which he literally awoke to find himself famous.
Miss Cathleen Nesbitt who is said to be the highest
salaried juvenile leading lady on the stage.
first appearance in ‘The Cabinet Minister’ at the
Court 1910
Laura Cowie will broadcast her original part in ‘Hassan’.
p 292
Mary Rorke
debut 1873
leading member of Sir Henry Irving’s company at the
Lyceum
cinema acting
David Calthrop made such a name for himself at
‘Yoicks’ at the Kingsway Theatre.
favourite part is Eugene Marchbanks in ‘Candida’.
debut 1906 at the Comedy Theatre
one of the most enterprising of our younger
actor-managers
Shakespeare revivals at the Kingsway
Thursday 5 November 1925 Glasgow 9-10 (mixed)
‘The Pierrot of the Minute’ (Ernest Dowson)
A dream play
Pierrot – A. Parry Gunn
A Moon Maiden – Alice Parry Gunn
Scene: A glade in the park of the Petit Trianon
Saturday 7 November 1925 London 8-10
‘Radio Radiance’ Eighth Edition
Saturday 7 November 1925 Manchester 8-10
Special Concert from the ‘Manchester Evening
Chronicle’
Wireless Exhibition in City Hall
Burlesques by the Station Dramatic Company
Presented by Victor Smythe
[correct listing]
Sunday 8 November 1925 London 3.30-5.30
‘Hassan’ adaptation (James
Elroy Flecker)
A Poetical Play
Incidental music by Frederick Delius
Full Chorus
Conducted by Percy Fletcher
Cast includes
Hassna – Henry ainley
Caliph – Esmi Percy
Ishak – Leon Quartermaine
Pervaneh – Laura Cowie
Yasmin – Cathleen Nesbitt
Presented by Donald Clathrop and R.E. Jeffrey
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)
The London Mercury October 1923 Vol. VIII No. 48,
561-4
Editorial Notes
[Review of ‘Hassan’]
.. There is a tendency in some places to suggest
that Flecker’s play gas been swamped in scenery and appurtenances. .. The
visual spectacle now to be seen at His Majesty’s would have delighted the
author of ‘Hassan’.
… The performance however, is not an ideal
performance.
Leon Quartermain with his wife Fay Compton
‘The Man with a Load of Mischief’ at the Haymarket
debut 1894
Friday 6 November 1925 Nottingham 8-10 (mixed)
(1) ‘South
East and South West’ duologue (Vera Beringer)
Gertrude Mullins – Ruby Barlow
Hon. Arthur Cunningham – Everard Guilford
Scene: A seat in a London park
(2)
‘The Brass Door-Knob’ a spy play (Matthew Boulton)
Mrs. Bradbury – Ruby Harlow
“Mr. Hawker” the spy – Everard Guilford
Scene: The Bradbury’s Flat
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)
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
Wednesday 11 November 1925 Birmingham 10.30-11
‘Peace’ a protean interlude from Birmingham
specially written by John Overton for Percy Edgar
Wednesday 11 November 1925 Manchester 6.15-6.35
The Station Dramatic Company in a Commemoration
Fantasy
‘The Spirit of the Cenotaph’ (H. Topliss)
Presented by Victor Smythe
First News-Boy – Charles Nesbitt
Second News-Boy – George Gaudin
Jack – Victor Smythe
Fred – Ronald Gow
The Spirit of the Cenotaph – Tom Wilson
Mind Picture: It is Armistice Evening. The sounds of
a busy city – trams, taxis, news-boys etc. – are heard in the background.
Scene: The Cenotaph
Friday 13 November 1925 Glasgow 4.15-4.40
‘Buying a House’ one act comedy (Halbert Tatlock)
presented by Halbert Tatlock
Margaret – Madge McKenzie
Peter (her man) – Halbert Tatlock
The Factor – Will Douglas
Describing a tragic experience of everyday life.
Written specially for Glasgow listeners.
Wednesday 18 November 1925 Newcastle 8.45
'Force, Wits and a Woman' (Julius Hare)
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)
Sunday 29 November 1925 Newcastle 9.30-10.15
The Newcastle Station Repertory Company
‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ (W.B. Yeats)
Maurteen Bruin – Eric Barber
Bridget Bruin – Sal Sturgeon
Shawn Bruin – James Herdman
Father Hart – Alan Thompson
A Fairy Child – Betty Humble
Presented by Gordon Lea
Wednesday 30 November 1925 Manchester 10.30-11
The Station Drama Company
'The Changeling' (W.W. Jacobs and A.C. Sargeant)
Presented by Victor Smythe
George Henshaw – Victor Smythe
Mrs. Henshaw – Betty Elsmore
Ted Stokes – A.G. Mitcheson
Scene: The garden of the Henshaw’s house in Bermondsey.
Upon the table are the remains of supper – consistingof cheese rind and stale
bread. Mrs. Henshaw takes the last drink from the beer jug as her husband,
George, enters. The latter is a scrubby little man dressed as a mechanic.
RT 18 December 1925 p 595
photo of Capt. Eckersley
Wednesday 2 December 1925 Manchester 8-10
The Station Drama Company
'John Rutherford and Son' 3 acts (Githa Sowerby)
Presented by Victor Smythe
Directed by D.E. Ormerod
Janet Rutherford – Marion Thwaite Matthews
Ann Rutherford – Carrie West
Mary Rutherford – Hylda Metcalf
John Rutherford – Victor Smythe
Richard Rutherford – Tom Wilson
John Rutherford (The Master) – Edward Mawdesley
Martin (The Works Manager) – E.J.Bridgstock
Mrs. Henderson – Mary Eastwood
Scene: The living-room in John Rutherford’s house,
which stands on the edge of the moor – far enough from the village to preserve
its dignity, and near enough to admit of the Master going to and fro from the
Works in a few minutes.
Two days elapse between Acts 1 and 2.
Wednesday 2 December 1925 Belfast 9.20-9.30
First performance of
‘The Knocking at the Door’ (Richard Rowley)
The man (an elderly invalid) – Charles K. Ayre
His wife (A smoother in a Hankerchief Factory) –
Jeannie Erskine
Scene: Their home in Belfast
RT 4 December 1925 p 482
Broadcasting and Other Things by George Graves, the
comedian
Standing before the microphone, that soulless and
appallingly unsympathetic “gadget” which was to convey my sayings to a waiting
world. I came nearer to knowing “nerves”, as the term is understood in the
theatre, than at any other time in my life.
[MICROPHONE]
Friday 4 December 1925 Dundee
'Rob Roy'
Friday 4 December 1925 Belfast 8.45-9.10
The Repertory Players
‘Force, Wits and a Woman’ (Julius Hare)
Montague –
Henry Oscar
Ainsworth – Herbert Ross
Ruth – Phyllis Panting
Landlord – Victor Lewisohn
Ireton – Michael Hogan
This depicts a dramatic episode in the days of the
Cavaliers and Roundheads.
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’ 6th edition
Monday 7 December 1925 Newcastle 8.45-9
London Radio Repertory Players
‘The War in Spain’ = Cardiff