Thursday 7 January 1926 Cardiff 8-10

'An Ideal Husband' (Oscar Wilde)

The Earl of Caversham - Donald Davies

Viscount Goring - John Derwent

Sir Robert Chiltern - Hesketh Pearson

Phipps  -   Arthur Long

Mason – Arthur Long

James – Arthur Long

Lady Chiltern - Lilian Mills

Lady Markby - Felice Hyde

Miss Mabel Chiltern - Lilian King

Mrs. Cheverley - Mary O'Farrell

 

 

Wednesday 13 January 1926 Cardiff 8-10 (mixed)

The Creative Genius – 1.

The Musical and Dramatic Description of

The Triumph of Beethoven

Written and arranged by Reginald H. Hobbs

Presented by the Gwent Radio Players

Beethoven – Frederick Culley

Songs by

Ronald Chivers

Vera McComb Thomas

[8 scenes, with music]

 

 

Thursday 14 January 1926 Cardiff 8.55-9.15

‘Admiral Peters’ (W.W. Jacobs and Horace Mills)

A very amusing little sketch by W.W. Jacobs and Horace Mills.

George Burton, a naval pensioner, anxious to make an impression on Mrs. Dutton, an attractive widow, persuades his old messmate Joe Stiles, to impersonate an admiral. The “Admiral” plays his part do well that George sees his “prize” slipping away from him, till the curtain falls on a welcome surprise.

[no actors listed]

 

 

 

 

Monday 18 January 1926 Cardiff 8.45-9.15

‘The Stallions of Gore Ash’

The London Radio Repertory Players

Including

Henry Oscar and Michael Hogan

The scene is an old moated Grange at Gore Ash, the seat of Mr. Priest’s friend – Sir Ralph West, a keen sportsman and traveller just returned from abroad, with whom Priest is staying the week-end.

The Action takes place in the hall, the oak-panelled dining-room and the stables of the Grange.

 

 

Thursday 21 January 1926 Cardiff 8.30-9.5

‘A Marriage for Marged’ (R.F. Thurtle)

Mrs. Llewellyn – Miss McDonald Taylor

Marged – Evelyn Shapley

Mrs. Hughes – Miss Weatherspoon

Trevor – The Author

It has a domestic setting, the scene being a Welsh miner’s home.

 

Thursday 28 January 1926 Cardiff 8-10 (mixed)

Famous Love Scenes

Artists:

Hesketh Pearson

Mary O'Farrell

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act II, Scene 2

‘Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell’

‘Cyrano and Roxane’

Act III, Scene 6

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Act V, Scene 1

 

Wednesday 11 August 1926 Cardiff 9.5-9.30

‘Voices’ a light comedy in one act (Bernard Newman)

Produced by Gordon McConnel

George Smithers (A Free Lance Journalist) – Sidney Evans

Roland Thorpe (His Friend) – Donald Davies

Madge Taunton – Gwen Powell

Flora Newton – Lilian Lewis

George Smithers, young and impressionable, has taken a flat, recently occupied by his boisterous friend, Roland Thorpe. George has fallen in love with a girl’s voice, which came out one night ringing throughout the darkness from a flat opposite. Assisted by Roland, he endeavours to discover the identity of the unknown singer, with astonishing results.

 

 

Wednesday 18 August 1926 Cardiff 8.30-9

‘An Elder of the Kirk’ (Allan MacBeth)

Maggie Anderson – Anne Stephenson

Tammas Anderson – Alan MacBeth

Tom – John MacDonnell

Mollie – Phyllis Panting

The amusing history of how a Scots Elder received the news of his son’s wedding to an actress and the strategy which caused him to be eventually reconciled to the fact.

 

Thursday 26 August 1926 Cardiff 8.45-9.10

‘Only Mother’(Florence E. Williams)

A Comedy in One Act

Produced by Gordon McConnel

Pauline Trescott – Kate Sawle

Dorothy – Susie Stevens

Denis – Sidney Evans

Philip Carroll – Donald Davies

Janet – Dorothy Coombes

This play might have as a subtitle ‘A lesson for daughters’.

 

Tuesday 7 September 1926  Cardiff and Daventry  8.10-8.45

* ‘Birds of a Feather’ Welsh comedy in one act (John Oswald Francis)

Specially written for the microphone

Twm Tinker – Donald Davies

Dicky Bach Dwl – Sidney Evans

Jenkins, the keeper – Lyndon Harries

The Bishop of mid-Wales – Richard Barron

Mind picture: - Imagine that you are looking at a country road running from left to right before your line of vision. In the background trees in full summer foliage divide the road from a moor. It is eleven o’clock on a bright moonlight night.

Close to a roadside fire there are two old boxes. On one of these sits Twm Tinker, a vagrant poacher of about forty-five. On the ground at his feet is a frying pan containing steak and onions. As he finishes his supper he soliloquizes and almost immediately Dickey Bach Dwl, another poacher, is heard singing not far away.

 

 

Wednesday 8 September 1927 Cardiff 10.15-10.43

The London Repertory Players present

‘Grey Ash’ (Leonora Thornber)

Renee – Phyllis Panting

Anna – Peggie Robb-Smith

Sir John Ferguson – Percy Rhodes

Sigurd Nikita – Henry Oscar

 

 

 

Thursday 16 September 1926 Cardiff 8.25-8.50

‘The Open Door’ (Alfred Sutro)

Lady Tormister – Eileen Hartley Hodder

Sir Geoffrey Transom – Hedley Goodall