Sunday 3 January 1926 2LO London  10-10.15

'Twelfth Night' I,2  The sea coast (Shakespeare)

Duke - Howard Rose

Curio - Lawrence Gowdy

Viola - Hilda Bruce-Potter

Clown - Tom Clayson

Attendants

 

Monday 4 January 1926 2LO London SB Bournemouth Glasgow Birmingham  10.30-11

*  'The Dweller in the Darkness' (Reginald Berkeley) ®

a play of the unknown in one act

written for broadcasting

original cast

(characters in order of speaking)

Mrs. Vyner  -  Mabel Constanduros

Henry  -   Michael Hogan

Phyllis Vyner  -  Phyllis Panting

Mr. Mortimer  -   Henry Oscar

Mr. Vyner -      Herbert Ross

Professor Urquhart -   Laurence Gowdy

The scene is a card room at Hardenby Court, a large house rented furnished by Mr. Vyner. The room is a comfortable one with shaded electric lights and a parquet floor. The time and the characters will be made plain in the course of the play.

 

 

Tuesday 5 January 1926 London 8.05-10

Arthur Bourchier and his West End Company

in a dramatized version of

'Treasure Island' (Stevenson)

arranged for broadcasting

The London Wireless Orchestra conducted by Dan Godfrey

 

Wednesday 6 January 1926 2LO London  8-10

'The Dogs of Devon' a comic opera

Book and Lyrics by F.H. Bell and Harold Ellis

Music by W.H. Bullock

 

Thursday 7 January 1926 London 7.40-9

'A Pickwick Party' (Stanley C. West)

A Dickens Dream Fantasy

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

pr Howard Rose

The music composed by Marjorie Broughton

The scene is in the parlour of the Marquis O' Granby Inn at Christmas

Time - the present day

(no actors listed)

 

 

 

Tuesday 12 January 1926 London 8.5-10

* 'Milestone of Dancing and Romance' (Capt. Frank H. Shaw)

arranged by R.E. Jeffrey

A series of romantic episodes in the history of a family dating from about 1660

These will be given with a background of dance music appropriate to the period.

[no actors listed]

 

Wednesday 13 January 1926 London 9.25-10

'Passion, Poison and Petrefaction' (Bernard Shaw)

pr Donald Calthrop

[no actors listed]

 

 

Friday 15 January 1926 London 8.50-9.20

‘Mercenary Mary’

Relayed from the London Hippodrome

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 19 January 1926 London 8.5-9 mixed

'The Tell-Tale  Heart' a dramatic monologue (Poe)

 

 

 

 

Thursday 21 January 1926 London 8-9

'A Pickwick Party' (Stanley C. West)

(A Dickens Dream Fantasy)

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Directed by Howard Rose

[no actors listed]

 

Friday 22 January 1926 London

8.22-8.42

* ‘The War in Spain’ (Richard Hughes)

A short one-act dream play

Written for broadcasting by Richard Hughes

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Produced by Howard Rose

A Voice – Michael Hogan

A Dreamer – Henry Oscar

Mother – Mabel Constanduros

Mary – Phyllis Panting

Mary’s Father – Herbert Ross

The Spanish – Victor Lewisohn

 

 

Sunday 24 January 1926 London 5.10-5.45

Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson

'The Death of Queen Katherine'

'Henry VIII' (Shakespeare)

 

 

Thursday 28 January 1926 London 8.30-9.40

'Drake' (Louis N. Parker)

shortened version

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Drake  -  Lyn Harding

Queen Elizabeth -  Edyth Goodall

Thomas Doughty -  Howard Rose

Lyn Harding and Howard Rose were in the original production at His Majesty's in 1912.

 

 

 

Friday 5 February 1926 London 8.15-8.45

® * 'The Quest of Elizabeth' a play for broadcasting (Reginald Berkeley) (no script)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

directed by Howard Rose

Elizabeth  -  Lorna Hubbard

Nurse  -  Mabel Constanduros

Sister   -  Jean Shepherd

Dr Hobday / Jack  -  Michael Hogan

Davy Jones - Victor Lewisohn

Dr Anderson / Sir Aubrey  -  Henry Oscar

Jack Horner / Bill Timbertoes  -  Herbert Ross

The scene is a hospital in London and the time is the present day. While under an anaesthetic, Elizabeth, who, as it transpires has met with an accident, dreams her dream goes on her quest.

 

Thursday 1 April 1926 2LO London 8-8.40

‘The Disorderly Room’ (Eric Blore)

The army sketch that made England laugh

produced by Tommy Handley

Officer – Tommy Handley

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Private Jones – Lance George

Private May – James Wingham

Scene: an orderly room somewhere in France

 

‘A Tragedy at Midnight’ one act sketch (Lawrence Anderson)

pr. Howard Rose

Jim – Lawrence Anderson

Mary – Phyllis Panting

Jim and Mary are at a dance. They have just left the ballroom and are seated on a sofa in a small ante-room.

 

 

Tues 6 April 1926 2LO London 8.45-9

‘Loyalty’ a fanciful fragment (H.E. Bates)

pr  R.E. Jeffrey

Aunt Matilda – Miriam Ferris

Mrs. Peach – Mabel Constanduros

Mr. Peach – Henry Oscar

David, their son – Michael Hogan

June, a girl – Phyllis Panting

The time is saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock. The scene is a stiff though confortably furnished room, in a provincial house.

 

Friday 9 April 1926 2LO London 8.35-9.5

Adelphi relay

Excerpts from ‘Wildflower’ a musical play

 

Fri 23 April 1923 2LO London 8-9.15

Programme introduced by Basil Dean

‘Shakespeare and St. George’

Lilian Baylis

London Radio Players

‘King Lear’, Act iv, Sc 6

Earl of Gloucester – Wilfred Walter

Edgar – Howard Rose

 

‘King John’ v,7

Prince Henry – Michael Hogan

Pembroke – Philip Wade

Salisbury – Tristan Rawson

King John – Henry Oscar

Philip Falconbridge – Edmund Willard

 

 

Thursday 29 April 1926 2LO London   8-9.30

‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’  (Oscar  Wilde)

presented by R. A. Jeffrey

Lord Windermere  - Milton Rosmer

Lord Darlington – Henry Oscar

Cecil Graham – Philip Wade

Dunby – Harold Meade

Lady Windermere – Cathleen Nesbitt

Parker – Harding Steerman

Mrs. Erlynne – Irene Rooke

Lady Jedburgh – Edith Hunter

Lady Plymdale – Marjorie Clark-Jervoise

 

Friday 30 April 1926 2LO London 7.15-11

Daily Graphic Ł500 mystery concert

Several mystery novelties and sound-effect cameos will be broadcast

included in this programme is

*? ‘Fatal Thirteen’

a radio mystery play (Alfred Judd)

in which Henry Oscar, Michael Hogan, Ralph de Rohan and Rothbury Evans form the cast.

 

 

Saturday 8 May 1926 2LO London 8-8.30

R.A. Roberts

The famous protean actor in

‘Cruel Coppinger’ (R.A. Roberts)

written and acted entirely by himself

 

Saturday 8 May 1926 2LO London  10.20-10.35

*  ‘The Rum Runners’ (no script)

A listening-play written for broadcasting (Richard Hughes)

Presented by  R.E. Jeffrey

Characters:

The Captain of a rum-runner schooner

Mr. Harris (the Schooner’s mate)

A pirate (whose voice is heard through a megaphone)

Other sailers

All up and down the coast of the Eastern States of America from off New York to the end of Long Island there now stretches what is called Rum Row; it is a mixed collection of the vessels of every nations, from battered old wind-jammers to tramps and even yachts.

The boat that you will board tonight is a small fast-sailing schooner which has left the Row itself, and in order to cut the profits of the motor-launch, the middle-man has gone up north to run its cargo ashore. The night is wild and squally with a high sea running. The desperate little vessel has successfully put into shore, landed her cargo, and is now beating for the open sea.

 

Sun 9 May 1926 2LO London 5.30-6

Mrs. Patrick Campbell as ‘Lady Macbeth’

1,5

1.7

2.2

111.2

v.1

 

Monday 10 May London  1926 8-8.50

* ‘What would you do’?

A competition organised with Pearson’s Weekly

Four short dramatic sketches will be enacted in the studio. Each sketch will terminate in an ambiguous situation. For the best solutions of these playlets, the Editor of Pearson’s Weekly offers prizes to the value of Ł100.

The sketches will be presented by R.E. Jeffrey.

Interpreted by

Theo Charlton

Michael Hogan

Phyllis Panting

Miriam Ferris

Henry Oscar

Philip Wade

(1)                            ‘The Crossroads’ (Robert Magill)

at a corner in the suburbs of London where four streets cross, Herbert meets his friend George, who is riding a motor-cycle. George stops as Herbert calls to him.

(2) ‘Birds of a Feather’ ( )

In a bachelor’s sitting-room Montague Montmorency and his friend Percy Tufto are discussingthe former’s unfortunate engagement with Poppy Vavasour, a somewhat gay young lady.

(3) ‘The Fatal Flaw’

(4) ‘Dinner For Six’

 

Wednesday 26 May 1926 London  1926 10-11 mixed

* ‘The Telegram’   (no script)

A short play written specially for broadcasting (Rupert Croft-Cooke)

presented by Howard Rose

Sir William Brent (former chief of police) – Henry Oscar

Mr. Harold Gandy (an eminent novelist) – Bryan Powley

Robert Stone – Adrian Byrne

John Bedford – Michael Hogan

Sergeant Campbell – J.C. Lawrence

Long (Butler) – Reginald Dance

Sir William Brent is sitting by the fire in the dining-room of Ridgewood, a large house in an out-of-the-way suburb. Dinner is laid for four persons. Long comes in to announce the arrival of Mr. Gandy and Mr. Stone.

 

 

Sunday 30 May 1926 2LO London 5.30-5.45

Shakespeare’s Heroines no. 5

Desdemona

Gwen Frangcon-Davies

Othello 3,3 1v,2  iv, 3  v,2

 

 

Tuesday 1 June 1926 2LO London 10-10.30

* ‘Wolf! Wolf!’

A mystery play written specially for broadcasting (Ernest Hope)

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Full particulars of the competition on page 350

The characters speak in the following order

Betty Gatehouse –

Jack Latham

Sir George Gatehouse

Lady Gatehouse

Reginal Gatehouse

Ah Fong

Michael Severing

James (butler)

The action takes place in the house occupied by Sir George and Lady Gatehouse, which they have rented from Michael Severing, a rich man of whom little is known. We first hear Betty and Jack discussing affairs which are of considerable importance in themselves.

 

Sunday 6 June 1926 2LO London 5-5.30

Shakespeare’s Heroines no. 6

‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Beatrice – Edith Evans

Leonato – Bryan Powley

Antonio – Ralph de Rohan

Claudio –Grosvenor North

Hero – Phyllis Thomas

Don Pedro – Andrew Churchman

Benedick – Baliol Holloway

1,1

2, 1

iv, 1

v,2

 

Tuesday 8 June 1926 2LO London 7.40-9.30

‘Monsieur Beaucaire’ (Frederick Lonsdale)

A radio version produced by Frederick Lloyd

Monsieur Beaucaire – Kingsley Lark

Molyneux – Sydney Coltham

Duke of Winterset – Joseph Farrington

Beau Nash – John Turner

Capt. Badger – Stuart Robertson

Lucy – Olive Groves

Lady Mary – Blanche Tomlin

 

Monday 7 June 1927 2LO London 10-10.30

Mystery Serial

III

(The Final Episode)

 

Thursday 10 June 1926 2LO London 8.45-9.15

‘The Woman in Chains’ (H.V. Esmond)

Presented by Howard Rose

Sir George Hopleigh – Spencer Trevor

Geoffrey – Lawrence Gowdy

Mrs. Althusis – Eva Moore

The play takes place in Mrs. Althusis’s house, during a dance.

 

 

Friday 11 June 1926 2LO London 10-11

Street scenes in London town

A programme arranged and directed by Cecil Lewis

1     Westminster and Whitehall

2         Piccadilly and Hampstead Heath

 

Scene from ‘Oliver Cromwell’ (John Drinkwater)

Dialogues by Mabel Constanduros

Claire Harris

Cyril Lidington

Mary O’Farrell

Irene Rorke

Milton Rosmer

 

13 June 1926 2LO London 5.30-6

Shakespeare’s Heroines no 7

‘Twelfth Night’

Viola – Laura Cowie

Olivia – Fabia Drake

Maria – Gipsy Ellis

Malvolio – Howard Rose

Duke – Ian Fleming

Curio – Ernest Haines

Clown – Tom Goodey

1,5

2,2

2,4

3.1

 

Wednesday 16 June 1926 2LO London 8-9.30

‘The Way of an Eagle’

A studio version of the play, founded on the well-known book by Ethel M. Dell

Directed by Howard Rose

 (no cast)

 

Sunday 20 June 1926 2LO London 5.30-5.50

Shakespeare’s Heroines

Hamlet

Ophelia

Fay Compton

Polonius – Ivor Barnard

Hamlet – Ion Swinley

Queen – Dorothy Freshwater

A Gentleman / Horatio – Eric Messiter

King – Goilbert Heron

Laertes – Lawrence Anderson

2, 1

3,1

4,5

 

 

Tuesday 22 June 1926 2LO London 8.35-8.55

‘The Play’s the Thing’

A double bill

But what about two plays?

First listen to a five-minute drama – and then to a five-minute comedy; and then listen to the two plays acted together as one.

The result is !!!

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

 

Thurs 24 June 1926 2LO London 8.9.30 mixed

‘The Coiner’ a comedy of Irish life in one act (Bernard Duffy)

Presented by Howard Rose

James Canatt – Adrian Byrne

Tom M’Clippen – Ben Field

Catherine Canatt – Joyce Tremayne

John Canatt – Felix Irwin

Police Sergeant – Ernest Digges

James Canatt is in the kitchen of his cottage arranging the coals with the tongs in order to nurse a small flame. There is a lighted candle on the table and the kettle on the hob.

 

Rt 25 June 1926 p 7

‘Wolf! Wolf!’

the result of our serial-dramas competition

photo

‘Mother! Your diamonds ! They’re gone!’

A scene in the London Studio during the performance

Annie Esmond, Henry Oscar, Phyllis Panting, Theo Charlton, Alan Howland

 

Sunday 27 June 1926 2LO London 5.15-5.45

Shakespeare’s Heroines no 9

Cleopatra

Gertrude Elliott

‘Antony and Cleopatra’

Charmian – Dorothy Dayus

Mardian – Ernest Haines

Messenger – Philip Wade

Diomedes – Alan Howland

Iris – Dorothy Borrett

Clown – Theo Charlton

Anthony – Wilfred Walter

2,5  3,3  4,13   5,2

 

 

Tuesday 29 June 1926 2LO London    8.15-9.30 mixed

*  ‘The Test ‘ a short play specially written for broadcasting (J.A.W. Shepherd)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

A high priest of Aztec – W.E. Holloway

Capt in the army of cortez – Henry Oscar

Servant of the temple – Gerald Jerome

The action of this play takes place in the sixteenth century during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The commander of the Spanish forces was Cortez who was received peaceably by Montezuma, ruler of Mexico. Later both Cortez and his soldiers behaved with such debauchery and treachery that much warfare ensued under the most savage and merciless conditions.

The play concerns the treatment by the Aztec priests of a Spanish officer taken in the act of violating their most sacred altar.

 

 

Sunday 4 July 1926 2LO London 5.30-6

Shakespeare’s Heroines no 10

‘The Taming of the Shrew’

Katharine – Madge Titheradge

Bianca – Hazel Jones

Baptista – Ben Webster

Petruchio – Edmund Willard

Gremio – J.H. Moore

Tranio – Grosvenor North

Grumio – Ivor Barnard

Hortensio – Eric Messiter

Widow – Bett Beresford

2,1  4,3  5,2

 

Tuesday 6 July 1926 2LO London 8-8.45

‘What would you do?’ repeat

 

Sunday 11 July 1926 2LO London 5.30-6

Shakespeare’s Heroines no 11

Hermione – Lilian Braithwaite

‘A Winter’s Tale’

Polixenes – Ralph Truman

Leontes – Charles Carson

Officer – Andrew Churchman

First Lord – Anthony Warde

Paulina – Eve Donne

Perdita – Nancy Hughes

Camillo – Gerald Jerome

1,1 2,1 3,2 5,3

 

 

Thursday 15 July 1926 2LO London 8-9.30

A shortened version of ‘Milestones’ (Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock)

Arranged and pr by Edward Knoblock

Haidee Wright

Irene Rooke

Clare Harris

Gilbert Heron

Alan Howland

Ian Fleming

Ivan Samson

 

 

Sunday 18 July 1926 2l0 5.30-6

Shakespeare’s Heroines no 12

‘Henry VIII’

Katharine of Aragon – Gertrude Elliott

Wolsey – Acton-Bond

Henry VIII  -  H. St. Barbe-west

Scribe – Laurence Ireland

Cardinal Campelsus – Harding Steerman

Griffith – Lawrence Anderson

Patience – Netta Wise

Capucius – Percy Rhodes

2,4  3,1 4,2

 

 

Friday 23 July 1926 2LO London 8-8.30

‘Five Birds in a Cage’ (Elizabeth Jennings)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Susan – Gladys Young

Horace – Reginald Bach

Leonard – H.R. Hignett

Bert – Matthew Boulton

Nellie – Jane Bacon

They are in a tube lift.

 

Tuesday 27 July 1926 2LO London 9-9.30

‘The Passing of Talma’

a tragi-comedy presented by Henry Ainley

(no author)

Talma – Henry Ainley

Dr. Place – Howard Rose

Mini Gerrard – Mary O’Farrell

The scene is Paris in the autumn of 1826. The great actor, Talma, lies on his bed apparently dying. From out the piled-up cushions, one hardly sees more than his pointed nose; a bright yellow cotton night-cap with drawn green ribbon covers the bald sunken temples. The wax candles of the looking-glass are burnng; there are no other lights in the room. Before the fireplace stands Dr. La Place.

 

 

 

August 1926

 

Monday 2 August 1926 2LO London 10.5-11 mixed

‘Benkoldy’

Three short scenes (Keble Howard)

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Liz – Mabel Constanduros

Bill – Henry Oscar

Ria – Mollie Lumley

Art – Basil Maine

 

 

Tuesday 3 August 1926 2LO London 9—9.30

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

A dramatic episode of the days of Cavaliers and Roundheads

Written for broadcasting by Julius Hare

Presented by Howard Rose

Montague (a Cavalier) – Henry Oscar

Ainsworth (another cavalier) – Herbert Ross

Ruth (a roundhead girl) – Gladys Young

Landlord – Victor Lewisohn

Ireton (young Roundhead) – Michael Hogan

The time is early in the year 1645, beforethe battle of Naseby, while the final struggle between the forces of Charles and Cromwell still lies in the bAlance. The place is a country road at night, and later the interior of an inn.

 

 

Monday 9 August 1926 London 10.30-11

‘The Burning of Honey’

An Episode of English Village Life 100 years ago from ‘The Dynasts’ by Thomas Hardy

James Bernard

The Characters

All of which are played by James Bernard

A Rustic

Solomon Longways

Private Cantle

The Vicar

A coachman

A Woman

 

Tuesday 10 August 1926 London 9-9.30

‘The Maker of Dreams’ (Oliphant Down)

produced by Howard Rose

Pierette – Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

Pierrot – Robert Harries

The Manufacturer – Ben Field

It is evening in a room in an old cottage, the walls of which are of dark oak, lit only by the moonlight that peers through the long, low casement window, and the glow from a fire that is burning merrily.

 

 

Saturday 14 August 1926 8-9

Saturday Night Revue

Written and Produced by Graham John

The London Radio Dance Band conducted by Sidney Firman

This production presented by R.E. Jeffrey

 

 

Monday 16 August 1926 London and Daventry, Birmingham SB all stations  8-9.30

‘The White Chateau’ (Reginald Berkeley)

A Play in Six Scenes

Specially written for broadcasting

With incidental music by Norman O’Neill

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

[no actors listed]

 

Thursday 19 August 1926 London 10-10.30

Excerpts from Act II of ‘Yvonne’

Relayed from Daly’s Theatre, Leicester Square

[RELAY]

 

 

Friday 20 August 1926 London 8.30-9.30

‘Rigoletto’

Acts 1 and II

Relayed from the Chenil Galleries, Chelsea

[RELAY]

 

Friday 20 August 1926 London 8.30-9.30

‘Rigoletto’

Acts 1 and II

Relayed from the Chenil Galleries, Chelsea

 

 

 

Monday 23 August 1926 London, Daventry, Birmingham   10-11

* ‘Ghostly Fingers’ (Hilda Chamberlain)

Parts I and II

A Mystery Play specially written for broadcasting

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Sir Gerald Seymour (a widower) – Percy Rhodes

Gibbs (the butler) – William Macready

Capt. John McEwan (an American and a rejected suitor of Joan Seymour) – Ian Fleming

Comtesse de Pontmercy (a widow whose interest in Sir Gerald is obvious to everyone but himself) – Dorothy Dayus

Jack Sinclair (a journalist, Joan’s fiance) – Carlton Hobbs

Joan Seymour (Sir Gerald’s twenty-one year old daughter) – Gwendoline Evans

The scene of the first act is a large dining-room in an old country mansion. It is evening and the room is well lighted by electric light. Sir Gerald, with his daughter and their guests, are seated round an oval table at dinner.

S.B. all stations

 

P 340

.. at 10 p.m. on Saturday, the third and final episode of a mystery play entitled ‘Ghostly Fingers’ will be broadcast.The first two parts of this drama which has been written by Miss Hilda Chamberlain, a promising authoress, will be given on Monday. The story of the play begins in an old country mansion, where Sir Gerald Seymour, a widower, is entertaining a party of four people to dinner. They are Joan ,his daughter, and her journalist fiance, a charming French widow, and an American captain on leave in England. The room is spacious and nothing could be more comfortable, till the ghostly fingers interfere, and then dramatic scenes follow one another in quick succession.

 

 

 

Monday 30 August 1926 London 8.10-8.40

‘Remnant Acre’ (Dion Titheradge)

A Play in one act

Produced by Howard Rose

John Chadburn – Henry Oscar

Philip Chadburn – Michael Hogan

Beverley Kent – Phyllis Panting

John Bradburn sits writing at a large table-desk in an old-fashioned comfortable room, of the type of country manor-house. Philip is seated at a small table on the other side of the room.

 

 

Friday 3 September 1926 London 11.15-12

‘The Wheel of Time’ ( )

A Fantasy in three parts

Presented by Lance Sieveking and J.H. MacDonell

Yesterday – Elsa Lancaster

Yesterday – Harold Scott

To-day – Helen Wilson Barrett

To-day – Frank Wilson Barrett

To-morrow – Edith Sitwell

To-morrow – Osbert Sitwell

To-morrow – Constant Lambert

To-morrow – Constant Lambert

The years roll on. Art and manners change. The Voices of the Past, the Present, and the Future speak out of the void.

 

 

 

 

Thursday 2 September 1926 London 8.20-8,40 (mixed)

‘Nerves’ (Ann Stephenson)

A Comedy in one act

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Phoebe Thomson – Lila Maravan

Stedman – Florence Robb

Roy Aylmer – Guy Bolton

Richard Thomson – Frank Randell

Mary Somerville – Netta Westcott

William Somerville – Herbert Ross

It is evening in the dining-room of the Somervilles’ flat, in Victoria Street – a cheerful, nondescript apartment, furnished with quiet good taste.

 

 

Friday 3 September 1926  London 11.15-12

* ‘The Wheel of Time’ a fantasy in three parts

presented by L. de G. Sieveking and J.H. Macdonell

Elsa Lanchester

Harold Scott

Helen Wilson Barrett

Frank Wilson Barrett

Edith Sitwell

Osbert Sitwell

Sacheverell Sitwell

Constant Lambert

W.T. Walton

 

Elsa Lanchester was in 'Riverside Nights' book by A.P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair at the Lyric Hammersmith from 10 April 1926, and then at the Ambassadors, for 238 performances. (She must have broadcast after her evening performance or sub.)

 

 

Saturday 4 September 1926  London 8-9

‘The Awful Revue’ from Olympia

Book by Peter Haddon and Bertram Davis

Tommy Handley

 

 

 

… [Wednesday September 8] at about 7.10 p.m. Sir Frank Benson, the famous Shakespearean actor, will give his talk on his stage memories under the title “All the world’s a Stage” from the Olympia Studios ..

 

Sunday 5 September 1926 London 5.10-5.30

‘Will Shakespeare’ a short scene from Act IV (Miss Clemence Dane)

Queen Elizabeth - Miss Haidee Wright

Frank Vosper - Frank Vosper

 

Monday 6 September 1926  Bournemouth  8.30-9.30

London Radio Players

‘An Elder of the Kirk’ a play in one act (Allan Macbeth)

Tammas Anderson – Alan  Macbeth

Maggie Anderson - Ann Stephenson

Tom - John Macdonald

Mollie - Phyllis Panting

 

Tuesday 7 September 1926 London 9.30-10 

Serial story by L. Sieveking, ‘The Ultimate Island’  Part 1

Frank Vosper

 

 

Thursday 9 September 1926 London 8-9.30

‘Trelawny of the Wells’ (Arthur W. Pinero)

A Comedietta in Four Acts

A Shortened Version presented by Howard Rose

James Telfer – Matthew Boulton

Mrs. Telfer – Annie Esmond

Augustus Colpoys – Fred Grove

Fredinand Gadd – Philip Wade

Tom Wrench – Ian Fleming

Avonia Bunn – Nadine March

Rose Trelawny – Violet Graham

Imogen Parrott – Gladys Young

O’Dwyer – Ernest Digges

Sir william Gower – Edward Foster

Miss Traflagar – Marie Wright

Arthur Gower – Alan Howland

Clara de Foenix – Loti Ford

Capt. De Foenix – George Howe

Mrs. Mossop – Florence Wood

Mr. Ablett – Clive Currie

Charles – William Macready

Sarah – E. Lester Jones

 

Friday 10 September 1926 Manchester 8.30-8.47

The London Radio Repertory Players

Present

‘The Missing Link’ (James Dyrenforth and H.M.H. Graham)

Eric Maxwell-Smith – Michael Hogan

Cynthia – Vivien Lambelet

Nathalie – Phyllis Panting

Mind Picture: am amusing incident which might have been another version of the Eternal Triangle except for circumstances which are explained in the course of the play. The scene is the dressing-room of Eric Maxwell-Smith, who is preparing to accompany his wife to a function. After the manner of a man, Eric is frantically seeking one of his cuff-links.

 

 

 

Saturday 11 September 1926 London 9.55-10.30

‘Ringing the Changes’ (R.A. Roberts)

A late Victorian sketch written and acted entirely by the protean actor, R.A. Roberts

With special music composed by Herman Finck

The Scene is Diddler’s office and chambers, Rustlebury Square, London, where Major Wagstaffe is waiting impatiently for his nephew.

 

Tuesday 14 September 1926 London 8.40-9.5

*  ‘The Grandfather Clock’ (Cameron Taylor)

Written Specially for broadcasting

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

Miriam – Hazel Jones

Mrs. Tomlinson – Margaret Watson

Joe Halliday – Henry Oscar

Martha Halliday – Miriam Ferris

Annie – Phyllis Panting

In the cosy parlour of Mrs. Tomlinson’s cottage in the Yorkshire dale, she and her daughter are preparing the room for the reception of any visitors who may call.

Miriam draws her mother’s attention to the sound of a car which she hears pulling up outside.