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
bbarclay
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’
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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
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
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‘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
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
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
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.