1926

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

Wednesday 6 January 1926 Newcastle 9.30-10

The Station Repertory Company in

Shakespearean Comedy

[no actors or details listed]

Friday 8 January 1926 6-7 Birmingham mixed

William Macready Recital-Talk on Shakespearean Characters and scenes

Richard of Gloucester ('Richard III') (Shakespeare)

Saturday 9 January 1926 Daventry 7.45-10

'Romeo and Juliet' SB from Manchester (Shakespeare)

Friday 15 January 1926 Birmingham 6-7 (mixed)

William Macready Recital-Talk on Shakespearean Characters and scenes

Richard as King ('Richard III') (Shakespeare)

8.15-8.40

The Repertory Players

‘Betty Sees It Through’

Scene – The drawing-room of the house of Betty’s parents, Mr. And Mrs. Breton, a middle-class family. Betty’s eldest sister, Mary, is seated at a desk making up accounts. The maid is clearing away the tea-things.

[no actors listed]

Wednesday 20 January 1926 Manchester 7.35-8 9 (mixed)

A Shakespeare-Garrick Programme

The Station Dramatic Company

Excerpts Arranged and Presented by Victor Smythe

Three Excerpts from ‘David Garrick’ (T. W. Robertson)

Ada Ingot – Hylda Metcalf

Simon Ingot – E.H. Bridgstock

Thomas – Walter Plinge

David Garrick – Victor Smythe

Mrs. Smith – Mary Eastwood

Araminta Brown – Betty Elsmore

Mr. Smith – Tom Wilson

Mr. Jones – Charles Nesbitt

Squire Chivy – A.G. Mitcheson

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun 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

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

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

Monday 16 August 1926 Glasgow 8-9.10 (mixed)

A Shakespearean Programme

‘As You Like It’

Act III Scene 2

Rosalind – Bertha Waddell

Orlando – Robert Donat

‘The Tempest’

Act III Scene 1

Miranda – Bertha Waddell

Ferdinand – Robert Donat

‘Twelfth Night’

Act II Scene 4

Cesario – Bertha Wadell

Orsino – Robert Donat

… [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 ..