1927
Monday 3 January 1927
Birmingham 8-8.45
*'The Garden of Lost Hearts'
(John Overton)
Written for broadcasting
pr Percy Edgar
Phoebe Brant (housekeeper) –
Gladys Joiner
Valerie Carew - John Overton
Sir Herbert Perkins - Joseph
Lewis
Maisie - Gladys Colbourne
Gertrude - Phyllis
Richardson
Lady Perkins - Norah Tarrant
The Reverend Tony Mackinnon
- Percy Edgar
A Pedlar - Joseph Lewis
Tizzy - Dorothy English
Lorimer – Percy Edgar
Parlour Maid – Elsie Wakham
Farmer Lee – Joseph Lewis
Major Trehearne – J.C.S.
Paterson
A Chauffeur – Percy Edgar
A Girl Guest – Phyllis
Richardson
A Village Woman – John
Overton
A Village Girl – Gladys
Colbourne
The whole of the action
takes place in and around the village of Ash Holt, a typical English country
place, and the garden of the ‘Grange’.
Tuesday 4 January 1927
Birmingham 9.30-10.30
‘Dainty Diana’ [Musical]
Book and Lyrics by A.F.
Cross
Music by Guy Jones
First performance of a New
Musical Comedy in two acts
Sir Roger de Coverley –
Percy Edgar
Beau Lightfoot – Harold
Howes
Will Honeycomb – Fred
Robinson
Sir David Rigby – Horace
Grimmett
Sir Bilberry Bounce – Percy
Edgar
Lord Dishley – Joseph Lewis
Clincher – T.K. Dobbin
Pottle – Joseph Lewis
Gadfly - Philip Taylor
Diana Denbigh – Gertrude
Davies
Daphne Firebrace – Phyllis
Richardson
Lydia Manners – Gladys
Joiner
Jenny Oldacres – Norah
Tarrant
Martha – Gladys Colbourne
Birmingham station Chorus
and Orchestra
This piece, an episode from
the life of Sir Roger de Coverley, is adapted for broadcasting, produced and
conducted by Joseph Lewis
Act I. The exterior of
Coverley Court, in Worcestershire at the Opening Meet of the Coverley Hounds,
on an early morning in September, 1736.
Act II. The Bun-House at
Chelsea on a late evening of the same month.
Friday 14 January 1927
Birmingham 8-8.20
* ‘Fire’ (A.J. Alan)
[explained in previous
publicity that specially written for broadcasting but not here]
Albert Buckle – Frank Denton
Jane Buckle – Florence Hill
Mrs. Buckle – Gladys Young
Mabel Henderson – Phyllis Panting
Ruth Henderson – Margaret
Gaskin
A Policeman – Laurence Gowdy
Firemen, etc.
The thrilling story of two
young ladies who go to view an empty house and there undergo a number of
exciting experiences, culminating in a rescue by the London Fire Brigade. Just
as their safety is assured they experience the worst shock of all.
On the front-door steps of
an empty house, 88. Landsdowne Crescent, Albert Buckle is standing. He and his
wife are just starting out to get a few things from the neighbouring shops before
closing time.
Wednesday 19 January 1927
Birmingham 8-8.30
‘Mary Stuart’ (Ida M.
Downing)
(The Queen of Love and
Sorrow)
Played by the Station
Players
Mary Stuart – Ida M. Downing
Mary Hamilton – Phyllis
Richardson
Mary Beaton – Gladys
Colbourne
Rizzio – Percy Edgar
Darnley – Percy Edgar
Bothwell – Joseph Lewis
An ante-room in Holyrood
Palace, Edinburgh; soft music is heard from below; Rizzio is playing and
singing to the Queen, who is still in her bed-chamber. The two maids of honour
are arranging the room and talking; Mary Beaton hums as she crosses to the
window and opens it.
Saturday 22 January 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45 (mixed)
Shakespearean Hour
Will be presented by William
Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner
Saturday 29 January 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45
‘Heterodyned History of
Historical Events As They Might Have Been’ a broadcast revue (L. du G. of
Punch) [Revue]
In this Novel Revue the
Professor of History As It Might Have Been, arguing that historians never agree
as to how anything happened or whether it actually happened at all, takes the
liberty of building up new versions of important episodes in our history. The
instances dealt with in the revue cover what may have happened in such notable
incidents as the following:
1.
Caesar’s
attempt to Land in Britain
2.
King
Alfred and the Cakes
3.
Edgar
and the Danes
4.
King
Canute on the Seashore
5.
Henry
VIII’s Excursions into Matrimony
6.
The
Writing of Shakespeare’s Plays
[no cast listed]
Wednesday 2 February 1927
Birmingham 8.20-9 (mixed)
* ‘A Tale of the Hebrides’
(D.G. Couzens)
Specially written for
broadcasting
Played by the London Radio
Repertory Players
Characters:
The Skipper
Ian
Donald
Angus
[no actors listed]
The Gaelic legends afford
many interesting, not to say thrilling, examples of the weird and mysterious.
This play is founded upon
one of these, and illustrates in an emphatic manner the strong belief in
legends that survives to this day in the more remote parts of our own country.
The action opens in a small
fishing-boat in heavy weather off one of the Islands of the Hebrides.
The crew join in a
traditional shanty while shortening sail because of the storm which is about to
break. In this wild setting Donald, Angus, and Ian discuss the ancient legend
with its curious application to Ian’s family, and during the course of the play
its remarkable fulfilment is shown.
Monday 14 February 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45
Radio Fantasy – ‘Old Memories’ (Ida M. Downing)
Written for broadcasting by
Ida M. Downing
Col. John Nicholson – Percy
Edgar
Barnes – Joseph Lewis
Hugh Marlow – Percy Edgar
Margaret – Gladys Colbourne
Wednesday 2 March 1927
Birmingham 10-11
An Eighteenth-Century Hour
(mixed)
‘Sword or Scabbard’ (Kate E.
Riley)
A Jacobite Play
Presented by Stuart E.
Vinden and played by the Station Players
Antony Forbes – Stuart
Vinden
Simon Lee – John Moss
Jabez Lee - Joseph Lewis
Mary Lee – Phyllis
Richardson
Dame Austin – Anne Sanders
Edith Austin – Gladys
Colbourne
Ned Walker – Noram Tarrant
Betty – Gladys Joiner
Webber – Joseph Lewis
Robert – John Moss
Tuesday 29 March 1927
Birmingham 8.10-8.40
‘Colonel Davidson, V.C.’ or
‘One Crowded Hour’ a drama in one act (Ida M. Downing)
Colonel Davidson (who won
his V.C. in the Boer War) – Percy Edgar
Barnet (his Valet) – Joseph
Lewis
David Davidson (The Colonel’s
Son) – H.G. Sear
Nurse Frank (A Hospital
Nurse) – Gladys Colbourne
Mrs. O’Malley (Widow of a
Woodcutter on the Colonel’s Estate and Mother of Orderly O’Malley) – Phyllis
Richardson
Dixon (A Parlour Maid) –
Dorothy English
The Scene is laid in the oak-panelled
lounge of a country house, between London and the Coast. Colonel Davidson is
recovering from illness and is irritable and morose. After great persuasion by
Nurse Frank, he tells the story of the winning of his coveted decoration during
the Boer War.
Wednesday 6 April 1927
Birmingham 8-8.25
* 'By Virtue of a Broadcast' (Frank H. Shaw)
A Play specially written for
Broadcasting
Play by the London Radio
Repertory Players
The Rev. Hilary Standish -
Dodd Mehan
First Elder - Herbert Lugg
Second Elder - Frank Denton
Capt. Standish - Henry Oscar
Menzies (First Mate) -
Reginald Dance
Fyfe (Chief Engineer) -
Ernest Cove
Third Mate - Dino Galvani
Wireless Operator - Lawrence
Gowdy
Helmsman - Fred Vigay
Sailor – Fred [Roger]
Maxwell
The essential action of this
play takes place in Frank Shaw’s favourite setting - the sea – but in an
interesting manner he shows how the medium of wireless may provide incidents
which in another age would have been almost supernatural.
The scene opens in the
Albert Hall at the close of a religious gathering, but in a flash the listener
is transported to the deck of a vessel battling with storm off the Ushant
Light. In the fight for life which follows, the ship’s company have the audible
encouragement of prayer and well-wishing from their fellow-men on land, and
that which in other days might have been a vision, becomes by modern science an
actual fact.
Saturday 9 April 1927
Birmingham 9.35-10.30
Thursday 21 April 1927
Birmingham 8.10-8.40
A Comedy of Youth in One Act
(St. John Hankin)
Evelyn Rivers – Phyllis
Lones
Cecil Harburton – Stuart
Vinden
Monday 25 April 1927
Birmingham 8.30-9
Duologues from Shakespeare
The Quarrel Scene from
‘Julius Caesar’
Brutus – Wortley Allen
Cassius – Stuart Vinden
The Wooing of Lady Anne from
‘Richard III’
Richard – Stuart Vinden
Lady Anne – Molly Hall
Wednesday 4 May 1927
Birmingham 9.35-11 (mixed)
* ‘Venice – the City
Beautiful’ (Ida M. Downing)
A Play written for
Broadcasting
Gondolier (a Shade) – Edgar
Lane
The Singer in a Boat – David
Scott
Monk (the Spirit of the
Stones) – Stuart Vinden
Idalia (an English girl) –
Phyllis Richardson
Her Father – David Scott
In this is portrayed the
dream of an English girl, spending a holiday in Venice. She is taken back to
the ancient days of the city’s glory, and views the sights as they then were.
The action is laid on a
stone terrace outside one of the large houses on the Venice Lagoon in summer
time. The tide is high, and the lapping of the water is faintly heard. The
calls of the gondoliers and their music is occasionally wafted across by the
light Italian breeze.
Saturday 7 May 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45
The following sketch items
will be produced:
‘The Reformers’ or ‘Getting
an Appetite (A.P. Herbert)
‘Three Ways of Saying It’
(Mabel Constanduros)
‘Cross Words’ (R. Guy-Reeve)
‘Making the Pudding’ (J.
Melluish)
‘Wedding Quartette’ (Herbert
C. Sargent)
(no cast listed)
Wednesday 11 May 1927
Birmingham 8.35-9
Stuart Vinden (Recital)
Song of the Mayers – Anon.
The Question – Shelley
Going A-Meying – Herrick
Saturday 21 May 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45 (mixed)
‘The Carrier Pigeon’ (Eden
Philpotts)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Harry Hawke (an Old Poacher)
– Wortley Allen
Elias Coblleigh (his
Neighbour) – Stuart Vinden
Milly Hawke (Harry’s Wife) –
Gladys Joiner
The scene is laid in the
garret of an old cottage on Dartmoor, where the above characters have their
home.
(picture on page 314)
9.35-10.30 (mixed)
‘That Brute Simmons’ a
comedy (Arthur Morrison and Herbert Sergent)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Thomas Simmons – Stuart
Vinden
Bob Ford – Wortley Allen
Mrs. Simmons – Gladys Joiner
The action takes place in
the kitchen of Simmons’s house at Bow.
Monday 23 May 1927
Birmingham 9.20-11 (mixed)
‘The Perfect Marriage’ a
comedy in one act (Leonard White)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Jack Fanshawe – Stuart
Vinden
Hilary Fanshawe – Gladys
Colbourne
The Fanshawe’s cottage is on
the outskirts of London, and the July sun is streaming into the morning-room
where the dainty breakfast table is laid for two. Hilary is sitting there, an
open letter beside her plate, while her pretty head is bent over a book in
which she is absorbed. Suddenly, Jack’s voice is heard carolling as he comes
through the bright little garden, and almost immediately he appears in the open
French window, a bunch of roses in his hand.
Friday 3 June 1927
Birmingham 8.10-8.35
‘High Tea’ (H.E. Holme)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
James Carter (Master-at-Arms
on board H.M.S. Ambitious) – Jon Moss
Henry Brown (Petty Officer,
First Class, of H.M.S. Ambitious) – Wortley Allen
Fred Wilson (Carter’s
Nephew, and a Trooper, Royal Horse Guards) – Stuart Vinden
Florence Carter (Carter’s
Daughter) – Molly Hall
Thursday 23 June 1927
Birmingham 9.20-10.15
‘The Mandarin’s Coat’ (John
Overton)
A Play for Broadcasting
Jillian Travers – Gladys
Colbourne
Bobby Travers (her usband) –
Edgar Lane
Judith Pendragon (her Aunt
and former Guardian) – Kathleen Baker
Sir Walter Luttrell – David
Tremayne
The whole of the action
takes place at the Travers’ home, ‘Crowscroft’, and old Manor House in the
heart of the country.
Incidental music by the
Station Orchestra
Monday 27 June 1927
Birmingham 7.45-9 (mixed)
Variety
Helena Millais, the
Actress-Entertainer
Chrissie Thomas and her
Musical Glasses
T.C. Sterndale Bennett in
his own Compositions at the Piano
‘The Bishop’s Candlesticks’
(Norman McKinnel)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
The Bishop – Stuart Vinden
The Convict – Wortley Allen
Persome (the Bishop’s
Sister) – Eveline Hastilow
Marie – Grace Walton
Sergeant of Gendarmes –
Stuart Vinden
Saturday 9 July 1927
Birmingham 8.30-8.50
‘The Proposal’ (Anton
Tchekov)
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Stephan Stepanovitch (a
Landowner) – Wortley Allen
Natalya Stepanovna (his
daughter, aged 25) – Maud Gill
Ivan Vassilyevitch Lomov (a
Neighbour of Tchubukov’s, a healthy, well-nourished, but hypochondriacal
Landowner) – Stuart Vinden
Saturday 16 July 1927
Birmingham 8.30-9
‘A Marriage Has Been
Arranged’ (Alfred Sutro)
Produced by Stuart Vinden
Mr. Harrison Crokstead –
Stuart Vinden
Lady Aline de Vaux – Janet
Jordan
The scene is the
conservatory of No. 300, Grosvenor Square.
Saturday 23 July 1927
Birmingham 7.45-8.45
A Radio Revue by John Henry
and R Guy Reeve
Cast:
John Henry
Marova
Robert Keppel
Alma Vane
Jack Hagan
Blossom
Philip Wade
Henry Scatchard
Scene: A ward in a hospital
where a party of ‘Never Forgottens’ – invalid ex-Service men – are listening to
a wireless programme
Friday 29 July 1927
Birmingham 10-10.15
‘The Ninth Waltz’ (R.C.
Carton)
A comedy in one act
Florence – Ethel Malpas
Rolland – Stuart Vinden
The duologue takes place in
an ante-room in the house of Lady Brabazon, Mayfair. A Ball is in progress and
the ante-room adjoins the Ballroom. When the duologue commences, Florence
enters, speaking as she does so.
Wednesday 7 September 1927
Daventry Experimental 5GB 8-10 (mixed)
‘The Bridge’ (Seton Malcolm)
A Dramatic Episode in One
Act
Adapted from a short story
by Philip O’Farrell
Olga – Elizabeth Young
Ivan – Stuart Vinden
Max, the Postman – W.W.
Allen
The scene is laid at Olga
Werther’s cottage in a forest near Petersdorf, the capital of Valesia, a
country in South-Eastern Europe. Her room is barely furnished, a table with
some electrical apparatus on it being in the centre, while a writing table is
under the window. The room is lit by means of two table lamps, one on each
table, while a fire burns brightly in the open fireplace. Outide, a gale is
blowing. Ivan is discovered fixing wires to large batteries on the floor, and
while he is thus engaged, Olga enters, carrying a cloak and dressing bag.
‘Catherine Parr’ (Maurice
Baring)
A Short Historical Dialogue
Henry VIII – Stuart Vinden
Catherine – Maud Gill
The scene is the breakfast
chamber at the Palace. King Henry and Catherine Parr are sitting opposite to
each other at the table. The King has just cracked a boiled egg.
Friday 16 September 1927
Daventry 5GB 8.55-9.15
‘Captain Cook and the Widow’
(Stuart Ready)
A Comedy
Captain Emmanuel Cook (a
retired sailor) – Wortley Allen
Benjamin Spragget (a Grocer)
– Stuart Vinden
John Dutton (a Butcher) –
Tony Calthrop
Emma Dowsett (a Spinster) –
Maud Gill
Matilda Parsons (a Widow) –
Mabel France
The scene is enacted in the
kitchen of Matilda’s cottage at Withingbottom. A large and airy room, with a
door leading to the street, it has a big oval table set ready for tea. A
dresser full of china and cooking utensils stands to the left of the door, with
a saddleback couch standing opposite. The room is clean and tidy and has an air
of homely comfort. The wdiow is busy preparing tea, when Emma Dowsett enters
without being noticed. She coughs, and the widow nearly drops the tea-pot.
Monday 26 September 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9 (mixed)
A Charles Dickens Concert
‘’Bardell’ v. ‘Pickwick’’
(Adapted from the ‘Pickwick
Papers’)
Mr. Justice Stareleigh –
Wortley Allen
Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz – Stuart
Vinden
Mr. Sergeant Snubbins – Tony
Calthrop
Samuel Pickwick, Esq. – Jack Hargreaves
Nathaniel Winkle, Esq. –
W.J. Hughes
Mr. Weller, Senr. – Wortley
Allen
Mr. Weller, Jnr. – Tony
Calthrop
Mrs. Elizabeth Cluppins –
Gladys Joiner
Foreman of the Jury – Jack
Hargreaves
Crier – W.J. Hughes
The Scene is the Court of
Common Pleas. There is the seat for the judge, table and chairs, witness box
and jury box, with foreman and jury assembled, and the usual gathering of
Counsel, reporters, attorneys, etc. Mr. Justice Stareleigh, attended by the
Crier, enters.
9.15-10 (mixed)
‘‘Courtship – Ancient and
Modern’’ (Fanny Morris-Wood)
A Duologue
Henry – Stuart Vinden
Deborah – Ethel malpas
SceneI. The Year 1814
Scene II. The Present Day
Monday 10 October 1927
Daventry Experimental 5GB 8.20-8.45
‘The Banns of Marriage’
(Charles Lee)
A Comedy
The Rev. Cyril Bestwick –
Stuart Vinden
Alice (his Maid) – Phyllis
Lones
William Hobb (a Farmer) –
Wortley Allen
Lizzie Charles (his
Housekeeper) – Maud Gill
The scene is the lamp-light
study of the Rev. Cyril Bestwick, the Vicar of a small West Country parish. The
time is 9.30 p.m., and he is found at his desk, writing a sermon. He is
interrupted by a knock on the door.
9.35-9.50
‘A Thames-Side Episode’
(Barbara Couper)
A Drama
From Birmingham
Joe Brown – Wortley Allen
Mary (his wife) – Gladys
Joiner
Ah Sing (a Chinaman) –
Stuart Vinden
Inspector Sims – Stuart
Vinden
Thursday 27 October 1927
Daventry 5GB 9.35-10
‘The Reed in the Wood’(Edwin
Lewis)
A Romance
Produced by Stuart Vinden
Incidental Music by the
Birmingham Studio Piano Quintet
Cathleen Carnetti – Helen M.
enoch
Seth Carnetti – W.J. Hughes
Naomi – Maud Gill
Simon Robins – Edwin Turner
Mad Martin – Stuart Vinden
The scene is a gypsy
encampment in a wood. Two half-bell tents of canvas are in the shelter of the
trees. In the rear, before the tents, a red fire burns, over which, on a
tripod, is suspended a pot, and on a log near the fire sits a middle-aged woman
of the true gypsy type. The night is warm and breathless, and presently, after
staring into the fire, she draws a gleaming knife.
Saturday 19 November 1927
Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
‘Old Memories’ (Ida M.
Downing)
A Radio Fantasy
Produced by Edgar Lane
From Birmingham
Colonel John Nicholson –
Edgar Lane
Barnes – David Tremayne
Hugh Marlow – Edgar Lane
Margaret – Gladys Colbourne
Wednesday 23 November 1927
Daventry 9.22-9.47
‘Her Bonny Boy’ a comedy (R.
Bromley Taylor)
pr Stuart Vinden
Mrs. Griggs – Gladys Joiner
Bob Bailey – W.J. Hughes
Tom Stubbs – Stuart Vinden
The scene is laid in the
living-room of a comfortably furnished cottage. Mrs. Griggs and Bob Bailey who
is in hospital blue and a wheeled chair (he has no legs) are playing cards.
Mrs. Griggs is mourning for her son, he having been taken a prisoner by the
Germans and sent to an Internment Camp, where all trace of him has been
mysteriously lost. Bob Bailey, to comfort the old lady, forces his friend, Tom
Stubbs, to take the place of ‘her bonny boy’, pretending he has lost his
memory.
Friday 25 November 1927
Daventry 8.15-10
From Birmingham
A Musical Comedy in Three
Acts (Fred Thompson)
Adapted from the book of Herman
Haller and Rideamus
Lyrics by Adrian Ross,
Robert C. Tharp and Edward Kunnecke
Helen Gilliland
Dorothy Monkman
Elsie French
Ewart Scott
John Armstrong
Topliss Green
James B. Davis
John Reeve
Pr Gordon McConnell
The Birmingham Studio
Orchaestra
Conducted by John Ansell
Saturday 3 December 1927
Daventry 10.15-11.15
‘The Masque of Comus’ (John
Milton)
Comus – Stuart Vinden
First Brother – W.J. Hughes
The Lady – Gladys Ward
Second Brother – Henry
Butlin
The Attendant Spirit –
Vincent Curran
Tuesday 6 December 1927
Daventry 10.15-11.15
‘Cinderella Married’ (Rachel
Lyman Field)
a hitherto untold story
pr Stuart Vinden
From Birmingham
Lady Caroline – Gwendoline
I.M. Garlier
Lady Arabella – Molly Hall
Cinderella – Ethel Malpas
Nanni – Gladys Joiner
Prince Charming –
William\Hughes
Robin – Stuart Vinden
The scene is laid in Cinderella’s little
morning-room, the day before yesterday. The
room is a charming place, with an open fire burning, while the sun is
streaming brightly in. The ladies are bending over their embroidery, engaged in
gossip. The day is Cinderella’s wedding anniversary, and we learn for the first
time, how the little kitchen maid has progressed since her marriage.
Thursday 22 December 1927
Daventry 5GB 8.7-8.30
‘Phantom Hoofs’ (David
Hawkes)
produced by Stuart Vinden
Kate – Gladys Joiner
Nan – Ethel Malpas
Nan’s Father – Wortley Allen
The scene takes place at a
fisherman’s cottage in a lonely village on the coast. A furious storm is raging
while in the cottage the old fisherman lies dying.
8.40-9
‘Two in a Trap’ (Albert E.
Drinkwater)
A Duologue
Jim – Stuart Vinden
Lit – Ethel Malpas
The scene is a pleasant room
in the flat in Chelsea, between 11 and 12 in the morning. Jim enters and seats
hmself in a large armchair so that he is invisible to anyone entering. Kit
enters later and the duologue explains how a lover’s quarrel is settled.
Friday 23 December 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9.30
‘A Pickwick Party’
From Birmingham
A Dickens Dream Fantasy
written by Stanley West
The Music composed by
Marjorie Broughton
Presented by Stuart Vinden
An Old Dickens Student –
Wortley Allen
Landlord – Wortley Allen
Dream Characters
Mr. Weller, Senior – Robert
Chignell
Major Bagstock – Robert
Chignell
Winkle – John Moss
Tupman – Spencer Thomas
Uriah Heep – Spencer Thomas
Snodgrass- William Hughes
Arabella – Ethel Williams
Isabella – Winifred Payne
Emily – Isabel Tebbs
Wardle – Stuart Vinden
Captain Cuttle – Stuart
Vinden
Jingle – Michael Hogan
David Copperfield – Michael
Hogan
Mr. Pickwick – Wortley Allen
Sam Weller – Kingsley Lark
Mantalini – Kingsley Lark
Stiggirs – Joseph Farrington
Mr. Micawber – Joseph
Farrington
Sarey Gamp – Vivienne
Chatterton
Dora – Vivenne Chatterton
Betsy Prig – Winifred Davis
Florence Dombey – Winifred
Davis
Oliver Twist – Dorothy
English
Fagin – Wortley Allen
Mrs. Micawber – Gladys
Joiner
Mrs. Mantalini – Gladys
Joiner
Thursday 29 December 1927
Daventry 5GB 10.30-11
‘The Lost Silk Hat’ (Lord
Dunsany)
The Caller – William Hughes
The Labourer – Wortley Allen
The Clerk – John Moss
The Poet – Stuart Vinden
The Policeman – John Moss
The Caller stands on the
doorstep of a building in a fashionable London street. He is faultlessly
dressed, but without a hat. At first he shows despair, then a new thought
engrosses him. Enter the Labourer.