1927
Thursday 6 January 1927
Cardiff and Daventry 7.45-10.30 (mixed)
‘Longside O’ London [Revue]
Lays O’ London
Relayed to Daventry
Olive Groves
Mabel Constanduros
John Rorke
Donald Davies
The Station Orchestra
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
[photos]
Tuesday 11 January 1927
Cardiff and Daventry 8.5-8.40
‘The Bishop’s Candlesticks’
(Norman McKinnel)
A Play in One Act
The Bishop – Richard Barron
The Convict – Donald Davies
Persome (the Bishop’s
Sister) – Kate Sawle
Marie – Susie Stevens
Sergeant of Gendarmes –
Sidney Evans
Wednesday 12 January 1927
Manchester and Daventry 9.15-11
Relayed to Daventry
Lancashire Play Series III
‘Independent Means’ (Stanley
Houghton)
A Play in Four Acts
Jane Gregory – Mary Eastwood
Mrs. Forsyth – Lucia Rogers
John Craven Forsyth – E.H.
Bridgstock
Edgar Forsyth – W.E. Dickman
Sidney Forsyth – Hylda
Metcalf
Samuel Ritchie – D.E.
Ormerod
Time: The Present
Booklets, price 2d.,
containing the story of the Play, can be obtained from Wireless Dealers, or by
application to the Manchester Station. (Envelopes should be marked ‘Booklet’.)
Monday 17 January 1927
Daventry 5XX 10.15-11
Music and a Play
S.B. from Liverpool
[‘The Forge’ (Edwin Lewis)]
Monday 17 January 1927
Liverpool and Daventry 10.15-11 (mixed)
‘The Forge’ (Edwin Lewis)
A Play in One Act
(First performance)
Presented by Edward P. Genn
and played by the Liverpool Radio Players
Tom Dixon – Philip P. Harper
Amy Barnet – Pauline Parry
Mrs. Dixon – Mrs. Fred
Wilkinson Wilkinson
Al Dixon – J.P. Lambe
Pete Mayo – David Wray
The scene is the kitchen of
a dwelling-house in Hyacinth Court, which is a slum. Over the wall at the end
is a heavy forge. It is half-past nine in the evening, and there is a temporary
quiet. Tom Dixon, a young forge hand, is reading by the fire, waiting to go on
night shift. Strangely enough, it is a volume of the works of Shelley. He is
reading aloud.
Saturday 5 February 1927
Daventry 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
The Cast will include:
Lilian Harrison, Joyce
Tremayne, Mortlake Wren, John Charlton, Andrew Churchman, Laurence Ireland,
William Macready
[Note not Tommy Handley as
London]
Saturday 5 March 1927 London
and Daventry 7.45-8.45
The Saturday Night Revue
(Second Instalment)
Books and Lyrics and the
Revue produced by Graham John
Geoffrey Gwyther
Florence Oldham
Henry Caine
Lilian Harrison
Tommy Handley
Nadine March
George Ide
Blanche Tomlin
Orchestra under the direction
of Ernest Longstaffe
Thursday 24 March 1927
Daventry 5XX 7.45-9
500 Years Hence
What will the World Think of
Twentieth Century Music?
The views of a Professor of
Ancient Music will be given in the form of a lecture to his students. The
address will be headed: ‘The Songs and Dances of Civilised Savages’ No 3:
1850-1950
The Wireless Octet
The London Radio Drance Band
The Programme arranged by
Cecil Lewis
Wednesday 4 May 1927
Daventry 5XX and Manchester 7.45-9
‘Midsummer Madness’
(Clifford Bax)
A Play
Set to music by Armstrong
Gibbs
Pantaloon – Frank Ranalow
(baritone)
(in his original part)
Harlequin – Sydney Northcote
(tenor)
Mrs. Pascall (a Widow aged
32) – Margaret Cochran (soprano)
Columbine (Maidservant at
the Blithe Heart) – Marjorie Dixon (contralto)
(in her original part)
The Augmented Station
Orchestra
Conducted by T.H. Morrison
The play is written by
Clifford Bax, one of our younger playwrights, who has written, in addition to
several small plays, more than one libretto, including the modern version of
‘The Beggar’s Opera’.
S.B. from Manchester
Tuesday 17 May 1927 Daventry
9.40-10.30
‘The Fisherman and His Soul’
(Oscar Wilde)
Read by Cecil Lewis
RT 16 / 203
Cover
The First ‘Alternative
Programme’
Thursday 25 August 1927
London 2LO and Daventry 5XX 7-7.15
Mr. Val Gielgud ‘Habits and
Hobbies’
Those who remember the
cynical, epigrammatic flavour of the talks which Mr. Gielgud gave earlier in
the year will welcome him back to the programmes. Playwright, actor and
journalist, he has a shrewd insight into the modern generation and, though he
applauds its good-humoured independence, he does not spare its follies.
Thursday 25 August 1927
London 2LO and Daventry 5XX 7.58-8.30
‘Trifles' (Susan Glaspell)
A Play in One Act
George Henderson (a Country
Attorney) – Harold Young
Henry Peters (a Sherriff) –
H. St. Barbe West
Lewis Hale (a neighbouring
farmer) – George Courteney
Mrs. Peters – May Saker
Mrs. Hale – Florence Wood
Scene: The kitchen in the
now-abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy room, and left without having
been put in order – unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the
bread-box, a dish-towel on the table, and other signs of uncompleted work. The
outer door opens and the Sheriff comes in, followed by the County Attorney and
Hale. The Sheriff and Hale are men in middle life, the County Attorney is a
young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove. They are
followed by the two women – the Sheriff’s wife first. She is a slight wiry
woman with a thin, nervous face. Mrs. Hale is larger and would ordinarily be
called more comfortable looking; but she is disturbed now, and looks fearfully
about as she enters. The women have come in slowly and stand close together
near the door.
The Little Theatre movement
in America has produced many noticeable playwrights, and Mrs. Susan Glaspell is
one of them. Her plays were brought to notice by the Provincetown Players, one
of the most famous of the ‘Art’ Theatre companies, and she is now a dramatist
and novelist with an assured reputation in England and the United States. Two
of her plays were acted in London – ‘The Verge’ and ‘Suppressed Desires’ – and
her recent book, ‘The Road to the Temple’, created much interest.
Monday 29 August 1927 London
and Daventry 5XX 9.35-11 (mixed)
‘Pariah’ (August Strindberg)
Characters:
Mr. X, an Archaeologist
Mr. Y, an American traveller
(no actors given)
Scene: A simply-furnished
room in a farmhouse. The door and the windows open on a landscape. In the
middle of the room stands a big dining-table, covered at one end by books,
writing materials, and antiquities; at the other end by a microscope, insect
cases and specimen jars full of alcohol.
On the left side hangs a
bookshelf. Otherwise, the furiture is that of a well-to-do farmer.
The landscape outside and
the room itself are steeped in sunlight. The ringing of church bells indicates
that the morning services are just over. Now and then the cackling of hens is
heard from the outside.
Mr. Y comes in in his
shirt-sleeves, carrying a butter-fly net and a botany-can. He does straight up
to the bookshelf and takes down a book, which he begins to read on the spot.
Mr X comes in, also in his
shirt-sleeves.
Mr Y starts violently, puts
the book back on the shelf upside down, and pretends to be looking for another
volume.
Mr X speaks.
The work of August
Strindberg, the Swedish writer, who died in 1912, is still little known in
England outside the circle of those who study the drama; but fifty years ago
his plays and novels convulsed the intellectual world by their attacks on
modern society, and particularly on the feminist movement to which the other
great Scandanavian playwright, ibsen, had given such support.
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 9 September 1927
London and Daventry 8-9 (mixed)
‘Spoiling the Broth’ (Bertha
N. Graham)
A Short One-Act Comedy
Mrs. Chance (a widow about
thirty-eight) – Mabel Constanduros
Joey Chance (her son, a
youth about seventeen) – Hugh Dempster
David Wells (the lodger,
about the same age as Mrs. Chance) – H.St. Barbe West
Melia Hammond (a factory
girl) – Molly Lumley
The scene is Mrs. Chance’s
kitchen. Joey Chance, a loutish-looking youth, is sitting in a chair; he holds
a small bottle with the cork out.
‘Taffy’s Wife’ (Bertha N.
Graham)
Rosalind Evans (a private
detective) – Barbara Couper
David Evans (Member of the
Mercury Socialists) – Wilfred Fletcher
Robert Cressall (Member of
the Mercury Socialists) – Edward Foster
The scene is the Evans’ flat
in Battersea. The room is dark but for a faint glimmer of firelight. The door
is open, showing the corridor and a hat rack.
Taffy Evans, young, fair,
boyish and excitable, comes in, switches on the light and hangs up his hat and
overcoat, talking as he does so to Robert Cressall, a much older man.
Wednesday 14 September 1927
London and Daventry 7.30-8
‘All Alive-O!’ (Hon. A.E.
Eliot)
A Sketch
Cast including:
Dora Barton
Cora Wilcock
Doris Butley
Michael Hogan
Frank Denton
Thursday 15 September 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
‘Early Birds’ (Roland
Pertwee)
A Sketch in One Act
Auntie – Mabel Constanduros
Maud – Lilian Harrison
Sue – Florence Bayfield
Nell – Mary Allen
Milly – Hermione Baddeley
Programme Girl – Sibyl Wise
The scene represents the
gallery, or cheap part, of a small provincial theatre or hall. It has a centre
aisle.
In front are a couple of
benches covered with red upholstery – denoting a higher-priced seat.
We hear a small party of
people taking their tickets outside, and shortly afterwards they come in and hurry,
breathlessly, down the centre aisle. They are led by Maud, who holds Milly by
the hand. Maud is a young woman of twenty-six years of age. Being the wife of a
Londoner, and dwelling in that city, she takes command of her younger sisters,
who live in less intellectual surroundings.
Milly, the youngest of the
party, is only ten. It is her first visit to a place of entertainment, and she
is a trifle bewildered.
Bringing up the rear are
Nell and Sue – two flappers in gay-coloured cotton dresses.
Auntie is a woman of
uncertain age. She is inclined to stoutness, breathlessness, and perspiration.
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.
Tuesday 20 September 1927
Daventry 8-
Wednesday 21 September 1927
London, Daventry 9.35-
‘The Liars’ an original
comedy in four acts (Henry Arthur Jones)
adapted by Dulcima Glasby
Producer Milton Rosmer
Colonel Sir Christopher
Deering – Milton Rosmer
Edward Falkner – Robert
Speaight
Gilbert Nepean – Reginald
Tate
George Nepean – Michael
Hogan
Freddie Tatton – Ewart Scott
Archibold Coke – H. St.
Barbe West
Waiter – Abraham Sofaer
Lady Jessica Nepean –
Gwendolen Evans
Lady Rosamond Tatton –
Winifred Arthur Jones
Dolly Coke – Dorothy Fane
Beatrice Ebernoe – Lilian
Harrison
Mrs. Crespin – Una Venning
Ferris – Dorice Fordred
Act One – Tent on the lawn
of Freddie Tatton’s House in the Thames Valley, after dinner, on a summer’s
evening.
Act Two – Private
Sitting-room Number Ten, at the ‘Star and Garter’, at Shepperford, on the
following Monday evening.
Act Three – Lady Rosamund’s Drawing-room
at Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, on the Tuesday morning.
Act Four – Sir Christopher
Deering’s rooms in Victoria Street, on the Tuesday evening.
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
Thursday 29 September 1927
London and Daventry 8.15-8.45
‘This Film Business’ (Edwin
Lewis)
A Farce in One Act
Sarah Brown (a miner’s wife,
about fifty) – Mabel Constanduros
Hannah Entwhistle (Sarah’s
life-long friend) – Edith Carter
Mary Entwhistle (age
twenty-two, Hannah’s film-struck daughter) – Hermione Baddeley
Herbert Brown (a practical
young miner, but in love) – Hugh Dempster
Two-Gun Jeb (a filmy friend)
– Michael Hogan
Please picture Mrs.
Entwhistle’ kitchen about that time of night when the hero and the heroine on
the films are kissing in their final ‘close-up’, while the audience are
searching for mislaid gloves, hats, and hankerchiefs, and a certain portion is
releasing hands at the threat of sudden lights.
These two ladies have
witnessed that electric phenomenon, the transfer of attention from late
Victorian melodrama to the modern fiilm super-melodrama, but Sarah remains
unimpressed. She is very practical and knows that the way to make things happen
is not to hope so much as to pull the strings. Just now, like the writer of
film melodrama, she is arranging her scenarios for the entertainment.
Friday 30 September 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-5
Transmisson to Schools
The Drama
The first of a series of
six Plays interpreted by representative
Radio Players
I.
‘Abraham
Lincoln’ (John Drinkwater)
Arranged in five scenes
Tuesday 4 October 1927
Daventry Experimental 10.20-11.30
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
(Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and
Produced by Howard Rose
Baptista – Vincent Sternroyd
Lucentio – Frank McRae
Lucentio – Carlton Hobbs
Petruchio – Iam Fleming
Gremio – Stanley Lathbury
Hortensio – Cyril Nash
Tranio – Reginald Tate
Biondello – Adrian Byrne
Grumio – Wallace Evennett
Curtis – Doris Buckley
A Pedant – Frank Denton
Katherina – Barbara Couper
Bianca – Lilian Harrison
Widow – Margaret Coleman
Tailor, Haberdasher, and
Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
Scene: Padua, and
Petruchio’s country house.
Wednesday 4 October 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 7.45-9 (mixed)
A Welsh Harvest Programme
(Daventry only)
S.B. from Cardiff
‘The Harvest Mare’ (Megfam)
pr Megfam
Thomas Williams (the Farmer)
– T. Idris Davies
Martha (his Wife) – Irene
Roberts
Angharad (their Daughter) –
C. Thomas
Marged (Farm Servant) – Bec
Russell
Gwenno (Farm Servant) – G.
Jones
Mari Penlan (Village Gossip)
– Megfam
Dair Teiliwr (a Village
Worthy) – Roy Howells
Dafi (Farm Labourer) – D.
Jones
Neighbours, Workman and
their Wives
The Hendre Farm is the home
of Thomas Williams and his family, and the celebration takes place at the end
of the Corn Harvest.
[Songs in the play listed]
Wednesday 5 October 1927
London and Daventy 5XX 9.35-11
A Dutch Musical Incident
Book by Paul R. Rubens and
Austen Hurgon
Lyrics and Music by Paul A.
Reubens
Cast:
Huntley Wright
George Ide
Jon Armstrong
Topliss Green
Foster Richardson
Mary Allen
Viv. Whitaker
Dorothy Monkman
Dorothy Shale
The Wireless Chorus and the
Wireles Orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson
Thursday 6 October 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 7.45-9
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
(Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and
Produced by Howard Rose
Baptista – Vincent Sternroyd
Lucentio – Frank McRae
Lucentio – Carlton Hobbs
Petruchio – Iam Fleming
Gremio – Stanley Lathbury
Hortensio – Cyril Nash
Tranio – Reginald Tate
Biondello – Adrian Byrne
Grumio – Wallace Evennett
Curtis – Doris Buckley
A Pedant – Frank Denton
Katherina – Barbara Couper
Bianca – Lilian Harrison
Widow – Margaret Coleman
Tailor, Haberdasher, and
Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
Scene: Padua, and
Petruchio’s country house.
Monday 10 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
A Comedy Opera in Two Acts
Written by G.H. Jessop
Additional lyrics by Percy
Greenbank and C.H. Taylor
Cast
Jamieson Dodds
John Armstrong
Herbert Simmonds
Tommy Handley
Arthur Rees
Judge Romney - Ashton Pearse
Marjorie Dixon
Mildred Watson
Mavis Bennett
Colleen Clifford
The Wireless Chorus and the
Wireless Orchestra Conducted by John Ansell
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
Wednesday 12 October 1927
Daventry 5GB 7.15-10.15
‘The Magic Flute’ (Mozart)
Relayed from the King’s
Theatre, Edinburgh
British National Opera
Company
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 7.45 – 9
An Evening of Vaudeville
‘Wun-Tu’ or ‘The Seventh
Heaven’
A Chinese Fantasy
(Frank Cochrane and Dion
Titheradge)
Music by Arthur Wood
Wun-Tu – Frank Cochrane
Mee-Wo – Maurice Evans
Lilli Ming – Gwen
Ffrangcon-Davies
Li-Lo – Mel Sydney
To the house of Wun-Tu comes
Mee-Woo, seeking advice. He addresses the servant Li-Lo.
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.15-9.30
Cecil Lewis ‘Old Rothenburg’
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
The Marriage Will Not Take
Place’ (Alfred Sutro)
A Play in One Act
Sir Henry Parker, Bart –
Vincent Sternroyd
Simon Free, K.C., M.P. –
Dennis Eadie
Charlotte Bell (Charlie) –
Phyllis Titmuss
It is 1917, and the Great
War progresses. In the study of his handsome West-end house, Sir Henry Parker
paces nervously to and fro, at times looking at his watch and cursing under his
brath. A servant announces the arrival of Mr. Free, and Sir Henry eagerly
welcomes him.
Friday 14 October 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
The second of a series of
six Plays interpreted by representative Radio Players
II.
‘Twelfth
Night’
Douglas Burbridge
Lilian Harrison
Abraham Sofaer
J. Adrian Byrne
Robert Speaight
Alfred Clark
Wilfred Fletcher
Howard Rose
Reginald Tate
Ewart Scott
Dorothy Freshwater
Doris Buckley
Saturday 15 October 1927
Daventry 2-4.45
Relayed from the King’s
Theatre, Edinburgh
British National Opera
Company
Monday 17 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Faust’ (Goethe)
A Dramatic Mystery
S.B. from Liverpool
Arranged for Broadcasting
and Presented by Edward P. Genn
Played by the Liverpool
Radio Players
With the Station Chorus and
Orchestra
Conducted by Frederick Brown
Chorus Master, Harvey J.
Dunkerley
Prologue: In the Heavens
Raphael – Philip Harper
Gabriel – Hugh H. Francis
Michael – Walter Shore
The Lord – Philip Herbert
Mephistopheles – Walton
Pritchard
The Play:
Faust – William Armstrong
Mephistopheles – Walton
Pritchard
Brander – Harold Brayfield
Siebel – Hugh H. Francis
Altmeyer – A.L. Bruce
Frosh – J.P. Lambe
A He-Ape – Walter Shore
A She-Ape – J.P. Lambe
The Witch – Mrs. Fred
Wilkinson
Margaret – Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Martha – Irene Rooke
Lisbeth – Marvel Hulme
Valentine – Philip H. Harper
Students, Crowd of Peoples,
Chorus of Angels
The Scenes used are taken
from Albert G. Latham’s translation, published in the Everyman Library series.
The music has been arranged
from ‘The Damnation of Faust’ by Berlioz and the Opera ‘Faust’ by Gounod, and
the ‘Song of the Flea’ will be sung in Moussorgsky’s setting.
Page article p 73
The article on this page is
by Mr. Robert Atkins, the well-known theatre producer, whose presentation of
‘Faust’ at the Old Vic, some years ago was the most noteworthy hitherto
attempted on the English stage.
The broadcasting of ‘Faust’
is, indeed, an event of the first importance in the histroy of radio drama, and
the transmission of this, one of the world’s supremely great plays, is not only
a matter of interest to listeners but a credit to the dramatic department of
the British Broadcasting Corporation.
P. 61
.. I hope that the
broadcasting of ‘Faust’ will lead to the great wireless public interesting
themselves in the work. And, as a man of the theatre, I naturally hope that
this interest may eventually be centred upon a truly adequate stage
presentatoin. For I certainly believe that wireless is destined to have a
profound influence upon the destiny of drama in this country, since it can
familiarize the public step by step with the classic masterpieces.
Tuesday 18 October 1927
Daventry 9.40-10.15
An Excerpt from Act I
Relayed from the Duke of
York’s Theatre, London
Thursday 20 October 1927
Daventry 10.15-11.15 (mixed)
‘Her Tongue’ (Henry Arthur
Jones)
A New Comedy in One Act
Waiter – Frank Denton
Fred Bracy – Wolferstan Beck
Minnie Bracy(his wife) –
Vivienne Whitaker
Lawrence Scobell (a rich Argentine Planter) – Ivan Firth
Miss Patty Hanslope
(Minnie’s cousin) – Dorothy Monkman
Had it not been for the
eleventh-hour activities of his friends, Minnie and Fred Bracy, Lawrence
Scobell would have sailed away to South America without even bidding Patty
Hanslope good-bye. However, a telegram brings her to Varley’s Hotel,
Southampton, where a waiter is now showing Minnie and Fred into a private
sitting-room.
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.
Friday 29 October 1927
London and Daventry 10.20-10.55
‘The Treasure Hunt’ (C.
Stewart Black)
A Farcical Comedy
Presented by the Aberdeen
Radio Players
Kirsty Cameron (an elderly
maiden lady) – Gertrude Meston
Jessie (her niece) – Addie
Ross
Cornelius MacPherson (the
village lawyer) – William Meston
Lachie Thomson (the
postmaster) – George Dewar
The scene is Miss Cameron’s
parlour, complete with all the adornments of the wax flower and antimaccassar
period.
Kirsty, a prim old lady,
with a wollen tippet round her shoulders, and a lace cap on her silvered hair,
is seated in an arm-chair by the fireplace. The old lady has been reading, but
her book is now turned face downwards on her lap, and her hands are folded on
top of it. She is staring vacantly in front of her. Jessie, who is standing
beside her aunt’s chair speaks …
Monday 31 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Old Heidelberg’ (Wilhelm
Meyer-Forster)
Translated from the German
by Catherine Pochin
Produced by Howard Rose
Von Haugk (Minister of
State) – George Ide
Glanz (Prince’s Servant) –
Reginald Tate
Baron von Metzing
(Gentleman-in-Waiting) – Frank Denton
Baron von Breitenberg
(Gentleman-in-Waiting) – Randolph McLeod
Van Passarge (Master of the
Household) – William Macready
Scholerman (Prince’s
Servant) – Herbert Lugg
Lutz (Valet) – Abraham
Sofaer
Dr. Juttner – Hubert Carter
Karl Heinrich (Hereditary
Prince of Saxon-Karlsburg) – Walter Hudd
Ruder (Innkeeper) – Alfred
Clark
Frau Ruder – Lilian Mason
Kathie – Gwendolen Evans
Kellerman – George Gowoy
Karl Bilz (Corps of Saxony)
– Cyril Nash
Karl Engelbrecht (Corps of
Saxony) – John Reeve
Gentlemen-in-Waiting,
Officers, Students, Musicians, Servants
Act I. – The Antechamber of
the Prince’s room at Karlsburg. A gloomy apartment, hung with tapestry such as
is often found in old castles.
Act II. – The Garden at
Ruder’s Inn in Heidelberg.
Act III. – Karl Heinrich’s
room in Ruder’s House.
Act IV. – (Two years later)
– The Room of Prince Karl in the Castle of Karlsburg.
Act V. – Ruder’s Garden.
Tuesday 1 November 1927
Daventry 5GB 9-9.30
‘Riders to the Sea’ (J.M.
Synge)
Nora – Kathleen Stuart
Cathleen – Mary O’Farrell
Maurya – Clare Harris
Bartley – J. Adrian Byrne
Colum – S. Creagh Henry
In the kitchen on a cottage
on an island off the West Coast of Ireland, Cathleen, a girl of about twenty,
is kneading a cake of bread. She finishes it and puts it down in the pot-oven
by the fire, then begins to spin at the wheel, while her mother, Maurya, is resting
in an inner room. Her younger sister, Nora, puts her head in at the outer door.
‘Riders to the Sea’ was the second play written by J.M. Synge, the
leading dramatist of the Irish literary Renaissance, and the greatest influence
on the Abbey Theatre, of which he was a director from 1904 until his death in
1909. Published in 1905, in the same volume as ‘The Shadow of th eGlen’, it
gave immediate occasion for the expectations which Synge amply fulfilled two
years later with ‘The Playboy of the Western World’. ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a
most poignant drama of the coast people whom Synge, who had lived on the Aean
Islands, knew so well, and of whose speech he had made language as beautiflu as
any ever heard on the British stage.
Wednesday 2 November 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9.30
‘The Way of an Eagle’ (Ethel
M. Dell)
An Arrangement of the
Popular Play
Produced by Gordon McConnel
General Roscoe – Reginald
Dance
Purdu – Walter Schofield
Nick Ratcliffe – Lawrence
Anderson
Blake Grange- Carlton Hobbs
Muriel Roscoe – Cathleen
Nesbitt
Lady Bassett – Edith Hunter
Mrs. Gybbon – Juliet Mansell
Daisy Musgrave – Sylvia
Willoughby
Olga Ratcliffe (Dr. Jim
Ratcliffe’s daughter aged fourteen) – Peggie Robb Smith
Dr. Jim Ratcliffe – Hubert
Carter
Ellen – Nora Duff
Bobby Fraser – Derrick De
Marney
Abdullah – George Gowoy
Friday 4 November 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
The third in a series of six
plays interpreted by Representative Radio Players
‘Prunella’ (Laurence Housman
and Granville Barker)
The Players:
Lilian Harrison
Dora Barton
Margaret Coleman
Ethel Carrington
Peggie Robb-Smith
Eileen Kelsey
Yvette Pienne
Michael Hogan
James Whigham
Frank Denton
Douglas Burbridge
William Macready
David Stenser
Reginald Tate
Ivan Berlyn
Monday 7 November 1927
London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
‘The Threshold’ (Harold
Chapin)
A Play in One Act
Jenny, a miner’s daughter. A
pretty simple girl of seventeen. Bright, smiling and cheerful – Lilian Harrison
Charles Raynor, a commercial
traveller. About thirty years of age. Tall, with dark hair and moustache.
Smartly, but not well dressed. The kind of man who would – amongst the poorer
classes – be considered handsome – Edgar Norfolk
Also two Welsh miners
It is early morning in
spring, with a chill grey light shining through the window of an upstairs room
in a miner’s cottage. The apartment is furnished as a bed-sitting-room and is
occupied by Charles Rayner, who, at the moment, is dressing behind a screen.
Jenny brings in his breakfast.
Tuesday 8 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.40-11
‘The Life of Henry the
Fifth’ (Shakespeare)
Abridged for broadcasting
The Cast:
Ivan Berlyn
Winifred Evans
Matthew Forsyth
Henry Le Gr??
Alice De Grey
Erskine Haines
S. Crem? Henry
Carleton Hobbes
A.
Lub?
Herbert Lugg
William Macready
Ed? Maxon
Nancy ?
Herbert Ross
Abraham Sofaer
Harcourt Williams
Saturday 12 November 1927
London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
Variety
Henry Oscar in a sketch
entitled
‘9 O’clock’ (Cyril Ashurst)
Sir John - Henry Oscar
Grieg – Wolferstan Beck
Parker – Edgar B. Skeet
Monday 14 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Prunella’ (Laurence Housman
and H. Granville-Barker)
The Music by Joseph S.
Mooray
Abridged and Arranged for
Broadcasting
Produced by Howard Rose
Boy – James Whigham
First Gardener – Frank
Denton
Second Gardener – Douglas
Burbridge
Third Gardiner – William
Macready
Queer (a Servant) – Dora
Barton
Prunella – Lilian Harrison
Prim (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Yvette Pienne
Privacy (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Margaret Coleman
Quaint (a Servant) – Dora Barton
Prude (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Ethel Carrington
Pierrot – Ivan Samson
Scaramel (his Servant) –
Ivan Berlyn
Callow – Abraham Sofaer
Doll- Mary Allen
Hawk – Frank Denton
Tawdry – Alice De Grey
Mouth – William Macready
Romp – Eileen Kelsey
Kennel – Douglas Burbridge
Coquette – Peggie Robb-Smith
Love (a Statue) – David
Spenser
Act I
Love, in the person of
Pierrot, comes to the maiden, Prunella, in the garden of the prim old house in
which she lives with her aunts. Leading from the house is a porch, and in this
hangs a caged canary, while standing over a fountain is a statue of love with
viol and bow.
The garden is enclosed by
high hedges cut square.
Act II
Night has descended on the
garden. The light of the Moon falls across the top of the hedge and strikes the
head of the fountain-statue.
When all is quiet, Pierrot
and his companions steal in.
Act III
Three years have gone by,
and now the garden is overgrown and neglected. The fountain is moss-grown and
thick with creepers. The house is ‘To Let’ and all is fading in the light of
Sunset.
Tuesday 15 November 1927
Plymouth 6-6.30
The Micrognomes present
‘Hate’ (Arthur Bird)
A Play in One Act
Sir Henry Carfax – Charles
Stapylton
Lady Carfax – Pauline Carr
Bill Carfax – Stephen
Campbell
Joan Allingham – Molly Seymour
Brandon Carfax – John Evered
Roger Carfax – Charles
Stapylton
Thompson (the butler) –
Derek Lessingham
Here is a play that might be
described as a modern tale of old-fashioned ghosts. You must imagine the
ancestors of Sir Henry Carfax, ‘good haters all’, and the old Georgian tragedy
re-enacted every midnight.
Friday 18 November 1927
London and Daventry 3.45-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Fourth of a series of
six plays
[no cast given]
Friday 18 November 1927
London and Daventry 7.40-9.30
‘R.U.R.’ (Karel Capek)
(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Translated from the Czech by
Paul Selver
Arranged for Broadcasting
and produced by Cecil Lewis
Incidental Music by Victor
Hely-Hutchinson
Harry Domain (General
Manager for Rossum’s Universal Robots) – Nicholas Hannen
Dr. Gall (Head of the
Physiological Department, R.U.R.) – J.H. Roberts
Jacob Berman (Managing
Director, R.U.R.) – Clive Currie
Alquist (Clerk of the Works,
R.U.R.) – Harcourt Williams
Helena Glory (Daughter of
Professor Glory, of Oxbridge University) – Cathleen Nesbitt
Emma (her Maid) – Claire
Harris
Marius (a Robot) – Edgar
Norfolk
Sulla (a Robotess) – Olga
Benois
Radius (a Robot) – Raymond
Massey
Primus (a Robot) – Robert
Harris
Helena (a Robotess) –
Gwendolen Evans
A Robot Servant and numerous
Robots
The action takes place on a
remote island in 1950-60.
Saturday 19 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
‘Community Laughing’ [(L. du
Garde Peach)]
A Charivari
By L. du G.
Broadcast by Happy People
for Happy People
Music composed by Stanford
Robinson
Who will conduct The
Wireless Chorus
And the Wireless Revue
Orchestra
The following Radio Artists
will take part:
Helen Gilliland
Phyllis Panting
Cyril Nash
Ewart Scott
John Thorne
Derrick De Marney
Arthur Chesney
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
Monday 21 November 1927 8-9.30
Daventry
‘This Programme Business’
An Entertainment, written
and arranged by Cecil Lewis
Tuesday 22 November 1927
Daventry London etc.7.45-10.15
‘Penelope’ a lyric drama
(Herbert Ferrers)
The Wireless
Chorus(Chorus-Master Stanford Robinson)
The Wireless Symphony
Orchestra
Under the direction of the
Composer
Dale Smith
Stuart Robinson
John Armstrong
Rachel Morton
Doris Vane
John Perry
Samuel Dyson
Repeat
Wednesday 23 November London
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
Monday 28 November 1927 p
421
From Daventry 5GB, 8-9.35
pm. From London, Daventry and other Stations, Wednesday 9.35-11
Monday 28 November 1927
Daventry 5GB, 8-9.35 pm.
Wednesday 30 November 1927
London and other Stations, 9.35-11
A Comedy in Three Acts by
Ian Hay (Adapted from the Author’s novel, ‘Happy-go-Lucky’)
Arranged and Abridged for
Broadcasting
Pr Gordon McConnel
Lady Marian Mainwaring –
Dorothy Dayus
Sylvia (her daughter) - Esther Coleman
Milroy (butler to the
Mainwarings) – John Reeve
Abel Mainwaring, MP – C.
Leveson Lane
Rev. Adrian Rylands – Frank
Denton
Constance Damer – Phyllis
Panting
Richard (Mainwaring’s son) –
Ivan Samson
Tilly (Welwyn’s daughter) –
Olwen Roose
Percy (Welwyn’s son) –
Philip Wade
Amelia (Welwyn’s younger
daughter) – Joan Brierley
Mr. Mehta Ram (a Law
Student) – Abraham Sofaer
Mrs. Welwyn – Gracie Leigh
Grandma Banks (her mother) –
Mary O’Farrell
Lucius Welwyn – Gilbert
Heron
Mr. Stillbottle (a Sheriff’s
Officer) – George Hayes
Mr. Pumpherston (another Law
Student) – Angus Adams
Act I. The Towers, Shotley
Beauchamp. A Saturday afternoon in November.
Act II. The Welwyn’s
drawing-room, Bloomsbury. Monday afternoon.
Act III. Same as Act II.
Tuesday morning.
The action of the play takes
place at the present time.
Tuesday 5GB 29 November 1927
Daventry 8-9.25
Friday 2 December 1927
London, Daventry and other Stations 9.35-11
‘The Rose of Persia’ or ‘The
Story-Teller and the Slave’
A Musical comedy by Basil
Hood and Arthur Sullivan
Arranged and Abridged for
Broadcasting
Pr Henry Oscar
Hassan – Huntley Wright
Blush-of-Morning – Mildred
Watson
Oasis-in-the-Desert – Peggie
Robb Smith
Dancing Sunbeam – Gladys
Palmer
Abdallah – Stanley Newman
Heart’s Desire – Colleen
Clifford
Honey of Life – Loti Ford
Yussuf – John Armstrong
The Sultana Zubeydeh – Mavis
Bennett
The Grand Vizier – Foster
Richardson
The Royal Executioner –
George Ide
The Sultan Mahmoud of Persia
– Topliss Green
Act I. Court of Hassan’s
house
Act II. Audience Hall of the
Sultan’s Palace
Thursday 1 December 1927
Daventry 10.15-10.38 (mixed)
Music and Shakespeare
From Birmingham
Gladys Ward and Whortley
Allen
‘Macbeth’ Act II, Scenes 1
and 2
11.3-11.15
Act IV, 1 from ‘The Merchant
of Venice’
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
Monday 5 December 1927
Daventry 8.25-9 (mixed)
‘Shepherd’s Delight’ A
Pastorale (Edith Reynolds)
Phoebe (a Shepherdess) –
Olive Gorves
Giles (a Shepherd) – Harold
Kimberley
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.
Wednesday 7 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.53-10.40
an excerpt from the New
Musical Comedy
Book by Guy Bolton and P.G.
Woodhouse
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin
Relayed from His Majesty’s
Theatre
Gertrude Lawrence
Claude Hulbert
Harold French
John Kirby
[RELAY]
Thursday 8 December 1927
Daventry 8-8.45
‘St. Francis D’Assissi’ a
play in five acts ((J. Vaughan Emmett)
A Guide – Henry Oscar
St. Francis – Frank Randall
Pietro Bernadone, his father
– Herbert Ross
Bernadino Quantavalle –
Harold Young
Brother Leo – Leonard
Shepherd
Brother Angelo – Abraham
Sofaer
Brother Masseo – S. Creagh
Henry
Brother Bernado – Victor
Lewisohn
Another Brother – C. Leveson
Lane
You are to hear this play as
being performed by Italian peasants on the hillside close to the town of
Assissi, where a group of British tourists visiting Italy under the guidance of
an Englishman well up in the history and traditions of that country, have, at
his instigations, decided to stay and see it before leaving the neighbourhood.
The guide gives explanations
at the beginning of each act, both of the play itself and of the work and life
of Saint Francis.
The Author which to
acknowledge the debt which he owes to Sabatier’s great work on St. Francis and
to Miss Houghton’s translation.
Saturday 10 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
‘The Show Boat’ A Revue
Written and Produced by
Peter Cheyney
Musical Numbers by various
composers
Arthur Chesney
Ewart Scott
James Whigham
Mary O’Farrell
Alma Vane
Elsie Carlisle
Thursday 15 December 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 9.35-10.30
* ‘Shadows’ (Valerie
Harwood)
a Radio Scene in One Act
This experiment in Radio
Drama is so complete and convincing in itself that to give any preliminary
description of its contents other than that given by the Announcer in setting
the stage would destroy its particular effect if natural spontaneity. It would
help to create the atmosphere essential to the appreciation of this scene if
listeners turned down the lights.
(no characters or actors
listed)
‘Dropped from Heaven’ (Dion
Titheradge)
A Sketch in One Scene
He – Ian Fleming
She – Gwendolen Evans
The Butler – Reginald Dane
He is sitting on a
chesterfield in his study, a well-furnished, particularly masculine room. The
Butler stands behind him pouring out a glass of liqueur. Having filled the
glass, he offers it to him on a small salver.
Friday 16 December 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 3.50 – 4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
VI. ‘Richard II’
[Shakespeare]
Performed by the Radio
Players
This is the sixth and last
of the dramatic broadcasts to schools which have proved a popular feature of
the Autumn Wireless Curriculum.
(no actors listed)
Friday 16 December 1927
London and Daventry 10.20-11
‘The True History of Mr,
Punch and his Family’
Written and presented by
W.S. Meadmore and L. de Giberne Sieveking
Prologue sung by Leyland
White (Baritone)
Music by Victor
Hely-Hutchinson
Mr. Punch of England – W.S.
Meadmore and W.H. Jesson (the oldest Punch and Judy Showman alive)
Judy – Mabel Constanduros
Puccio d’Ariello of Italy
(The Original Punch) – L. de Giberne Sieveking
A Man – Lionel Fielden
A Little Boy – Brian Glennie
A Passer by. A Mother.
Voices
Of all the street shows and
open-air theatre from which the drama as we know it sprang, the Punch-and-Judy
show alone survives. And even if it is fast vanishing; one is lucky now in
London to hear round the next corner the historic screech of Punch and the whacking
of his stick, and to come upon the little knot of errand-boys and rather
shame-faced adults, clustered around the familiar faded proscenium on the edge
of which a bored Toby yawns at the show. As tonight’s programme will reveal,
Punch has a long and distinguished ancestry; that those who think that he
himself is the flower of his race will be glad to hear this programme is not
altogether historical, and that a real, genuine, street Punch-and-Judy show is
to come before the microphone tonight.
Monday 19 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘The Ship’ (St. John Ervine)
A Play in Three Acts
S.B. from Manchester
Old Mrs. Thurlow – Nanon (?)
Price
John Thurlow – E.H.
Bridgstock
Janet – Lucy Rogers
Hester – Hilda Metcalf
Captain Cornelius – W.E.
Dickman
George Norwood – Harold
Cluff
Maid – Amy Eden
Tuesday 20 December 1927
London and Daventry 7.45-8.45
‘Bethlehem’ (Bernard Walke)
A Nativity Play in Three
Scenes
Relayed from St. Hilary’s
Church, Marazion, Cornwall
Thursday 22 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.50-10.15
‘Pimpus and Caxa’ (Max Mohr)
or ‘The North Pole Fliers’
A Comedy of the Far North
Done into English by Susan
Bean (?) and Cecil Lewis
[no cast listed]
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
Monday 26 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Pantomimicry’
Written and produced by
Gordon McConnel
Wireless Chorus and Wireless
Orchestra Conducted by Stanford Robinson
The Author – Cyril Nash
The Dame – Malcolm Scott
The Principal Boy – Miriam
Ferris
The Demon King – Foster
Richardson
The Pricnipal Girl – Alma
Vane
The Good Fairy – Joan
Brierley
The Oldest Inhabitant – J.
Hubert Leslie
A Villager – George Ide
The Young Squire – Norman
Griffin
More Villagers, Sailors,
Mermaids, South Sea islanders, Brigands and their Families, etc.
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.