'Wisdom of Fools'

(Anna McClure Warnock)

Thursday 2 February 1928 Belfast 7.45-9

[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'The Quilt'

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Charles K. Ayre
Jennie Erskine

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'The Strange Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha'

(Clifford Carter)

Saturday 11 February 1928 Belfast 7.45-9

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G. Coffey May
J. Hubert Leslie
Janie Martin
Hugh Hamilton
Kathleen Porter
Harold Clemence
James Mageean
A.S. Loxton
Chas. K. Ayre
Hilda Johnston

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Other Information

Charles K. Ayre (actor and playwright)

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Wearing

23.171-2
'The Drone' (Rutherford Mayne)
Scala
29 June 1923 various
9 performances
Alex Macready - Charles K. Ayre

23.175-6
'The Troth' (Rutherford Mayne)
Scala
2 July 1923 nwards
6 performances
Ebenezer McKie - Charles K. Ayre

23.178-9
'The Enthusiast' (Lewis Purcell)
Scala
4 July 1923 onwards
5 performances
Sam - Charles K. Ayre

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Friday 2 January 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30 (variety)
The Radio Players
'The Land of Heart's Desire' (W.B. Yeats)
pr Tyrone Power
Mairteen Bruin - J.R. Mageaean
Bridget Bruin - Jeannie Erskine
Shaun Bruin - George Buchanan
Mary Bruin - Mrs. Leslie Porter
Father Hart - Charles K. Ayre
A Faery Child - Norah Campbell

Monday 16 March 1925 Belfast 8.40-9.30
The Belfast Players
An Ulster Ceilidh
'A St. Patrick's Eve Party'
written and produced by Charles K. Ayre
Charles Mcafe (man of the house) - Charles K. Ayre
Sarah Mcafe - Charlotte Tedlif
Arter FitzSimmons (old servant) - J.R. Mageean
Tom Logan (Fiddler) - Ernest Stoneley
James Anderson (Fluter) - S.H. Darvill
Sam Bryson - W.R. Gordon

Thursday 19 March 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30
(variety)
'The Wisdom of Fools' (A.M. Warnock)
James Doyle - Charles K. Ayre
Mary Walsh - Jennie Erskine
scene: kitchen
first performance in Ireland

Monday 23 March 1925 Belfast 9-9.30
'The Glittering Gate' revival (Lord Dunsany)
The Radio Players
Jim - Charles K. Ayre
Bill - J.R. Mageean

Wednesday 8 April 1925 Belfast 7.30-9.30 mixed
Sketches of Ulster life
Radio Players
'In the Brae' (R. Simmons Breane)
The Doctor - Charles K. Ayre
Hans - Gerald McNamara
Scene: A cave in Co. Down, and later in the house of Hans
10.5-10.30 mixed
* 'Horse Sense' specially written for broadcasting (Gerald MacNamara)
original and somewhat fantastic satire
(listed as such in 'The Times' - not 'Radio Times' listing)
'Horse Sense' (Gerald MacNamara)
The Horse - George Buchanan
The Man - Gerald MacNamara
The Policeman - Charles K. Ayre

Thursday 14 May 1925 Belfast 7.30-10
Belfast Radio Players with Miss Flora Robson present
'Iphigeneia in Tauris' (Euripides)
tr Gilbert Murray
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Iphigeneia - Flora Robson
Orestes - Arthur Malcolm
Pylades - Tyrone Power
Thoas - G. Coffey May
Herdsman - Charles K. Ayre
Pallas Athene - Marjorie Sinclaire
Chorus: Kathleen Porter, Norah Campbell, Vera Chambers, Doris Taunton. Marie Healey

7 August 1925 RT p 276
Charles K. Ayre
leading member of the Belfast Radio Players
actor and playwright
in collection with the Ulster Literary Theatre

Friday 25 September 1925 Belfast 2BE 9-9.40
The Players present
'Columbine' (Reginald Arkill)
play presented by Tyrone Power
Nathaniel - J.R. Mageean
Daniel - Charles K. Ayre
Columbine - Norah Campbell
Harlequin - Tyrone Power
Pierrot - Arthur Malcolm

Monday 28 September 1925 7.45-9.20
The Players revive
® 'A Trip to Douglas' a saga in two parts (H. Richard-Hayward)
Charlotte Tedlie
Kitty Murphy
"Mrs. Rooney"
Elma Hayward
Pauline Barker
H. Richard Hayward
J.R. Mageean
Charles K. Ayre
Harold Lowe
(no characters listed)

Thursday 14 May 1925 Belfast 7.30-10
Belfast Radio Players with Miss Flora Robson present
'Iphigeneia in Tauris' (Euripides)
tr Gilbert Murray
pr
Iphigeneia - Flora Robson
orestes - Arthur Malcolm
Pylades - Tyrone Power
Thoas - G. Coffey May
Herdsman - Charles K. Ayre
Pallas Athene - Marjorie Sinclaire
Chorus: Kathleen Porter, Norah Campbell, Vera Chambers, Doris Taunton. Marie Healey

Wednesday 2 December 1925 Belfast 9.20-9.30
First performance of
'The Knocking at the Door' (Richard Rowley)
The man (an elderly invalid) - Charles K. Ayre
His wife (A smoother in a Hankerchief Factory) - Jeannie Erskine
Scene: Their home in Belfast

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