‘The Blue Bird’

A Fairy Play

(Maeterlinck)

Monday 9 January 1928 1928 9.35-11.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
performed by the cast of stage play
abridged and presented by arrangement with Nora Johnston
music C. Whitaker Wilson
pr (no billing) From script mark-up = Howard Rose

Tyltyl - Brian Glennie
Mytyl - Patricia Hayes
Light - Maud Cressall
The Fairy Berylune - Florence Tyrell
Neighbour Berlingot - Susan Hodder
Daddy Tyl - Henry Oscar
Mummy Tyl - Jean Rose
Granny Tyl - Phyllis Garnett
Time - Nancy Prich (price?)
Night - Nora Johnston
Tylo the Dog - Matthew Boulton
Tylette the Cat - Norman Page
Bread - Charles Mortimer
Sugar - Ernest Leverett
Fire - Patrick Waddington
Water - Juliet Mansell
Milk - Eileen Kelsey
Stars, Sicknesses, Shades, Luxuries, Happinesses, Joys, etc.

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‘The Folly of George’

(Matthew Boulton)

Wednesday 15 February 1928 Daventry 8.30-9

From Birmingham

George Clifford - Stuart Vinden
Jack Bentley - John Moss
Kitty Claire - Molly Hall

The scene is Jack Bentley’s studio. There is a large screen, an artist’s throne, a liqueur stand, and various other objects. Kitty Claire is posing for her portrait.

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‘The Brass Door-Knob’

(Matthew Boulton)

Wednesday 15 February 1928 Manchester 7.45-8.35

Produced by D.E. Ormerod

Mrs. Bradbury - Hylda Metcalf
Mr. Hawkes - Leo Channing

It was Mr. Hawk’s business to know things concerning other people.He found it a profitable calling until he interested himself in the new secret armoured car which Mrs. Bradbury’s husband, a Navel Architect, had recently invented.

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* ‘Speed’

A Tragi-Comic Fantasy of Gods and Mortals

(Charles Croker pseudonym)

Monday 2 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11

Written specially for radio transmission

The gods:
Cronus - Leslie Perrins
Rhea - Netta Westcott
Zeus - George Ide
Crisu - Ronald Hammond

The mortals:
Ethel - Lilian Harrison
Mother - Edith Hunter
Jack - Peter Cunningham
Father - Caleb Porter
Howland - Cyril Nash
O’Brien - Eric Lugg
Shaw - Ernest Digges
Captain - Elliott Seabrooke
O’Brien, Jnr. - John Wyse
McShane - J. Hubert Leslie
Mate - Edward Chapman
First Lorryman - Philip Wade
Second Lorryman - Matthew Boulton

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‘The Crossing’

A Play for Broadcasting

(Holt Marvell and Cyril Lister)

Thursday 19 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-10.45

[Two Plays]
Broadcast with ‘Apples and Eve’

A Porter - Matthew Boulton
Gerald - Patrick Waddington
Jane - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
An Old Man - Raymond Trafford

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‘A Gold Stripe’

(Matthew Boulton)

Tuesday 12 June 1928 Cardiff 7.45-9 (mixed)

Bill Gosling - Donald Davies
Ted Sprooles - Jack Parkin
Emma Sprooles - Hope Kerr
Mrs. Hopkins - Eileen Blunden

Emma Sprooles is tidying up her house, a tenement flat in Tooley Street, S.E., because her husband, Ted, locally described as a ‘nero’, gets his discharge from hospital that day. Mrs. Hopkins, a neighbour who ‘can’t ‘elp being plump’, comes in bursting with curiosity to find out all she can, and bill Gosling, a former comrade of Ted’s, arrives unexpectedly, for he is home on leave.

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