* 'X'

a radio play

(George Crayton)

Monday 29 October 1928 London and Daventry 5XX 9.35-11 p.238

Vernon - D.A. Clarke-Smith
Morton - Clarence Blakiston
Prof. C. Learon - Marcus Barron
John Carthy - James Raglan
John Spent - Herbert Lugg
First Flying Officer - Walter West
Second Flying Officer - Walter Schofield
Third Flying Officer - Walter Tobias
Middle-aged Man - John Reeve
His Wife - Maud Goddard
First Rustic / Manager - Harvey Braban
Second Rustic / Coroner - Eric North
A Motorist / Inspector - Arthur Clay
His Wife / Lady - Juliet Mansell
Nurse - Dora Johnson
Doctor - John Reeve

'X' was the name given by three wireless enthusiasts in England to an unknown station that seemed to broadcast the same programme every night - until the one occasion when it was interrupted by a desperate cry for help.

Behind the enigma of the mystery station lies a tale of machinery run riot; of men imprisoned in a fortress of steel; of a City ruled by semi-human machines, crushing the men who made them in their metallic grasp. No stranger, more thrilling story was every written by Jules Verne or H.G.Wells. And underlying it all is the hint of that unknown quantity - that dangerous, incalculable 'X' - that lurks in the machinery made by men.

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