* ‘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

This, it is claimed, is defintely a raiod play; a play written for broadcasting in a technique founded on the needs of the microphone and not on the traditions of the stage. There is, therefore, no occasion to give details of scenes for the play is self-contained and demands no introduction, nor any ‘stage directions’. If the author has been successful, this fantasy of the gods on high Olympus and the speed-mad, self-destructive mortals below will tell its own story in its own way.

All that is asked of listeners is that they are in their ‘listening chairs’ by 9.35 p.m. prompt, and that they give as much attention to the transmission of the radio play as they would to a performance of a similar nature in a theatre.

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