'One Man In His Times'

A fantastic chronicle of the life of William Shakespeare

(Ronald Gow)

Thursday 3 May 1928 Manchester 7.45-9.15

Presented by the Station Repertory Players

Written and arranged for broadcasting by Ronald Gow

Produced by Victor Smythe

The Boy from Stratford - Kenneth Burchill
A pedlar - Frank A. Nichols
Anne Hathaway - Margaret Halstan
Fulk Sandalls - D.E. Ormerod
John Richardson - W.E. Dickman
Anne Whateley - Lucia Rogers
A Justice of the Peace - E.H. Bridgstock
Will Shakespeare - Tom Wilson (his original part)
A Tavern Girl - Edith Toms
Burbage - E.H. Bridgstock
Earl of Southampton - Leo Channing
Henry Condell - Harold Cluff
Mary Fitton - Hylda Metcalf
A Jester - Charles Nesbitt
Mary (a Serving Maid) - Lucia Rogers
John (her Husband) - Frank A. Nichols
Puck - Enid Tordoff
John Falstaff - Edmund Bartlett
Shylock - Harold Cluff
Brutus - D.E. Ormerod
Rosalind - Ella Forsyth
Hamlet - W.E. Dickman

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* 'The Highwayman of Knutsford'

(Ronald Gow)

Thursday 11 October 1928 Manchester 7.45-

Specially written for broadcasting

Presented by the Station Repertory Players

Joe Snag - A.G. Mitcheson
Ezekiel Snipe - D.E. Ormerod
Simon Ketch - F.A. Nicholls
Greasy Sam - Harold Cluff
Jack Hesketh - Betram Haley
Dick Wragg - J. Edward Roberts
Edward Higgins of Knutsford - Leo Channing
Pet Boy - Kenneth Burchill
Count Cotillon d'Estaminet - W.E. Dickman
Sir Peter Colville - George Bernard Smith
Mary - Hylda Metcalf

Taking fancy by the hand, we find ourselves one night, about the middle of the eighteenth century, in the narrow main street of Knutsford in Cheshire.

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