'Nurse Henrietta'
Thursday 31 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15
Nurse Henrietta - Lilian Harrison
In this remarkable monodrama, there are many characters but only one voice.
There is almost no action, for incident loses itself in soliloquy; nevertheless, suspense, love, hate, jealousy, death, a trial scene are all vividly depicted.
The story of 'Nurse Henrietta' may be regarded as either phantasy or as reality. Life, after all, is made up of both, although contained in each. Here is a paradox of which the art of the writer aims at providing a solution.
The reproduction of this curiously intimate kind of drama by means of the microphone marks another advance in the technique of radio play-writing.