* 'Sea Silence'
A Play of Terror on the High Seas
Wednesday 25 January 1928 Liverpool 9.35-10.5
Presented by Edward Genn
Alec - Philip P. Harper
Dan - F.J. WilkinsonIn the stillness of a tropical night, two men are sitting on boxes on the deck of the 'Sea Lark'. They are oppressed by the heavy silence and have not spoken for some time being lost in thought - the tropic night is starless and black as pitch. The sea is like glass and the air is laden with impending tragedy.
'Managing Margaret'
A One-Act Comedy
Monday 27 February 1928 Sheffield 10.4-10.29
Being a further episode in the life of Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown (a North Country Miner's Wife) - M. Massard
Margaret Spikesley (Her Unmarried Sister) - Mary Dale
Bill Brown (Her husband) - Edwin Lewis
Herbert Brown (Her Son) - Harold Bunton
* 'Sea Silence'
A Play of Terror on the High Seas
Tuesday 28 February 1928 Nottingham 7.45-9 (mixed)
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'The Ghost of Glastonbury Tunnel'Alec - Herbert Lees
Dan - Frank Leaver
'Sarah's Sea Shell'
A Fantastic Farce in One Act
Monday 28 May 1928 Manchester 9.35-11 (mixed)
(The Ninth of the 'Browns of Owdham' series)
Specially Written by Edwin Lewis
Sarah Brown - Hylda Metcalf
Bill Brown - E.H. Bridgstock
Aram-el-Aram (Oswald) - J. Bernard-Smith
A Young Man About Blackpool - Harold CluffBlackpool on a hot afternoon. The sea-front is like a shifting rainbow with the brightest lures of Lancashire and Yorkshire spread over the beach.
Sarah and Jill are surveying the scene from a sand castle, from the height of which Bill has achieved youth and lordliness; he is enjoying the temporary loss of thirty years.
'Progress and the Builder'
Tuesday 26 June 1928 Manchester 7.45-9 (mixed)
The Station Repertory Players present
Specially written in commemoration of Samuel Crompton - died June 26, 1827
Nell Compton - Hylda Metcalf
Tom Biggin - D.E. Ormerod
Bob Compton - E.H. Bridgstock
Harry Riley - Harold Cluff
Bob Braithwaite - F.A. Nicholls
Ned Raynor - J. Edward RobertsThe play deals with the coming of machinery, from a new point of view. Man is essentially a builder, and progress comes from man's restless urge to create. Creation as such is inartistic, but most plays of machines have concentrated on the economic and humane factors, whereas, this deals primarily with man, as the maker of progress.
'The Last of Carlovitch'
Wednesday 4 July 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10 From Birmingham
Presented by Stuart Vinden
Marie Romaine, a Gypsy - Winifred Hargreaves
Carl Romaine (Carlovitch) - Stuart Vinden
John Cannon (Entrepeneur) - John Moss
Stella Ventnor - Molly HallIt is a quiet summer night. Beside the road, on a green patch, a travelling van is drawn up under the shelter of the trees, and a log fire burns, filling the air with the stimulating aroma of the pine. Marie sits on the lowest step of the van with hands clasped behind her back. Her lips are parted in smiling wonder as she gazes at Carl, who, clad in a velvet jacket, is playing the violin.
'Lucky Bill'
a Manx farce
Friday 20 July 1928 Manchester 7.45-9
A Manx Programme (mixed)The Station Repertory Players
The tenth of the 'Browns of Owdham' seriesSarah Brown - Hylda Metcalf
Bill Brown - E.H. Bridgstock
Queen Mona - the Crystal Gazer - Berenice Melford
An Elderly Gentleman - Graffington Myers
A Cheap Jack - Harold Cluff
A Refined Young Lady - Lucia Rogers
Timothy - the Manx Cat - Charles NesbittSarah and Bill are in Queen Mona's Hall of Fate, on Orchan Head. The Isle of Man's mystic three-legged charms are emblazoned ov the walls and under the blue velvet cover, a significant bulge indicates Queen Mona's Crystal.
Bill sits very erect. Doubtless, the influece of sun has brougt on his feverish desire to lift the magic curtain of the future, Sarah cannot imagine what has happened to him. But she is suspicious. Certainly, no Gypsy Queen will hold Bill's hand long in her presence.
'The King of Zenoa'
A Radio Drama of the South Seas
Wednesday 1 August 1928 Manchester 7.45-9
Presented by the Station Repertory Players
Ivan Marioff (the White 'King' of Zenoa) - Leo Channing
Anson (Mate of the S-Y 'Zeno') - F.A. Nicholls
Captain Guy Athway - Robert Donat
Annette - Hylda Metcalf
Andy Martin - Charles Nesbitt
Matthews - Harold Cluff
Commander Markham - A.G. MitchesonI. The Bridge of S-Y Zeno - 9.0 p.m.
II. A hut in the village of Zenoa - 11.0 p.m.
III. Midnight in Zenoa
IV. In the Forest - 1.0 a.m.
V. Outside the 'Retreat' - 3.0 a.m.
VI. In the village of Zenoa
VII. In and around the 'Retreat'
'Managing Margaret'
A One-Act Comedy
Thursday 6 September 1928 Daventry 5GB 9-9.30
From Birmingham
Sarah Brown - F.A. Chamberlain
Bill Brown - Wortley Allen
Herbert Brown - Harry SaxtonSitting in her kitchen, Sarah is attempting to rejuvenate Herbert's second pit pants before he or his father get home from work.
Margaret is improving the hour and herself with a reading from the latest novel of fashion - 'Alicia's Romance'.
* 'Sea Silence'
A Play of Terror on the High Seas
(Edwin Lewis)
Thursday 20 September 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-9
Presented by Edward Genn
Alec - Howell Davies
Dan - Stuart Vinden
Lieut. Armstrong - William Hughes
Bob Adams, Bo'sun of H.M.S. Musk - John MossOn the deck of the 'Sea Lark' at night in the tropics - a night that is starless and black as pitch. Two men, clad in cotton shirts and loose trousers, are seated on boxes.
'Home Without A Mother'
a comedy of the coalfields
(Edwin Lewis)
Thursday 15 November 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-8.35from Birmingham
Bill Brown - Wortley Allen
Herbert Brown - Harry Saxton
Sarah Brown - Mabel France
Mrs. Cassidy - Helen Enoch
'Moonshine'
A New Radio Show
written and arranged by Charles Brewer
Sketches by Edwin LewisSaturday 22 December 1928 Daventry 5GB 3.30-4.30 From Birmingham
Presented by
Phylis Lones
Edith James
Brian Victor
Harry Sennett
Alfred Butler
Harry Saxton