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'Brother Juniper'
From the 'Little Plays of St. Francis'
Monday 2 January 1928 London and Daventry 10.35-11
The Play will be given by the London University College Dramatic Society
The Play produced by A. S. Gilbert
[characters and actors listed]
* 'Pursuit'
Friday 6 January 1928 5XX Daventry 8.45-10
Saturday 7 January 1928 2LO London 7.45-9.15no cast given in Radio Times
pr (no billing) Cecil Lewis (Southern Edition)
assisted by Michael Hogan (Southern Edition)Seth Kent - Eric Stanley
Jenny Bristol - Lilian Harrison
Sam Bristol - Clive Currie
Esme Frith - Sunday Wilshin
Fred Forsyth - Henry Oscar
Bob Seton - Herbert Lugg
Gwen Thurston - Clare Harris
Lucie - Olgar Benois
Inspector Long - Jon Charlton
Inspector Laughton - George Ide
Airways Manager - C. Leveson Lane
Officer at Le Bouget - Abraham Sofaer
First Police Officer - Cyril Smith
Second Police Officer - Thomas Trevor
Third Police Officer - Donald Edwards
Police Sergeant - Robert Speaight
Police Sergeant - S. Creagh Henry
'The Playboy of the Western World'
A Comedy in Three Acts
(Synge)
Thursday 19 January 1928 2LO London and Daventry 7.45-9.0
[no actors listed]
Scenes from 'Macbeth'
Wednesday 1 February 1928 London 9.35-10.10
As performed for the troops in France during the War.
'The Burden of Women'
Tuesday 7 February 1928 London 9.40-10.30
one act
pr
Sandy - Fred Morgan
Mary Tregarth - Irene Rooke
A Child - Monica Stracey
Zoe Carmichael - Esme Hubbard
Isaac Roche - Charles Wreford
Michael Tregarth - Milton Rosmer
'The Family Group'
Wednesday 8 February 1928 London 7.45-8
'Her Tongue'
a new comedy
Monday 13 February 1928 London 7.45-8.45
[Two plays]
Broadcast with * 'Shadows'
* 'Shadows'
a radio scene in one act
Monday 13 February 1928 London 7.45-8.45
[Two plays]
Broacast with 'Her Tongue'This episode strikes a new vein in radio drama. It is not dialogue, which you will hear, but rather the thoughts, made audible, of the girl who is actually the only character in the scene. Imagine that you are the invisible observer of the dramatic incident, which takes place in a small Chelsea studio, the home of an unsuccessful and poverty-stricken painter.
A woman
A newsboy
A man
'Bardell v. Pickwick'
members of Dickens Fellowship reconstruct the trial
(Dickens)
Tuesday 14 February 1928 London and all stations 9.40-10.30
Walter Dexter
Oliver Daly
S.T. Rust
William Miller
Frank S. Johnson
W.J. Read
S.H. Charles
Frank Staff
William Miles
Major-General H.S. Neville White
A.W. Edwards
William Owen
Frances Jolly
W.H. Lowry
G. Heaton
'The Man with the Green Face'
a whimsical story
Monday 20 February 1928 London 5.15-6
'Treasure Trove'
a fantasy in one act
(Ian Hay)
Monday 20 February 1928 London 10.15-11
pr
'Campbell of Kilmhor'
Friday 2 March 1928 London and Daventry 10-11
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'A Valuable Rival'Presented by the Scottish National Players
with Tyrone Guthrie ('Times' billing)
Mary Steward - Elliot Mason
Morag Cameron - Nan Scott
Dugald Stewart - Andrew Stewart
Captain Sandeman - Tyrone Guthrie
Archibald Campbell - R.B. Wharrie
James Mackenzie - Atholl Blair
'A Valuable Rival'
A Lowland Comedy
Friday 2 March 1928 London and Daventry 10-11
[Two plays]
Broadcast with 'Campbell of Kilmhor'Presented by the Scottish National Players
Alexander Jamieson - R.B. Wharrie
Maggie - Elliot Mason
William Bain - Atholl Blair
'Peaches'
revue sketches
Saturday 3 March 1928 London 9.35-10.30
Arranged by Gordon McConnel
Morris Harvey
Ewart Scott
Jean Harley
Alma Vane
George Barker
Dorothy McBlain
Kitty Beresford
'Rampa'
four acts
(Max Mohr)
Wednesday 7 March 1928 2LO London 9.35-11.0
pr Cecil Lewis
trans and adapted by Cecil Lewis
Kettling - Herbert Lugg
Rampa - Wilfred Walter
Porto - Harold Scott
Lala - Jessie Tandy
Dr. Barbazin - Frank Petley
Norma - Hardy Cherry
Giddy - Clair Harris
Dr Peers - George Howe
'The Land of Heart's Desire'
Tuesday 13 March 1928 London 9.40-10.30
Bridget Bruin - Nora Nicholson
Shawn Bruin - Carleton Hobbs
Maureen Bruin - Ernest Digges
Father Hart - Frank Petley
Mary Bruin - Ruth Anderson
A Faery Child - Joan Brierley
'The Master Builder'
Ibsen centenary
(Ibsen)
Monday 19 March 1928 Daventry 7.30-9
Tuesday 20 March 1928 London and Daventry 9.40-11pr Howard Rose
Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer
Knut Brovik - Frederick De Lara
Kaid Fosli - Anne Furnivall
Ragnar Brovik - Harold Anstruther
Halvard Solness - Harcourt Williams
Aline Solness - Arna Hene
Dr. Herdal - J.H. Moore
Miss Hilda Wangel - Gwendolene Evans
*'The Night Fighters'
A new play for radio
Monday 26 March 1928 London and Daventry 8.15-9
pr Cecil Lewis
Rudd - Eric Cowley
Ivan Firth [listed in 'Times']
Sandy - Robert Speaight [ not listed in 'Times']
Padre - George Merritt
Price - Walter Hudd
Mother - Clare Harris
Betty - Gwendolen Evans
Bill - Michael Hogan
Bristow - Paul England
Batman - Frank Denton
Forrester - Herbert Lugg
Juggy - Caleb Porter
'The Man of Destiny'
A Trifle
Wednesday 28 March 1928 London and Daventry 9.45-11
Esme Percy as Napoleon
Margaret Macdona as The Lady
The Lieutenant - George C. Bancroft
Giuseppe Grandi - George De Lara
* 'A Woman's Reason'
new play for radio
Thursday 29 March 1928 London 8-8.35
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Frank Petley
Ben Webster
J. Nelson Ramsay
Ernest Digges
Carleton Hobbs
* '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 HammondThe 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
'Dick Whittington'
Monday 9 April 1928 London and Daventry 8-9
The Strutham Amateurs rehearse 'Dick Whittington'
Mabel Constanduros
Michael Hogan
Eliot Wakeham
Vivienne Chatterton
Harold Scott
Olive Groves
J. Hubert Leslie
'Lord Jim'
A Romantic Radio Story-Play
(Joseph Conrad and Cecil Lewis)
Tuesday 10 April 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.45-10
Wednesday 11 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.20-11.35Taken from the novel by Joseph Conrad, by Cecil Lewis
Captain Marlow - Harcourt Williams
Jim - John Gielgud
Skipper of the 'Patna' - Hector Abbas
George - Herbert Lugg
Brown - H. Ste. Barbe West
Eggstrom - Eric Cowley
Stanton - George Ide
O'Brien - Ronald Hammond
Stein - Gilbert Heron
Jewel - Lilian Harrison
Cornelius - Philip Wade
Doramin - Leslie Perrins
Dain Waris - Cyril Nash
Tamb Itam - Eric Lugg
A Yankee - George Ide
Kassim - Walter Hudd
Muda - A. Carlow Grand
Haji Saman - Eric Cowley
Woman - Helen Leeman
'Lady Windermere's Fan'
Tuesday 17 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Produced by Howard Rose
Lord Windermere - Harcourt Williams
Lord Darlington - Felix Aylmer
Lord Augustus - Eric Cowley
Cecil Graham - Philip Wade
Lady Windermere - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Duchess of Berwick - Cicely Turner
Mrs. Erlynne - Irene Rooke
Lady Jedburgh - Edith Hunter
Lady Plymdale - Marjorie Clark-Jervoise
'King Henry V'
Monday 23 April 1928 London and Daventry 9.20-11.15
St. George's Day
Produced by Howard Rose
Ivan Samson [large billing]
Herbert Lugg
Gilbert Heron
Philip Wade
Eric Lugg
Murri Moncrieff
Patrick Waddington
Leslie Perrins [large billing]
Sydney Russell
B.A. Pittar
Ernest Haines
J. Smith Wright
S. Creagh Henry
Ernest Digges
Winifred Evans [large billing]
Alice De Grey
Gipsy Ellis
Colleen Clifford
Margaret Halstan
'The better the day, the better the deed'
A Shakespeare Day Duologue
(Edith Evans and Robert Loraine)
Monday 23 April 1928 London and Daventry 6.45-7
Concerning Sadlers Wells
At 6.45 a 'Shakespeare Day Duologue' will be broadcast by our leading young comedy actress and our most distingushed romantic actor - Miss Edith Evans and Mr. Robert Loraine.
'Duffy'
A Play in Three Acts
Friday 4 May 1928 London and Daventry 8-8.50
Arranged for broadcasting
S.B. from Plymouth
Duffy - Kathleen Frazier
Joan - Mrs. Stanley James
Terrytop - A.K. Hamilton Jenkin
Squire Lovell - R. Morton Nance
'Sex of One' or 'Deceivers Ever'
A sketch in One Act
Thursday 10 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
Charles - Fernley Bisshopp
Theo - Dorothy Stephen
'Followers'
a Cranford Sketch
Thursday 10 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
A Scene which might have been enacted in 'Cranford'
Susan Crowther - Nora Loos
Helen Masters - Anne Furnivall
Lucinda Baines - Irene Rooke
Colonel Redfern - Frank Denton
'The Mists of Morning'
A Sketch in One Act
Monday 21 May 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8.30
With incidental music specially composed by Irvin Cooper
Mrs. Pembert - Ida Plinge
Julie - Joyce Bland
David Gardiner - Walter Plinge
Mr. Pemberton - Gilbert Heron
Barry Lawson - Eliot Wakeham
Scenes from 'King John'
Friday 25 May 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays for Schools
'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
Adapted for Broadcasting in Three Episodes
Friday 25 May 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
S.B. from Glasgow
Duncan - Seath Innes
Malcom - Andrew Stewart
Macbeth - R.B. Wharrie
Banquo - Charles R.M. Brookes
Lady Macbeth - Nan R. Scott
Macduff - Robert DonatOther parts taken by The Glasgow Station Players, with incidental music by The Station Orchestra
Scenes and Episodes to be linked together by
The Narrator - Enid Hewitt
'The Survivor'
A Mystery in Three Acts
(Michael Hogan and Mabel Constanduros)
Tuesday 29 May 1928 London and Daventry 9.40-11
Homewood, the butler - Wyn Weaver
Dr. Peter Maldon, the owner of Warne Court - Laurence Anderson
Mr. Burton, his lawyer - Arthur Ewart
Rose Bootle, the housemaid - Elsie Wood
Mr. Evans, whose daughter is the wife of Dr. Maldon's son, Sidney - John Smythe
William Wallace Anderson - A.H. Clay
Mr. Iles, an attorney - Cecil Maybank
A Police Inspector - Sidney Browne
'Mrs. Buggins Sees It Through'
Book by Mabel Constanduros
Saturday 2 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.35
Music composed by Stanford Robinson
Mrs. Buggins - Mabel Constanduros
Mrs. Buggins' 'elping 'ands:
Olive Groves
Denise Torrens
Harold Clemence
Michael Hogan
Ernest Digges
Harold Kimberley
'The Confession'
A Sketch
Saturday 9 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
Vaudeville
Lord Deerwater - Frank Denton
Lady Deerwater - Georgie Esmond
Hon. Francis Deerwater - Michael Hogan
Barker - Harold Clemence
Det.Insp.Muckitt - Norman Griffiths
'Hobson's Choice'
A Lancashire Comedy in Four Acts
Monday 11 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Alice Hobson - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Maggie Hobson - Edyth Goodall
Vickey Hobson - Grace Edwards
Albert Prosser - Roger Maxwell
Henry Horatio Hobson - Roger Maxwell
Mrs. Hepworth - Dora Gregory
Jim Heeler - Lawrence Baskcomb
William Mossop - Edward Chapman
Ada Figgins - Greta Wood
Timother Wadlow (Tubby) - A. Carlaw Grand
Fred Beenstock - Herbert Lugg
Dr. MacFarlane - J. Hubert Leslie
'Brother Sun'
Friday 15 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays to Schools
Broadcast with: 'The Locked Chest'
'The Locked Chest'
Friday 15 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Plays to Schools
Broadcast with: 'Brother Sun'
'Up The River'
An Aqueous Entertainment by 'L. du G.'
Monday 18 June 1928 London and Daventry 10-11Bruce Belfrage
Philip Wade
Frank Denton
Patrick Waddington
Joyce Bland
Phyllis Panting
'Early Birds'
Sketch
Wednesday 20 June 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
Auntie - Mabel Constanduros
Maud - Lilian Harrison
Sue - Florence Bayfield
Nell - Mary Allen
Milly - Melanie Castel
Programme Girl - Miriam Ferris
'Paolo and Francesca'
Wednesday 20 June 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
Incidental Music by Percy Pitt, played by the Wireless Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Percy Pitt
Giovanni Malatesta, 'The Hunchback' (Tyrant of Rimini) - Harcourt Williams
Paolo, 'The Handsome' (brother of Giovanni) - Robert Donat
Valentino - Robert Speaight
Corrado - Bruce Belfrage
Luigi - Patrick Waddington
Carlo (Servant to Giovanni) - Herbert Lugg
Francesca da Rimini - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Lucrezia Degl' Onesti - Dorothy Green
Nita (Maid to Francesca) - Ivy Des Voeux
Angela (a blind and Aged Servant) - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Guests, Courtiers, Soldiers, Servants, etc.
'Widow Engaging'
A comedy in one Act
Wednesday 27 June 1928 London and Daventry 8-8.30
Bessie Chilcote, a Widow - Gertrude Elliott
Mildred Todd, an Elderly Spinster - Vivienne Whitaker
Edward Manley, a Bachelor - Ivan Firth
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Friday 29 June 1928 London and Daventry 3.30-4.30
Play to Schools
.. the cast will include such well-known artists as Miss Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Miss Lilian Harrison, and Mr. Douglas Burbridge.
'The Crossing'
A Play for Broadcasting
(Holt Marvell and Cyril Lister)
Monday 2 July 1928 London and Daventry 10.30-11
A Porter - Cecil Calvert
Gerald - Philip Cunningham
Jane - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
An Old Man - Raymond Trafford
* 'Gala'
An Open-Air Diversion
Friday 6 July 1928 London and Daventry 8.15-9
Listeners are furnished, of course, with complimentary tickets, which will procure them unseen admission to the beautiful grounds of Wroxe Park during the Grand Garden Fête in aid of Wroxe and District Local Charities. Also they will be able to overhear specially selected snatches of the conversation of some of the best-known people in the neighbourhood, not even excepting the Duchess herself, whose conversation is always edifying. They will also be able to take advantage of numerous other attractions which the organizers of the Fête have arranged.
'Concerning a Call'
a sketch
Tuesday 10 July 1928 London and Daventry 7.45-8 (mixed)
'Something in the Air'
An Atmospheric Disturbance
Set up by Harold Simpson
Friday 13 July 1928 Daventry 9-10
Saturday 14 July 1928 Daventry and London 9.35-10.36Music by Stanley Holt
Alma Vane
Mamie Watson
Tommy Handley
Reg Palmer
Harold Kimberley
Joyce Bland
'Hamlet'
Wednesday 18 July 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11.15
Hamlet - Gyles Isham
King - Leslie Perrins
Queen - Irene Rooke
Laertes - Ian Fleming
Horatio - Ivan Samson
Marcellus - Herbert Lugg
Ghost - Victor Lewisohn
Ophelia - Muriel Hewitt
Polonius - Marcus Barron
Narrator - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
'Improvisation in June'
Europe is Dead! Long Live the European!
(Max Mohr)
Tuesday 24 July 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.35-9
Wednesday 25 July 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11The English version by Susan Behn and Cecil Lewis
Princess Orloff - Mabel Terry Lewis
Tompkininov, a Keeper - Harcourt Williams
Adam Zappé, Improvisator - Bruce Winston
Olga, his Daughter - [no actor listed]
Samuel Miller, an American Millionaire - George Ide
Ian Mill, his Son - John Gielgud
Dr. Varley, Physician to Sam mill - A. Scott Gatty
Elkin, Secretary to Sam mill - Frederick Burtwell
Major-domo - Ernest Haines
Servants, Criminal Officers
'Good Breeding'
Tuesday 31 July 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.35-9
Wednesday 1 August 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11Fulton - Gilbert Heron
Nathaniel Thudd - George Ide
Matilda Stump - Hilda Sims
Michael Moon - Robert Harris
Amba Flote - Doris Gilmore
Lady Penelope Webbe - Grace Allardyce
Christopher Nix - Milton Rosmer
Professor Cosm - Bruce Winston
'Fatigue Party'
Handley's Manoeuvres
Saturday 4 August 1928 London and Daventry 8-9
The Very Orderly Office - John Armstrong
The Regimental Pet - Jean Allistone
The Regimental Pet - Miriam Ferris
The Bandmaster - Harry Pepper
General Nuisance - Tommy Handley
The Revue Chorus
'The Crossing'
A Play for Broadcasting
(Holt Marvell and Cyril Lister)
Tuesday 7 August 1928 London and Daventry 10-10.40
A Porter - Cecil Calvert
Gerald - George Thirlwell
Jane - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
An Old Man - Raymond TraffordThe Continental Boat Train is due to leave the Southern Terminus in a few minutes.
The platform is like a stage where passengers, porters, newsboys, guards and inspectors are playing their cheerful, bustling parts in the diurnal tragi-comedy of departure.
'The Mayor of Casterbridge'
From the novel by Thomas Hardy
Friday 17 August 1928 London and Daventry 7.30-9
Henchard - Henry Oscar
Susan - Christine Silver
Elizabeth Jane - Moyna MacGill
Newson - Douglas Burbridge
Donald Farfrae - Arthur Clay
Lucetta - Loti Ford
Christopher Coney - Basil Dyne
Nance Mockridge - Monica Stracey
Mrs. Stannidge - Florence Wood
Mrs. Cuxson - Margaret Watson
A boy - Lewis Shaw
Village Worthies, Rustics, Carters, Village Women, etc.
'The Locked Chest'
From a Tale in Laxdaelasaga
Tuesday 21 August 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-10.30
Thord Goddi (a Farmer)
Thorolf (Cousin of Vigdis)
Ingiald (a Lord)
Vigdis Goddi (Wife of Thord)
Soldiers (adherents of Ingiald)
'The Lexicographer in Skye'
Friday 24 August 1928 London and Daventry 8-9.15 (mixed)
S.B. from Glasgow
Part of 'Distinguished Visitors'
Dr. Samuel Johnson - Halbert Tatlock
Boswell - James Gibson
McLeod of Ramsay - John Rae
Mr. McQueen (a Minister) - Alex D. Carmichael
Miss McLeod - Helen S. McKay
Lady McLeod - Meg Buchanan
'The New World Pays Homage At Ayre'
Friday 24 August 1928 London and Daventry 8-9.15 (mixed)
S.B. from Glasgow
Part of 'Distinguished Visitors'
The Caretaker at Burns' Cottage - James T. Woodburn
Erasmus P. Bender (The Bender Realty Co. Pres.) - Gordon Gildard
Honeybunch, his bride - Jean Taylor Smith
'The Composer and The Catechism'
Friday 24 August 1928 London and Daventry 8-9.15 (mixed)
S.B. from Glasgow
Part of 'Distinguished Visitors'
Mendelssohn - Robert Grant
A Scots Landlady - Meg Buchanan
'The Poet in the Highlands'
Friday 24 August 1928 London and Daventry 8-9.15 (mixed)
S.B. from Glasgow
Part of 'Distinguished Visitors'
The Speaker - W. Tyrone Guthrie
Wordsworth remembers a Scots lass
'Leviathan'
Saturday 25 August 1928 London and Daventry 9.15-9.30
Mr. Thornton Wilder reading his unpublished play
'Nurse Henrietta'
Wednesday 29 August 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-11
Nurse Henrietta - Lilian Harrison
'Pride' or 'Beginners Please'
(Anonymous)
Friday 7 September 1928 London and Daventry 10.15-10.45
James Wren - James Raglan
Jane - Joan Matheson
Joe Skinner, known as 'Skinny' - Donald CalthropScene: The empty stage of any theatre of Variety, on a Sunday afternoon.
'King Lear'
(Shakespeare)
Tuesday 11 September 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Wednesday 12 September 1928 London and Daventry 8-10Lear - Edmund Willard
The King of France - Frederick Tomlin
The Duke of Burgundy - Arthur Ewart
The Duke of Cornwall - Robert Speaight
The Duke of Albany - Arthur Ewart
The Earl of Kent - Colin Keith Johnston
The Earl of Gloucester - O.B. Clarence
Edgar - Bruce Belfrage
Edmund - Leslie Perrins
Curan - Ernest Haines
Fool - John Reeve
Oswald - Alexander Sarner
Goneril - Dorothy Dayus
Regan - Barbara Couper
Cordelia - Lilian Harrison
'The Greater Power'
A Drama for broadcasting
(Francis J. Mott)
Tuesday 18 September 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-10.30
Produced by Henry Oscar
[no actors listed]
Characters
Gall, a mad inventor
Murder, his deformed henchman
Annie Gall, the inventor's daughter
Lord Bannerdale, a politician
Vaire, his friend
A Sailor
'The Great Dressing-Gown Problem'
A Waistcoat Pocket musical Comedy
(Lance Sieveking)
Wednesday 19 September 1928 London and Daventry 10.15-11
Music by Stuart Goddard
Mabel (a Cockney in audience) - Doris Fordred
Alf (her Husband) - Gordon Harker
Lord Bundletupenny - John Rorke
His Son, Lord Eric Coldbath - David Brynley
Hotspur Prout, M.P. - Robert Chignell
His daughter, Lucinda Prout - Hermione Gingold
Parker (Housekeeper) - Elsie French
'The Sea-Woman's Cloak'
(Amelie Rives (Princess Troubetskoy))
Monday 24 September 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-11.15
[no actors listed]
Colum Dara, a fisherman
Michael Dara, his younger brother
Widow Dara
Sara Darcy, a young vixenish woman
A Priest
NeighboursThe Scenes
A cave opening in a great arch on the sea.
The kitchen in Kathleen Dara's cottage
The same, but twenty years later
'The House Agent'
An Episode in One Act
(Gerald Grace)
Thursday 27 September 1928 London and Daventry 8.45-9.15
Jack Weston - Reginald Tate
Tom Weston - Gerald Grace
Mrs. Woodhouse - Gladys YoungScene: The office of Messrs. Weston, Weston and Weston
'Disgrace'
(Cyril Campion)
Monday 1 October 1928 London and Daventry 8.45-9.15
The Father - Hubert Herben
Mother - Mary Jerrold
Son - Jack Hobbs
'The Diamond Necklace'
From a short story by Guy de Maupassant
(Muriel Levy)
Monday 1 October 1928 London and Daventry 8.45-9.15
Monsieur Loisel - Frank Denton
Madame Loisel - Loti Ford
Madame Forestier - Ann Stephenson
'The Man From Toronto'
A Comedy in Three Acts
(Douglas Murray)
Wednesday 3 October 1928 London and Daventry 9.50-11
Fergus Wimbush - Cyril Raymond
Ruth - May Saker
Ada - Marjorie Sebley
Mrs. Calthorpe - Iris Hoey [large billing]
Mr. Priestley - J. Sebastian Smith
Robert Gilmour - Derek Williams
Martha - Joan Matheson
Mrs. Hubbard - Chloe Gibson
Winnie Hubbard - Sybil Jane
'The Betrothal' or 'The Blue Bird Chooses'
A Fairy Play - Being a sequel to 'The Blue Bird'
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
Monday 8 October 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Wednesday 10 October London and Daventry 8-10Music by Armstrong Gibbs
Translated by Alexander Teneira De Mattos
Tyltyl - John Reeves
Fairy Berylune - Dora Gregory
The Neighbour - Dora Gregory
Milette - Monica Disney
Belline - Tita Casartelli
Rosella - Peggie Robb-Smith
Amiette - Anne Furnival
Jalline - Phyllis Konstam
Rosarelle - Jean Shepherd
Destiny - Ernest Haines
Granny Tyl - Hilda Sims
Mummy Tyl - Hilda Sims
Gaffer Tyl - J. Sebastian Smith
Daddy Tyl - J. Sebastian Smith
The Great Ancestor - Frank Petley
The Great Menicant - Frank Denton
Murderer Ancestor - Frank Denton
The Sick Ancestor - Gerald Jerome
The Great Peasant - Gerald Jerome
First Child - Joan Brierley
Second Child - Yvonne Ironside
Third Child - Maris Wright
Fourth Child - Bunty Johnson
Oldest Child - Patricia Hayes
Youngest Child - Lorna Roberts
Phantom - Marjorie Sedley
Mother Joy - Marjorie Sedley
'The Grand Cham's Diamond'
A Play in One Act
(Allan Monkhouse)
Wednesday 17 October 1928 2LO London 5XX 10.30-12
1 act
Mrs. Perkins - Bueno Bent
Mr. Perkins - H. St. Barbe West
Miss Perkins - Lilian Harrison
A Man in Black - Henry Oscar
Albert Watkins - Frederick Burtwell
'Moyen Age'
including a short unpublished play
(by Thornton Wilder)
Friday 19 October 1928 London 9.35-10.25 (mixed)
Gwen Frangcon-Davies [Times listing]
'Cracked China'
Collected by K.B. Indoe and Gordon McConnel
Wednesday 24 October 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
Revue
Stuck together by
Bruce Winston
Olive Groves
Robert Chignell
St. Barbe WestGershom Parkington Quintet
'Michael'
(Miles Malleson)
Wednesday 24 October 1928 London and Daventry 10.30-11
three scenes
(no cast list given)
'What Men Live By'
(Leo Tolstoy)
Wednesday 24 October 1928 London and Daventry 10.30-11
(no cast list given)
'Give Me New York'
A Transatlantic Transmission At A Shilling A Second
(Holt Marvell)
Friday 26 October 1928 London and Daventry 10.20-10.45
Music by Roger Eckersley, Dick Cecil and L. Staunton Jefferies
Anona Winn
Horace Percival
Toni Gold
H. St. Barbe West
* '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
'Nea-R Georgian' or 'Quasi-Queen Anne'
a sketch entitled 'You Soy Ombre' or Bertie Plus Four Boys
(Gordon McConnel)
Thursday 1 November 1928 2LO London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
(A.D. 1928)
Bertie - Donald Calthrop
Jane (Chambermaid) - Barbara Hodder(A.D. 1728)
Sir William Wormwood - Ambrose Manning
Lydia (daughter) - Barbara Hodder
Capt. Fakeham - Henry Oscar
Harry Pousher - Frederick Cooper
'The Wonder Hat'
a Harlequinade
(Ben Hecht and Kenneth Sawyer Goodman)
Thursday 8 November 1928 2LO London and Daventry 9.35-10.35
Harlequin - Arthur Clay
Pierrot - John Rowe
Punchinello - Frank Cochrane
Columbine - Phyllis Panting
Margot - Esme Hubbard
'The Pretenders'
(Ibsen)
Tuesday 13 November 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Wednesday 14 November 1928 2LO London 5XX 8-10Third of Great Plays
translated by William Archer
Produced by Howard Rose
Adapted by Dulcima Glasby
Hakon Hakonsen - Robert Speaight
Inga (mother) - Irene Rooke
Earl Skerle - Peter Creswell
Lady Ragnhilde (wife) - Netta Westcott
Sigrid (sister) - Hilda Bruce Potter
Margrete (daughter) - Gladys Young
Guthorn Ingesson - Cecil Calvert
Sigurd Riblung - Alan Wade
Sira Viliam - Alan Wade
Bishop Nicholas - Henry Oscar
Dagfinn - Andrew Churchman
Ivar Bodde - Arthur Ewart
Vegard Vaeradal - Wyn Weaver
Gregorius Jonsoon - Victor Lewisohn
Paul Flida - Winifred Izard
Peter - Lawrence Ireland
Master Sigard - Wyn Weaver
Jatgeir Skald - Stuart Robertson
Bard Bratte - Cecil Calvert
Follower of Hakon - Fred Trigay
Second Woman - Barbara Willard
'Caravan'
comedy in four acts
(Max Mohr)
Monday 26 November 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11
English version by Susan Behn and Cecil Lewis
Cecil Lewis presents a Max Mohr play
Kaleve (dancer) - Eric Portman
Leontine (wife) - Kathleen Lacey
Garilan (merchant) - Frank Petley
Sandmann (agent) - Reginald Purdell
Waiter - Richard Goulden
A Nigger - Harvey Braban
Lift Boy - Percival Parkin
Caravan Guide - Abraham Sofaer
First Policeman - Eugene leahy
Second Policeman - Bligh Cheseman
'Love'
(Lance Sieveking)
Thursday 29 November 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
Music arranged by Scott Goddard
The cast includes:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Robert Speaight
Margot Sieveking
Eliot Seabrook
Bruce Belfrage
John Gielgud
H.S. Ede
C. Dennis Freeman
Margaret Gerstly
Mary Eversley