'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 Period: might be any day

Here, for a change, is a genuine radio thriller; a play that will stimulate and interest in the old-fashioned, straightforward way. And a thriller on the gigantic scale, with a wider range than Drury Lane can ever compass. A mad inventor of a death-ray such as science has only dreamed of, who, from the island where he lives surrounded with strange apparatus and tended by a hunchback henchman, threatens destruction to the civilized world - that is the central figure in a plot that might have come from the brain of a modern Jules Verne. Incident piles on incident until, when the uncanny science of Gall has reduced to impotence the guns of a great fleet, the play ends with a climax that is the greatest surprise of all.

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