‘Women Will Gossip’

comedy one act

(C.M.A. Peake)

Monday 12 March 1928 Cardiff 10.15-10.50 (mixed)

Played by the Station Radio Players

James Fretall - Victor Fawkes
Matilda - Daisy Cull
Alfred Gayley - T. Hannam-Clark
Samuel Smiless - Walter Gardner
Mrs. Mum - Nan Porter
Mrs. Glummer - Mary Macdonald-Taylor
William Green - Sidney Evans

Scene: Mocksford Station; a halt on a country line

James Fretall is going by train with his daughter, Matilda, to the nearest town, Oldbury. Four other villagers arrive to catch the same train, and the Stationmaster with politeness which turns to cynicism, reassures them that in turn that he is expecting the train, but not before her time.

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