* 'Pursuit'

(Cecil Lewis)

Friday 6 January 1928 5XX Daventry 8.45-10
Saturday 7 January 1928 2LO London 7.45-9.15

no 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

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*'The Night Fighters'

A new play for radio

(Cecil Lewis)

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

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'After Euripides' 'Electra''

(Maurice Baring)

Thursday 17 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15

As Part of 'Four Diminutive Dramas'

Helidore - Ruth Anderson
Naucydes - Robert Speaight
Lycoris - Gypsy Ellis
Cinyras - Alfred Gray
Demetrius - James Whale
Nieylla - Anne Furnivall
Socrates - Alec Johnstone
Hegeso - Barbara Copper
Aleander - J.H. Moore
Timareta - Loti Ford
Antagoras - Eric Derwent
Xenocles - Wyn Weaver

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'Paolo and Francesca'

(Stephen Phillips)

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.

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'King Lear'

(Shakespeare)

Tuesday 11 September 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Wednesday 12 September 1928 London and Daventry 8-10

Lear - 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

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'The Pretenders'

(Ibsen)

Tuesday 13 November 1928 Daventry 5GB 8-10
Wednesday 14 November 1928 2LO London 5XX 8-10

Third 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

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Some connected scenes from 'Hamlet'

(Shakespeare)

Thursday 22 November 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15

Hamlet - Robert Speaight
Bernardo - Arthur Clay
Francisco - Frank Denton
Ghost - Andrew Churchman
Queen - Barbara Couper
Ophelia - Lillian Harrison
Horatio - Charles Lefeaux
Claudius - William Marsh
Polonius - Frank Denton
Laertes - Arthur Clay
Narrator - T.C.L. Farrar

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'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

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