RT 13 January 1928 p 52
‘is to have its first night, not in a London theatre, but in a studio at Savoy Hill.
‘it adds one of most distinguished dramatists to the considerable list of those writers who believe in Radio Drama’ (RT p 52)

(on listing in Wearing)
7 February
The play, I hear, is particularly suited to microphone presentation. It deals with the hard life of the sailor’s wife, who must wait always in uncertainty for the return of her man from the sea.

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

In the living-room of her cottage, Mary Tregarth sits on a stool by the fire, stirring the embers to hasten the boiling of her kettle for tea. From the cross-beams of the roof hang some brown fishing nets, with corks attached. A door, the upper half opening independently of the lower, leads out to the cliff road, and beyond is the sea.