Thursday 17 May 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15

I. 10.15 ‘The Drawback’

He - Bruce Belfrage
She - Denise Torrens

Scene: A seat in Kensington Gardens. The sting is not only in the tale but in the title.

II. 10.30 ‘After Euripides’ ‘Electra’’

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

Heliodore, the wife of Cinyras, is giving a party in her Athens house after the first production of ‘Electra’ a new play by Euripides.

III. 10.45 ‘The Greek Vase’

Giovanni - Guy Pelham Boulton
The Dealer - Hector Abbas

In the cold, bare garret of a squalid house in Rome lies a young sculptor whom the gods must love, because he is dying.

IV. 11.00 ‘Catherine Parr’ or ‘Alexander’s Horse’

King Henry VIII - Stanley Walters
Catherine Parr - Dorothy Holmes-Gore
A Page - Anne Furnivall

Henry VIII and his sixth wife have just sat down to breakfast at the palace.