Tuesday 24 July 1928 Daventry 5GB 7.35-9
Wednesday 25 July 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11

The English version by Susan Behn and Cecil Lewis

Princess Orloff - Mabel Terry Lewis
Tompkininov, a Keeper - Harcourt Williams
Adam Zappé, Improvisator - Bruce Winston
Olga, his Daughter - [no actor listed]
Samuel Miller, an American Millionaire - George Ide
Ian Mill, his Son - John Gielgud
Dr. Varley, Physician to Sam mill - A. Scott Gatty
Elkin, Secretary to Sam mill - Frederick Burtwell
Major-domo - Ernest Haines
Servants, Criminal Officers

The action takes place at the Castle Orloff on a lake near Zalzburg, in Austria. The entrance-hall of the castle is beautiful, distinguished. Folding doors lead to the garden; a long window overlooks the park. It is an evening in June …

Listeners who have heard 'Rampa' would immediately identify without being informed the author of 'Improvisations in June'.

Here is the same bitter contempt for contemporary human values, the same fantastic characterization, the same careful creation of an atmosphere in which the real seems to be the vision of a lunatic, and the ideal a reasonable commonplace.

Zappé - the Improvisator - engaged with his beautiful daughter to cure the heir to a financial throne of his delusion that there must be something money cannot buy - is employed by the dramatist to hold the mirror up to an age of motley industrialism.