by G. R. Rainier
A highly imaginative play for broadcasting intended to show that ' careless talk may give away vital secrets'
Characters you will hear are: German Intelligence Officers; Admiral von Reitberg, Captain Crawford, R.N., various Naval Intelligence Officers, Air - Marshal Stewart , Flight - Lieutenant Peter Medhurst , Flying-Officer Carbrooke, enemy agents, workmen, chorus girls, and Cabinet ministers played by members of the BBC
Repertory Company
Production by Peter Creswell
Here is a play to drive home the significance of careless talk and its dangers to a country at war. All too innocent are the men and women in public-house and railway train, and at dinner table, who, in this dramatic object lesson, let fall the vital scraps of information that may be overheard and correlated by the enemy.
The occasion in question in this play is that of the trials of a new German battleship that are the signal for the putting into operation of a British bomber aeroplane of entirely new design. The pilot, the rear gunner, and a man in the aircraft factory are all guilty,of careless talk, the result of which is all too clearly shown in the climax of this play.