By LESLIE W. A. BAILY
A Broadcast Programme of a Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
The cast will include :
Guy Pelham Boulton ; Cyril Nash ; Eliot Makeham ; Frank Randell ; Joyce Moore ; H. O . Nicholson ; Ronald Simp son ; George de Warfaz ; William Fazan ; J. Hubert Leslie ; Phillip Lever ; Arthur Goullet ; Stanley Lathbury ; Joan Harker : Geoffrey Lovatt ; Fewlass Llewellyn ; Walter Tobias ; Adrienne Campart ; Stella East ; Renee de Vaux ; Charles H. Mason ; Dorothy Holmes-Gore ;
Sheila Stewart ; Charles Lefeaux
The Singers, James Topping ; Alice Moxon
This programme asks you to assume that broadcasting was invented a hundred and fifty years ago, in 1783, and that you are listening to the entertainment provided by the English Broadcasting Club from its rendezvous ' The Crown and Anchor Tavern,' in the Strand. Broadcasting in the picturesque but unhygienic London of the time was an exclusive and informal affair: direction was in the hands of three members, Mr.Foppington, Sir Bertie Bastin and the dissolute Lord Pinchley : the studios were full, and conversation and interruptions frequent.