1—'The Coming of Christianity' by Alec Macdonald
Produced by Geoffrey Dearmer
Church History, unless imaginatively treated, might not appeal to older children, but Alec Macdonald was well aware of the deadly danger of dullness when he wrote this series, which was originally broadcast during 1937, and he skilfully avoided it. Throughout the series a kindly and well-informed Rector tells his son, Michael, something about the history of the Christian Church, but neither of them expect the surprising adventures into the past which they experience.
In today's broadcast the Rector has found in the village churchyard what his little boy calls ' a dirty old bit of stone' with Saxon carving on it. In a dream he goes back in imagination more than a thousand years to the time when that stone was part of his village church.
The characters in the play include the Rector and his son Michael ; an old Counsellor ; a Chief Priest; Gregory ; Paulinus and King Edwin ; and the cast will be George Holloway , Michael Watson , Hedley Goodall , and Cyril Roberts.