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Robert Loraine as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"

on National Programme Daventry

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Based on the famous story by Charles Dickens
Specially adapted for the microphone by Max Kester.
To be broadcast at 8.0

The cast includes: [see below]

Adventure has always called Robert Loraine. He had no sooner established himself on the English stage than he went to South Africa to serve in the Boer War. He made his first appearance in New York in 1901, and has gone back there, off and on, ever since.

In 1905 began the series of successes in London, establishing him as one of our finest actors in plays varying from Shaw to Sheridan, and he opened in management at the Criterion in 1911 with a revival of Man and Superman.

At the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and won the M.C. for conspicuous gallantry and skill.

In 1919 he created the part of Cyrano de Bergerac which he was to give on the air in 1927. Listeners will remember his broadcasts in Lord Jim and R.U.R. Dickens - especially Dickens on the air - is no stranger to him; in December, 1926, he gave a reading of 'A Christmas Carol'.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Max Kester
Music specially composed by:
Robert Chignell
Musicians:
The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra
Conductor:
Mark H. Lubbock
Scrooge:
Robert Loraine
The Spirit of Christmas Past:
Arthur Goullet
The Spirit of Christmas Present:
Cyril Nash
Bob Cratchit:
Clifford Bean
Mrs. Cratchit:
Dora Gregory
Martha Cratchit:
Valentine Dunn
Tiny Tim:
J. Moore
Mr. Fezziwig:
Henry Ford
Mrs. Fezziwig:
Renee de Vaux
The Story Teller:
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
[Actor]:
Hamlyn Benson
[Actor]:
Frederick Peisley
[Actor]:
Charles Hickman
[Actress]:
Doris Gilmore
[Actress]:
Adeline Hook
[Actor]:
John Cheatle
[Actress]:
Marjorie King
[Actress]:
Wynne Ajello

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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