A programme about the Stage Door
Most people know the theatre only by its front door. There is a back door, too, used by artists only and besieged from time to time by autograph hunters. This door is looked after by a man called a Stage Door Keeper.
Stage Door Keepers are not normally an over-informative race. But when they can be persuaded to talk, their memories of the great ones of the theatre seem inexhaustible. And what a friendly stage door keeper can mean to the actor is indicated by a special contribution by Sir Donald Wolfit
Compiled and introduced by Wilfred De'Ath
Recorded broadcast of October 13