'The Queen's Companions': A Robin Hood Play specially written for the Children's Hour with incidental music by the Daventry Quartet

Robin Hood and his 'merry men' are among the most popular characters in that mass of curious old tales which form the background of all the facts of our early history. Like King Arthur, he may or may not have actually existed, but it is quite certain that all the ballads and tales told about him cannot be true. It does not really matter a bit, however, whether Robin Hood was or was not Robert FitzOdo or an Earl of Huntingdon, or whether he lived in the twelfth or the fourteenth century - or any other. As a national 'hero' and a central figure for really fascinating stories he is almost unique. The incident which forms the subject of today's play is one of many which are described in old ballad: and brings with it a picturesque suggestion of medieval times and a breath of 'high adventure' which we love to associate with them.