An Island Caprice in Three Scenes by ALFRED GORDON BENNETT
Specially arranged for broadcasting by VICTOR SMYTHE
Played by the STATION REPERTORY PLAYERS
Incidental Music by the STATION QUARTET
Characters in order of speaking:—
(Survivors of the s.s. Agamemnon, which struck a submerged derelict on Friday, September 25, 1925, between Latitudes 10° and 20° S, whilst bound from Wellington to San Francisco, in the course of a world cruise. The vessel struck shortly after noon and foundered fifteen minutes later.)
The following additional characters appear in Scene 3 only :
George Lockhart ............ W. E. DICKMAN
A Deck Steward .............. D. E. ORMEROD
I Narrator : IAN FLEMING
The scenes are fully described by the narrator as 4 ; the story is unfolded.
THIS is the first long three-act play of the Manchester Station's dramatic season. Its author is a Lancashire dramatist who has become known throughout England and America ; he has been writing since he was seventeen, when he published his first novel, and he is particularly interested in seafaring folk.