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From The Carlton Hotel
(Daventry National Programme)
(Daventry National Programme)
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
Leader, Frank Thomas
Maisie Griffiths (Contralto), The Beane Syde Glee Men
Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin, followed by West Regional News
A Comedy in Three Acts by Jules Romains in an English version by Harley Granrille-Barker
Characters: Doctor Parpalaid, Doctor Knock, Madame Parpalaid, Jean, the chauffeur, The Town Crier, Bernard, the schoolmaster, Mousquet, the chemist, A Farmer's Wife, Madame Pons, A Country Fellow, Another Country Fellow, Madame Remy Scipio, A Nurse
Act 1. In and around an aged motor-car - October
Act 2. Doctor Knock's consulting room, a day or two later
Act 3. Doctor Knock's hospital at the St. Maurice Hotel - January, three months later
The play adapted for broadcasting and produced by Cyril Wood
Tonight at 9.20.
In announcing this new Burlesque series we declared our intention of attempting occasionally to laugh at ourselves, and we invited you to join in the sport of laughing at the other fellow (the same thing, of course!). Doctor Knock provides a unique opportunity for both. Which of us has not, at one time or other, yielded to some extravagant, irresistible advertisement of medical quackery? Which of us would feel satisfied with the doctor who sent us away without a reassuring bottle of medicine? And, if we can succumb so easily to the cold print of extravagant advertisement, what would happen to us if we came under the spell of a doctor whose personality, backed up by successful results, seemed to reaffirm his advertised claims? Dr. Knock will provide the answer.
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