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Mr. ST. JOHN ERVINE
Tonight Mr. St. John Ervine gives the last of his broadcast, criticisms of the theatre in the present series of talks. In September, Archibald Haddon , the first broadcast dramatic critic, returns to the microphone. Before his two years of broadcasting in 1923 and 1924, Mr. Haddon had been a dramatic critic on leading newspapers for thirty years. During the last eight years he has been prominently identified with the revival of variety.

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Archibald Haddon

A new Radio play set in the everyday places-school, bank, touring company, suburbs—of modern England. Tells in parallel the stories of two men who leave school together in 1919, tracing the progress of each man along the path that character and circumstance combine to dictate for him. Both men marry, and in the reactions of their wives to their way of living and making a living the play brings its implied comparison to the point of utterance. An unpretentious play about real people living a credible contemporary life. The time sequence is indicated by popular tunes of recent years, an effective device that should lend colour to the production.

National Programme Daventry

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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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