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Under the direction of JOHAN HOCK
Relayed from
Queen's College, Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM
PHILHARMONIC STRING ORCHESTRA
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conductor, JOHAN HOCK
EVELINE STEVENSON (soprano)
NORRIS STANLEY (violin) WALTER HEARD (flute)
EDGAR CLARKE (oboe)
Tom HEYES (trumpet)

Contributors

Unknown:
Johan Hock
Conductor:
Johan Hock
Soprano:
Eveline Stevenson
Violin:
Norris Stanley
Flute:
Walter Heard
Oboe:
Edgar Clarke
Oboe:
Tom Heyes

A Comedy of pre-War London by Arnold Bennett

The Characters are

Act I. The front room of Ilam Carve's house, 126, Redcliffe Gardens, during an evening in August
Act II. A private room at the Grand Babylon Hotel, the following day
Act III. Janet's sitting-room at Werter Road, Putney, two years later
Act IV. Lord Leonard Alcar's study, Grosvenor Gardens, the next afternoon.
Adapted and produced by S.A. Bulloch

This play by Arnold Bennett arose out of his novel 'Buried Alive' which was written in 1908, the same year as his 'Old Wives' Tale'. If it was not his most successful book, it was certainly one of his most successful plays. An eminent and eccentric painter changed his identity with his own valet, and possibly the idea and its extravagant complications were better suited to the theatre, or it may be that the play, when first produced by Granville Barker at the Kingsway in 1913, owed its big success to the brilliant acting of Henry Ainley and Wish Wynne.

In the broadcast version Ainley's part will be played by Harold Scott and Wish Wynne's by that charming actress Hilda Trevelyan, the original and some say the only Wendy in Peter Pan.

A. Harding Steerman as Father Looe is the only actor in tonight's cast to play the part he took in the original production, and Cecil Brooking, who is to play Mr. Texel, took this part in the revival at the Haymarket in 1924.

('The Great Adventure' was broadcast in the Regional programme on Tuesday night)

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Produced By:
Granville Barker
Ilam Carve, a famous painter:
Harold Scott
Albert Shawn, Ham's valet:
Norman Shelley
Doctor Pascoe:
Matthew Boulton
Janet Cannot, a widow:
Hilda Trevelyan
Cyrus Carve, Ilam's cousin, a City auctioneer:
Andrew Churchman
Father Looe, a Catholic priest:
A. Harding Steerman
Honoria Looe, sister of Father Looe:
Barbara Couper
Peter Horning, a journalist:
Norman Shelley
Ebag, a picture dealer:
Carleton Hobbs
Lord Leonard Alcar:
Robert Gilbert
Texel, an American millionaire:
Cecil Brooking
A Servant:
Matthew Boulton

The Rt. Hon. Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN ,
K.G., M.P.
Few would disagree with the choice of Sir Austen Chamberlain to wind up this important series. The man who has represented one constituency for over twenty years is a man in whom his electors believe. In the minds of the people of Great Britain, as in the minds of the majority in West Birmingham, the stature of Sir Austen has grown with the years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Austen Chamberlain
Unknown:
Sir Austen Chamberlain

National Programme Daventry

About National Programme

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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