BERT DENVER
Comedian
HELEN McKAY
Soprano
ALAN MONTGOMERY
Tenor
THE CLAYTON SISTERS
Close Harmony
(From the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, by kind permission of Messrs. Howard and Wyndham, Limited)
JAMES
GIBSON Recitations
CLARK and MURRAY
Comedy Songs
WILLIAM HANNAH
Accordion
PETE DAVIS
Comedian
Supported by HARRY CARMICHAEL and his BAND
(From Glasgow)
A Tale of the Scottish Tinkers
Between 1914 and 1919 By JANE H. FINDLATER
Adapted for broadcasting by JAMES S. C. MACGREGOR
The Cast : James Anderson , Nell Ballantyne , Albert Chalmers ,
Catherine Fletcher , James Gibson , Allan MacLean , Belina Miller , Elsie Payne , Jean Taylor Smith , John Strachan ,
Harold L. Wightman
* The Characters :
Ranald Reid , a Scottish tinker Maggie Reid , his wife
Flora Reid , their oldest child Policeman
Hamish Reid , Ranald and Maggie s second child
Farmer's wife
Lizzie Reid , wife of Richard Richard Reid , a tinker of the same clan as Ranald Postmaster of Achinbeg Father Bain , parish priest at Achinbeg McAllister , schoolmaster at Achinbeg Jessie McMillan , a member of another tinker clan, now settled at Fort William
A village woman at Achinbeg A village man at Achinbeg Schoolchildren Villagers
This tale of tinkers' life takes place during and immediately after the War.
It opens in a tinkers' encampment in Dundurer Woods , Perthshire Produced by HOWARD ROSE
(From Glasgow)
Mr. ALEXANDER KEITH
(Aberdeen Programme)