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in Three one-act Plays

I 'THE SHRINE'
by EDWARD MACQUAID
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Place: 'The Room' off the bar of Bella Macfarlane's public house in the High Street of Edinburgh
Time: The present, 11.0 a.m.

II 'THE PHILOSOPHER OF BUTTERBIGGENS'
by HAROLD CHAPIN
Characters
Place: John Bell's kitchen in the tenement at Butterbiggens
Time: Early evening

IIIÂ 'CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR'
by J.A. FERGUSON
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Place: The interior of a lonely cottage on the road from Struan to Rannoch in North Perthshire
Time: After the rising of 1745

This distinguished company of players gave its first public performance in the Royal Institute, Glasgow, in January, 1921. Next year the Players gave a command performance at Balmoral Castle, when two comedies, Cute McCheyne, by Joseph Laing Waugh and A.P. Wilson, and A Valuable Rival, by Neil F. Grant, were presented. In 1923 this latter play gave London its first glimpse of the Players. Many notable authors have contributed successes to the Players' productions, including George Bernard Shaw, James Bridie, John Brandane, George Blake, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Bain, George Reston Malloch, A.W. Yuill, and J.A. Ferguson. Over a hundred plays have been presented in the past fourteen years, over seventy of which were original plays given for the first time on any stage.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward MacQuaid
Unknown:
Bella MacFarlane
Unknown:
Harold Chapin
Unknown:
John Bell
Unknown:
J. A. Ferguson
Unknown:
Joseph Laing
Unknown:
A. P. Wilson
Unknown:
Neil F. Grant
Unknown:
George Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
James Bridie
Unknown:
John Brandane
Unknown:
George Blake
Unknown:
Gordon Bottomley
Unknown:
Robert Bain
Unknown:
George Reston
Unknown:
A. W. Yuill
Unknown:
J. A. Ferguson.
Bella Macfarlane, who owns a small public house:
Meg Buchanan
Alex Maxwell, a customer:
Murray Stewart
Geordie Macbeth, a VC:
R.B. Wharrie
Peter M'Fadyen, another customer:
David Mowat
Henry P Halstead, an American Visitor:
Thomas Smith
James Monkton, an English visitor:
Gordon Flack
David Pirnie:
R.B. Wharrie
Lizzie Bell, his daughter:
Jean Taylor Smith
John Bell, his son-in-law:
Murray Stewart
Alexander, his grandson:
Thomas Smith
Mary Stewart:
Meg Buchanan
Morag Cameron:
Jean Taylor Smith
Dugald Stewart:
Thomas Smith
Captain Sandeman:
Gordon Flack
Archibald Campbell:
R.B. Wharrie
James Mackenzie:
David Mowat

Regional Programme Scotland

About Regional Programme

Regional 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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More