by Harry Carpenter

A short story by Barbara Hector
Read by Nan Scott

A play on the life of Charles Lamb by Joan Temple
Adapted for broadcasting by David Steuart
Characters Mary Lamb , Charles Lamb , Mr. Lamb, Mrs. Lamb, Becky, Jane, John Lamb , William Godwin , Mrs. Godwin, George Dyer , Charles Dudley , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , William Wordsworth , Hester Savory ,
Mrs. Bracebridge
Scenes
The Lambs' lodgings, Little Queen
Street, London, September, 1796
The same, December, 1796
Professor Godwin's house in Somers
Town. A Saturday evening in February, 1800.
The Lambs' lodgings at 36, Chapel
Street, Pentonville, the following morning
The same some hours later
The Lambs' lodgings at Edmonton,
1832
Production by Gordon Gildard
Charles and Mary will be the fourth play the Perth Repertory Theatre has broadcast within two years. In January, 1937, they were first heard in James Bridie 's Tobias and the Angel. Later they performed A Hundred Years Old and The Barretts of Wimpole Street, which was repeated in the main Regional programme.
Charles and Mary was originally produced at the Everyman Theatre, London, in 1930. The play was successfully presented for television from Alexandra Palace last May.