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Third Programme at 5.15

British Drama 1600-1642
This is the first programme in the series. The second, "A Woman Killed with Kindness" by Thomas Heywood (1603) will be on February 1

Donald Wolfit in 'The Shoemakers' Holiday'
or A Pleasant Comedy of the Gentle Craft
[by] Thomas Dekker (c.1572-c.1632)
This play was first produced at court on January 1, 1600

Edited for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes
Music by John Hotchkis
The Welbeck Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch: conducted by the composer

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Dekker
Edited by/Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Music/Conductor:
John Hotchkis
Musicians:
The Welbeck Orchestra
Leader:
Vera Kantrovitch
Simon Eyre, the Shoemaker:
Donald Wolfit
Sir Roger Oteley, Lord Mayor of London:
Felix Felton
Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln:
Philip Leaver
Rowland Lacy, his Nephew:
Denis Quilley
Hodge, Eyre's Foreman:
Charles Leno
Eyre's Journeymen - Firk:
Geoffrey Matthews
Eyre's Journeymen - Ralph:
John Bryning
Jane, Wife to Ralph:
Eva Huszar
Margery, Wife to Simon Eyre:
Vivienne Chatterion
Rose, Daughter to Sir Roger Oteley:
Janette Richer
Sybil, her Maid:
Betty Baskcomb
Master Hammon, a Citizen of London:
Alastair Duncan
Master Warner, his Brother-in-law:
Godfrey Kenton
A Dutch Skipper:
George Merrill
Dodger, Servant to the Earl of Lincoln:
Denis Goacher
A Serving-Man to Master Hammon:
Anthony Viccars
The King:
Charles Simon

A comic opera in two scenes based on the story by W.W. Jacobs
Words and music by Ethel Smyth
BBC Northern Singers' (men's voices)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by Stanford Robinson

Scene 1: Outside 'The Beehive,' a country inn, early in this century
Scene 2: The interior of 'The Beehive'

Contributors

Based on the story by:
W.W. Jacobs
Words and music by:
Ethel Smyth
Singers:
BBC Northern Singers' (men's voices)
Musicians:
BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Producer:
David Harris
Repetiteur:
Michael Moores
Harry Benn ex-boatswain:
Alexander Young
Ned Travers, ex-soldier:
Dennis Bowen
Mrs Waters, landlady of 'The Bee hive:
Margaret Ritchie
Mary Ann a servant:
Mildred Watson
A Policeman:
Scott Joynt

Poems by Pushkin, Lermontov,
Mayakovsky, Esenin
— and Shakespeare
Read in Russian by Alia Tarasova. Sergey Lukyanov and Vladimir Belokurov of the Moscow Art Theatre Company
English translations by Edwin Morgan. Erik de Mauny and Peter Russell read by Flora Robson and Allan McClelland

Contributors

Unknown:
Alia Tarasova.
Unknown:
Sergey Lukyanov
Unknown:
Vladimir Belokurov
Unknown:
Edwin Morgan.
Unknown:
Peter Russell
Read By:
Flora Robson
Read By:
Allan McClelland

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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