Third Programme, Drama, 1947

02/01/1947 Cynthia Pughe and Val Gielgud The Field of Kings
(Translated by Jonathan Griffin from ' La Course des Rois ' by Thierry Maulnier), rpt 12/11/1947 and 14/11/1947.

05/01/1947 George Bernard Shaw The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

06/01/1947 Selma Lagerlof Kevenhüller
rpt 10/01/1947

11/01/1947 Aldous Huxley The World of Light

13/01/1947 Max Beerbohm Enoch Soames
rpt 18/01/1947 and 31/05/1947

14/01/1947 George Orwell Animal Farm
rpt 15/01/1947 and 02/02/1947

15/01/1947 Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya

16/01/1947 Anton Chekhov  Ivanov
rpt 23/03/1947

17/01/1947 Henry James The Turn of the Screw
rpt 14/09/1947

19/01/1947 George Bernard Shaw Mrs Warren’s Profession
rpt 06/02/1947 and 04/08/1947

21/01/1947 George Bernard Shaw The Devil’s Disciple
rpt 02/02/1947 and 11/08/1947

23/01/1947 George Bernard Shaw The Doctor’s Dilemma
rpt 07/02/1947 and 15/08/1947

24/01/1947 A. G. Strong The Spear of Gold

27/01/1947 T S Eliot Sweeney Agonistes
rpt 09/03/1947

29/01/1947 George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
rpt 05/02/1947

31/01/1947 Henry James The Turn of the Screw

08/02/1947 George Bernard Shaw The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

09/02/1947 Alfred Tennyson Queen Mary

11/02/1947 Louis MacNeice Cupid and Psyche
rpt 12/02/1947 and 02/04/1947 and 17/04/1947 and 27/06/1947

13/02/1947 30/07/1947 Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

15/02/1947 Patric Dickinson The Wall of Troy

16/02/1947 Thomas Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness
rpt 19/02/1947 and 13/04/1947 and 01/05/1947 and 30/11/1947

20/02/1947 Aristophanes The Frogs

09/03/1947 John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World

11/03/1947 Louis MacNeice The Death of Gunnar
rpt 07/04/1947

12/03/1947 Louis MacNeice The Burning of Njal

18/03/1947 William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

18/03/1947 Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
rpt 22/03/1947

24/03/1947 John Millington Synge Riders to the Sea

24/03/1947 Kenneth Alexander Dreams
rpt 12/05/1947 and 04/06/1947

25/03/1947 Robert Kemp The Country
rpt 29/03/1947 and 17/08/1947 Mouse Goes to Town

27/03/1947 Harley Granville-Barker Waste
rpt 22/06/1947 and 07/12/1947

30/03/1947 Dorothy L. Sayers The Just Vegeance
(Otherwise called The Lichfield Passion) rpt 05/04/1947

09/04/1947 John Milton Samson Agonistes
rpt 10/04/1947 and 21/06/1947 and 13/08/1947

11/04/1947 Christopher Hassall  Christ's Comet

12/04/1947 Graham Sutton A Little Learning

19/04/1947 Denis Constanduros The Last Cigar
rpt 19/05/1947 and 02/08/1947

20/04/1947 Christopher Marlowe Edward the Second

23/04/1947 William Shakespeare Richard II
rpt 25/04/1947 and 11/05/1947

27/04/1947 Aristophanes The Frogs

28/04/1947 Clifford Bax The Buddha

30/04/1947 Herman Melville Moby Dick

03/05/1947 John Dryden Marriage à la Mode

06/05/1947 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death’s Jest Book

10/05/1947 George Barker The Degradation of Guatemozin

14/05/1947 Jean-Paul Sartre Les Mouches
rpt 16/05/1947 and 29/07/1947

15/05/1947 J. M. Synge Deirdre of the Sorrows

17/05/1947 Max Beerbohm Savonarola Brown

17/05/1947 A. W. Kinglake Eothen
rpt 05/07/1947

18/05/1947 Molière Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
rpt 23/05/1947 and 10/06/1947

25/05/1947 Henry Reed Pytheas
rpt 28/05/1947 and 18/06/1947

27/05/1947 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House

28/05/1947 George Farquhar The Beaux Stratagem
rpt 30/05/1947 and 31/12/1947

29/05/1947 E M Forster Two Fantasies

01/06/1947 Harley Granville-Barker The Madras House
rpt 25/06/1947

07/06/1947 W J Turner The Man Who Ate the Popomack

11/06/1947 G K Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
rpt 01/07/1947

17/06/1947 Jean Giraudoux No War in Troy
rpt 18/06/1947 and 16/07/1947

22/06/1947 Robert Gittings Hannibal
rpt 23/06/1947

24/06/1947 Harley Granville-Barker The Voysey Inheritance
rpt 25/07/1947

28/06/1947 Selma Lagerlof Kevenhuller

29/06/1947 Sir John Vanbrugh The Provoked Wife
rpt 03/07/1947 and 22/07/1947

02/07/1947 Douglas Cleverdon No Such Constant Lover

04/07/1947 Denis Constanduros  Episodes in the Life of My Grandfather

06/07/1947 Leonard Cottrell The Pharaoh Akhnaton
rpt 12/07/1947

12/07/1947 Racine Athalie

13/07/1947 Lady Gregory The Workhouse Ward

15/07/1947 John Heywood The Play of the Weather
rpt 06/10/1947

1/07/1947 Aldous Huxley The World of Light

18/07/1947 Turgenev A Month in the Country

20/07/1947 Tennyson Queen Mary

21/07/1947 Jenifer Wayne British Justice
rpt 24/07/1947 and 15/12/1947

26/07/1947 George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

27/07/1947 Louis MacNeice Grettir the Strong
rpt 30/07/1947 and 23/08/1947

06/08/1947 David Huelin Peter and the Cake
rpt 09/08/1947

08/08/1947 J M Barrie Farewell Miss Julie Logan

10/08/1947 James Shirley Cupid and Death

12/08/1947 C Gordon Clover Do Not Disturb

18/08/1947 Sophocles The Philoctetes
rpt 20/08/1947

19/08/1947 John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

24/08/1947 Kenneth Alexander Dangerous Drugs
rpt 25/08/1947

25/08/1947 John Vanbrugh The Relapse
rpt 26/08/1947 and 15/09/1947

27/08/1947 William Shakespeare Macbeth
rpt 08/09/1947 and 14/10/1947

29/08/1947 E J King Bull On Such a Night

01/09/1947 Aristophanes Lysistrata
rpt 04/09/1947 and 22/09/1947

03/09/1947 Christopher Fry The Firstborn
rpt 05/09/1947 and 28/11/1947

09/09/1947 Archibald MacLeish The Fall of the City
rpt 10/09/1947 and 03/10/1947(the first American verse play written for radio, first broadcast by CBS on April 11 1937).

12/09/1947 Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

17/09/1947 Max Beerbohm Savonarola Brown

21/09/1947 Christopher Fry A Phoenix Too Frequent
rpt 24/09/1947 and 13/10/1947 and 06/12/1947

29/09/1947 John Milton and Henry Lawes Comus
rpt 30/09/1947

05/10/1947 William Shakespeare Richard II
rpt 27/10/1947

06/10/1947 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1
rpt 05/11/1947

07/10/1947 William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 2
rpt 07/11/1947

08/10/1947 William Shakespeare Henry V
rpt 17/11/1947

09/10/1947 William Shakespeare Henry VI
rpt 03/12/1947

10/10/1947 William Shakespeare Richard III
rpt 23/12/1947

19/10/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 1

22/10/1947 Graham Sutton Dictator
rpt 24/10/1947

22/10/1947 Cervantes Don Quixote Part 1

23/10/1947 Cervantes Don Quixote Part 2

25/10/1947 Cervantes Don Quixote Part 3

26/10/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 2

28/10/1947 William Congreve The Way of the World
rpt 25/11/1947

02/11/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 3

03/11/1947 Peter Watts Hurrah for Womanhoood !

04/11/1947 Robert Gittings The Large Canvas

09/11/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 4

10/11/1947 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci

16/11/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 5

23/11/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 6

26/11/1947 Becque La Parisienne

29/11/1947 Sophocles Antigone

30/11/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Books 7 and 8

07/12/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 9

08/12/1947 Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm

10/12/1947 Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

12/12/1947 Molière Tartuffe

13/12/1947 Bryan Merryman The Midnight Court

14/12/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 10

14/12/1947 Emile Verhaeren The Cloister rpt 17/12/1947

18/12/1947 Alexander Griboyedov The Mischief of Being Clever

20/12/1947 Cuthbert Bede (The Rev. Edward Bradley) The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green

21/12/1947 John Milton Paradise Lost Books 11 and 12

22/12/1947 Kierkegaard The Death of a Prophet

25/12/1947 Denis Johnston A Bride for the Unicorn
rpt 27/12/1947

26/12/1947 Terence Tiller The Shepherd’s Play

28/12/1947 D G Bridson Aaron’s Field

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Compiled by Alistair Wyper



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