BBC Radio Drama

[2] The earliest radio drama surviving in the BBC Sound Archives is "The Purple Pileus"[3] by H.G.

Wells, with Philip Wade, Ann Trevor, Harold Scott, Myrtle Richardson, Douglas Burbridge, Peter Ridgeway, Edward Craven, Lilian Warde.

King-Bull with Holland Bennett, Robert Speaight, Ivor Barnard, broadcast 24/12/1935 on the Regional(N & LR) Service; it is 27:24 in duration, and the BBC identifier MT13855.

Lennox's "Matinee"; 2:55 of L. du Garde Peach's "The Path of Glory" - all part of the series "Twelve Plays for Broadcasting" and produced by Lance Sieveking.

[7] An early radio production of Shakespeare's Richard II was broadcast in 1947 starring members of the Old Vic Theatre Company including Alec Guinness (King Richard), Margaret Leighton (Queen), Ralph Richardson (John of Gaunt) and Harry Andrews (Henry Bolingbroke).

*Richard II* , a 1947 radio production with George Ralph, Alec Guinness, Nicholas Hannen, Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson and Harry Andrews. Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme 11/5/1947 ^{[

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