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Theatre Royal

28 episodes · 1953–1954 · NBC · Drama

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Classic stories adapted for radio in London by Harry Alan Towers, hosted first by Laurence Olivier and later by Ralph Richardson, with leading British actors. Heard in the U.S. on NBC; many copies come from 1970s rebroadcasts on WRVR-FM, New York.

Sources: RadioGOLDINdex

Episodes

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1953

• The Queen of Spades October 4, 1953 · NBC · 30 min
  The first show, from London: a man kills an old countess for the secret of three cards that always win. From Pushkin.
• The Overcoat October 11, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Gogol's story of a poor clerk and the new overcoat that means everything to him.
• The Tale October 18, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Conrad: a naval commander in wartime suspects a neutral ship's captain of helping the enemy, and must decide what to believe.
• Sire De Maletroit's Door November 1, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Stevenson: a young man slips through an unlocked door and is told he must marry a stranger by morning or hang.
• The Purse November 14, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Balzac: a young painter falls for the girl next door, until a missing purse makes him doubt her family.
• La Grande Breteche November 21, 1953 · NBC · 30 min
  From Balzac: a husband's terrible revenge on a hidden lover.
• Markheim November 28, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Stevenson's tale of a murderer and a mysterious visitor on Christmas Day.
• Zodomirsky's Duel December 19, 1953 · NBC · 28 min
  A duel of honor, from Alexandre Dumas.
• A Christmas Carol December 24, 1953 · NBC · 24 min
  Dickens's Christmas story.
• The Canterville Ghost December 26, 1953 · NBC · 29 min
  Oscar Wilde's comedy: an old English ghost tries to haunt an American family.

1954

• The Country of the Blind January 2, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  H. G. Wells: in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is not king.
• Little Louise Roque January 16, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Maupassant: a respected country mayor is slowly broken by a secret crime.
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime January 23, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Oscar Wilde: a palm reader foretells that Lord Arthur will commit murder.
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde January 30, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Stevenson's story of the respectable doctor and the monster he releases.
• Bartleby February 13, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Melville's clerk who would 'prefer not to.'
• The Inspector General February 20, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Gogol's comedy: a small-town official mistakes a nobody for a government inspector.
• Sydney Carton March 27, 1954 · NBC · 28 min
  Sydney Carton, Dickens's hero of A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Black Mate May 2, 1954 · NBC · 28 min
  Conrad: a skeptical ship's officer seems to have been knocked down by a ghost.
• Half an Hour May 9, 1954 · NBC · 27 min
  J. M. Barrie's play about a wife who leaves her husband and must return within half an hour.
• Dr. Knock May 16, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  A comedy about a country doctor who convinces a whole town that it's sick.
• The Aspern Papers May 23, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Henry James: a scholar schemes to get a dead poet's letters from an old woman.
• My Adventure in Norfolk May 30, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  A. J. Alan's tale of a man who rents a lonely house in Norfolk and walks into a mystery.
• Private Rooms June 6, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  A J. B. Priestley story, introduced by Ralph Richardson.
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles June 16, 1954 · NBC · 30 min
  H. G. Wells: an ordinary man finds he can work miracles.
• The Liar June 23, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Henry James: a painter and an old friend who can't stop telling lies.
• My Uncle Toby June 30, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  My Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
• Four Meetings July 7, 1954 · NBC · 28 min
  Henry James: four meetings with a woman who dreams of Europe.
• A Sentimental Journey July 14, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  From Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France.