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 .                                              Plays for Radio - Volume 3      

 

1st edition 2009

Limited to 300 numbered copies, hardback in d/w.

Published by David Schutte. ISBN 978 0 9546802 7 5

Can be ordered from David (Tel: 01730 269115) for £25 plus £1.75 postage and packing

                                                                                    

From 1945 to 1952 radio audiences were delighted by the antics of one William Brown and
his long-suffering family.
All but one of 99 recordings have been lost, and the same fate was thought to have befallen
most of the scripts of the Just William radio plays. They have now been re-discovered, and
the 55 written by Richmal Crompton herself are now being published in six volumes. Here in
volume three are nine new tales written for the 1946-47 series, only two of them based on stories from the books. This volume also includes a recently-discovered script from Richmal Crompton's own archive, Wet Afternoon, never broadcast, but used as the basis for one of the plays in volume 2.
The plays are illustrated by Thomas Henry, using "William" pictures that have lain dormant in
magazines for sixty years or more.
It's Tuesday January 1st 1946, and it's just coming up to 8.45pm. So take your seat by the open
fire, take a sip of your hot cocoa, turn on the wireless, and keep your regular weekly date with
Just William.