{
  "title": "CAPTAIN MURDERER",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "[Radio Times, November 11, 1938] “A record number of ‘fades’ is expected when Olive Shapley\nproduces Captain Murderer, an essay in the macabre based by G. Dewi Roberts on a story by\nCharles Dickens, with unlimited Effects, on November 25.”\n[Radio Times, November 18, 1938] “Here is a radio adaptation of a Dickens short story about a\nBluebeard who made a habit of cutting up and making pies of his fair brides. These pies he\nafterwards ate.\n“Norman Fulton, who has composed the incidental music for this programme, is a member of\nthe BBC North Regional staff.\n“Captain Murderer will give Olive Shapley an unusually busy time at the dramatic control\npanel, for it is the sort of play that is full of all kinds of effects, musical and otherwise, to be faded\nup and down behind the actors’ lines.”",
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  "duration": "",
  "personnel": "",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "(NORTHERN PROGRAMME, NEWCASTLE—BBC)\n[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]\nNovember 25, 1938\n“Captain Murderer”\n[RADIO TIMES: “…Here is a radio adaptation of a Dickens short story\nabout a Bluebeard who made a habit of cutting up and making pies of his\nfair brides. These pies he afterwards ate…”]\nSCRIPT: G. Dewi Roberts (adapted from the story by Charles Dickens).\nPERSONNEL: Norman Fulton (music), Olive Shapley (producer).",
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}