{
  "title": "FIRE BURN AND CAULDRON BUBBLE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SPECIAL]",
  "article": "[Times] “…a programme of witchcraft compiled from contemporary sources and imaginative\nwritings by Mr. C. Denis Freeman and Mr. M. H. Allen…”\n[Manchester Guardian] “Messrs. Denis Freeman and M. H. Allen, to whom listeners owe the\nMiscellanies, have compiled for broadcast to-night an anthology of witchcraft. Their sources have\nbeen imaginative writers—naturally the Elizabethans have a large place in the selections made—\nand contemporary accounts of the trials of witches.”\n[M.C. “The Witches’ Programme.” Manchester Guardian (November 9, 1932)] “The idea of\nburning fires and bubbling cauldrons over the wireless was fresh and promising, but…somehow,\nin spite of the incantations and weird music the witches fell rather flat… Regarded purely as an\nanthology the programme was interesting. There were pieces read about witches, and extracts\nfrom actual trials; a portion from Marlowe’s ‘Dr. Faustus,’ and part of the witches’ incantations\nfrom ‘Macbeth.’ We had rather wanted to be roused or horrified, and found the programme\nmilder than our expectations.”",
  "origination": "National Programme, London (BBC).",
  "duration": "November 8, 1932.",
  "personnel": "M. H. Allen (producer), C. Denis Freeman (producer), Leslie Woodgate (music director).\nCAST: Dennis Arundell, Andrew Churchman, Wilfrid Grantham, Viola Lyel, Ion Swinley, Veronica Turleigh,\nJ. Fisher White, Gladys Young.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\n[PROGRAM LOG]\n(NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON)\n[\nNovember 8, 1932\n“Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble”",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}