CLOUDBREAK
[STAGE-PLAY]
“To a poor cottage on a mountain side in Wales, come a Beggar and an Evil Spirit. It is Christmas
Eve and the spirit is that of Judas searching for the last of the thirty pieces of silver for which he
betrayed Christ.”
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: Wales Programme and Home Service (BBC).
DURATION: September 4, 1938 (Wales Programme); August 24, 1940 (Home Service).
PERSONNEL: Dafydd Gruffydd (adapter, producer—1938, Wales), Arwel Hughes (composer—
1938, Wales), T. Rowland Hughes (adaptor, producer—1940, Home Service).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
[Program log]
(WALES PROGRAMME)
[Sunday—9:50-10:30 PM]
September 4, 1938 “Cloudbreak”
[“…A play by A. O. Roberts… The characters are a Woman, a Man, a
Beggar, an Evil Spirit, other Spirits… The time is late on Christmas
Eve…”]
(HOME SERVICE)
[Sunday—11:30-11:50 AM]
August 24, 1940 “Cloudbreak”
[Links]
[text] The stage play of Cloudbreak.