CONFESSION
[SHORT-STORY]
Story by Algernon Blackwood…
[CHRONOLOGY]
SHORT STORY (NATIONAL PROGRAMME)
[Saturday—8:15-8:30 PM]
June 27, 1936 “King’s Evidence”
PERSONNEL: Algernon Blackwood (storyteller).
(HOME SERVICE)
[Tuesday—6:45-7:05 PM]
December 24, 1940 “King’s Evidence”
PERSONNEL: Algernon Blackwood (storyteller).
MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (HOME SERVICE, LONDON)
[Thursday—9:30-10:00 PM]
January 17, 1946 “Confession”
PERSONNEL: Graham Doody (narrator), Wilfrid Grantham
(producer), Robert G. Newton (scriptwriter).
CAST: Robert Beattie (James O’Reilly), Howieson Culff (A Doctor),
Hilda Davies, Victor Fairley, Freda Falconer, Cyril Gardiner (Dr. Henry),
Stanley Groome, Mary Kenton (A Woman), Eric Lugg, Frank Partington,
Molly Rankin (Nancy), Eddy Reed, Gladys Spencer.
ESCAPE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—EAST COAST TRANSMISSION)
[Wednesday—10:30-11:00 PM]
December 31, 1947 “Confession” [EXTANT
RECORDING]
PERSONNEL: John Dunkel (scriptwriter), William N. Robson
(producer-director).
CAST: William Conrad, Ramsay Hill, Peggy Webber.
ESCAPE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—WEST COAST TRANSMISSION)
[
January ??, 1948 “Confession” [EXTANT
RECORDING]
(OVERSEAS PROGRAMME—ARABIC SERVICE)
[Thursday—4:15-4:30 PM]
December 26, 1974 “King’s Evidence”
PERSONNEL: Mr. Masri (reader).
THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]
August 17, 1977 “In the Fog”
[“…Captain Terry O’Reilly is told by his doctor that he is well enough to
visit some friends on Boston’s Beacon Hill. Emerging from the subway,
O’Reilly walks into a dense fog and meets a strange, beautiful woman.
Together they grope their way to Beacon Hill. She enters a house, and
when O’Reilly hears a scream he follows her in, only to find her lying on a
bed, stabbed to death. He rushes away in a panic, leaving his hat in the
bedroom…”]
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-directoR), Roy Winsor
(scriptwriter).
CAST: Gordon Gould (Captain O’Reilly), Martha Greenhouse (May
Collard), William Griffis (Jeff Collard), Ian Martin (Dr. Henry).
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER
[BOOK]
Thomas DeQuincey’s delving into his own addiction and subsequent hallucinations…
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: Various.
DURATION: Various.
PERSONNEL: Robert Chignell (musical director—1935, 1936, “Opium-Eater”), Paul Dehn
(scriptwriter—1935, 1936, “Opium-Eater”), Felix Felton (scriptwriter, producer—1935, 1936,
“Opium-Eater”), Cecil Ramage (reader—1933, “Dreams of an Opium-Eater).
CAST [1935, Opium-Eater]: Eric Anderson, Edward Craven, Eileen Erskine, Gwendolen Evans, A.
E. Filmer, Mervyn Johns, Charles Lefeaux, Gordon McLeod, Esme Percy, Nancy Roberts,
Surya Sena, Robert Speaight, Philip Wade, Harcourt Williams.
CAST [1936, Opium-Eater]: Eric Anderson, Arthur Evans, Gwendolen Evans, Henry Hallatt,
Mervyn Johns, Charles Lefeaux, Dorothy Minto, Cyril Nash, Esme Percy, Ronald Simpson,
Dewan Sharar, Anne Twigg, Philip Wade.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
[Program information]
(NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON)
[Wednesday—10:30-10:35 PM]
May 22, 1933 “Dreams of an Opium-Eater”
(NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON)
[Thursday—8:30-9:30 PM]
October 24, 1935 “Opium-Eater”
[“…the story of De Quincey, a radio-dramatic reconstruction from his
confessions…”]
(REGIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON)
[Tuesday—8:00-9:00 PM]
November 24, 1936 “Opium-Eater”