THE UNQUIET ONES
[RADIO-SCRIPT]
[Radio Times, July 22, 1938] “J. S. N. Sewell, author of several plays about school life, enters a
new field with The Unquiet Ones, a play with a ghost theme, which is to be broadcast Saturday,
August 6… The Unquiet Ones is set in a lonely country district of County Londonderry, and tells
the story of two English officers on a motor tour, who run out of petrol and seek shelter in a
myserious house occupied by an Ulsterman and his French wife and daughter. What happens to
them in the eerie atmosphere of the house, and particularly their strange discoveries the next
morning, make for excitement.”
ORIGINATION: Northern Ireland Programme, Belfast (BBC).
DURATION: August 6, 1938.
PERSONNEL: H. S. Denton (producer), J. S. N. Sewell (scriptwriter).
CAST: Fraser Mayne (Guy Duke), R. H. MacCandless (James ‘Hammer’ McAlister), Charles Owens (William
Doherty), W. Gibson Parker (Peter Featherston), Kathleen Porter (Marie, McAlister’s wife), Lucie Young
(Nicolette, McAlister’s stepdaughter).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
[PROGRAM LOG]
(NORTHERN IRELAND PROGRAMME, BELFAST)
[Saturday—10:30-11:00 PM]
August 6, 1938 “The Unquiet Ones”
[“…Two English officers stranded without petrol on a lonely Ulster road…
A long walk in County Londonderry… Shelter in a mysterious house…
Stained relations between the Ulster landlord and his French wife and
daughter… Nicolette’s odd remarks about her father… The scream in the
night… The frightening significance of the clothes-pegs… And the strange
discoveries next morning…”]