| Description | Includes -
Newspaper cuttings of articles written by Mary Richards e.g. "Wonder children" - how their genius was discovered.
Plays:
'Cannon-balls and candlesticks' - a Children's TV outside broadcast from Aston Hall, a history of Aston Hall acted by James Pestridge and members of Birmingham Theatre School (21/02/58);
'Pot pourri' - a summer pastoral with songs and dances for girls schools (? date);
'Heavens Above' or 'Scruffy and the angels', a play for children submitted to RSPB (and declined) (1991);
'Doctor Defeated' - a costume comedy scene for four men or boys, published Joseph Williams, London (? date but pre 1971);
'The Rusty Key' (1936);
'The Swiss cow bell';
'O Araminta';
'The blue ray';
Four radio plays submitted to NBC but turned down on the grounds that the colloquialisms would not be understood by American children.
Radio plays broadcast on BBC Midlands Children's Hour, with dates where available:
Father Christmas at home 11/12/1928;
The man in the moon 07/02/1929;
Father Time 07/03/1929;
The magic seeds - a summer adventure play 09/07/1929;
Will o' the wisp 29/08/1929;
The enchanted island 25/09/1929;
Pots and kettles- a fireside dispute 19/11/1929;
The Clerk of the weather 09/01/1930;
Who'll buy 03/03/1930;
The Choice 13/05/1930;
The worst yet 01/07/1930;
Lincoln's Mill 16/10/1930;
H2O calling - an outside broadcast from the garden 13/01/1931;
Maridl goes back 12/03/1931;
April in Arden 23/04/1931;
Sprinning time 16/06/1931;
Happy families 18/07/1931;
Miss Muffert's lesson 15/10/1931;
Down Greenaway Street (based on Kate Greenaway books) 09/11/1931;
A (n)ice story (also called "Thin ice" elsewhere) 04/02/1932;
The broken peel 19/07/1932;
The musk mystery 24/09/1932;
Goring's Luck 19/01/1933;
The flowers that never fade 31/01/1933;
The saving of Chetwynd Castle a Medieval play 21/09/1933;
The blue ray 16/03/1933;
Mother Hubbard's holiday 29/08/1933;
O Araminta 21/11/1933;
Time and tide 01/01/1934;
Dusty dreams 26/04/1934;
The feast of lanterns 29/05/1934;
The rusty key - the first Ninevah Wade play 11/06/1935;
The Swiss cow bell - the second Ninevah Wade play 05/09/1935;
The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire by de la Mare arranged as a dialogue story 01/02/1936;
Windy night 07/04/1936;
Charade '1815' 05/01/1937;
Inkberrow 11/01/1938;
World history IV - the story of Marie Antoinette for national programme for schools 24/05/1939;
Bats in the belfry 03/09/????;
Mummer's magic - a play with music 29/09/????;
Spring song 05/04/????;
Miss Muffet's lesson 15/10/????;
The clock of Alcester;
At six o'clock;
The land of Nod;
Past and the present;
The princess on the pea - Hans Andersen story adapted as a play for Children's Hour
Knight S Quest - a play based on a Breton legend - not broadcast;
Souls in Solstein - not broadcast;
By royal appointment.
Stories:
Bliss - an adaptation of a short story by Katherine Mansfield;
Joan's opportunity - a school story for girls;
Knotty tails 05/06/1929;
The wonderful pancake 01/11/1929;
Past and present 21/03/1930;
The glum pudding 24/12/1930;
The Sultan of Marzipan 21/09/????;
The lucky accident 17/06/1933;
Past and present (also as a play);
'The potion' - a fantasy in one act printed in 'The Guide' a 2d weekly publication of the Girl Guide Association (Vol 10, no 23, 27/09/1930, p704). Running time 35-40 minutes.
Talks:
The childhood of great painters, part2 (04/05/1932) - talk for Children's Hour.
Acting:
Contracts 1935/1936 to act in her own radio plays 'The rusty key' and 'At six o'clock'. |