... RADIO Recordings of Sir Seymour Hicks, Marie Tempest and Gertie Millar will be heard in Through the Stage Door on May 10. In the programme, Philip Treleaven will introduce three backstage personalities who will remind listeners of some of the great actors and actresses they have known. First is Valentine Bragginton, nearly 80 years old, and a stage doorkeeper at the Savoy. He re members ...

... A letter in the correspondence column of a magazine last year, describing a mysterious death-warning which had occurred for centuries in an Irish family, gave Maurice Vernon the idea for a new radio play which listeners will hear in Saturday Matinee in the Home Service on August 16. The warn ing, wrote the correspondent, who was a member of the family, had recurred quite recently and con ...

... CECIL Madden. Assistant to the Controller of Television Programmes, will once again be in charge of the BBC's Television Celebrity Dais at this year's Radio Show from August 27 to September 6. I.ast year, in response to his invitations, over 250 celebrities of TV, stage, lilnts and radio appeared in person to meet the public. This year invitations to appear on the Celebrity Dais will be ...

... THE Postmaster General has turned down the application from South Western Broadcasting Limited, the West Country local radio and television company, to make a limited number of experimental sound radio missions in the Bristol area next spring. The reply to the application, which was submitted on Septem ber 25. states that until the Pilkington Committee have re ported and the Government ...

... LIUMPHREY LYTTELTON and his band have an impressive line-up of radio and TV dates in coming weeks. On February 6 Humph records a contribution for the Radio Lux embourg show, Stars On Wings for future transmission. On February 17. he will be heard on the BBC Home Service pro gramme, In Town Today dis cussing, with Richard Dingley, his 14 years as a bandleader and his successes, as a trumpet ...

... Big Jim and the Figaro Club RADIO 4 RADIO 4'S brand new comedy tells of the adventures of a gang of builder's labourers and is based on the characters created in the 1982 TV series of the same name. It goes back in time to the forming of the Figaro Club just after the war when Big Jim, the natural leader of the pack, played by Norman Rossington, tells those who don't know how it all started ...

... Cliffhanger BBC RADIO 4 THIS IS the second series (Saturdays, 11.30 to midnight) of the Cliffhanger Theatre Company in which the cast of four write and perform spoof versions of well-known cinema films. Robin Driscoll, Peter McCarthy, Tony Haase, and Rebecca Stevens are the guilty parties and began with a two-parter about The Dog Who Ran For President. The programme is topically amusing rather ...

... An evening of Christopher Bruce SADLER'S WELLS FOR A LONG time Christopher Bruce has been one of our most consistently interesting choreographers, and though he works with companies at home (including London Festival Ballet) and abroad, his name will always have links with Ballet Rambert. He trained at the old Rambert school, joined the company in its classical era, crossing over to its ...

... Ives, Songs NEW YORK A cross between his Dances at a Gathering and Ashton's Enigma Varia tions, with a touch of Tudor's Echoing of Trumpets, Jerome Robbin's new ballet, Ives, Songs, is a highly original mixture. The dances illustrate, not always literally, 18 charming songs by Charles Ives. These are sung on the side of the stage by New York City Opera baritone Timothy Nolen with such clear ...

... Richard Fillingham Entertainment AYR By JOHN MOORE BY ALL accounts this was a most successful showcase, staged in the Wonder/west Showboat venue, Ayr. Ricky Fillingham said so; agents present said so; and the full-house audiences made it clear that thev agreed. Over the two days 37 acts were seen, of varied quality and at different career stages. This review makes an idiosyncratic attempt to ...

... Putting the PC in police constable By MOIRA PETTY WHEN drama becomes subverted to a cause or an issue it's easy to end up seeing everything as black or white. In the play about the police and racism, Saturday Night Theatre- The Right Result (R4; Sat July 17) a white commuter was being questioned after a black youth was killed, apparently in the course of a mugging. Coffee black or white? he ...

... Jurassic Parker is a right pain in the mutt By MORIA PETTY EXCUSE My Dust (R4; Wednesday, August 18) presented two views of Dorothy Parker in action, each of them equally unattractive. She was either engaged,-- cocktail in hand, in the maelstrom of a tinny, Scott Fitzgerald-like social whirl practising her Desi-Knuwn apnonsms on the party-goers who greet ed her one-liners with unconvincing ...