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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7686/BOX/10
TitleRadio Plays for Children by L. du Garde Peach
Date20th cent
DescriptionFiles of typed scripts, some with manuscript amendments, cast lists, rehearsal and transmission details, for performance during "Children's Hour"

The Story of David
1. David and Goliath (transmitted 19 January 1941)
2. David in Exile
3. King over Israel
4. The Last Days of David

The Story of Jonah
The Story of Joseph
1. Sold into Egypt (2 copies, transmitted 20 April 1941, one copy with alternative draft version)
2. Joseph and his Brethren (2 copies, transmitted 27 April 1941)

The Story of Ruth (2 copies, one with letter returning script from L Wright of Pear Tree Road Baptist Church Sunday School, Derby, 3 April 1945)

Story-Tellers of Britain
2. Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales (transmitted Wed 12 March [1941])
3. Malory and Morte d'Arthur (transmitted 21 April 1940)
4. More and Utopia
5. Bunyan and Pilgrim's Progress (transmitted 28 January 1940)
6. Swift and Gulliver's Travel (transmitted 31 March 1940)
9. Dickens and the Pickwick Papers (transmitted 11 December 1940)
10. Thackery and Esmond (transmitted15 May 1940)
12. George Eliot and Adam Bede
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorLawrence du Garde Peach of Great Hucklow, dramatist (1890-1974)
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