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    Who wrote the world's first radio play?

    Question #40864. Asked by MaggieG 5. (Nov 07 03 5:11 PM)


    TabbyTom

    		According to the New Shell Book of Firsts;

    The first radio play was Eugene Walter’s melodrama “The Wolf,” presented by WGY Schenectady in a 2½-hour adaptation with H Edward Smith and Rosaline Greene in the leading roles on August 3, 1922. Smith also produced the play. Regular Friday night productions by the WGY Players (radio’s first repertory company) began the following month.

    In the United Kingdom, Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” was presented by the engineering staff of the Marconi experimental station 2MT Writtle on October 17, 1922.

    The first play written for radio was “The Truth About Father Christmas,” a Christmas play for children by Phyllis M Twigg, broadcast by the BBC on December 24, 1922.


    Nov 07 03, 6:55 PM

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