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Nine Days in May by Robin Glendinning
Afternoon Play: Nine Days In May
Mon 1st May 2006, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The turbulent events, in May 1926, during nine days of the General Strike.
Broadcasting was still in its infancy when the values laid down by young John Reith, the founding Director-General, were first put to the test.
The nation's industry was at a standstill in the General Strike. Many of the newspapers stopped printing, so there were few means of communication between authorities and the populace.
But there was the tiny British Broadcasting Company, forerunner to the BBC. The Conservative government had its own British Gazette, launched and edited by the Chancellor, Winston Churchill, but Churchill could see that radio was a more immediate and versatile medium in the chaos of the strike, and he lobbied Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to commandeer the Company.
By Robin Glendinning
Producer/Director: Gordon House
John Reith: Stuart McQuarrie
Stanley Baldwin: Bill Wallis
Churchill: Alex Jennings
Peter Eckersley: Adam Levy
JCC Davidson: Nicholas Boulton
Archbishop of Canterbury: Geoffrey Whitehead
Newsreel voice: Sam Kelly
BBC newsreader: Peter Donaldson
Ramsay MacDonald: Christian Rodska
Muriel Reith: Alison Reid
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