Such a production brings vividly home the immense amount of
work there is behind every single radio play- an outlay I do not think all listeners adequately appreciate. In addition to the laborious office work of adaptation (the producer's script is almost as complicated as a conductor's music score) there are the allotment of parts, the choice of music, timing " the arrangement of effects," and the rehearsals of the various constituents. The music is played in one studio, " effects " in another, characters in yet another, and so on ; and all these have to be welded into a homo- geneous whole by the producer, who sits at the control panel in yet another room, shutting out one studio and opening up another, " fading in " the music and " fading out " the Voices, rather like an organist at an organ. And all this for two performances-and an occasional revival 1.
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