Ruth Draper's guest appearances

Ruth Draper

The Bensonian Archives

GSMC Classics: Anthology Series

Kenneth Williams

David Benson

Scott Mills

Brian McFadden

Daniel Bedingfield

Wes Butters

Mavis Nicholson

OwlTail

Broadcast BBC Radio Four, December 2002I was invited by producer Jonathan James Moore to put together a tribute to my great theatrical hero Ruth Draper (1884-1956). It was a great honour to be able to pay public tribute to this brilliant performer, now sadly mostly forgotten but a huge and continuing influence on my own solo stage work. I was particularly pleased that we able to access rare recordings of Draper from the BBC's own archives, as well as playing copious extracts from the monologues recorded in 1954/55, when she was about seventy years old. You will also hear Joyce Grenfell and Maureen Lipman.For more on Ruth Draper see: www.drapermonologues.com

Broadcast BBC Radio Four, December 2002<br><br>I was invited by producer Jonathan James Moore to put together a tribute to my great theatrical hero Ruth Draper (1884-1956). It was a great honour to be able to pay public tribute to this brilliant performer, now sadly mostly forgotten but a huge and continuing influence on my own solo stage work. I was particularly pleased that we able to access rare recordings of Draper from the BBC's own archives, as well as playing copious extracts from the monologues recorded in 1954/55, when she was about seventy years old. You will also hear Joyce Grenfell and Maureen Lipman.<br><br>For more on Ruth Draper see: <a href="http://www.drapermonologues.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.drapermonologues.com</a>

Ruth Draper and Her Company of Characters