The Chandelier Maker Radio Drama

We have an amateur drama group who have been meeting for most of this year on ZOOM and creating a radio drama from my book, The Chandelier Maker. It has been a massive project and will probably end up with around 7 or 8 episodes, of up to an hour each. We have produced the first two parts already, with the rest ready in the new year. These first two episodes can now be listened to. We hope you enjoy them. If you can’t wait for the rest of the episodes you can always buy the book HERE. To find out more about the book CLICK HERE.

Preamble

In 1929, after an Arab uprising in Palestine, the British rulers of the land instigated an inquiry into the causes, resulting in the Shaw Report, named after Sir Walter Shaw, who led the inquiry. The findings were controversial and did not do justice to all parties. In fact, it all seemed a bit of a fudge. One of the commission’s members, Henry Snell, a Labour politician, certainly felt so. He issued a ‘note of Reservations’, an addendum to the report, listing his disagreements. His summary was that “a few men of both races” should “meet together and explore the possibilities of common effort for agreed ends,” to work towards co-operation in establishing inter-racial justice and goodwill. “Out of their efforts would grow a reserve of understanding,” he proposed, “to unite Arabs and Jews in the task of building up a happy and prosperous land.”

 Now, almost a century later, they finally got round to it …