21st Precinct
Drama
Drama
The Tenth Man.
The Tenth Man is a good choice for collectors and OTR listeners who enjoy classic radio drama, thoughtful storytelling, dramatic performances, and preserved golden age broadcasts. Its appeal comes from its serious tone, character focus, and old time radio dramatic style.
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The Tenth Man: Programme Guide.
A person becomes more than a label when a drama asks the audience to understand the circumstances around distress. The Tenth Man uses short stories to challenge stigma and draw attention to mental-health care.
Broadcast history.
The National Mental Health Foundation produced the thirteen-part series for the 1947–1948 period. OTRR research identifies the NBC broadcasts and the programme’s public-education purpose.
Cast and creative team.
The Foundation is the documented originating organisation. A secure complete writer, director and actor roster for these thirteen transfers is not established by the consulted sources, so individual performance credits remain unassigned.
Where to begin.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind · The Lady and the Lawmakers
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
The title reflects the campaign’s own period framing. Its statistics, terminology and treatment assumptions should be understood historically rather than presented as current medical evidence.
Listening appeal.
Try Out of Sight, Out of Mind or The Lady and the Lawmakers. Each supplies a separate public-education subject; the collection is not an adaptation of an unrelated play sharing The Tenth Man title.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 13 public recordings. The thirteen records match the documented collection length; exact transfer dates and full company credits remain qualified. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
13 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
13 episodes available.
Questions about The Tenth Man.
Is this an unrelated stage play sharing the title?
It is the Foundation’s mental-health radio series.
Are its historical statistics current clinical evidence?
They belong to the original campaign’s period.
