The Marionette Society

With its roots in the 1940s, the Marionette Society produced more famous ORs than any other aspect of Radley life - from Oscar winners to professional puppeteers, theatre directors to senior civil servants. It is the only society which encompassed all the creative and performance arts - sculpture, costumes, lighting, woodworking, sound, orchestra. The only society to perform complete Mozart operas.

For more than 40 years it dominated, indeed engulfed, the lives of those involved, boys, dons, musicians, Radley's resident girls. The modern Radleian may be baffled by this obsession with 'puppets' (Puppets?) but here is the chance to hear from the puppet-masters themselves.