In Hazard

19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the son of a civil servant. He was educated at Charterhouse, and in 1917, a schoolmaster sent one of his essays to The Spectator, where it was published. He attended Oriel College of Oxford University, where he co-edited with Robert Graves a poetry publication, Oxford Poetry, in 1921. He graduated in 1922, the same year his short play The Sisters' Tragedy was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1924, his radio play Danger was broadcast on the BBC and became the world's first radio play. He worked as a journalist. In 1932, he married Frances Bazley, a painter, and settled in Norfolk. In 1934 the moved to Laugharne in south…