Love from a Stranger
- Summary
- 1938 BBC studio production of Frank Vosper’s psychological thriller Love from a Stranger, adapted from a short story by Agatha Christie.
- Theatre play
- Love from a Stranger by Frank Vosper [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 23 November 1938
- Time
- 3.00-4.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- Frank Vosper
- Writer
- Agatha Christie
- Cast
Edna Best Alix Esma Cannon Morris Harvey Sam Lysons Marjorie Manning Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Miles Otway Eileen Sharp
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Monday 5 December 1938.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of short story; murder; thriller
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 18 November 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 27
- Title
- Televised Plays: Material from the Theatre (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Anon.
- Reference
- The Times, 5 December 1938, p. 8
- Notes
- 'The tension was suggested more by devices in the production - a long flight of steps seen in perspective, the slow ticking of a clock as the appointed hour drew near, and by the actual angles at which the pictures were taken - than by the text itself. It was quite successful for more than half way, and then, human nature being what it is, we ceased to be frightened, because the tension had been kept up too long.'
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