Any Other Business

Summary

1964 BBC production of George Ross and Campbell Singer’s comedy-thriller Any Other Business.

Theatre play

Any Other Business by George Ross and Campbell Singer [more information]

Play synopsis

A play about suspicion and jealousy in the boardroom. The play is set in the managing director’s office and the boardroom of Armstrong’s, a prosperous Yorkshire textile firm. Confidential information is being leaked and if disaster is to be averted there will have to be some fast thinking.

Production history

Premiere: 10 April 1958, Westminster Theatre, London.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 21 October 1964

Time

9.00-10.15pm

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

John Warrington

Producer

Cedric Messina

Playwright

George Ross

Playwright

Campbell Singer

Designer

Barry Learoyd

Script Editor

Rodney Gedye

Cast

Jean Anderson	Monica Pleydon, M.P.
George Baker	Geoffrey Harrison
John Bentley	Malcolm Turnbull
Peter Collingwood	Stanley Griffiths
Michael Collins	Harry Dodds
Maurice Denham	Julian Armstrong
Barney Gilbraith	Joe
Rachel Herbert	Joyce Anderson
Oliver Johnston	Jonathan Travis
John Sharp	Martin Meadows
Basil Sydney	Sir Norman Tullis
Mary Webster	Prue

Additional details

Play tags

comedy; north of England, as theme or setting; thriller

Audiovisual sources

Title

Any Other Business (BBC, 1964)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 15 October 1964 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 53; listing, p. 57