Learning on ScreenGeneva [Act 3]
- Summary
- 1939 BBC live broadcast from the studio of Act 3 of Bernard Shaw’s drama Geneva, in the production by H. K. Ayliff then running at the St James’ Theatre, preceded by a new summary written by Shaw of Acts 1 and 2.
- Theatre play
- Geneva by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 23 April 1939
- Time
- 9.20-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- St James’ Theatre, London
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- Lanham Titchener
- Theatre Producer
- Roy Limbert
- Theatre Director
- H. K. Ayliff
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Cast
Tully Comber Donald Eccles Cyril Gardiner Philippa Gill Walter Heilbronn Walter Hudd Battler Alison Leggatt Begonia Brown R. Stuart [Stuart] Lindsell Clement McCallin The Judge Olive Milbourne Arthur Ridley Ernest Thesiger Sir Orpheus Midlander Cecil Trouncer Bombardone
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- Bernard Shaw and the BBC (Book)
- Author/creator
- L. W. Connolly (Author)
- Reference
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008
- Linking notes
- pp 95-96
- Title
- Radio Times, 21 April 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 16
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 May 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- brief article by ‘The Scanner’, p. 14
- Title
- Telescoping Geneva: Mr Shaw’s Version for Television (Newspaper article)
- Author/creator
- Anon. (Author)
- Reference
- The Times, 22 April 1939, p. 10
- Notes
- This news story includes a transcript of Shaw’s new synopsis of Acts 1 and 2, written for the broadcast.
- Title
- Television: Shaw and Wilkes (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Grace Wyndham Goldie (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 4 May 1939, p. 963
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