Learning on ScreenA Cup of Happiness
- Summary
- 1939 BBC live studio production of Eden Phillpotts’ Devonshire comedy A Cup of Happiness.
- Theatre play
- A Cup of Happiness by Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 27 August 1939
- Time
- 9.05-10.20pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producers
- Michael Barry, Eric Crozier (1914-1994) (oversaw broadcast after Barry was called up)
- Playwright
- Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Kay Bannerman Jemima Didham John Boxer Tod Bartlett Gilbert Davis Jonathan Berry Winifred Hindle Milly Venn Janet Johnson Rose Veryard Leon M. Lion Tobias Gigg Roger Livesey Adam Veryard Margaret Nicholls Willie Yaw Lewis Stringer Tom Veryard Amy Veness Betty Veryard
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- A re-presentation was planned for 4 September but did not take place because the service had closed down.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Devon, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting: Sport, Concert and a Play (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 26 August 1939, p. 15
- Title
- From the Palace to the Grove (Book)
- Author/creator
- Michael Barry (Author)
- Reference
- London: Royal Television Society, 1992
- Linking notes
- pp. 43-44, with production and Barry’s call-up
- Title
- Radio Times, 25 August 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 20
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