Hassan [scenes], Part 2
- Summary
- Part 2 of the two-part BBC production of scenes from James Elroy Flecker’s verse drama Hassan; part 1 was transmitted on 7 June. The Radio Times Television Supplement (4 June 1937, p. 4) notes that ‘The story of Hassan of Bagdad and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand [...] will be told in two parts, Part 1 this afternoon and again tonight, and Part 2 on Monday, June 14. Flecker’s famous play, with its colourful story, will be the subject of the most elaborate and complex production undertaken by More O’Ferrall since The School for Scandal. He has avoided the use of explanations and dialogue between scenes, just as the producer of a talking picture avoids the use of explanatory subtitles, and he hopes that the continuity of the production will thus be as smooth as that of the full-length original’.
- Theatre play
- Hassan by James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 14 June 1937
- Time
- 3.25pm
- Series
- Theatre Parade
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Conductor
- Hyam Greenbaum (BBC Television Orchestra)
- Orchestra Directed by
- Boris Pecker
- Decor
- Peter Bax
- Dances Arranged by
- Marian Wilson
- Dancer
- Joan Butterfield
- Dancer
- Renee Joliffe
- Dancer
- Thérèse Langfield
- Dancer
- Mayura Vincent
- Cast
Robert Adams Masrur George Carr Chief of Police Antoinette Cellier Pervaneh Frank Cellier Hassan D. A. Clarke-Smith The Caliph Haroun Ar Raschid Alan Cracoff Eric Fort Leader of the Beggars Greer Garson Yasmin Lionel Mansfield Malcolm Miller William Puttick Ivan Ranevsky Jafar Ivan Samson Ishak Melford Scott Bertram Trafford Roland Weddell John Wyse Rafi
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Broadcast again at 9.25pm on 14 June 1937.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Iraq, as theme or setting; Uzbekistan, as theme or setting; verse drama
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 48
- Title
- Radio Times, 11 June 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated listing on p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 July 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- image of Clarke-Smith as the Caliph on p. 1
Associated programmes
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