Barnharrow

Summary

Gordon Daviot’s two thirty-minute plays The Staff-Room and Barnharrow were transmitted by the BBC one after the other this month.

Theatre play

Barnharrow by Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) [more information]

Play synopsis

The play is set in the living-room of a small farm in the south-west of Scotland on a summer evening in the 1680s.

Production history

Barnharrow was published in Gordon Daviot’s Plays 3 in 1954 (London: Davies).

Date of transmission

Tuesday 1 May 1956

Time

9.00pm (30 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Ayton Whitaker

Playwright

Gordon Daviot (1896-1952)

Designer

Barry Learoyd

Narrator

Duncan McIntyre

Cast

John Cairney	Simon Linton
Gillian Hume	Janet Linton
Jack Lambert	Rob Linton
Brian Moorehead	A Trooper
Stuart Nichol	A Sergeant
Audrey Nicholson	Ishbel Grierson

Additional details

Play tags

17th-century setting; Scotland, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 27 April 1956 (Magazine)

Linking notes

pp. 6 (article) and 26 (listing)

Associated programmes

The Staff-Room (BBC, 1956)
The Staff-Room by Gordon Daviot (1896-1952)
BBC Television