Learning on ScreenExercise Bowler
- Summary
- 1946 BBC live studio production of a special version for television of Exercise Bowler by T. Atkinson, originally produced at the Arts and Scala Theatres, London, by the Reunion Theatre Association. The company was composed entirely of ex-service actors and actresses.
- Theatre play
- Exercise Bowler by T. Atkinson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 4 August 1946
- Time
- 8.50-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Reunion Theatre Association
Credits
- Producer
- Jan Bussell
- Playwright
- T. Atkinson
- Adapted for Television by
- Jan Bussell
- Cast
Eric Berry Bill Laver John Chandos Geoffrey Stewart D. A. Clarke-Smith The Manager Stringer Davies Nicholas Grimshaw Headmaster Pauline Growse Ursula Harby Nicholas Hill Noel Howlett John Moss Kendrick Huxham Gillian Maude Sybil Masters Robert Meteyard Sheila Rix Mrs Moss Campbell Singer Joe Rock John Warner James Wellman
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Monday 12 August 1946.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 August 1946 (Magazine)
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 July 1946 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article by ‘The Scanner’
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