An Inspector Calls, Part 1

Summary: 1981 BBC production of An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley, presented in three parts in the English strand ‘for schools and colleges’.
Theatre play: An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman’s exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death. Long considered part of the repertory of classic "drawing room" theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley’s Socialist political principles.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inspector_Calls.
Production history: First performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 22 September 1981
Time: 2.30-3.00pm
Series: Schools
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

Director

Michael Simpson

Producer

Ronald Smedley

Playwright

J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)

Designer

Gary Pritchard

Cast

Title: An Inspector Calls (BBC, 1981)
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