Learning on ScreenAll God’s Chillun Got Wings
- Summary
- 1946 BBC live studio production of All God’s Chillun Got Wings by Eugene O’Neill.
- Theatre play
- All God’s Chillun Got Wings by Eugene O’Neill [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 16 January 1946
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Eric Fawcett
- Playwright
- Eugene O’Neill
- Narrator
- James Dyrenforth
- Cast
Robert Adams Jim Harris Edric Connor Joe Tommy Duggan Michey Pauline Henriques Hattie Joyce Heron Ella Downey Sidney [or "Sydney"?] Keith Shorty Connie Smith Mrs Harris
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Sunday 22 September 1946.
- Notes
- 'The Scanner’ notes that ‘Robert Adams, the distinguished coloured actor who takes the part of Jim Harris, to be televised on September 16, visited Alexandra Palace several times before the war, and gave notable performances in The Emperor Jones and The Duchess of Malfi’ (Radio Times, 4 September 1946, p. 24).
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- American drama; race relations
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 13 September 1946 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and picture, p. 25
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