Death of a Rat

Summary

1946 BBC live studio production of Jan de Hartog’s drama Death of a Rat.

Theatre play

Death of a Rat by Jan de Hartog [more information]

Play synopsis

The play takes place in a laboratory of the Amsterdam Institute for Cancer Research on a night in February 1940.

Production history

Written in 1946, and first produced in the same year.

Date of transmission

Sunday 17 November 1946

Time

8.50-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)

Playwright

Jan de Hartog

Cast

Pamela Brown	Yolan
André Morrell	Wilts
Frederick Richter	Wouterson
John Roderick	Carrels

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 19 November 1946.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

medical drama; Netherlands, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 15 November 1946 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 35