Learning on ScreenRichard of Bordeaux
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of the popular medieval drama Richard of Bordeaux, broadcast on Easter Day.
- Theatre play
- Richard of Bordeaux by Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 6 April 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- Gordon Daviot (1896-1952)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Ronald Adam (1896-1979) John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Geoffrey Barry Doctor Jacqueline Boiteux Lord Derby’s Page John Leslie Frith Michael de la Pole Felicity Gray Agnes Launcekron Brian Hayes Sir John Montague Joyce Heron Anne of Bohemia George Howe Sir Simon Burley Alan Judd Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford Megan Latimer Mary Bohun / Woman Marketing Alan Lawrance Earl of Arundel Jack Livesey Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester Ronald Long Archbishop of Canterbury John Mackwood Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham Hugh Moxey Henry, Earl of Derby Andrew Osborn Richard II Charles Lloyd Pack Edmund, Duke of York Richard Pearson Maudelyn Oscar Quitak Page / Third Man in the Street Morris Sweden First Man in the Street Adrian Waller Second Man in the Street Marguerite Young Waiting-Woman / Woman Marketing
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 14th-century setting; historical drama; medieval world, as theme or setting; monarchy, British; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 4 April 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, and article, p. 5
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