The Van Dyck

Summary

1939 BBC studio production of Cosmo Gordon Lennox’s one-act play The Van Dyck.

Theatre play

The Van Dyck by Cosmo Gordon Lennox [more information]

Play synopsis

A one-act play in which a supposed art lover goes mad after seeing a collector’s paintings and telling the man that they are all magnificent except the Van Dyck. The man helps attendants take the madman away but when he returns he finds all of his paintings have been stolen except the Van Dyck.

Production history

Produced at His Majesty’s Theatre, London in 1906-1907 directed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 5 April 1939

Time

9.50-10.15pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Harry Pringle

Playwright

Cosmo Gordon Lennox

Cast

Donald Findlay	Dr Porter
Campbell Gullan	John Peters
Tom Walls	Arthur Blair Woldingham

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 3.35pm on Saturday 15 April 1939.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

art world

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 31 March 1939 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 15