The Deacon and the Jewess

Summary

1939 BBC studio production of H. F. Rubinstein’s drama The Deacon and the Jewess.

Theatre play

The Deacon and the Jewess by H. F. Rubinstein [more information]

Play synopsis

The scene is Oxford Jewry in September 1221.

Production history

Published by Samuel French, 1935

Date of transmission

Tuesday 16 May 1939

Time

10.00-10.30pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Eric Crozier (1914-1994)

Playwright

H. F. Rubinstein

Cast

Rollo Gamble	Vives
Elizabeth Greenhill	Joia
Albert Lieven	Simon
Hilary Pritchard	Leo
Hilda Schroder	Winifred
Abraham Sofaer	Benedict the Pointer, Jew of Oxford
Martin Walker	Gilbert
Olive Walter	Hannah

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 3.30pm on Sunday 21 May 1939.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

13th-century setting; Judaism; Medieval drama

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 12 May 1939 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 14