Charles and Mary

Summary

BBC Television production of Joan Temple’s play Charles and Mary.

Theatre play

Charles and Mary by Joan Temple [more information]

Play synopsis

A play about the home life of Charles and Mary Lamb (the brother and sister team who wrote Tales from Shakespeare for children), including Mary stabbing her mother in a fit of madness.

Production history

First produced by the Everyman Theatre Guild by Malcolm Morley in February 1930.

Date of transmission

Friday 4 April 1958

Time

8.15pm (75 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Eric Tayler

Playwright

Joan Temple

Designer

Guy Sheppard

Cast

Freda Bamford	Becky
Michael Bates	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Benson	William Godwin
Jessica Dunning	Mary Lamb
Dorothy Gordon	Jane
Lionel Jeffries	George Dyer
Richard Leech	John Lamb
Enid Lorimer	Mrs Lamb
David Markham	Charles Lamb
Hilary Mason	Mrs Godwin
Maureen O’Reilly	Hester Savory
Harold Scott	Mr Lamb
Gillian Webb	Mrs Bracebridge
Edgar Wreford	Charles Dudley

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting; historical drama; poetry and literature, as theme

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 28 March 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing on p. 21