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The Land of Promise

Summary
BBC Television production of Somerset Maugham’s The Land of Promise.
Theatre play
The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 20 April 1958
Time
8.30pm (90 mins)
Series
Sunday-Night Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Hal Burton
Playwright
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Designer
Hal Burton
Cast
Michael BirdSidney Sharp
Adrienne CorriNorah Marsh
Richard GeorgeClement Wynne
Rosamund GreenwoodMiss Pringle
Winifred HillKate
Cecil LinderFrank Taylor
Helen LindsayDorothy Wickham
Edna MorrisEmma Sharp
John SaundersReginald Hornby
William SquireEdward Marsh
Kevin StoneyJames Wickham
Mary Laura WoodGertrude Marsh

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
American drama; Canada, as theme or setting; marriage; sexual violence

Print sources

Title
Memories of a Dame’s Dame (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
G. A. Olden (Reviewer)
Reference
The Irish Times, 24 April 1958, p. 6
Title
Mr Maugham’s Land of Promise (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 21 April 1958, p. 3
Title
Radio Times, 18 April 1958 (Magazine)
Linking notes
articles on pp. 4 and 11, and listing on p. 11

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