Release

Summary

1951 BBC studio production of Alfred Shaughnessy’s drama Release.

Theatre play

Release by Alfred Shaughnessy [more information]

Play synopsis

Catherine returns to her lower-middle-class home after five years in prison for the crime of killing her husband who was an alocoholic bully.

Production history

Prodiced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1951.

Date of transmission

Sunday 28 January 1951

Time

8.30-10.15pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Harold Clayton

Playwright

Alfred Shaughnessy

Musician

Freddie Phillips (guitarist)

Sets / Settings

Barry Learoyd

Cast

Grace Arnold	Winnie Bailey
Margaret Boyd	Miss MacIntyre
Richard Caldicot	Rev. John Curzon
Marie Donaldson
Anthony Forwood	George Wendell
Kathleen Grace
Joyce Gregg
Winifred Hill
Josephine Hunter	Miss Jones
Ray Jackson	Johnny Bailey
Margaret Leighton	Catherine Bailey
Denis McCarthy	Motorist
Julien [Julian?] Mitchell	Jim Bailey
Evelyn Moore
Violet Parry
Edith Savile	Mrs Morley
Barbara Trevor
Jane Whiting	Miss Garrett
Suzanne Wilde	Lily Milton

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 1 February 1951.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

murder; prison

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 28 January 1951 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and article, p. 48