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The Voysey Inheritance

Summary
1951 BBC live studio production of Harley Granville-Barker’s drama The Voysey Inheritance.
Theatre play
The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 1 April 1951
Time
8.30-10.30pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Campbell Logan
Playwright
Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)
Sets / Settings
Stephen Taylor
Cast
Ivor BarnardMr Booth
Jane BarrettAlice Maitland
Olga DickieMrs Booth Voysey
Willoughby GrayTrenchard Voysey
Louise HamptonMrs Voysey
W. E. HollowayRev. Evan Colpus
Michael HordernMajor Booth Voysey
Allan JeayesMr Voysey
Ian LubbockDenis Tregoning
Alvys [or Alvis] MabenMrs Hugh Voysey
David MarkhamEdward Voysey
Evelyn MoorePhoebe
Jan PilbeamEthel Voysey
Molly RankinHonor Voysey
Christopher SteelePeacey
Cara StevensMary
John StevensHugh Voysey

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Later transmissions
Presented again at 8.35pm on Thursday 5 April 1951.
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
economic affairs; Edwardian drama; inheritance

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 30 March 1951 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 41 and article by Lionel Hale, ‘Ship-shape and Granville-Barker-Fashion’, p. 39

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