Learning on ScreenThe Trial of Admiral Byng
- Summary
- This BBC Television production of Maurice Edelman’s The Trial of Admiral Byng, ‘with authentically reconstructed sets’, was the first to come from the newly refurbished Gosta Green studios in Birmingham. (See Radio Times, 16 May 1958, p. 7 for more detail about the important resulting changes in production conditions.)
- Theatre play
- The Trial of Admiral Byng by Maurice Edelman [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 18 May 1958
- Time
- 9.00pm (75 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Dews
- Playwright
- Maurice Edelman
- Designer
- Margaret Peacock
- Cast
Geoffrey Bayldon Radford Owen Berry Admiralty Commissioner Colin Broadley Midshipman Tatwell Elwyn Brook-Jones The Duke of Newcastle Edward Chapman Admiral Broderick George Curzon Lord Robert Bertie Otto Diamant King George II Hugh Dickson Lawrence, Byng’s Secretary Leon Eagles Usher Chris Gittins Admiral Holbourne Ronald Hines Viscount Torrington Harry Hutchinson Lord Blakeney Noel Johnson William Pitt Malcolm Keen Admiral Smith (President) Geoffrey Lewis Marshal Helen Lindsay Sarah Osborn, Byng’s sister William Peacock Lieutenant Bishop Ivor Salter Gunner Lee John Sharp Admiral Temple West George Skillan Admiral Norris Harry Stubbs Admiral Broughton Geoffrey Taylor Captain Faulkner Donald Wolfit Admiral The Hon. John Byng
Additional details
Print sources
- Title
- Admiral Byng in Black and White: Trial Reconstruction (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 19 May 1958, p. 14
- Title
- Insults to Whose Brain? (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 25 May 1958, p. 14
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 May 1958 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- pp. 7 and 11, article and illustrated listing
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