Any Other Business [excerpt]

Summary

This BBC presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from George Ross and Campbell Singer’s new comedy-thriller Any Other Business was televised directly from the Westminster Theatre, London, where it had recently premiered.

Theatre play

Any Other Business by George Ross and Campbell Singer [more information]

Play synopsis

A play about suspicion and jealousy in the boardroom. The play is set in the managing director’s office and the boardroom of Armstrong’s, a prosperous Yorkshire textile firm. Confidential information is being leaked and if disaster is to be averted there will have to be some fast thinking.

Production history

Premiere: 10 April 1958, Westminster Theatre, London.

Date of transmission

Thursday 15 May 1958

Time

9.15pm (45 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Anthony Sharp

Television Presentation by

John Vernon

Playwright

George Ross

Playwright

Campbell Singer

Sets / Settings

Victor Friendly

Cast

John Barron	Geoffrey Harrison
John Boxer	Malcolm Turnbull
Raymond Huntlet	Sir Norman Tullis
Oliver Johnston	Jonathan Travis
Raymond Mason	Stanley Griffiths
Ralph Michael	Julian Armstrong
Charles Morgan	Martin Meadows
Edward Palmer	Sergeant Roberts
Trevor Reid	Harry Dodds
Richard Vernon	Charles Pleydon, M.P.
Jennifer Wright	Joyce Anderson

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; north of England, as theme or setting; thriller

Print sources

Title

Audience Kept Guessing: Any Other Business (Newspaper review)

Author/creator

Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)

Reference

The Manchester Guardian, 11 April 1958, p. 5

Linking notes

n.b. this is a review of the stage production, not the televised excerpt

Title

Radio Times, 9 May 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

p. 19, listing with photograph