Learning on ScreenThe Rose without a Thorn
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of The Rose without a Thorn by Clifford Bax.
- Theatre play
- The Rose without a Thorn by Clifford Bax (1886-1962) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 11 September 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Desmond Davis
- Playwright
- Clifford Bax (1886-1962)
- Musical Arrangements by
- William Cox-Ife
- Conductor
- William Cox-Ife
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Choreographer
- Donald Journeaux ('the Masque arranged by’)
- Cast
John Bryning Thomas Culpeper Victoria Hopper Katheryn Howard Richard Hurndall Sir Thomas Audley Ann Lancaster Mary Lassells Christine Lindsay Margery Morton Ena Moon Katherine Tilney Brian Oulton John Lassells Keith Pyott Thomas Cranmer Ronald Richie First Player William Roderick Francis Derham Robert Sansom The Earl of Hertford John Scott Third Player Morris Sweden Second Player Arthur Young Henry VIII
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Friday 12 September 1947. The production was revived in 1948 at 8.30pm on both Sunday 3 October and Thursday 7 October.
- Notes
- The new cast members for the 1948 revival were Betty Cooper (Katherine Tilney), Denis Cannan (Francis Derham), Patrick Troughton (Thomas Culpeper), and R. Stuart Lindsell (Earl of Hertford).
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 16th-century setting; historical drama; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 October 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 24, article by Desmond Davis, ‘The Rose without a Thorn’, p. 25, and listing, p. 26
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 September 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 29; listing, p. 32
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