The Food of Love

Summary

1959 BBC production of The Food of Love by Christopher Bond, from the BBC’s Welsh television studio.

Theatre play

The Food of Love: The Sweetest Canticle by Christopher Bond [more information]

Play synopsis

The action takes place at Monkleigh public school.

Production history

Published in 1955. Performed in Wolverhampton in 1956, but possibly elsewhere earlier.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 29 September 1959

Time

8.45-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

David J. Thomas

Playwright

Christopher Bond

Adapted for Television by

Sheila Hodgson

Designer

Alan Taylor

Cast

Malcolm Butterworth	Pearson
Barbara Cavan	Mary Grenville
Denis Charlton	Reid
Petra Davies	Gillian Thomas
Rodney Diak	Robert Parker
Ian Fleming	Canon Carter-Smith
Moultrie R. Kelsall (1901-1980)	Hubert Grenville
Philip Ray	Owen Thomas
William Sherwood	Dr Wheeler
Madoline Thomas	Mrs Briggs

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

schools, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 25 September 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 15