Housemaster
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio production of Ian Hay’s Housemaster, a comedy of school life.
- Theatre play
- Housemaster by Ian Hay (1876-1952) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 5 February 1949
- Time
- 8.30-10/15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Kenneth Milne Buckley
- Playwright
- Ian Hay (1876-1952)
- Cast
Dora Barton Ellen Margaret Barton 'Button’ Faringdon Frederick Bradshaw Victor Beamish William Graham 'Bimbo’ Faringdon Arthur Howard Philip de Pourville Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978) Charles Donkin Paul Jago 'Pop’ Muriel Martin-Harvey Matron Eric Maturin Rev, Edmund Ovington Maurice Nicholas 'Crump’ Terry Randall Rosemary Faringdon Winifred Shotter Barbara Fane Ronald Simpson Frank Hastings Barry Steele 'Flossie’ Nightingale Dorothy Stewart Chris Faringdon H. G. Stoker Sir Beverley Nightingale
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 10 February 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- gender roles; schools, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 28 January 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing p. 27 and brief article, p. 24
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