A House in the Square
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio production of Diana Morgan’s chronicle drama A House in the Square. The stage play ended its story in 1939, but additional scenes were written for this 1949 television production, taking it through the Second World War when the house ‘becomes a refuge for the bombed-out until its own destruction by a doodle-bug’ ('The Scanner’, ‘The House with a Story to Tell’, Radio Times, 22 April 1949, p. 29).
- Theatre play
- A House in the Square by Diana Morgan [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 24 April 1949
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- Diana Morgan
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Basil Bartlett David Anstruther Irene Browne Lady Mountstephan Dorothy Clement Nurse / Mrs Jenks Ian Cooper Policeman John Fabian Dick Thompson Willoughby Gray George Winthrop Walter Horsbrugh Dawson Mary Jones Miss Brown Marjorie Mars Verna Mountstephan Charles Maunsell Lord Mountstephan Roger Moore John Anstruther Jill Raymond Verity Winthrop Michael Rose Dunsterville Bart Wadham Policeman / Mr Pennyfeather Adrian Waller Bill Blair Winifred Willard Miss Waite
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 28 April 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- First World War, as theme or setting; Second World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 April 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 30; article p. 29
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