The Devil’s Disciple
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio production of Bernard Shaw’s comic melodrama The Devil’s Disciple, presented to celebrate the playwright’s 93rd birthday.
- Theatre play
- The Devil’s Disciple by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 26 July 1949
- Time
- 8.00-10.00
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
Daphne Arthur Judith Anderson Douglas Bradley-Smith Titus Dudgeon Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Lawyer Hawkins Andrew Cruickshank General Burgoyne Edward Evans Sergeant David Greene Christy Dudgeon Godfrey Kenton Major Swindon Jack Livesey Anthony Anderson James Ottaway Mr Brudenell Jill Raymond Essie Hector Ross Richard Dudgeon Isabel Scott Mrs William Dudgeon Arthur Seaton William Dudgeon Barbara Trevor Mrs Titus Dudgeon Una Venning Mrs Dudgeon
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; America, as theme or setting; comedy; melodrama; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 July 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 42; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Shaw’s Mock Melodrama’, p. 41
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