Death of a Rat

Summary

1949 BBC live studio production of Death of a Rat by Jan de Hartog.

Theatre play

Death of a Rat by Jan de Hartog [more information]

Play synopsis

The play takes place in a laboratory of the Amsterdam Institute for Cancer Research on a night in February 1940.

Production history

Written in 1946, and first produced in the same year.

Date of transmission

Sunday 21 August 1949

Time

8.45-10.00pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)

Playwright

Jan de Hartog

Cast

John Ainsworth	Doctor Karels
Kenneth More	Doctor Wilts
René Ray	Yolan
Wilfrid Walter	Professor Wouterson

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 25 August 1949.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

medical drama; Netherlands, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 19 August 1949 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 41; listing, p. 42