The Guinea Pig
- Summary
- 1949 live studio presentation of Warren Chetham-Strode’s controversial public school drama The Guinea Pig.
- Theatre play
- The Guinea Pig by Warren Chetham-Strode (1896-1974) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 September 1949
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- Warren Chetham-Strode (1896-1974)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Pamela Alan Lynne Hartley Clive Baxter Grimmett Derek Blomfield Read D. A. Clarke-Smith Lloyd Hartley Noel Dyson Mrs Read Duncan Lewis Mr Read Barry MacGregor Fitch William Mervyn Dennis Stringer Hector Ross Nigel Lorraine Edith Sharpe Mrs Hartley
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 15 September 1949.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- class issues / differences; schools, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 September 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 42; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Comedy and Controversy’, p. 41; brief article, p. 40
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