Learning on ScreenThe Man from the Ministry
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live broadcast from The Intimate Theatre, Palmer’s Green, of Madeleine Bingham’s comedy The Man from the Ministry, by permission of Frederick Marlow.
- Theatre play
- The Man from the Ministry by Madeleine Bingham [pseud. Julia Mannering] [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 6 January 1948
- Time
- 7.00-9.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Presented for Television by
- Campbell Logan
- Theatre Producer
- J. Grant Anderson
- Playwright
- Madeleine Bingham [pseud. Julia Mannering]
- Cast
Ann Castle Katie Jones Mary Costerton Phyllis Jay Denys Sergeant Brown Diana Fairfax Elsie Alan Gordon Fox Jack Howarth Hooper Thomas Hutchenson D. D. A. 2 Robert Long Weston David Raven Higgins Marjorie Zeidler Woman with Shopping Basket
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Notes
- The RT does not detail the roles taken by the cast. Information on roles taken from the BBC WAC production file.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; politics
Print sources
- Title
- OBs: Intimate Theatre, 1948 (Archive file)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- T14/593/2
- Linking notes
- Includes production information.
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 January 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26
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