A Woman of No Importance
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live studio production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy A Woman of No Importance.
- Theatre play
- A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 8 January 1948
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Stephen Harrison
- Arranged for Television by
- Stephen Harrison
- Playwright
- Oscar Wilde
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Angela Baddeley Mrs Arbuthnot Vivienne Bennett Mrs Allonby Derek Blomfield Gerald Arbuthnot John Burch Sir John Pontefract Walter Fitzgerald Lord Illingworth Winifred Hill Maid Agnes Lauchlan Lady Hunstanton Phillip Leaver Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny Peter Mullins Footman Sally Rogers Hester Worsley Una Venning Lady Caroline Pontefract
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Friday 9 January 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 January 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 27, article, p. 25
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