Jonah
- Summary
- 1950 BBC live studio production of Jonah and the Whale by James Bridie.
- Theatre play
- Jonah and the Whale by James Bridie (1888-1951) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 10 December 1950
- Time
- 8.30-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Matthew Forsyth
- Playwright
- James Bridie (1888-1951)
- Set Designer
- James Bould
- Costume Designer
- James Bould
- Cast
Robin Bailey Bilshan Jill Balcon Shiphra Beckett Bould Josibiah George Curzon The Whale / Assur-Nirari Arthur Hewlett Governor of Nineveh Ernest Jay Jonah Ruth Lawrence Naaran Anne Lindsay Passenger Kenneth Mackintosh Narrator / The Angel June Rodney Euodias Robert Sewell Camel Driver Harry Shacklock Sentry Timothy Sherston Passenger Terence Soall Camel Driver Graham Squire A Sea Captain Norman Tyrrell Hashmonah Dervis Ward The Mate
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.00pm on Thursday 14 December 1950.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- biblical stories; Scottish drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 December 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article by Lionel Hale on p. 46
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