The Rossiters
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live outside broadcast from the ‘Q’ Theatre in Chiswick of Kenneth Hyde’s production of the thriller that he had written, The Rossiters. Broadcast by permission of Jack de Leon.
- Theatre play
- The Rossiters by Kenneth Hyde [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 3 September 1948
- Time
- 7.45-9.45pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Presented for Television by
- Campbell Logan
- Theatre Producer
- Kenneth Hyde
- Playwright
- Kenneth Hyde
- Cast
Nuna Davey Martha Rossiter Elizabeth Johnson Nurse Weston Anne Leon Alice Ambrosine Phillpotts Honor Rossiter Owen Reynolds Dr Bendix Helen Shingler Elizabeth Rossiter Geoffrey Wardwell John Ferguson Martin Wyldeck Peter Rossiter
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adultery / infidelity; marriage; murder
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 August 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 27; article by J. C. Trewin, ‘Plays from London’s Outer Circle’, p. 25
- Title
- TV OB: ‘Q’ Theatre, 1948-1953 (Archive file)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- T14/881
- Notes
- Contains background information on the production and outside broadcast.
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