Prison without Bars
- Summary
- 1947 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play by Gina Kaus and Otto Edgar Eis.
- Theatre play
- Prison without Bars by Peggy Barwell [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 20 April 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- Peggy Barwell (adapted Kaus and Eis’ play)
- Original Play by
- Otto Edgar Eis
- Original Play by
- Gina Kaus
- Cast
Stella Andrew Margaret Bull Third Girl Margery Caldicott Miss Gaston Joan Carol Miss Carol Linden Joanna Carter 'Duchess’ Joyce Elphick Sheila Eves Dorothy Gordon Lucy Albert Marjorie Gresley Miss Roland Vicki Griff Second Girl Mary Horn Rita Watson Elizabeth Hunt Margaret Natalie Jordan Suzanne Lister Liselotte Kristian First Girl Carol Lawton Anne Viola Merritt Mary Duncan Mary Poirrier Maureen Pook Renée Sebastian Shaw Dr John Marshall Una Venning Miss Appel Ann Welfitt Miss Bertram Anne Wrigg Miss Roberts
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- prison; schools, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 18 April 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 23; article by The Scanner, ‘How a Play was Born’, p. 4
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