Learning on ScreenMedea Goes Shopping
- Summary
- The BBC Television productions of Maurice Baring’s plays The Rehearsal and Medea Goes Shopping were presented in a Two Diminutive Dramas double bill.
- Theatre play
- Medea Goes Shopping by Maurice Baring (1874-1945) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 12 July 1937
- Time
- 3.46pm (6 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Royston Morley
- Playwright
- Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
- Cast
Sylvia Coleridge Mark Dignam Genitha Halsey Stephanie Janes Honour Magee
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Broadcast again, also as part of the double bill, on Wednesday 14 July 1937.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- ancient Greece; Greek drama
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 56
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 July 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 2
- Title
- Television (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Joyce Grenfell (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 18 July 1937, p. 3
- Notes
- '... very well done. The Alexandra Palace producers are certainly learning fast the difficult job of putting the stage into the small home screen. They are not too ambitious.'
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