Learning on ScreenCapital Punishment
- Summary
- BBC Television production of George Porter’s Capital Punishment, a comedy adapted from a short story by Leo Tolstoy. The transmission, part of a ‘mixed programme’ on the first day of transmissions after the three-week summer break, was ‘preceded by Mayura Vincent, Indian Dancer. John Thompson, Singer, accompanied by Evel Burns’ (Radio Times, 13 August 1937, p. 16)
- Theatre play
- Capital Punishment by George Porter [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 16 August 1937
- Time
- 3.00pm (20 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Eric Crozier (1914-1994)
- Playwright
- George Porter
- Original Book by
- Leo Tolstoy
- Musician
- Gilbert Webster (credited with ‘drum effects’)
- Cast
Rudolph Brandt The Chancellor Mario Francelli The General Charles Lefeaux The King James Ottaway The Soldier John Rudling The Secretary Jack Webb The Prisoner
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Broadcast again on Wednesday 18 August at 9.30pm.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy
Print sources
- Title
- BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 59
- Title
- Radio Times, 13 August 1937 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- p. 16
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