Learning on ScreenHamlet, Part 1
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production by George More O’Ferrall of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, given in two parts on subsequent Sundays.
- Theatre play
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 7 December 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Sets / Settings
- Peter Bax
- Fight Arranger
- Denis Loraine
- Cast
John Ainsworth Prologue John Byron Hamlet Michael Caborn Player Queen Roy Dean Lucianus William Devlin (1911-1987) Marcellus Aubrey Dexter Valtemand David Duncan Player King Cyril Hardingham A Gentleman W. E. Holloway Ghost of Hamlet’s Father Stanley Lemin Francisco Patrick Macnee Laertes Muriel Pavlow Ophelia Margaret Rawlings (1906-1996) Gertrude Robert Rietty Rosencrantz Frederick Ross Doctor of Divinity Sebastian Shaw Claudius Julian Somers Barnardo Patrick Troughton Horatio Richard Warner Guildenstern Dudley Williams Cornelius Arthur Wontner Polonius
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Tuesday 9 December 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Denmark, as theme or setting; murder; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- Hamlet (Website: database)
- Author/creator
- BUFVC
- Reference
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36685
- Title
- Radio Times, 23 January 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- screen-shot featuring Ophelia taken by a viewer, p. 24
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- 'Do You Agree? Critics and Viewers Express Their Opinions on Hamlet’, p. 31
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; illustrated article by George More O’Farrell, ‘Televising Hamlet’, p. 30
Associated programmes
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