Learning on ScreenThe Man Who Was Thursday
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of by Ralph Neale and Cecil Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, the theatre adaptation of G. K. Chesterton’s novel.
- Theatre play
- The Man Who Was Thursday by Ralph Neale and Cecil Chesterton [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 13 July 1947
- Time
- 8.45-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Jan Bussell
- Playwright
- Cecil Chesterton
- Playwright
- Ralph Neale
- Adapted for Television by
- Jan Bussell
- Original Book by
- G. K. Chesterton
- Cast
Peter Bull President (Sunday) [J. B.] Stringer Davis Comrade Witherspoon Arnold Diamond Colonel du Croix Wilfred Fletcher Secretary (Monday) Don Gemmell Gogol (Tuesday) Richard Goolden Professor de Worms (Friday) Brian Haines Comrade Buttons Victor Platt Ambassador Alan Reid Doctor (Saturday) Leonard Sachs Gregory Harold Scott Gabriel Syme (Thursday) Campbell Singer Marquis (Wednesday) Morris Sweden Old Man
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 15 July 1947.
- Notes
- For his adaptation for television, Jan Bussell drew mainly on the Prologue and Acts I and II of the stage play and also included the last scene devised by Ronald Barton for his radio version. (Source: The Scanner, ‘From Picture Page to Ibsen’, Radio Times, 11 July 1947. p. 29.)
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 11 July 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; article, p. 29
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