Learning on ScreenThe Duke in Darkness
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live studio production of The Duke in Darkness, Patrick Hamilton’s play about the religious wars in France.
- Theatre play
- The Duke in Darkness by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 11 March 1948
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
- Playwright
- Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
Archie Angus Dubois Philip Ashley Marteau Patrick Boxill Gribaud Edward Chaffers Count D’Aublaye Bryan Coleman Voulain Hugh Falkus Roubot Andrew Osborn The Duke of Laterraine Henry Oscar (1891-1969) The Duke of Lamorre Frederick Ross Brulart Geoffrey Steele Grassin
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Friday 12 March 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 16th-century setting; France, as theme or setting; religion, as theme or subject; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 2 April 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- 'Viewers are Saying’, letters, p. 25
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 March 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 24; listing, p. 27
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