Learning on ScreenThe Only Way
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live studio production of The Only Way by Freeman Wills and Frederick Langbridge, a popular late Victorian adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
- Theatre play
- The Only Way by Freeman Wills and Frederick Langbridge [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 1 February 1948
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
- Playwright
- Frederick Langbridge
- Playwright
- Freeman Wills
- Original Book by
- Charles Dickens
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Roland Andrea John Arnatt Marquis de Boulainvilliers Philip Ashley Vicomte de St Evremonde Paul Barker Anne Blake Citizeness Betty Blake Roland Caswell Barsad John Chown Alan Dipper Hattan Duprez Charles Darnay Graveley Edwards Mr Lorry Joyce Elphick Dominic Fitzpatrick Richard Fulford M. de Maury Thomas Gallagher Ernest Defarge Alastair Hunter Mr Stryver Tony Jemmett Christopher John Alan Judd Marquis de St Evremonde Robert Lang Stanley Lemin Gabelle Viola Merrett Mimi Jean Moir Andrew Osborn Sydney Carton Kenneth Osbourne Michael O’Halloran President Rose Power The Vengeance David Pruen Prudence Rennick Harold Scott Dr Manette George Selway First Citizen Roger Snowdon Jean Defrage Geoffrey Steele Comte de Fauchet Sydney [or Sidney] Tafler Public Prosecutor Denis Thorne Jeanette Tregarthen Lucie Manette MacGregor Urquhart A Peasant
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 3 February 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; adaptation of novel
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 30 January 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26; full-page illustrated article by John Swift, ‘The Story Behind "The Only Way"' ', p. 25
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