Learning on ScreenA Bullet in the Ballet
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of the ballet-thriller A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, with choreography by Michel Fokine.
- Theatre play
- A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms (1901-1982) and S. J. Simon [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 28 December 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Ian Atkins
- Playwright
- Caryl Brahms (1901-1982)
- Playwright
- S. J. Simon
- Adapted for Television by
- Caryl Brahms (1901-1982)
- Adapted for Television by
- S. J. Simon
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Choreographer
- Michel Fokine
- Assistant Producer
- Barrie Edgar
- Cast
Nelly Arno Arenskaya Mark Baring Ernest Berk Joan Berly Anne Blake Evel Burns Pianist Leo de Pokorny Serge Winifred Evans Madame Rubinskaya Wilfred Fletcher Assistant Commissioner of Police Pamela Foster Irina John Gregory Clement Hamelin Coroner Sonya Hana Paul Hansard Kasha Antony Holles Stroganoff George Holst Stuart Kern Stage Manager Ann Lancaster Box-office Girl Anna Lendrum David March Little Igor Bryan Matheson Stanley Margaret Maxwell Diana Moyes Kenneth Osbourne Victor Platt Sergeant Banner Boris Ranevsky Puthyk Donald Sinden (1923-2014) Inspector Quill Roger Snowdon Pavlov MacGregor Urquhart Police Surgeon John Vere Doctor James David Ward Nevajno
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 30 December 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel; ballet; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting; theatre or acting, as theme; thriller
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 29; listing, p. 30
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