Stand by Your Bedouin!

Summary

1970 BBC outside broadcast recorded at the Garrick Theatre, London of the farce Stand by Your Bedouin! (originally titled Bang, Bang Beirut) by Raymond Cooney and Tony Hilton.

Theatre play

Bang, Bang Beirut by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton [more information]

Play synopsis

Farce, set in the Middle East. ‘The adventures of Fred Florence - British agent. Caught up in a revolution, he brings hilarious chaos to friend and foe alike’ (Radio Times, 17 December 1970, p. 41).

Production history

Bang, Bang Beirut, dated to 1966, was later titled Stand by Your Bedouin!

Date of transmission

Wednesday 23 December 1970

Time

9.20-10.50pm

Series

Brian Rix Presents

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Wallace Douglas

Playwright

Ray Cooney

Playwright

Tony Hilton

Sets / Settings

Rhoda Gray

Cast

Peter Bland	Hubert Wooley
Michael Cronin	Capt Sareed el Dur
Anna Dawson	Farina
Leo Franklyn	Stan Charrington
Michael Franks	Arab Soldier
Stefan Gryff	Captain Abu
Helen Jessop	Lady Tracy Spence
Sheila Mercier	Eloise
Brian Rix (1924-)	Fred Florence
Derek Royle	Hamid
John Shorter	Sir John Spence
Bill Treacher	Colonel Wazir
Gary Warren	Arab Boy

Additional details

Origination

Recorded in theatre

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

farce; Middle East, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 17 December 1970 (Magazine)

Linking notes

illustrated listing, p. 41