Learning on ScreenThe Brontës
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production of Alfred Sangster’s biographical play The Brontës, about the literary family.
- Theatre play
- The Brontës by Alfred Sangster [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 2 November 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.15pm
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Harold Clayton
- Playwright
- Alfred Sangster
- Cast
Marie Ault Tabitha Hugh Burden Branwell Brontë Oliver Burt George Henry Lewes Nuna Davey Mme Heger Michael Dear Office Boy Derek Elphinstone George Smith Jean Forbes-Robertson Emily Brontë Dorothy Gordon Anne Brontë W. E. Holloway Rev. Patrick Brontë R. Stuart [Stuart] Lindsell Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls Patrick Macnee Rev. William Weightman Josephine Middleton Miss Wooler Barbara Mullen Charlotte Brontë Charles Lloyd Pack W. S. Williams Sydney [or Sidney] Tafler Monsieur Heger William Wightman William M Thackeray Winifred Willard Miss Branwell
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 4 November 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; biographical play; north of England, as theme or setting; poetry and literature, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 31 October 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; brief article, p. 29
- Title
- Television: The Royal Wedding (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Harold Hobson (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 27 November 1947, p. 950
- Notes
- Brief review with two production photographs
- Linking notes
- brief review
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