The Tragedy of King Lear, Part 1
- Summary
- 1948 BBC live studio production of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear, presented in two parts on two subsequent Sundays.
- Theatre play
- King Lear by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 22 August 1948
- Time
- 8.30-10.20pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Royston Morley
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Fight Arranger
- Victor Adams
- Associate Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Cast
Michael Ashwin King of France Nicolette Bernard Regan Kenneth Brown A Knight John Chandos Oswald Norman Claridge Duke of Albany Cyril Conway Duke of Burgundy Rosalie Crutchley Goneril William Devlin (1911-1987) Lear Robert Harris Edgar Ursula Howells Cordelia Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Earl of Gloucester Victor Platt Curan Robert Sansom Earl of Kent Reginald Tate Duke of Cornwall Patrick Troughton Edmund John Vere A Gentleman Alan Wheatley The Fool
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 26 August 1948
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 20 August 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26; article by J. C. Trewin ‘Every Inch a King’, p. 25; article, p. 24
Associated programmes
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