Learning on ScreenThe Tragedy of King Lear, Part 2
- 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 29 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
Archie Angus Servant to Cornwall / Doctor Nicolette Bernard Regan Kenneth Brown Officer John Chandos Oswald Norman Claridge Duke of Albany Cyril Conway Messenger Rosalie Crutchley Goneril William Devlin (1911-1987) Lear Robert Harris Edgar Ursula Howells Cordelia Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Earl of Gloucester Victor Platt Servant to Cornwall / Herald Frederick Ross Old Man Robert Sansom Earl of Kent Reginald Tate Duke of Cornwall Patrick Troughton Edmund John Vere Servant to Cornwall / A Gentleman
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 2 September 1948.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 August 1948 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 26
Associated programmes
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