Take Back Your Freedom

Summary: 1948 BBC live studio production of Take Back Your Freedom by Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury.
Theatre play: Take Back Your Freedom by Norman Ginsbury (1902-1991) and Winifred Holtby [more information]
Play synopsis: The play ‘traces the career of a Member of Parliament who, during a period of uncertainty and indecision, finds himself thrown into power; he builds up a political machine which grows beyond his control until it becomes a dictatorship with himself as ‘The Leader’ but a very different one in an intellectual sense from others we have known.' (The Scanner, ‘The M. P. Who Became a Dictator’, Radio Times, 15 October 1948, p. 24)
Production history: Performed at the Neighbourhood Theatre during the Second World War.
Date of transmission: Sunday 17 October 1948
Time: 8.30-10.10pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Michael Barry

Playwright

Norman Ginsbury (1902-1991)

Playwright

Winifred Holtby

Adapted for Television by

Michael Barry

Sets / Settings

Barry Learoyd

Cast

Ian Cooper	Austin Annerly
Rosalie Crutchley	Woman Journalist
Charles Cullum	Brigadier Sir Montague Carter
Frederick Davies
Aubrey Dexter	Viscount Hoggard
William Fox	Major Richard Lawrence
Sam Kydd	Corporal Gosway
Gillian Lind	Miss Dorset
Viola Merrett	Mary
Vivian Milroy
Mary Newcombe	Mrs Clayton
Andrew Osborn	Arnold Clayton
Ambrosine Phillpotts	Lady Carter
Leonard Sachs	Baron Lennox of Lanark
Richard Wattis	Bryan Winter, M. P.

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