Ma’s Bit of Brass

Summary
1948 BBC live studio production of Ronald Gow’s North-country comedy Ma’s Bit of Brass.
Theatre play
Ma’s Bit of Brass by Ronald Gow [more information]
Date of transmission
Saturday 3 July 1948
Time
8.30
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Eric Fawcett
Playwright
Ronald Gow
Sets / Settings
James Bould
Cast
Richard AngusGerald
Ernest ButcherGeorge Lovejoy
Sylvia ClarkeBetty Lovejoy
Kenneth ClevelandReporter
Barbara EverestLady Maydew
Dennis [Denis] FraserJoe Lovejoy
Muriel GeorgeMrs Lovejoy
Sybell GillGrocer’s Girl
Roddy HughesGriffiths
Peter MurrayPhotographer
Leonard SharpUncle Elijah
David TearleSergeant Bennett
Beatrice VarleyAunt Norah

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Later transmissions
Performed again at 8.45pm on Tuesday 6 July 1948.
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy; north of England, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 25 June 1948 (Magazine)
Linking notes
article, p. 24 and listing, p. 27

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