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Waterloo

Summary
BBC Television production of Arthur Conan Doyle’s play Waterloo. The production was listed in the Radio Times for transmission at 3.30pm and 9.35pm on Friday 8 October 1937, but the BBC Programme Records note an ‘Announcement (Apology for alteration of Programme)' at these times and the production doesn’t appear in the schedule for that day. The production was, the BBC Programme Records note, transmitted on 25 and 29 October 1937 (the former was not announced in the Radio Times).
Theatre play
Waterloo by Arthur Conan Doyle [more information]
Date of transmission
Monday 25 October 1937
Time
3.29pm (33 mins)
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
Playwright
Arthur Conan Doyle
Cast
Robert EnglishColonel James Midwinter
Alexander Fields (1892-1971)Sergeant Archive Macdonald
Mary KerridgeNorah Brewster
Wilfred ShineCorporal Gregory Brewster

Additional details

Later transmissions
Transmitted again at 9.30pm on Friday 29 October.
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
19th-century setting

Print sources

Title
BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
Reference
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
Linking notes
listings on pp. 85, 86
Title
Radio Times, 1 October 1937 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing on p. 19; n.b. this transmission did not go ahead
Title
Radio Times, 22 October 1937 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing on p. 18

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