Learning on ScreenThe Lady’s not for Burning
- Summary
- 1950 BBC live studio production of Christopher Fry’s verse drama The Lady’s not for Burning, based on the recent production at the Globe Theatre directed by John Gielgud and Esmé Percy.
- Theatre play
- The Lady’s not for Burning by Christopher Fry (1907-2005) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 12 March 1950
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Theatre Director
- John Gielgud
- Theatre Director
- Esmé Percy
- Playwright
- Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd ('television settings by’)
- Costumes
- Oliver Messel
- Cast
Pamela Brown Jennet Jourdemayne Richard Burton Richard Alec Clunes Thomas Mendip David Evans Nicholas Devize Richard Leech Humphrey Devize Eliot Makeham Chaplain Carol Marsh Alizon Eliot Nora [or Norah] Nicholson Margaret Devize Esmé Percy Matthew Skipps Harcourt Williams (1880-1957) Hebble Tyson
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 16 March 1950.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 15th-century setting; comedy; verse drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 March 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 46; illustrated article by Lionel Hale, ‘A Jewelled Comedy in Verse’, p. 45; article, p. 44
- Title
- Television: Mr Dimbleby’s Cough (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Harold Hobson (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 23 March 1950, p. 534
- Linking notes
- review and production photograph
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