Journey’s End

Summary: This BBC Television production of R. C. Sherriff’s trench drama Journey’s End represents ‘The first time that an entire evening’s programme has been filled by a single play. There will be cuts, naturally. On the stage the complete production takes, I think, about two hours and twenty minutes, the intervals excluded. For the Alexandra Palace studio, George More O’Ferrall has managed to condense the script without ruining continuity and rhythm’ (source, ‘The Scanner’, ‘The Cenotaph on the Screen’, Radio Times, 5 November 1937, p. 20).
Theatre play: Journey’s End by R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975) [more information]
Play synopsis: The scene is a dug-out in the British trenches before St Quentin in March 1918. Captain knows that an offensive is imminent. A conflict between Captain Stanhope and 2nd Lieutenant Raleigh is on the cards.
Production history: Produced at the Apollo Theatre, London by the Incorporated Stage Society in 1928.
Date of transmission: Thursday 11 November 1937
Time: 9.00pm (60 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)

Playwright

R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)

Cast

Later transmissions: Broadcast again at 9.00pm on Monday 15 November 1937.
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: First World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

Title: 100 television stage plays: [1] 1930-1939 (Blog article)
Author/creator: John Wyver (Author)
Reference: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/100-television-stage-plays-1-1930-1939, published 22 August 2011

Title: Radio Times, 5 November 1937 (Magazine)
Linking notes: listing and article entitled ‘The Cenotaph on the Screen’ on p. 20

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