The Faithful Heart

Summary

1950 BBC live studio production of Monckton Hoffe’s drama The Faithful Heart.

Theatre play

The Faithful Heart by Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951) [more information]

Play synopsis

The prologue is set in 1899 in the Reindeer Hotel, outside Southampton docks where a sailor is saying farewell to his lover. Act one is set twenty years later when the sailor, about to be married to a rich woman, discovers he has a daughter by his now dead lover. He must choose between the past and the present...

Production history

Written in 1921.

Date of transmission

Sunday 2 July 1950

Time

8.15-9.45pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Cast

Jane Barrett	Grace / Blackie
Ballard Berkeley	Waverley Ango
Alban Blakelock	Pritchard
Derek Blomfield	Private Mitcham
James Bould
Kathleen Boutall	Miss Gatterscombe
Sylvia Clarke	Ginger
Bryan Coleman	Gilbert Oughterson
Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951)
Richard Littledale	George
Alvys [or Alvis] Maben	Diana
Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
Norman Pierce	Sergeant-Major Brabazon
Arthur Ridley	Major Lestrade
John Scott	Boy
Anthony Sharp	Captain Rackham

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 8.30pm on Thursday 6 July 1950.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

military / army / navy / air-force

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 30 June 1950 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 38; article, p. 37