Learning on ScreenThe Compelled People
- Summary
- 1950 BBC live studio production of The Compelled People by Lionel Birch and Lorna Hay, a drama set in post-war Berlin.
- Theatre play
- The Compelled People by Lionel Birch and Lorna Hay [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 16 May 1950
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- Lionel Birch
- Playwright
- Lorna Hay
- Adapted for Television by
- W. P. Rilla
- Sets / Settings
- Richard R. Greenough
- Cast
Bob Arden Joe Mancini Betty Ann Davies Sigrid Kleber Paul Demel Ivan Alexeivitch Dalmatov Humfrey Faulconer Waiter Mary Kerridge Frield von Gerhardt Esmond Knight Hugo von Gerhardt Agnes Lauchlan Beatrice Crouch-Burnham Humphrey Lestocq Gerald Taylor Alexander Moyes Radio Announcer Cecil Petty Waiter Irène Prador Emmy
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Germany, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 May 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 46; article by Lionel Hale, ‘From Main Street to Berlin’, p. 45; article, p. 44
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