The Unknown Warrior
- Summary
- 1951 BBC live studio production of Paul Raynal’s anti-war drama The Unknown Warrior, presented on Remembrance Sunday.
- Theatre play
- The Unknown Warrior by Paul Raynal [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 November 1951
- Time
- 8.15-95.0pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Dennis Vance
- Playwright
- Paul Raynal
- Translator
- Cecil Lewis
- Music
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901-1947)
- Musician
- Tom McCall (organ)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Isabel Dean The Girl Peter Neal The Soldier Arthur Wontner The Father
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- First World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 November 1951 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 48; article by Lionel Hale, ‘A Moving War Play’, p. 47
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