A Sleep of Prisoners
- Summary
- 1951 BBC live studio production of Christopher Fry’s play A Sleep of Prisoners
- Theatre play
- A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry (1907-2005) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 16 December 1951
- Time
- 8.30-9.55pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- W. P. Rilla
- Playwright
- Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Andrew Leigh Private Tim Meadows Robin Lloyd Private Peter Able John Slater Private David King Peter Williams Corporal Joe Adams
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 December 1951.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- biblical stories; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 14 December 1951 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 48; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Drama in a House of Worship’, p. 47
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