The Tiger [scenes]
- Summary
- The second drama broadcast from Alexandra Palace after the start of the regular television service, this is a BBC transmission of scenes from The Tiger by Reginald Berkeley, from the production playing at the Embassy Theatre, London.
- Theatre play
- The Tiger by Reginald Berkeley (1890-1935) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 23 November 1936
- Time
- 3.29pm (33 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Theatre Producer
- Ronald Adam (1896-1979)
- Playwright
- Reginald Berkeley (1890-1935)
- Cast
Ronald Adam (1896-1979) 'Scenes introduced by’ Nigel Clarke [or Clark] English general William Devlin (1911-1987) Georges Clemenceau Mario Francelli English journalist Alexander Knox American liaison officer Joan Miller (1910-1988) Louise Michel Elizabeth Weston Secretary to Clemenceau
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Repeated live at 9.31-10.05pm on Monday 23 November 1936.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- First World War, as theme or setting; France, as theme or setting; politics
Print sources
- Title
- Adventure in Vision: The First Twenty-Five Years of Television (Book)
- Author/creator
- John Swift (Author)
- Reference
- London: John Lehmann, 1950
- Linking notes
- p. 87
- Title
- BBC Programme Records: 1936 (Book)
- Reference
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 290
- Title
- In the beginning: The Tiger (BBC, 1936) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/in-the-beginning-the-tiger-bbc-1936, published 17 September 2011
- Title
- In The Tiger at the Embassy (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Walter A. Beckett (Author)
- Reference
- Catholic Herald, 2 October 1936, online at http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/2nd-october-1936/10/in-the-tiger-at-the-embassy
- Notes
- Excerpt from the review: ‘Reginald Berkeley’s play is all William Devlin. We begin with a raw gawky boy in 1858, tongue-tied, shy, and only bursting into life under the stress of his father’s unjust arrest by the minions of Napoleon III; we follow the young man through a realistic and determined middle-age, the clarity of his thought and the firmness of his will reducing his friends and opponents to comparative imbecility; we end with an amazing impersonation of Papa Clemenceau in his old age, as known to Englishmen familiar with his photographs in the press.'
- Title
- Radio Times, 20 November 1936 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, photograph and brief article, p. 90
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