Music at Night

Summary
1952 BBC live studio production of J. B. Priestley’s drama Music at Night. The television co-producer Michael MacOwan had produced the stage premiere of the play just before World War Two.
Theatre play
Music at Night by J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) [more information]
Date of transmission
Tuesday 25 March 1952
Time
9.00-10.30pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producers
Michael MacOwan, Dennis Vance
Playwright
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Adapted for Television by
Michael MacOwan
Introduced by
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Cast
Hugh BurdenPhilip Chilham
Jean CadellMrs Amcabury
Joan CarolLady Sybil Linchester
Edward ChapmanSir James Dirnie
Josephine GriffinDeborah
Rachel GurneyKatherine Shiel
Thomas HeathcoteTom
Geoffrey KeenDavid Shiel
Fulton MackayRupert Amesbury
Gordon PhillottParks
Nancy RobertsMrs Chilham
Abraham SofaerNicholas Lengel
Harcourt Williams (1880-1957)Charles Bendrex

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Notes
'[Michael] MacOwan, who regards television as the ideal medium for soliloquy will make considerable use of close-up’ ('Talk of the Week’, Radio Times, 21 March 1952, p. 40).
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 21 March 1952 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and article by Lionel Hale, p. 43; article, pp. 40-41

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