Professional Pride

Summary

1950 BBC live studio production of a triple-bill of plays: Professional Pride by J. D. Beresford; Half-an-Hour by J. M. Barrie; and Table Seventeen by Margery Sharp.

Theatre play

Professional Pride by J. D. Beresford [more information]

Play synopsis

Set on a bench in Hyde Park, the drama chronicles the rise, fall and reformation of a burglar.

Production history

Professional Pride was originally written as a short story and was read by its author on BBC radio in 1937. It is not clear whether the play was produced in a theatre.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 3 October 1950

Time

8.30-9.00pm (approx.)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Matthew Forsyth

Playwright

J. D. Beresford

Sets / Settings

Richard R. Greenhough

Cast

Ferdy Mayne	A Foreigner
Terence Soall	First Man
Derek Tansley	Second Man

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

crime

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 29 September 1950 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 44; articles. pp. 42 and 43

Associated programmes

Half-an-Hour (BBC, 1950)
Half an Hour by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
BBC Television

Table Seventeen (BBC, 1950)
Table Seventeen by Margery Sharp
BBC Television