Learning on ScreenTusitala
- Summary
- 1950 BBC live studio production of a dramatised biography of Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Theatre play
- Tusitala by Leonard J. Hines and Frank King [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 12 November 1950
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- Leonard J. Hines
- Playwright
- Frank King
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Narrator
- Duncan Ross
- Cast
Pansy Allendy Samoan Douglas Blackwell Marlin Cecil Brock Walter Ferrier Robert Brown Captain Smith Ah Chong Choy Samoan Wynne Clark Margaret Stevenson Andrew Faulds Robert Louis Stevenson John Harvey Dr Roger Campbell Owen Holder Palmer Alastair Hunter Thomas Stevenson Richard Johnson Lloyd Osbourne A. Kahan Samoan Carmen Manley Samoan Ronald Marriot Virgil Williams Alan [or Allan] McClelland Robert Alan M. Stevenson Aletha Orr Landlady Derek Prentice Landlord Sheila Raynor Mmme Berthelini June Rodney Isobel Osbourne Frances Rowe Fanny Osbourne Harold Scott M. Berthelini L. Sheridan Samoan Edward [Eddie] Sutch Pola John A. Tinn Sosimo John Warner Simpson Marjorie Wilde Alison Cunningham K. C. Woi Samoan Y. Yanai Laupepa Maleitoa
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.00pm on Thursday 16 November 1950.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; biographical play
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 November 1950 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 42; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Homage to Tusitala’, p. 40
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