Learning on ScreenThe Deluge
- Summary
- 1952 BBC live studio broadcast of a production of The Deluge, part of the Chester Mystery Plays cycle telling the story of Noah and the flood, performed by the Southampton Student Players. The amateur production was a finalist in the annual festival of community theatre held recently by the British Drama League. Shown in a programme with The Sound of Stillness under the Community Theatre banner.
- Theatre play
- The Chester Mystery Plays by Anon.
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 30 July 1952
- Time
- 9.20-approx. 9.40pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Southampton Student Players
Credits
- Presented for Television by
- Alan Bromly
- Presented for Television by
- Tony Richardson
- Theatre Producer
- Rodney J. Spratley
- Playwright
- Anon.
- Cast
Ronald Baldwin Noah Gladys Berry Gossip Robin Bowditch Ham Sheila Bray Shem’s Wife Audrey Gardner Gossip Patrick Garland Japhet Helen Goodson Gossip Ethel Jackson Noah’s Wife Lorna Jones Ham’s Wife Margaret Mansbridge Japhet’s Wife David Masters Voice of God David Middlemiss Shem Joan Wilson Gossip
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 15th-century setting; biblical stories; Medieval drama; mystery play
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 25 July 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 39
Associated programmes
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