Siding 273
- Summary
- BBC Television’s Sunday-Night Theatre production of Val Gielgud’s Siding 273. The production featured two of the actors from the 1948 stage production, Alan Tilvern and Seymour Green, in the same roles (Radio Times, 17 August 1956, p. 15).
- Theatre play
- Siding 273 by Val Gielgud [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 19 August 1956
- Time
- 8.15pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Val Gielgud
- Playwright
- Val Gielgud
- Designer
- Stephen Taylor
- Assistant Producer
- Terence Cook
- Cast
Ernestine Costa Adela Rubinstein Seymour Green Jean Ravaillac Gerard Heinz Dr Justinus van Galen Sarah Lawson Virginia Lawrence Barry Letts Captain George Graves Jack May David Gottlieb Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Political Commissar Sergei Karpoff Stanley Platts Colonel Ivan Roudenko Jeffrey Segal Corporal Albert Pym Sebastian Shaw Major Gerald Craven Ronald Simpson Brigadier Lambert Alan Tilvern Issachar Ben-Menahem (Judas) Eileen Way Jadwiga Konska Valerie White Betty Sanders
Additional details
- Play tags
- Austria, as theme or setting; schools, as theme or setting; Second World War, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 17 August 1956 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article, pp. 14 and 15
- Title
- Siding 273 (Audience Research Report)
- Archive
- BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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- Reference
- Report reference VR/56/435, held in file R9/7/23
- Title
- Two Concepts of Duty: Siding 273 (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 20 August 1956, p. 10
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