Badger’s Green

Summary

1953 BBC live studio production of R. C. Sherriff’s comedy Badger’s Green.

Theatre play

Badger’s Green by R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. A company has ambitious plans to redevelop the quiet, picturesque village of Badger’s Green. The inhabitants mount a resistance campaign and it is eventually decided to settle the future of the village by playing a cricket match.

Production history

First performed in 1930 at Prince of Wales’ Theatre, London.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 1 September 1953

Time

8.35-9.50pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

John Warrington

Playwright

R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)

Sets / Settings

Gordon Roland

Cast

David Aylmer	Dickie Wetherby
Penelope Bartley	Jill Lorimer
Ballard Berkeley	Mr Butler
Michael Bird	Henry Pickersgill
Leonard Crainford	Gilbert Ebbing
Hugh Dempster	Major Forrester
Nora Gordon	Mrs Vera Cooper
Mary Kimber	Mary
Barry Knight	George Tasset
Wensley Pithey	Mr Rogers
Henzie Raeburn	Mrs Wetherby
Milton Rosmer	Doctor Wetherby
Michael Royal-Dawson	Bertie Cowper
Christopher Steele	Mr Twigg
Josephine Tweedie	Mrs Forrester
MacGregor Urquhart	Harry

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; cricket, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 28 August 1953 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and short article by Peter Currie, p. 26