Learning on ScreenSister Gold
- Summary
- 1952 BBC live studio production of Sister Gold, one of the short plays from Laurence Housman’s cycle Little Plays of Saint Francis.
- Theatre play
- Sister Gold by Laurence Housman (1865-1959) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 28 August 1952
- Time
- 5.00-5.30pm
- Series
- Children’s Television
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rex Tucker
- Playwright
- Laurence Housman (1865-1959)
- Cast
Max Brent Second Robber Peter Coke (1913-2008) St Francis Frank Foster Third Robber Barry Letts First Robber Robert Rietty Juniper Leonard Sharp Miser Jeremy Spenser Goat Boy
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Performed again at 5.30pm on Sunday 31 August 1952.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 13th-century setting; children’s drama; religion, as theme or subject
- Programme context tags
- children’s television
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 August 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 40
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