Learning on ScreenHappy and Glorious, Part 1: 1837
- Summary
- 1952 BBC production of Victoria Regina, Laurence Housman’s dramatised biography of Queen Victoria, produced live from the studio and transmitted in six parts.
- Theatre play
- Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman (1865-1959) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 13 September 1952
- Time
- 8.30-9.05pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Desmond Davis
- Playwright
- Laurence Housman (1865-1959)
- Adapted for Television by
- Desmond Davis
- Sets / Settings
- Stephen Bundy
- Assistant Producer
- Tony Richardson
- Cast
Dorothea Alexander Lehzen Renée Asherson Princess Victoria George Curzon King Leopold of the Belgians Mark Dignam King of Hanover Graveley Edwards Archbishop of Canterbury Wyndham Goldie (1897-1957) Baron Stockmar Oliver Johnston Sir John Conroy Lily Kann Duchess of Kent Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Lord Conyngham Raymond Rollett Duke of Sussex
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- biographical play; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 5 September 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 49; article by Hector Bolitho, ‘Victoria’s Reign - Happy and Glorious’, p. 45
Associated programmes
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