Affairs of State [excerpt]

Summary: 1952 BBC live outside broadcast of an excerpt from Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil, from the Cambridge Theatre, London, where it was performed before an invited audience.
Theatre play: Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil (1893-1952) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Set in a country residence on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. [...] the wife of a retired Secretary of State twenty years her senior wants a divorce to marry a promising young politician. When her husband declines she arranges for her blue-stocking niece to marry the politician to keep him safe until her elderly husband passes on’ (from ‘Talk of the Week’, Radio Times, 3 October 1952, p. 44).
Production history: Opened in 1950 on Broadway, where it ran for 610 performances.
Date of transmission: Monday 6 October 1952
Time: 9.00-9.55pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC