Learning on ScreenHappy and Glorious, Part 6: 1891-1900
- 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 18 October 1952
- Time
- 8.50-9.25pm
- 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
Michael Aldridge Prince Edward Renée Asherson Queen Victoria Iris Baker Lady Jane Churchill John Boyd-Brent Prince Henry of Prussia John Burch Sir Henry Ponsonby Wynne Clark Mrs Gladstone Hilda Fenemore Princess Beatrice Philip Howard Attendant Beatrice Kane Mrs Clayton Leonard Sachs Lord Rosebery Edmund Willard Mr Gladstone Winifred Willard Princess Victoria Ireland Wood Lord Kitchener
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, 10 October 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 49
Associated programmes
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