Learning on ScreenA Time to Be Born
- Summary
- 1952 BBC live studio production for Children’s Television of A Time to be Born, P. D. Cummins’ story of the Nativity, presented on Christmas Eve.
- Theatre play
- A Time to Be Born by P. D. [Phyllis Deborah] Cummins [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 24 December 1952
- Time
- 5.30-6.05pm
- Series
- Children’s Television
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Joy Harington
- Playwright
- P. D. [Phyllis Deborah] Cummins
- Sets / Settings
- Roy Oxley
- Cast
Lyndon Brook Child’s Brother George Coulouris Innkeeper Patricia Fryer Servant Girl Laurence Hardy Joseph Errol John Balthasar Hazel Penwarden Mary Maureen Pryor Child’s Mother Robert Rietty Kaspar Robert Shaw Melchior Robert Speaight Angel David Spenser Child’s Brother Jeremy Spenser Shepherd’s Child John Stuart Child’s Father
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- biblical stories; Christianity
- Programme context tags
- children’s television
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 19 December 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 47
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