The Servant
- Summary
- 1953 BBC live studio production of Marcelle Maurette’s historical drama about Joan of Arc, The Servant.
- Theatre play
- The Servant by Marcelle Maurette (1909-1972) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 28 June 1953
- Time
- 8.50-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- Marcelle Maurette (1909-1972)
- Designer
- Barry Learoyd
- Movement
- Lydia Sokolova
- Cast
Pamela Alan Joan James Beattie Page / Tailor Stephen Boyd Edgar K. Bruce Nicholas Loyseleur Peter Copley (1915-2008) Monseigneur Peter Cauchon David Enders Brother Maurice Lee Fox Father Richard John Glen Narrator Paul Homer Gilles de Rais Emrys Leyshon Duc d’Alencon Marjorie Manning Mother Jonathan Meddings Charles VII Brian Moorehead Conrad Phillips Philip Ray Father Natasha Sokolova A Drab Job Stewart Anthony Viccars English Herald / D’Aulon George Woodbridge Arthur Young Monseigneur the Grand Chancellor
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.15pm on Thursday 2 July 1953.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 15th-century setting; France, as theme or setting; French drama; historical drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 June 1953 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article by H. J. Hunt, ‘Joan, Woman of France’, p. 14
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