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The Chertsey Apprentice

Summary
This BBC production of Frank Harvey’s The Chertsey Apprentice marked the 35th anniversary of the Repertory Players, London (Radio Times, 19 October 1956). The Repertory Players, a Sunday play-producing society in London, had staged the play in November 1955.
Theatre play
The Chertsey Apprentice by Frank Harvey (1912-1981) [more information]
Date of transmission
Thursday 25 October 1956
Time
8.30pm (90 mins)
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC
Theatre company
Repertory Players, London

Credits

Producer
Chloe Gibson
Playwright
Frank Harvey (1912-1981)
Designer
Guy Sheppard
Cast
Daphne AndersonJessie Bowman
John BoxerHerbert Bowman
Madge Brindley
A. J. BrownThe Rev. Percy Sykes
Alan CasleyW. S. Rigg
David Chivers
Donald Churchill
John CrockerWillie Sugden
Aubrey DexterThornton
Jane Evans
Peter Henchie
Virginia Hewett
Margaret Hotine
Philip Latham
Charles LenoFred Carter
Peter Morny
Harold Reese
Judith Robinson
John RuddockPengethrin Senior
Mary SedgwickMaid
Nigel StockNicholas Pengethrin
Gwen[doline] WatfordSusan Pengethrin
Tom Watson
Austin Webb
Anthony WoodruffBarlow

Additional details

Play tags
film, as theme; photography, as theme

Print sources

Title
Plan to Mark an Anniversary (Newspaper article)
Reference
The Times, 12 October 1956, p. 3
Title
Radio Times, 19 October 1956 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and article on pp. [38 and 39?]

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