Boyd’s Shop
- Summary
- 1954 BBC live studio production of St John Ervine’s Irish drama Boyd’s Shop.
- Theatre play
- Boyd’s Shop by St John [Greer] Ervine (1883-1971) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 21 February 1954
- Time
- 8.40-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- St John [Greer] Ervine (1883-1971)
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
Robin Bailey Rev. Ernest Dunwoody Elizabeth Begley Mrs Clotworthy Dorothy Casey Miss Logan Aithna Gover Mrs McBratney Robin Graham Andy Haveron, as a Young Boy R. H. MacCandless Rev Arthur Patterson Sheila Manahan Agnes Boyd Maureen Pryor Miss McClurg Joseph Tomelty Andrew Boyd Harry Towb John Haslett Veronica Turleigh Carrie
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.15pm on Thursday 25 February 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Irish drama; Northern Ireland, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- For the Fair Unknown (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 25 February 1954, p. 357
- Title
- Radio Times, 19 February 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 14; brief article, p. 15
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