Learning on ScreenCaesar’s Friend
- Summary
- 1954 BBC live studio production of the religious drama Caesar’s Friend by Campbell Dixon and Dermot Morrah.
- Theatre play
- Caesar’s Friend by Campbell Dixon and Dermot Morrah [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 April 1954
- Time
- 8.40-10.10pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Julian Amyes
- Producer
- Ian Atkins
- Playwright
- Campbell Dixon
- Playwright
- Dermot Morrah
- Sets / Settings
- James Bould
- Cast
Robert Atkins (1886-1972) Caiaphas Richard Caldicot Balbus Patrick [Pat] Connor Second Decurion Rosalie Crutchley Mary Hugh David Joseph of Arimathea Arnold Diamond Malchus Robert Eddison Pontius Pilate Philip Guard Lucius Licinius Cotta Kenneth Haigh Judas Clement Hamelin Countryman Walter Hudd Annas Harry Lane First Decurion Brigid Lenihan Marcella Hugh Munro Damon Donald Pleasance Gasmaliel Margaretta Scott Claudia Procula John Sharplin Peter Margot van der Burgh Zillah Leonard Williams Roman Sentry
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 9.25pm on Thursday 15 April 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- ancient Rome and colonies; biblical stories; Christianity; religion, as theme or subject
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 April 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and caption, p. 14
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