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The Jolly Fiddler [excerpts]

Summary
1954 BBC live outside broadcast of an excerpt from Rex Frost’s comedy The Jolly Fiddler, performed before an invited audience at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.
Theatre play
The Jolly Fiddler by Rex Frost [more information]
Date of transmission
Monday 12 April 1954
Time
8.35-9.25pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Presented for Television by
Alan Chivers
Theatre Director
John Counsell
Playwright
Rex Frost
Sets / Settings
Hal Henshaw
Introduced by
Brian Johnston
Cast
Patrick CargillMr Finch
Wynne ClarkMrs Garamon
Marjorie FieldingMrs Samson Box
Monica GreySheila Pryor
Diana KingCaroline Mallett
Duncan LewisAlbert
Pat SandysEffie Rigler
Michael ShepleyAlan Pryor

Additional details

Origination
Live from theatre
Vision original
Monochrome
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 9 April 1954 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, photograph and extended caption, p. 20

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