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The Manor of Northstead [excerpts]

Summary
1954 BBC live outside broadcast of excerpts from William Douglas Home’s play The Manor of Northstead from the Duchess Theatre, London, before an invited audience and by arrangement with Peter Saunders.
Theatre play
The Manor of Northstead by William Douglas Home (1912-1993) [more information]
Date of transmission
Monday 21 June 1954
Time
8.10-8.55pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Presented for Television by
Alan Chivers
Theatre Director
Wallace Douglas
Playwright
William Douglas Home (1912-1993)
Set Designer
Michael Weight
Cast
Ronald Adam (1896-1979)Lord Cleghorn
Lorraine ClewesMrs Beecham
Bryan ColemanCaptain Lord Pym
Charles HeslopBeecham
Arthur HewlettSir Ronald MacRonald
Jean LodgeLady Pym
Marie LöhrCountess of Lister
Viola LyelLady Cleghorn
A. E. MatthewsEarl of Lister

Additional details

Origination
Live from theatre
Vision original
Monochrome
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy; politics; Scotland, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 18 June 1954 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 20; brief article, p. 15

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