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 Clewes Mrs Beecham Bryan Coleman Captain Lord Pym Charles Heslop Beecham Arthur Hewlett Sir Ronald MacRonald Jean Lodge Lady Pym Marie Löhr Countess of Lister Viola Lyel Lady Cleghorn A. E. Matthews Earl 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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