Brother Ass and Brother Lion

Summary

1955 live BBC studio production of Barbara Willard’s play Brother Ass and Brother Lion, about St Jerome, presented for children.

Theatre play

Brother Ass and Brother Lion by Barbara Willard [more information]

Play synopsis

An adaptation of the story of St Jerome, the lion and the donkey.

Production history

Published as a play in 1951

Date of transmission

Tuesday 8 November 1955

Time

5.15-6.00pm

Series

Children’s Television

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Dorothea Brooking

Playwright

Barbara Willard

Adapted for Television by

Dorothea Brooking

Designer

Gordon Roland

Cast

Hugh Dickson	Brother Paul
David Garth	Brother Simeon
Seymour Green	Brother Andrew
Cameron Hall	Brother Timotheus
Douglas Hayes	Ebenezer
Redvers Kyle	Donkey
James Raglan	Father Prior (St Jerome)
Robert Rietty	Brother Damon
Raymond Rollett	Benjamin
Don Tasker	Lion

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Repeated as a tele-recording on 2 December 1955.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Christianity; religion, as theme or subject

Programme context tags

children’s television

Print sources

Title

Juvenile Leadings (Magazine review)

Author/creator

Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)

Reference

The Listener, 8 December 1955, p. 1017

Notes

Of Brother Ass and Brother Lion: ‘I confess to having been bored... the monks seemed so silly.'

Title

Radio Times, 4 November 1955 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 26