Waiting for Gillian
- Summary
- 1954 live BBC studio production of Ronald Millar’s drama Waiting for Gillian, based on Nigel Balchin’s novel A Way Through the Wood.
- Theatre play
- Waiting for Gillian by Ronald Millar [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 14 November 1954
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Alvin Rakoff
- Playwright
- Ronald Millar
- Original Book by
- Nigel Balchin (titled ‘A Way Through the Wood’)
- Designer
- Lawrence [Laurence] Broadhouse
- Cast
Patrick Barr James Manning Kathleen Boutall Flo Jefferson Clifford Dr Barry Frewen Anne Crawford Jill Manning Michael Denison Hon. William Stephen Fitzharding Bule Rosemary Frankau Nurse Thomas Heathcote P. C. Cater Norman Pierce Sergeant Groves Victor Platt Joe Pearce Kit Terrington Billy Anna Turner Elsie Pearce
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 9.30pm on Thursday 18 November 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 November 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- lisitng, photograph and caption, p. 12
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