Dear Charles

Summary

1961 BBC production of Alan Melville’s Dear Charles, the comedy which is also known as Full Circle and which was based on Les Enfants d’Edouard by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick J. Jackson.

Theatre play

Full Circle by Alan Melville (1910-1983) [more information]

Play synopsis

This comedy is the story of Denise Darvel, a charming and eccentric novelist with three fatherless children. The setting is Paris, the season spring and the time the carefree 1920s.

Production history

Full Circle is also known as Dear Charles. It was adapted from Les Enfants d’Edouard by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick J. Jackson.

Date of transmission

Thursday 27 April 1961

Time

8.30-9.45pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Naomi Capon

Playwright

Alan Melville (1910-1983)

Adapted for Television by

Michael Imison

Designer

Douglas Duncan

Cast

Helen Cherry	Denise Darvel
Betty Cooper	Martha
Anton Diffring	Jan Letzaresco
Roger Gage	Dominique Leeler
Greville Hallam	Jean-Pierre
Frazer Hines	Bruno
John Kelland	Walter
Peggy Livesey	Madame Duchemin
Terence Longdon	Sir Michael Anstruther
Suzanne Neve	Lucienne
Dudy Nimmo	Martine
Peter Sallis	Edward

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; France, as theme or setting; poetry and literature, as theme

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 20 April 1961 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 49; article, with photograph, p. 45