Design for a Headstone
- Summary
- 1962 BBC production, ‘from Wales’, of Design for a Headstone, Seamus Byrne’s play about the IRA, set in a Dublin prison.
- Theatre play
- Design for a Headstone by Seamus Byrne [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 18 May 1962
- Time
- 9.25-10.40pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- David J. Thomas
- Playwright
- Seamus Byrne
- Adapted for Television by
- Harry Green
- Designer
- David Butcher
- Cast
Roger Bale Alan Barry Michael Breathnach Andrew Brown Warder ‘Mouth’ Phelan Larry Burns Warder Pat Gerachty John Cairney Jim O’Shea Manuel Chetcuti Terry Ellis Howell Evans Joe Fitzpatrick Chris Gannon Muscles Rogan Desmond Jordan Tommy McGovern Paddy Joyce Bill Dunne David Blake Kelly Ructions McGowan Glyn Kernan Witold Kuszya Dermot MacDowell Warder Charles Grimes James McLoughlin Conor Egan Bill Meilen Butcher Healy James Neylin Aidan O’Leary Roger Nott Ronald O’Dare Arthur O’Sullivan Jakey Alan Parsons Lionel Seaton Harry Towb Kevin Shields Gordon Whiting Father Maguire Norman Wynne O’Sullivan
Additional details
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 May 1962 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article and image, p. 51; listing, p. 53
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