This Year, Next Year

Summary

1962 BBC production, ‘from the Midlands’, of This Year, Next Year by Jack Ronder.

Theatre play

This Year, Next Year by Jack Ronder [more information]

Play synopsis

'An absorbing story of the love two sisters have for each other, and the effect which their love has on the people around them’: Louie has devoted her life to looking after Margaret, three years her senior; neither are married, and one is given a chance to escape the situation. (Radio Times, 21 June 1962)

Production history

Staged in the West End in 1960.

Date of transmission

Friday 29 June 1962

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Peter Dews

Playwright

Jack Ronder

Designer

Don Homfray

Cast

Brenda Bruce	Louie
James Grout	Bert
Frank Jarvis	Charlie
Noel Johnson	Joe
Jane Merrow	Joyce
Elizabeth Sellars	Margaret

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 21 June 1962 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, with image, p. 47; listing, with image, p. 49