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The Apple Cart

Summary
BBC production of G. B. Shaw’s The Apple Cart.
Theatre play
The Apple Cart by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 28 July 1957
Time
8.00pm
Series
Sunday-Night Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Michael Barry
Playwright
[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Designer
Eileen Diss
Cast
Angela BaddeleyPostmistress General
Iris BakerQueen Jemima
Stafford ByrneForeign Secretary
William FoxHome Secretary
Willoughby GoddardPrime Minister
Jack HawkinsKing Magnus
George HoweColonial Secretary
Charles LenoBoanerges
Moira ListerOrinthia
William MervynChancellor of the Exchequer
Donald PriceSempronius
Margaret Rawlings (1906-1996)Powermistress General
Hugh SinclairPamphilius
Rosamund WearingPrincess Royal
Martin Wyldeck

Additional details

Play tags
comedy

Audiovisual sources

Title
The Apple Cart (BBC, 1957)
Archive
BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title
BBC Television: The Apple Cart (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 29 July 1957, p. 3
Title
Radio Times, 26 July 1957 (Magazine)
Linking notes
cover image, and listing and illustrated article on p. 9

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