Learning on ScreenA Sleeping Clergyman
- Summary
- BBC production of James Bridie’s A Sleeping Clergyman.
- Theatre play
- A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie (1888-1951) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 11 January 1959
- Time
- 8.30pm
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producers
- Michael Barry, Anthony Pelissier
- Playwright
- James Bridie (1888-1951)
- Designer
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Alexander Archdale Dr Coutts Anne Blake Mrs Hannah Fanny Carby Prostitute Madeleine Christie Lady Todd Walker Adrienne Corri Harriet; Wilhelmina; Hope Kenneth Edwards Dr Cooper Monica Grey Lady Katharine Helliwell Charles Houston Dr Purley Desmond Jordan Medical Student Ewen MacDuff Donovan Kenneth Mackintosh John Hannah William Mervyn Sir Douglas Todd Walker John H. Moore A Sleeping Clergyman John Rae Police Sergeant Donald Tandy Police Constable Robert Urquhart Charles Cameron Russell Waters Dr Marshall Robert Young Wilkinson
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting
Print sources
- Title
- Adrenalin Orgies? (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 18 January 1959, p. 19
- Title
- Bridie Play on BBC Television: A Sleeping Clergyman (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 12 January 1959, p. 12
- Title
- Radio Times, 9 January 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article and listing on p. 9
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