Learning on ScreenBird in Hand
- Summary
- BBC Television production of John Drinkwater’s comedy Bird in Hand.
- Theatre play
- Bird in Hand by John Drinkwater (1882-1937) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 25 December 1955
- Time
- 9.45pm (90 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Allen
- Playwright
- John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
- Designer
- Richard Wilmot
- Cast
Dudley Buttrum a minor part Ronald Clarke a minor part Alice Esmie-Bell a minor part Edward Higgins a minor part Eric Lander Gerald Arnwood Herbert Lomas Thomas Greenleaf Jacqueline MacKenzie Joan Greenleaf William Mervyn Ambrose Godolphin, QC Brian Moorehead a minor part Robert Speaight Sir Robert Arnwood Terry-Thomas (1911-1990) Cyril Beverley Beatrice Varley Alice Greenleaf Charles Victor Mr Blanquet Dudley Williams a minor part
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- A telerecording of this production was broadcast on BBC TV at 2.30pm on 3 March 1956.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- class issues / differences; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 1 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/christmas-past-bbc-1950s-1, published 28 December 2012
- Title
- Radio Times, 23 December 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and short article on p. 17
- Title
- Scrooge’s Screen (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 25 December 1955, p. 6
- Title
- While Shepherds Watched (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 29 December 1955, pp. 1134-35
- Linking notes
- with b&w image of a scene from the production
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