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The Life of Henry the Fifth

Summary
BBC Television production of The Life of Henry the Fifth by Shakespeare.
Theatre play
King Henry V by William Shakespeare [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 29 December 1957
Time
8.30pm-10.30pm
Series
Television World Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Peter Dews
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Designer
Guy Sheppard
Cast
Della BatchelorHostess
Michael BatesWilliams / Bardolph
Geoffrey BayldonAncient Pistol
Peter BillingsleyLord Scroop
Joby BlanshardBates
Tony ChurchArchbishop of Canterbury
Richard CoeDuke of Bedford
Patricia CreeKatharine
Jessica DunningIsabel
Patrick GarlandThe English Herald
Ralph HallettDuke of Orleans
Timothy HarleyBoy
Bernard HeptonChorus
Hugh HicksonSir Thomas Grey
Ronald HinesEarl of Salisbury
Walter HuddCharles VI
Nancie JacksonAlice
Noel JohnsonThe Constable of France
Dudley JonesFluellen
Peter LambertEarl of Cambridge
Geoffrey LewisDuke of Bourbon
Alan [or Allan] McClellandMacmorris
Roger MilnerNym
Philip MorantGower
John NevilleHenry V
Richard PalmerDuke of Gloucester
Alan RoweRambures
George SelwayEarl of Westmorland
George SkillanSir Thomas Erpingham
Julian SomersDuke of Exeter
Ralph TrumanDuke of Burgundy
David WebsterJamy
John WoodLewis
Edgar WrefordMontjoy
Arnold YarrowLe Fer

Additional details

Notes
This production is estimated to have been seen by 4.5 million viewers (source: ‘Cost to BBC of Competitive Television’, The Times, 13 March 1958, p. 14).
Play tags
15th-century setting; France, as theme or setting; historical drama; royalty

Audiovisual sources

Title
Henry V (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: Henry V (Newspaper review)
Reference
The Times, 30 December 1957, p. 10
Title
Cost to BBC of Competitive Television (Newspaper article)
Author/creator
Anonymous
Reference
The Times, 13 March 1958, p. 14
Title
Radio Times, 21 February 1958 (Magazine)
Linking notes
brief mention in article on p. 4
Title
Radio Times, 27 December 1957 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing, p. 7; article with photograph, p. 4
Title
Sticking to the Book (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
Reference
The Observer, 29 December 1957, p. 8

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