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 Batchelor Hostess Michael Bates Williams / Bardolph Geoffrey Bayldon Ancient Pistol Peter Billingsley Lord Scroop Joby Blanshard Bates Tony Church Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Coe Duke of Bedford Patricia Cree Katharine Jessica Dunning Isabel Patrick Garland The English Herald Ralph Hallett Duke of Orleans Timothy Harley Boy Bernard Hepton Chorus Hugh Hickson Sir Thomas Grey Ronald Hines Earl of Salisbury Walter Hudd Charles VI Nancie Jackson Alice Noel Johnson The Constable of France Dudley Jones Fluellen Peter Lambert Earl of Cambridge Geoffrey Lewis Duke of Bourbon Alan [or Allan] McClelland Macmorris Roger Milner Nym Philip Morant Gower John Neville Henry V Richard Palmer Duke of Gloucester Alan Rowe Rambures George Selway Earl of Westmorland George Skillan Sir Thomas Erpingham Julian Somers Duke of Exeter Ralph Truman Duke of Burgundy David Webster Jamy John Wood Lewis Edgar Wreford Montjoy Arnold Yarrow Le 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]
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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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