The Winter’s Tale, Part 2: Apollo’s Angry

Summary
The Angry Gods was an eight-part Associated-Rediffusion series for ITV Schools first transmitted from January to March 1961. The series offered the following programmes: programme 1, A Sacred Offering, a condensed Iphigenia at Aulis, plus brief extract from Bacchae; programmes 2-4, the Oresteia trilogy; and programmes 5-8, The Winter’s Tale in four parts. The first four programmes in the series were in 1963 re-transmitted as part of the series named Theatres and Temples: The Greeks.
Theatre play
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare [more information]
Date of transmission
Wednesday 8 March 1961
Time
3.15pm
Series
Schools; Angry Gods
Channel
ITV
Production company
Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)

Credits

Director
Pat Baker
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Adaptor of Script
Martin Worth
Composer
Eric Spear
Designer
Barbara Bates
Cast
Jill BalconHermione
Bernard BrownPolixenes
Christopher GilmoreFlorizel
Nigel GreenLeontes
Michael HawkinsNarrator
Jane MerrowPerdita

Additional details

Later transmissions
Repeated on the Friday following at 2.45pm.
Programme context tags
schools television programming

Print sources

Title
The Angry Gods (Archive file)
Archive
BFI Reuben Library [more information]
Address

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South Bank
London
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UK

Email

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Website

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-reuben-library/visiting-bfi-reuben-library

Access

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Reference
ART/48/1-4
Notes
Including camera scripts, publicity brochures and leaflets sent to schools.
Title
The Angry Gods, comprising Iphigenia at Aulis, Oresteia and The Winter’s Tale (A-R for ITV Schools, 1961) (Blog article)
Author/creator
Amanda Wrigley (Author)
Reference
http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/itv-schools-the-angry-gods-1961, published 31 May 2012
Title
The Angry Gods: Independent Television Programmes for Schools (Brochure)
Reference
Posted online at http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/File:Drama_ITV_Angry_Gods_cover_spring_1961.jpg (accessed 26 September 2013)

Associated programmes

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