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 Balcon Hermione Bernard Brown Polixenes Christopher Gilmore Florizel Nigel Green Leontes Michael Hawkins Narrator Jane Merrow Perdita
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]
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Email
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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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