Clive of India
- Summary
- 1938 BBC Television production of Clive of India. On the creation of a ‘specially written television version’ of the play, with the addition of ‘several scenes that were not included in the stage or screen [i.e. film] productions’, see the article by ‘The Scanner’ in the Radio Times, 11 February 1938, p. 18.
- Theatre play
- Clive of India by W. P. Lipscomb and R. J. Minney [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 19 February 1938
- Time
- 9.00-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- W. P. Lipscomb
- Playwright
- R. J. Minney
- Adaptor of Script
- W. P. Lipscomb (credited with ‘television scenario by’)
- Cast
Colin Keith-Johnston Clive Gillian Lind Margaret Maskelyne
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.20pm on Wednesday 23 February 1938.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; India, as theme or setting; military / army / navy / air-force
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 11 February 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 18
- Title
- Televised Drama: Clive of India (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 26 February 1938, p. 21
- Title
- The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Book)
- Author/creator
- Jason Jacobs (Author)
- Reference
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Linking notes
- pp. 12, 49-56 (detailed case study)
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