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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-JohnstonClive
Gillian LindMargaret 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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