Sounding Brass

Summary

1953 BBC production of Leslie Burgess’ Sounding Brass. Four years later Andrew Osborn produced the play again for the BBC, again with Edward Chapman in the lead role.

Theatre play

Sounding Brass by Leslie Burgess [more information]

Play synopsis

A portrait of a self-made-man, George Hudson, whose enterprises as a ‘railway king’ were the talk of Victorian England; he attained great wealth, but then was ruined by embezzling. Set in York and London.

Production history

Performed at the Theatre Royal, York, in 1951, and possibly elsewhere earlier.

Date of transmission

Sunday 9 August 1953

Time

8.30pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Andrew Osborn

Playwright

Leslie Burgess

Cast

Edward Chapman

George Hudson

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting; north of England, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

BBC Television: Sounding Brass (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 23 September 1957, p. 3

Linking notes

brief mention in a review of a later television production of the same play

Title

Marking Time in the Theatre: Search for New Plays (Newspaper article)

Reference

The Times, 10 May 1954, p. 9

Title

Radio Times, 20 September 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

brief mention on p. 4