To Love and to Cherish

Summary

1957 BBC Television production of Michael Egan’s To Love and to Cherish, from the BBC’s Welsh television studio.

Theatre play

To Love and to Cherish by Michael Egan [more information]

Play synopsis

'The Rev. Mark Fairley is a vicar in North Wales who is adamant in his belief that it is wrong to re-marry a divorced person whether that person is innocent or not. He has three daughters and his convictions are strongly tested in face of their emotional entanglements’. (Radio Times, 11 October 1957, p. 23).

Production history

Dated to the 1930s.

Date of transmission

Thursday 17 October 1957

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

David J. Thomas

Playwright

Michael Egan

Adapted for Television by

Mary Jones

Designer

Malcolm Goulding

Cast

Barbara Alleyn	Susan
Walter Fitzgerald	The Rev. Mark Fairley
Marilyn James	Prudence
Margo Johns	Louise Manford
Kate Jones	Annie
Mary Jones	Helen
Robert Speaight	Dean Murray
Jerry Stovin	Dave Manford

Additional details

Play tags

Christianity; divorce; Wales, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Broadcasting Programmes (Newspaper listing)

Reference

The Irish Times, 17 October 1957, p. 8

Title

Radio Times, 11 October 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and article on p. 23