Learning on ScreenToad of Toad Hall
- Summary
- 1947 BBC production of A. A. Milne’s Toad of Toad Hall, which he based on Kenneth Grahame’s novel for children The Wind in the Willows. Michael Barry had produced this play for television in 1946: although many actors played the same parts in 1946 and 1947, there are sufficient differences to identify them as separate productions.
- Theatre play
- Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne (1882-1956) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 21 December 1947
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Michael Barry
- Playwright
- A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
- Writer
- Kenneth Grahame (wrote The Wind in the Willows, on which Milne based the play)
- Adapted for Television by
- Michael Barry
- Composer
- H. Fraser-Simson
- Orchestra Directed by
- Eric Robinson
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Dances Arranged by
- Felicity Gray
- Répétiteur
- Alan [or Allan] Bixter
- Cast
Anthony Bacon Weasel, Ferret and/or Stoat Barbara Birkinshaw Duck Jacqueline Boiteux Turkey Stafford Byrne Judge Maureen Coe a minor part Dorothy Coffey a minor part Angela Glynne Marigold Josephine Gooch Second Field Mouse John Laurent Alfred, the Horse Pat Leat a minor part Humphrey Lestocq Weasel, Ferret and/or Stoat / Usher Ronald Long Toad Patricia Louttit a minor part Marne Maitland Weasel, Ferret and/or Stoat Hugh Manning Weasel, Ferret and/or Stoat / Gaoler Kenneth More Mr Badger Jack Newmark Mole Andrew Osborn Water Rat Joyce Owen a minor part Margaret Owen a minor part Dorothy Robinson a minor part Patricia Rowlands a minor part Catherine Somerton First Field Mouse H. G. Stoker The Storyteller Madoline Thomas Mother George Woodbridge Policeman Victor Woolf Alfred, the Horse
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Second performance televised on 29 December 1947 (3pm-4.50pm)
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel; children’s drama
- Programme context tags
- children’s television
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 19 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- lisating, p. 34, article, p. 33
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 30
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