Learning on ScreenToad of Toad Hall
- Summary
- 1946 BBC Television 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.
- Theatre play
- Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne (1882-1956) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 29 December 1946
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- 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
- Orchestra Directed by
- Alan [or Allan] Bixter
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Dances Arranged by
- Kathleen de Vos
- Commentator
- H. Fraser-Simson
- Cast
Peter Assinder Chief Stoat Barbara Birkinshaw a minor part Jacqueline Boiteux a minor part Julia Bradock Marigold Philip Dale Chief Weasel Doris Groves a minor part Kathleen Helme a minor part Jacqueline Joyner a minor part Desmond Keith Policeman Humphrey Lestocq Usher Jill Mason a minor part Kenneth More Mr Badger Jack Newmark Mole Andrew Osborn Water Rat Jon Pertwee Judge Zora Radovitch a minor part Alan Reid Toad Michael Rose Chief Ferret / Gaoler Nina Sapper Second Field Mouse Mary Staley a minor part Morag Stankey a minor part John Thomas Alfred, the Horse Madoline Thomas Mother Pamela White First Field Mouse; Duck Mary Windust Phoebe Victor Woolf Alfred, the Horse Sheila Wynn Turkey Marguerite Young Washerwoman
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Monday 6 January 1947.
- Notes
- Michael Barry produced the play again a year later, and although many of the original 1946 cast played the same parts in 1947, there are sufficient differences to identify it as a new production.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- adaptation of novel; children’s drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 December 1946 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article on p. 23 and listing on p. 25
- Title
- Television (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 28 December 1946, p. 6
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