My Flesh, My Blood

Summary: 1960 BBC Television production of My Flesh, My Blood by Bill Naughton, from the BBC’s television studio in Scotland.
Theatre play: Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton (1910-1992) [more information]
Play synopsis: About family stresses in a patriarchal northern household. Rafe Crompton rules the family with a rod of iron. Two of his children have left home to get away from him. His wife Daisy pawns his best coat to get money to give to one of the children who is leaving. When he finds out Daisy is so afraid of him that she tries to kill herself. Source: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsN/naughton-bill.html#25502.
Production history: 'Spring and Port Wine [...] began life under the title My Flesh, My Blood as a BBC Radio play, broadcast on 17 August 1957 in the Saturday Night Theatre strand. By April 1958 a BBC TV version had been broadcast and in October 1959 a stage adaptation was presented at the Bolton Hippodrome. Retitled Spring and Port Wine, the play was first produced in Birmingham prior to opening at London’s Mermaid Theatre in November 1965’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_and_Port_Wine).
Date of transmission: Sunday 24 July 1960
Time: 8.00-9.15pm
Series: Summer Theatre
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Terence Dudley

Playwright

Bill Naughton (1910-1992)

Designer

Robert Macgowan

Cast

Play tags: generational relations or conflict; north of England, as theme or setting

Title: Portrait of Domestic Tyrant Devoted to His Principles (Newspaper review)
Reference: The Times, 25 July 1960, p. 3

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