Golden Rain

Summary

1959 BBC Television production of Golden Rain by R. F. Delderfield, from the BBC’s West of England studio.

Theatre play

Golden Rain by R. F. [Ronald Frederick] Delderfield (1912-1972) [more information]

Play synopsis

A comedy set in a West Country vicarage. The newly married vicar and his wife are discovering how to run a house on a small stipend. Catherine, the vicar’s wife, is determined to remove the discomforts of the damp and dilapidated house whilst her husband is absorbed in a campaign against football pool, which he considers to be one of the sins of modern life.

Production history

Published in 1953.

Date of transmission

Saturday 28 February 1959

Time

8.35pm (90 mins)

Series

Saturday Playhouse

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Patrick Dromgoole

Playwright

R. F. [Ronald Frederick] Delderfield (1912-1972)

Designer

Desmond Chinn

Cast

Clare Austin	Catherine Strawbridge
Michael Gwynn	The Rev. Roger Strawbridge
Jeremy Longhurst	Sydney Palk
Bessie Love	Mrs Stukeley-Mosher
Carmel McSharry	Mrs Tuckett
Penny Morrell	Marlene Cheetah
Richard Pearson	Mr Williams
Peter Perre[e?]	Mervyn Crudge
Kynaston Reeves	Archdeacon Shearing

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Christianity; gambling

Print sources

Title

Men of God (Magazine review)

Author/creator

Ivor Brown (Reviewer)

Reference

The Listener, 5 March 1959, p. 428

Linking notes

with image of the production

Title

Radio Times, 20 February 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article and listing, p. 23