A Midsummer Night’s Dream [excerpts]

Summary
BBC production of excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by Dallas Bower.
Theatre play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare [more information]
Date of transmission
Thursday 18 February 1937
Time
3.55pm (6 mins)
Series
Scenes from Shakespeare
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Dallas Bower (1907-1999)
Cast
Patricia HilliardTitania
D. Hay PetrieBottom

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
children’s drama; Elizabethan drama; Greece, as theme or setting; marriage; supernatural; theatre or acting, as theme

Print sources

Title
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1937 (Archive file)
Archive
BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
Address

Peppard Road
Caversham Park
Reading
Berkshire
RG4 8TZ
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)118 948 6281

Email

heritage@bbc.co.uk

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/wac

Access

The WAC is open from 9.30am to 5.00pm on Wednesdays to Fridays throughout the year to academics, postgraduate students and writers by appointment.

Reference
T5/332, 1937-56
Title
BBC Television Programme Records: vol. 1, 1937-38 (Book)
Reference
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938
Linking notes
listing on p. 14
Title
Radio Times, 12 February 1937 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing on p. 8

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