Learning on ScreenCharles and Mary [excerpts]
- Summary
- 1938 BBC studio presentation of excerpts from the Players’ Theatre production of Joan Temple’s play about Charles and Mary Lamb. The playwright took the role of Mary.
- Theatre play
- Charles and Mary by Joan Temple [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 20 May 1938
- Time
- 9.20pm (70 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- Players’ Theatre, London
Credits
- Producer
- Lanham Titchener
- Playwright
- Joan Temple
- Cast
Frith Banbury Charles Dudley Hugh Burden Samuel Coleridge Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Christine Hartley Patricia Hayes Hester Savory Philip Morant John Lamb Marjorie Rhodes Becky Peter Ridgway Charles Lamb Valentine Rooke Joan Temple Mary Lamb
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 9.20pm on Sunday August 28 1938, with Marie Ney as Mary Lamb, and John Ruddock, Daphne Scorer, Stringer Davies and Eileen Rhodes in the cast. In the Radio Times listing on this date it is not billed as the Players’ Theatre production, nor as ‘excerpts’.
- Notes
- The anonymous theatre critic for The Times wrote of the stage production: ‘This gentle, moving sketch of Charles Lamb’s domestic affliction is suited to a small stage, and Mr Peter Ridgway’s company give it a gentle, moving production’ ('Players’ Theatre: Charles and Mary’, The Times, 29 April 1938, p. 14).
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; historical drama; poetry and literature, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting: Mendelssohn in England (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 27 August 1938, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 13 May 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 13
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 August 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 19
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