Learning on ScreenAndrocles and the Lion
- Summary
- 1938 BBC Television studio production of George Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, a retelling of the fable set in ancient Rome.
- Theatre play
- Androcles and the Lion by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 4 July 1938
- Time
- 9.00-10.00pm (60 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Desmond Davis
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Cast
Iris Baker Lavinia Holland Bennett Metellus Newton Blick Menagerie Keeper Harvey Braban Editor Basil Cunard Centurion; Retiarius John Gabriel Spintho Don Gemmell Lentulus; Secutor Guy Glover Lion; Call Boy Molly Hamley-Clifford Megaera William Hutchison Captain Malcolm Keen Ferrovius Michael Martin-Harvey Caesar Esmé Percy Androcles
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Wednesday 13 July 1938.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- ancient Rome and colonies; Christianity; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Androcles and the Lion (BBC, 1938, 1946, 1951) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/androcles-and-the-lion-bbc-1938-1946-1951, published 24 August 2012
- Title
- Bernard Shaw and the BBC (Book)
- Author/creator
- L. W. Connolly (Author)
- Reference
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008
- Linking notes
- p.93
- Title
- Radio Times, 1 July 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 16 and article p. 15
- Title
- Televised Plays: Reliance on Dialogue (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Anonymous (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Times, 12 July 1938, p. 21
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