No Home of Their Own

Summary

BBC Television production of the comedy No Home of Their Own.

Theatre play

No Home of Their Own by Jonty Dewhurst and P. Jones Blakey [more information]

Play synopsis

A family comedy set in James Cartwright’s house in Warmsley, a small industrial town in Yorkshire.

Production history

The website of the playwright’s family suggests that he wrote this play for the theatre (http://www.jonathan-dewhurst.info/jonty.html, accessed 12 November 2012). It was performed at the Royal Pavilion, Blackpool in January 1957 (http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FFC9C13C-7D74-487C-816B-CE7EEC70DAA5/0/CyrilCritchlowCollectionCatalogue.pdf, accessed 12 November 2012).

Date of transmission

Sunday 1 April 1956

Time

8.20pm (85 mins)

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Andrew Osborn

Playwright

P. Jones Blakey

Playwright

Jonty Dewhurst

Designer

John Cooper

Cast

Margaret Anderson	Nellie Cartwright
Terence Brook	Roland Ramsdale
Edward Chapman	James Cartwright
Diana Fairfax	Bessie Cartwright
Jack Howarth	Sam Ramsdale
Peggy Marshall	Sheila Ramsdale
Brian Peck	Alfred Cartwright
Jimmy Thompson	Leslie Strong
Iris Vandeleur	Daisy Roebottom

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; north of England, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 30 March 1956 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 1

Title

Religioso (Magazine review)

Author/creator

Philip Hope-Wallace

Reference

The Listener, 5 April 1956, p. 373