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How Say You? [scene]

Summary
1959 BBC presentation of a 45-minute scene from the comedy How Say You? by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman, televised direct from the Aldwych Theatre, London, by arrangement with Michael Codron in association with John Counsell, Ltd.
Theatre play
How Say You? by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman [more information]
Date of transmission
Thursday 28 May 1959
Time
9.15pm (45 mins)
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Television Presentation by
John Vernon
Theatre Director
John Counsell
Playwright
Kay Bannerman
Playwright
Harold Brooke
Designer
Anthony Holland
Cast
Leslie DwyerSidney Pudney
Ann FirbankFrances Pilbright
Michael GartredA Police Constable
Kathleen HarrisonGladys Pudney
Frederick KeenUsher to the Court
Jeanette LandisPearl Hoskins
Duncan LewisGeorge Lockwood
John LineClerk to the Court
A. E. MatthewsMr Peebles
Francis MatthewsGuy Stevens
Derek NimmoHubert Shannon
Malcolm RussellMr Justice Hadden

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy; court-room drama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 22 May 1959 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and photograph on p. 15; article on p. 4
Title
Temporal and Comical (Magazine review)
Author/creator
Ivor Brown (Reviewer)
Reference
The Listener, 4 June 1959, p. 997

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