Learning on ScreenSpindrift
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of Spindrift by Naomi Mitchison and Denis Macintosh, from the BBC’s television studio in Scotland.
- Theatre play
- Spindrift by Naomi Mitchison and Denis Macintosh [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 23 June 1959
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Finlay J. Macdonald
- Film Cameraman
- David Hanley
- Playwright
- Denis Macintosh
- Playwright
- Naomi Mitchison
- Adapted for Television by
- Ada Kay
- Musician
- Bobby MacLeod (accordion)
- Designer
- Robert Macgowan
- Film Editor
- James Mearns
- Cast
Tom Fleming Alec MacMillan, Airgiod James Gibson Matthew MacMillan, Matta John Grieve Dougie MacLean, The Goat Nora Laidlaw Jennie Paterson Eileen McCallum Ina Roddy McMillan Hamish MacMillan Douglas Murchie Willie Ritchie Ruth Robertson Waitress Molly Urquhart Seonnaid MacMillan Mary Walton Lottie Eric Woodburn Ian MacMillan, The Juck Frank Wylie Johnnie MacMillan
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Scotland, as theme or setting; Scottish drama; sea-faring
Print sources
- Title
- Inescapable Grip of the Sea (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 24 June 1959, p. 13
- Title
- Radio Times, 19 June 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 13
- Title
- Study of Scotiish Fishing Life: Guilty Together (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 19 August 1959, p. 12
- Linking notes
- passing mention
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