The Rough and Ready Lot
- Summary
- 1959 BBC Television production of The Rough and Ready Lot by Alun Owen. The end credits of the recording extant in the BBC’s archive note that ‘This production was originally staged by the 59 Theatre Company at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith’.
- Theatre play
- The Rough and Ready Lot by Alun Owen [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 22 September 1959
- Time
- 8.00-9.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Casper Wrede
- Television Production by
- Casper Wrede
- Theatre Director
- Casper Wrede
- Playwright
- Alun Owen
- Adapted for Television by
- Charles Lawrence
- Designer
- Malcolm Pride
- Cast
Patrick Allen Captain O’Keefe June Brown Chica Rupert Davies The Colonel Alan Dobie Captain Morgan Wilfred Grove Indian Soldier Ronald Harwood Pablo Jack MacGowran Captain Kelly Helen Montague Indian Girl
Additional details
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Rough and Ready Lot (BBC, 1959)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
Telephone
London
UK+44 (0)20 8008 2288
Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
AccessBBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.
Print sources
- Title
- No Hearthrug Hustings (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 27 September 1959, p. 15A
- Title
- Radio Times, 18 September 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article
- Title
- Rough and Ready Lot Does Not Quite Succeed (Newspaper review of stage production)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 2 June 1959, p. 5
- Title
- The Rough and Ready Lot on Television (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 23 September 1959, p. 13
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