The Breadwinner

Summary: 1938 BBC Television studio production of Somerset Maugham’s comedy The Breadwinner.
Theatre play: The Breadwinner by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. ‘Charles Battle has been "hammered" in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted. Maugham keeps his audience ignorant of the disaster facing Charles for much of the play, at which point we learn what the effect would be on his wife and teenage son and daughter. Charles’ good friend Alfred Granger and his wife and son and daughter, all of whom are a similar age to their Battle counterparts, fill the scenes in the Battles’ house at Golders Green in London’. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bread-Winner_(play); accessed 12 February 2014.)
Production history: First produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in September 1930.
Date of transmission: Monday 7 November 1938
Time: 3.00pm (90 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

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Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

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