Where the Wind Blows

Summary

1959 BBC Television production of Where the Wind Blows by John Gwilym Jones, from the BBC’s Welsh studio.

Theatre play

Where the Wind Blows [Lle Mynno’r Gwynt] by John Gwilym Jones (1914-1988) [more information]

Play synopsis

'The outbreak of war brings to a head the stresses and strains working upon the members of the Rev. Edwyn Lloyd’s family’ (Radio Times, 6 November 1959, p. 11). The play is set in north-west Wales during the Second World War.

Production history

Dated to 1958, and designated as a stage play, at http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gwilym_Jones_%28dramodydd%29.

Date of transmission

Sunday 8 November 1959

Time

8.45-10.10pm

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Emyr Humphreys

Playwright

John Gwilym Jones (1914-1988)

Adapted for Television by

Elwyn Thomas

Translator

Elwyn Thomas (from the Welsh)

Designer

David Butcher

Cast

John Charlesworth	David
Clifford Evans	The Rev. Edwyn Lloyd
Valerie Gearon	Janet
Peter Halliday	Trevor
Glyn Owen	Huw
Joy Owen	Megan
Helen Sessions	Alis Lloyd
Zena Walker	Gwladys

Additional details

Play tags

Second World War, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting; Welsh drama

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 6 November 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, article and photograph on p. 11

Title

To-day’s Television and Radio (Newspaper listing)

Reference

The Observer, 8 November 1959, p. 24