Learning on ScreenThe Farmer’s Wife
- Summary
- 1955 BBC Television production of The Farmer’s Wife, a comedy by Eden Phillpotts, transmitted as the first play from the BBC’s West Region studio in Bristol.
- Theatre play
- The Farmer’s Wife by Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 1 February 1955
- Time
- 8.45-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Nicholas Crocker
- Producer
- Owen Reed
- Playwright
- Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960)
- Designer
- Lawrence [Laurence] Broadhouse
- Cast
June Barrie Constance Chapman Mary Hearn Kenneth Connor Henry Coaker Malcolm Farquhar George Smerdon Bernard Fishwick Reg Fry Lewis Gedge Valiant Dunnybrig Patricia Gibson Petronell Sweetland Hedley Goodall Samuel Sweetland Richard Grant Richard Coaker Brenda Hamilton Edgar Harrison Gwen Howell Billy Poeton Cyril Royall Margaret Stallard Sibley Sweetland Sarah Stannard Louisa Windeatt Jan Stewer Churdles Ash George Walsh Jeanne Watts Araminta Joan White Thirza Tapper
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; Devon, as theme or setting; marriage
Print sources
- Title
- Looking West with Advantage: The Farmer’s Wife (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 2 February 1955, p. 5
- Title
- Radio Times, 27 November 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- mentioned in passing on p. 27
- Title
- Radio Times, 28 January 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and caption by Peter Forster, p. 26
- Title
- This Was It (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 10 February 1955, p. 260
- Notes
- Brief mention and comment ‘worthily presented from Bristol’; production photograph on p. 261
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