Learning on ScreenHenry VI, Part 2: The Rabble from Kent
- Summary
- 1960 BBC production of Henry VI, Part 2: The Rabble from Kent by Shakespeare, the eleventh in the fifteen-part series An Age of Kings which was the BBC’s great national pageant of eight history plays.
- Theatre play
- Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 22 September 1960
- Time
- 9.00-10.00pm
- Series
- Age of Kings
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Michael Hayes
- Producer
- Peter Dews
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Composer
- Arthur Bliss (title music)
- Composer
- Christopher Whelen
- Designer
- Stanley Morris
- Cast
David Andrews A Sea-Captain John Barcroft Lord Clifford Jeremy Bisley Gentleman / Messenger Adrian Brine Murderer / Walter Whitmore Paul Daneman Richard Kenneth Farrington Duke of Buckingham Patrick Garland Murderer / George Tony Garnett John Holland Julian Glover Edward Gordon Gostelow Earl of Salisbury John Greenwood Gentleman / Messenger Timothy Harley George Bevis Barry Jackson Michael Esmond Knight Jack Cade Robert Lang Cardinal Beaufort Terence Lodge Murderer / Smith the Weaver Jack May Richard, Duke of York Mary Morris Margaret John Ringham Humphrey / Master Alan Rowe Duke of Somerset John Murray Scott Vaux / Brother to Stafford Terry Scully King Henry the Sixth Leon Shepperdson Sir Humphrey Stafford Anthony Valentine Dick the Butcher Terry Wale The Clerk of Chatham Derek Ware Master’s Mate / Soldier John Warner Lord Say Jeffry Wickham Alexander Iden Jerome Willis Young Clifford Frank Windsor Earl of Warwick Edgar Wreford Duke of Suffolk
Additional details
- Play tags
- historical drama; royalty
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Henry VI, Part 2: The Rabble from Kent (BBC, 1960)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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White City
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- Title
- An Age of Kings: Eight History Plays by William Shakespeare
- Commercial availability
- Released in 2013 by Illuminations in the Screen Plays series
Print sources
- Title
- Adapting the Histories: An Age of Kings on Screen (Essay)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- Published as the booklet essay accompanying the commercially available DVD set An Age of Kings: Eight History Plays by William Shakespeare, released by Illuminations in the Screen Plays series.
- Title
- An Age of Kings: ‘France will be lost ere long’ (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/an-age-of-kings-france-will-be-lost-ere-long, published 16 July 2011
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 April 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- cover image; article, p. 3
Associated programmes
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