The Proposal
- Summary
- 1946 BBC studio production of Anton Chekhov’s one-act comedy The Proposal.
- Theatre play
- The Proposal by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 12 June 1946
- Time
- 9.05-9.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Fred O’Donovan (1889-1952)
- Playwright
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- Translator
- Constance Garnett
- Cast
Edward Lexy Tchubov Marjorie Mars Natasha Desmond Walter-Ellis Lomov
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.30pm on Tuesday 18 June 1946.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; comedy; farce; Russian drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 7 June 1946 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and photograph, p. 26
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