Learning on ScreenAndrocles and the Lion, Part 2
- Summary
- 1960 BBC two-part production for schools of Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw. The first part exists in the archives, but the second is lost.
- Theatre play
- Androcles and the Lion by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 15 March 1960
- Time
- 2.05-2.35pm
- Series
- Schools
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Ronald Eyre
- Playwright
- [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Composer
- George Hall
- Musician
- George Hall
- Designer
- Gordon Roland
- Special Effects
- Jeremy Bisley ('The lion roared by’)
- Cast
Peter Bull The Emperor Roderick Cook Androcles Peggy Forbes-Robertson unnamed part Jeremy Geidt The Editor Julian Glover The Captain Gordon Gostelow Menagerie Keeper Clinton Greyn Ferrovius Trevor Griffiths (1935-) unnamed part Alan Holden unnamed part Richard Holden unnamed part Meriel Hunn unnamed part Frederick Jones unnamed part Evelyn Lund unnamed part Ruth Meyers Lavinia Patrick Milner unnamed part Michael Murray Secutor Donald Pickering Metellus Kerrigan Prescott Retiarius Terry Scully Spintho Bob Stevenson The Lion Derek Ware The Call Boy David William Lentulus
Additional details
- Origination
- Recorded in studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Repeated on 18 October 1960 (2.05-2.35pm).
- Play tags
- ancient Rome and colonies; Christianity; comedy
- Programme context tags
- schools television programming
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Androcles and the Lion (BBC, 1960)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 11 March 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 14
Associated programmes
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