Learning on ScreenThe True Mistery of the Passion
- Summary
- 1960 BBC production of the medieval French play The True Mistery of the Passion, in English translation, televised from Bristol Cathedral by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral.
- Theatre play
- The True Mistery of the Passion by Anon. [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 14 April 1960
- Time
- 9.45-11.15pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Brandon Acton-Bond
- Adapted for Television by
- James Kirkup
- Translator
- James Kirkup
- Composer
- Reginald Redman
- Conductor
- Reginald Redman
- Designer
- Desmond Chinn
- Cast
June Barrie Puff Joby Blanshard Blacksmith James Bree Bananias John Cater Foolish Soldier Constance Chapman Marcella Ethel Coleridge Mary James Culliford Thief Richard Dare Torturer Rupert Davies Caiaphas Maurice Durant Jeroboam Alan Edwards Mardoceus Malcolm Farquhar Torturer Hedley Goodall Satan Daphne Heard Despair Charles Houston The Man Who Played Jesus David Jackson Foolish Soldier Aileen Mills Mary Wensley Pithey Herod Ruth Porchier Our Lady Charles Rea Foolish Soldier Ivor Salter Centurion Richard Shaw Torturer Ewen Solon Pilate Henry Soskin Robert Richard Statman Foolish Soldier Patrick Troughton Judas Anthony Valentine John Richard Walter Simon Margaret Wedlake Pilate’s Wife Bruce Wightman Foolish Soldier Richard Wilding Torturer Barry Wilsher Thief George Woodbridge Carpenter Edward Woodward Peter Felicity Young Mary
Additional details
- Origination
- Recorded on location
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Repeated on 31 March 1961 at 2.45pm
- Play tags
- Christianity; French drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 April 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated article and listing, p. 15; article, p. 4
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