Learning on ScreenThe Queen Came By
- Summary
- 1960 BBC production of R. F. Delderfield’s The Queen Came By, featuring Thora Hird in the role she created when the play was first produced in London in 1948. This was the first time that Hird and her daughter Janette Scott had performed together in any medium
- Theatre play
- The Queen Came By by R. F. [Ronald Frederick] Delderfield (1912-1972) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 17 April 1960
- Time
- 8.00-9.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Hal Burton
- Playwright
- R. F. [Ronald Frederick] Delderfield (1912-1972)
- Designer
- Hal Burton
- Cast
Ian Ainsley Sir Oswald Carter Brooke Timothy Bateson Eustace Wallasy Jane Henderson Mrs Peel Thora Hird Emmie Slee Frederick Jaeger Albert Betterby Susan Lawrence Apprentice Harry Littlewood Ridge Lana Morris Esta Muirhead Richard Pearson George Frisby Brian Peck Roger Higgins Jenny Ruddock Apprentice Prunella Scales Maud Murch Janette Scott Kitty Tape John Wilding Apprentice
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- A Noble Piece (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Irving Wardle (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 21 April 1960, p. 727
- Notes
- 'Routine entertainment’; includes a production photograph
- Title
- Radio Times, 15 April 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- illustrated listing, p. 11; article, p. 4
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