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Love on the Dole

Summary
1960 BBC production of Love on the Dole by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood, from the BBC’s North of England television studio.
Theatre play
Love on the Dole by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 24 April 1960
Time
8.00-9.30pm
Series
Twentieth Century Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Vivian A. Daniels
Playwright
Ronald Gow
Playwright
Walter Greenwood
Writer
Walter Greenwood (wrote the novel on which the stage play was based)
Designer
Paul Bernard
Cast
Betty AlbergeMrs Doyle
John BarrieSam Grundy
Tom BellLarry Meath
Joby BlanshardHenry Hardcastle
Avis BunnageSarah
Marion DawsonMrs Dorbell
Dudy NimmoHelen Hawkins
Edna PetrieMrs Jike
Alan RothwellHarry
Robert VaughanDoyle
Doris WellingsMrs Bull
Billie WhitelawSally
Leonard WilliamsO’Leary
Jack WoolgarCharlie

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
north of England, as theme or setting; unemployment

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 22 April 1960 (Magazine)
Linking notes
article, p. 8; listing, p. 11

Record Stats

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