Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,802 playable programmes from the BBC

A play written for television by Michael Barry and Henry C. James.
Based on a story by Henry C. James.
The main action of this play takes place in the central Australian desert at the present time

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Barry
Writer/Based on a story by:
Henry C. James
Producer:
Michael Barry
Settings designer:
James Bould
Prospector - Dead Sweet Joe Confior:
Fred O'Donovan
Prospector - Jack Atherton:
Warren Jenkins
Mr. Lewis, a mine company agent/Man:
Cyril Chamberlain
Arthur Newstead, a publican:
Charles Rolfe
Clara, his wife:
Sheila MacKintosh
Prospector - Paddy Ryan:
Norman Latimer
Prospector - Jim Escreet:
Herbert C. Walton
Prospector - Harry Pickering:
Reg Varney
Mr. Thomson, a company promoter:
Laurence Naismith
Sam Jenkins, a mining engineer:
Richard Hurndall
Cathleen Connor, Joe's mother:
Pegeen Mair
Patrick Connor, Joe's father/Man:
Edward Byrne
Father Kelly, a priest/A man with a barrow:
W.A. Kelly
Bridget:
Joyce Chancellor
A woman with a baby:
Sheila MacKintosh
Emigrant:
Anthony Bacon
Emigrant:
Marguerite Young
Gold miner - Tom Jones:
Morris Sweden
Gold miner - Will Trelawny:
Horace Sequeira
Mr. Darlington, a promoter:
John Boxer
Daisy:
Christine Adrian
Ted, a barman:
Charles Lamb
The pianist:
Alan Bixter
Lofty Saunders:
Ivan Craig

BBC Television

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More