Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,348 playable programmes from the BBC

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised for broadcasting by David Stringer
Produced by Ayton Whitaker
1—' Friar's Oak '
(EEC recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Broadcasting By:
David Stringer
Produced By:
Ayton Whitaker
Rodney Stone (as narrator):
Howard Rose
Joshua Allen:
Charles Leno
Rodney Stone (as a boy):
Christopher Haydock-Wilson
Jim Harrison (as a boy):
John Charlesworth
Wilks:
Trevor Hill
Jack Harrison:
Philip Lennard
Lord Frederick:
Alastair Bannerman
Polly Hinton:
Lydia Sherwood
Maidservant:
Joan Clement Scott

(‘L’Arbre*) by Jean Dutourd
English version by Lothian Small and E. J.King Bull
Production by E. J. KingBull
This is less a play than a glittering debate by a young French writer, about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. M. Dutourd gives his own version of that historic tenancy in a way that would amaze the authors of the Book of Genesis: he deals with such matters as Original Sin, Predestination, the Fall, the nature of God, Man, and the Devil, in a way that is light and witty as well as serious and searching. Eve is shown as a vain flibbertigibbet, Archangel Gabriel as a windy old majordomo, and deep arguments about ethics mix with irreverent asides about the boredom of listening to eternal church music in heaven. It is rather as though Anatole France had collaborated on a play by Andre Obey , since it has something of the quiet, subtle, deadly irony of the one writer, and a touch of the other's sophisticated simplicity in dealing with a Bible subject.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Dutourd
Unknown:
Lothian Small
Unknown:
E. J.King Bull
Production By:
E. J. Kingbull
Unknown:
Archangel Gabriel
Play By:
Andre OBEy
Eve:
Irene Worth
Adam:
Peter Coke
Gabriel:
Peter Carr Forster
The Creator:
Leon Quartermaine
The Serpent:
Ernest Milton

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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