UK, 4 July 1938
60m
videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television play. It was the first of two live broadcasts of the same production, the second being on 13 July 1938. It was broadcast live and never recorded.
Credits
Crew
BBC
Play Production by: Desmond Davis
Written by: George Bernard Shaw
Cast
Esmé Percy (Androcles)
Guy Glover (Lion)
Molly Hamley Clifford (Megaera)
Basil Cunard (centurion)
William Hutchison (captain)
Iris Baker (Lavinia)
Don Gemmell (Lentulus)
Holland Bennett (Metulus)
John Gabriel (Spintho)
Malcolm Keen (Ferrovius)
Newton Blick (menagerie keeper)
Guy Glover (call boy)
Basil Cunard (Retiarius)
Harvey Braban (editor)
Don Gemmell (Secutor)
Michael Martin Harvey (Caesar)
