UK, 29 December 1949
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television play directed by an uncredited Douglas Allen. This was the second of two stagings of the same play, the first having been broadcast on Coventry Nativity Play, The (1949a)|24 December 1949.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Director: Douglas Allen *
BBC
Produced by: Douglas Allen
Adapted by: Douglas Allen
Settings by: Richard Greenough
Movement and Grouping Arranged by: Lydia Sokolova
Cast
Joseph O’Conor (Gabriel)
Thea Holme (Mary)
John Boxer (Joseph)
James Viccars (first shepherd)
Julian Somers (second shepherd)
Andrew Leigh (third shepherd)
Robert Rietty (Herod’s herald)
Alan Wheatley (Herod)
George Howe (Jaspar, king of Taurus)
Oliver Burt (Balthasar, king of Araby)
Noel Howlett (Melchior, king of Aginara)
Petra Davies (first woman)
Felicity Barrington (second woman)
Rosamund Greenwood (third woman)
Robert Brown (first soldier)
Anthony Viccars (second soldier)
Peter Doughty, Richard Sherren, David Stoll, Robert Weedon (angels)
Kenneth Osbourne (a monk)
References
Periodicals
- Radio Times vol.104 no.1366 16 December 1949 p.47 – credits
