07 April 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times March 31, 1939.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00 Friends From The Zoo
- Introduced by David Seth-Smith and their keepers
- 15.15 Pas Seul
- (Details as Tuesday, 21.50)
- 15.30 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 15.40-16.00 Cyril Smith
- (pianoforte) playing Beethoven's Concerto No 2 with The BBC Television Orchestra Leader, Boris Pecker, conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
- 20.00 National Programme
- (sound only)
- 21.00 Friends From The Zoo
- Introduced by David Seth-Smith and their keepers
- 21.15 News Film
- British Movietonews
- 21.25-22.25 'The Pilgrim's Progress'
- by John Bunyan. Adapted for television by H. D. C. Pepler. Incidental music collected and arranged by Lionel Salter. Dances arranged by Antony Tudor. Cast: Bunyan- Dennis Arundell, (by permission of O'Bryen, Linnit, and Dunfee), Christian- Alan Bourne Webb, Evangelist and Envy- Bruce Adams, Pliable and By-Ends- Charles Peters. Obstinate and Clerk to the Court- D. G. Milford, Worldly Wiseman and Judge Hategood- Lawrence Hanray, Hopeful- Guy Verney, Porter and Superstition- Douglas Allen, Discretion- Margaret Pepler (by permission of the Vic-Wells Management), Charity- Kathleen Hilditch (by permission of the Vic-Wells Management) , Prudence- Therese Langfield, Piety- Ann Gee, Apollyon- Alured Weigall, Faithful- Robert Eddison, Talkative and Diffidence- Charlotte Leigh (by permission of Herbert Farjeon), Giant Despair- H. D. C. Pepler, Juror- Wilfred Franks. The BBC Television Orchestra Leader, Boris Pecker Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum. Production by Stephen Thomas. The programme will be repeated on Sunday, April 9. This is an entirely new dramatisation of Bunyan's masterpiece. Although cuts have been made to turn the story into dialogue form, nearly all the familiar characters remain, and the glorious language of the allegory, written more than 250 years ago, cannot fail to make this a notable television occasion. All the incidental music has been culled from sixteenth and seventeenth century sources.
