Saturday Night Theatre | Our Town (1946)

Based on Our Town by Thornton Wilder 

The everyday lives of the Webb and Gibbs family as they see their children fall in love, marry and live out their lives in the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners.

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Access

Licence: ERA Licence required

Content
  • Type: Adaptation
  • Channel: BBC Home Service
  • Duration: 1'24'40''
  • Broadcast date: 1946
Usage

UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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Other Archive resources
Our Town | BBC World Service | 1995

Saturday Night Theatre | Our Town (1995)

Thornton Wilder's American theatre classic tells of everyday life in turn-of-the-century Grover's Corners in New Hampshire.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | BBC Home Service | 1956

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1956)

John Gielgud reading 'The Ancient Mariner'.