Tea Party
Tea Party

Tea Party (1964)


Tea Party

Tea Party [short story] (1963)

Channel BBC Third Programme
Broadcast Date 29 August 1964
Broadcast time 21:50:00
Length (minutes) 20
Series Unknown
Episode
Description Pinter reads his short story Tea Party. This is a prose work, distinct from the dramatic script that would subsequently be made of it, which received a television production on BBC1 the following year under the European Broadcasting Union's banner the Largest Theatre in the World. Martin Esslin in his Pinter the Playwright (London: Methuen Drama, 2000) gives the broadcast date of 2 June 1964, as does William Baker in his A Harold Pinter Chronology (London: Palgrave, 2013). However, we can find no BBC source that confirms this date, and the only broadcast dates given for this reading of the short story are 29 August 1964 (on the Third Programme), and a repeat on 16 September 1964 (on Network Three) at 22:45.
Language English

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Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Reader


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BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) (Cultural Institution | Est. 1922)

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Sources

Harold Pinter (listing)

Radio Times, 27 August 1964, p. 13

Magazine

BBC Written Archives Centre production file

R19/1557 The Tea Party, 1963-65

Archival materials

Includes typescript of the work as read on radio.