Brechtian television: Leo McKern in Galileo (1964) (opens in new tab)

\"Has anyone ever produced Brechtian television?\" I asked when writing about The Exorcism \. To an extent, they have\. Because here are the first eight minutes of a 1964 television production of Brecht's play Galileo, and it begins with a shot of the cast arriving with a microphone boom and its operator purposely in shot\. This production was shown on BBC1 on Wednesday 29 April 1964 and the translation of the play is by Charles Laughton\. It's a shame that only this short section of this pro...