In this courtroom drama, the judge is played by Bruce Belfrage and the accused is played by Guy Middleton.
In The Halfway House (1944), Guy Middleton listens to the start of the BBC's nine o'clock news and hears, "Here is the news and this is Bruce Belfrage reading it", Middleton says, "Bruce Belfrage? I thought he was in the navy."
In real life, Belfrage was an actor and a BBC newsreader, and in WW2 he joined the navy, but before that when he was still a newsreader, he gained fame after an incident at the BBC.
In 1940, the BBC's Broadcasting House was bombed. The explosion damaged several floors of the building and killed seven people. The bomb exploded while Belfrage was reading the nine o'clock news. He was covered in soot and plaster and carried on reading as if nothing had happened.
In The Halfway House (1944), Guy Middleton listens to the start of the BBC's nine o'clock news and hears, "Here is the news and this is Bruce Belfrage reading it", Middleton says, "Bruce Belfrage? I thought he was in the navy."
In real life, Belfrage was an actor and a BBC newsreader, and in WW2 he joined the navy, but before that when he was still a newsreader, he gained fame after an incident at the BBC.
In 1940, the BBC's Broadcasting House was bombed. The explosion damaged several floors of the building and killed seven people. The bomb exploded while Belfrage was reading the nine o'clock news. He was covered in soot and plaster and carried on reading as if nothing had happened.