Angel Pavement (1957 TV series)

Angel Pavement was a six-part British television adaptation of J.B. Priestley's 1930 novel of the same name. Produced and broadcast by the BBC, it aired in weekly installments in 1957. The series followed the fortunes of the struggling London veneer and import firm, Twigg & Dersingham, and the impact on its employees when a mysterious foreign businessman, Mr. Golspie, arrives with the promise of revitalizing their business with South American trade. The narrative explores themes of ambition, economic hardship, social class, and the changing face of London. While details about the specific cast and crew are somewhat scarce due to the era in which it was produced and the limited availability of archival information, it is known that the adaptation sought to capture the atmosphere and characters of Priestley's novel, bringing the story to a wider audience through the medium of television. As a live television production, no recordings of the original broadcast are known to survive. The series represents a notable, though now largely lost, example of early British television drama adapting popular literary works.