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Lift Up Your Hearts (1964 Radio)

aka: 1: A King’s Prayer 2: Christianity and Man 3: Tragic Revelation 4: Beyond Tragedy 5: Shakespeare’s England

Series

Lift Up Your Hearts

G. Wilson Knight gives the ‘Lift Up Your Hearts’ talks for the anniversary week. The five episodes focus on different aspects of Shakespeare and his faith.

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Shakespeare and His England (1947 Radio)

Producer

Douglas Cleverdon

A radio anthology on the English setting and English character as portrayed in the plays of Shakespeare. Includes performances by Abraham Sofaer, Cherry Cottrell, and others. With commentary by G. H. W....

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People from Shakespeare’s Plays: Macbeth (1953 Radio)

Series

Senior English II: People from Shakespeare’s Plays

Producer

Philippa Pearce

Schools radio broadcast. Part of series on Shakespeare’s characters, this programme (2 weekly parts) focuses on Macbeth.

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William Shakespeare and Richard III (1977 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare and the Histories

5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. In episode 4 Charles Ross, Reader in Medieval History, Bristol University, compares the hostile Tudor account of Richard III’s reign with...

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Shakespeare’ S Historical Plays (1947 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Historical Plays

Radio talk in which M. R. Ridley discusses the object of the Third Programme’s Festival of Shakespeare’s history plays, all of which he has arranged for broadcasting. He explains the method he has used...

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'The Tempest’ In Bradford (1969 Radio)

Series

Interval

Radio programme. Millicent Isherwood, producing a Shakespeare play in Bradford with a multi-racial cast had first to anwer the question "Please miss, what is a play?".

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Readings from Shakespeare - 4, The Merchant of Venice (1934 Radio)

Series

English Literature

Producer

Barbara Burnham

Radio schools broadcast. Dramatic readings from Shakespeare’s play with a short introduction to scenes used as the basis of an English literature lesson for 11-14 year old schoolchildren.

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Perkin Warbeck and Henry VIII: History, Drama, Truth (1977 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare and the Histories

A 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. In his final talk R. A. Foakes examines how historical truth is pitted against dramatic truth in John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck and Henry...

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Senior English II: Julius Caesar (1954 Radio)

aka: Julius Caesar

Series

Schools

Schools broadcast of four programmes based on Shakespeare’s play arranged for radio by John Richmond.

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Henry at Agincourt (1956 Radio)

Producer

John Gibson

Devised for broadcasting on St. George’s Day , this sequence from Henry V was produced for radio by John Gibson with Richard Burton in the title role and John Neville as Chorus.

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