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Full-length radio adaptation of the play starring Gerald Lawrence as Shylock and Cathleen Nesbitt as Portia. Music (three Entractes from the Purcell Suite in C) is provided by the Wireless Quartet under the...
Radio adaptation written by D. G. Brodson and produced by Laurence Gilliam. The play comprises three sequences ('The Trial’, ‘The Dream’, ‘The End’) and an epilogue. The cast includes Lewis Casson...
Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for radio and produced by Cathleen Nesbitt, who also plays both Viola and Sebastian to Gerald Lawrence’s Orsino. With music by Henry Purcell performed by the Wireless...
A 2-CD collection, compiled by David Timson and Nicholas Soames, of early sound recordings of Shakespearean actors: Herbert Beerbohn Tree as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (III i) and Falstaff in Henry IV....
Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
A radio programme made in honour of Shakespeare’s quartercentenary and compiled and presented by Lewis Nkosi. In the first item, the critic of The Statesman Ronald Bryden speaks about Laurence Olivier’s...
Full-length radio adaptation of the play arranged by Cathleen Nesbitt who also performs as Puck alongside Ernest Milton as Oberon and Nigel Playfair as Bottom. With a prologue by Cecil A. Lewis. Incidental...
Early sound short showing the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice (IV i). Lewis Casson is Shylock and Joyce Lyons plays Portia.
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Michael...
Video recording of Richard Monette’s 1996 production of King Lear for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with William Hutt as Lear.
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