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Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. In his review of Nigel Playfair’s revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Haddons praises director William...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon featuring a review of Cymbeline at the New Theatre, London with Sybil Thorndike as Imogen. Haddon recommends the play for being produced "on...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
Third in a series of experimental radio transmissions of school broadcasts that at the time were received by about 100 schools. In this week’s episode, the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson talks about...
Radio adaptation of the play arranged and produced by Sydney Russell who also plays the title role.
Silent fiction film. Abbreviated version of the The Merry Wives of Windsor concentrating on the basket scene.
Radio broadcast. Percival Steeds in a story recital of Shakespeare’s play adapted in two scenes. Scene 1: Cleopatra hears of Antony’s marriage with Octavia. Characters: Cleopatra, Charmian, Messenger....
Shakespeare-themed radio programme. Orchestral music, mainly by Mendelssohn, Germain and Sullivan, with old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics followed by passages from The Taming of the Shrew....
The radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth comprises a reading about "Shakespeare And His England", a performance of King Henry V, Act V, Scene ii and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, scene...
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...
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