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Twelfth Night (1964 Radio)

Series

Best of Shakespeare, The

Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, two 30-minute episodes...

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Roméo and Juliette (1900 Film)

Director

Clément-Maurice

Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Ball hazards a guess that the aria was ‘Ah! Lève-toi soleil’. The film experimented with a synchronised sound system outlined by...

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Polonius (1944 Radio)

Series

Radio Theatre: Shakespeare’s Characters

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio broadcast on an excerpt from Hamlet that focuses on the character of Polonius. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Leslie Stokes as speaker.

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1994 Radio)

Producer

Jenny Bowen

Radio quiz show with Christopher Cook in the chair. Actress Juliet Stevenson and writer Germaine Greer lead the teams, testing their knowledge of Shakespeare’s work as well as their imagination in...

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Hamlet (1961 Radio)

Extracts of Shakespeare’s play broadcast in two 30-minute sequences with Ralph Richardson in the title role. Part 1 includes Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and...

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STOCKS FOR WATTS

Date released

Jan 1960

Series name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

346072

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: the storing of coal for the new power station being built at High Marnham in Nottinghamshire which will be the largest electricity generating station in Britain (1,000MW) NCB Commentary -...

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The Ladies

Date released

1962

Series name

The Way Ahead (Wyvern)

Issue no

6

NoS ID

352976

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: Nearly 30,000 women work for British Rail. Stories of 8 women - Crossing Keeper at Kempton, Hostess on Derby Station, Lookout for P.Way gang, Signal Box Keeper at Anderstaff Lane, Burton.

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British Empire’s New Waterway

Date released

May 1936

Series name

The March of Time 2nd Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

352146

Story no

1 / 3

The March of Time synopsis: Once again the 30-year-old spectre of the St. Lawrence Seaway threatens New Orleans’ 50-mile waterfront. Word comes that the new Congress will reconsider the treaty with Canada,...

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REAPING THE WIND

Date released

Dec 1951

Series name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

345727

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: a windmill electricity generator at Costa Head in Orkney. NCB Commentary - The northernmost regular air service in Britain is the run between Aberdeen and the Orkney and Shetland islands....

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Pandarus (1944 Radio)

Series

Radio Theatre: Shakespeare’s Characters

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio broadcast that focuses on the character of Pandarus in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Produced by Mary Hope Allen with commentary by Herbert Farjeon. With Max Adrian as Pandarus.

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