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Henry at Agincourt (1939 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Leslie Banks performs scenes from Henry V, which, as Radio Times programme listings remind its wartime readers "contains some of the most stirring lines in English literature" (3 November 1939, p. 3).

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Shakespeare’s Heroes: King Lear (1979 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Heroes

Last in a seven-part radio series in which Michael Billington asks well-known actors to share their insights on the psychological complexity of the leading figures in Shakespearean tragedies that they have...

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Evelyn Waugh: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 66 minutes), £10.00

Drawing on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts, this CD presents Waugh in some of his most significant radio appearances. The recordings range from the earliest surviving example of Waugh’s voice, dating...

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At Home To-Day (1936 Radio)

Series

At Home To-Day

As part of this mixed talk radio programme, Evelyn Hall discusses ‘Acting Shakespeare’. No further information known (3/2008).

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Otello (1970 Radio)

aka: Othello

Producer

Anthony Besch

Radio broadcast of Rossini’s Otello. Nicola Tagger is Othello. The Radio Telefis Eireann Opera and Chorus is conducted by Albert Rosen.

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Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

Producer

Neil Cameron

Subject

Media studies; Psychology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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The Henry VI Trilogy: History into the Drama (1977 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare and the Histories

Second of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Emrys Jones looks at the new dramatic genre of the Shakespearean secular history play within the theatrical fashion of its time.

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Readings from Shakespeare - 3, Twelfth Night (1933 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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Off the Syllabus: Romeo and Juliet (1947 Radio)

Series

For the Schools

BBC schools broadcast. Scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedy were chosen and adapted for radio by Jo Manton. Starring Peggy Ashcroft and Basil C. Langton.

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Heroic and Unheroic (1964 Radio)

Series

This Mortal Coil

Producer

T. S. Gregory

Radio broadcast. Last in a group of three talks in which H. V. D. Dyson, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, considers Shakespeare’s treatment of death. In this episode Dyson discusses Henry V, Troilus and...

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