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Radio adaptation of the play which was originally written for the stage by British playwright Clemence Dane (1888-1965). Arranged and directed by Robert Chignell, the production is produced by Val Gielgud....
Radio adaptation of the play produced by Howard Rose. Edmund Willard plays Lear and Lilian Harrison is Cordelia. Owen Cassidy narrates. With music composed by Norman O’Neill. The Wireless Orchestra is...
Radio broadcast. As part of a mixed programme, Martita Hunt and John Gielgud read a scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This appears to be from Harcourt Williams’s uncut production of the play that opened...
Radio programme. A selection of music performed by the Birmingham Studio Pianoforte Sextet is interspersed with performances of scenes from Hamlet (III iv), Macbeth (II i-ii), and The Merchant of Venice (IV...
Radio broadcast. The first act of Verdi’s opera is relayed from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Antonino Votto conducts. With Lauritz Melchio as Otello.
Schools television programme. A discussion of Henry V with scenes enacted. Scenes selected and introduction written by Ivor Brown and presented by John Gielgud.
Independent feature film. A prequel to Hamlet, taking place in medieval Denmark twenty-three years before the play and featuring many of the characters from Hamlet with Yorick as the film’s hero.
100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon (BFI, 2011). 227 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573080 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: Michael Hammond took his BA in History at California State University Los Angeles, his...
Radio broadcast. Catherine Bott examines the character of Falstaff. Includes music from Elgar’ s symphonic study of Falstaff; Salieri - who wrote a Falstaff opera; Nicolai’s opera of The Merry Wives of...
Radio version of the play produced by Val Gielgud. With Sebastian Shaw as Brutus, George Hayes as Cassius and Richard Williams as Caesar. The music is specially written by Christopher Whelen.
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