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Schools radio broadcast. The 2-part programme in the series Good Writing is introduced by Douglas R. Alkin. The producer and the actors discuss the theme and characters of the play. The second episode...
Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Radio talk by BBC Productions Director Val Gielgud on the making of the recent broadcast version of Macbeth (12/3/1933; see separate entry) for which he was the joint producer. Gielgud discusses current...
Radio version of Dryden’s play of the same name (1678). Based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s blank verse take on the story focuses on the clash between the personal and political. In...
Radio programme in which Asian American writer Zulfikar Ghose talks about producing Shakespeare in Bombay, his production of Hamlet, and actor/producer Shasi Kapoor’s plans to start the first Indian...
Radio talk in which Michael McOwan looks at some of the challenges presented by modern productions of Shakespeare. McOwan, a producer of both modern and classical plays, discusses difficulties that may arise...
The radio talk focuses on Shakespeare and the amateur stage and is given by W. Nugent Monk, who was at the time owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, a theatre with an amateur company, in Norwich.
Tyrone Guthrie talks about the way in which Shakespeare’s plays are being staged in the theatre in the 1930s and the problems to be faced presenting them to a ‘modern’ audience.
What took place aboard the privateer which captured Hamlet on his way to England? How was it that, on his return to Denmark the melancholy Prince had become a man of energy and resolution? Read’s radio...
Radio play written for broadcasting by G. W. Stonier. Attempts to motivate Ophelia’s unexplained madness in Hamlet. With incidental music composed by Elizabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark.