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Radio broadcast. Forbes-Robertson recites Buckingham’s ‘Farewell Speech’ (Henry VIII) and Hamlet’s ‘Advice to the Players’.
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 broadcast. Hamish Robertson talks to people involved in planned reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe in London and looks at the practical difficulties of rebuilding a sixteenth-century theatre...
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Forbes-Robertson’s and Thorndike’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from recordings featuring Forbes-Robertson as...
Television programme featuring scenes based on Romeo and Juliet, with Jean Forbes-Robertson as Juliet and Michael Redgrave as Romeo.
Third broadcast in a series offering condensed versions of plays performed at the theatre. Jean Forbes-Robertson as Portia and Frederick Valk as Shylock perform in scenes from the Old Vic production of...
13-part weekly radio series on music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Each episode focuses on a different play and is introduced by a different presenter (see below). Where an edition of London Calling was...
Recording of Measure For Measure by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Toby Robertson is the Duke of Vienna and Janette Richer Isabella.
The Scottish Opera production from the MacRobert Centre, Stirling, of Britten’s opera in three acts, produced for radio by Toby Robertson. Tim Curry stars as Puck in a spoken role. The Scottish Baroque...
Television schools programme. Redvers Kyle introduces works which have been influenced by the theme of Romeo and Juliet. In Part 2 he discusses Sophocles’ Antigone and Caste by T.W. Robertson.
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