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Forty Years on (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 95 min. 2 compact discs. 95 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) audiocassette 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) CD

Alan Bennett stars in a radio production of his satirical comedy ‘Forty Years On’ (1968). The plot concerns a soon-to-retire headmaster who attempts to bestow his nostalgia-ridden influence on the...

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Shakespeare on the Radio (Audio, Radio)

An MP3 CD compilation of 50 recordings related to Shakespeare on radio which are listed in the Old Time Radio catalogue. Includes material from John Barrymore and Orson Welles plus episodes of dramas and...

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John Gielgud at the BBC (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

Extracts of John Gielgud’s radio performances, collected from the BBC Archive. Includes ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ with Edith Evans, ‘Arms and the Man’, ‘Richard II’, ‘Measure for...

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Under Milk Wood (Audio-Bbc) (1963 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 100 min. 2 compact discs. 100 min., 2000 audiocassette sale: £9.99 (inclusive) 2000 CD sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Recording of a 1963 broadcast of Dylan Thomas’s radio play ‘Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices’, with Richard Burton. This version contains several passages omitted from the first recording in 1954....

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Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio (2006)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 235 minutes), £39.95

Released to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett [1906-1989], this set of four CDs collects the five works that Beckett created expressly for the radio: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music,...

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Cascando (1984 Audio)

Director

David R Clark

Producer

Katharine Worth

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 25 min.

The radio play by Samuel Beckett. Music by Humphrey Searle and the London Sinfonietta.

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Day That Panicked America, The: H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds Scandal (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $9.99

Examines the events surrounding the broadcast in 1938 of Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds which caused panic when thousands of Americans thought the world was coming to an...

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Vintage Archers (3 Parts) (1988 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 6 audiocassettes. 3 x 145 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) each 2001 sale: £22.50 (inclusive) set

Three two-audiocassette packs containing collected excerpts from ‘The Archers’ radio serial drama, which was first broadcast on 1 January 1951. 1 (1988): These early episodes set the scene for the...

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War of the Worlds Broadcast (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $9.99

The full 1-hour classic radio ‘Mischief Night’ that took place on 30 October 1938, in which Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater- On-The-Air produced a dramatization of H.G. Wells’ tale "War of the...

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Aeneid, The (1999 Audio)

Producer

Viv Beeby; Jeremy Howe

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 120 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A dramatisation of Virgil’s epic poem ‘The Aeneid’, translated by Cecil Day-Lewis and adapted by Tom Holland. Tells the story of the legendary origin of the Roman Empire through the experiences of the...

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