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Tempest, The; Or, The Enchanted Island (1950 Radio)

Producer

Douglas Cleverdon

Radio version of the Davenant/Dryden/Shadwell adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for which Henry Purcell wrote the music in 1695. With Robert Harris as Prospero. Constant Lambert conducts the Covent...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Movietone Goes to ITMA Party

Date released

10 Aug 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

792A

NoS ID

013185

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ITMA Farewell Party. DESCRIPTION: Movietone goes to ITMA’s Farewell Party and joins Tommy Handley and company. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS Group on stage, saying "It’s the boss" etc....

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Preface to ‘The Tempest’, A (1950 Radio)

Radio talk broadcast as a preface to a transmission of Dryden/Davenant’s adaptation of The Tempest revised for the musical stage by Thomas Shadwell (see separate entry). W. W. Robson, Fellow of Lincoln...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Princess and Duke Aboard Pamir

Date released

11 Mar 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

979A

NoS ID

014993

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visitors to the Pamir. DESCRIPTION: Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visit the barque Pamir. SHOTLIST: KS SLS Pamir in docks. Preceded by Captain Collier, Princess...

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Purcell: The Masque in ‘Timon of Athens’ (1950 Radio)

Director

Anthony Lewis

Music programme about Purcell’s adaptations of literary works. The masque from Timon of Athens (1694), Purcell’s incidental music for the play, is the second of a two-part broadcast which begins with...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Tommy Handley’s Last Journey

Date released

17 Jan 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1024

NoS ID

015518

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Crowds Mourn Tommy Handley. DESCRIPTION: Huge crowds watch the funeral cortege of Tommy Handley on its way to Golders Green Crematorium. Large crowds outside the Chapel listened to the...

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