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Antony and Cleopatra (1930 Radio)

Producer

Cecil A. Lewis

Radio version of the play produced and adapted by C. A. Lewis. With Laura Cowie as Cleopatra, Cecil Ramage as Antony and Douglas Burbidge as Caesar. V.C. Clinton Baddeley acts as narrator. The incidental...

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Serpent of the Nile, The (1940 Radio)

aka: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra

Producer

Peter Creswell

A chronicle for radio based on Shakespeare’s play and Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Antonius. Arranged and produced by Peter Creswell with Fay Compton as Cleopatra and Cecil Trouncer as Anthony. Other parts...

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Elmer the Great (1936 Radio)

Series

Lux Radio Theatre

Director

Frank Woodruff

Radio drama anthology series hosted by Cecil B. DeMille. ELMER THE GREAT is a radio version of Mervyn LeRoy’s 1933 film of the same name. In the interval DeMille spoke to guests. The third intermission...

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News and Views of the Theatre [26/09/1923] (1923 Radio)

Series

News and Views of the Theatre

Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon featuring a review of Cymbeline at the New Theatre, London with Sybil Thorndike as Imogen. Haddon recommends the play for being produced "on...

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Thieves of Mercy (1947 Radio)

Series

Imaginary Conversations

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

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...

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News and Views of the Theatre [02/01/1924] (1924 Radio)

Series

News and Views of the Theatre

Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. In his review of Nigel Playfair’s revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Haddons praises director William...

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Upstart Crow, The (1948 Film)

Director

Cecil H. Williamson

A travelogue of ‘Shakespeare’s country’.

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Shakespeare and Friends [31/10/2006] (2006 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Performance

Second concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Passing of the Archbishop

Date released

6 Nov 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

805

NoS ID

013270

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Passing of the Archbishop. DESCRIPTION: The funeral of Dr William Temple was held in Canterbury Cathedral where only two and a half years before he had been enthroned as Archbishop....

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Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1923 Radio)

Producer

Cathleen Nesbitt

Full-length radio adaptation of the play arranged by Cathleen Nesbitt who also performs as Puck alongside Ernest Milton as Oberon and Nigel Playfair as Bottom. With a prologue by Cecil A. Lewis. Incidental...

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