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Twenty Five Years Ago

Date released

6 Nov 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1692

NoS ID

024349

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Twenty Five Years Ago. DESCRIPTION: The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the BBC Television Service, the first in the world. And Movietone, by the way, was first to supply the...

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Panorama: Macbeth (1950 Radio)

Series

Schools

Schools broadcast. Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play by Philippa Pearce. With Dereck Guyler, Carleton Hobbs, Selma Vas Dias in the cast.

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Tragical History of King Lear, The (1941 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Radio version of King Lear arranged and produced by Peter Creswell. With John Gielgud in the title role and Carleton Hobbs as Gloucester.

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Senior English II: King Henry V (1945 Radio)

aka: King Henry V

Series

Schools

Schools broadcast of scenes of Shakespeare’s play in the BBC ‘Senior English II’ slot. With Carleton Hobbs as narrator and Howard M. Crawford as King Henry.

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O Rare Ben Jonson (1945 Radio)

Radio drama written by L. A. Strung on the career of Ben Jonson. Carleton Hobbs speaks the part of William Shakespeare, Alexander Sarner is Inigo Jones and Ian Fleming plays James I.

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Sir Thomas More: A Tribute to the Memory of a Brave Man (1935 Radio)

Producer

Laurence Gilliam

Radio adaptation written by D. G. Brodson and produced by Laurence Gilliam. The play comprises three sequences ('The Trial’, ‘The Dream’, ‘The End’) and an epilogue. The cast includes Lewis Casson...

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Discovery of the Bermudas, A (1959 Radio)

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Subtitled ‘An enquiry into the sources of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest’, the radio play by J.I. M. Stewart (who also wrote under the pseudonym Michael Innes) focuses on a dispute between Peterkin,...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1966 Radio)

Series

World Theatre

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced and adapted for broadcasting by Rayner Heppenstall that uses Charles and Mary Lamb’s summary of the play from their Tales from Shakespeare as narrative...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1930 Radio)

Series

Dramatic Reading

Schools radio broadcast. Dramatic reading of scenes from Shakespeare’s comedy with Rudolph de Cordova, Carleton Hobbs and others. No further information known (12/2007).

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Senior English II: Julius Caesar (1942 Radio)

aka: Julius Caesar

Series

Schools

Three-part schools broadcast of Julius Caesar arranged by Douglas Alan. The introductory programme relates the plot and characters of Shakespeare’s play with the current situation in Nazi Germany and the...

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