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Lover’s Complaint, A (1954 Radio)

Producer

George Rylands

Radio version of a narrative poem usually attributed to Shakespeare. Produced by George Rylands with Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Wheatley and Godfrey Kenton as readers.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

Bolaji Akinyemi reaction to Nigerian executions (1995)

Genre

Interview

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, former Nigerian External Affairs Minister (1985-1987), gives his reaction to the execution of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Interviewer is Alan Wheatley.

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Commonwealth reaction to Nigerian executions (1995)

Genre

News report

Alan Wheatley, correspondent at the Commonwealth leaders summit in Queenstown, New Zealand, iterates the summit’s views of the execution by the Nigerian regime of Ken Saro-Wiwa and fellow human rights...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Tyger’s Hart (1951 Radio)

Series

Children’s Hour

Producer

Peggy Bacon

A television play about William Shakespeare and his family written by David Scott Daniell and produced for broadcasting by Peggy Bacon. Alan Wheatley is Shakespeare. Madrigals sung by boys of George Dixon...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

Visitor to Dorset Garden, A (1953 Radio)

Series

Discoveries in Shakespeare

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Radio broadcast. First of a series of four brief ‘Discoveries’ investigating in a "free-mingling of recorded and imagined utterance" the theory that "much in Shakespeare criticism may have first emerged...

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Richard II (1950 Television)

Producer

Royston Morley

First full-length television adaptation of the play broadcast by the BBC in a version produced by Royston Morley. With Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke.

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Off the Syllabus: Romeo and Juliet (1947 Radio)

Series

For the Schools

BBC schools broadcast. Scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedy were chosen and adapted for radio by Jo Manton. Starring Peggy Ashcroft and Basil C. Langton.

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Ophelia (1947 Radio)

Series

Imaginary Conversations

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Radio play written for broadcasting by G. W. Stonier. Attempts to motivate Ophelia’s unexplained madness in Hamlet. With incidental music composed by Elizabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark.

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Music in Shakespeare (1947 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare and His Musicians

Producer

Douglas Cleverdon

Radio programme on Shakespeare’s dramatic use of contemporary music and songs. Alec Guinness, who presents the programme, is supported by the Dolmetsch Consort of Viols and Recorders, and players,...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

Henry the Eighth (1954 Radio)

aka: Henry VIII

Producer

Peter Watts; Audrey Cameron

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for radio by Clemence Dane (pseudonym for English novelist Winifred Ashton) and produced by Peter Watts and Audrey Cameron. The all-star cast includes Sybil...

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