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Radio broadcast of speeches made at the Town Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Shakespeare’s birthday. Alanson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, talks about ‘The Immortal Memory of William...
A recording of Coriolanus directed by W. Bridges-Adams with Anew McMaster as Coriolanus.
BBC Radio 4 drama written by Helen Cross. On Shakespeare’s birthday in 1932 two young women set off from Birmingham to see the opening of the new theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. One dreams of meeting the...
Radio broadcast. A theatrical ‘preview’ of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing which was subsequently staged at the New Theater, London; the transmitted excerpt (IV i) stars Henry Ainley as Benedick...
Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
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...
Scenes from Shakespeare performed by Anew McMaster and his Shakespearean Company: The Taming of the Shrew. Act II, i; Othello Act V ii; The Merchant of Venice Act I iii, Act III i; Romeo and Juliet Act 1 iv,...
First in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...
In anticipation of Shakespeare’s birthday the theme of the theatrical review programme is ‘methods of appreciating Shakespeare’. Following the performance of a satirical sketch and a short discussion...
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