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Radio Stars Get "Tommies"

Date released

16 Jan 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1970

NoS ID

042144

Story no

5 / 5

Gladys Young, James McKechnie and producer of "Take it from Here", Charles Maxwell, receive Daily Mail awards as year’s best performers.

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All’s Well That Ends Well (1952 Radio)

Director

Barbara Burnham

Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy arranged and directed by Barbara Burnham. With Gladys Young as Countess Roussillon and Barbara Jefford as Helena. Music selected by Cynthia Pughe.

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Macbeth (1944 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Radio version of the play adapted by Hugh Stewart and produced by Val Gielgud. With Leslie Banks and Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the lead, Preston Lockwood narrates. Incidental music composed by William Walton.

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Scenes from ‘Macbeth’ (1930 Radio)

Producer

E. A. Harding

Radio broadcast. Scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedy arranged for broadcasting by E. A. Harding and produced by C. Denis Freeman. With Val Gielgud and Martita Hunt as the Macbeths.

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Theatre Programme [13/11/1946] (1946 Radio)

Series

Theatre Programme (Second Series)

Producer

Ayton Whitaker

First of the second series of the fortnightly theatrical review magazine commissioned for radio by the BBC Light Programme. Includes recordings of extracts from The English Arts Theatre company’s...

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Scenes from ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1930 Radio)

Schools radio broadcast featuring selected scenes from Shakespeare’s play. No further information known (12/2007).

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Fool’s Saga, The (1949 Radio)

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

Radio play written and produced by Rayner Heppenstall in which he tries to dramatise the story of Amleth, the figure Hamlet is based on, as he occurs in various Scandinavian legends. David King-Wood plays...

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Winter’s Tale, The (1930 Radio)

Producer

Howard Rose

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham and produced by Howard Rose. With Ernest Milton as Leontes and Barbara Couper as Hermione. Music arranged by Robert Barclay...

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Dream of Passion, A (1946 Radio)

Producer

R. D. Smith

Radio play written by Joe Burroughs about the English actor Edmund Kean (1787-1833). Kean systematically studied the principal Shakespearean characters, displaying the peculiar originality of his genius by...

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Life of King Henry the Fifth, The (1932 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play arranged and produced by Peter Creswell. With Dennis Arundell in the title role and Marie Ney as Katherine. Music directed by H. Lowe.

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