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Date released

1950

Series name

This Is Britain

Issue no

47

NoS ID

328237

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: A film depicting the fine quality and workmanship and the technical advances of the British motor car industry.

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Life and Death of King John, The (1947 Radio)

Series

International Drama

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio broadcast featuring selected scenes from the play. With Carleton Hobbs as King John, and Howard Marion-Crawford as Philip, the Bastard. The commentary, written by M. R. Ridley, is spoken by Christopher...

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Macbeth (1947 Radio)

Series

World Theatre

Producer

John Richmond

Radio adapatation of Macbeth with Pamela Brown and Howard Marion-Crawford produced by John Richmond. George Skillan performs as (narrative) Chorus.

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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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Twelfth Night or What You Will (1947 Radio)

Series

World Theatre

Producer

Howard Rose

Radio adaptation of Twelfth Night with Leslie French, Peggy Ashcroft and Thea Holme. Anthony Hulme performs as (narrative) Chorus. Music arranged by Elizabeth Poston, and played by the Aeolian string quartet.

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Troilus and Cressida (1946 Radio)

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio adaptation of the play broadcast in two parts. Produced by Peter Watts, with Laurence Payne and Belle Chrystall in the title roles.

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King Lear (1967 Radio)

Producer

John Richmond

Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by John Richmond. With John Gielgud as Lear. The music is composed and conducted by John Hotchkis and performed by a section of the English...

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Othello (1955 Film, Video)

aka: Otello

Director

Sergei Yutkevich

Feature film. Adaptation by Boris Pasternak. Sometimes imaginative, sometimes stolid, the production takes every opportunity to get out of the studio. Sergei Bondarchuk is Othello.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1950 Radio)

Series

World Theatre

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio version of the play produced by Peter Watts. With incidental music by Mendelssohn played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra. Gilbert Vinter conducts.

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Troilus and Cressida (1959 Radio)

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced for broadcasting Peter Watts. With John Scott and Denise Bryer in the title roles and other members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. The music is composed by...

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