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Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced by Cyril Wood with Stephen Haggard (Bassanio), Abraham Sofaer (Shylock) and Celia Johnson (Portia). Music by the Vocal Octet.
Set in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 1563, and narrated from Shylock’s perspective, this rewriting of Shakespeare’s play by British playwright Arnold Wesker retains the core plot of Shakespeare’s play...
Full-length radio adaptation of the play starring Gerald Lawrence as Shylock and Cathleen Nesbitt as Portia. Music (three Entractes from the Purcell Suite in C) is provided by the Wireless Quartet under the...
Detective series. In this episode Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a young actor during a preview of an open-air student production of The Merchant of Venice. A quotation from Hamlet is found by...
Shakespeare’s play produced for radio by Michael Powell. With Irene Worth as Portia, Harry Andrews as Shylock and other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company.
Laidman Brown and Lydia Sherwood star in this production of the play by Raymond Raikes which has been shortened and rearranged for radio adaptation. With music specially composed by Leon Young. The BBC...
News and current affairs series. In this episode Steve Richards interviews Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director) at the Globe Theatre. Dromgoole discusses the current popularity of Shakespeare and new book...
A production filmed live at the Center for Jewish History, New York. A modern-English version of the play staged in a Sephardi style with Jewish Ladinos songs. French actor and baritone David Serero is...
A collection of Shakespeare’s most inspiring speeches from the BBC Sound Archives, including: Romeo & Juliet - Act I, Scene III "O Romeo, Romeo - wherefore art thou Romeo". Spoken by Fay Compton. Hamlet...
Radio series, presented by Jenni Murray, which aims to ‘celebrate, inform and entertain women’. In this edition Jenny Herman presents a 10-minute item on the best female supporting roles in Shakespeare....
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