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Devised for broadcasting on St. George’s Day , this sequence from Henry V was produced for radio by John Gibson with Richard Burton in the title role and John Neville as Chorus.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by John Richmond starring John Gielgud as Richard II and Ralph Richardson as John of Gaunt. With music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis. Richard Bebb...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and directed by Dickon Reed, starring Brewster Mason as Falstaff, Sheila Hancock as Mistress Ford and Maxine Audley as Mistress Page.
Shows how Shakespeare’s plays grew out of the many elements available to him. The background of English rural life is shown: his home, school and Warwickshire countryside. Shakespeare is seen in London...
Designed to show how the physical features of the Elizabethan stage influenced the work of Shakespeare. The duties of the bookholder, the props and costumes, actors in the ‘tiring room’, and boys playing...
Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Produced by Wilfrid Grantham. Richard Hutton narrates. With music composed and conducted by...
Seventh in a series of ten educational radio programmes in which various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and work are discussed by scholars and theatre practitioners with illustrative excerpts from his plays...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s late play adapted and produced for radio by Raymond Raikes. With Peter Ustinov as Caliban, Leon Quartermaine as Prospero and Marjorie Westbury as Ariel. Music composed and...
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.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted by Lance Sieveking and produced by Val Gielgud. With Ralph Richardson as Bottom. Mendelssohn’s music is played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with a...
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