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Schools radio broadcast. The 2-part programme in the series ‘Good Writing’ is comprised of dramatic readings from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, focusing on the casket scenes and the trial...
First in a series of 30-minute broadcasts highlighting scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by contemporary leading actors. This episode focuses on Romeo and Juliet. The series is arranged by Clemence...
Second in a series of 30-minute broadcasts showcasing scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by leading actors of the time. This episode focuses on three history plays, Henry V, Henry IV, Part 1 and...
Radio production of The Merchant of Venice with Orson Welles as Shylock.
Radio variety show. This episode features John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in a scene from Hamlet.
Radio broadcast, in two half hour episodes, of Twelfth Night directed by Orson Welles. Information taken from Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares (p. 572,...
Radio broadcast, in three half hour episodes, of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles. Information taken from Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares (p. 531,...
Radio variety show. This episode features John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in a sketch entitled ‘The Life of the Barrymore Brothers’. The heavily abridged Shakespeare scenes are Richard III’s first...
Radio broadcast featuring leading English tenor John Coates (1865-1941) singing a variety of Shakespeare’s songs. Includes music by Thomas Morley, Arne, Linley, Boyce.
A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...